A/N: Okay, so this fic just came out of nowhere. The lines popped into my mind and I wrote them down. I think there might be a plot here somewhere, especially with how I left off at the end, but I might have to find it first. Wish me luck!

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The Spirits

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The Spirits worked in mysterious ways. That's right, Spirits; contrary to popular belief, he really did see spirits. Of course, that didn't mean that he was psychic, so he was still lying to the police department, but he was also kind of lying to his family at the same time. His dad and Gus had no idea about the Spirits; they just believed that he was making the whole thing up.

The Spirits weren't the ones to solve his cases, though. Oh, sure, they would help out from time to time when it suited them, but he mostly solved his cases on his own. Yes, he saw and communicated with the Spirits, and they did reveal the missing piece at the opportune moment, but he still had the mind that could piece mysteries together to find the solution. They also got bored of his crime solving abilities at time.

Spirits were very fickle creatures, even the ones that used to be human. Ghosts and those who had passed on from the earthly plane were sometimes more helpful, more knowledgeable as to what being a human was like, but they weren't as much help as one would think. Ghosts didn't know all, which meant that sometimes they had no idea who their killers were, and while the human spirits knew more, they rarely told him what it was they knew. Most of the time they were just annoying people that he had to pretend not to see.

As for the Spirits that were never human to begin with; those were the worst. Yes, they knew more than any human spirit, but they also really didn't care about the information that they possessed. They had their own worlds, though they loved to toy with the human world whenever they were bored. They played with him sometimes, since he was one of the rare humans that could see the Spirits.

Seeing things that normal people didn't see made a person seem very odd. It made the person shy away from empty spaces and react to things that didn't appear to be there. And then there were all the tricks a Spirit would pull. "No, Dad, I did do the art project; it just got torn up because the Spirits thought it was fun." "I don't really want to go to the party because the Spirits want to play games today, plus the new neighbors are strange…" "I told the cops that I was psychic because the Spirits were bored and now we're solving a case!" Yes, that really was normal behavior in a human being and people really would believe the excuse about Spirits.

No, everyone thought that he was still living in his childhood and that was the reason that he behaved so oddly. No one ever thought that Spirits actually existed, even if they did allow him to claim to be psychic. And those who did believe that he was psychic still thought that his behavior was strange and they wondered if it was really necessary for him to flail around when he had a 'vision.'

The Spirits used unusual methods to communicate with him. Glowing beings, strange creatures, random objects on the street, even comments from other people that just sound like what a spirit would say. Sometimes he even received actual visions and, yes, the dancing was an integral part in those visions. Having visions always made him feel like he was in an episode of Eli Stone, however, and he did get his brain checked for aneurisms after watching that show.

The dancing outside of the visions: the flailing that he almost always did while parting with information, that also had a purpose. First, it was just fun to do and, second, it kept the Spirits interested in what he was doing. He didn't need the Spirits to solve the cases and he really didn't need the trouble that they caused, but what could he say? He had gotten used to the way that he lived his life; he had settled down and the Spirits were a part of that life. Yes, they made him look like an idiot, but he could do that with or without the Spirits and they were useful at times.

Like, he was sure that the one fire Spirit, that was kind of making him nervous, could help him out right now. He could slip through the door and scout out the area outside of the room that he and Lassie were locked in, or he could start off a distraction that would allow him and Lassie to sneak away. Yes, that fire Spirit could do a lot of things that could help him out; Shawn just hoped that the Spirit helped them out before the fire started…