I know that Lily spelled her name with two L's but I prefer the one L so…. yeah…

She knew when she cut him down she'd eventually have to deal with them. The PCH Bike club; Gang more like, but she could handle them. She had just sat down for lunch; a lunch she had hoped would be blissfully uninterrupted, when that kid brought her back to Earth.

"What?"

"I don't know you just look sort of hypnotized." the guy said.

"Did I say you could sit here?"

Veronica knew the second she'd said it, that it was the wrong thing to say. It was what they had said to her, when she'd lost it all. And she'd be damned if she was going to act like them.

"Wait a minutes, of course you can sit here. You can sit wherever you want."

"That was cool, what you did, cutting me down like that." he said, sitting down.

Before she could say another word, she heard his voice behind her. This lunch just kept getting better and better. The more is not always the merrier.

"My Bitch! Weren't you supposed to wait for me at the flagpole?" he sat down. "Not sure I could have made that any clearer."

Veronica watched as her table companion sweated under the gaze of the entire PCH gang, their leader inches from his face.

"Okay, I get it, very funny." he tired to laugh it off. "I guess we're even now, right?"

"You get what? You get that you're a dead man walking? Is that what you get?"

Time for Veronica to step in, she wasn't one to stand, or sit, idly by, certainly not anymore.

"Leave him alone."

Weevil looked over at her, smiling a little. He had genuinely not noticed who his little snitch had chosen to sit with. But, hey, it made sense. Sit with the little white girl everyone talked about and shied away from. Who had the nerve to cut his skinny ass down in the first place, it was the safest place for him, just not safe enough.

"Sister, the only time I care what a woman has to say is when she's riding my big 'ol hog." he says, approaching the disgraced teen. "Even then, it's not so much words, just a bunch of 'oohs' and 'ahhs' ya know?"

"So it's big, huh?" she challenged, keeping his mind off his snitch.

"Legendary." he was surprised by her appearance. Not only was he unused to her short hair, a cramp to one of his favorite fantasies, but he remembered Veronica as a softer than soft, pristine angel of a girl, much like Meg. Not one who dared cross him, and then give him lip in front of his boys.

"Well, let's see it, I mean, if it's as big as you say, I'll be your girlfriend. We could go to Prom together." she mocked.

He laughed, mostly for show, because deep down, he was struck by her words. Words that echoed back to the first time he and Lily had had sex. She'd made the same joke then later told him she loved him. All of it lies.

"What seems to be the problem?" she asked, "I'm on a schedule here, vato."

And there, he was back, no more thoughts of Lily, just pure Veronica sass.

"Weevil, don't let Blondie talk to you like that!"

Good old Felix, saving his ass as usual. The only one of his boys who knew anything about him and Lily.

"Sounds like your buddy wants to see it too."

"Oh, hell, I'll show you mine!" he said, walking up to her, hand on his zipper.

'The hell you will!' Weevil thought, but before he had time to dwell on that thought, Clemmons interrupted them.

"Felix Toombs!" his voice boomed. "What on God's Green Earth is going on here?"

When no one spoke up, the gang unsure what to say, and their leader busy staring at Veronica, the principal moved them along before turning to Veronica.

"Veronica, why does trouble follow you around?"

Veronica was the only one quick enough to catch the veiled warning in that statement. Though she couldn't understand his reasoning, she wasn't interested in having anything to do with the PCH bike club.

"That was, amazing." her, for lack of a better term, new friend said.

"What's your name?" she asked.

"Wallace, Wallace Fennel." he told her.

"Well, Wallace, what did you do to get on the bad side of the PCH bike club?"

In the end, she made a deal with the PCHers to get them off Wallace's back. She'd get his boys off their theft charges if they left her new buddy alone. It was a pretty easy thing to accomplish, and it came with some pay back to one of her tormenters. Upon coming through on her end of the deal, she met Wallace at Dog Beach for some celebratory fun. But, she was stupid to believe that Logan wouldn't want payback. He'd shown up, tire iron in hand, broken both her headlights and she was powerless to stop him, both dog and taser not on hand. Then, out of no where, he showed up, gang in tow.

