Super Cool Party People Bid You Super Cool Ado! (1/8)
Title: Super Cool Party People Bid You Super Cool Ado! (1/8)
Chapter One: Silence of the Lamb
Author: madi_lover 
Summary: Mac and Dick talk at Madison's birthday party
Characters: Mac, Dick, Madison and Veronica
Words: 1,638
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Episode 1x11 "Silence of the Lamb"
Disclaimer: I don't own anything having to do with Veronica Mars. All characters and places belong to Rob Thomas. Lines in italics are from the episode. The title of the story comes from a Gilmore Girls episode.
Author's Note: So, I had this "I wonder what would happen if Mac and Dick interacted with each other in each party the show has throughout the seasons" thought and this is the first chapter from that idea. I hope you guys like this first chapter.

 

The house wasn’t huge, but it was definitely larger than Mac’s. As she walked up to the door with Veronica and Wallace, she couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that this was supposed to be her home, her party, her life.

 

After they slipped past Madison Sinclair at the front door, the group split up and Mac was grateful; it was a lot easier to sneak around the house, looking at more pieces of what her life should be while she was alone. The library was the room that made Mac the saddest. Madison’s parents had taken her all over the world, to places that Mac could only dream about.

 

‘My parents,’ she thought bitterly as she looked at photos of Madison in Paris, looking disdainful of the time she was spending with her family. ‘I would have been ecstatic to be in Paris; especially with family members I’m sure I have things in common with!’

 

When the door slammed shut behind her, Mac jumped in surprise, turning and looking at who she couldn’t believe might actually be her boyfriend if life had gone the way it was supposed to. ‘I guess I have one reason to be thankful for the switch,’ she thought as she stared up at the clearly angry face of Dick Casablancas.

 

“Nobody’s supposed to be in here,” Dick said as he stared down at Mac, clearly as surprised to see her as she was to see him.

 

“Then why are you in here?” Mac queried, un-intimidated by him.

 

Dick cocked his head to the side, obvious curiosity taking the place of the anger that had previously been on his features. He quirked an eyebrow at her as his lips spread into a slow smile. “I won’t tell if you don’t tell?” he suggested.

 

To Mac’s surprise, she found herself matching Dick’s smile as she nodded her head at him.

 

“Cool,” Dick said as he nodded his head as well and flopped down on the couch. “So, uh…who are you?”

 

Mac snorted and rolled her eyes as she sat on the edge of a windowsill. “Figures,” she said under her breath, rolling her eyes again.

 

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Dick asked as he looked across the room at Mac curiously.

 

“Gee, Dick, just that we’ve been going to school together since kindergarten and you have no idea who I am,” Mac replied, rolling her eyes again. “You 09ers are so absorbed with your little incestuous group that you’re completely unaware of anyone else; except, of course, when you’re ridiculing or torturing them.”

 

“Alright, I’m confused,” Dick told her, shaking his head. “You say we’ve gone to school together since kindergarten but I’m pretty sure I’d remember somebody as hot as you.”

 

“Please, Dick, don’t try your ridiculous idea of charm on me,” Mac said, rolling her eyes at him once again.

 

“What? You don’t believe I think you’re hot?” Dick asked as he stood up and crossed the room toward her. When he was about a foot in front of her, Dick stopped and tilted his head to the side. He traveled his eyes down her body and back up, lightly licking his bottom lip as his eyes met hers. “I suggest you think again.”

 

“Alright, sure, I’ll believe you think I’m hot when you can tell me my name,” Mac replied, rolling her eyes at him again.

 

Dick bit his bottom lip, clearly deep in thought as he looked at her and then his eyes brightened in a moment of recognition. “You’re that computer chick.”

 

“Thanks, but ‘computer chick’ is not my name,” Mac told him. She rolled her eyes again and made a move to get up and get away from him, but Dick put an arm out, stopping her.

 

“Cindy,” he said suddenly, snapping his fingers and grinning from ear to ear and Mac’s jaw actually dropped in surprise.

 

“How the hell do you know that?” she asked, shocked because nobody in their school environment had called her by her actual first name since eighth grade, not even her teachers.

 

“Everybody thinks I’m stupid but I’m not,” he told her with a cocky grin.

 

“Whatever,” Mac said, shaking her head and hoping she wasn’t blushing. Dick putting his brain through the strain of remembering her actually name was making her think that he might actually consider her hot and that was something she didn’t really want to acknowledge at the moment. She moved to the side, away from Dick and started looking at books for a reason not to look at him. “So, what are you doing in here? Aren’t you, like, the life of the party or something?”

