AN: So sorry this took so long! School has had me extremely busy and I haven't had much time to write. But next week I should have more time so I can hopefully update sooner!

Enjoy!

Charlie

Chapter 8:

"You gonna answer that?" Yang raised an eyebrow.

"Wha… It's not important."

"Ashley, who is it?" Shawn asked as it continued to go off.

"No one. They're not… It's not relevant."

Carlton walked up to her, "Right now, anything and everything is relevant to the case. Answer the phone."

Ashley looked from one person to the next. Should she answer it? How did Yang seem to know who would be calling?

When Ashley made no move to answer it, Carlton spoke quietly, "Ash' come on. We're right here. Just answer it."

Slowly, Ashley raised the phone to her ear and pressed answer, "Hello?"

"Ashley! I've been trying to contact you! Why haven't you answered me?"

Ashley looked around the room, Carlton seemed to be motioning for her to put the phone on speaker. She had no idea why this was such a big deal. It was just Logan, sure he was an asshole, but he lived in London, how on earth was he related to the case?

"Ashley? You there?" Logan asked through the phone.

"I'm kind of busy right now." Ashley finally said, staring at the floor.

"C'mon, I need to talk to you it's important. I messed up. Look, I'm in America too right now and I'd really like to see you."

Ashley almost dropped her phone as her eyes went wide, how did he know she was in America? Maybe one of their mutual friends from London told him? That seemed unlikely considering all of her friends from London took her side in the fight.

When Ashley's face went white, everyone rushed toward her to ask questions in a whisper:

"Who is it?"

"What did they say?"

"Ash', what's wrong?"

Her head began to spin and she took a seat in the chair Shawn had just occupied.

"Logan, I'm gonna have to call you back." Ashley heard him begin to protest but she hung up before he could say anything and then turned to face Yang. She stared her down for a minute. Yang had a faint smirk on her face, while Ashley sat rooted to the spot in determination.

"How does he play into this?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Yang said, jerking her head.

"Ash', who was it?" Shawn asked form behind her.

"My ex. He lives in London, how did he know I was in America?" Ashley said, keeping her stare focused on Yang.

"Some people make it their business to know what they want, when they want." Yang said with a smile.

"How is he related to this?" Ashley demanded.

"Well it appears he holds your heart." Yang replied.

Ashley grew angrier, "Listen here psycho. You are going to tell me right now how the hell he is involved with this and you are going to tell me everything you know or so help me I will…"

"Ooh, I love the feisty ones." Yang smirked.

Ashley's face went red with anger and she lunged forward toward Yang, however she was held back by Carlton and Shawn.

"Let me go!" Ashley fought as they carried her outside.

"Ash', calm down. You don't get anywhere with Yang like that." Shawn said in an attempt to quiet her.

"How is it you seem to be BFFs with her Shawn? She's not helpful, she's not mentally stable! Yet somehow she has all the answers? What the hell Shawn? Since when did Logan become a part of the case?" Ashley yelled as both men finally let go of her in the parking lot.

"I have no idea how your boyfriend is connected Ash'! But Yang always leaves clues behind everything. She must have told us something helpful." Shawn said looking between Ashley and Carlton.

"Do all the Spencers explode like that at some point in their life?" Carlton asked.

Ashley and Shawn both turned their heads to glare at him. Ashley put her hands on her hips, "Not helping Carlton!"

"Carlton? Since when is he Carlton?" Shawn asked, is head moving between the two rapidly.

"That's his name Shawn." Ashley replied.

"No. It's Lassie. Carlton? No one calls him Carlton." Shawn said dumbfounded.

"I'm sure many people call him by his name!"

"Yeah, probably his mother!" Shawn argued.

"Okay, that's enough!" Carlton said stepping in.

Suddenly, Juliet and Gus walked out of the building. Both had confused looks on their faces. Ashley quickly felt a wave of nausea. This was too much at once.

"What's going on? What the hell happened in there?" Juliet asked as they reached them.

"Ms. Spencer got a call from her boyfriend and he's apparently now somehow connected to the case." Carlton replied with his arms crossed.

Ashley noted the tone of annoyance in his voice when he said the word "boyfriend". No one else seemed to pick up on it though. Juliet still looked confused, however Gus appeared more concerned.

"So what's the plan? Find everything we can about this guy and track him down?" Juliet asked.

