"Mr. Spencer my office now." Chief Vick was angry at Shawn for some reason. But he couldn't see why.
"Coming Chief! Uh Jules why does she sound pissed?" Shawn was a little bit concerned.
"Sorry Shawn but I don't know." Jules was wondering why too. Lassie just seemed happy that Spencer was in trouble.
Suddenly an LAPD captain named Stiv Johnson came to view out of Chief's office.
"Hey Spence you really want her to kill you don't you? Now common hurry up we have something very important to discus." Johnson said and every one except Shawn was wondering who this guy is.
"Johnny? What are you doing here? I thought you were in LA." Shawn was wondering is his secret going to come out.
"Well Mr. Spencer if you would care to join us I will explain. But you have a lot of explaining to do your self, don't you? Why didn't you tell us?" Chief openly asked him about his secret in front of every one.
"Karen what is this about? What did Shawn do this time?" Henry was curious.
"Chief please. Can we talk in your office I don't want them to find out." Shawn was literally begging her.
"Okay Shawn what is going on?" Gus and Jules said at the same time. Lassie just gave him a cold look.
"It's nothing guys. And anyway Chief shall we?" He pointed at her office. When they were in, Chief closed the door. But it sounded like she slammed it full force.
"What the hell I up with Spencer?" Lassie was curious.
In Chief's office
"Okay Mr. Spencer explain NOW." Vick yelled at Shawn.
"Okay, okay, I will. But first why are you here? Is something wrong?" Shawn said.
"No well yes. Rick escaped from jail. Sorry Spence I know how hard you worked to get that son of a bitch." Johnny said.
Shawn's face went pale. He was almost killed by that son of a bitch and now he was loose.
"How did he escape? It was a maximum security jail." Shawn asked.
"He made a deal with a dirty cop." Johnson said.
"Mr. Spencer will you explain why didn't you tell us about that you're a cop?" Chief Vick asked him.
"I wanted to leave that behind me. After what happened with Rick I just wanted not to be a cop." Shawn said.
"He wasn't just a cop. He was Head Detective." Johnson added.
"What?! A Head Detective? Shawn now I really don't understand why?" Vick was stunned.
"Because Rick almost killed me." Shawn said and Karen just gasped.
"Oh my God. What happened?" She asked.
"Well I went undercover to his mob gang but somebody blew my cover. He tortured me for a week. I thought I was a goner I could barely stay awake. But then he said I wasn't dying alone so he took my partner, Nick and tortured him in front of me. Nick died after five days…"Shawn stopped, he blamed himself.
"…If my cover wasn't blew than Nick would be alive. Anyway, I was dying I couldn't stay awake anymore. So I fell a sleep, the next thing I know I'm in the hospital. And later they show me the sick bastard video taped it all. That's it." Shawn looked at the floor.
"Shawn I know it is a lot to ask for, but will you work this case, please."
"Sure thing Chief I want this son of a bitch behind bars again."
"But Shawn not as a psychic detective but as head detective." Karen said.
"Okay I'll do it. For Nick." Shawn said.
"Okay let's go get your badge and gun. I'll drive you." Karen said and stood.
"I wonder what did Shawn do this time. Man they were yelling really loud." Gus felt like he was sitting on needles. Then Chief's door opened and every one looked like they saw a ghost.
"Karen what is going on?" Henry was the first to snap out of it.
"I get a police escort to the Psych office. Why?" Shawn just had to tease them all.
"Uh Chief what did Spencer do this time? Can I arrest him?" Lassie was looking dead serious.
"Lassiter you will not be arresting an LAPD Head Detective understood?" Karen finally said it and Shawn just looked at her like she was crazy. He didn't know why but he just hung his head low as the others stared.
"Chief can we just go get my badge and gun before my dad kills me for not telling him that little detail about the LAPD?" Shawn was the one who is dead serious now.
"Shawn you will have to tell them what you told me in there." Karen said. Shawn just paled and looked at Johnson.
