Chapter 3-

Shawn had a rough night they were hoping that he would gently wake up and fill them in on what happened at the restaurant but that didn't happen.

Around 3 a.m. Gus and Henry who were sitting on either side of Shawn's bed when they were woken up by blaring alarms. Shawn was thrashing around in his bed uncontrollably. Gus flipped the light over his bed on and Henry tried to hold Shawn down so he wouldn't injure himself further.

As soon as Henry touched Shawn he felt the probable reason for his seizure, he was burning up with fever. Henry tried to talk Shawn down like he did when Shawn had a nightmare but it didn't work.

Gus ran out of the room to get the Doctor. Henry was left with the job of holding his son down. Henry looked into the face f his son and said, "Damn it Shawn, you have to stop this foolishness and wake up.. Please son." Henry was surprised when he felt a tear slip out of his eyes.

Almost as soon as the seizure started it was over but Shawn was still unconscious and he was burning up with fever. The Doctor and Gus came running into the room. Henry was still leaning over Shawn in case he started to thrash around again, when he heard the doctor he wiped his eye on his shoulder and stood up to inform the doctor of what happened.

The doctor was joined by several nurses now and he asked the two men if they would go out to the waiting room while they ran some tests. Gus and Henry sat in silence for a while but then Gus looked at Henry and said, "The last 24 hours seem like a nightmare that we can't seem to wake up from." Henry looked at Gus and gave him a squeeze on the arm, "I know kid, He us going to be alright though, he has to be."

It was 4 am now and Lassiter had yet to leave the station. He sat in his chair just staring at the white board covered with evidence, praying that if he looked at it long enough then maybe something would click.

Every lead they had turned out to be a dead end. The surveillance cameras were broken the traffic cameras showed nothing unusual. Nothing was there to give them even a hint about who did this. He was stumped.

At six in the morning he was startled awake by a warm hand on his shoulder. It was Chief Vick. She had come in early to help with the investigation. She told Lassiter to go home and get some rest, he would do no good to O'Hara if he passed out and ended up in the hospital himself.

He sighed, "Well I am no good to her now so it wouldn't be a big difference." The Chief just squeezed his shoulder and said, "Go home detective, I don't want to see you back for six hours got it!" He rubbed his eyes and got his coat and said, "Yes Ma'am!"

Rookie Hank was getting off work about the same time Lassiter finally left the station and he was in the locker room changing out of his uniform. He put on some sweet pants and road his motorcycle home. He looked over both shoulders before he entered the house, just to make sure no one followed him. He made it down to the basement where he saw a sleeping Juliet.

Hank kneeled down next to his prisoner and gently kissed her awake. Before she realized who it was she was enjoying kissing him back then it hit her that it wasn't Shawn kissing her and she pulled away and spit on Hank.

Hank wiped his face and then reached over and slapped Juliet as hard as he could, he told her she better behave if she wants to ever see the light of day again.

He assured her, "I love you Juliet, I don't want to kill you but if you don't learn how to play nicely than I am going to be forced to hurt you."

Juliet sneered at her captor but decided to play along and hopefully he would make a mistake and she could escape or Lassiter would find her. Either way she had to bide her time.

She looked at Hank and said, "Your right, I am so sorry. I promise I will be better now. Listen Honey (she almost threw up at this point) my arms are getting so tired do you think you could find another way to bind me?"

Hank was enjoying Juliet talking to him so sweetly he looked down at her and caressed the cheek he just slapped. He looked at her seductively and said, "I thought you would never ask."

He left for a few minutes and came back this time with his service revolver and the keys to the handcuffs. He unlocked Juliet and ordered her to head up the stairs. She did, and as she started walking he said, "Oh don't even think about running, if you do you will be dead before you get to the door." Juliet nodded and headed up the stairs.

Hank led her to a bedroom where a mattress was only on a frame and over the end of the bed on either side were shackles. Hank said, "Come here sweet thing I think you will be much more comfortable in here." He forced her down on the bed and then locked her arms to the shackles.

There was enough slack in the chains to where her arms could now hang at her side naturally. She looked at her captor and told him thank you. He smiled an evil smile at her and said you are so very welcome.

He then laid on the bed and worked his way on top of her holding her arms down. She tried to fight his advances but he was quit a bit larger than she was.

He started to kiss her and then he ripped her dress exposing her bra and he fondled her and kissed all over her.

She fought back as he started to head lower, he wrapped his large hands around Juliet's neck until she passed out. She woke up some time latter, she started to cry when she saw that she was completely naked and then she realized what he did to her while she was unconscious. She curled up into the fetal position at the end of the bed and just rocked and cried.

Back at the hospital, Gus and Henry had been waiting out in the waiting room for several hours. Henry was starting to get angry at the lack of word about Shawn he was ready to get up and go yell at someone when the Doctor finally came from the doors to the ICU.

Henry got up and met him halfway, "What happened what is wrong with Shawn?"

The Doctor smiled at the passion of the man in front of him and he motioned for him to sit down and he would explain, "Shawn had a febrile reaction to his blood transfusions. Normally that reaction just causes a fever but given the trauma of his other injuries his body reacted with a pretty impressive Grand Maul seizure."

Henry rubbed his head and asked, "What we do now?" The Doctor just shook his head, "We treat the reaction and the fever and we watch and wait. Shawn is a strong and normally healthy young man hopefully he will wake up soon and this will be all over."

