Disclaimer: I own nothing except Gabby.
Chapter 3: The Airport
Shawn stood in the airport terminal, annoyed. He paced the terminal. They were wasting precious time.
"Dude, what are we doing here?"
"I have to pick up my sister."
"Gabriella? Dude, you didn't tell me Gabriella was coming."
"I didn't think I had to Shawn." Gus said. "She's my sister."
"C'mon man. We're wasting time. Who ever shot Jules is still out there." Shawn said. "Why can't your parents pick her up?"
"She wanted me to pick her up. She's not exactly on the best of terms with them." Shawn rolled his eyes. A half hour passed. Shawn counted 50 hats in the airport terminal. About 30 for various sports teams; 15 cowboy hats; and five berets. He kept playing the incident over in his head. He tried to pick out anything helpful.
Meanwhile, Gus's sister's plane arrived. He watched them all pass. Then he spotted her. Long, black hair, chocolate colored skin, looked a lot like Gus, if Gus was a girl and wearing a dress.
"Gabriella!" Gus said waving at her.
"Gussy!" She shouted running into his arms. "How are you?"
"I'm better now that you're here!" Gus said grabbing her bag and heading towards Shawn. "How was your trip?"
"Same old, same old." Gabriella said. "How is work?"
"Steady."
"I hear you have a side business going on. Care to tell me what that's about?"
"How'd you hear about that?"
"Uncle Burton."
"Oh." They walk over to Shawn who was in the middle of his own conversation with the Chief.
"Chief, how's Jules?"
"Still unconsisous. There's no change."
"Ok. And Lassie?"
"He's fine. He was hit in the shoulder. Buzz was shot in the shoulder. Listen I left case files on my desk. I need to give them to you. Can you and Mr. Guster stop by the station?"
"Yea sure." Shawn flipped his phone shut.
"Shawn, was that the chief?" Gus asked.
"Yea."
"How are they?"
"Lassy got hit in the arm. He's fine. Buzz was shot in the shoulder but otherwise ok."
"What about Jules?"
"Still unconsisous."
"Sorry."
"The chief is counting on us to find them. We need to stop at the station to pick up the files." Shawn turned to Gabriella. "Gabby, your looking good." He put his arms out for a hug. She hugged him.
"Shawn, you look like someone just ran over your puppy."
"Close." Gus said.
"Can we get to work now?" Shawn asked.
"We have to take Gabby to the hotel first."
"Actually, I would kind of like to see what you do." Gus sighed as they walked out to the car after getting her luggage. This was going to be fun.