"What do we have here?" he asked, getting off his bike. "Vandalism? No, no, no. The only vandalism that happens in this town goes through me."

Weevil couldn't tell his boys why they were really riding to Veronica's rescue. It wasn't just because of what she'd done for his boys and it wasn't due to some residual feelings for Lily either. It was because he felt himself being drawn to this pixie of a woman.

"Listen man, I don't have a problem with you." Logan tired to diffuse the situation.

Weevil wasn't about to let that happen, he took another step toward Logan, putting himself well within the 09ers personal space.

"That's where you're wrong."

Felix took his queue, popping out of Logan's friends SUV rattling about O-Town. But Veronica's eyes stayed glued to the leader of the PCHers and the leader of the 09ers facing each other off, Wallace brought home the tension with a reference to The Outsiders.

"Be cool, Sodapop." she told him as Weevil took the tire iron from Logan and walked over to the SUV. She watched in slight awe as he started beating on the hood with it. Denting the center of the hood and breaking a taillight, making it look more like they'd hit something than having a run in with the tire iron.

"That's it. Head for the hills." he told them. "I'm not going to say it twice!"

At his last statement his boys got extra menacing while Weevil approached Logan again.

"Except for you. You, say you're sorry." he said, pointing at Veronica.

"Rub a lamp." Logan said just before Weevil's fist met his stomach, sending him to the ground.

"I. Said. Say. You're. Sorry." he said through gritted teeth, clearly trying to hold back his anger.

Logan stood and turned to Veronica, looking like he might apologize, but then he smiled an almost cruel smile, turning again to Weevil. "Kiss my ass." he laughed. Weevil's fist flew to Logan's face, sending him to the ground again. Veronica was mesmerized, unsure of what to do, not really wanting an apology from Logan, but wondering if Weevil could actually illicit such an apology. Deciding that he could, she told Weevil to stop.

"You sure?" he asked, looking back at Logan on the ground, itching to kick him.

"I don't want his apology."

Weevil let it go, grabbing Logan off the ground by the collar and pushing him towards his friends. He looked back at Veronica, standing a touch closer than was necessary or socially prudent.

"So, that surveillance tape just… poof?" he gestured with his hands.

"That's fortunate." she said, admitting nothing, smiling in return to the grin that spread across his face.

"My uncle has a body shop on the highway… If you come in, I can make sure your body…" he looked her up and down appreciatively. "Gets the full-service treatment."

"Okay, now you apologize." she laughed, ignoring the fact that she wasn't disturbed at all by his offer.

"I'm sorry," he said, side stepping closer to her, "was that too dirty?"

"Not to me, dork." she laughed. "To him."

"Riiight, no." Weevil said, losing his smile.

"Fine. But, be warned, he has the only copy of the Sac-n-Pac video." turning to him. "Wallace, let's go decided what to do with it."

"Okay, wait, wait, Look, I'm sorry, man, for, you know, taping you to the flagpole. I'm sorry."

"Alright." Wallace accepted.

"Can I have the tape back now?"

"Nope." laughed Wallace.

Weevil watched them drive off as Felix and the boys closed in around him.

"Weevs, you just gonna let them keep the tape?" asked Felix.

"Yup." Weevil smiled.

"Tell us you aren't soft for her." asked Thumper.

"Considering all she'd done for us this week, I think, for now, it might be beneficial to stay on Veronica Mars' good side. Don't those 'Get Out of Jail Free' cards usually come in pairs?" he told them.

That placated their worries, but Felix seemed to know the truth. No girl dared stand up to Weevil Navarro like that, and he could see the far off look in his eyes. It did more than just turn Weevil on, it tugged at his heartstrings too.