Gus came into the SBPD and ran up to Lassiter and Juliet's desk and asked them if either of them had seen or heard from Shawn. Juliet looked worried and told him no, she hadn't heard from him since the wake for his Dad at the Spencer home.

Gus sat in the chair next to the desk looking almost sick with worry. Lassiter got up from his desk and walked over in front of Gus and asked, "Why are you so worried about Shawn? You don't think that he would do anything to himself do you?"

Gus rubbed his face not knowing how to voice his concern without telling them everything but he decided that this was a desperate situation and maybe they needed to know everything. Gus said, "Listen we need to talk about Shawn, can we go into the conference room?"

Lassiter and Juliet both looked at each other odd but agreed. Juliet signaled for Gus to lead the way. The three sat in the conference room in silence or a moment then Gus began, "You guys know that Shawn and his Dad had a special relationship to say the least."

Lassiter commented, "Yeah I don't think I have ever seen such an over protective father as Henry was and Heaven help you if you had to tell him something happened to Shawn or if you dare do anything to hurt him"

Gus looked at Lassiter, "There is a reason why Henry was so protective of Shawn. That is the same reason I am so worried about him now."

Juliet was getting annoyed and worried, "GUS PLEASE, just tell us why you are worried about Shawn?"

Gus began to tell them about the year that defined the Spencer men.

It was the year 1980-

Shawn was a lively and energetic 3 year old. Henry and Maddie loved him so much. Then in March, Henry was working on a case involving a group of child pornographers. Henry and his partner managed to arrest most of the horrible people that were hurting kids in Santa Barbara. Unfortunately he was not able to capture the two men who ran the group. Those two men decided to get revenge on Henry for ruining their business. They kidnapped Shawn.

Shawn was missing for 3 months. He had his fourth birthday while those maniacs held him. They did horrible things to Shawn. They would take pictures of the horrible things being done to him and send it to Henry, with a note telling him, "These images of Shawn are going out world wide, you may have thought you stopped us, you just gave us a handsome new subject to have fun with".

Henry hardly slept or ate, every minute he was awake was spent looking for Shawn. He would get sick to his stomach every time he got another envelope with picture in it. In that 3 months that they had Shawn they sent Henry a new package every 4 days. Each set of pictures you could tell the abuse the poor kid must have endured.

One night when he pulled in the driveway from work there was a large trash bag on the front porch with a note on it that said, "We are done with him, for now. But he was fun we may be back for more when he gets a little older"

He ripped open the bag and inside was the naked, bloody and beaten Shawn. He was barely alive. Henry wrapped him in a quilt and him and Maddie took him to the hospital. He was in the hospital for a month recovering from his wounds.

He wouldn't let anyone touch him even his Mom. Henry would lie in the bed with a terrified Shawn curled up next to him for hours. It took Shawn a whole year to even start to talk again. Henry made a deal with Shawn. He would be there to protect him if he was brave enough to start to go back to school.

Henry was always there. If someone as much as picked on Shawn, Henry would be there to defend him. I don't think the threat that they might come back and hurt Shawn again ever left his mind.

That was about the time that Henry started to "train" Shawn. He trained him to be hyper observant of his surroundings and he taught him every survival skill he knew. You all heard about the time he locked him in a trunk and taught him how to escape from a moving vehicle. He did everything in his power to either protect him or give him the tools he needed to protect himself.

Henry was always there when Shawn needed him and I mean always, the man would appear out of thin air. I think the man had spies everywhere.

Because his Dad was so protective that gave Shawn the courage he needed to start to live again.

Henry never stopped protecting Shawn like that injured 4-year-old. In a way Shawn never progressed emotionally past that violated 4-year-old. Now that his Dad isn't there to "Protect him" I am really worried what Shawn will do.

Lassiter looked at Gus and asked, "You and Spencer are about the same age, how do you know all of this?"

Gus looked between Juliet and Lassiter, "When Shawn came back and we started Psych, Henry had me come over and he told me everything, he even showed me some of the pictures, they were horrible. He told me that he needed me to help protect Shawn, whether that meant calling him or stopping Shawn from being stupid. Guys, I am really frightened for Shawn, I am not sure how he is going to react now that the man he relied on for protection is gone."

Lassiter looked at O'Hara and then let out a huge sigh, "Gus lets go find Spencer!"