#VMfanfic

[allthevmff]

TWENTY YEARS of friendship and bonding were celebrated with an epic fic challenge.

Check out all the works in the VM Platinum Anniversary collection featuring ayyohh, cheshirecatstrut, CMackenzie, CMC9205, DarkVoid116, ExcellentlyEllen, Kayte76, Louise88, ModernMyth, & steenbeans.

The collection will be open and the 'wheels of inspiration’ will continue to spin until the end of the year for anyone who still wants to add their contributions, but didn't get a chance to by the original deadline.

H/T @vmheadquarters @vmficclub

[kmd0107]

Chapter 27 is live!

Time, Make It Go Faster Or Just Rewind

AO3 || FFN

Preview:

The day was a blur. Logan had been supportive, staying by her side, trying to make her laugh. Even Wallace seemed to know something was wrong. But what was she supposed to do? She’d spent a lot of time hiding her feelings, plastering them away behind anger and sarcasm. Now that plaster was failing.

Was it Logan? Was it her decision to figure out what really happened to her, finally? And more, would she have been ready to ask the hard questions without one of her oldest friends there to support her?

She loved Wallace. He put the best in BFF. But he wasn’t Logan. There were things he didn’t know. Things she didn’t want him to know. Like Lianne and her drinking. Like how sometimes when she thought back on who she was before Lilly died, she didn’t always like that person.

Some truths hurt, Veronica.

She pulled the LeBaron into a spot along the backside of the large nondescript office building that housed the county’s free health clinic.

[allthevmff]

In celebration of VM 20th Anniversary Celebration (yup 20)– let’s share (or reshare) favorite, posts, fics, art, vids, etc. on any platform before 09/22/24.

Please use #vmplatinumanniversary when posting.

For additional reverie and more information on the celebration's corresponding fanfic challenge (including using the spinning wheels of ficspiration), join us on the VMHQ and/or the VMFicClub Discords.

Here is a list of Veronica Mars XO Fanfic. Which ones did I omit? Let me know in the comments….

A Charmed Life by @marshmellowbobcat

A Damsel in Distrust by @invidiosa

A Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavor by @best-laid-plaids

At the Overlook by @nicemom93

Beware of Blondes by Nerdyesque

Big Damn Heroes by @querulousgawks

Bitter pill by @jaqofspades

Dance to Forget by betweenthebliss

Empire State of Mind by @tjs-whatnot

Fish Out of Water by dark_roast

How to Fall in LoVe in 10 Days by @kmd0107

How very Emma of you by @francesderwent

It's All for a Saturday Night by @machawicket

It's All Here In Your Head by @cheshirecatstrut

Killer Crossover by disdainfullady

Last American Exit by @elliebear75

LoVe in Doppelgangland by DarkVoid116

many attend, few understand by @darlininmyway

Mr Darcy Comes to Neptune by @vmsteenbeans

Once Bitten, Twice Shy by HappilyShanghaied

Pineapples & Promises by @cubbiegirl

Three Hours To Sunrise by hjcallipygian

We Provide... Leverage by @happilyeveraftereveryday

[allthevmff]

🔔 new chapter alert 🔔

All Of Neptune's Children Flock Home

by @petpluto

After getting a desperate call from Logan, Veronica is back in Neptune, California to solve a murder mystery, clear her old boyfriend's name, and maybe attend her high school reunion. If there's time and if Wallace and Mac get their way. In order to do all of that, she's going to need the help of old friends, old clients, and the very people she's been avoiding for as long as she's ignored Neptune itself.

[allthevmff]

In celebration of Veronica Mars’ 20th Anniversary, @vmficclub is bringing back the popular WIP It Good event

The goal is to celebrate and encourage participation in the VM Platinum Anniversary Fic Challenge, whether that is in starting a brand new story or searching through dusty folders to find a unpublished works in progress.

