First story of our Shules treasure chest, no particular season through most likely somewhere in Season 4 before the finale.
Songs used are (in order) My All by Mariah Carey, Chasing Car by Snow Patrol, Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
Lyric key; Juliet italics, Shawn bold, Both bold italics
Disclaimer; I don't own Psych or songs
Shawn opened the door to a down town bar, then headed past the tables and took a stool at the counter. Gus having fallowed him in sat in the one next to him. Shawn held up two fingers to the bartender a little way down mixing a drink, he paused and slid two beers down the bar to Shawn who gave one to Gus.
"Shawn, you Abigail broke up last week so please tell me we are not here so you can; A get drunk or B pick up a girl."
"Gus don't be the purple dust bunny in a room of green dust bunnies," Shawn told him, "we are here for two things; one the jalapeño poppers here are killer." Shawn picked up a mentioned pepper from the plate that had just been place in front of them. He tried to hand it to Gus, who elected to take his own.
He took a bite of the popper, paused looked at the pepper then looked back at Shawn.
"See what'd I tell you?" Shawn said his mouthful.
"Okay, so what's the second reason?"
Shawn took a drink from his beer as he pointed with his thumb over his shoulder at the sign beside the stage, which read; Open Mic Nite.
"No way Shawn, I am not singing," Gus said make that perfectly clear.
"Didn't expect you to buddy, but you do enjoy watching drunken fools making fools of themselves."
"Oddly enough that made sense to me, and I do enjoy that," Gus said. "So why did you and Abigail break up anyway?"
"I don't know man, I guess neither of us saw it going anywhere. Also she said something about needing a matureer, mature- a more mature boyfriend."
"So it didn't have anything to do with Juliet?"
"What would it have to do with Jules?
"Cause you love her."
"I don," he couldn't finish the sentence. Shawn couldn't physically say that he didn't love Detective O'Hara, "I do," he whispered softly. This got a smirk out Gus who knew it was a good thing his best friend would finally admit it.
Gus watched over Shawn's shoulder as the owner of the bar walked out on stage.
"hey folk, before we get started I would like to remind all of you to please drive safe this lovely Saturday night and most importantly to have fun enjoy yourselves. Now then as tradition the talented Miss. Juliet will open the show for us," the man took a step back clapping heartily as the customers joined him and the band started. Shawn smiled, even an indirect reference to her made him smile, he was hook and he liked it.
Gus blinked a couple times looking at the woman who walked on to the stage now, "dude, it's Juliet."
Shawn chuckled "that's good one."
"No, seriously dude it's her."
"Gus, just because they have the same name doesn't make it…" Shawn spoke as he turned to the stage but couldn't finish the sentence since he had completely forgotten what he was saying.
"Jules," he said reflexively as his brain actually started to process that it was indeed her on stage.
"I'm thinking of you."
The first words of the song floated beautiful on the air, Shawn's mind just shut down he stopped processing everything else around him. He was now focused solely on her, as he listened to her wonderful voice.
"In my sleepless solitude tonight
If it's wrong to love you
Then my heart just won't let me be right
'Cause I've drowned in you
And I won't pull through
Without you by my side"
She was amazing not only her perfect voice but in her stunning white shirt matched with her dark blue jean she was beautiful. She was always beautiful but tonight it was just seemed to so much more with her golden curls draped over her shoulders.
"I'd give my all to have
Just one more night with you
I'd risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
'Cause I can't go on
Living in the memory of our song
I'd give my all for your love tonight
Baby can you feel me
Imagining I'm looking in your eyes
I can see you clearly
Vividly emblazoned in my mind
And yet you're so far
Like a distant star
I'm wishing on tonight
I'd give my all to have
Just one more night with you
I'd risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
'Cause I can't go on
Living in the memory of our song
I'd give my all for your love tonight"
Juliet swayed slowly during the instrumental; she wondered briefly if anyone could know the hidden meaning with song had for her or any of the other songs she would sing. They were all about Shawn in her mind.
"I'd give my all to have
Just one more night with you
I'd risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
'Cause I can't go on
Living in the memory of our song
I'd give my all for your love tonight
Give my all for your love
Tonight"
The crowd applauded strongly, many standing, as Juliet walked off the stage.
"Wow," Gus said pretty well summing it up.
"Dude," Shawn said awe struck as he stood up. He the woman of his dream, the bad ass SBPD detective had just dialed things up a notch, and seeing the meaning behind the song he took his cue to dial it up another.
Juliet walked leisurely towards the door, feeling the buzz that she often had after singing about Shawn. Someone at the bar caught her eye before she got to the door.
"Gus."
Gus turned to see her walking over, 'where Shawn when ya need him,' he thought, smiling as she walked over.
"Hey Juliet,"
"Hey," she said taking Shawn's chair, "what are you doing here?"
"Shawn dragged me down here to the poppers," it was the truth too.
"Shawn's here," Juliet said suddenly nervous, had Shawn heard her?
"Yeah, not sure where he went through." He had thought he went to talk to her but that wasn't the case. "We didn't you could sing like that."
"Ohh," Juliet blushed a bit, in the background the band started again, "I love this song," clearly changing the subject.
"Found him," Gus said looking at the stage, not really surprised Shawn was up there.
Juliet turned and frozen when she spotted him too.
"We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes,
they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things
will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
and just forget the world?"
Two things were now perfectly clear to Juliet; one being that Shawn had seriously been holding back on American Duos. The second being that he had understood her feelings hidden in the song and he felt them too; she was not about to let their second chance at something amazing slip away.
The following week Saturday's open mic night was as usual opened by Juliet who sang a duet with Shawn. If a person didn't count their many many make-out sessions on the love seat in the Psych office, which Gus still refused to set on, it was their 5th date since last Saturday.
Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
He's down on his luck
It's tough
So tough
Gina works the diner all day
Working for her man, she brings home her pay
For love
For love
She says
We've got to hold on to what we've got
It doesn't make a difference
If we make it or not
We've got each other and that's a lot
For love
We'll give it a shot
We're half way there
Livin' on a prayer
Take my hand and we'll make it
I swear
Livin' on a prayer
Tommy's got his six string in hock
Now he's holding in what he used
To make it talk
So tough
It's tough
Gina dreams of running away
When she cries in the night
Tommy whispers
Baby it's okay
Someday
We've got to hold on to what we've got
'Cause it doesn't make a difference
If we make it or not
We've got each other and that's a lot
For love
We'll give it a shot
We're half way there
Livin' on a prayer
Take my hand and we'll make it
I swear
Livin' on a prayer
Shawn couldn't help hit he held out his hand to Jules. She smiled at him as she took it intertwining her fingers with his, not missing a beat.
Livin' on a prayer
We've got to hold on ready or not
You live for the fight when that's all that you've got
We're half way there
Livin' on a prayer
Take my hand and we'll make it
I swear
Livin' on a prayer
We're half way there
Livin' on a prayer
Take my hand and we'll make it
I swear
Livin' on a prayer