Chapter 1
We come upon the Spencer house in the summer of 1991. A young Shawn Spencer stands in the middle of the living room getting ready to endure another one of his father's training exercises to use for when he becomes older.
"Come on dad, Gus just got a super Nintendo and me and him have a date with the super Mario brothers!"
"Well pardon me for interrupting your play time with something very important that could become useful to you someday in the real word," Henry stated.
"It's okay, you didn't know. Well, I'm out of here!" Shawn said as he started to sprint to the door, suddenly to have his shirt grabbed by his father.
"Nice try, Shawn, but you're not going anywhere til you learn this. Now close your eyes."
"Ugh FINE. But if Gus can't rescue the princess cause I'm not there to help then it's on you," Shawn replied as he closed his eyes.
Henry rolled his eyes and continued with the lesson, however, as he then put a blindfold over his son's eyes.
"Okay now I have taught you to be observant using your eyes, now I'm gonna teach you how to be observant without using your eyes."
"You're kidding me, right? Dad come on when am I ever going to need to use this as a talent? At a carnival or something? Why don't you let me go use a real talent by defeating the villains and winning the heart of a beautiful princess. Now THAT's a talent, and one that I'll hopefully not only use in video games but in real life as well someday."
"Shawn focus. You're not winning the heart of anything til you learn this, understand?"
Sighing, Shawn replied with a unhappy, "Yes sir," while trying not to bump into anything in his blind state.
"Okay, now there may be times whether you're a cop or just some freak occurrence happens, where you may not be able to use your sight," Henry stated. "So you're going to practice getting a feel of things and knowing what objects are by not being able to see."
"Can't I just learn from that blind homeless guy behind the video store?"
"Sure and maybe I can just tell Gus that you're never coming over to help him rescue the princess."
"Okay fine. But if I damage myself psychically in anyway I'm suing you when I'm older," Shawn said as he started to blindly walk around.
It's now present day, and a beautiful one at that. As Shawn and Gus pull up to the police station, Shawn grins as he pulls some magician's flowers out of his coat.
"Why are you pulling flowers out of yourself?" Gus asked.
"Gus that hurts. I can't believe that as my brother from another mother that you do not know what today is," Shawn replied getting out of the car.
"Well excuse me for not keeping all of the events in your life in my calendar, Shawn," he replied starting up the stairs to the front entrance.
"Well I'm not gonna lie, that hurts me, Gus. I would never forget one of the important events in your life."
Gus stopped dead in his tracks. "Excuse me? When was my birthday?"
"Uhhh…around March? Yeah it was definatly around March because I remember us going out to celebrate and drinking a lot."
"That's because it was St. Patrick's Day, Shawn!"
"I guess that would explain the green beer."
"It was last month, Shawn, and not one single happy birthday or nothin" Gus replied walking into the station.
Silently smacking himself in the head, Shawn followed. "Gus, come on, they were having a Back to the Future marathon on that day! You can't seriously blame me for going back in time."
"Well you can go back in time and forget I ever wished you a happy birthday on yours, Shawn!"
"Gus- Wait you were with me on my birthday?"
As Gus glared at him, Lassiter made his way over to the duo with an unusual smile on his face. "Hello Guster. Spencer. What brings you to our fine establishment today?"
Getting scared looks on their faces, both Shawn and Gus backed away a couple of feet. "Dude, should we be scared right now?" Shawn stated looking at Lassie in a weird way.
"Should we? I already am," Gus replied, hiding behind Shawn.
"Okay, Lassie, why the sudden personality change?" Shawn asked. "Wait, is this freaky Friday? Did you switch bodies with Jules? Oh my god, Jules, don't panic I'll get you out of there as fast as I can! Just don't give me any personal details of what you've seen once you switch back!"
"Oh come off it, Spencer," Lassie replied pushing Shawn away from him. "It's something my therapist told me to try. She said to try being nice for no reason every once in awhile, especially to those I dislike the most. But since I'm getting this queasy feeling in my stomach, I realize now that it's impossible."
"So am I the only one not surprised that Lassie is insane now?" Shawn whispered to Gus.
"Why does that make me insane?" Lassie asked.
"Uh cause you have refused therapy in the past, so it must be mandatory. I'm guessing cause he finally succeeded in strangling those annoying door to door sales people," Shawn stated nodding.
