Hi guys!
So I think I have two chapters left after this. When I write I tend to just write anything and everything that comes into my mind so the main story is practically over but I hope you still like it!
Enjoy!
A week later Juliet had been discharged from the hospital. She had been diagnosed with a panic disorder, which explained the passing out that night in her car. The doctors had said that if she took good care of herself and took some medicine the first couple of weeks, she would be fine.
Both Shawn and Juliet was relieved to hear that she was going to be fine and now they were taking all of their time planning on Shawn moving in with Juliet.
"Shawn, I'm fine."
He had been fussing over her and insisting on her being wheeled out to the parking lot in a wheelchair.
"Just because my leg is in a cast doesn't mean I can't walk. I have crutches for a reason."
"Come on Jules, we both know your balance is very bad and walking with crutches may make you get another cast."
"Come on, I won the roller skates competition four years ago."
"You know I was traumatized by a roller skate championship in my youth. It isn't my fault I lost."
Juliet laughed but finally agreed on sitting in the wheelchair.
"So where are we going? Who's home?" Juliet asked awkwardly when they sat down in the car.
"I'll take you home, go home and pack up my things and come home to you."
"Oh come on, I'll come with you. It'll be boring to be home alone."
Shawn nodded and leaned in to kiss her but Juliet reminded him:
"Eyes on the road Shawn."
"Sorry, but you are blinding me with your beauty."
In Shawn's apartment, Juliet helped him pack his stuff.
"Shawn, you know you have a lot of useless stuff. I mean look."
She held up a pillow shaped like Curt Smith's head.
"What is this?"
"Oh I almost forgot about that. I was going to have Curt sign it when we met him, but I forgot."
Two hours later they were done packing all the small stuff. They were going to come back for his favorite armchair, and his collection of home-made plates (from when he lived in a plate factory) tomorrow.
They drove home to Juliet and left the boxes in the hallway. It was late and they were tired and Juliet was beginning to experience the side-effects from the medicine. She was laying on the couch with a plate of food untouched in front of her.
"Sweetheart, aren't you going to eat something?" Shawn said, stroking her hair.
"No I don't feel so good, I think it's just that I haven't be up and walking in a long time."
"Just eat something. Do you want a toast?"
Juliet shook her head slowly to prevent her nausea.
"No, thank you." She swallowed and continued.
"I just want to snuggle up with you in bed and go to sleep."
Shawn helped her up and led her to her bedroom where he helped her to get in a pair of pyjamas and then changed himself. He tucked Juliet in and kissed her forehead and before he got into bed himself she had fallen asleep. Shawn smiled and stroked her hair until he fell asleep himself.
The next morning they both woke up at eleven o'clock. Juliet woke up first when she felt a wave of the dreaded nausea hit her. She bolted out of bed and hurried into the bathroom to empty her stomach. Shawn woke up just when she ran past her and he went after her.
"Honey, you okay?" He held her long hair back and stroked her back gently.
"Y..yes. I'm fine. Just..the medicine." She sat down on the bathroom floor and leaned back on Shawn and breathed heavily.
"Do you want to get back in bed?" Shawn asked her gently trying to hide his grumbling stomach.
"No, just go and get some breakfast. I'll stay here for a while." She smiled at him and Shawn hesitantly went to find some food. Juliet leaned forward again and emptied her stomach one more time before deciding that she didn't have any more in her stomach so she shuffled back to bed to close her eyes for a few seconds.
Shawn opened the kitchen cabinets in search of some food that didn't require cooking since he didn't think Juliet would appreciate him burning her (or their) house down. After a while he found some cereal and milk so he got out a bowl and started pouring the milk in his cereal. A few bites later he heard a thump coming from Juliet's bedroom. He ran into her room to see Juliet on the floor laughing and crying at the same time.
"Jules! What happened?!"
Juliet turned her head to Shawn and started laughing even more. Shawn helped her back in bed and started checking to see if she was okay. Once she had calmed down she said:
"I was trying to reach my crutches and get to the kitchen without help to prove to you that I could get around without help. But I fell."
