Hello lovelys! So… I have sacrificed my sleep to get this up, because I love holidays, and this used to be my favourite holiday when I was a kid. It's an Italian holiday that I haven't celebrated in years! It is celebrated the 6th of January.

Consider this a fair warning! It starts off a little dark… not entirely sure how that happened, but it gets light and fluffly really quickly.

So enjoy this different holiday (that I'm not sure other countries celebrate…) and of course, don't forget to review!

It had been a crazy past couple weeks for the Psych duo. They had their first private case in what seemed like months. This time, it was one they really couldn't involve the police, much of an annoyance as it was to a certain pharmaceutical salesman. It had also caused a big fight between Shawn and Juliet, as the detective felt that Shawn was keeping another secret from her. While technically that was true, he was keeping his client's secret from her, it wasn't quite the secret Juliet had in mind. After a couple days of talking, the detective finally accepted that she couldn't expect Shawn to reveal his client's secrets.

Their latest client, one Chiara Formicello, was an Italian, born and raised. She had moved to Los Angeles when she was seventeen, after a man promised her a future in show business. The Formicello family didn't have a lot of money. In fact, Chiara's youngest brother could barely afford his books for class, and this was after Chiara had dropped out of school and got a job. This man who promised fame and fortune was her and her family's ticket out of poverty and into the good life.

It was only when she arrived in California that she realised that when he said "show business" he actually meant strip clubs.

She had gone along with it, only because she had nowhere to go. She had no home, not a penny to her name and he had stolen her passport. It wasn't until Grace, Chiara's only friend and guide through her whole ordeal, had mysteriously disappeared that the Italian decided to put a stop to the whole madness that had overtaken her life. She tried to go to the police before, but there was nothing they could do about her situation, and since then she never trusted them.

Chiara had read in the papers of a psychic detective only a couple hours away who had a near perfect solve rate. So, she skipped work and hitch hiked her way to Santa Barbara and pick locked her way into the Psych office. She certainly gave Shawn and Gus a bigger shock than they had ever gotten before when they opened the doors to their office late at night only to be greeted by a soaking wet young girl, her clothes showing more skin than fabric.

They got her a robe, listened to their story and immediately took her case, despite the fact that she had no money to pay her. They took the case on principle and vowed to get to the bottom of this mess and help this girl out.

Three weeks later, they finally solved the case. They found Grace just in time to save her life and put the bastard that not only kidnapped her, but brought all the girls to America to his strip club in the first place. Chiara got her friend back, got her dignity and finally got her life back.

Already in sunny California and not able to afford a ticket home, Chiara decided to stay and get a steady job. It wasn't even a full week into the new year, and already Chiara's life was taking a huge turn in the right direction.

"Knock, knock" Chiara's voice rang out happily in the Psych office. Shawn and Gus turned to face her, a smile quickly spreading on their face.

"Chiara!" Gus exclaimed happily. "What are you doing here?" Chiara just held out the stockings filled with treats.

"I've come with gifts from La Befana!" She exclaimed, her Italian accent thick as ever.

"The who?" Shawn asked, grabbing the stocking with his name on it anyways.

"La Befana" Chiara said again. "She comes every year on the eve of L'Epifania to give toys and candy to the good children."

Gus dug into his stocking and happily pulled out caramel candy and jelly beans from his stocking. He smiled like a giddy child and ripped open his candy. Shawn, meanwhile, just looked at his candy in shock.

"What the hell is this?" he asked incredulously. Chiara just laughed.

"It's rock candy" she explained. "The good children get candy from La Befana. Bad children get coal."

"Are you calling us children?" Gus asked.

"More importantly, are you saying I've been a bad child?" Shawn asked.

"Yes. And yes."

"Well, I'm offended" Shawn said, his hand flying to his heart.

"You shouldn't be" Gus said.

"Name one bad thing I've done this year" Shawn challenged.

"You lied to the police, you steal my food, you're lazy, you ignore your dad, you're selfish-"

"This year Gus. It's a new year, buddy."

"I was only referring to the last week, Shawn." Shawn tsked loudly and took his rock candy with what little pride he had left. Chiara just laughed at the duo.

"So this woman just comes and gives kids candy?" Gus asks, his mouth full of caramel. "Why would she do that?"

"It's legend" she explained. "La Befana was an old woman who spent her time cleaning. One day, the magi stop at her house, asking for directions to the baby Gesù. She turned them away. Later, she sees a star and believes that that's the way to baby Gesù. She follows the star with gifts to give to the baby, but she gets lost. To this day, she looks for the baby. She visits every house with a child and leaves a gift."

"Well, I'm not sure if that's depressing or cute" Shawn said, putting more rock candy in his mouth. Chiara laughed again.

"It's a time when you can look at the past year and start again new" Chiara said, a small frown spreading on her face as she thought about her past couple months. "It's a chance to start over." Chiara looked down and had a small smile again, but it was clear in her eyes she was still upset.

"Chiara?" the young girl looked up at the duo again and forced her smile to be bigger.

"Auguri, boys" she said happily, then she turned to walk out the door, wanting to be alone.

"Hey, Chiara" Shawn called out. The young girl turned quickly towards the two boys. Shawn threw a stocking of his own towards Chiara, who only just caught it. "Auguri" Shawn said, with a sneaky smile on his face.

"What's this?"

"It's a gift from The Befane" Shawn explained. Chiara raised an eyebrow at his pronunciation. "It's not much, but it's a start." Chiara looked inside the stocking and pulled out a small stack of cash.

"Shawn!" Chiara exclaimed. "I can't-"

"Are you really going to refuse The Befane's gift?" Chiara blinked a few times before she finally ran up to Shawn and pulled him into a big hug.

"Grazie" she whispered in his ear. She pulled away from the hug and started to walk back out the door. "voi due siete meravigliosi. Grazie." Quickly brushing the tears out of her eyes, she quickly walked out the door.

Gus turned towards Shawn.

"How did you know about this holiday?" Gus asked his best friend.

"I used to work at an Italian winery in Toronto. They made a pretty big deal about it." Shawn looked at the rock candy in his hand. "Surprisingly enough, this is the same candy they gave me. I think I'm doubly offended now." Gus rolled his eyes at his friend.

"How much money was in that stocking?"

"A couple hundred." Gus' eyes popped out, then he glared at Shawn.

"You didn't pay the cable bills, did you?"

"Nope."

"Shawn!"