Title: superbloom
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Rating: PG-13 for content, R for swears (Veronica writes in her feelings journal and really lets those swears go)
Pairing: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars
Other Characters: Mentions of Mac and Meg
Additional Tags: Secret identity (again?! what?), unnecessary epistolary literature (does a journal count as epistolary?), half-baked world building, a vague understanding of superhero lore
Word Count: ~1,075
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
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Again, written solely because @cubbiegirl and @marshmellowbobcat are earth angels. I even added a title this time so that MB doesn’t have to come up with one.
Why did I write this as Veronica’s journal? Mostly because it’s a style which seems to be a fanfic right of passage and I haven’t tried it so...here we are.
I probably owe a lot to other superhero universes and their world building (as in, referring to them as ‘supers’ ala The Incredibles). What are the full extent of Logan and Veronica’s powers? *shrug emoji*
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Date: February 15
Tracked a low-level Kane agent to a tourist trap bistro in downtown San Diego. Place was packed. Is this the new thing? Shitty men forget to make Valentine’s Day reservations, so they make them for the day after?
Thought I had the guy but when I mistimed my pulse he metamorphosed into a cockroach and scurried away.
Best part of the night was the chocolate mousse I got to-go. Despite appearances within, the food wasn’t too bad.
Date: February 17
Caught up to Cockroach. Real name is Abel Koontz. Slimy guy tried to escape again, but Mac outfitted me with a souped up Morph Choke as backup — emphasis on the choke. Gonna need to recalibrate that a bit, Mackenzie.
Bonus! Forgot it was laundry day, so had to wear my backup uni. Next time I run into Meg out in the field I’ll have to ask her if she can see my underwear through it.
Date: February 18
Finally got around to watching season two of The Boys. Where do they get this shit?
If Piznarski brings up forming some sort of super team for the 7-millionth time at the summit this year, I’m siccing Clayton on him.
Date: February 21
Got into a fight with Mac. Technically my fault.
I faded while in public, and look, I get it.
Being detected while living as my alter would be bad. BUT!! Being forced to interact with my ex as he is on a date with a woman who legitimately looks like she could be my doppelganger is very bad.
Date: February 22
Clarified with Mac: me fading in public did not worry her. Me tripping Leo on purpose as I faded was apparently a problem.
Date: February 24
Cockroach stood me up.
Date: February 25
For all that is good and holy if another fucking cocky cowboy of a super moves to Neptune, I am going to lose my shit. This newest one? Got in my way as I attempted to track Kane, Jr into a warehouse. Fucking Smirky McCowboy stepped in my way and assured me I didn’t want to follow. Something about a dozen armed guards with guns aimed at the door. MAYBE THAT WAS MY PLAN!
(Because, of course the guy ripped a powers page right out of Superman’s book and has x-ray vision.)
(And, his uni? Not hard to tell when a super has money. They’re always the worst.)
Date: February 28
Ran into Smirky McCowboy again. This time outside of a poker game hosted by a real estate developer with connections to Kane. Smirky said it was a coincidence.
Still no sign of Cockroach.
Date: March 2
FUCKING HELL. He beat me to it. AGAIN! How is he doing this?
Date: March 4
Smirky’s name is apparently Logan. Which I learned because I was getting coffee at Willow Grove (just minding my business while covertly eavesdropping on previously mentioned real estate developer) when some guy sat at my table. Unprompted. Uninvited. UNWELCOME.
Mask or no mask, THAT SMIRK.
The more concerning thing is that his x-ray vision apparently sees through the skeletal enhancements Mac wired into my mask, meaning he ID’d me right away.
Date: March 5
Why do they keep coming here? Doesn’t New York have more crime? Go there!
Mac says it’s my fault for busting the Fitzpatricks, outing Kane as the sociopath he is, and helping all those kids find their lost dogs.
Okay, she only mentioned the first two, but I think the third has value.
The point is! these hangers-on need to find their own territory.
Date: March 6
Mac traced at least 70 arrests to Smirky in the Los Angeles area alone. I hate him.
Date: March 10
If he scoops another one of my cases…
Date: March 11
He calls me Supergirl.
He calls me Supergirl and I want to punch him.
Mac says Cockroach’s tracker is still active but the signal is being blocked.
Date: March 13
Saw Meg today. She took down her own parents. Fucking savage. God, I love her. She flew me up to American Plaza and we drank champagne to celebrate.
Oh! And good news! She says my backup uni isn’t see through.
Date: March 13
Woke up with this terrifying thought: can smirky see through my uni?
He wouldn’t...right? I mean...he’s an asshole but I don’t think he’s a creep.
Date: March 16
I punched him.
Not for the underwear thing! He swears he’s never looked and I weirdly believe him.
And I didn’t punch him as much as he walked into a pulse. Yes, fine.
I maybe purposefully put up the pulse to see if his x-ray vision could detect it. But I didn’t tell him to walk into it.
(He can’t detect it, btw. I did it a second time just to be sure.)
Date: March 18
Found Cockroach. Or, I guess I should say Koontz. He washed up on Dog Beach as his alter.
Mac said it could be a coincidence but we both know that’s not true.
Date: March 19
Did I do this? Did I get Cockroach killed?
Date: March 19
Logan has very good alcohol.
Date: March 20
Hangovers. Bad.
Date: March 20
Logan makes very good pancakes.
Date: March 21
Logan has seen me drunk, which means Logan must be destroyed.
Date: March 22
In a certain light, the smirk isn’t so bad.
Date: March 23
Oh god.
Date: March 24
Oh god.
Do I like him?
Date: March 25
I hate myself. I’m a giant cliché. I apologize to all women supers everywhere.
Logan swears he can’t see past the new enhancements Mac made to my uni.
He also asked me to dinner. Was tempted to 1) fade, and 2) run away, but I did neither.
Date: March 26
Adding insult to injury, Smirky McCowboy really knows how to kiss.
Date: March 27
Mac says I shouldn’t be so hard on myself.
Actually, what she said was that neither he nor I are all that pleasant to be around so we might be meant for each other.
Date: March 28
He really knows how to do some other things, too.
Date: March 29
Logan got me a present: surveillance footage of Kane’s mysterious second-in-command with Koontz the night before he was found.
He’s been upgraded to not the absolute worst.
Date: March 29
To be perfectly clear: we are not a super team.
Date: March 30
Logan and I are on surveillance detail tonight.
Maybe I can convince him to stop for some chocolate mousse.
this girl in my creative writing class asked if I could look over her story and I said sure, expecting it to be some short 500-word concept, but now I’m 20,000 words in and I’m going to kill my friend if the main character doesn’t get some good news soon
