Author note: I know in my profile thing I said I wasn't going to update for three weeks, technically that ends on the weekend of the 6th and 7th of July. However, I have been given this weekend off so I decided to try and update at least one of my stories and I chose this one cos it's my favourite!
So enjoy this chapter! And hopefully I can get writing again on the 6th! Another update should be soon after that.
Juliet was new at the whole detective thing as she had only just been promoted to an officer. Henry had spotted her in Miami and said that she showed great potential and if she transferred to Santa Barbra with him, he would make sure she got the promotion she desperately craved. The only bad thing was she hardly knew anything about being a Detective. What was the angle for this? Was she meant to inform the Chief? Let Mr Spencer know? Tell him off even? She had barely been in Santa Barbra for a week and yet several members of the station quietly warned her about Mr Spencer. Well not really warned, but informed her of his situation. Many members of the station felt sorry for him. Others assumed that he had come back occasionally for visits and Juliet was shocked to find otherwise. Who would abandon their son like that? It was cruel. But sympathy was given by most people at the station, understanding how hard it was for him after the divorce of his wife and the death of his best friend Tom after he was captured by Mr Yang. From talking to people, everyone felt sympathy for Shawn. They whispered how he crazy, how apparently Henry was overheard telling someone that his son put his pet rabbit in the freezer and burned it to see if it rotted in hell or how he used to sit and watch a TV screen that wasn't even on. Shawn didn't seem to be that crazy when she saw him, but she guessed that was because he was on medication.
"So what do we do now Lassiter?" she asked as they drove back to the station.
Carlton gave her a quick glance before returning his focus onto the road. "We need to hand over the tape to evidence" he responded.
"What if they recognise him?" Juliet asked worriedly. "The tape would turn into a spectacle"
Carlton silently agreed. "We'll inform he Chief first"
The journey back to the station was only a relatively short one and as soon as they arrived, they marched straight to the Chief's office.
Juliet knocked impatiently.
"Come in" The Chief yelled. Karen Vick had been made Chief a few years ago and had been the one who managed to persuade Henry to come back to Santa Barbra, on the condition that Juliet O'Hara was made a detective and got to be transferred over. There was going to be a new transfer detective anyway, it was a choice between Lucinda Barry and Juliet O'Hara. Due to her friendship with Henry, it was easy which option was to be chosen.
"Detective O'Hara, Lassiter. What can I do for you?" she asked kindly.
They looked at each other before Carlton dug in his pocket and handed her the memory stick, "Look at this"
The Chief accepted the memory stick before inserting it into her computer. Juliet then took the opportunity to close the door behind them and close the blinds insuring complete privacy.
The blinds ensured darkness and soon the screen lit up and showed what happened, just as they both remembered it.
"Um…" Carlton began awkwardly, glancing at his notes. "Have you heard about what happened involving Mr Gary Mcgavern?" he asked.
O'Hara looked sharply at her partner. They were talking to a patient of a mental institution, he should have eased his way into it, not gone and asked straight away.
Shawn sighed. "I read about it in the newspaper, yeah. Hit him on the back of the head. Pleaded mental insanity, got stuck here"
"You don't like it here?" O'Hara asked shocked. From the brief tour she had been subjected to it seemed like a place of luxury, there were swimming pools, yoga, saunas…
Shawn laughed bitterly. "I've been here 15 years" he explained, as if that simple fact solved everything. Charlie's smile faded slightly.
"What do you think of Mcgavern?" Carlton asked not a moment later, knowing there must be a good reason why he had been here so long, because he is a nut job.
"If you are asking whether I think he is faking? Yeah I reckon he is" Shawn responded. O'Hara frowned.
"Why would you think that?" she asked.
Shawn laughed. "Have you seen that guy? He's too well put together to be in here!"
Carlton frowned, "Isn't that what the meds are for?"
Shawn laughed once more and Juliet found herself wondering what he found so funny.
"Look, I have spent most of my life on meds. No medication starts working straight away; you have to be on them for at least 48 hours for them to start working properly. Gary has hardly been here 24."
Their eyes widened. That was true. Charlie realised this as well.
"No mental illness is treated overnight. He pretends to act a little vacant but I've seen him roll his eyes when someone is annoying him… mainly me. Plus, the orderly that gives him his pills gives me the creeps. The pills also look like those sugar pills you made me take when he wanted me to think I was taking mine" Shawn pointed out to Charlie and her eyes widened with realisation.
"Miss Marks? Is it?"
"Call me Charlie" she responded smiling.
"Charlie, is it possible Mr Mcgavern has been taking sugar pills and his 'recovery' has been totally faked?" Carlton asked, his excitement barely contained.
"I guess it is possible" Charlie agreed.
Interrupting Shawn stood up.
"Of course it is possible. Just because I am paranoid doesn't' mean I am wrong. Look, I was meant to meet someone 15 minutes ago. If that's it?" Shawn didn't wait for an answer before leaving the room.
Charlie saw Detective O'Hara about to call after him but Charlie interrupted, "Don't bother"
She frowned. "Is that a camera?" she asked looking up at the ceiling.
The screen then went blank as Charlie had ended the recording. The Chief looked up from the screen.
"Have you got people investigating?" she queried.
