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A/N: Sorry about the lack of updates. Time has been kind of cramped and I really haven't been in the mood to update lately....Anyhow, 271 Reviews!!! Thanks so much, girls (and guys, if there are any)!!!! Hey everyone, Akila knows who wrote Desperation!!! I'll give you a hint. He is also Chris Jericho's (and mine, too, I wouldn't have based it on a book I hated) favorite author.

XA/N: So, Skittle bumped into a big guy....

"What party? The town looks dead.." Shawn commented. All of the XA/N noticed the badge on the strange man's chest.

This man was the sheriff of Desperation.

"The jail party." The man said. "And you're all invited. You're all under arrest."

"But, officer, what did we do wrong?" Lizzie asked.

"But, officer, what did we do wrong?" The sheriff mocked her. He leaned down and got right in her face. "You TRESPASSED."

"Trespassed on WHAT?" Chris asked. The officer jerked a thumb over his back and everyone finally noticed the 'no trespassing' sign on the fence in front of the building.

"That's a bunch of bull shit!!" Rockie yelled. "The sign is barely visible from here!!"

"Yeah!! If whoever lives here didn't want people to trespass, they should have picked a better spot for their...sign...." Akila drifted off. As she had been talking, the weeds and overgrowth around the sign disappeared. The officer raised his eyebrow at her.

"You were saying?" he asked. Akila shook her head. The sheriff made them all walk in front of him to the station, which, thankfully, was only a block down from where they were.

Once they got inside, he locked them all in cells. Two or three at most to a cell. Everyone grumbled about it, of course, who wouldn't?

"I'll be back right after I place this call." He said. He left the room, and the XA/N all began to plan their escape.

"Where the hell did he come from?" Skittle asked.

"I KNOW that that sign had crap in front of it, obscuring it from view." Akila insisted. "I KNOW it!!!!"

All the while, JB was staring at where the man had last stood. Lizzie had noticed it, too.

There were blood drops like a trail all on the floor where the sheriff had walked.

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When Shawn woke up, he quickly discovered that he was tied down to a chair. As his mind began to clear away the fog in it, he realized that he was outside of the building that Chris, Randy, and himself had been standing outside of.

Then Shawn remembered what had happened.

Shawn looked around the room he was in, and noticed that he was under a single light. The rest of the room was extremely dark. Shawn managed to make out a crumpled form on the floor. He squinted to see who it was. He struggled against the bonds that were holding him to the chair, but he still couldn't figure out who it was.

Not far off, a door opened, shedding a little more light into the room. Enough light so that Shawn was able to distinguish who the body on the floor was.

It was Cameron.

Shawn's breath caught in his throat as the person who had opened the door entered the room. Cameron. What the hell had they done to him? WHY had they done that to him? Was he even still alive? Shawn closed his eyes tight at that thought. He shoved it out of his mind. Cameron was alive. He was.

Was, is a past tense, though, Shawn reminded himself.

The person who entered the room finally stepped into the light, and their face was known to Shawn.

"Long time, no see, right, Shawn?"

"You ought to know, you betrayed us, Randy. Time is everything to a person like that." Shawn said. Suddenly, Shawn wanted to know how Chris was doing-if he was even alive.

"It should be to others, but not to me, Shawn. Time was merely another four letter word to me." Shawn bit his tongue. He weighed his response for a moment.

"Is my son alive or not?" He asked Randy straight up. Randy turned to look at Cameron.

"Doesn't look too good, does he?" Randy asked Shawn. "Yes, Cameron is still alive. Barely." Shawn tried to shoot up out of his chair, but obviously, he was still tied down.

"What the hell did you do to him, you son of a bitch!!!" Shawn screamed. Randy leaned down and got right in Shawn's face.

"The same thing that I'm going to do to you." He said.

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