Chapter 15:

Henry Spencer had no idea what was running through his son's mind, well then he never did, but that wasn't the point right now. What was Shawn on to have brought profilers to his office? "Shawn can I talk to you privately?" it wasn't a request and he didn't wait for his son's sarcastic answer as he pulled Shawn by the sleeve to the kitchenette.

"What is this pull Shawn aside day? Who's next? Jules? Lassie?"

"Shawn what in the world are you doing? Are you high or drunk? Bring a bunch of mind-hackers your office? Of all the stupid things in the world…"

"Dad I know what I'm doing"

"No. You don't. And what your doing is going to get both you and Gus sent to federal prison."

"Dad I am not going to have this conversation right now." Shawn walked away before Henry could say anything. He went back to the agents who had been watching the interactions. It was obvious that Mr. Spencer and Shawn had a rocky relationship at best, but Henry really did care about his son and wanted the best for him. "Sorry for that guys. It seems that both my dad and Gus felt it necessary to pull me aside."

"Hey whatever. According to you it IS pull Shawn aside day so…" JJ said

"Smart-ass" Shawn retorted

Gus and Henry stood by each other watching. Just watching and wondering what the hell was going on.

"Garcia did tell you that she's married and has a son right?" Morgan said "I mean not that I don't miss the shameless flirting but…"

"Like your one to talk Mr. Chocolate Thunder"

Gus thought Agent Morgan would punch Shawn for that but the man just put his hands up in mock surrender.

"Got you there" Rossi said

"Plus I'm in a relationship."

"Yeah Garcia told us your dating a detective at the precinct." Reid said

"Yep!" Shawn said excitedly "Juliet is awesome!"

"So you finally got out of the dating scene? You with the changing girls every three weeks?" Emily asked

"Hey Jules and I have been together for a few months."

"What no exact time in hours, minutes and seconds?" JJ teased

"Well if I did that then where would that leave the good doctor?"

"What?" Reid asked

"Exactly." Shawn said "So how's with you on the ladies front?"

"Umm well not many women stick after I open my mouth so…that front is non-existent."

"Dam. I left before teaching you how to use you intellect and profiling to get girls didn't I?"

"Wait you can do that?" Reid tone was astonished much to the amusement of the team

"Of course! How do you think I had a girl so often? You just have to know how the play the situation. I teach you more later."

Henry couldn't take this anymore. "SHAWN DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"

"Dad…" Shawn sighed "Dam I knew this would come out eventually…"

"What is it Shawn?" Gus asked. He was curious about what had his friend so out of it for the past few days while the FBI had been here.

"Uh… remember that time period where I said I was working out on the east coast and you didn't believe me?"

Though the question was meant for his father, Gus was the one who answered "You mean the job you took driving that hot dog truck?"

"Yeah well driving the truck wasn't the only job I had."

"Yeah Shawn. I'm aware. You and your lazy butt moved from job to job for about seven years before you came home five years ago."

"Those jobs were all fake. All thought the hot dog truck was my fav."

"What do you mean?" Gus asked

"I mean they were parts of undercover assignments."

"Undercover? You mean like…"

"Yes dad police work. Not a PI. Real official business."

"You? A cop?"

"No. I wasn't a cop."

"Then what the hell were you?"

"I was a profiler."

Henry and Gus looked at him unbelievingly.

"Shawn?" Gus said uncertainly

"Yes Gus, I was in the FBI. These guys who are being uncharacteristically quiet were my team."

"Okay I have to sit down." Gus said moving toward the couch.

"it's fine. It's a lot to take in."

"So all this time they knew you were faking?" Gus asked

"Yes we did" Rossi answered "The kid really pissed me off with the whole psychic bit though. I really do hate psychics and the kid knows it."

"Yeah Rossi cause the whole world goes out on a limb just to annoy you" Shawn said sarcastically

"It would explain a lot." Rossi said in a mock thoughtful voice.

"Aww. But I thought it was the world's job to get Spencer in trouble."

"Hey don't start on that." Reid said with a hint of a whine in his tone.

"SHAWN!" Gus screamed "Get back on topic! Why didn't you ever tell me?"

Shawn looked at the ground and the profilers shared looks.

"Boss man you wanna take this one?" Shawn looked at Hotch hopefully

Hotch stepped forward. "There was a case five years ago."

"About the time Shawn came back." Henry stated "Sorry. Please continue."

"Yes, well it was a difficult case and while trying to apprehend the unsub we spilt up and looked in different locations. Shawn was sent by me to look at a warehouse, and while inside the place exploded.

"What?!" Gus jumped up "You got my best friend exploded?"

"Oh come on Gus. It's not like we haven't almost blown up before."