Wednesday August 28th through Wednesday September 11th @vmficclub is encouraging anyone who writes a story, or updates one of their WIPs to post in the The Veronica Mars 20th Anniversary Celebration collection on AO3 by September 15th. After the release of the stories on September 22nd, post a link to your story on @vmficclub's Discord and a new piece of artwork will be created for your story.

Readers can participate by playing VM Comment bingo or just leaving kudos/comments on existing WIPS to let writers know that you enjoyed their work.

Check out the @vmficclub discord for more info OR feel free to reply or send a D/M if you have questions/need additional information.

Here are links to the Fanfic Friday Favorites (#FFFF) WIPY roundups:

Active WIPS (originally posted 04.15.19)

WIP You Were Here (originally posted 09.19.19)

WIP IT GOOD Fics from 2023 Challenge

Please respond to this post, by sharing a favorite Veronica Mars Fanfic WIP and/or join @allthevmff on Friday, August 30th (on Tumblr, Discord, Twitter or Instagram) to share one, some, or all of your favorite #VMFanFic WIPs.

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[allthevmff]

A Charmed Life

Marshmellow Bobcat (MellowBobcat) / @marshmellowbobcat

A Legally Blonde AU in which Logan is Elle and the "bend and snap" becomes the "lean and smirk". Just go with it!

Elements from both the movie and the musical.

Story ---> X

Art by @veronicamarsfanart

More on the WIP IT Good Challenge ---> X

More on VM Comment Bingo ---> X

More on the VM 20th Anniversary Celebration! ---> X

[vmficclub]

I hope you can help. I’m looking for a LoVe fic where Logan and Veronica are coworkers and never met in HS. Veronica gets invited to Pizs wedding and he goes as her “boyfriend”. I can’t remember where I read it and it’s bugging me for sure

Yes! It’s Love Me in a Lie by OliveKSmoked written for the FFFD. Great story! https://archiveofourown.org/collections/VMFC_FFFD_February_Fanfic_Fantasy_Draft_2022/works/37414267

[tvfanatic]

Life As We Know It

Oliviet

Summary:

After a disastrous first date, the only things Veronica and Logan have in common are mutual dislike and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. When they unexpectedly become her caretakers, Logan and Veronica have to put aside their differences and learn to work together for the sake of the child. Juggling competing career and social commitments, Logan and Veronica look for common ground while living under the same roof.

(And yes I stole the movie summary for my story summary because really it says it all without me needing to. I own nothing!)

Notes:

I know what you're thinking, ANOTHER WIP?? Yes, yes indeed. I have not abandoned White Tulip or Jealousy, Jealousy and I will update and finish all three of these stories, I promise!

For Team Bobcats. Once a Bobcat always a Bobcat.

[allthevmff]

It Just Hit Me by monroeslittle (@argyledpenguin)

The epiphany Veronica has at the end of 2x02 is slightly different . . . with slightly different results.

This story is now on AO3: X

The Veronica Mars LiveJournal Archive Project was inspired by the VM 20th Anniversary Celebration. Check out the VM Platinum Anniversary Collection on AO3.

[allthevmff]

Time, Make It Go Faster Or Just Rewind

by kmd0107 (@kmd0107)

Logan being ‘the real-Logan’ is so familiar that she almost can’t help but give in to it, even if it’s just a one night pass. She’ll embrace this moment out of time and the walls and armor can go back up tomorrow.

AU from 1x4 Wrath of Con

More on the WIP IT Good Challenge ---> X

More on VM Comment Bingo ---> X

More on the VM 20th Anniversary Celebration! ---> X

[ayy-ohh]

Veronica fights the urge to tug the hemline of the too-short skirt, and crosses her arms to try and cover her bare midriff. If somebody told her two months ago that she would be wearing a Neptune High cheerleading outfit, her hair high in a ponytail, she would have laughed in their face. And then punched them. Not necessarily in that order.

As Veronica and Lilly walk towards the field, she surveys the group of girls in matching green and yellow outfits. At her old school, she went out of her way to avoid these types of girls. And now, she had to be this type of girl.

She wants to flee. Lilly owes her big.

