(A continuation of Friends Help You Move… by Marcus Rowland)
Acknowledgements: Veronica Mars is the creation of Rob Thomas.
There is too much blood to hope that they’ll be able to clean it up. They need a story to explain what happened… Veronica takes a closer look at Lilly. There isn’t a drop of blood on her. No one will believe that Lilly has done this.
“Okay, here’s what we say: You came home; you went up to your room; you put on a movie, and then you phoned to invite me to come over for a swim. We came out back together, saw the body, and I…” Veronica takes out her cell phone. “…call my dad, the sheriff.”
Keith Mars looks at the body. Aaron Echolls had been killed by single blow from a heavy object. Blood is still seeping from his nose and ears.
A heavy glass ashtray lies by Aaron’s right hand. Keith makes sure that it is photographed in place, before he places it into an evidence bag.
Deputies spread out around the property, looking for any trace left by the killer.
Veronica sits with Lilly. The girls are understandably upset, but Keith can’t allow that to hinder his investigation. He will have to question both of them.
Veronica knows something she isn’t telling him.
Veronica firmly believes that the best way to lie is to tell the truth, but not all of it, so she tells her father the truth…mostly.
The only real lie she tells is the reason she went to the Kane house in the first place. Veronica doesn’t tell her father that Lilly had told her that she’d killed Aaron Echolls. Other than that, she tells the truth. She went to the house; they went out to the pool; she saw the body; she called her dad. She didn’t see anyone else around.
She doesn’t think that he’s buying it.
The destruction of Sunnydale, California is a front page story in every newspaper of note across America. In nearly every paper it is the lead story, with a photo of the crater taking up at least half the space above the fold.
The murder of Aaron Echolls made the front page of most of those papers too. On any other day, it would have been the above the fold story: the death of one of America’s best known movie stars, in the home of one of the country’s richest men.
In Neptune, the prominence of the two stories is reversed.
Lilly had never had many nightmares before, but now it seems that monsters invade her dreams every night. Sometimes she’s in the dream, fighting against creatures she cannot name. Sometimes she’s a powerless observer, watching some other girl fighting for her life. And sometimes the girl loses. Mixed in with the inhuman monsters she dreams of the day that she killed Aaron Echolls. In some of those dreams his face distorts, his brow grows ridges, his eyes turn yellow. He grows fangs, and bites into her neck.
The strangest dreams involve a weird little man with a plate of cheese.
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