A/N: So updating again...Um this would be Pre-series, yep. I don't know how a person could find out that their girlfriend/boyfriend is your sister/brother or could be and not tell the person. Or I could just not like Duncan much. Anyway, this doesn't change much I guess or it doesn't show much change. It's just a scene where Veronica confronts Duncan about why he broke up with her. And this is the other scenario where I threw Logan in at the end. I don't know why. I needed someone to comfort her. Oh and I would just set this after school, after the whole stopped talking thing and Lilly telling her to drop it (remember they played the flashbacks in season 1, but it would be a pre-series occurence). So let me know what you think. Thanks. -Mac

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What Ifs: Scenario #7

What if Duncan had told Veronica why he was breaking up with her, rather than leaving her in the dark about it?

He had just stopped talking to me. No excuses, no explanations. He just stopped talking to me. He blew me off when I tried to talk to him. Lilly told me I should just let it be. Logan barely spoke to me--but of course he was Duncan's best friend first and foremost.

But I couldn't just let it be, could I? Of course. I was my father's daughter--oh how much that hurts to say now. I had to know. I couldn't sit around pretending nothing had happened--though Duncan seemed to making good use of that kind of behavior. I couldn't act like I wasn't hurting and that I didn't care what his reasons were.

I did care--of course I cared. How does a guy you've been dating for what feels like an eternity just stop talking to you? We had planned our futures togehter. When did that suddenly become ancient history?

I had to find out what had happened. I needed to know why. I couldn't move on without knowing why. I had devoted too much time and energy and love into him to let him go without a reason. So I cornered him.

I caught him with the rest of his friends in the middle of one of the school's hallways. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to say, but I was going against all better judgment. I went right up to him and he tried to avoid recognizing that I was there. And his friends--these people were supposed to be my friends too--were there to step in front of him and try to stop me from talking to him.

"Ronnie, Duncan's a bit busy right now." Dick separated from the group. He caught me by the shoulders and moved me away. "Maybe you should try again later."

I cringed at the use of that nickname--I tolerated it from Logan but I hated it on other people's tongues. He wanted me to walk away, but I wasn't going to. I stood my ground. Dick Casablancas wasn't going to stand in my way, please he was too easily persuaded.

"Dick. Get out of my way." I said firmly, in a tone that surprised even me. I was the innocent, naive, little one--I wasn't supposed to be that strong.

Dick didn't say a word. He only threw his hands up in surrender and backed away. I walked back over to where Duncan was still standing. Logan was next to him, but one look from me and he took a step back. Duncan turned to look at me and he seemed ready to offer up some excuse to avoid the conversation, but I didn't give him a chance to.

"Duncan, I need to talk to you." I replied trying to keep myself strong. He started to say something about talking later, but I cut him off. "No, now."

Duncan looked as if he was trying to find some way to escape. When he found none, he started to lead me down the hall aways. We moved to where we were out of earshot of his friends, but where we were still in clear view. If he got in too deep one of his friends was still close enough to come rescue him. And here I was all alone--no one to save me if I neede it. Who's stronger here?

"Veronica...I really..." Duncan started.

"Look, if you want to be broken up, that's fine. We're broken up. Just tell me why. I want to know why." I interrupted.

"Veronica..."

"I'm not stupid, okay. I'm not going to try to get back together when it clear you're through with me. Just give me a reason. That's all I want, Duncan."

"I talked to my mother, and she told me about my father and your mother." Duncan stated after a very, very long moment of silence. He had given up on trying to keep if from me, I guess.

I frowned. "What about my mother and your father?"

"The affair." Duncan said as if I had already known all about it. "About the possibility..."

"What affair? I don't know what you're...I don't understand." I responded.

"My mother says they've been seeing each other for years. She says...she says that there is a strong--very strong---possibility that you're my sister." Duncan explained and my entire world flipped upside down, crumbling at my feet. "You see I had to end it. We couldn't be together knowing that."

"No, no...wait, wait a minute." I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, tried to process everything, and shook my head. "You found out I might be your sister and you thought it would be better not to tell me?"

"Veronica, no. I just didn't know how..." Duncan stuttered.

"Did you think you could keep that from me?" I exclaimed, "How could you not tell me that? That isn't some small little detail you forgot to mention. That is a huge, huge thing--and you didn't tell me!"

My voice was raising far louder than I had intended. Some of the guys started to watch us more closely. I was starting to feel sick--my stomach twisting and turning of its own accord. I couldn't even look at Duncan.

"I didn't know how to tell you." Duncan muttered. "I tried, but I couldn't..."

"You obviously weren't trying hard enough, because you should have told me. You should have told me." I responded angrily. Something dawned on me and I rounded on him. "You told Lilly. You told Lilly. You told her and you let her tell me to drop it. How could you tell her and not me? How could you tell anyone that I might be your sister and not tell me? Who else did you tell?"

"Veronica please...you're causing a scene."

"I'm causing a scene? What the hell do you expect, Duncan?" I yelled at him.

He was right, people had stopped to look on at us. All of his friends were watching us and at some point Lilly had joined the crowd. But by that point, I was past caring. I was rather past being controlled in this situation.

"Veronica." Duncan tried to reach out to me, but I pushed him off of me.

"How could..." I choked back the tears that threatened to fall. "How could you do that to...How could you do that to me? Me?"

"Veronica, I didn't mean to..." Duncan started to speak but I backed away.

"No. I don't want to hear it...I don't..." I froze as a hand came to rest on my shoulder.

I turned to see Logan behind me. I was about to say something but he cut me off. "I think you guys are done here. Veronica, you should probably..."

I nodded and gave on look at Duncan. He was white as a sheet. He looked as if someone had just slapped him. I shook my head free of any remaining thoughts on the matter of his condition and let Logan lead me away from the now dispersing crowd. As we walked toward the exit he tried to put a comforting arm around me but I shrugged him off.

"You probably knew too." I muttered, walking away.

"I didn't. If that makes you feel better." Logan replied, catching up to me in a couple strides.

"Yes. Brightens my day." I smiled sarcastically and it disappeared a second later. "One of my three best friends didn't betray my trust. Is it surprising that the two who did are the ones that could, possibly, be my siblings? Oh, God...what if he is my brother?"

I walked quickly as I tried to get out of the school--away from everyone. Everything. It was all coming down on me. I was only then realizing what this all meant. For me. For Duncan. For Lilly, the Kanes, my mom. My Dad. I stopped in the middle of the blacktop outside the school, as it all suddenly hit me. My face fell into my hands.

"Veronica?" Logan's voice washed over me. He sounded questioning and nervous--just a little unlike him. "Are you going to be okay?"

"I just found out my mother is cheating on my father with the father of my, well, ex-boyfriend and best friend. And not only that but said best friend maybe my half-sister and the boy I've been dating may be my half-brother. Do you think I'm going to be okay?"

"I think...I don't know. Never been in this situation." Logan said, lighhearted but honest.

I let out a strangled laugh. "I need to talk to my Dad. I need to sort this out."

Logan nodded. "Yeah."

"But I think I'll be okay."

A/N2: I just want to say "little did she know..." It's just one of those moments, because you know what happens with Lilly and everything after this...where you just want to go back and say "Look out!" but that's it. Hope you enjoyed. REVIEW! Thanks. -Mac