[takadasaiko]

15 Veronica Mars

#15 - “Trembling Hands”

FFN II AO3

Summary: The bomb goes off in Veronica's car with slightly different results.  ---

Close Call

Glass bit into her skin as the explosion from the street created enough pressure to rocket her back. She landed hard against the bed, her mind holding onto the final moment she’d seen Logan smiling up at her from the street. He’d been getting into the car to move it. Her car that Epner had been in just hours before. The bomb had to have been in there.

Veronica was out the door and halfway down to the street before she realized that she had picked herself up off the bed. She darted between the buildings and felt her low heels slip on sand-sprinkled concrete, nearly sending her crashing to her knees. She caught herself and made it to the alley behind their apartment building without going all the way down, though, and slammed to a stop there.

The blue Hyundai was the first thing she saw. Flames poured out of it, the windows shattered, and parts of the car were already melting in the heat. Somewhere between the screaming thoughts that Logan has been in the car, her brain noted that the driver door was handling open. Blown open, maybe, but the angle was funny. Like it had been open when the bomb went off.

“The car just exploded,” a voice said behind her and she turned, finding the officer that had been just shy of writing them a parking ticket standing there. He looked dazed, like he’d been tossed back too, but he was on his feet. He motioned vaguely. “He got out to answer me and it just…”

“Logan.”  His name left her on a breath as she whipped around to where the officer had motioned. Logan was lying on his side with his back to her and, if the dent in the garage door was anything to go by, the explosion had thrown him into it. He’d crumpled to the street like a rag doll where he now lay far too still. Relief and panic warred against each other as she took in the tattered remains of his suit jacket and the blooded matted into his shortly cropped hair, but as she inched closer she could also see the subtle movement caused by what looked like shallow breaths he was pulling in.

He was alive, but he needed help.

“You have your phone?” Veronica called out to the dazed officer and turned just enough to see him nod. “Then call 9-1-1.” She waited to make sure he’d do it rather than continue staring blankly at her. Once she saw him dialing she circled around and dropped to the street next to Logan. Her hands trembled as she reached out, fingers ghosting against his face. A soft groan escaped him and a flicker of hope won out against the threatening panic. “Logan? Babe?”

He managed another quiet, pained sound as she saw a pair of brown eyes struggle open. They were unfocused at first, but slowly they struggled to look up at her.  “V’ronica?” he managed and started to roll to his back.

“Don’t move,” she said quickly. “Ambulance is on its way.”

“‘M okay,” he slurred.

“Sure you are.”  And maybe he was. Maybe the blood against the side of his face was from a superficial cut and maybe the way he was struggling to breathe was more about the panic then the way he’d been thrown from his feet into a barely yielding structure. He wasn’t panicking though. He didn’t panic. He’d been trained to keep his cool under pressure and, the more she looked, the more damage she could see. The burns, the awkward turn of his arm he was laying on, and the blood that was soaking through his white shirt. He coughed hard, his body jolting, and she found her vision blurring through tears. “Logan…”

He reached up clumsily with his unpinned hand, looking for hers. “Will be,” he promised.

“You better be,” she whispered, pressing a kiss to his knuckles. “You don’t get out of your vows that easy.”

The rough chuckle he answered with was drowned out by the sound of the sirens and Logan’s hand went limp in hers.

----

She had spent far too much time in hospitals over the years. For the limited number of people she kept close, they always seemed to get hurt, and usually because of her. Even sitting in a jail cell Penn had nearly managed to win by taking one of the few good people in Veronica’s life. If he’d succeeded, if Logan had been sitting in the driver’s seat when the bomb had gone off…. She didn’t want to wrap her mind around what living without him all over again would be like.

And there was about a two day span where it was anyone’s best guess on if Logan would pull through or not.  Broken bones, shrapnel buried deep, and blood loss that put him into dangerous territory by the time they reached the hospital all led to doctors who were very hesitant to give her hope.

The problem was that that’s all she had, so she clung to it with bloodstained fingers and a desperate plea for him to remember that he’d promised to come back to her.

