Chapter 7:

After a few hours the Doctor emerged from the double doors. The awaiting family greeted the doctor. He asked if this group was the friends and family of Shawn Spencer, full well knowing the answer. Henry chimed up and told the young man, "Yes and I am his father."

The Doctor smiled at the group and began, "Shawn is in critical, but stable condition. It looks like he was hit by a car at first and then he was beaten literally with in an inch of his life. The two bullet wounds he had caused a lot of damage. The shoulder wound shredded the muscles, he will need surgery to repair that but not until he is much stronger.

The abdominal wound is what we are the most worried about. It caused a lot of damage. We have him in a medically induced Coma right now so he can heal. If he was awake we wouldn't be able to take his pain away with medication.

I can let you all see him briefly but Dad is the only one who can stay. But Dad I would recommend you go home too and get some sleep."

Henry looked at the young Doctor and assured him that he isn't going to go anywhere and asked if they could see Shawn now.

The group was lead to Shawn's room. The Doctor stopped at the doorway and looked at the group, "Let me prepare you guys, Shawn isn't going to even look like Shawn right now. He is swollen from the beating he received."

The group entered into Shawn's room and they were all taken a back. They all had a picture in their mind of what Shawn would look like after hearing the Doctor's words but the reality was far worse then their imaginations.

Each person came to Shawn's bedside and let him know that they were pulling for him. Juliet gave him a soft kiss on the forehead. Gus didn't know what to do he just told his friend that he was glad he was away from Jack. Vick patted his foot and ordered the young man to get better, telling him she has cases for him. Lassiter didn't even leave the doorway he was seething looking at Shawn. He wanted to get back to the station so he could have a turn with "Uncle Jack."

After the friends said their peace they were ushered out of the room leaving Henry to sit at Shawn's bedside. He looked in disbelief that the swollen figure in the bed was really his son; he kept hearing the doctors' words echoing in his head. "Hit by a car", "Beat almost to death", "Critical condition."

Henry sat next to the still form of his son and allowed the melodious rhythm of the heart monitor to lull him to sleep. He was only asleep for probably an hour when the sweet rhythm of the monitor turned into the shrill alarm that meant Shawn's heart had stopped.

Before he could fully wake up he was being moved out of the way by the team of Doctors that came to help. Henry stood in the far corner of the room watching the doctors rip off the covers and start warming up the paddles and just like he had witnessed on countless TV shows. They electrocuted his son in hopes of restarting his heart. Again, nothing happened, increase the jewels, again nothing happened then beep, beep, beep of his son's monitor began again. Henry felt like his own heart had started again.

After the room calmed down and Shawn went back to resting comfortably, the Doctor told the worried father to go home for a couple of hours while they run some tests. He promised if anything changed they would call him.

Henry reluctantly agreed. He made it back to his truck not sure how he even got that far. He sat and stared out the window. He had just seen his only son die and be brought back by the doctors. The weight of the last few days came finally came crashing in.

Henry sat in his car beating his steering wheel and crying harder then he had ever cried before. Then the tears went to anger as he thought about the man that did this to his son. The man that should have been Shawn's friend was Shawn's worst nightmare. He started to drive. He ended up in front of the SBPD right after sunrise.

He stormed into the police station. You could tell that the old man had not slept and there was a mix of shear terror and anger on his face. Lassiter was sitting at his desk (he hadn't gone home he wanted to get the case against Jack started) when he noticed the Spencer Patriarch come into the station.

Lassiter jumped up and ran to Henry asking if everything was okay? Henry looked at the head detective and said, "NO EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY. I just sat and watched my son die in front of me and a team of doctors shock him back to existence. They sent me home so they could run tests to see if his brain was still working."

Lassiter stood in front of Henry not knowing how to comfort him he just looked at Henry and muttered, "Oh God."

Over Lassiter's shoulder he saw two uniform officers escorting Jack to a small room for questioning. Henry raced toward Jack yelling, "This is your fault you son of a bitch." Henry started to attack Jack again it took three Uniformed officers to restrain Henry.

He finally calmed down when Lassiter leaned next to Henry and assured him, "We are going to prosecute Jack to the fullest and let me reminded you that child killers have a hard time in prison." Henry buried his head in Lassiter's shoulder and cried, " That won't bring Shawn back to me. Oh God Shawn."

Lassiter wasn't sure how to handle the grieving father. This wasn't his area of expertise. He helped the distraught Father up and led him to Chief Vicks office where he made him lie down on the sofa. He covered him up and Henry was asleep almost immediately.

A couple of hours after the incident Chief Vick came into work. He stopped her short of her office and filled her in on the morning's events. Chief Vick sat next to Lassiter's desk. She couldn't believe what she was hearing, "Shawn really crashed last night and Henry witnessed it. That poor man, that family has been through enough."

The two sat in silence for a moment the Chief Vick asked Lassiter if he had called to get a status update on Shawn? He said, "No but let me do that now before we wake up Henry."

Lassiter called the intensive care unit and said, "Hello, I am Carlton Lassiter the head Detective of the SBPD I am calling to get a status update on Shawn Spence. I have his father with me down here at the station." The nurse on the other end was cheerful and asked him to hold on while she paged the doctor.

Lassiter hated waiting about as much as showing emotion but he waited and waited till an out of breath man picked up the phone and announced that he was Shawn Spencer's doctor. Lassiter again told who he was and whom he had with him at the station and asked for an update on Shawn. The first thing out of the Doctor's mouth was "Thank God you have the Dad there with you, we have been trying to get a hold of him all morning." Lassiter's heart sunk and it showed on his face, which made Chief Vick's heart sink.

The Doctor continued, "Shawn is doing better, he is now stable enough for his Dad to come back and sit with him." Lassiter continued, "Henry said that you were testing Shawn today to see if he was Brain Dead. How did those test go?"

The Doctor gladly told the detective, "They went fine everything is showing normal function in his brainwaves." Lassiter hung up the phone after telling the Doctor thank you and that he would let Henry know.

When Lassiter was done with his call he saw that Juliet and Gus joined Chief Vick. He told the waiting group "Shawn had coded this morning in front of Henry; the doctors kicked Henry out while they tested Shawn for brain activity. They were afraid that they started his heart but he was brain dead. Thankfully his brainwaves were normal, at least normal for Shawn. Henry came to the station ready to kill Jack. We managed to pull him off of Jack and I made him lie down in the Chief's office."

Lassiter looked at Juliet and Gus and said, "Now that you are here could you wake him up and deal with the emotional stuff?" Juliet patted her partner's shoulder and said, "Sure thing partner, it sounds like you have done a good job, thank you!" She kissed his cheek and went to wake up Henry.

Juliet sat on the table across from Henry and quietly said his name in hopes to wake him up gently. He sat straight up and frightened Juliet. He looked at her and at his surroundings, he asked, "What happened? Where am I?" then he remembered the events in his mind that he hoped was a nightmare was reality. Henry muttered, "Oh God Shawn, do you know how he is today?"

Juliet smiled at Henry and said, "Yes that is why I was waking you up, we talked to Shawn's doctors he is doing well. He is stable enough for you to go back to his room and when they did the brainwave test, he was perfect" Henry let out a huge sigh and thanked the detective and started for his car.

Henry stopped at Lassiter's desk and said thank you and told the others he hoped to see them at the hospital latter. They agreed and Henry was off to sit with the young man that represented Henry's heart.

### Okay so I lied there will be at least one more chapter and maybe 2 more. It is funny you get writing and just cant tie everything up fast some times ;) Thank you for reading######