"What did you just say?" Chelsey asked.

"Some guy just got kidnapped." Raven breathed, "The stupid part is, I don't know him!"

"What about where?" Eddie asked pulling the car over onto the shoulder of the highway, "Where's he from?"

She was about to shake her head but as she did she said, "Santa Barbra." Her eyes widen when the answer slipped from her lips.

"That's not to far from here." he said getting back onto the freeway, "We can go and find him. Warn him to be on his guard."

Raven's eyes lit up, "Chels, get my laptop."

Reaching over her shoulder, she gave the computer to Raven and she opened it up. Getting the Internet running she pulled up a search engine. "I think I know his last name."

Eddie became confused, "Wait? Let me get this straight. You know where he is, but you don't know who is, yet just now you know his last name?"

"Just because I have these visions doesn't mean I have mastered them." she rolled her eyes and typed in, "Guster" she found several links. Some were for myspace and facebook, but one had another name attached. She clicked on it and saw a picture of two men standing side by side. The black guy was the one she saw and the white one was a little odd. He was touching two fingers to his head. She found them next to a picture of a dinosaur skull. Then in another, a mummy's casket. She found that someone had even made a wikipidia note about Shawn, Guster's best friend.

"He's a psychic?" Ravin laughed out loud, "Wow. He's really open about this."

"Oh how fun, Ray," Chelsey said, "You can tell him. He would be completely understanding."

"I don't know," Ravin said her eyes downcast.

"Oh come on, Raven," Eddie said, "He's a psychic, you're a psychic. What's the problem?"

"What if his psychic ability is different from mine, and he totally abuses it?" she asked.

"Hey. You save his friend and you can make him never tell about you." Chelsey suggested.

Raven thought a moment, "Here's what I'll do, I'll see how his life is as an open psychic and then I'll make a decision."

Chealsey nodded, "Sounds fair."

"Uh, Ray," Eddie asked, "When is he gonna get kidnapped?"

Raven was about to pause and think but said, "Two days from now." Again a weird burst of knowledge from no where.

"Dang," Eddie commented, "Your visions are gettin' real' accurate."

"One more question?" Chelsey said, "How far away is Santa Barbra?"

"Four more hours," Eddie groaned. The others heaved a sigh and watched the scenery change.


Shawn spun for the tenth time in his chair. Gus shook his head and went back to his paper. Shawn said from his spinning chair, "I thought you were done with all this school junk?"

"I am," Gus nodded, "I'm just bored."

Shawn stopped spinning and raise a brow, "So you're typing up a paper on inhalers?"

"No," Gus defended himself, "You just happened to see me type that just now. I'm emailing my mom because she had a question about-"

"Blah blah blah," Shawn laughed, "I don't care. About that in particular. I need to do something." he complained getting himself even more dizzy.

Gus looked over at his partner's desk, "How about you clean that up?" he said pointing to the mess on top. Shawn had newspapers and candy wrappers littering the desk. He had a notepad that was opened and turned upside next to a melted carton of ice cream. Several boxes of Chinese food were in the trash with who knows what else from several weeks ago.

He pouted his lower lip in serious thought then shook his head, "No. I'm not THAT insanely bored. But what I am up for," he said bouncing a few times in his chair, "Is a case. Is there anything? A kid with bad nightmares? A haunted house? A dog with indigestion?"

"Gross," Gus said looking at his friend like he'd grown two extra heads, "How is that even relivant?"

"It's not, but the point is," Shawn begged, "let's go do something. Hit the beach, go bug Lassy, take over the mail man's job. ANYTHING!!"

Gus raised a brow and stared at his friend. He sighed, "Alright. How about we hook up two dates and go to the movies."

Shawn nodded,"As long as it's not a drive in."

"I hear ya," he said shivering at the thought of seeing "Mr. Yang" again. That was one of the most desterbing cases they had ever encountered and he wished not to remember nor experience that ever again. Grabbing his coat jacket Gus lead the way his little blue car and they were off. Stopping at a coffee shop they scoped it out. Targets acquired, Shawn thought.

Later that night with thier dates, Ashley and Vicky, they saw a horror and pretended to the brave ones. Shawn was the one who lost his cool first. Gus snickered thinking the trickster king had finally blown it with a chick, but the girl laughed it off and ended up clinging to his arm the whole night. Gus and Vicky hit it off rather well and both guys got thier respective digits and went home with very happy.

Parting ways the two friends went home for a good night's sleep. just after nine o'clock, the three friends from SanFran pulled in at their hotel. They too were going to bed. But another party altogether was just putting their plan into motion.


sorry for the long wait everybody. It's been a while since I've even thought about this story. Been too busy with Let's Do This My Way. i've been writing it down before typing it. anyway more will come. the many alert emails have given me encourgament to keep going. thanks to everyone. -redd