Psych New Beginnings
Well it's been a long time coming so here it is, I hope its lived up to the wait! (:
Disclaimer: If I owned psych season 8 would have been slightly more shulsey... ok a lot more shulsey
Lifesavers part 3
"Hmm… so all we have is a red ball and some saliva on that pole," Shawn said thinking out loud.
"I was sniffing it Shawn not tasting it, get it right." Gus said matter of factly.
"Well I'm sorry for not being desperate and totally useless by the way," Shawn joked.
"Man, you know I'm freaking out over here," Gus said starting to hyperventilate.
"Buddy, I just need you to tighten it up," Shawn said raising his index finger slowly. "forget about ray ray right now and be the black, beautiful, soft headed, black burton I know." Shawn said softly with his index finger angled upwards.
"Shawn, you said black twice," Gus said slightly annoyed.
"You bet I did."
Gus just smiled and thought about his best friend's weird way of always cheering him up. "Alright Shawn your right, I'll stop obsessing."
"You know were gonna stop for jerk chicken after this right?" Shawn asked with a cocky smile.
"Man, you know that's right." Gus said fist bumping him
"So, what do we know other than the red ball? I mean it doesn't really mean anything it's just proof that he was here Right?" Shawn asked no one in particular.
"Pretty much," Gus spoke up.
Shawn walked over to where the body was found it was clearly marked by the blood stained into the concrete. Once he got there he started to look around more closely at the lot they were standing in but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. "Dude forensics didn't find anything because there was nothing to find, this looks like an ordinary parking lot."
"C'mon man I know you can find something, look closer" Gus said somewhat pleadingly.
As he looked at the desperation in his best friend's eyes Shawn looked over his shoulder and got a good view of the whole park from across the street. "Dude, Rachel said that this park is near her house, right?"
"Well yeah but why does that matter?"
"Because back when you two were dating I remember you complaining about how unsafe her area is and how a gang occupies some of it!" Shawn was almost jumping with excitement.
Gus' eyes went wide. "Oh my god Shawn you're a gen-" he stopped mid-sentence and started again. "Wait… But Shawn if two gangs killed him with a cross fire then how come there aren't any shell casings around anywhere?"
"…Yeah I guess gangs don't pick up shell casings do they." Shawn thought for a moment until a light went off in his head. " Gus! But what if it wasn't two gangs just the one that lives in the area and another person who was packing heat on their turf." Shawn said with an arrogant smile.
"Someone who if fired at would fire back and clean up his mess in the process." Gus retorted at a cocky level matching his friend's.
"C'mon son!" Shawn said fist bumping Gus. "let's get back to Jules, see if she has something."
As Soon as they got to the station they explained their 'vison' to Buzz and Juliet.
"Shawn we already checked that out, they call themselves the Red Lotus," Juliet said finally, "and they've been inactive for almost a year and half."
"Well buddy it seems that our half-baked theory was not even half baked," Shawn joked.
"Guys I think that I maybe have something…" Buzz said from his desk shyly.
"Oh… well uhh, I guess we could check it out" Shawn said somewhat awkwardly.
"This is gonna take some getting used to," Gus said what Shawn and Juliet were thinking
Everyone went over to Buzz's desk to find out what he found. "Ok… well um, cut me some slack if this way off, this is like my 3rd case," Buzz said nervously.
"it's ok Buzz anything would help at this point," Juliet said soothingly.
"Alright well… what do you guys think the parking lot of a warehouse is perfect for?" Buzz said already knowing the answer.
Gus spoke up, "a drug deal?"
Buzz nodded happily, "Exactly!"
"Buzz you're a genius! Jules, did you guys ask for security cameras?"
Juliet nodded but with a disappointed look on her face. "Yeah, no one is using the warehouse right now so there weren't any,"
" Wait…Maybe there's something else we can use as security cameras" Gus said rubbing the side of his nose with his thumb.
"…And he's about to say something creepy," Shawn said seeing his expression.
"Suck it Shawn"
"Man! Say it then!"
"How about we pay visits to the kids who were at the park when the gunshots rang out, I'm sure they can tell us something."
"Yup, knew it," Shawn spoke up.
"Wait, Gus may be onto something," Juliet said thinking back to the crime scene. "when we asked for all the statements, all the parents filled them out for their children!"
"Now that's a lead." Buzz stated firmly.
Everyone started running off until Shawn stopped them. "Guys wait!"
The three of them tuned to him. "what Is it Shawn?" Juliet asked.
"Buzz… is that lassie's old desk?"
Buzz simply nodded
"Shawn," Juliet said in a warning tone.