 

“Damn Skippy,” Dick replied, grinning down at her but as Mac turned back toward him, about to tease him for his use of the word ‘Skippy’ she saw that his smile didn’t meet his eyes again and he looked angry again.

 

“Why are you so angry?” Mac asked, shocking Dick with her observation.

 

“Who said I’m angry?” he asked, avoiding her question and suddenly avoiding her eyes by looking at a book Mac was sure was beyond his comprehension.

 

“Your eyes,” she told him with a soft smile.

 

“It’s nothing,” Dick said with a shrug as he continued to thumb through the book. When he looked at Mac again, and saw that she was still staring up at him with an expectant look in her eyes, he sighed, put the book down and then leaned against the bookshelf while running his hand through his hair. “Madison’s cheating on me.”

 

“Oh,” Mac replied, surprised that he would tell her something that personal. “I didn’t realize you guys were actually exclusive.”

 

“Well, sometimes we are and sometimes we’re not,” Dick told her with another shrug. “And, whatever, I don’t really care or anything, but, like, I actually got her a birthday present and when I found her to give it to her, she was upstairs, fucking John Enbom! She just HAD to go for one of my friends!”

 

“Sorry,” Mac said softly as she bit her bottom lip uncomfortably. “What did you get her? Is it returnable?”

 

“Just some movie I saw and thought she might like,” Dick replied, pulling the movie Ghost World out of his jacket pocket. “I opened it though, so she wouldn’t see the price ‘cause that’s tacky, so now I can’t return it and I already own it.”

 

“You own Ghost World?” Mac asked in surprise as she took the movie from him and looked at it.

 

“Yeah, Scarlett Johansson is totally hot, why wouldn’t I own it?” Dick asked in response, rolling his eyes at Mac.

 

“No reason, I just didn’t think someone like you would like a movie like this,” Mac told him, surprised that she had apparently offended him.

 

“Yeah, well, as I said before, I’m not as stupid as everybody thinks I am,” Dick replied. “I mean, I totally get that whole, growing apart from friends thing that Enid and Rebecca go through, plus, being depressed because you have no idea what you’re going to do with your life? Let’s just say I’m somewhat familiar with the concept.”

 

“Wow,” Mac said as she stared up into Dick’s blue eyes. “That has got to be the most intelligent thing I’ve heard you say in the 11 and a half years I’ve been going to school with you.”

 

“Thanks,” Dick said, grinning down at her. Then he surprised her by reaching out and lightly grasping the blue strand of hair on the left side of her face. Mac felt herself blushing as he slowly pulled his hand back, allowing the blue hair to slide through his fingers. “You remind me of Enid…except you’re way hotter.”

 

“Oh,” Mac replied, feeling the air slowly leave her lungs as Dick bent closer to her, clearly about to kiss her. The sound of the library door opening surprised them so much they jumped away from each other.

 

“What are you doing in my parents’ library?” Madison asked angrily as she glared across the room at Mac and Dick.

 

“Talking, ever heard of it?” Dick replied, rolling his eyes and glaring right back.

 

“No one’s supposed to be here. It’s off limits,” Madison told them as Veronica came into the room behind her.

 

“There you are,” Veronica said, looking into the room and wondering what Mac was doing alone in a room with Dick.

 

“And you. I won’t even start,” Madison said disdainfully as she looked down at Veronica.

 

“God, Madison, they’re here for your party,” Dick said, rolling his eyes and wondering when she became such a bitch. Then he wondered when it started to bother him that she was a bitch.

 

“No, Dick, they’re crashing my party,” Madison told him with a tone in her voice that made it clear to all of them that she thought he was a complete moron. “You need to leave. You don’t belong here.”

 

“Well, actually--” Mac started to say but Veronica quickly crossed the room and grabbed her arm, stopping her.

 

“We were just leaving, right Mac?” Veronica said pointedly as she led Mac toward the door. “Happy birthday, Madison. Thanks for being such a gracious host. Martha Stewart has nothing on you.”

 

As Mac and Veronica left the room together, Madison narrowed her eyes at Dick before crossing her arms over her chest. “What the hell were you doing in here with her?”

 

“Nothing, Madison,” Dick told her with another eye roll. “And if it bothers you, why don’t you go whine about it to John?”

 

With that, he walked out of the room, through the house and out to his truck. He was half-way home before he realized that Mac had never given him back Ghost World. By the time he got home, he’d decided that he didn’t mind.

Chapter Two: A Trip to the Dentist...