Gus not liking the word hopefully asked, "What if he doesn't? Is there a chance he wont wake up?" The Doctor sighed, "If he would have been shot and brought straight to the hospital then I would say he has all chances to wake up and soon, but he wasn't he wasn't found till almost an hour after the shooting, in that time he was allowed to bled considerably. When your body looses that much blood it starts to do things you don't expect. I am not sure how Shawn is going to recover, we are just going to have to wait and find out as it happens. I am sorry I cannot offer more hope but I thought you would appreciate the truth."

Henry had to deep breathe to steady his emotions but when he did he said, "Doc it isn't like my son to do anything half way, he likes to be dramatic. You are right I appreciate your honesty more than false hopes. Can we see him now?" The Doctor smiled at Henry and said, "Of course follow me."

Gus decided to stay in the waiting room and update people and he told Henry to go ahead and when he was done calling folks he would get them some breakfast and coffee. Henry smiled at his son's best friend, a young man who almost felt like a second son, and said, "Thank you!"

The first phone call that he made was to Lassiter. He had just gotten home and was getting ready to try and sleep when his phone rang. Lassiter picked up the phone and said, "Hello Guster". Gus quickly began, "I was just calling to tell you that Shawn had a really bad night he had a reaction to the blood he was being given and it caused a high fever and a seizure."

The line was silent for a minute then Lassiter said, "Oh sweet lady justice, how is he now?" Gus told Lassiter what the doctor said, now all they could do was watch, wait and hope.

Lassiter told him that is about the place they were in with the investigation into Juliet's disappearance. He told them they have yet to get their first substantial lead in the case.

Gus didn't know what to say to make Lassiter feel better so he said what came to his heart, "Lassiter, I believe in you, Shawn and I always have, you are a good cop and a good friend. If anyone is going to find Juliet it will be you. I believe in you just like I believe Shawn is going to wake up from this."

It almost sounded like Lassiter was crying on the other end but Gus quickly dismissed that idea. Lassiter said, "Thank you! That means a lot for you to say and I will come by the hospital on my way back to the station. Would you mind calling and telling the chief for me?" Gus agreed and they hung up.

Gus made a few other calls and then headed down to the cafeteria and got two coffee's and an assortment of other foods for the two men as they continued their vigil by Shawn's bed.

It was not a quiet day for Shawn no more seizures but his fever never went down, in fact it spiked to nearly 105. Henry and Gus took turns wiping a burning up Shawn with cold water. The nurses came in every 20 minutes and packed Shawn's bed with ice packs they even started chilling the saline that was going into his veins. Both men were exhausted but neither men dare leave Shawn's bedside.

Lassiter came by around 4 in the afternoon on his way back to the station. He brought some sodas and some hamburgers for Gus and Henry.

He was shocked to find Shawn in such a state. Shawn was red with fever he would go through periods of being still then as his fever rose he would roll his head from side to side.

Henry told Shawn, Detective Lassiter was here to see him and asked him if he could wake up to talk to him? Henry got a response but not the one he was hoping for Shawn started to mumble CP (head roll) 45h(head roll again) 37.

He kept repeating the same numbers and letters over and over again while his fever hit 106. When that happened an alarm sounded and he started to seize again. This time Lassiter held Shawn down as he thrashed around in the bed.

The doctors and nurses came rushing into the room and told the family that desperate times call for desperate measures they were going to take Shawn to the Physical therapy department and submerge him in ice to try and get his fever down.

They allowed Lassiter to continue to hold Shawn till the seizure passed, as soon as it did the three men were told to go to the waiting room and they were off with Shawn.

Lassiter sat in the waiting room wide eyed at what just happened Gus and Henry looked like death warmed over.

Lassiter asked if this is what they had gone through all day, Henry sighed, "No seizures and no random string of numbers and letters but we have helped fight that stupid fever all day long. It hasn't dropped below 103 since around 5 this morning."

Lassiter looked shocked at the other men, "Oh my God he has had that high of a fever for that long?" he rubbed his face and mumbled, "When is this nightmare going to end?"

Lassiter left Gus and Henry and told Gus to call and give him a status report on the fever.

He went back to the station and was sitting at his desk. Chief Vick came up and asked how he was holding up? Lassiter's blue crystal blue eyes were swimming in a sea of red he looks at the Chief and said, "Oh I don't know my partner is kidnapped and having God knows what done to her and her boyfriend who is a real pain in the ass but a friend none the less is in the hospital with a fever so high his brain is baking. So Chief not good I am not good at all."

The Chief was stunned at his words, "What is going on with Mr. Spencer?" Lassiter filled her in on the seizure last night and the seizure this afternoon and how the doctors were desperate to bring down his temperature doing anything from ice packs to submerging him in ice to accomplish it.

The Chief noticed the open notebook in his hands and asked what those numbers and letters are for? Lassiter tossed the notebook on the desk and said, I have no idea when I got there he started mumbling this sequence, I wrote it down it is probably a product of his delusions but for some reason I thought maybe he was trying to tell me something.

Chief Vick picked up the notebook and then it occurred to her that this wasn't a random sequence of numbers this was a license plate. Lassiter sat up straight in his chair and pulled up the DMV database and punched in the numbers and letters.