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"Guys, I'm fine!" Sydney pushed away from where Shawn, Gus, and his dad all crowded over her making sure she was comfortable on the couch.

"You just got out of the hospital." Shawn protested looking to his dad for backup.

"Come on Goose, you know you liked your space, even when you were sick." Shawn turned to see his mom standing in the doorway.

"Mom!" Shawn ran over. "When did you get here?"

"This afternoon, I wanted to get here a few days ago but I couldn't leave my conference. I went to the hospital and they said they had just discharged her."

"Yup, I got upgraded to La Casa de Henry." Sydney's comment made everyone laugh.

"When did I get upgraded to a Spanish resort?" Shawn saw his dad come in with a glass of juice. "Glad to see you made it ok, Maddie."

Shawn gave his mom a hug. "Mom, this is Sydney. Sydney, this is my mom."

He watched as his mom came and took a seat at the foot of the couch. "She has your eyes Goose."

"I've been getting that a lot." Sydney smiled.

A knock at the door caught Shawn's attention and he answered it. "Lassie! What are you doing here?"

Lassie walked into the living room. "Mrs. Spencer, I didn't realize you were back in town."

"I just got back Detective. How are you?"

"Doing better now, Spencer a word?" Lassie grabbed Shawn by the arm and pulled him into the kitchen. Gus had slipped in there and Shawn caught him mid fridge raid. Seeing Lassie, his eyes widened and he joined them.

"What's going on?"

"They think they found them."

"Them?" Gus' eyebrow rose.

Lassie nodded. "About ten miles from the cabin."

"Are you going now?"

"Yeah, the thing is… you see I was…"

"Lassie, are you asking me for help?" Shawn didn't fight the grin that was growing on his face. He turned to Gus. "Gus, I think he's asking for our help."

"Shawn."

"Well they did kidnap your daughter."

"You're driving?"

"Yup." Lassie came back into the living room. "Glad to see your feeling better Sydney." He sat on the back of the couch. Gus sat on one of the arms as his mom was mid- what had to be- embarrassing childhood story.

"Lassifrass and I have some business to wrap up."

"My turn for a word." Henry pulled Shawn back into the kitchen. "You're going after them aren't you?"

Shawn sighed. "I have to do this. Not only did they kidnap Sydney, Drimmer almost put Lassie behind bars, and Allison still give Jules nightmares."

Henry turned away and for a second Shawn braced himself for a lecture. He'd gotten used to not getting them. But he went to his desk drawer, took something out, and turned back to Shawn. "Take this and nail those bastards."

Shawn took the gun that his father held out. "Not sure how Lassie is going to feel about me having one of these."

"Lassiter will get over it." Henry went back into the living room.

Shawn hid the gun so that it was barely sticking out of his pants and joined the crowd. "Wait, so they were prospecting for oil?" Sydney was laughing and she wasn't the only one."

"Yeah, and I thought Dad was mad when he caught me. It was nothing compared to the wrath of Mom."

"I don't think I'd ever seen your mom that mad. Plus it took us all night to clean up that mess." Gus was laughing at the memory.

Lassie stood up. "We need to get going."

"Go get them guys." Sydney smiled from the couch.

"You rest up, we have a movie marathon to finish."

"Is that before or after I beat you yet again at monopoly."

Shawn laughed as he headed out the door behind Lassie. "Geeze already being sassed by the kid."

"Taste of your own medicine." Lassie got into the car and Shawn slid in behind Jules. Gus went around and sat on the other side.

"Jules! Joining us to take down the baddies and save Christmas?"

She laughed. "So we've saving Christmas?"

"Why else would we be going out there?"

"To put them back where they belong?" Lassie muttered.

"Added bonus." Shawn waved it off as Lassie pulled away from the curb.

Henry sat across the table from Maddie, glass in hand. "Hard to believe, isn't it."

"Rabbit sunbathing in the window, sick kid on the couch." She took of sip of tea and sighed. "It's like we've stepped back 18 years."

"She seems to handle being sick better than Shawn."

"Most people handle it better." She laughed. "There's so much there."

"So much where?"

"Her eyes. Pain, regret, grief, uncertainty. For such a young girl she's been through a lot."

"Please tell me you weren't doing a psych eval." Henry wouldn't be surprised if she had.

"Not really, it's in the way she acts, the way she looks at you guys, subtle things." She turned to where they could barely see Sydney's sleeping figure on the couch. "How could we have not known?"

"How could we have?" Henry didn't really have an answer. He'd been asking himself that same question for over a week now.

"When I heard, I… I was mad at myself for not knowing. I was so wrapped up in my career, and our divorce, and myself…"

"Don't beat yourself up, I was so mad at the kid, mad at you, mad at everything." Henry once again felt the regret of the years wasted because of that anger.

Movement in the living room got his attention and after a minute, they saw Sydney making her way on crutches into the half-bath by the kitchen. "I can handle this by myself."

Henry turned to Maddie and they both laughed. "Maybe she's more like Shawn than I thought."

He glanced at the closed door. "There's a lot of Shawn in her." Getting up, he went to the fridge. "Hungry kid?"

A flush sounded and she came out a minute later. "Actually, a little."

"Well I'm about to fix you the best steak you've ever eaten."

Sydney came to sit at the table, scooting a chair so she could prop her foot up. "Can't wait."

Henry grabbed the steaks out of the fridge. "You staying for dinner Maddie?"

"As opposed to missing out on your steaks?"

He laughed and headed outside to fire up the grill. "I'll take that as a yes."