Author Note:
ere is the forth chapter guys! TADA!
I don't know if I actually clarified this, but because I never got rid of Lucinda she has remained Lassiter's partner on the force and Juliet is there, starting as new, so far, unassigned a partner which Shawn is kind of just filling in. (not an official partner)
As Shawn walked the corridor to the snack machine he took a moment to absorb his surroundings. The soft murmur of phones ringing, people talking, chairs moving, somewhat calmed him. Knowing that work was going on around him.
Pausing at the snack machine he was suddenly surrounded. Swallowing his fear he retrieved his pineapple flavoured snack from the machine.
"I'm Shawn" he said introducing himself to the ghosts. They widened their eyes with surprise as they realised he actually could see them. There was a young girl around 9, her mother and an old man.
"You can see us?" The young girl asked incredulously, with wide eyes.
Shawn nodded smiling, "What's your name?"
"Susan" she replied shyly.
"And I am Janet, Janet Wright, her mother"
"Mark Powell, err. No family relation" the man stuttered.
Shawn nodded. "So why are you here? Why haven't you moved on?" he tried to ask delicately.
Susan suddenly looked down and then towards her mum with a puppy dog expression. Janet then hugged her daughter, cradling her head in her arms. Mark cleared his throat.
"I died in a fire…." The man recounted painfully. "My wife Luce, she…" he blinked.
"What happened Mark?" Shawn asked.
"I…. I don't even know." He sobbed. "I remember the feeling of my skin burning" he spat, "and the bright orange flames that flicked in my face" he burst in to tears.
Shawn put his arm around his shoulder and patted him gently.
"It's ok" he murmured softly. "I'll find out what happened if you like Mark" Shawn suggested.
Mark nodded, still sobbing. He wiped a tear from his eye and looked Shawn directly in the eyes.
"Thank you" he murmured before turning and walking away yet fading into nothingness.
Shawn blinked, he was gone.
"What about you two? What happened to you?"
Susan looked up.
"It was horrible…." She explained shivering.
"This mad woman…. She accused me of sleeping with her husband. I denied it of course. I would NEVER cheat on my husband. She was convinced I had slept with him, declared she had evidence. And then told me she'd see how I liked it…" she sobbed. "SHE WENT AFTER MY DAUGHTER" she exclaimed.
"What was this woman's name?" Shawn asked fiercely, determined to get this vile woman locked up.
Janet shrugged her shoulders in annoyance, her hair escaping from the pins holding it in a messy bun, and falling into her face.
"I don't even know… only met her a few times. We met at the supermarket, spoke a few times. I invited her round for tea once and then…" she broke off.
"she killed me she did" Susan explained quietly. "mummy then killed herself so she could be with me… and daddy" giving her mother a big hug.
Shawn tried to hide the look of shock on is face.
"Why…?" Shawn asked almost brokenly.
"I couldn't live without my baby… my husband had passed on already a few months back. There was nothing left for me anymore." Then she gave a fake laugh, "and yet I still returned"
"You still have unfinished business to take care of" Shawn explained. "When we find this woman, put her in jail, make her suffer. You can then move on in peace."
"We'll be around Mr Spencer. Please help us" Janet begged.
Shawn nodded, "Of course I will."
"Thank you Mr Spencer!" Susan exclaimed before giving him a big hug.
Shawn smiled returning the hug before pulling away, "Stay strong for mummy" he whispered.
"I will" she whispered back before grabbing her mother's hand.
Shawn and Janet just looked at each other for a moment, in understanding, before both mother and daughter drifted out of sight.
Shawn stared at the pineapple bar in his hand, now he could eat it, unfortunately his appetite had diminished significantly. Shawn couldn't believe what just happened. A man killed in a fire… a mother who killed herself to be with her daughter who was murdered by a woman who thought she was sleeping with her husband. How confusing.
