The day seemed to drag on forever for Juliet, but all too soon she was being shooed out the door of Shawn's new room with strict orders to go home and rest. It was just as well though, seeing as to the fact that she literally could not afford to miss work the next morning. So it was that with a quiet 'goodbye' to Shawn, Henry, and Gus she left the hospital and began the thirty minute trek home. Once she walked in the door, the full weight of the exhaustion that she had been hampering all day through several doses of coffee crashed down on her. She did not even have the energy to make it to her bedroom, so she settled for collapsing on the couch in the living room, mere feet from the front door.

That morning, she got up at the bleak hour of five. After getting dressed practically on auto-pilot she drove down to the station forgetting the previous day almost completely. That is, until she actually arrived at work. Right when she walked in the door, she noticed Mark Duffy's profile, enlarged on the newly purchased plasma screen. After seeing that she was not doing a very good job at all at hiding her purely personal disdain for the man, she did the safer thing and hid herself down in the evidence locker where she remained for the better part of the day. When she made it back up to the squad room even several hours later, she had to ignore the still remaining photo as she sat down at her desk and began fumbling with some older case files, which she had grabbed from the lockup. Lassiter would not allow it.

"O'Hara, what are you doing here? I thought I told you to stay with Spencer."

"Yeah, well, I decided I needed to go back to work," she answered him shortly, despite trying to keep as guarded as possible.

"What do you mean?"

"Visiting hours was up, I was exhausted, and so I decided to go back to work."

"I didn't ask you to stay with him for moral support, I asked you to stay with him, because a dangerous crime family obviously set a trap for him, and he should have police personnel on guard, just in case. And I asked you, because I figured it would be better for him to have someone he knew with him rather than some random officer."

"What? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because, I had to follow a lead."

"I've got to go," Juliet said, grabbing her keys. She was in the middle of collecting the rest of the case file when Lassiter, who was on the phone, waved her over to his desk.

"What is it Carlton? I really need to go."

"O'Hara that was Spencer. Shawn just crashed."

"What do you mean 'he crashed'?"

"I'm mean Code Blue crashed."

"What?"

"He said they were still trying to bring him back. It was the perp's younger brother, Juliet. He left a note. The guy couldn't be any more textbook. He said that Spencer is a danger to criminals everywhere so now they, meaning the family are going to prove themselves by being the first ones to kill him. How does that even make sense, I mean how is he a good target?"

Juliet did not even hear the last part of his sentence as she was already out the door. After half an hour of dodging her way in and out of traffic, trying desperately not to get killed for lack of focus on the road, she made it to the hospital. Once inside the hospital's sliding glass doors, she flashed her badge all the way up to the ICU, not stopping her up-tempo stride until she saw Gus at the end of the hallway.

"Gus! What happened?"

"Juliet? What are you doing here?"

"Henry called Lassiter. I was with him. Long story, but Shawn is my responsibility. So what happened?"

"I don't know. I went for another coffee run, next thing I knew alarms were beeping like crazy, and this guy was running out of the room. I didn't even get a good look at him," he finished guiltily.

"It's okay Gus. Where is Shawn now?"

"They're still working on him in a treatment room," Gus said, pointing directly behind Juliet's head.

"And no one has told you anything yet," she asked.

"No, they haven't had the time."

"Where's Henry?"

"Last I saw him he was on his way down to the cafeteria."

At this Juliet sighed, and slumped down the wall next to Gus, where she remained for a good amount of time.