Chapter 10
Shawn was sitting in the living room in Juliet's house. They had just gotten home. Juliet had went to go change for bed and Shawn was just thinking about the case. Juliet came into the room to find her boyfriend siting. Just siting. Not up an about and jumping around like normal an this worried her. "Shawn, are you alright?" She said sitting down next to him. This seemed to draw him out of his thoughts and back into reality.
"What? Oh yeah I'm fine. Just thinking about the case." Shawn had never been stumped for this long. He always managed to find something but he couldn't this time. Plus the new added pressure of his old BAU team being here was distracting him even more. But he couldn't tell Jules that. Shawn opened his mouth to talk but the house phone rang just then."and there's the phone."
"I'll get it." Juliet said getting up and taking the phone off the side table. "Hello? Who is this?... Um sure he's right here," she took the phone down form her ear and held it out for Shawn, "It's for you. Someone named Penelope Garcia. Who is she?"
Shawn took the phone. "She's just an old friend. Not someone I use to date if your wondering just a friend from a while ago when I lived in Virginia. An to your next question I lived there like five or six years ago." He put the phone to his ear wondering what this could be about. Garcia knew better than to call this number. "Hello?"
"Shawn!"
"Whoa. No need to shout my ear off I'm right here"
"Sorry. It's just the team knows"
Shawn sighed, "Garcia I know I've been here. They're helping with the case."
"Listen I think you should talk to them. They"
"Yeah that'll go over like a ton of bricks" Shawn cut her off, he moved into the next room and lowered his voice so not to draw attention from Juliet. He didn't want to have to answer unanswerable questions, "What would I say? Oh hey guys how are you? Oh and by the way I never died I've been living in Santa Barbra as a psychic while you all mourned me? I mean come on. Plus it's weird with here. I don't know. When I worked with you guys I kinda put up this whole serious front. If you ask anyone that knew me drone when I was a kid they'd say I was never serious enough. But when I became the big shot with the fancy badge I became super serious. Like boss man serious."
"I know Shawn. I saw you last holiday season. You know I like the wild unpredictable Shawn better than the stuffy boring serious one." At this Shawn laughed
"Alright. Tomorrow I'll talk to them."
"Good this'll be great for them especially Reid he was the most broken up when you...left."
"Yeah I was afraid of that." Shawn remembered Reid and him had been best friends. They had connected to each other because of their similarities. They both had divorced parents. Both had high IQs and eidetic memories. And they both had a wealth of knowledge of useless facts. They had been partners in crime. Not literal crime since they wee FBI agents but they were close. Like how Shawn was now with Gus. "It'll be ok though. I gotta go now talk to you some other time.
"Ok bye" Shawn disconnected the call and walked back to Jules who was waiting.
"Hey what did she want?"
"Nothing much. Just to check in. We've kept in contact over the years."
"Really? I've never heard of her before."
"Yes you have you met her last Christmas."
"Oh that was Penelope?"
"Yeah. Remember? She was in town and we went out to lunch with her? I told you she was an old colleague of mine."
"Yeah. I remember now she the one with the really bright clothing."
"Yes." Shawn looked at the clock. "Hey it's late and we should get to bed."
"Your right." Juliet got up and Shawn brought her into his embrace.
"Come on."Shawn said and he led her to the bedroom. As soon as Juliet's head hit the pillow she was asleep. Shawn on the other hand stared at the ceiling thinking about the BAU team. His old team. People that he trusted with his life and they trusted him. Or at least they had. Shawn didn't know where he stood with them anymore. If he was still a friend in their eyes or I they didn't care anymore. Either way he'd find out tomorrow. He's figure out away to talk to each of them privately. Starting with Reid. He was the one that deserved an explanation the most. Then he go on to Morgan, then Emily, and Rossi. A thought occurred to him. He should talk to JJ as well. She was most likely playing dumb about his death and sudden reappearance. She probably didn't want to deal with the same thing she had gotten after Emily came back. Garcia had told him about that and he didn't want to make her go through that again if he could prevent it. Shawn thought about what he could tell them to make them understand. They would understand that it was something that had to be done right? His life was in danger at that point. He still was if he had the facts straight. The man who had almost ended his life was still alive. He was in federal prison with no hope of getting out ever but he was still alive and had ways and connections. That wasn't the problem though. The problem was that they had thought him to be dead. That they, people he had thought to be family, had mourned his death. He would make up for the lost time. Someway or another he would.

A/N: I don't worry I'm already working on the next chapter. Sorry this one was so short. Thanks for all the reviews! This update came late (I was supposed to bout it up yesterday) because I was reading this book i got and couldn't put it down. Thanks for reading and happy forth (even tho it's the sixth) please review!