"Spence you have no choice they deserve to know. It was serious, really serious so you should tell them." Johnson said and Shawn knew he was right.
"No Johny they don't need to know. It's too much." Shawn stated.
"Spence why do you think they don't need to know what happened to you?!"
"Because…I don't know." Shawn said. "Can we just go get my badge and gun already? I need to shoot something." Shawn said and Lassiter was surprised. Spencer knew how to shoot.
"Shawn we'll go get them but first tell them." Karen said and Shawn really hated her right now.
"Fine. This guy Rick escaped from jail. I was undercover in his mob gang but someone blew my cover. So he took me, and tortured me for a week. Then he got my partner there too and killed him in five days. I couldn't fight to stay awake anymore so I passed out when I woke up I was in a hospital. I stayed there for a month and a half. And they showed me that the sick bastard video taped it all." Shawn said and again his eyes were locked to the floor.
Juliet and Gus gasped, Lassiter was out of it, and Henry was scared.
"Shawn why didn't you tell us? I can only imagine how it was living with that." Henry said and Shawn was surprised he wasn't boiling mad.
"Because I didn't want to worry you." Shawn stated and then Karen, Johnson and he went to get the badge and gun. Shawn was quit the whole time.
"Shawn are you okay? You seem very quiet." Karen said.
"Yeah I'm fine." Shawn said simply. His mind was racing. If Rick got him again, this time he will not survive.
They got back to the station and Shawn just went passed by everyone and into the shooting range. He had a dark expression, his cheerful eyes were nowhere to be found. Shawn was completely serious. They were all stunned. No one knew how good was he. Lassiter raised an eyebrow and went behind him. He wanted to see Shawn shoot.
Spencer stood in the middle of the range. Lassiter could se he was mad but still focused. He got closer to see the target being brought back as Shawn loaded his gun. Lassiter was stunted, every hole in the target was doubled perfectly.
"Spencer where the hell did you learn to shoot like that?"
"At the academy and my dad trained me when I was a kid. Why?" Shawn said not looking at him.
"You're the last person I would think of that can shoot like that. Why on Earth did you hide being a cop from everyone?" Lassiter couldn't get it why.
"Because of my last case. I told you guys what happened before we went for my badge and gun." He said like it was an every day thing. But Lassiter could se the anger and worry in his eyes.
"No, you only said the main stuff now tell me everything." Lassie demanded. If Shawn thought that little explanation was enough for him he was dead wrong.
Shawn let out a sigh then turned to his target once more, and discharged his weapon. Lassiter didn't expect that, he thought Shawn would make some ridiculous comment. He never saw Spencer that serious, it was creeping him out.
"Okay Lassie I'll tell you but in front of everyone because I can't keep remembering what happened. It's driving me crazy as you can see. I would never go straight to the range ever. I guess you'll see what I used to do later. Johny wants to see how's my hand to hand combat anyway. And, but don't say this to anyone, there is a big chance this round with Rick I'm not going to survive." Shawn said very serious his fear well hidden to anyone, but Lassiter could hear a slight tremble in his voice. Still he said nothing.
"What do you mean you won't survive? How good is this guy?" He asked. He had to admit it to himself, he was worried for the pseudo psychic.
"Lassie my file was very well hidden but now Chief Vick will see it. If she isn't reading it right now. It was horrible so yeah Rick is very good. And his shooting, well that's another story. He was a special forces sniper I think that's enough said." Shawn said and walked past Lassiter. He went straight to Chief's office.
****In Chief Vick's office****
"Okay now that every one is here let's begin shall we?" Johnny said and looked at Shawn, who was currently trying to win a stare competition with the floor.
He was completely out of it, no trace of his usual smile or jokes, nothing. He seemed hollow, and all of them could only imagine what he went trough in the past to be effected by it like this.
Shawn's mind was racing, he knew they were all watching him but he couldn't get out of his thoughts. 'I can't do this again' he thought but he had no choice, there was no way out of this case.
