Author note: Just finished. Hope you enjoy!
Shawn found himself getting hungry so got Juliet to drop him off at his Dad's house. Even though Shawn had his own key, Shawn knocked and waited for his father to open the door. Henry opened it moments later.
"Shawn?" he asked in astonishment.
"Hey Dad, can I come in?"
Henry widened the door to let Shawn past. After a quick glance at the clock Henry suggested, "Lunch?"
Shawn immediately agreed and helped his father in the kitchen to prepare a few sandwiches.
"Karen rang me" Henry started awkwardly. "Said you're consulting now"
Shawn looked up from his sandwich.
"It was an accident really. They thought I had committed the robberies down town"
"What?" Henry exclaimed. "Why would they think that? What did you do this time?"
"Nothing!" Shawn complained. "I called in a tip, he confessed. They thought I was the accomplice"
Henry laughed, shaking his head.
The door bell suddenly rung and Shawn leap up, "I'll get it"
"Huh?" Henry grunted looking up for his sandwich but Shawn had already left the table.
Shawn swung the door open and was shocked to see the face he saw. His father had silently crept up behind him and was staring.
"Buzz?" Shawn asked in disbelief.
Henry sighed, another ghost had found him. "Aren't you going to invite him in?" Henry growled at him. "Come on in Buzz" before he went into his lounge area and sat in his favourite purple arm chair.
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry" Shawn started awkwardly but Buzz interrupted.
"Dude, it wasn't you fault" he sighed sitting on the sofa, Shawn sat down beside him. "If it's any ones, I guess it's Maggey's" he pondered.
"She killed you?" Shawn asked.
"What no! I mean, well I don't think so." Buzz frowned.
"What do you mean, you don't think so?" Shawn questioned glancing at his father who was sat trying to look at the Sudoku book in his hand before giving up and going to finish his sandwich.
"I kinda hit my head. The details are a bit fuzzy"
"Of course they are" Shawn smiled slightly. The one person who could just tell him who killed him doesn't remember, how ironic.
"Well she is a suspect" Shawn told him.
Buzz nodded at him seriously. "So you guys found out about the bribe then?"
"What bribe?"
Buzz sighed; he'd put his foot in it.
"Maggey was bribed to stay silent on some case about 6 months ago at a garden center. They gave her a lot of money. I told her she shouldn't have, that she should speak and that it was against the law to accept bribery but….. By the time I found out it was too late."
"I see" Shawn pondered this information.
"She told me she would give it back. That she would testify for me." Buzz told him.
"Well she hasn't confessed to that yet. Do you….. Want me to tell her anything?" Shawn asked delicately.
Buzz' lips formed a tight smile. "Just tell her that I forgive her…. For what she did. And that I will always love her"
Shawn smiled, "Of course"
Buzz thanked him before he left, walked away and faded from sight. Shawn returned to the kitchen with a thoughtful expression before sitting down to finish his sandwich.
They ate in silence for a few minutes and Henry put his plate and glass into the dishwasher.
"You ok kid?" Henry asked.
"Yeah. Can I get a ride to the station?" Shawn replied.
"Why don't you ride that dammed bike of yours?" Henry suggested with a faint smile.
"Jules, Lassie and Luce dropped me off" Shawn replied waving his hand as if it were no big deal. Henry sighed before nodding and grabbing his keys of the counter.
Shawn stared out the window of the truck as his father drove in silence.
"Whoah! Pull over here" Shawn instructed suddenly. Henry swerved and pulled over. Shawn had noticed the other three detectives parking the car. It seemed they had only just stopped for lunch, preferring to dine rather than to eat a sandwich.
"Thanks Dad" Shawn said before leaving his father to reply "Any time" sarcastically to himself before he drove away.
Jules, Lassie and Lucinda were walking towards the entrance and Shawn skipped over to them.
"Guys I got new of the case!" Shawn bumbled excited.
"Bugger of Spencer" Lucinda growled. "We're hungry"
"Whatever it is, it can wait. We had to go to three different restaurants to find something that we all liked!" Juliet explained
"We'll see you at the station" Lassiter told him before he lead the way into the building with Lucinda and Jules following him.
"But I need a ride!" Shawn shouted after them.
"Then wait!" Lucinda explained to him turning to see the look on his face. Shawn studied her for a moment and then held his hand to his head.
"Don't eat the chicken"
Lucinda stalked off and Lassiter and Lucinda shared a look. Don't eat the chicken? Yeah right!
Lassiter, Lucinda and Lassiter were quickly shown to a table for three and a waitress was over to take their order.
"I'll have the chicken. With extra chicken" Lucinda told the waitress with added stress on the word chicken which made her seem a bit strange.
The waitress walked away with their orders taken and Lassiter raised an eyebrow at his partner.
"There's probably a reason why he told you not to have the chicken" Lassiter told her.
Lucinda sneered. "I don't believe in this psychic crap he's selling"
"I didn't either until Gus kicked me in the stomach. That was no imaginary force" Lassiter remarked and Juliet smiled at the memory.
"Oh my God" Lucinda remarked with an incredulous tone staring at the kitchens.
"What?" Juliet questioned before turning round to see for herself. Lassiter turned too just in time for them all to see the chef cooking the chicken sneezing all over the food.
Lucinda growled before racing outside to where Shawn was waiting on the opposite side of the road on a bench, on the phone.
"What!" Lucinda declared in a loud tone and Shawn gave a small smirk, seeing as how he had managed to get all three out of the restaurant and take this case seriously.
Author note: I couldn't resist putting in the "don't eat the chicken" line. LOVE IT! The quote... not chicken. Thank you for reading and reviewing!