"I'm sorry Jules but I simply must know, we are talking about Carlton Lassiter, right? I mean, all those years and he would never even let me touch that thing and now all of a sudden-" Shawn stopped talking when he saw that they were long gone probably already in the file room. "Hey! Wait up guys!" Shawn yelled running downstairs.
As the four of them pulled up in two separate cars to the third house of the day, Shawn quickly got out of Gus' Rental car and sprinted to the door. "I am so getting this one Gus!"
"Oh hell no Shawn! This is my interrogation, now move!" Gus yelled almost leaving the keys in the car he was in such a hurry.
"Man! You suck with kids!"
"I do not!"
"Man, you know that little Asian kid was holding out on us, you were being creepy." Shawn said starring at Gus.
"That kid was as comfortable with talking to me as he would have been with his own father!"
"No! But his father did look like he wanted to go Jackie Chan on your ass, that's how creepy you were being."
"will you boys stop fighting! Otherwise I'm gonna do the talking," Juliet interjected.
Gus just muttered something about Shawn being racist and how Bruce Lee is better before complying, Shawn spoke up." Alright guys just watch and learn," Shawn said putting a hand to his temple and knocking on the door.
"Is the temple bit really necessary?" Gus said lamely.
"Shh!" Shawn quickly recovered and stared awkwardly at Buzz. Luckily the door opened, a woman answered, presumably the mom. "Hello mam, I'm Shawn Spencer, head psychic for the SPBD. This my partner Emanuel Ozuna,
"Hellooo," Gus said with a smooth hand wave.
"Shawn stared at him like he had a screw loose but then continued. "Oh, and this perfection over here is Detective Juliet Spencer, no affiliation to me by the way, though I do sometimes wish I was her husband." Shawn said grinning somewhat awkwardly.
Juliet gave him a playful look and then started. "Anyways, were here to ask your son about what happened today at the park, of course, only if he's comfortable talking about it."
The woman didn't miss a beat. "Honay! I found ya futcha wife!" She yelled through the house with a very heavy accent. Immediately she opened the door wider, "oh how rude of me, of couase ya can talk ta Rudy, please come in!" She yelled grabbing Juliet's wrist and tugging her into the house, Shawn who was holding on to Juliet's shoulder at this point was pulled in too. The much larger woman pulled them in with ease and slammed the door on Gus and Buzz.
As they composed themselves the pair saw someone coming down the stairs, presumably Rudy. Juliet was very close to cuffing the woman on the spot for almost ripping her arm out its socket, while Shawn was more focused on this Rudy character. He did his signature eye squint and started his observation of the man. Wow, Shawn thought. He hadn't seen a man so white since the speed dating case 10 years ago. He was also beyond skinny except for one spot, his whole right arm seemed to be at least three times stronger than his left (if you catch my drift). "Wow! Now that is an Adonis!" At Shawn's statement Juliet got a good look at him for the first time as he finally made it down stairs. "Dude, do you work out cause damn! You got something going on!" Shawn said in heavily sarcastic tone.
"Well damn! I guess I do look good," Rudy said flexing his biceps.
Once Juliet noticed the difference in size she knew what Shawn was getting at and tried her hardest to suppress a chuckle. "Honay! Look, a beautiful detectave came ta see ya!" the woman shrieked.
Juliet prepared herself to shoot him out of the sky, but he surprised everyone. "Ma! I told you! I only want hot girls!" Rudy said matching the level of his mom's voice.
Everyone's eyes widened at his statement, and Juliet while still shocked was very happy to hear that she wasn't this guy's type. "this is your son?" Juliet said calmly. "I thought we were looking for a kid who was at the park earlier?"
"Yep That's him!" the mother yelled again.
"…Alright, sir we need to ask you some-" She couldn't finish because Shawn cut her off.
"Are you kidding me! You don't think this is hot!?" Shawn said pointing at Juliet.
"Shawn you don't have to-"
"How could I? I've seen way hotter girls before." Rudy said not backing down.
Shawn scoffed, "Where? On your computer?"
"Anyways!" Juliet interjected. "Rudy, why were you at the park?" She asked pulling out her notepad.
Rudy's mom ran up to Juliet grabbed her shoulder and started shaking her. "Oh no! My Rudy isn't in anay trouble is heay!?"
Juliet's slowly developing headache was now very existent and she was fed up. "ENOUGH! Mam, I am sorry but if you touch me again I will arrest you!" Shawn was opening his mouth to speak but she shot him death glare and he backed down instantly.
"Damn" Rudy said almost impressed. "You're kinda hot when your mad." When Juliet turned around and gave him the same stare, he tensed up. "Uhh I was at the park because my ma thought I should get some fresh air for once," he said very quickly, clearly intimidated.
"did you see anything suspicious when the shots were fired?" Juliet was slowly calming down.