"There's nothing to know. He's some guy from London. He's never even been to America much less Santa Barbara! Sure he was an asshole, but he's not a serial killer!" Ashley said in disbelief.

"Alright, alright." Carlton stepped in, "I'll take Ms. Spencer here home and why don't the three of you go down to the police station and I'll…"

"No. Why do I have to go home, I can handle…"

"Ashley, that's what you said when you got here! See how well that turned out! You need to go home and let yourself accept the fact that your boyfriend…"

"EX-boyfriend." Ashley interrupted.

"... is now a suspect of multiple murder cases."

"No, it's not like that..."

"It is like that! Spencer will you please talk to your sister." Carlton asked.

Ashley turned to look and Shawn and gave him a desperate look. She needed him to take her side on this. There couldn't be anyway Logan was involved, because then she was involved. That wasn't why she came back to Santa Barbara. She came back to have a more simple life. If they were right about this then it was sure as hell not simple.

"Ash', please. I don't… Just please go with him." Shawn pleaded.

Ashley noticed the look of concern on Shawn's face. Spencers were stubborn, she knew that. There was no way he was going to let her stay if that meant danger or anything of the sort. At the present moment she knew better than to try and argue with him.

"Alright. Fine." She replied stepping toward Carlton's car. She silently got in the passenger seat and shut the door.

"Lassie just please…"

"I will Spencer. Nothing will happen to her on my watch." Carlton replied, putting his hand on Shawn's shoulder.

Shawn just nodded as Carlton walked up to Juliet.

"Find everything you can on this guy."

Juliet nodded. Carlton opened the car door and drove away.

Juliet and Shawn sat at the police station at her desk, waiting for more information from Carlton about Ashley's mysterious ex-boyfriend. Gus had said he needed to get back to his job seeing as he had been gone so long. Shawn had put up a fight, but in the end agreed there was no point in three of them sitting around waiting for more info on Logan. Shawn was currently looking down, fiddling with his fingers. Juliet stared ahead, tapping her pen against the desk.

"Shawn, I'm sure he's probably not even involved." Juliet finally said.

"Yes Jules, but what if he is!" Shawn said looking up at her with a desperate stare.

"Then we find him and stop him Shawn." Juliet said grabbing his hand.

"No. Juliet, if he's involved then Ashley's in danger. If he's… Then Ashley's been with him for so long! I don't know how long they were together but he would have information on her, he would have been using her… he could have killed her! He still might."

Juliet scooted her chair closer, "Shawn. There is no way we are going to let that happen. We will keep someone with her at all times. We will keep her safe, Shawn," she placed her hand on his cheek, "I promise."

Shawn smiled at her and leaned in so their faces were inches away, "Thanks Jules, I love…"

"O'hara."

Both Shawn and Juliet snapped back and looked up to see Chief Vick staring at them with a hard expression, arms crossed.

"Um Chief…" Juliet started.

"We were just discussing the case." Shawn interrupted.

"Do you have to be so close to talk about it?" She asked.

"We were just speaking quietly Chief."

"Quietly? And why, Mr. Spencer, did you find it necessary to whisper any information you might have on these cases?"

"It's proper etiquette to whisper in a library Chief."

"I don't know if you've noticed, but this is a police station. Not a library."

"Oh yeah," Shawn replied, pretending to look around in wonder, "Sorry."

"Have either of you made any actual progress on this case today, or has it all been a complete waste of the department's time and money?"

"We're just waiting on a bit of information from Carlton and then we'll get a hit up on our first lead." Juliet replied.

"Better happen soon O'hara." The Chief warned.

"Yes Chief, it will." Juliet nodded.

The Chief gave a questioning look toward Shawn before walking back into her office.

Juliet let out a breath and put her face in her hands. Shawn seemed oblivious to the whole thing and scooted his chair closer, once again leaning in.

"Now where were we?" He asked quirking his eyebrows.

"Shawn!" She said, swatting him away, "A library? Seriously?"

"I'm sorry, I was so distracted!"

"By what?"

"You."

Juliet seemed taken aback for a moment then smiled, "You're unbelievable."

"You love it." Shawn said giving her a quick kiss, lingering for a moment after.

"Shawn stop it! We have work to do."

"We technically don't until we get this guy's info so…" Shawn said moving in again.

Suddenly Juliet's phone went off and she quickly turned to answer it as Shawn slammed his hand on the desk in annoyance, "Dammit Lassie."

Hope you liked it! A little hint of Shules in there for you.

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