Disclaimer: Still don't own still want to but hey we don't always get what we want.
Well we are coming to the end here and I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this story. I think after this last chapter there should be an epilogue. Here goes nothing…..
"No! Jules look at her closely that is not a nurse that is the psycho woman Mallory. Please Jules look at her!"
Shawn ran out the door and tried to find McNab. Someone has got to hear me. Anyone. He ran up the hallway in front of the officer and tried contact again.
"Buzz! Please! Go back to my room! BUZZ!"
Shawn watched as tall officer stopped and shivered in the hallway.
"Alright Buzz. Now go back to my room! Mallory Montgomery is in there! GO!"
Shawn heard the tall officer uttered two words and ran back toward his room.
"Oh Crap!"
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Buzz McNab was walking up the hallway trying to decide where he should go to grab Detective O'Hara lunch when he thought he heard Shawn's voice. He stopped dead in his tracks and felt a chill down his spine that made him shiver.
That nurse looked familiar. Where have I seen her before? McNab's eyes widened when he realized.
"Oh Crap!"
With that he spun around and ran toward Shawn's room. His legs pumped as fast as he could go as he rounded the corner he saw the dark haired woman leaving Shawn's room.
"Mallory Montgomery! STOP! YOU ARE UNDER ARREST!"
Mallory turned around and smiled at the officer and ran the opposite direction faster than she had any right to.
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Juliet O'Hara smiled at the nurse and watched her administer the medication to her boyfriend.
"If you need anything push the call button." The dark haired nurse smiled one more time at her and walked out the door.
Juliet was about to sit down next to Shawn when she heard Buzz McNab yelling for Mallory to stop. She cocked her gun and ran out the door into the hallway to watch the officer chase the dark haired nurse around the corner. Oh my God!
Juliet kicked off her shoes and joined the pursuit.
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Karen Vick looked up from her report and saw that her office was buzzing. What on earth is going on out there? She walked out to the bullpen and saw her head detective was in the middle of the chaos.
"Detective Lassiter. What is going on here?"
Her head detective looked up from his place and she could almost feel the tension radiating from his body.
"We have gotten a report from a Dr. Sanchez the pharmacist at the hospital. He said that a woman matching Mrs. Montgomery's description was in his pharmacy last night stating that she needed some medication for one of her patients. When he saw the news report he immediately checked whose patient's chart she pulled, it was Spencer's. We are going to the hospital and putting it on lock down."
"I am coming with you detective."
With that she grabbed her gun and left with her officers. God let Shawn be ok.
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Gus arrived at the hospital with the second round of coffee that Juliet and Mr. Spencer had sent him to get. As he walked through the door the place was in chaos there were nurses and police officers swarming the exits. Among them he spotted Detective Lassiter and he made his way to the man.
"Detective Lassiter what is going on? Did they spot Montgomery? Is Shawn ok?"
"Guster we have reason to believe that Mallory Montgomery is in the hospital. We are locking down the hospital and Shawn is ok McNab and O'Hara are with him. We were about to head up to his room if you want to join."
Gus forgot his coffee in the waiting room and went with the detective to the elevators. We'll get her Shawn we'll get the psycho who hurt you.
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Buzz and Mallory made their way around the corner that lead to the elevators. Buzz's longer legs gave him the advantage on the woman and he was able to catch up during this straight shot. He grabbed hold of her shoulders and managed to get her on the ground but not before she was able to retrieve the scalpel out of her pocket and stab the officer in the leg.
She embedded the knife about two inches into the man's thigh and his grip faltered slightly. Mallory saw this opportunity and punched the taller man in the face—hard. His nose spouted blood and she could feel the bone crunch Buzz involuntarily lost his grip on the woman and she took off one more time.
Juliet rounded the corner to see McNab bleeding profusely from his nose and a scalpel protruding from his leg run after the woman one more time but instead of making to grab her again he grabbed a mop from the janitor and slammed the handle into her ankles. She immediately fell to the floor her head smashing against the tile. He then flipped the woman on her stomach and placed his knee in her back with bruising force. Mallory yelped out in pain but Buzz just added the pressure.
