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Chapter 15:
Musicals and Possibly Cubicals
As the weekend rolled around, Lassiter and Juliet got called into work with a potential lead in this gruesome case. So Henry agreed to watch Mia for the day. It wasn't before long that Lassiter's Ford Fusion pulled into Henry's driveway.
After Lassiter helped Mia out his fusion, they walked up hand-in-hand to Henry. Dressed in his iconic Hawaiian shirt, the consultant advisor was just finishing up some work on his old yellow Ford pickup truck.
"Well good morning you two," Henry said with a big grin on his face.
"Hi Mr. Henry!"
"Hey Henry. Thanks for this. O'Hara and should only be a couple of hours." "It's all alright. You two take all the time you need. This princess and I will be just fine."
"I'm not a princess Mr. Henry." Mia said giggling. The little girl's giggle unintentionally melted both of the hearts of the hardcore men next to her.
Henry winked at the child and said, "You coulda fooled me kiddo."
Lassiter then crouched down to be somewhat eye level with Mia and spoke gently, "Alright Mia, be good for Henry. I'll be back as soon as I can."
"Okay Mr. Car!" Mia said as she wrapped her thin little arms around the detective's neck. As they embraced, Henry was smirking at Lassiter. With Mia still in his arms and unable to see him, Lassiter crudely flipped the older man off. The gesture caused Henry to chuckle silently as the two finally stepped out of each other's embrace.
With Mia now next to Henry, Lassiter got back into his car and waved back at the little girl as he backed out of the driveway.
Once Lassiter was down the road, Henry asked, "So Mia. What do you and Cuddles think you're up to doing today?"
"I dunno."
"Well let's play on the beach."
"Yay!" Mia exclaimed.
"Alright," chuckled Henry, "Let me put on some different shoes and we'll be on our way."
As they made their way up the front steps of Henry's house, Mia realized that she really liked Henry's beach side home. The home was painted a gentle yellow coloring with red accents throughout. The inside of the home was also very nice. The inside of the house was decorated with all of Henry's fishing memorabilia. The home gave Mia the safe sense of safety and warmth that Lassiter's condo gave her.
And as the morning turned into afternoon, Mia really enjoyed her time with Henry. They made sandcastles, Henry taught her how to fish, and he taught her how to play cards.
As lunch time finally came, Henry was cleaning some fish when Shawn and Gus stopped by. The three of them watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as they waited for Henry to grill the fish. All the while, Shawn was making them laugh with his antics and constant ad libbing. Soon Gus got in on the fun and started dancing and made an occasional sound effect. Mia's little tummy was hurting with laughter by the time the fish was ready to eat and they sat outside to eat at the picnic table. Half way through their meal, they all heard a car pull up the driveway. Surprisingly, it was Lassiter and Juliet.
"Mr. Car!" Mia exclaimed as she rushed into the waiting arms of her favorite detective.
"You two got done early." Henry commented as Juliet found a place at the table.
"Yeah the lead we had didn't pan out as much as we hoped." Lassiter said as he placed Mia back in her chair with Cuddles and sat next to her.
"It's okay Lassie. We'll get 'im." Shawn said with confidence.
"I'll be okay as soon as I can get my hands on this guys," Lassiter mused darkly.
"Whatever happened to that Dr. Joseph Emerson?" Gus asked.
"We're still looking for him."
Shawn, being the great observer that he is, noticed that Mia had stopped eating her food and was starring into space in deep concentration.
"Mimi..."
"Spencer quit calling her that."
"She doesn't mind Lassie. I've asked her before and she said 'yep.'"
Lassiter let his rebuttal drop when he noticed Mia's deep concentration. "Mia what's wrong?"
"I know that name...mama used to talk to him on the phone when she was brushing my hair at night-night time."
"Really! What would they talk about?"
"I don't remember...but it was 'portant. I'm sorry Mr. Car."
"It's okay Mia. We'll find him."
"Wait a second Lassie. I've got an idea. Gus go get that bass guitar from the blueberry."
"Wait why do you have a bass guitar Shawn?" Juliet asked.
"Gus got it back in the day to impress a girl. But it didn't workout. We were going to get rid of it but...you know what I'll explain that later." Shawn said in a rush and almost tripped on one of steps to go inside.
Gus has brought the bass guitar back and then moments later Shawn came out with a keyboard under one arm and its stand in the other.
"I think we can pull this off. Pop take the bass guitar and give me a walking bass line." Henry now really curious followed along and started tuning the old bass guitar. "Gus help me set this keyboard up on the deck. I can't believe it's not butter!"
