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Pulling up to the Psych office, Shawn saw another vehicle parked in the lot that he didn't recognize. Looking at the time he saw it was already 10:08am. "Well, at least I am not that late." Shawn mumbled to himself as he stepped out of the car carrying a beverage tray with three smoothies.

Shawn had to pass the other vehicle in order to get to the Psych office. He noticed it was an almost brand new cherry red sports car. "Very nice." Shawn gazed at it in approval as he walked up to the office. Passing closer to the car a strange scent caught Shawn's attention. His head whipped to look at the car again and he approached it. Concentrating and sniffing deeply Shawn caught glimpses of a woman, he could smell her perfume, very strongly, and there was something else… but Shawn couldn't figure out what it was that perfume smell was too strong. Shaking away the vision, he blinked and looked up. One of the vendors from the boardwalk had seen him go up and sniff at the car. Awkward.

Thinking quickly, Shawn made up a good excuse. Yelling so the man could hear him over the ocean he said, "NEW CAR SMELL!" He wafted at the car with his hand. "Oh yeah! It is addicting! Don't ever get hooked on it because, man! It is hard to quit!"

The vendor stared for just a moment more before shaking his head and continuing on his route. "That was close." Shawn thought before hurrying into the office.

Entering the office, Shawn wrinkled his nose and sneezed. Whoever was in here was a woman and she was wearing more perfume than an entire bridge club. Shawn ended up having to breathe through his mouth to stop himself from marathon sneezing. Shawn could see that Gus was talking to the woman who was facing away from the door. Shawn suppressed a smile when he saw that Gus was having to breathe through his mouth as well due to his own sensitive nose.

Gus noticed Shawn and scowled. "Shawn! You were supposed to be here ten minutes ago."

"Gus, you know I cannot function and start my day without a dose of delicious flavor." Gus knew Shawn didn't really need to eat but since he found out he could still ingest food he did his best to keep up appearances. Shawn walking around not eating would definitely turn more than a few heads. "Are you going to introduce me to this lovely lady?" Shawn continued and handed each of them a smoothie.

The woman turned around to look at Shawn. She was stunning. Silky straight blond hair, with blue green eyes. Gus was already smitten with her and was secretly glad he got a few minutes alone to talk to such a gorgeous woman.

Looking at the smoothie the woman took it politely but did not drink it. Instead she introduced herself, "My name is Sandra Williams. You must be the infamous Shawn Spencer."

Shawn could immediately tell that Sandra was not her real name. A small hesitation before saying it was enough for Shawn to realize that though she had probably picked out the name ahead of time, she was still not used to saying it. Giving "Sandra" a quick look over he could tell she had money, lots of money. The women's Rolex, diamond ring, and earrings were all real but none of them were large or gaudy. Shawn figured it meant that this woman was the one with the money and not some Sugar Daddy she needed to show off for.

"Well hello Sandra…" He reached out and shook her hand. "What brings you to our office?"

"Sandra here was just telling me someone is after her." Gus explained.

Sandra nodded. "That's right. My house was burned down a couple days ago. Thank God no one was in it, but I know it was not an accident."

"Is there any reason why someone would want you dead?" Gus inquired.

Shawn saw Sandra shift uncomfortably. Her body language was screaming that she was nervous and doing her best to stay calm. Narrowing his eyes he saw her bite her lip and straighten in her chair. She was about to lie, again.

"I am a rather public figure where I am from." Sandra explained. "It could be a stalker or something."

Putting his finger to his head, Shawn played the psychic card. Going with his gut instinct he stated, "I am getting that the arsonurderer knows you personally. This wasn't some act of a random dude." He had to see if she was lying about not knowing who it was. "Which is why you never went to the police."

As Shawn expected, she was taken aback at his statement. "Well, I…" She started before Shawn noticed her eyes pale ever so slightly for an instant.

"Crap." Shawn thought. "That's why she is wearing so much perfume, to hide her scent from me." Shawn's eyes moved to Gus who was sitting closer to the other vampire than he was. Shawn analyzed her body language and came to the unfortunate realization that the woman was not only nervous… she had to be starving.

