Didn't take too long to update. I'm getting better!
Shawn hurried back into the Psych office. Gus, still confused by Shawn's sudden motivation, tried his best to keep up with him. Once in his office, Shawn threw all the papers off his desk to reveal his laptop. He opened it up and typed furiously.
"Shawn!" Gus cried out. Shawn just looked up. "What is this all about?" Shawn smiled and looked back at his screen.
"Oh, it all makes sense now" he said. "I looked up Tiffany Lestrange before but couldn't find anything. I figured it was because she didn't live in Santa Barbara but now we know why! So now I'm look up Natalie Pond and... here it is!" Shawn turned his laptop to face Gus.
"Wow" Gus said. "She's... Famous..." Shawn smacked him on the back of his head.
"Not famous" he said. He took his laptop back from Gus. "Natalie Pond! Founded Charity Kate in the year 2001."
"Kate? As in her grandmother Kate?"
"Says here that her grandmother had Alzheimer's. So she founded this charity in her name after she had died." Shawn stared at the screen confused. This did not sound like the type of person who would kill anyone.
"So how'd she end up a murderer?" Shawn looked back at the search results and clicked another link.
"Ah! Found it! In the year 2010 she stole from her own charity. After all the donations, she took the money. After being caught, she promised to return the money but... nobody really trusted her or the charity. And she went bust." Gus stared at Shawn, waiting for his in depth analysis.
"Wait for it" Gus muttered to himself. "Wait for iiiiiit..."
"You know what's interesting, though?" Shawn said.
"There it is!" Gus exclaimed. Shawn ignored him and carried on.
"All this fame, all this money and support. Why would you steal from your charity? She was covered for life! Why would she steal? Especially from a cause that meant so much to her?"
"I don't know" Gus said. "Greed? Maybe she had a gambling problem?"
"Maybe. But you know what else? We hear so much about Kate Lestrange and Helga Duff and Natalie Pond... What about Mr Pond?" Shawn asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"All these articles about Natalie, about her family about her friends... Nt one of them even mentioned her husband. Remember when we went to Helga? She didn't even mention him. She just said that Natalie got married. That's it."
"You think he's made up?" Gus asked.
"No. But I do have a theory. Come on, we need to go to the chief." Gus looked taken back.
"To the chief? You're actually following protocol?"
"We'll, I don't really have much of an option, do I? It's not like I know where Natalie's staying." Gus rolled his eyes but followd Shawn out of the Psych office. Then, almost as if it were done by fate, a car drove by, and Natalie was driving. Shawn quickly turned to Gus, far too eager.
"No, Shawn!" He said.
"Oh but we have to! She might be leaving town! We need to talk to her now!"
"No, we need to talk to the chief now!" Gus said, but it was no use. Shawn had already jumped onto his motorbike and was clipping on his helmet.
"Yeah yeah. Listen, I'm going to go follow her. You go fill in the chief and call me if you find anything important." Before Gus could even argue or give his opinion, Shawn was gone. Gus groaned, got in his Blueberry and drove towards the station.
Shawn followed Natalie until finally she arrived at an old motel. She got out of her car and started walking towards one of the doors. Shawn hopped off his motorbike and started sneaking towards her, trying his best not to be seen.
He saw Natalie talking to a man, though he couldn't see the man well. He tried to make out the conversation, but could only hear muffled voices. He tried to get a closer view so he could make out the words more easily. Just as he was close enough to hear and about to hear an important part of the conversation, Shawn's phone rang. He grabbed his phone and tried to hush it, only to remember his phone was in fact inanimate. He answered the phone quickly.
"What?" He hissed, trying hard to keep his voice down. "That's great buddy, but listen-"
"Shawn?" Natalie called. Shawn looked up to see Natalie one foot away from him. He stood up and grinned sheepishly.
"Natalie!"
"What are you doing here?"
"You won't believe it, but this iPhone tells me that... There should be a Starbucks nearby" Shawn said, having flashbacks of when he was in a very similar situations and used the same exact excuse. He shook off the memory and put his phone back in his back pocket.
"You're right, I don't believe it" Natalie said.
"Well, that's a shame-"
Then, everything went black for Shawn.
Gus groaned as he pulled into the station. Once again, Shawn got the fun dangerous job that would probably end in him being kidnapped again while he followed the rules. He wanted to call Shawn again, but figured that if he didn't have any information to give Shawn, he'd just be mad.
He walked into the station and knocked on the Chiefs door. Chief Vick opened the door surprised to see just Gus.
"Mr Guster. What are you doing here, alone?" She asked.
"Shawn was busy" Gus said and was about to tell Vick everything about Natalie when Juliet ran in the room.
"Chief!" She exclaimed, holding a file. "Oh sorry, am I interrupting?"
"Yes, but say what you were going to say" Chief Vick said.
"Shawn was right about the fingerprints. These files are clean" Juliet said.
Finally. Information. An excuse to call Shawn and convince him to go back to the station and handle this the proper way.
"Let me tell Shawn" Gus said, pulling out his phone.
"Put it on speaker" Chief Vick said. "I need to talk to him too."
Gus dialled the number and it rang three times before a pissed of Shawn answered. "Shawn, Juliet said you we right about the files. There are no prints on them. Now listen, what you're doing is incredibly stupid, just come back to the station-"
'That's great buddy but listen-' Shawn said through the voice.
'Shawn?'
'Natalie!'
And then the phone went dead.
Gus looked up to see Juliet look horrified and Chief Vick look very very impatient.
"Who's Natalie?" They both asked.