Carlton nodded. "We have people looking into the pills. After speaking to his carer Charlie, she assured us that it takes at least 48 hours for medication to kick in, we have an eye witness who states 'he rolled his eyes' and if they turn out to be sugar pills…" he trailed off and the Chief grew a big smile.
"Then we've got him" she grinned. "Good work guys"
"Uh, Chief, there's one more thing" Juliet began hesitantly.
"What is it?" the Chief responded and Carlton looked at his partner a little nervously.
"That guy's name Is Shawn"
The Chief looked up shocked.
"Shawn?" she breathed in shock, "You mean…"
"That is Shawn Spencer" Juliet revealed, gesturing to the screen.
"Oh my God" the Chief exclaimed. "I had completely forgotten…." She whispered to herself.
"You're both dismissed. Leave the evidence with me" the Chief ordered.
Both detectives looked hesitant to leave. "That's an order"
"Are you gonna tell Mr Spencer?" Juliet asked and the Chief sighed.
"He's going to find out eventually. It'll be better coming from me… send him in, will you"
Juliet sighed a breath of relief as she and her partner left the Chief's office. Immediately she scanned the room for Henry Spencer and found him making himself a cup of coffee, looking absolutely exhausted. Carlton left to go his office and wished her luck to deal with Mr Spencer. He had been quite threatening to Carlton at first, wanted to make sure that he was appropriate material to be working with Juliet. She loved the way he believed in her.
"Mr Spencer? You ok?" she asked hesitantly and he let out a small grin.
"Yeah, I'm alright. Just finished up all of the paper work for that murder case downtown"
"Already? But that was only solved yesterday?" Juliet responded in astonishment.
"Well, a good detective gets things done quickly" Henry responded and Juliet cracked out a small smile.
"Well, on a different note. The Chief wants to see you in her office. Carlton and I found something out today and you really have to know…" she told him and immediately Henry grew anxious.
"What's wrong?" Henry asked, seeing the nervous look in her eyes.
"Nothing, just go and see the Chief" Juliet told him weakly, and so Henry did.
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Juliet waited nervously at her desk for Henry to come out of the Chief's office. She considered trying to spy on him but in a station full of cops… not a good idea. Carlton was sat next to her by his desk and when the phone rang, he picked it up after one ring.
"This is Detective Carlton Lassiter speaking..."
Juliet watched as her partners expression turned from one of boredom to shock and then delight. He then slammed the phone down and turned to Juliet.
"Guess who has just been found out to be prescribing sugar pills to their patient?" he grinned.
Juliet grinned back. "Gary's carer?"
Carlton nodded. "Sally Burns was Gary's newly assigned carer and she has just been found guilty for giving him sugar pills instead of proper medication. They have just arrested her and Gary is being charged with murder!"
"Justice" Juliet whispered to herself before glancing at the Chief's door.
"We've gotta tell the Chief straight away" he realised before heading over to the door and knocking forcefully. Carlton could almost sense the frustration coming from inside the room.
"What?" the Chief shouted, knowing that something must be very important or she wouldn't have been disturbed.
Juliet and Carlton took no time to stop and hesitate and opened the door carefully.
"We just got an arrest. The kid was right. Sugar pills" Carlton spoke out and the Chief raised an eyebrow.
"Good" she smiled, happy with the achievement.
Henry looked on at this exchange with a slightly confused state of mind. The Chief, Karen, one of Henry's best friends, had called in him in to her office and started talking to him about this case and was explaining the finer details when they entered.
"You got an arrest" he noted surprised, "Well done"
Juliet shrugged modestly. "Well it wasn't us. If it weren't for your kid Shawn, we would have never got him"
"Shawn? What about him?" Henry spluttered slightly panicked. The subject of his son hadn't come up in years, everyone had tipped toed around this issue and to hear it so abruptly mention shocked him.
"You haven't told him" Juliet whispered to herself before looking down at the ground.
"Not yet" the Chief agreed.
"Gary Mcgavern pleaded mental insanity, Henry." She explained and Henry's expression didn't change.
"And?" he asked, not seeing where they were trying to take him with this.
"He was sent to West Haven psychiatric centre" the Chief stated and watched as the sudden brick of realisation hit him in the face. Henry's eyes widened and he sunk himself down in the chair in shock. Juliet came up next to him in a hope to give him some comfort and Carlton grumbled to himself before coming closer himself.
There was a moments silence before anyone moved and the Chief played the tape again. The noise distracted Henry from looking at the floor in shock and he watched the screen attentively and Juliet noticed that he barley blinked, as a lonesome tear rolled down from his right eye.
"I've got to see him" Henry whispered to himself.
No one spoke and watched Henry carefully. As Henry stood up, wiping the tear from his eye Juliet quickly stopped him.
"You'll have to ring first" she told him. "His carers name is called Charlie, she's really nice"
"Tell me about him" Henry urged madly, stumbling up to Juliet and Carlton.
"Uh, He looked healthy. You saw the tape, I didn't see him other than that" Juliet told him.
"You got the number?" Henry asked madly and the Chief quickly raised her hand to get the attention.
"I do" she waved. "Here" she said whilst pressing the numbers into her office phone.
Author note: So Henry's going to see his son! WOOP!
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