(2 chapters in one night just making up for lost time)
The doctor took the group to see their friend. Shawn was in bad shape he was so perfectly still it amazed them to see Shawn so still. He had all sorts of tubes sticking out of him. At first they didn't know what to do they all just stood there silent. Gus was the first to move, he went over to his best friend and rubbed his hair as he said, "Hey Buddy, you are alright now. No one is going to hurt you any more. I love you brother get better soon, when you do, it is all the smoothie action you can handle okay?"
Gus walked past Juliet and Lassiter with tears in his eyes. He went out to the hall to wait for them; he couldn't handle seeing Shawn like that anymore. Juliet was next to speak she came over to him and placed the sweetest gentlest kiss on his lips. She whispered in his ear, "I love you forever means just that forever, my love did not come with conditions. Remember that okay. I adore you and I cannot wait to see your beautiful green eyes staring at me again." One more kiss and she stepped back to let Lassiter speak, "I promise you Shawn, I WILL get the men that did this to you and they will pay for their crimes. I will make sure that they can never hurt you or anyone else ever again."
He went to walk away and stopped dead in his tracks in front of Juliet. "They are still out there, we can't leave him alone!" He reached in his pocket and handed her his keys. "You take Gus to his car and talk with Chief Vick about setting up a security detail on Shawn's room. I am going to stay right here till the detail is set up." Juliet smiled at him and then said, "What about the doctor he told us we could only stay a few minutes?" Lassiter gave Juliet a raised eye brow, crooked mouth look and said, "I don't really care what the doctor said he cannot guarantee Shawn's protection and I can there is no debate Spencer's safety is paramount." Juliet stood on her tiptoes and kissed Lassiter on the cheek. He looked surprised and asked what that was for? She just smiled and walked out. Lassiter smiled and took up his guard duty next to Shawn.
Juliet took Gus back to the station to get his car. He thanked Juliet for everything and asked her to keep him informed and told her if she needed him to just call. Juliet walked into the station and she saw Chief Vick sitting at her desk holding her head in her hands. Juliet was a little worried when she saw the Chief's face. She went and knocked on the doorframe of her office and Vick motioned her to come in and shut the door.
Juliet sat down and asked, "Is her face was the product of the day or was there something else wrong?" Chief Vick bit her bottom lip and thought for a second before she spoke, "Well it is the day, processing the scene was something I hope I can forget one day soon. The other is this" She passed a manila envelope over to Juliet, and she opened the envelope. Inside were photos of Shawn at different stages of his attack on the final picture of Shawn lying naked on his fathers bed was a note saying,
"We aren't done with Shawnie yet. We still have to send
him to be with his dear ole Dad."
Juliet started to mist up again seeing the man that she loved tortured at the hand of these monsters. It was bad enough to imagine what happened to him but to now SEE the pictures was almost too much for Juliet.
She used the back of her hand to wipe her eyes and said with a tired cracking voice, "Well that leads up to what I needed to talk to you about. Lassiter sent me here to ask you to post a guard at Shawn's door until we catch these monsters."
Chief shook her head as to clear it and said, "Of course, Lassiter is right we need to make this happen. We can't let one of our own fall prey to these men again. Lassiter is with him now right?" Juliet shook her head yes. "Alright well let's gather these men (writing a list of names) and get the first guard on duty within the hour to let Lassiter get some rest. Can you handle this or do you need me to handle it?"
Juliet shook her head yes and assured Chief she could handle the job of setting up guard duty and she took the list and got to work.
Chief Vick sat at her desk and thought what a crappy month this had been. Loosing Henry Spencer an amazing cop and a friend. And now this attack on Shawn, she muttered to herself, "I would say what else could go wrong but dear Lord I don't want to know."
Back in the hospital Lassiter sat quiet in Shawn's darkened room his pistol was in his hand ready to be used at any moment. The doctor came through the door and scolded Lassiter, "Detective, I thought I told you to go home? You can't stay here tonight."
Lassiter looked the doctor straight in the eye, "The HELL I can't. This man has two people that raped and tortured him and they are still on the loose and they left a note saying that they plan on finishing the job. Last time I checked the nurses have at least four patients a piece and they aren't able to carry a gun, so until Shawn has his own gun toting nurse, my ass or the ass of some other officer will not be leaving Shawn's side. Do you understand me?"
The doctor threw up his hands in mock surrender and walked out of the room. Lassiter went back to his post. Sitting in silence.