"Mallory Montgomery. You are under arrest for the kidnapping of Paisley Raines and attempted murder of Shawn Spencer."
The woman under Buzz's knee just laughed. "In a minute it will be no longer attempted."
"What did you do to him?"
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As the elevator door opened Lassiter and Gus just stood there astonished at the sight before them; Buzz McNab had a dark haired nurse in handcuffs under the restraining force of his knee. Buzz's nose was bleeding and his leg had a scalpel protruding from it. The officer was telling to woman to answer him through clenched teeth and Lassiter couldn't help but notice with every word the man was increasing the pressure of his knee on her back. The woman was starting to breath quickly and Lassiter knew he had to step in.
"McNab!" the officer looked up at him "I will take it from here go downstairs and get yourself fixed up."
The man just nodded and limped his way to the elevator to go to the emergency room.
Carlton passed the handcuffed woman to another uniformed officer and tried to process what he just saw.
"O'Hara what happened here?"
But his partner didn't answer him, everything of the last few minutes caught up in her brain. Oh My God!
She turned to run and screamed "Shawn!"
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Shawn watched Buzz take Mallory down he pumped his fist into the air and jumped up and down.
"Yeah! GO BUZZ!"
For one second Shawn forgot that he was in danger until he saw Juliet turn and run in the direction of his room screaming his name.
The intercom crackled to life. "Code Blue room 415. Rapid Response team to room 415. I repeat Code Blue 415."
Shawn made to turn to his room but before he could everything went blindingly white.
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Before the intercom went quiet Lassiter and Gus ran toward Shawn's room as they rounded the corner they saw Henry Spencer running from the waiting room shouting for his son. The three of them stopped outside Shawn's room, joining Juliet and watched.
Real life is nothing like you see on television the door to a hospital room doesn't swing open and close, it stays wide open.
So they saw as a nurse was performing CPR, as staff shouted orders, as they removed the offending IV and brought in the crash cart. The group watched in horror as the doctor repeatedly defibrillated Shawn's heart with the paddles and injected enough medication to keep a whole ward of patients alive. Then they saw the efforts slow, the doctor shake his head, and a nurse look at her watch.
"Time of death 1445."
Then as they watched this through the open door four people not only saw someone special to them die they watched a piece of their soul leave as well.
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Shawn blinked against the bright light and as it lessened he noticed that he was no longer at the hospital in fact he wasn't anywhere he knew. Everything was clean, white. Even his clothes had changed from his normal blue jeans and vintage shirt to a white suit complete with white tie and even a white fedora. Shawn looked down at himself. Damn I look good.
"Hello Shawn."
Shawn looked up and not for the first time since this crazy ride started he was shocked. Before him dressed in all white was Mary Lightly.
"M-M-Mary."
"Yes Shawn it's me Mary so how have you been. I mean besides being dead and all."
Shawn did a double-take "Dead but Doris didn't say anything about me dying, besides where is she."
"Doris is busy right now Shawn but right now we need to talk. I understand that you blame yourself for her being murdered by Yin?"
Emotions that Shawn didn't even know he had bubbled up and overflowed "Well Mary because it is my fault that she was murdered by him. If Yang hadn't been so obsessed with me then he would have never paid attention to me and she would had been able to finish getting home that day instead of getting strangled by that tie. Besides you died because of me too."
Shawn's voice got low as he finished his explaination. Mary just looked and Shawn in that creepy way he does like he is looking into your soul. He then smiled and began.
"Shawn Spencer if it wasn't for you Yin and Yang would have continued killing and for a long time too. What about all those other murderers who you found and took off the streets. All their potential victims that you saved….."
"But to what end Mary! There are going to be more psychos that get obsessed with me and more people are going to get murdered and some of them will be because of me!"
Shawn couldn't bear to look at the man before him but Mary never betrayed a single emotion . "But because of you Shawn my killer was found and put to an end. I know Yang killed him but you Shawn found him when no one else could. You brought all of our murderers to justice."
"All of your?…." Shawn looked up and froze, the room was no longer just him and Mary it was now full of people all of them past cases he had worked.
"You see Shawn you think you will never be good enough in the eyes of several people but all of us (he waved about the room) know that you are good enough, in fact, you solved the unsolvable and for that we want to thank you."
