Happy new year guys! This is the last day before school starts again for me. This term is the hardest in Sweden with National tests and such. So I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to write new chapters/stories. Wish me good luck! In the meantime, enjoy this chapter and please review or something! Even if you don't like my story. I don't have anyone reading my anything I write so constructive criticism is great!
Enjoy!
Juliet settled in her car and threw her jacket in the back seat to make room for Shawn. She buckled her seat belt and positioned her hand under her chin while waiting for Shawn to finish whatever he was doing. She closed her eyes for a moment and when she opened them again, Shawn was standing outside smiling with a paper bag and two smoothies in his hands. She smiled at him and unlocked the car door for him. He climbed in and handed her a smoothie and the bag.
"Thanks Shawn." She said and peeked inside.
"I just happen to know you're a fan of delicious flavor."
She smiled at him but didn't say anything else. Shawn drank his smoothie but Juliet just put her smoothie in the cup holder next to her and drove back to the station. She dropped him off at the station and debated if she should go inside and finish some paperwork but when she saw the Chief's shadow in the window, she decided that it probably wasn't a good idea so she drove home.
At the SPBD station, Shawn was waiting outside Chief Vick's office. He stared wishfully at the snacks table where an officer was putting out donuts. He was just about to go and get one, when the door opened and Lassiter came out.
"Lassie my friend! How are you?" Shawn walked up to the angry looking detective and gave him a hug.
"Spencer, let me go. I have work to do." He watched as Lassiter sat down at his desk and started working, and then remembered why he was here and knocked on Chief Vick's door. He waited until he heard a "come in" and opened the door.
"Hi Mr Spencer. What can I do for you?" Chief Vick looked up from her computer.
"Please, sit down."
Shawn sat down in the chair Chief Vick was pointing at and wondered how he would continue.
He glanced at Chief Vick who was sitting with her hands clutched in front of her.
"Um... It's Jules. I talked to her today and, I don't know, I just feel like something is wrong." He opened his mouth to say something else but then decided against it.
Chief Vick thought for a minute and then said, "She wants to continue working. I tried talking to her but she's a stubborn person." Chief Vick added with a smile.
"I have already talked to Detective Lassiter and he is going to make sure she doesn't wear herself out."
Shawn nodded and straightened out his legs. He stood up and nodded again before giving Chief a smile and saying, "Yes Chief. I actually came here for a certain check I was promised."
Chief Vick shook her head and opened a drawer and pulled out a rectangular paper.
Finally home, Juliet was bored. She didn't have any work with her and she wasn't hungry so she couldn't cook something. Now she was sitting on her couch flipping through the channels on the TV without actually watching anything. All that was on her mind was Why? Why did this happen? Why did Yin and Yang do this? Why did they attack her? And foremost: Why couldn't she bounce back like she always had before?
Juliet took off her high-heeled shoes, went into her bedroom and pulled an old t-shirt and pajama pants from under her pillow. She changed her clothes quickly and then stretched out on the bed and pulled the covers over herself. If she couldn't do anything useful and everything she could think of was stupid questions with even more stupid answers, she could at least try to sleep a bit.
She closed her eyes only to open them ten minutes later. She sat up and rested her head on her knees and closed her eyes again. Once she did that she felt how tired she really was, but she just couldn't sleep. She desperately tried to will her mind to think about something else than that night on the clock-tower. Anything else would be great. But somehow every time she let herself relax her mind, Yin's covered face popped up and she was dangling with her feet on top of the tower. Was she ever going to forget it? Juliet started to seriously question what everyone had been trying to tell her.
Everything is going to be fine.
No it wasn't. Everything was not going to be fine. If it was she should be starting to feel normal again. She had heard, hell, she knew people that had been going through worse things and had been okay the two days after. But it seemed like the harder she tried to forget, the stronger the images became engraved in her mind. She finally leaned back on her pillow and pulled the covers back on. Shifting once or twice to get in a more comfortable position, she told herself,
"O'Hara, pull yourself together. Just go to sleep." And fifteen minutes later, she fell asleep.
"You know, I really wish I didn't have to do this."
Yin laughed softly and secured the rope around her wrists.
Juliet trembled so bad but she tried to keep herself calm. The tears she felt burning her eyes a few minutes ago, were gone. Instead her eyes felt dry and were stinging.
"You're a cop O'Hara. You're suppose to be brave and protect innocent people. Well, you did. You told Shawn to save Abigail." She tried desperately to build up the courage to be the cop she dreamed of being when she was younger. Her speech to herself worked until she mentioned Shawn and Abigail. She liked him. A lot. It killed her that she couldn't tell him that. It killed her every time she saw Shawn and Abigail together, they looked genuinely happy when they looked at each other. She was so in her own mind that she had almost forgotten about Yin. Unfortunately Yin noticed that too because he pulled her by the hair so her head was forced back. Juliet forced herself to look at the buildings in front of her. She could feel his breathe on her face as he spoke.
"You miss him don't you? Unfortunately he can't come for you Missy." He chuckled and continued,
"No, you told Shawn to save Abigail instead. I bet he's looking for her right now. I'm sorry I have to go, I'd hate to miss the action. Not that things here aren't going to get interesting." He laughed again and stepped away from Juliet. She heard him do something behind her and she was certain she was going to drop any second, but she was confused when she heard his steps fade away.
"This is it. I'm dying." She tried to get a bit of fresh air but her mouth was covered by a gag. She couldn't breathe. She gasped and tried to calm herself but all she could think of was how the SBPD would find her. Probably on the ground with broken bones, dead. Dead, she was going to die. She could feel her heart pulsating with the clock behind her. Suddenly she heard something in the distance. It sounded like sirens. She stretched her neck and saw cruisers racing towards the clock-tower. Or, she assumed the cars were racing. From where she was it looked like the cars were creeping towards her. Everything felt like slow-motion to her. Suddenly she felt something tugging behind her. The rope that was keeping her from falling down, was slowly letting go. Thread by thread, the rope was falling apart. Before she could even turn her head, the rope snapped and she fell. Behind her, she could hear the voice of her partner screaming her name. Too late, he was a second too late.
The last part was obviously a dream. The first part of the dream was what actually happened, but then Juliet's imagination takes over. Like I said before, please review. It only takes a minute and it makes me put on songs from Psych: the Musical and dance and sing along :-) Thank you!