Shawn made his way back to Juliet, hoping she had finished with the paperwork she had been so hopelessly busy with. He passed Lassiter on his way who had stopped feeling sorry for himself and gave Shawn a glance. Not one of hatred or loathing, but of curiosity and suspicion. Perhaps he was starting to believe in Shawn's abilities, or trying to figure out how he could have possibly been punched in the stomach by a ghost.
Shawn walked past and approached Juliet who was staring at her desk, her papers cleared to one side, just staring in boredom.
"Oh… hey Shawn" she greeted looking up, "You find Officer Allen's grandmother yet?"
"No…. although there are three others…." Shawn trailed of.
Juliet's eye's widened with genuine interest.
"Write down everything you know and I can get people to work on it" she commanded, rummaging through her desk draw's for a piece of paper and a pen.
Shawn nodded grabbing the pen and paper, writing down everything of importance on the sheet and showed it to Juliet.
"Right" she said examining it. "Well I will see what we get" she said, before answering her pager and looking up in shock.
"We've got to go!" She told Shawn, and then smiled in excitement, "We got a case!"
Juliet had dropped the piece of paper off at the front desk on the way out, the car journey was short and Shawn felt almost deafened by the constant siren of the car, Juliet hardly seemed bothered by it.
Arriving at the scene, Shawn noticed Lassiter already there as they pulled up outside what looked like a supermarket. Shawn was momentarily distracted by the pineapples on display at the front of the store and went over to speak to Lassiter.
"What happened Lassie?" Shawn asked him quietly. Lassiter turned quietly towards him. Instead of snapping, Lassiter looked at him with searching arms and gestured inside the building.
"Go look, Spencer. I'm busy" before reaching into his pocket and dialling.
Shawn entered the building and scanned the room to find Juliet. Behind Juliet, Shawn could make out a body, as he got closer he exclaimed.
"What! Buzz?"
Lying in a pool of blood was Buzz. Fruit and vegetables were scattered around him from the surrounding shelves and in amongst the food laid a single hair pin.
Juliet looked at Shawn, her eyes were wet.
"Why did this happen to him? He had the makings of a fine cop" she remarked sadly.
"This can't be right! I passed him earlier. He was at the station not an hour ago" Shawn exclaimed.
"An hour? This body has been here for at least four hours" one of the men studying the body said.
Juliet gasped in shock.
"You saw his ghost at the station!, why didn't you say anything!" she cried.
Shawn stuttered in shock. "I didn't know! I can't really tell the difference"
"You can't tell the difference?" Lassiter repeated sarcastically. "Then how do you know?"
"They usually stare at me, like they know I can see them. But... Buzz didn't, I just bumped into him in the hallway on my way to the snack machine"
Lassiter just looked at him and nodded slowly as if he seemed to accept Shawn's excuse for the time being and Juliet pulled out a hanky chief and wiped her tearful eyes.
"We'll get the person who did this" Juliet told herself strongly.
Shawn gasped and held his hands to his head in concentration. Juliet and Lassiter both stared at him expectantly.
Shawn frowned, he was sure he had seen that hair pin before…
"Janet Wright….."
"She's the one who did this?" Lassiter questioned impatiently.
"Yes…No…. I don't know. But she was here. At some point" Shawn clarified.
"Well that's helpful" Lassiter remarked in a sarcastic manner, "Let's find out who she is"
"Already being done Lassie. I got someone researching her already" Shawn spoke and Juliet seemed to nod understanding.
"What? How?"
"I spoke to her ghost earlier and she was wearing the exact same hairpin as the one there" Shawn pointed.
"Hairpin? What hairpin?" Juliet asked.
"The one here" Shawn said kneeling down on one knee, pointing out exactly where the hairpin lay amongst the fruit and veg.
"How did someone miss this?" Lassiter shouted across the room. At once several men came over with their cameras to mumble apologies, taking a few pictures of the item before closing it in an evidence bag.
Lassiter ruffled his hand through his hair in frustration. Why did no one do their jobs properly?
Author Note: Thanks for reading this guys and I hope you review. I think my joy of watching the numbers go up is more than actually writing this in the first place.
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