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This is my first fanfic, I've always loved the characters read the story or characters watch the movie fics, but haven't had much luck in finding characters watch their TV show. I thought Psych would be such a good fit for this style because of Shawn's secret, so I decided this needed to be written. I will not be using every single episode of the show, only ones that I feel contain major story arcs, secrets, or just some of my favorite scenes.
POV will be Juliet's, and this is set somewhere around the end of the sixth season, but before the Santabarbaratown episodes. It has been awhile since I've watched these episodes, so there may be mistakes.
Disclaimer: I do not own Psych, all characters and show story lines are not mine.
It was a quiet morning in the Santa Barbara Police Department. There had been little to no cases coming in, so many of the police officers were taking the time to finish their paperwork, albeit begrudgingly.
"That's it O'Hara, I'm calling in McNab." Lassiter slammed down the report he was working on.
His partner rolled her eyes and looked up from her own paperwork. "Carlton, we've already been through this. It's your paperwork, you have to do it."
"But I don't want to." Lassiter whined. "I have more important things to do than waste my time with this grunt work."
"There haven't been any new cases coming in and besides, McNab is on parking ticket duty."
Lassiter grimaced before reluctantly picking his pen back up, missing the bemused look of his partner. It had been a long week for everyone at the station, even Juliet was starting to feel the cabin fever. She sat back in her chair, idly twirling her pen as her mind wandered. What she'd give to have a case right now, to get out the office and have a new mystery to sink her teeth into. Maybe she'd even see Shawn.
Shaking her head at her own thoughts, Juliet sat back up and glanced again at Carlton as if to see he hadn't caught onto her thoughts. The other detective was now furiously scribbling into his report, hoping to finish it as soon as he could. Juliet shook her head again and poised her pen over the paper. She knew it was silly to think Carlton could sense her thoughts, the only person she knew that could do something like that was Shawn. Juliet subconsciously leaned back in her chair again as she thought about SBPD's consulting psychic. He definitely would liven up the room, but Juliet wasn't sure if Carlton's temper would handle Shawn on top of his pile of paperwork. Juliet sighed as she daydreamed about her boyfriend, some days she was in awe of his powers while other days she couldn't believe he was so childish. But she loved him.
"O'Hara, Lassiter, we've got something." Chief Karen Vick called out, startling Juliet out of her reverie. From the sound of worry in the Chief's voice, something big was happening.
"Yes." Lassiter did a fist pump in the air before launching himself into the Chief's office, leaving Juliet to follow after.
"What is it Chief? A homicide? A double homicide? A serial killer?" Lassiter was so animated he didn't take a seat, preferring to pace as he offered up more suggestions.
Chief Vick sat down and stared at him disapprovingly. "Detective Lassiter sit down. This isn't a case." Lassiter slumped into the seat next to Juliet, looking like a scolded five-year old. The Chief looked at both detectives and sighed before pulling out a package and placing it on her desk. "Honestly, I'm not sure what this is. Someone came in and gave this package to the front desk, we opened it and found a DVD case with a sticky note on it. The sticky note was addressed to me."
Lassiter had opened the package and took out the case while Karen spoke, reading the note out loud, "To Chief Karen Vick, please gather everyone on my list and watch this video. It should help you in the future." Lassiter scoffed and tossed the case back on the desk and got up to leave, while Juliet picked it up to look at the note. "Chief, this is probably just some stupid kid's idea of a joke." He dismissed.
"But Carlton, look at the names listed," Juliet said. "Carlton Lassiter, Juliet O'Hara, Shawn Spencer, Burton Guster, and Henry Spencer. That's an odd set of names for some prank. I think we should watch it, unless you want to go back to paperwork of course"
Lassiter paused and sat back down. "Well I guess you do have a point O'Hara, and besides there's no harm in watching it. In fact, why don't we start right now?"
Juliet smiled in victory.
"Not so fast. We need to get Shawn, Gus, and Henry down here." Karen said.
"But why? It's not like someone's going to be watching us to make sure we follow the rules. And besides, I bet that this whole thing is just a joke from Spencer." Carlton argued.
"I've already called them, they should be here soon." Karen countered. "I also had a video room set up with enough chairs for everyone. If you'll follow me?" The two detectives followed their chief into the hallway, one curious and the other grumbling under his breath.
Just as they left the Chief's office, a voice called out to them, "Karen, what's this about a DVD? I have other things to do." Juliet turned and waited as Henry Spencer caught up to them, smiling at him as he passed her to walk with Karen.
"I know Henry, I just want to make sure this isn't something we should be worried about." Karen placated. They continued over to the video room while she explained the mysterious package and the note demanding they all watch the video.
Henry sighed as he sat down in the chair closest to the door. "Why am I not surprised Shawn's in the middle of this?" Lassiter just scowled and sat down, Juliet sitting to his right.
"Did I hear my name?" A voice came from the doorway. Juliet turned to see Shawn carrying three smoothies with his trademark grin on his face. Gus followed him, also carrying three smoothies.
"Mr. Spencer, you are late." Karen looked down her nose at Shawn, who only grinned wider.
"We ran to get pineapple smoothies and what do you know, they were buy one get one free. We had to get one for everyone." Gus gave one to Juliet and tried to give one to Lassiter, who just glared at him.
"We don't want your stupid smoothie Spencer, you're wasting our time." Lassiter growled.
Shawn shrugged and fell into the seat next to Juliet. "More for me then."
"Dude, I told you we should have just come here." Gus admonished his friend as he sat between him and Henry.
Shawn just rolled his eyes. "Gus don't be a dentist handing out toothbrushes on Halloween. Pineapple smoothies are a necessity." Juliet smiled at the friendly banter took a sip of her smoothie. It really was a good smoothie. She looked sideways at Shawn who winked at her as if he knew what she was thinking before he also directed his attention towards the Chief.
"Right, just so we're all on the same page," Karen began. She gave a brief overview of how they were given a package that had their names on it, instructing them to watch a video. "We are watching the video to see if it has anything that should concern us. If it doesn't, we'll just stop it and throw it away."
"What if it does?" Juliet asked.
"Well, I guess we'll have to find out." Karen replied before hitting play.
I'm not sure what my updating schedule will be like, probably somewhere between one and two weeks between each chapter. The only exception will be next chapter, it's already written and I'm just proof reading and adjusting things so it will be up in the next day or so.
Please review and tell me what you liked, what you didn't like, or anything I should change. Also, I know that many of the characters reading the books stories were taken down for violating the rules of this site, I'm not sure if this is the same for my story since you can google show transcripts and they're readily available for free. I currently have some parts of the transcript in my next chapter, and if anyone can give me advice for this so I can either edit out the transcript or just post it as is I would appreciate it!
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