Shawn slowly stood up. "Gus. Could you do me a favor and grab something from the kitchen for me? I am feeling a bit peckish and this smoothie is just not filling enough."

"Shawn, I am not your servant. You are a fully capable grown man who can go get his own damn food." Gus went back to making googly eyes at Sandra.

"Gus, the pineapple smoothie is just not very satisfying. Are you sure you won't go grab us something to eat?" Shawn hoped his friend would get the hint this time.

Gus looked up at Shawn and saw the wide eyed expression on his face. Something was wrong. Rising Gus complied with Shawn's request, "I'm just going to go get something then…" He said straight faced with a nervous glance at Shawn.

Sandra watched the exchange with a puzzled look. "Is there something wrong Mr. Spencer? Do you sense something else?"

"You could say that. I see something else on fire besides your house, it's your pants. Cuz you are a liar, with your pants on fire." Shawn curled his lip in mock contempt.

"What are you talking about?" Sandra was getting angry at Shawn's outburst.

Shawn looked behind him and saw Gus was watching from around the corner in the kitchen. Safely out of harm's way if this got ugly. "Your perfume trick may have worked to dull my super senses but it doesn't work against this…." Putting his hand to his head again he raised his eyebrow. "The spirits could tell you were a vampire from a mile away!"

Sandra appeared genuinely taken aback. She stood instantly and looked back and forth between Shawn and Gus before running out the door.

Gus and Shawn stood there with surprised looks on their faces. Neither had expected that reaction out of her. They watched as she ran past the picture window and hopped in her car. Turning towards each other and shrugging, neither saw the car erupt into a ball of fire before the window they were standing at burst inward from the concussion blast. Shouting in surprise both ducked down as glass sprayed all over the office.

After a minute, they braved looking over the edge of the window pane to survey the parking lot. All the glass on both of their cars was blown out but the fire itself stayed centralized on the now flaming red car.

Without taking his eyes off the scene in front of him, Shawn dialed Jules' number.

Juliet answered in a panic, "Shawn! Are you ok? We just got a call about an explosion near your office."

"Gus and I are fine, but we may have a serious problem…."

"OH MY GOD MY CAR!" Gus wailed as sirens sounded in the distance.

A half hour later both Lassiter and Juliet had heard their story and the fire truck was finishing putting out the car.

Shawn shook his head. "I have no clue why she ran out. She had to have known that I was a vampire to have worn the perfume. I couldn't smell anything past that stuff."

"She didn't say her real name or give any indication of who would want her dead?" Carlton knew his day was going to start out crazy but he can never figure out why he is always so surprised when it is Shawn's fault almost every time.

"Just the fake name. We can at least see if the plates on the car can get us a real one." Frustration was oozing off Carlton in waves making Shawn antsy.

"What's wrong with you Spencer?" Carlton saw Shawn's uncharacteristic jitteriness.

"Nothing much Lassie. Just happy to be around my girl." Shawn wasn't exactly lying.

Carlton growled before walking off, "Keep the public displays at a minimum Spencer. This is a crime scene!"

Shawn moved closer to Juliet once Carlton returned to inspecting the crime scene. "How are you doing?"

Smiling at her boyfriend Juliet stated, "I am doing pretty good. I missed you." Juliet grabbed his hand and held it. "Have you been to your dad's house since being back?"

"Not yet. I was going to see my Papa Monkey after the appointment but you can see how that turned out." Shawn shrugged.

"I would still go see him for lunch if I were you. Let him know that you are ok?" Juliet knew Shawn and Henry's relationship might be as strained as theirs was but Beth had told her it was important to let Shawn know that they all still cared about him and realize he is still the same person.

"Ok, for you I will go see what my Dad is up to. I will see you later this afternoon at the station alright?" Shawn received a kiss on the cheek before Juliet joined her partner across the parking lot to question some of the vendors that were around when the incident happened.

Gus came out from the office and grabbed Shawn, pulling him towards the building. "Whoa buddy, what's the rush? I'd say where is the fire but at that point it would be a bit redundant."