"So Spence wake up! No day dreaming right now. Okay?" Johnny said. Shawn glared at him but said nothing. He just wanted to get this over with as fast as he could.
"You know what Johnny? Screw you." Shawn said. No one expected that from him.
"Yeah screw you for tricking me into going to the academy and making me go undercover. Damn it, because of that stupid undercover case I almost died. And more importantly my partner did die. And I couldn't do anything to stop it. So shut up with day dreaming, like hell I could day dream now…I just want this case to be over. There are only two solutions to this case and you know it. Either we get this guy or he kills me, simple as that." Shawn said very fast and angry. He hated his own jokes right now, so he couldn't listen to Johnny right now.
Then Shawn's phone ringed. He looked a the ID, it was blocked. His first thought was Rick.
"Hello?" Shawn said a little bit uncertain.
"Hii Shawn did you miss me? I sure missed you. I hope you know you will die soon, no not soon it will be slow and very painful got it?" Rick said and Shawn paled. He was scared and mad at this nut job. The office grew quit at Shawn's expression, it was pure anger mixed with terror. Henry was the first to notice Shawn's hand clenched in to a fist shake.
He never saw this mad, actually he did but only once. This was bad, if Shawn is alone when he finds Rick he will kill him or be killed. And Henry couldn't allow either to happen. If Shawn kills Rick his guilt would eat him alive, but if Shawn dies Henry wouldn't be able to survive it.
Shawn hung his phone and simply left the office again. Only this time he didn't go to the range he went straight out of the station. They all followed him and saw him approach a man dressed in black. Shawn went straight to him and before the man said anything he punched him in the face. The man fell on his ass from the blow, but only looked at Shawn and smiled.
"You son of a bitch! When will you leave me alone?! You have a chance kill me now and end this already! Thanks to you my secret is revealed and nothing will be the same again! You just had to kill Nick, you couldn't kill me!? What did he do to deserve to die?" Shawn's whole body was shaking with anger. As Lassiter approached to arrest the asshole he pulled out a hand grenade.
They all froze, especially Shawn, he didn't care if this guy killed him but he didn't want the rest of them hurt.
"Rick hold on. You'll kill yourself too if you drop that bomb. Think what you're doing here." Shawn tried reasoning with him but in vain. Rick dropped the bomb, but it was a knockout gas bomb. Everyone but Shawn covered their noses quick as soon as they saw the gas being purple. But Shawn tried running after Rick, so he ran straight in to the gas. He felt dizzy and nauseous, he was hardly able to stay conscious. Everything was fading, suddenly he found it very hard to breathe. Shawn went out of the smoke chocking, 'what the heck is this stuff?' he wondered.
Henry was scared that Shawn went into the smoke, he stayed there too long. When he came out he was coughing so hard he started chocking. They al ran toward him, and Henry caught him as he collapsed still trying to regain his breath. He was gasping and Henry saw Lassiter look at him worried.
"Shawn, hey Shawn, calm down. You need to slow your breathing." Henry said in a soft voice. Shawn tried to breath normally but he inhaled too much of the gas.
"W..what w..w..was in th..that s..s..s..stuff? I c..ca..can't bre…brea…breathe." Shawn gasped coughing.
"Shawn we don't know. But it's probably chloroform." Henry said. Chief Vick came back telling the she called an ambulance. Johnny went to Shawn to check his breathing.
"Wow Spence this isn't good. Looks like he put something besides chloroform in that bomb. Just stay with us until the ambulance arrives." Johnny said. He was worried Rick might have put something poisonous in that thing. Shawn only nodded but his vision was growing gray at the edges.
"'m j..just g..go..gonna s..s..sleep 'till t..t..they come." Shawn slurred and his eyes started to shut. All of them immediately started yelling his name and shacking him. But none of that stopped Shawn's eyes from closing. He lost consciousness completely as the ambulance arrived. The last thing he heard before everything went completely black was Jules calling his name in tears.