You are Beautiful

Shawn looked across the precinct and his eyes lingered on Detective O'Hara, Juliet had been stabbed while on a case and ever since she hasn't been the same, Shawn noticed that.

He walked up to her desk and took a hold of her hand and led her to an empty interrogation room.

''Okay Jules, what's going on with you lately?'' Shawn asked in his serious tone

''what?'' Juliet asked as she gave him a confused look

''You have been acting strange, since you got stabbed'' Juliet winced at the memory

''It's nothing Shawn'' she said, she went to walk away but Shawn stopped her

''Come on Jules, you know you can tell me anything''

Juliet searched his eyes and she knew he was being sincere, she sighed and closed her eyes tight, then reopened them and looked Shawn straight in the eyes, she has silent tears running down her cheeks.

''It's just that, when I was stabbed it left this horrible scar'' she said cringing slightly as she said the word 'scar'

''that's it, come on Jules your body is beautiful just the way it is''

She just looked at his as though she didn't believe him, so Shawn sighed and took her hands in his.

''Jules, I'm about to tell you something I have never told anyone about'' Shawn sounded as though he was in pain

She gave him a look as he pulled his shirt over his head and then his under top, and it reviled burns all over his chest.

Juliet gasped as she saw this sight, it wasn't out of disgust, it was out of surprise, she hadn't expected this.

''Shawn?'' she asked as she stared at his chest

''I told you your body is beautiful''

She reached out to touch his chest but stopped midway to look at Shawn, which he took a hold of her hand and placed it on his chest.

Juliet's hand lingered on his chest as she traced the burns.

''Shawn, what happened?''

That was the question he was hoping to avoid, he sighed and closed his eyes, stopping the tears that were threatening to escape his eyes.

''When I was five I was staying at my uncles, with my cousin Mark, because my mom and dad were both working, He was an alcoholic, but he had been clean for 2 years, until his friends came over and he got drunk.'' He paused to look at Juliet, but then kept on going

''and I woke up from all the noise, I went downstairs, he told me to go back to bed, all I said to him was that I couldn't sleep, he thought I was answering back, so he go up and him and his buddies got a hold of me, dragged me out to the garage and poured gas all over me and set me on fire, If it was for my dad coming and checking up on me, I would be dead''

He finished the story and looked at Juliet, she was crying, he let a few tears escape him, but not as much as she had.

He looked into her eyes and brushed some hair out of her face and leaned in closer till their lips were almost touching and whispered against them

''see Jules, I told you your body was beautiful, just the way it is''

Then he leaned in and kissed her, it was sweet passionate kiss with years of feeling poured into it.