#nemesis marks

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Veronica Mars (TV), Veronica Mars - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Characters: Veronica Mars, Logan Echolls, Duncan Kane, Lilly Kane Additional Tags: Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Marks, Nemesis Marks, Dark, Canon-Typical Violence, VMTAP2020 Summary:

Fate is a fickle bitch...

Nemesis Marks AU

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Sunday Snippet, March 27, 2016 Nemesis Marks

Veronica woke cold, alone, and sore.  Her entire body ached.  But more than that she burned.  Her wrists.  This was how Veronica had started every morning since Shelly’s party.  She woken up that morning in so much pain physically and emotionally.  Sometimes she thought her marks were intent on never letting her forget.

You know that isn’t right, Veronica.  This feeling started before that morning.

And it had.  The first morning she’d awoken to the burning was the day after she’d seen Lilly with her head bashed in.  That very morning Logan and Duncan’s names had etched their way into her skin.  She’d been too overcome with grief to really consider the implications at the time.  But then Duncan continued his silent treatment of her and Logan gave her an ultimatum she was too shocked to respond to.  By the time she had tried...it was too late.  He wouldn’t even listen to her.

Her wrists burned almost constantly that first month and then dulled into background noise as the pain over losing Lilly and then her mother took up most of her energy.  Shelly’s party and her assault—she still couldn’t even think the word—had changed the nature of how her marks behaved.  Pain spiked, fever hot, and sometimes she was sure she could hear Lilly.  As time passed Lilly’s voice became clearer and she started seeing her.  If she ignored Lilly the pain increased but if she let her in, listened, interacted with the hallucination, the pain would recede.  And that could only mean one thing.

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This is why I’m not allowed to play on Tumblr when I’m supposed to be working...oh well.  AU nemesis/soulmate earlier post.

Snippet that wouldn’t go away until I wrote it down...

The universe is conspiring against me.  There is no other explanation for this.  Logan drops down onto the pool house bed.  The burning in his wrists reaching a painful crescendo.

The elegant script on his right wrist had been there for years: Father.

It didn’t take a genius to work out that was his nemesis mark.  And on his left wrist in small block letters her name taunted him.  Veronica Mars.  

Since it was impossible for his father to be his soulmate and since Aaron’s actions placed him squarely in the ‘nemesis’ column.  That meant Veronica was his soulmate.  But that’s where the rub was, normally the marks aren’t visible to anyone else.  And yet, lying on his bed, sobbing, Logan had seen Veronica’s.  Maybe she had traced over the words in pen.  On the left was ‘Duncan Kane’ and on the right was ‘Logan Echolls’.  

He was devastated.  He was his soulmate’s nemesis.