"Yeah ALMOST being the key word!"

"You almost blew up while you were here?" Emily asked

"Yeah the guy we were looking for had a bunch of military weapons. He put a pressure sensitive bomb under the couch and Gus and I sat down."

"Get back to the point please." Henry said

Hotch continued "Shawn was in critical condition and the unsub escaped. I feared for his safety so I had him put under witness protection in Illinois and he was pronounced dead."

"Then what is he doing here?" Henry asked

"That's the question of the week with us." Rossi said

They all looked at Shawn expectantly.

"Hey a great magician never reveals his secrets." Shawn said shrugging

"Okay so I understand not telling us you were an agent, but why come back and risk your saftey?"Gus asked

"Oh my safety isn't at risk."

"Yes it is. We still haven't caught the unsub." JJ pointed out

Shawn sighed and walked over to his desk. He opened his draw, took out a file and walked back.

"Meet the unsub that took me out of the field."

The agents looked at the file. The name was different but the information fit the profile of the man they had been looking for. Gus also looked. The file Shawn pulled had the psych label on it so it was one that they had handled. When he saw the name he freaked out.

"Shawn! This file is from the case where you got shot and kidnapped!"

"What?" was the collective response for the agents

"Hey you read all of my files from the SBPD."

"Yeah we read about the crimes not the exact play by play." Emily said

"Even I didn't read it all." Reid chimed in

"Well then yeah I was kidnapped and held hostage. It ended in a car chase where I jumped from the back of a truck onto Lassie's car hood and shot out the guys tires."

"You always were one to take insane risks in the field." Rossi said

"Hey but it worked!"

"Yeah and you were constantly being suspended by Straus for those risks." Hotch put in

"Which I always got overturned the next day."

"Yeah how did you do that?" Emily asked

"Because I'm magic. And because she owed me a bunch of favors."

"Like what?" Morgan asked

"Like not turning her in for trying to use both myself and Emily to spy on Hotch."

"You blackmailed her?" Reid commented

"Yep. Plus it helped that she wanted to keep her job."

"What do you mean?" JJ asked

"The board kept asking me to take her job."

"Wait who is this that we're talking about now?" Gus asked confused

"Section Chief Straus. She's the boss of these guys. They were always trying to get me to take the job and as long as I kept saying no she got to keep her job."

"That's ridiculous." Morgan said "Just out of curiosity why didn't you take the job?"

"Hey Morgan remember curiosity killed the cat" JJ teased

"No, knowledge killed the cat and curiosity got framed for the murder." Shawn said "And I didn't take the job cause I liked working with you guys…"

Shawn was about to say something else when his phone rang. He looked at the id.

"Excuse me I gotta take this one." He pressed the answer button. "Hey Jules. Yeah I fine. You? No Gus and I are at the office just wrapping up some paper work. No you don't have to come down here to pick me up. No it's fine I'll have Gus drive me. Ni I'm not putting Gus out. Okay so I am. Juliet… Okay fine I'll see you then."

Shawn sank back into the couch and groaned.

"Shawn what is it? That's the first time you've ever turned down Juliet to take you anywhere." Gus said

"I'm just worried cause Juliet doesn't know about any of this." Shawn motioned around the room. "You know how she is. She really hates dishonesty and I really don't want to have to tell her that I've been lying to her for five years."

"Shawn we'll take the blame if she gets mad." Emily said

"Yeah. And she should understand why you couldn't tell her the truth. Your life was at risk." JJ put in.

"Yeah I guess." Shawn said "But she's going to want me to tell the chief and that'll leave me out of a job."

"The chief will probably keep you on as a consultant, just not a psychic one." Gus said trying to reassure his friend

"Or you could do what I did" Emily said

"What?" Shawn looked at her

"I came back. I'm sure you could take the reinstatement courses and become an agent again."

"Go back to Quantico." Shawn said

"Yeah." Reid said "You should come back it would be great."

"I don't know guys I mean…" Shawn trailed off. He did like the idea of having his job back, but then he would lose so much too. Juliet, working with Gus, he miss the SBPD, hell not that he'd say it out loud but he'd even miss his dad.

Gus and Henry shared looks. If Shawn wanted to go back who were they to stop him?

"I…I'll think about it." Shawn said

Suddenly they heard the back door opening. Juliet and Lassiter walked through the door.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait! The internet went out in my place! A guy had to come over and fix it. I've had this typed up for a few days and wanted to post it but then I had an influx of tests and I had to study and my sister got sick and then everyone got sick because its winter and its cold and blah! but seriously I'm sorry. luv you all and have happy holidays (if you haven't already celebrated Hanukkah)! R&R! :)