The tears still were running down her cheeks but she started laughing again. Shawn looked confused and started examining her again to check for injuries.
"Shawn stop! I'm fine. I just fell on my broken leg, but it's okay now." She pushed Shawn's hand away and dried her tears with her pyjama sleeve. Shawn kissed her cheek and said:
"Well Ms I-can-do-it-myself, care for some breakfast?"
After breakfast and lunch Shawn went to get some groceries and Juliet went around the house and just thinking. She washed the dishes and made their bed. When she sat down to get some rest, she suddenly remembered that she hadn't given Shawn his Christmas present. She dived in her closet and eventually found an old shoebox with all the things that was most important to her, including photos of her with her parents, childhood pictures, and diplomas from her time in the academy.
Her heart jumped over a beat when she saw what was at the bottom of the box.
She took it out and smiled widely when she looked at the picture in her hands. Shawn and Gus
(Though hidden under a bird costume) posing for a picture. She remembered that day like it was yesterday. Shawn had gone undercover for the Thunderbirds and after he had solved the case they let him run in with the team in the beginning of one of the games. Juliet had come to watch and remembered thinking that he looked very good in the tight pants.
That was one the earliest things she had gathered from him.
She smiled again and continued searching for what she was looking for.
Eventually she found Shawn's present. It was wrapped in a yellow wrapping with pineapples on it. She never knew why he had this obsession with pineapples and when she asked him, he always answered that it was because of its delicious flavor and that it was the international welcoming fruit. In her opinion that didn't explain a lot but she had let it go. She did like pineapples and she had learned that when it came to Shawn, she just had to let things go when she didn't get a proper answer.
She put the present beside her and shoved the shoebox back in the end of her closet, before pulling herself up to a standing position and then putting his present on their bed.
She left her crutches in the bedroom and jumped to the living-room, turning the TV on and laying down on the couch. Luckily she didn't feel sick anymore and she could concentrate on the TV.
"I'm home!" Shawn called when he came back from the store.
"I'm in here!" Juliet said, still watching the TV. When Shawn came in the room, She turned her head and stood up to help him put the things away. As soon as she saw his face she said:
"I'm helping."
Together they put all the foods, and Juliet's medicines away and then Juliet took his hand and led him to their bedroom.
"What is it?" Shawn said and his face changed from confused to a child on Christmas when he saw the gift on the bed.
"Is this for me?"
Juliet laughed and nodded. He looked so cute when he got all excited about small things like this.
Shawn sat down on the bed and told her to sit down beside him, before starting to shake the gift to find out what it was.
"Open it." she urged him. He gave her a kiss before ripping the wrapping paper of the box.
He pulled up a home-made quilt with pineapple motives in different colors. His whole face lit up and he threw himself on Juliet and covered her in kisses.
"Shawn, stop it!" She said between laughs.
Shawn stopped and wrapped himself in the blanket.
"Did you make this? It's the beautifullest things I've ever seen!"
Juliet laughed and went in to correct him, but changed her mind when she saw how happy he looked.
"Remember when I went to visit my mom? She helped me to make it."
"I'm going to sleep with this tonight. This is my new best friend. I just hope Gus doesn't take this to hard."
Their happy moment was interrupted by the home phone.
"Juliet." She said when she answered.
"Oh hi Carlton! I'm fine. No seriously. Tomorrow? Sure, just have to check with Shawn."
She looked up and said:
"We're not doing anything tomorrow at lunchtime right?"
"No" Shawn answered.
"Okay" she put the phone back to her ear and continued.
"Yes. At twelve. Right. See you there. Say hello to Marlowe for me, bye!"
"We're going to Lassie's tomorrow? Can I bring my new friend?"
"Maybe, if you're nice." Juliet kissed him and went to heat some frozen pizza for dinner.
In my head Juliet is a good sewer and I have never read a fanfiction that has Juliet give Shawn a pineapple quilt so I guess that's why I wrote it :-)