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Day 24: X - Xylophone.- Shawn and Juliet

[Link to the challenge here.]

[There aren’t many x words.]

**Post-Psych 2: Lassie Come Home**

Shawn grins as they walk through the toy section of Target. They’re currently looking for a birthday present to give Gus and Selene’s son, Charlie, for his first birthday. He loved that kid. Charlie was a mini-Gus and if Shawn had to choose two people that the world needed more of, Gus would be one, and Juliet would be the other.

“Hey! What about this?” Shawn exclaims, pulling something off the shelf.

“Really? A xylophone for a one-year-old?” Juliet asks skeptically.

“Come on, Jules. Gus is already teaching him how to tap dance! A xylophone wouldn’t really be out of the question.”

“It’s not on the list that Gus and Selene sent out, though, Shawn.”

“We can get Charlie two things. The xylophone and something from the list.”

“Why do you want to get Charlie a xylophone so bad?”

“I don’t know. It just seems like something a one-year-old would like. Plus there are no little pieces that Charlie could choke on! And xylophone is really fun to say!”

“Ah, what the hell. Get him the xylophone, but it’s only from you.”

Shawn grins widely, depositing the toy into the basket. He presses his lips to Juliet’s cheek, and then grabs her free hand.

“Why don’t we actually look for something on the list they sent us?” Juliet asks.

“Okay,” Shawn says.

They walk quietly through the store, until they reach the kids’ clothing section. Shawn doesn’t quite understand why clothing makes an exciting birthday gift. Then again, he had been thrilled about the jeans from Despereaux. Of course, he was usually broke and if he wanted to buy jeans, he’d have needed to borrow Gus’s credit card.

“What about this?” Juliet asks, holding up a tiny green t-shirt that has a dinosaur on it.

“We should get him a psychphransico shirt!” Shawn exclaims.

“Shawn, Charlie’s birthday is a week away. Maybe we could do that for Christmas. Should we get him a space shirt instead?”

“Sure. Just not a solar system shirt. Gus’ll whine that there’s no Pluto.”

“Yeah. I think I saw a shirt with an astronaut on it.”

“Let’s do it! Gus’ll like it and so will Selene.”

Juliet drops the tiny gray t-shirt into the basket. Shawn takes a moment to kiss her. It escalates rather quickly as they haven’t had much time together in the previous few weeks.

“Hey, Shawn, let’s not do this here,” Juliet says, pushing Shawn gently.

“Aw, Jules,” Shawn whines slightly.

“Shawn, we’re in the middle of the baby section in a Target. I’d rather not deal with the dirty looks.”

“Ok. Let’s go pay. We don’t need anything else other than the xylophone and the shirt, right?”

“Not that I can think of.”

~About one week later, at Charlie Guster’s first birthday party~

“A xylophone? You bought my son a xylophone?” Gus asks indignantly.

“Hey! You never said we couldn’t go off list!” Shawn exclaims, glaring (without malice) at his best friend.

“It was implied!”

“Suck it, Gus!”

“You suck it!”

“Guys, you’re arguing in front of a bunch of people, most of whom don’t spend a lot of time with the two of you,” Juliet says, interrupting before Shawn and Gus could get into a full-blown argument, which usually involved them hitting one another.

“Give it up, O’Hara. Anyone who spends more than two minutes with your idiot husband and Guster knows that they argue,” Carlton says.

“Just because he acts like an idiot sometimes, doesn’t give you the right to call him my idiot husband.” She catches Carlton opening his mouth and interrupts him before he can say anything. “And yes, I know you don’t really care for one another.”

#psych #shawn spencer #juliet o'hara #shawn x juliet #shules #otp: i have a room... a really nice room. paid for by a convicted criminal.#30 day otp challenge #burton guster #gus guster #gus x selene #psych 2: lassie come home #psych 2 #lassie come home #carlton lassiter #gus and selene's son's name is a nod to the west wing #and dule hill's character #also think that despereaux gave shawn jeans for his birthday #but couldn't remember exactly if that's what he gave shawn or not #my writing

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