Chapter 7 – Where's Shawn?
Since Shawn and Juliet were out on a date on Tuesday night , Alexis went back to the Suncrest motel. From five to nine o'clock she watched various American sitcoms about housewives and doctors. But when it reached nine o'clock she watched True Blood after that had finished her mother called her to ask how she was and what she was doing. Her mother wasn't surprised to hear that she was watching television but she was happy that Alexis had managed to find a job so quick. By the time they finished talking it was midnight, at which point Alexis fell into a deep sleep. Not even thinking of what would happen the next day.
Wednesday
It was twelve o'clock when Alexis woke up, she quickly ate breakfast and headed for the Psych office. By the time she got to the office it was one o'clock and Gus was sat at his computer eating the remains of a sandwich.
"Hi Gus, where's Shawn?" she asked and she took off her coat and put down her bag.
"Dunno, but he stayed at Juliet's last night."
"How'd you know that?"
"Coz last night he sent me a text saying, Romeo's getting more than a kiss tonight. And then I fell asleep and he didn't call."
"Enough said. Did you find out about the bread and leaves?"
"Yeah! It's to do with Egypt. I've been up all night and the internet says that Egyptians believed if they left offerings of food for their dead pharaoh , the dead would take it as a peace offering."
"So it could be that?"
"Yeah but there wasn't any bread at the last crime scene." Then suddenly Alexis remembered Shawn the day before , she still had the plastic bag in her pocket.
"What's that?" Gus asked.
"I think it's bread." Alexis replied as she was unwrapping it. She was correct.
"Hey isn't that like the stuff they found at the crime scenes."
"Yeah!"
"Where'd you get it."
I got it off Leanne's kitchen table… That's what Shawn had said.
"Oh my god… I can't believe I didn't notice this before."
… a roadtrip … Sacramento …. Quantico … Washington
"Damn!" she cried.
"It's Leanne!"
"Who?"
"The woman who found the body. She was placing the bread and leaves as she was calling the police. But she didn't expect a squad car to be so close, so she didn't get to finish her offering."
"We gotta tell Lassie."
Gus reached for his phone and called Lassie.
"Lassie, we know who the killer is."
"Have you seen Spencer?"
"No, why?"
"He went out with O'Hara last night, he left and no one has heard from his since." In the distance a voice shouted over Lassiter. He quickly hung up before Gus could tell him anything.
"Shawn's missing!"
"What?"
"He left Juliet last night and no one has seen him since." At that moment Alexis noticed something she missed on the way in. Shawn's green phone was on the sofa and it was covered in blood. She walked over and picked it up. "Gus are you sure Shawn didn't come here last night?"
Gus tried to remember, "Ummm… he texted me, then I called him a few hours later to tell him I needed to talk about the case and then I can't remember anything."
"I think Leanne has Shawn."
"Why?"
"Because when I was in her house there were photos of her with a man with short brown hair and hazel eyes."
"You think she's killing people who look like him."
"Yeah, as kind of a substitute for anger or betrayal."
"Right … let's go."
Alexis pulled on her coat, and as she grabbed for her bag she asked , "Where's the keys to the car?"
Gus didn't answer, all she heard was a thud. She turned to see him lying on the floor , he was unconscious. "Great!"
Alexis moved Gus to the sofa and she searched for the keys to the car , she'd wasted more than an hour looking for them. She gave up. "I'm gonna have to take the bus!"
It was two thirty five by the time she got to the bus stop. The bus times were posted on a poster near the bus stop , the next bus was at three fifteen. Alexis sat in the bus stop feeling extremely stupid because she had to wait forty minutes to go and save her friend.
