Halloweenie

[musicalluna]

Title: Halloweenie
Fandom: Psych
Author: MusicalLuna
Rating: T
Characters/Pairings: Shawn/Juliet
Genre: Humor, Horror, Romance
Warnings: None
Complete: Yes
Summary: Shawn is terrified. Juliet thinks it's hysterical.
A/N: *cackles* Thank you to Im2329 who suggested I write a Halloween-themed MM. I had way too much fun with this. And thank you to centipede who's challenge was to use the first line as the first line and go from there.

Enjoy guys, and Happy Halloween! XDDDDDDDDDDDd
Disclaimer: They're not mine. Probably better they aren't.

Blood exploded from his stomach.

Juliet shrieked in surprise, backing hastily away from the glass now splattered with the red liquid and the snarling, chain-draped man pressed up against the glass, eyes locked on her, and collided with Shawn.

He laughed. And if her hand hadn't been clutched tightly in his clammy grip, and she hadn't felt him jerk at the same moment she had, she probably would have smacked him. "Dude, nice," Shawn said as they observed the intestines hanging from the inmate's stomach in the dim, faintly pulsing lighting. She ducked her head to hide a smile when her companion in Santa Barbara's Hospital of Horrors jumped again as the eviscerated man behind the glass slammed his hands against the barrier. "Holy—"

He yanked her beyond the man's cell, his grip tightening just slightly on her hand. Locked at the elbow, his arm kept her close beside him and she bit her lip, trying not to laugh because she could feel his pulse pounding in his fingers, and it was going at twice the normal rate. "This is fun, isn't it?" she said softly, and he flinched at her fingers on his neck. Some where behind them someone let out a blood-curdling scream and he shot a nervous glance over his shoulder, trying desperately to play it cool.

"Oh, yeah," he muttered, squinting as he peered into the darkness enveloping them, stepping carefully around a pile of bones smeared with something red, and edging nervously past a darkened pane of glass that most certainly was another inmate's cell. "Loads of fun. The screaming and the cool lights and the fake blood and the screaming..."

Juliet grinned and one hand slipped up to grab suddenly at his ribs. He jerked, a stifled cry leaping from his mouth before he could stop it and his head whipped to the side as she tried to muffle her giggling.

"Dude, that is so not funny!"

She bit her lip, giving his hand a gentle squeeze. "Oh, I don't know. I thought it was pretty amusing."

"Haha, just because I'm humoring you and allowing myself to get a little worked up—"

Juliet laughed outright at that, the sound turning to a shriek that she could barely hear over Shawn's screaming beside her as the mutilated figure of a woman slammed into the glass wall of a cell they were passing, the lights exploding to life as she let out her own hair-raising scream.

"OH SH—" Another scream of terror escaped Shawn, his free hand moving to clench at her shoulder and pulling her between himself and the cackling escapee with an enormous silver knife that glinted fearsomely in the low light as he raced past them.

It was too much and Juliet burst out laughing, her heart pounding against her chest rapidly and tears of mirth collecting in the corners of her eyes.

"Not funny!" Shawn exclaimed, now hustling her around a corner, his movements even jerkier and his voice higher than she remembered it.

She couldn't stop laughing though, even as they both leapt away from a doctor with a huge needle who popped out from behind a nearby divider as they moved through a doorway, a maniacal grin on his face.

Shawn made a sound in the back of his throat that sounded a lot like a whimper and muttered, "You are so going to pay for this, O'Hara. You are going to pay up so hard! How did you manage to talk me into this? HOW?"

"You're soft," Juliet responded between giggles, "All I did was pout a little."

"Never again," he vowed, and howled, pulling her close as something that walked in a vaguely humanoid manner, but looked nothing like a human being leapt down on them with a shriek from somewhere to their right. The pale face of...whatever it was, dripping blood from various extraordinarily nasty looking gouges, was thrust into Shawn's, barely an inch between them. Juliet muffled a snigger with her hand as Shawn shuddered, trying unsuccessfully to get away from the creature now aiming hot and heavy breathing at his cheek. "Dude, ever heard of personal space?" he muttered weakly, and shrank away again as the creature's hand jumped suddenly toward his face. "Okay! Time to go!" he exclaimed, and Juliet was dragged helplessly along, once again overtaken by laughter, as he tore through the two remaining rooms of the Hospital of Horror, barely sparing a twitch for the four or five crazed and bloodied inmates trying to overwhelm them as they bolted for the exit.

They didn't slow until they were a good thirty or forty feet from the trailers that contained the Halloween attraction. Shawn sniffed archly as he worked to get his breathing back under control, his back straightening as he struggled to get some semblance of his dignity back. "Whoa," he breathed, "That was intense, yeah, Jules? I heard you screaming. It's okay. I won't tell anyone."

She snorted, a giggle slipping from beneath her hand, and he shot her a slightly resentful look, his lower lip already edging it's way out.

"I know you are not laughing at me. I only did all that to humor you Jules. Your hand was all clammy. I knew you were scared," he said and she bit her lip to keep from laughing again.

"Oh, of course," she said, nodding seriously. "I was terrified. I'm so relieved that we got out of there. It was way too scary." She stifled another smile by laying a light kiss on his lips.

He seemed appeased by this reaction and she hid a smile as he discreetly switched the hand holding hers, wiping the other on his jeans. "I'm starved," he announced.

Juliet smiled and said innocently, "There's a concessions stand right outside the entrance to the Endless Wandering Maze..."

"Yeah...how about no?" he said, shooting her a dirty look and she laughed, sliding her arms around his waist.

"But it's so much fun getting to be the guy," she teased.

"Make no mistake, Jules. I like you, but I have connections, and I will have you taken out if necessary. We will never speak of this Hospital of Horrors again."

"Only if we can go rent the Halloween movies."

Shawn grimaced. "All of them?"

"All of them."

His face pinched as he considered his options, before finally muttering, "Oh, fine. We can rent the stupid movies."

Juliet grinned, squeezing his arm and kissing his jawline. "My hero."