"This is not funny Shawn, someone died out there." Gus complained. "And what has been up with you lately!"

Shawn was distracted while watching Juliet and Carlton over Gus' shoulder. "What did you say Gus?"

"I've said you have been acting a little weird lately." Gus replied with a knowing look.

Shawn knew what Gus was referring to. He had not gotten a chance to talk to Gus about his connection to Carlton. When Gus had gone to visit Shawn about three days into his trip he had wanted him to have a good time and not to have to worry about vampire things so Shawn put off telling him till after the 'vacation' was over.

Gus' visit had actually gone better than expected. He really hit it off with Morgan's best friend Chuck. Comics were not Shawn's forte so it was nice for him to be able to watch his friend have fellow geeks to talk to.

Giving Gus a weak smile he sat down at his desk. "Gus, I have had to deal with some heavy stuff lately, besides the whole boot camp thing."

Gus' expression changed from concern to his "Oh really" Face as he sat down at his own desk.

"Mick and Josef are looking into it but uh… there is something different about me." Shawn admitted.

"Shawn, I think you need to narrow down that statement because I could go so many places with that right now." Gus looked at Shawn with raised eyebrows.

"Harsh!" Shawn gave Gus and incredulous look before adding, "But fair. Anyway Josef said with me already having a heightened perception when I was a human, I would have more advanced ones as a vampire too."

Gus straightened in his chair, "So you are saying you are like a super vamp?"

Rubbing his lip nervously Shawn sighed. "They kind of tested us. I'm not particularly stronger than the other guys but, I don't know." Shawn put his elbows on the desk and brushed his hands through his hair.

Gus could tell Shawn was uncomfortable about something. He knew him well enough to know when Shawn was at a loss for words there was awkwardness involved and lately the biggest awkward spot in Shawn's world was…

"This is about Lassiter isn't it?" Gus guessed.

Giving his friend a tired smile, Shawn nodded. "Spot on as always buddy."

Shawn spent the next few minutes regaling Gus about being able to sense Lassiter's emotions and pain as well as Josef's statements about having extra senses. "Josef wants me to contact him or Mick if anything out of the ordinary happens too. They seem just as stumped as I am."

Breaking the tension, Gus exclaimed "Wow, if your head wasn't big enough already! I don't think it could even fit through the door anymore."

Shawn grabbed some fuzzy dice from his desk and threw them at Gus who dodged them expertly. Glancing at the clock Shawn groaned. "I promised Jules I would visit my dad for lunch. He probably heard about the explosion by now and you know him and over reacting." Shawn grabbed a pen and paper and wrote down the license plate of the blown up car. "Could you check and see if you can get anything from the license plate? We might be able to get a head start if we find something."

"I will do some research and clean up a bit while you are gone but you better bring me back some left overs from your dad's house." Gus pointed his finger at Shawn.

"Would I ever forget… again?" Shawn gave Gus a faux innocent look before leaving.

"Suck it Shawn!" Gus hollered after him.

Ten minutes, and a very breezy ride later, Shawn walked into his dad's house. He didn't knock because he knew his dad was expecting him after Shawn had called him from the road.

"Hey dad! I'm here!" Shawn shouted as he entered. He immediately noticed some plastic lining the floor. "You painting or something?"

"Give me a minute, I will be right there!" His dad's voice drifted to him from the kitchen.

Shawn followed where the voice came from and kept talking as he rounded the corner. "Can we make this quick? Gus is expecting food and Jules is…" Shawn's words were cut off as a hand came around the corner and jabbed a thin wooden state at his chest. Shawn was too surprised to react and the stake hit its mark causing him to seize up in a paralyzed state. He fell painfully backwards on the strategically placed plastic on the floor.

Shawn's eyes were looking up and he could see his dad's face enter his view. "Sorry Shawn but Gus' food will be a little late, because your real training starts now."

END NOTES: :D Poor Shawn. If you thought Henry was hard on him just because he had a photographic memory, imagine how much worse it will get with his new skill set.