Chapter 6

Back in Santa Barbara, Juliet was pacing in front of her desk.

"Why hasn't he picked up?" she wondered aloud.

"O'hara, stop worrying about it. They're probably out being idiots, like usual," said Detective Lassiter from the other side of the room.

"But Shawn always returns my calls and texts. Plus, Gus isn't picking up either, and after Shawn's disappearance the other night..." Juliet trailed off as she pondered the situation. "I'm gonna go check on them." She grabbed her coat and started walking for the door.

"O'hara, come on! It'll be a waste of time!" Lassiter called after her. But she was already out the door. "A waste of time," he muttered to himself.

On the other side of the police station, two young Everseers were erasing memories of Shawn and Gus. They were using their powers to scramble people's brains when they saw them, so they were virtually invisible.

"These mortals are so stupid," said one.

"Yeah. One wave of the hand and they forget nearly anything." The other one chuckled. "Hey, Alex, watch this." He pointed his hand toward Detective Lassiter as he was returning to his desk with a mug of coffee. All of a sudden the detective looked up.

"Okay, people, where the hay is my vintage assault rifle mug?!" he exclaimed as he looked around for it, even though it was still very much in his hand.

"Uh, sir, aren't you holding it?" said another cop.

Lassiter looked down and then, perhaps embarrassed, returned to his desk without another word. Meanwhile, the two Everseers were chuckling up a storm.

"You are a genius, Samuel!" Alex said in between laughs. "Yeah, cleaning up all this will be a cinch."

"Come on. The sooner we get done with these lightweights, the sooner we can get to helping the others with important jobs. Like wiping that Spencer guy," said Samuel. He lead the way over to a group of cops and they began their mission. But they were young, impatient, and sloppy. However the entire police department had no memory of Psych by the time they left, the memories weren't buried very deep.

Meanwhile, Juliet had arrived at the Psych office and found no one there. Her fears only grew as she continued to investigate. She pulled up the street camera footage from the night before and saw Shawn and Gus leaving. She followed them until she was lead to the roundabout. Then the footage stopped. All the cameras in the area glitched out once Shawn entered the alley. She snooped around for little bit but didn't find anything, until she heard a little beeping sound. She followed it to a small phone hidden in a patch of grass in the pavement. It was beeping because it was low on battery power. It was t long before Juliet was able to identify it as Gus's phone. She opened up photos, hoping that there was something, and found the video that Gus had taken. She hopped into her car and raced back to the SBPD.

"Carlton!" she said as she entered the police department. "Carlton, I think I know what happened to Shawn!"

Lassiter looked up at her with a confused expression on his face. "Shawn who?" he asked.

"This is no time for your stupid grudge, I think he and Gus could be in real danger!" Juliet cried.

"Woah, O'hara, slow down. Who are we talking about?" said Lassiter as he rose from his seat.

"Shawn and Gus," Juliet repeated.

"You saw that as if I know who they are. Are they friends of yours? Friends of a friend?"

"Carlton, what are you talking about? We've known them for a few years now. They've helped us solve, like, a million cases!"

"Okay, no one helps Carlton Lassiter solve a case!" Juliet gave him a look. "Except of course for my partner."

"Don't tell me you somehow don't remember them! Shawn's the reason your first partner got transferred! You drive each other crazy!"

Carlton thought for a moment. "I do seem to have a few gaps in my memory, which is weird because my memory is flawless."

"Look," Juliet said as she pulled out Gus's phone. She opened up the phone, but then stopped. "What was I doing again?"

"Something about your friends Barney and Jack?" Lassiter said.

"Oh, well... never mind," said Juliet as she wandered back over to her desk. She didn't know it, but the Everseers were still in the building wiping memories. As she sat, starring at the blank computer screen, she couldn't help but feel that there was something she was forgetting.