Chapter two! Unfortunatley this chapter doesn't have much action. There will be action soon though! I don't know how long this will be, but I'm starting to think that it'll be relatively long. Please read and review! Thanks!

Disclaimer- I have no ownership over Psych whatsoever.

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All that Juliet O'Hara had wanted to do was rush to the hospital to be with Shawn. Every nerve in her body screamed for her to. But she knew that the best thing for her to do was to catch whoever had drugged him. But where do we start? I don't even know what case he was working on. And if even if we figure that out, we don't know who involved in the case did this. I mean, it's most likely the culprit of his case, but how do we find out who that is?

There were a million things that Juliet and Lassiter needed to do, but they didn't know where to start.

"O'Hara" Lassiter called, bringing her out of a trance she'd fallen into. "Are you okay?"

Are you joking?! Did you even see what just happened? "Um, yeah. Yeah I'm fine. Any word about Shawn?" Juliet tried her hardest to keep the hope out of her voice.

Lassiter cleared his throat, looking like he really didn't want to answer her question. Oh God. He's dead isn't he? He doesn't want to tell me because he's dead. Juliet's mind was racing, but she kept out her professional front.

"Well, you see, Spencer—" Lassiter paused, seeming unsure as to how to go about saying this. "What you have to understand is that he went a long time without oxygen. Well, relatively speaking. Six minutes. The doctors are saying that he has cerebral hypoxia caused by a drug overdose. Heroin. When Spencer got to the hospital, they had to put him on life support. Good news is that they were able to take him off the respirator quickly—"

"And the bad news?"

"You know what O'Hara? I've always liked that about you. You pick up on just about everything. Seriously it's a gift that I—"

"Carlton!"

Lassiter sighed, defeated. "Spencer is in a coma. It's very common in cases like this—"

The rest of his words were unheard by Juliet. Her head was reeling. She stumbled over to a nearby chair and collapsed into it.

"How bad is it? I mean, he can wake up, right? He's not going to stay like that… is he?" The pleading look in her eyes tore at Carlton's heart.

"There is a… slight chance…" The look on her face clearly said to elaborate. "Well, in these cases, brain damage only really starts after five minutes. But it is possible that, in his case, it didn't. If we're lucky, he'll wake up within the next few days with little to no brain damage."

It wasn't much, but it was enough to give Juliet some hope.

Carlton, seeing her coming back down to Earth, gave her a push "But if we don't find these guys they might try to finish the job."

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Unable to think of a better place to start, Lassiter and Juliet arrived at the hospital half an hour later to talk to Gus. Any case that Spencer was working on Guster should know about. What have these two bone heads stumbled on this time?

"Guster! If you don't mind, O'Hara and I have a few questions for you." Juliet elbowed Lassiter in the ribs for shouting across the waiting room.

Carlton was taken aback by the tortured look in Gus's eyes. Stupid! The man's best friend is in life support and I'm treating him like a suspect!

"How are you Gus?" Juliet asked kindly.

"Well," Gus began "My best friend and partner is currently hooked up to countless machines that are keeping him alive and I'm not sure if he is going to live or not. Just peachy Juliet." Gus put his face in his hands.

"I'm so sorry Gus. I shouldn't have—" Juliet started guiltily.

"No. I'm sorry. I'm just… on edge I guess."

Lassiter cleared his throat loudly. "If you don't mind, Guster, we'd like to ask you a few questions."

Gus nodded solemnly.

"Before Spencer—Shawn—well before he… you know… he said that he 'got too close'. We're assuming that he meant that he got too close to solving a case. Do you have any idea what case he's been working on?"

Gus sat thinking for a moment.

"You know what…" He began slowly, "There is this one case. This kidnapping…"

"The Alexander kidnapping?" Juliet interjected.

"Wait, you know about this?" Lassiter questioned his partner.

"Oh yeah. High profile case. The daughter of a millionaire, Emily Alexander was kidnapped a few weeks ago. After being missing for a few days, she was found murdered."

"Well, why weren't we in on this case?" Lassiter sounded annoyed and offended at the same time.

Gus came in on this one. "Well, I'd guess it is because Nicholas Alexander, the girl's father is a senator. His vote on some big piece of legislation is a tiebreaker. Shawn… divined that she was kidnapped in an attempt for him to change his mind on his vote. When he refused, his daughter was murdered."

"What was this 'big piece of legislation'?" Lassiter asked.

"Something about legalizing certain opiates in an attempt to minimize usage. I'm not sure of the details though. I do remember that Senator Alexander opposed it." Gus said.

Carlton and Juliet exchanged a glance.

"Opiates such as heroin?" Lassiter asked Gus.

"Umm… yes… yeah I'm pretty sure that heroin was on the list… why?"

"Shawn overdosed on heroin." Juliet answered for her partner. "Gus do you have any idea, any idea at all who Shawn thought the culprit was?"

Gus thought for a moment. "I think that Shawn said something about another senator. He was involved in some sort of drug ring… A drug ring that would be legal if this bill passed… His name was something like… Temple. Yes. That's what it was. Senator Hayden Temple. He couldn't do anything about it though, because the case is under federal jurisdiction. I think that Shawn was trying to find a way to get the word out though."

"Looks like we need to talk to Mr. Temple." Lassiter said.

"Thanks Gus. So much. And I'm really sorry." Juliet told Gus softly.

"Yeah me too. No go find whoever did this before I kill him myself."

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Woohoo for violent Gus! Okay, so this story is going in a completely different direction than I anticipated. Oh well. Sorry to ilovemyboys if this isn't what you wanted.

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