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"Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody."
Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome


( Spoilers for 2x15 – Black and Tan )

Muse: Shawn Spencer
Fandom: Psych
Words: 582 (without episode quotes)

Fish are not the best authority on water.
-Jane Yolen, "The White Babe" (1987)


There were many things fifteen year old Shawn Spencer was interested in. His testosterone had just started to tell him that girls smelled really good and could give you this weird, fuzzy feeling when they smiled at you and then put their heads together to giggle with their friends. Oh yeah, his world had expanded enormously and there were a lot of highly important puberty things going on.

Fishing wasn't one of them.

( ... )


Muse: Shawn Spencer
Fandom: Psych
Words: 1,077

"That's it, I'm out of here, Shawn."

"But we still have to figure out what's going on!"

"No, we don’t! Because I don't care! At all!"

"Gus, of course you care! Something's been killed recently. You can feel it inside..."

( ... )


Muse: Shawn Spencer
Fandom: Psych
Words: 1,008

Education, my friend, is not always a blessing. Like a gun, it depends on who has it.
-Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, Prisoners of Power (1969), translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson (1977)



1987


At first Henry Spencer thought it was one of his son’s self-invented, non-educational, time-wasting games. Shawn was sitting cross-legged on the couch, blindfolded by one of his mother’s scarves and not moving a muscle. Maybe that was what caught Henry’s attention at last, because nothing happened and Shawn never just sat somewhere quietly. "Son, what are you doing?"

Shawn didn’t wince when he spoke up. Henry didn’t expect him to – his steps had been loud enough for him to be aware of father’s presence. "Nothin’."

"Yeah well, I can see that. Mind telling me what’s the big deal?"

"Nothin’," Shawn repeated stubbornly, although his legs started twitching and his fingers drummed a pattern on his left knee, giveaways for his impatience and energy that usually prevented him from sitting still.

Henry sat down next to Shawn. "Put down that scarf and look at me."

"No."

"Excuse me?"

"I’m not taking it off."

( Well, that was irritating. )


Muse: Shawn Spencer
Fandom: Psych
Words: 357