Veronica wasn’t sure when she had dozed off at his bedside, but somewhere through the exhausted daze she felt his fingers tighten in hers. She bolted up from where she had been bent over the hospital bed and found a pair of warm, brown eyes watching her. They were a little unfocused, but they were open. Her lips tugged upward as his name tumbled off her lips. “Logan. You’re awake.”

“Is that what this is? Wasn’t sure,” he managed, the words riding out slowly as if he were uncertain if they would make it through the drug endured fog.

Her smile broadened a little and she leaned forward, careful as pressed a kiss against his chapped lips. His grip tightened around her fingers and half a moment later she was leaning in a little deeper, her free hand reaching to the side of his face.

As they broke, she heard him loose a rough chuckle. “Is that a thanks for not dying kiss?”

“A you’re not allowed to die kiss,” she answered firmly, pressing another one into place. “And a I love you kiss.” The second, more of a confession, was quieter.  She waited as his lips quirked up at the corners and he pulled at her hand until she was crawling onto the narrow bed with him. “You want me right here?” she teased.

“Closer,” Logan murmured drowsily, but if the determination in which he kept pulling was anything to go by, he wasn’t going to let himself drift again until she was curled up beside him.

Veronica climbed in carefully, feeling him relax next to her and his breathing even out as he drifted back to sleep. She listened to it for a long moment, the memory of him laid out in the street bloodied and burned pushed back by the closeness to him then. It was going to be a long road from there, but she had him, and she got to keep him. Finally, she would be able to sleep tonight.

[vmficclub]

Happy Friday!

Here’s a cute future fic sure to make you smile—in a universe where s4 and Veronica were good.

Enjoy this lovely fic by MariaSharp: Aunty Veronica https://archiveofourown.org/works/34635403 Don’t forget to join us over on discord!

[marshmellowbobcat]

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder (any fandom), regardless of how nondescriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by @elliebear75l ! Thanks for the fun! Here’s my list:

Legally Blonde AU

Unspeakable Love Chapter 4

LoVeLi

10 Things AU/I Want You To Want Me

Multiverse (co-write with @cubbiegirl)

The Maiden

Hey Jealousy

I’m going to tag: @tvfanatic, @mysilverylining, @vmsteenbeans, and @darling-in-my-fashion (bc I know you have thiiiiiings)

[therealcactusbetty]

A little Christmas fic. 🎄🎄

Https://archiveofourown.org/works/27932719

[loveandprose]

fix our broken pieces one at a time: chapter 9

“Do you know why we have so many extra sets of sheets?” she asks.

“Because you hate doing laundry?”

There are fewer things she hates more than doing laundry.

“Most nights I wake up in the middle of the night. The sheets are soaked with sweat and I can’t breathe. It feels like an elephant doing jumping jacks on my chest.” She lifts the hand not holding his, placing it over her chest to feel the loud thump in her heart.

“I know I’ve never been in a war zone and I won’t pretend to fully understand what you do or where you are half the time,” Veronica’s voice cracks. “But I can paint this entire house 1000 times over with the amount of your blood that’s spilled in my nightmares.”

She hears him suck in a sharp breath as he squeezes her hand. Her teeth clamp down on her lip as she tries to keep the tears at bay.

“And then,” she swallows hard, “And then I almost lost you here to a fucking bomb.”

The dam breaks as she chokes on a sob, pressing a hand to her mouth as tears stream down her face. Exactly what she wanted to avoid.

“Hey,” he says gently, “Come here.” He pulls gently on her hand and she goes to him willingly, hiding her face in his chest as he cradles her head in his fingers. She gulps down a shaky breath, relishing the way his scent floods her senses.

“It’s going to be okay,” he says softly, kissing her head. “I’m right here and I’m not goin’ anywhere.”

She continues to cry into his chest as he rubs soothing circles on her back, murmuring his love for her against her temple.

“I’ll always come back to you, Veronica,” he says firmly. “Always.”

More here.