Notes: A/N: I am SOOO sorry for how long it's taken me to get a chapter out. I'm hoping to get back into it. . . slowly. Now here's some more Beth\Shawn fluff.

When he first held her in his arms, they were at the hospital and it was the day after she was born. There was a tiny red faced cherub and for the first time that day she opened her bright blue eyes. From then, he knew his sister was something special. He knew it was his job to protect her.

Beth was a quiet baby, always has been. Until she was with Shawn and then she'd babble and gurgle away. Nothing made Annette Greene happier than to see her children loving and getting along.

His mama let him name his sister and he named her after a girl he saw once. The girl was stunning, and she looked strong and brave. She was tall and blonde with the brightest blue eyes.

It had only been a few years back and he remembered these things about the woman. Every day as he watched Beth grow he would think the two young women would start to look more and more similar to each other. He was so young when he had seen the woman once; as the years roll by his vision of her grows fuzzy and distorted. It was nothing. If he really thought about it, Bethy also looked like his late Aunt Sarah and late Cousin May.

Since the day she was born he rarely left his sister's side for long. Except to go off and play with Maggie sometimes, cuz babies didn't play much.

Growing up, he loved to hold Beth and help his mama take care of her. It warmed the hearts of the Ladies of the Church and the Greene clan to see how close the two siblings were. She fit right with him. Her bright blue eyes met his dark green ones and it was perfect.

For that connection, it was a big reason he gave up his career in the military to come home. With everything he and his boys had seen happen in the deserts, Shawn knew it was already in the US. The signs were all around.

"Thanks for everything man. Give my love to your family and life be with you, may we meet again, brother." Shawn hung up the little satellite phone and sighed before going out to hunt for his sister. "Bethy?"

Hearing his footsteps on the stairwell and him calling out her name once, she look up from the desk in her room, setting her pen down when she noticed the tense set of his shoulders as he entered her room. "What's up Bubby?"

Stepping forward he held out the satellite phone, waiting for her to take it. "I need you to hold onto this for me. If it rings answer it and just write down everything that is said. This is important, please?"

Her bright blue eyes widened when the phone was set in her hand. Shawn wrapped her fingers tightly around it. "Don't let anyone else get their hands on it. Not Maggie, not Daddy, no one."

She just mutely nodded in shock as he smiled tightly before bending down and kissing her cheek and heading for the door. "Bubby, what'er you doin'?"

The sable headed man paused for a minute, looking back at his younger sister. Shaking his head, he tugged on his ear twice and then left down the hall to his room to grab something. He spared one more look back at the top of the stairs before he bound down them and out the front door, hollering that he'd be back.

Left in his wake and clutching to that phone like a lifeline, Beth's skin went pale. There was only one other time Shawn had ever done that and it was when their daddy went on a bender after his two sisters died a few years back. Whatever was going on was secret and bad. Goosebumps sprouted up her skin underneath her clothes as she looked down at the phone in her hand.