"No, I'm in therapy cause my doctor said my blood pressure is through the roof due to stupid people. Manly you two stupid morons," Lassie replied walking towards his desk.
"Well then our work here is done," Shawn said, holding his fist up to bump Gus's.
Gus looked elsewhere as he shoved his hands into his pockets. "I don't associate with birthday forgetters."
"Come on, Gus. Would it help make up for it if I took you to Chuck E Cheese?"
Gus slowly turned his head to look at Shawn. "Maybe."
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Juliet asked, walking up to them.
"Oh nothing just trying to figure out what the heck is in my pocket. Oh, wait I believe these are for you lovely lady," Shawn replied as he pulled the flowers out of his coat once again. "Happy Anniversary, my beautiful lady."
Juliet smiled as she took the flowers. "Aw, Shawn you remembered! You're so sweet. Thank you," she replied giving him a quick kiss.
"Fake flowers? What didn't you have enough time to at least steal some real ones from someone's garden like you usually do?" Lassie asked, as he looked over the flowers.
"And that, my dear friend, is why you are single and I am not," Shawn replied putting his arm around Juliet. "I got her these so they will never die, and so she can forever remember this moment. And in case I ever screw up, I will forever have proof of when I didn't screw something up."
"Gee, thanks, Shawn. Now I'll defiantly remember this moment," Juliet stated as she threw the flowers on her desk.
"Ahhh, but there's more, sweetie," Shawn replied nervously. "How does dinner and a movie tonight sound?"
"Well I don't know. If you're meaning pizza and a brat pack movie marathon, then I would have to go with I'm busy tonight," she said sitting down.
"Shows what little you know. Me and Gus already have that planned for Saturday night. Trust me, Jules, tonight be prepared to be swept off your feet, and into my arms."
"Cheesy but still acceptable," Juliet said with a grin.
"Awesome then I'll see you tonight, my love," he replied as he gave her hand a peck and slowly walked away.
"Oh geeze, I think I'm gonna be sick," Lassie stated, as he shuffled some papers.
"Hold it, Mr. Spencer and Mr. Guster!" Chief Vick shouted, as she came out of her office. "We have a case and I need all four of you in my office now."
"Aw man, she's like the good almost movie moments ruiner," Shawn complained as he and Gus made his way into her office.
"That makes no sense, Shawn," Gus replied sounding annoyed.
"It's makes perfect sense, Gus, and if you're going to keep acting like this I'll just go to Chuck E Cheese alone!"
"Oh that'll look real good. A grown man playing kids games alone!"
"Shows what you know. They have some adult games now too, Gus so SUCK IT!"
"No you SUCK IT, Shawn!"
"Gentleman, can we please get down to business?" Chief Vick shouted.
"Yes," they both replied, looking down at the floor.
"Thank you. Now we just got a report that Rebecca Parker, the wealthy widow of Keith Parker, was just found dead last night. And as you all may recall, just one month ago to the day, Keith died in a car accident."
"Was the car accident an accident or was it suspicious at all?" Gus asked.
"We're actually still investigating that one aren't we Detective Lassiter?" the chief replied, as she gave Lassie a glare.
"Uh, yes, Chief, but so far nothing's turned up to prove whether it was an accident or not yet," Lassie replied nervously.
Shawn suddenly put his hand up to his forhead. "I am sensing that it was not an accident!"
"Oh can it, Spencer!"
"Alright that's enough! Now since you're still so kindly working on that case Detective Lassiter, I believe I will send Detective O' Hara, Mr. Guster and Mr. Spencer out to the mansion of this young widow and see what you all can find out. Cause all I can determine at this point is if their deaths are unrelated, then this is one huge coincidence."
"Don't worry, Chief, we'll find out which one," Juliet stated walking towards the door.
"Yup, unlike Lassie here we won't let you down," Shawn said, giving an angry Lassie a slap on the back.
"Well I guess that's two people other than me that you're going to be pleasing today," Gus stated walking out the door.
Shawn sighed and held his hands up in protest. "Come on, Gus! Alright I'll take you to Disney Land and we can ride the tea cups til we throw up on some already sick kid!"
"You promise?" Gus asked.
"Pinky swear, man," Shawn replied holding out his pinky.
"You know that's right," Gus stated as he locked pinkies with Shawn.