"What in the name of Sweet Justice are you doing Spencer?"
"Lassie everyone remembers things better with song. So where going to make a little musical number for Mimi."
"What?! I'm not..." "Lassie!" Shawn said in a hushed tone as Gus was distracting Mia with some tap moves on the deck.
"Listen to me. That sweet little munchkin has everything right here." Shawn reasoned while he tapped his temple. "So let's put in a little bitta time. A little bitta effort." "Yeah Carlton. Don't you want to find Emerson?" "I'm not going to do this," defiantly said Lassiter.
Putting his hands on Lassiter's broad shoulders, Shawn said, "Yes, you can because it's easy. And you will because it's for Mimi. And in the end it's going to work! Watch this." Shawn then went to sit in a chair behind the keyboard and started playing and singing. Mimi, you're such a pretty girl.
And sweet girls love to sing.
And when sweet sirens lift their voices
They can tell me anything...When you're making up a song the words you improvise are never wrong.
Just jam as many syllables you can before the break. You literally cannot make a mistake.
"Really?!" said Mia, getting excited as Shawn nodded as he continued to play.
When you're working a bad case. And wanna start. Where would be the best place? We can assume that Emerson would like to run again. Can you tell us where to begin? sang Juliet.
You'll find it might fun. Once it's all said and done. Later we can watch a real musical. Songs can set you free. Well, figuratively.
"Could there be a musical about me?" asked Mia as she smiled into Cuddles head.
We'll see.
It could be.
Not likely.
Please don't make me do this. Lassiter said in rhythm as Juliet dragged him up to the deck next to a dancing Gus. Then she whacked her partner upside the head as he mildly cried out an 'Ow!' Lassiter then relented and started dancing in an Irish step dance as Gus sang, When you're making up a tap…You can do anything you like! Except for that. The pharmaceutical salesman pointed to Lassiter before doing an intricate step on the deck and then impressively slid backwards down the steps of the deck.
No you never, no you never, can go wrong. Now now! sang Shawn.
Now dancing sync, Juliet and Gus and Lassiter looked at Mia's smiling face as the song came to a climax, Nothing can go wrong! sang Gus and Juliet in unison.
When you're making up a song.
Mia really enjoyed their musical number. She showed her appreciation by bouncing up and down with Cuddles held in her tight embrace. But then she stopped and the biggest smile spread across her little face. "I remember! I remember dat mama said Mr. Em'rson went to rope."
"Went to rope? Oh went to Europe!"
"We'll check into that." Juliet said.
"How in the world did that happen?" asked Lassiter.
"The mind is a great thing Lassie. You just gotta know how to tap into it."
Deep in the woods...
At the same time in the woods away from town, Detective Larry McKinley was taking more and more of his frustration and hatred out on the surrounding trees.
Everyone's always taking Lassiter's side! He's never deserved the position of Head Detective! But he will pay!
In the scorned man's furry he transformed into a similar monstrous beast as Lassiter and Alastair; however, Larry was a grey colored beast, had no horns, and his giant eye patches were yellow in color.
As he was continuing his rampage of demolishing trees, a woman came out of the woods and into the makeshift clearing that Larry made. And in a confidante but unimpressed voice, the woman announced herself. "Excuse me."
The sudden presence of someone else cause Larry to unintentionally jump. But he recovered quickly and bared his many fangs at the woman. However, this did not faze the woman. "I need to speak with you," the woman demanded in a tone that did not leave room for an argument.
Because of this tone and the defiant manner of the woman's overall countenance angered Larry even more.
"YoU dOn'T tEll mE wHaT tO Do!" Larry's deep and twisted voice thundered as he grabbed the woman. As Larry ranted, his saliva sprayed itself on the woman's face, which she promptly wiped off of her face. Still unfazed by the event, the woman did something remarkable.
The woman's right arm slithered out of Larry's grasp by transforming in to an extremely strong yellow goo. The woman shot her gooey arm into Larry's face and slammed the detective into the ground forcibly. This surprised Larry into releasing the strange woman and reverting back to his normal form.
"Who are you?" Larry asked rubbing his sore face.
"My name is Amara. And my boss knows about you Detective McKinley. And he has a question for you. Do you want revenge?"
"Yes…" Larry said in a low, slow, monotone voice.
"Well then Detective. My boss wants you to do something for him to insure your revenge. Are you ready?"
Larry took all of two minutes to answer: "When do start?"
TBC
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The song was from Psych the Musical but I adjusted it simply for the story (it's no where near as good as the original though). But let me know what you think of the story so far. What do you guys think is going to happen next? *Cue maniacal laugh* Please leave a review! :)