Just as Mary finished Doris joined the group and smiled at Shawn again.
"Doris, where?"
"I had some unfinished business Shawn. I see that you have had your little chat with Mary. Have you decided if you want to quit being a detective?"
"Doris I don't want to quit not now knowing that I have helped so many people, but I don't have a choice Mary said I was dead."
"Was Shawn—past tense. Now close your eyes and when you open them again everything will be ok, I promise."
Shawn did as he was told and prepared for something, anything. Doris kissed his cheek "And Shawn remember you are always being watched and cared for."
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Chief Karen Vick walked through the elevator doors to find her head detective and his partner but didn't expect what she did find.
Detective O'Hara was screaming so loud people were looking at her from their rooms, Carlton Lassiter was holding her back from leaping into Shawn's room his eyes rimmed with red, Henry Spencer was sitting against the wall of the hallway his head in his hands, and Burton Guster was throwing up in the nearest trashcan.
It only took three seconds for the Chief to realize what had happened.
"Oh God!"
Karen began toward the grieving group tears starting to form behind her eyes when she noticed the woman in the white dress. The blonde haired, blue eyed woman slipped past the grievers and Karen couldn't help but think. I know her somewhere. She then made to move into Shawn's room.
"Hey! You ca….."
The woman turned and smiled at her and Karen felt warm stopping her earlier protest. The woman finished walking into Shawn's room just as Karen stopped outside of it. Karen watched as the woman in white kissed Shawn on the forehead and wiped his brow with the back of her hand and then in the next second disappear.
No one else noticed the presence of the woman in the white dress let alone that Shawn's too still chest began to rise and fall rhythmically as if he was breathing. Karen noticed and she knew it was upon her to draw everyone's attention to it too.
"HEY! HEY! WE NEED SOME HELP! HE'S ALIVE! HE'S BREATHING!"
Several things happened at once: the grievers snapped out of their reverie, a nurse came toward Shawn's room to try and calm down the woman and screamed herself, and several other nurses and doctors came running.
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Six days after an accident that was supposed to have killed, five days after being declared clinically dead for at least twenty minutes, four days after the fever broke, three days after the doctors removed the drain, two after they removed the ventilator, and one day after being removed from the critical list Shawn Spencer cracked his eyes open to a slit and took in the world around him.
Three figures were sleeping in his room in really awkward positions. There were cards, balloons, and flowers covering every surface. He smiled, he was in pain but it was tolerable and he was Alive with a capital "A."
Shawn gently scooted up in his bed and grabbed the water that was on his table. He opened the bottle and drank some before he set his plan to motion. He took some in his mouth and squirted some out on the nearest figure.
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Juliet was dreaming of Shawn and the first time they went out on an official date when it started to rain. Wait it didn't rain that night. What is going on? Slowly her brain took noticed that something was getting her wet in the real world. She opened her eyes just as more water was squirted on her.
"Wha…?"
Shawn used his most nonchalant voice "What's happin' hot stuff?"
"SHAWN!" She screamed so loud that she not only alerted to the other occupants in the room but the officer that was residing outside his door.
McNab came running into the room thinking the worse but saw the best. Shawn was awake, talking, joking, and just generally being Shawn. Thank God!
The next several minutes were filled with phone calls, conversations and tears not borne out of sadness or worry. As soon as Lassiter and Chief Vick joined the room Shawn said he needed thanked them all. Everyone in the room spun and looked at the man in the bed like he was crazy.
Before they could even speak Shawn addressed all of them personally. He thanked his dad for lying so that Jules could get unlimited time with him, Gus for making coffee runs, Lassie for leading the investigation that gave them the lead they needed, Chief Vick for making phone calls into the late hours of the night, Jules for telling the doctors about the IV, and lastly to McNab for taking the scalpel to his leg and receiving a broken nose while catching the psycho chick.
Henry was the first to speak "How did you?"
Shawn raised his hand to his head and squinted his eyes
"Psychic. Remember?"
There you have it. The main part of the story is over but as I said there is going to be an epilogue. MERRY CHRISTMAS you guys I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I have enjoyed writing it.