"What's up, Shawn?" Juliet wondered. She was sitting on her side of the bed putting lotion on her hands and feet.
"I have a he problem. It;s pretty bad." He said, growing more and more serious and sitting down next to her on the edge of the bed.
"Shaw, spit it out. What is it?" She was starting to get worried. It was rare that Shawn was this serious.
"I'm falling in love with this kid. I never really knew for sure if I ever wanted to have kids, but you two make figuring out the answer to that very easy. Jeremy asked me why he couldn't live with us forever and I just can't bare the though of giving him up to another family because we are already becoming a family."
"Shawn Spencer, not only do I want to tell you I love you so freaking much, but I couldn't agree more. The only problem is, no matter how hard we try we can't really guarantee he will be able to live with us forever. The biggest problem is that we aren't married. Courts don't assign a kid to a couple that isn't legally obligated to stay together. This isn't me saying we should get married, I;m just pointing out the obvious factor that is really keeping us from adoption. We could apply for long term foster care and I could try to adopt him individually, but it's all very risky and I don't really want to jump at the opportunity to drag him through the court system if it could be for nothing." She ended with a huff. They both knew that neither of them were quite ready for that kind of commitment, but they were so in love with Jeremy.
"Let's sleep on it. We could take off work early tomorrow, get Lassiter to watch Jer and go on a date tomorrow? Maybe relax and talk about it a little bit? Could help us figure out what we really want." He suggested. Somehow, he had turned into the reasonable one.
"You, my love, are very sensible. Sounds like a date." She leaned in to kiss him and they both rolled under the covers to give the topic some thought during very restful sleep.
The next day went as normal. Juliet woke up first, showered and ate. Then, she went and woke up Jeremy, made sure he ate, shook Shawn for ten minutes until he woke up, rushed everybody out the door, dropped Jeremy off at school and arrived at the station three minutes early. As long as Shawn was being told what to do in the mornings, he fit right into Juliet's schedule which made her happy. He never minded her slight 'bossiness' in the mornings because he knew that every time they got to the station three minutes early, her day went so much better, which was always a good thing for him.
They both walked in, Juliet got her coffee, went to her desk and started the endless paperwork that was always on her desk. Shawn went to the vending machine to get a chocolate bar and proceeded to sit on Juliet's desk until Gus showed up. Today, they had to talk to some suspects for an armed robbery case. Nothing to important, Chief just wanted a fresh set of people to the case. Shawn kissed Juliet goodbye and he and Gus headed out the door.
Two and a half hours later, they returned with McNab and a handcuffed man in tow. "Well, I got this case closed, time to take my girl out and see what we can un-close." Shawn said way too loudly and tried to fist bump Gus.
"Shawn! Stop!" Juliet scolded. He was always trying to suggest stuff especially in front of Lassiter.
"Seriously Shawn, no one wants to know about that stuff."Gus included.
Lassiter had quickly run away and Shawn, unfazed, went skiing after him.
Shaking her head, Juliet turned to Gus. "So you closed the case? Congrats."
"Thanks. It was pretty much an open-and-shut case, we just needed to tie up some loose ends. I see you had a pretty exciting day." Gus said jokingly, nodding towards all the papers on her desk.
"It's been insane. I didn't know what to do with myself." She said sarcastically, "But thankfully it's my half day so I get to go home and hang out with Shawn before Jeremy gets home." She sounded relieved this hell wasn't going to last any longer. Everyone in the department knew that Juliet hated nothing more than the paper work, but she was the best at it so she was usually the one to have to do any paperwork necessary.
"You ready to go, Jules." Shawn questioned, appearing from around the corner. He had clearly gotten bored tormenting Lassiter. Either that or the head detective threatened to shoot him.
"Yes. I just have to finish this file and I'll be ready to go. Is Lassiter still going to watch Jeremy or did you bother him so much he canceled?" She wondered.
"He said he could get there at 5:30 and would stay no longer than 9:00." Shawn replied, Pulling her chair away from her desk as if trying to encourage her to leave.
"Alright, alright. I'm coming." he said, giving into him was not uncommon and knew exactly which buttons to push in order to get what he wanted. She logged off and turned her computer off and stood up. They stopped to say goodbye to Karen and drove home. Not ten minutes after they were home, Juliet was laying on the couch in leggings and a sweatshirt with a glass of wine in one hand and her feet on Shawn's lap so he could massage them.
"You are the best boyfriend on the planet, you know that? And not trying to suggest anything or put pressure on anything in anyway, but doesn't it feel weird to you that we call each other our boyfriend and girlfriend? I mean after all this time I just feel like that's what teenagers would address each other as, not two adults that have been together for over three years. I don't know, is it just me?" She wondered.
Shawn paused to think about it, "No, I think you're right, so what if you could call me your husband?" He asked, putting her feet down and pulling out the most beautiful ring she had ever seen.
"Shawn Spencer!" Juliet screamed in surprise. She put he glass down and turned so she was facing him.
"I wanted to wait until tonight when we were walking over a bridge in the moonlight, but I felt like now was the best time. So, Juliet O'Hara, would you like to be my wife?" He asked.
"Yes yes yes!" She screamed, jumping forward to kiss him.
"You have to put the ring on, Babe!" Shawn said, laughing as he pulled her off of him and slid the ring onto her finger.
She took a second to look at it. "Oh Shawn, it's beautiful! I love it and you!" She squealed as she kissed him again. "Do you want to see if Lassiter and Marlowe will take Jeremy for a sleep over at their house tonight so we can just spend the night in? There really isn't anything else we need to talk about now and I would much rather just cuddle on the couch and watch a movie.
"Anything, you want, Babe. Just call him now to check."
Juliet nodded and walked into the kitchen to grab her phone and call Lassiter. She came back to the living room a few minutes later and sat back down on the couch. "Marlowe answered the phone. She said she couldn't wait for the wedding and she would love to have Jeremy tonight. I'm not sure how Lassiter will feel, but I'm going to let her handle that one so I can spend the night alone with my fiancee." She couldn't stop smiling.
They lay there together on the couch just enjoying each others company and watching TV. Until it was time to pick up Jeremy.
"why don't you stay here and I'll go get Jeremy. You've had, what three glasses of wine? I don't want you to drive."
"Okay. I love you." She said happily. She wasn't really tipsy, but she could feel the alcohol coursing through her veins and right now she was feeling pretty relaxed and tired so she was fine with staying home.
Shawn went out the front door and locked it behind him, leaving Juliet to doze off on the couch.
About twenty minutes later, she awoke to the slamming of car doors and the sound of two boys yelling and racing each other to the front door. Of course, Shawn was one of them and he was technically an adult, but rarely acted like it.
They busted through the door and Jeremy ran over and climber up on Juliet's lap. "Hi! How was your day?" He asked excitedly.
"It was great! How was yours?" She returned.
"Awesome! I love my school and I love living here!" He replied and snuggled into her lap so he could watch TV with her.
Juliet looked over to Shawn and he nodded. "Listen, buddy, we have some exciting news we want to share with you. Shawn and I have decided that we are going to get married. Doesn't that sound awesome?" She asked.
"That's so cool! So we get to be family?"
"Well, I don't know, Jer, but we are going to work on that. Just don't worry about it for now. And remember you're going to Lassiter's tonight? Well you get to have a sleep over there!" She said, trying to change the mood back to a positive one.
"Really? Yay!" He jumped down and pulled Shawn by the hand into his room, screaming, "I have to pack! I have to pack!"
Juliet hoped they would be able to adopt Jeremy, she really couldn't imagine life without home and it had they had only had him for a week!