A/N
I feel like I blinked and two months went by...
I'm sorry for the wait, and that this isn't an episode chapter. I've had a lot going in my life that's taken my time away from writing and then this chapter just wouldn't come out right at all. I took a break, got my inspiration back and wrote this chapter.
In the last chapter, it was pointed out to me that someone should've asked where these videos came from, and they should be searching for them. This is something that I had thought about in the prologue and then totally forgot about as I went on. So, to fix this I wrote this chapter as an intermission where we can see some of the investigation into who sent the videos, and I will be doing some minimal editing to the previous chapters to fit this in and fix some other issues I noticed. I will be working on editing as well as the next episode chapter so it may be awhile for me to finish everything and post it all.
Thank you to everyone who has favorited/followed/reviewed, you guys are great and I love all of the episode suggestions you're giving me.
Juliet's POV
Disclaimer: All characters and show story lines do not belong to me.
"Hey Shawn, can we talk?" Juliet asked as everyone started to leave the room.
Shawn looked at her surprised before shoving his hands in his pockets. "Yeah, sure."
Juliet waited until everyone left the room, using the time to organize her thoughts. When the door finally shut, Juliet took a deep breath and looked at Shawn. His hands were still in his pockets, and his shoulders were hunched. She could tell by the way that he refused to meet her eyes that he was nervous, and he kept shuffling his feet around.
"Look Shawn." She began. "I know I promised you that I wouldn't make any judgments until after the video was over-"
"Can I just say something first?" Shawn interrupted. Juliet sighed and nodded, prompting Shawn to continue. "I know this has been hard for you to watch me lie to you repeatedly, and in the beginning I never thought I would ever come clean. But as the years went by and we got closer, there's been so many times that I've wanted to tell you the truth. And I know that doesn't make what I did right-"
"Shawn, we've been over this." Juliet reached out and pulled his hands out of his pockets and held them.
"What are you-"
"Shawn." Juliet took a deep breath and looked into his eyes. "I've spent almost the entire time watching this video trying to stay angry and hurt, but I just keep watching you help other people with this gift you have and it's amazing. And I've seen what it's been like for you between the pressure from us to solve cases and how much you enjoy being a detective. I just can't stay angry at you."
"Jules-" Shawn breathed, a spark of hope igniting in his eyes.
Juliet shook her head. "Let me finish. If we're right about what kind of cases are being picked, then I know there are going to be some that are difficult for all of us to watch. We might watch you get shot, or when your mother was kidnapped, and in almost all of them you or Gus get injured somehow. I know it's stupid because you're sitting right next to me, but every time that happens I just get scared that you're not okay-" At this point, all of the frustration of the day was pouring out of Juliet, scrambling her brain so much that she wasn't even sure what she was saying anymore but she was gripped with the need to just keep talking.
"Jules." Shawn cut her off, pulling her into a tight hug. She didn't realize how much she had missed Shawn, missed the feeling of safety she had when she was with him. In that moment, Juliet knew that despite all of the heartache Shawn's lies had caused, she simply couldn't keep up her frosty demeanor towards him. Being able to get all of her thoughts and feelings off of her chest left her feeling empty, but peaceful. All of the swirling emotions that had been present since this morning died down and in this moment it was just her and Shawn.
She wrapped her arms around Shawn, wishing that they could just stay like this. "I love you." She mumbled into his torso.
Shawn kissed the top of her head. "I love you too."
Juliet pulled back and looked at the screen, noticing they only had four minutes left before the next clip started. "We should get the others."
Shawn nodded. "Yeah we should." He let go of her, turning to leave the room.
"Wait." Juliet grabbed his hand and followed him, unwilling to let him go just yet.
As they entered the hallway, they came face to face with Henry who quirked up an eyebrow at the pair.
"Are you finally done then?" Henry asked.
"What?" Shawn gaped. "I don't-"
Henry pushed off of the wall he was leaning on. "I opened the door to see how much time we had left and the two of you looked cozy so I left you alone."
Juliet watched a blush creep up Shawn's neck as her own face felt pretty hot. "Do you know where the others are?" She asked, trying to act nonchalant.
"They didn't walk in on you." Henry smirked. "I'm the only one who's been by, I don't know where everyone else is."
"We should go find them." Juliet said.
As the trio turned to go down the hallway, Lassiter appeared. "Spencer, we need you to look at a suspect." He barked.
"What? We really have a case going on right now?" Shawn asked as they followed the detective towards the interrogation rooms.
Lassiter rolled his eyes. "We caught the kid that dropped off the video this morning."
"You caught who did this?" Juliet asked, questions swirling in her head. Did they know him? How did he get the videos? Why did he send them?
"No." Lassiter denied. "It seems as though he's just the messenger, but we want to know if you've ever seen him before."
They entered the observation room, seeing Gus already waiting for them. In the interrogation room was a guy, maybe eighteen, handcuffed to the table. He had dark hair, but his eyes were closed and he was slumped in his chair. Juliet watched as Carlton entered the room, and sat across from the mystery kid.
"Your name is Maximus." Lassiter started.
"Call me Max." The kid interjected.
Carlton glared at Max before continuing. "According to your statement, a man came up to you and offered you money to deliver a package to the Santa Barbara Police Department."
"Yeah, that's right."
"What did this man look like?"
Max rolled his eyes. "I don't know. Old."
"Anything else?" Carlton clenched his fists.
Max shrugged. "He had brown hair, wore glasses."
"What about height?"
"Tall."
"Define tall." Carlton growled.
"Do I look like a ruler to you, man?" Max complained.
"I don't think you even know how to use a ruler." Carlton responded.
"Wow, this kid's doing a better job than I do at making Lassie mad." Shawn commented. "Do you think I could top him if I went in and congratulated him?"
Juliet rolled her eyes. "I don't think that should be a goal Shawn."
"Yeah, and you don't need to give Lassiter any more reasons to shoot you, man." Gus added.
"Fair enough." Shawn shrugged. "I've never seen that kid before though." Gus, Henry and Juliet all agreed that they had never seen Max before either.
"Taller than you." Max finally answered.
"That'll be it for now." Carlton got up and started to leave the room.
"Hey man, when do I get to leave?" Max called.
Lassiter didn't bother responding, growling under his breath as he left the room. He entered the observation room, still glaring at Max through the one way mirror.
"Do any of you recognize him?" He asked.
"No, we haven't seen him before." Juliet answered, disappointed that her questions wouldn't be answered any time soon.
"We figured he was telling the truth, the Chief is pulling in the sketch artist to try to get whoever actually did this." Carlton said.
"We should probably get back to the video room then." Gus suggested.
"Oh no!" Juliet exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Carlton asked.
"There was only four minutes on the timer when Shawn and I left to get you guys, it's probably already started." She explained.
"We should get going then." Henry decided. The five of them left the observation room, and as they walked Juliet grabbed Shawn's hand again, feeling more ready for the next case than she had been for the others. She knew that whatever happened, they would be there for each other.
A/N
Finally Shawn and Juliet make up! I don't really take Juliet's character as one to hold a grudge and with the episodes coming up they'll need each other. I hope you liked the interrogation scene, and maybe caught on to the Maximus reference?
Review and tell me what you liked or didn't like!
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