The Rooftop

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Veronica's still shaken as she steps off the elevator - Aaron Echolls just has that kind of effect on people - but she forces herself to shrug it off. There are more important matters at hand, like making sure Mac is safe, and that Beaver doesn't hurt anyone else.

"Mac!"

Grimly, she realizes that her next hurdle will be convincing Lamb of the truth. It's not going to be easy, especially with her dad away and Woody - such an obvious suspect - already in custody. But Lamb will have to listen, won't he? Especially after she shows him the photograph, and brings in Hart...

"Mac!"

It would be hard to ignore such evidence, even for Lamb. If questioned, with Woody around, maybe a confession would even...

Why...

Why would Mac ask to meet on the roof...?

It's quiet up here, and very dark, and suddenly Veronica feels a chill.

"Mac...?"

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Logan opens his mouth - to say what, he doesn't know, so he closes it again, and just gapes at Cassidy like a fish.

He's not on the Coronado Bridge anymore. He's here, fully and totally, and he can see what happens next as clearly as if it were a movie playing out in front of him.

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Beaver's mouth sets. He nods, just once.

"That's what I thought," he whispers.

And he steps backward onto nothing, and falls.

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Logan watches the figure disappear, silently. It's almost anti-climatic, in a way, with the silence and the resigned look on Beaver's face. It was the one Logan had seen a thousand times, the one Beaver wore when Dick ribbed him or Big Dick left him at home with Kendall.

It was nothing new, and maybe that was what made it the hardest thing to watch. Maybe that's why he can't stop watching the space on the railing where Cassidy Casablancas used to be.

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There's an eerie silence, and then the sound of
( wings )
a car alarm, which Veronica supposes is the end result when a teenage boy jumps off of the roof of a building and lands in the parking lot.

She's finding it hard, at this moment, to feel much of anything for Cassidy; her heart's already full of mourning for his victims. But she does step closer to Logan, and wrap her arms around him again, trying to comfort him as much as he does her.

At least now it's finally over --

"Oh God," she says.

"Mac!"