"Yeah, I did, whenever the shots were fired everyone ran in the panic and I made sure to get my ma to safety first, but I went back to the park after that to see if I could catch some action on video. Sadly, by the time I got there I only saw a black Cadillac Eldorado speeding off."
"that's still good, can we see the tape? We might be able to make out a license plate."
"Oh… Well um… I might have trashed it… because of its lack of… nude women and or action…"
Juliet was seething, she was this close to going Lassiter on this guy for his utter lack of respect for women. "Did you happen to get a license plate?" Juliet choked through her teeth.
"You know what? I actually did, well… half of a license plate. The first four letters were BABT, and I only remember that because-"
"Not. Another. Word!" Juliet snapped as she continued to write the information down. Although a part of her gained closure because she now knew why he didn't find her attractive. Nevertheless, the second she finished writing she said her brief thanks and exited the house with Shawn on her heels. When they got outside Gus and buzz were just sitting awkwardly on the lawn waiting for the couple to exit the building.
"Uhh sweetheart?" Shawn pushed his luck.
Juliet just Ignored him and walked over to Buzz. "We got something, come on Buzz." She said plainly.
Gus noticed the tense situation and stopped Shawn. "What's going on? Is she okay?"
"Yeah, don't concern your beautiful dome." He said putting his hand on his friend's head and getting it immediately slapped away. "She's gonna be fine by tonight, some stuff in there just made her grumps." Shawn said cutely as the detectives drove away. "Anyways, while they run that license plate, were gonna go find a lead and or drama!" Shawn yelled happily.
Gus already knew where he was talking about and spoke up. "Could you at least pretend to be sensitive Shawn?"
"Man, you know my ADD acts up!" Shawn said getting into the passenger's seat of the rental car.
"Yeah whatever" Gus mumbled.
As soon as Gus pulled up to the very familiar house the jitters started to come back. "See Shawn she doesn't know anything let's go." Gus blurted out quickly.
"Woah Gus what do mean we haven't even…" Shawn paused. "Oh my god! Are you nervous?"
Gus quickly recovered and rubbed the side of his nose. "Tsk, Shawn don't be making stuff up, I'm a playa." He recovered nicely and got out the car.
"Yeah whatever."
They both knocked on the door simultaneously and ended up knocking 8 times between the two of them. "Shawn! She's gonna think were weird or somthi-" but he was cut off by Rachel opening the door.
Shawn smiled and faced forward. "Hey there Ray ray were here to-" but apparently it was don't finish your sentence day as Gus pretty much tackled him into Rachel's bushes and then finished it for him.
"What he trying to say is that, we would like to hear your side of the story. That is… If your comfortable talking about it boo." Gus slipped out without noticing.
Rachel just gave him an unreadable look. But then stepped aside to let them in, and before they knew it they were all sitting in her living room. Shawn was trying to get leaves and pricks out of his hair while Gus was just starring awkwardly at Rachel. Rachel ended the eye lock with Gus and looked at Shawn. "…Well? Are you gonna question me or not? Or how about you tell me who killed my son!?" Rachel said with a shaky but venomous voice.
"Don't look at me!" Shawn said awkwardly. "I'm not talking anymore today, I've been physically harassed enough.
"Shawn you just talked," Gus looked at him like he was stupid.
"it's semantics Gus,"
"There it is again!"
"GUS!" Rachel lashed. "Spit it out.
Both men quickly straitened their posture and looked forward. Gus gulped and did his best to keep his composure. "Well um, Rachel… We came here to ask exactly what you saw when max went missing."
She looked at him like that was exactly the wrong thing to say. But as she saw the sadness in his eyes her gaze softened. "So look… I was watching him play in the park before I got up to use the restroom. When I got back there was a huge panic and I couldn't find him." She said quickly and briefly.
"wait so you didn't hear any gunshots?" Gus asked carefully.
Rachel just shook her head and looked at the ground. "I'm sorry Gus but that's all I can tell you… I didn't see anything suspicious, when I got back and saw the panic I just wandered around the park looking for him." She choked out. "And then from there I went to you…"
Gus couldn't seem to control himself anymore and got up from his chair and pulled her off the couch and into a hug. "I promise were gonna find this guy." Gus said with so much confidence he was scaring himself.
"…Thank you," was all she could mumble from the heartwarming embrace.
Their moment however was put on hold as Shawn's phone rang. "Jules! Whatdoyagot!?"
Juliet giggled at her husband's excitement as she broke the news. "Wait till you hear this…"
Well? What do ya think? Please let me know if the magic is still there because I definitely still think this is money. Also I don't think those porn jokes were enough to make this M, I just thought they would be hilarious if you got them. Please review and I'll see ya next week! (;
