Pairing: Shawn Spencer/Carlton Lassiter
Fandom: Psych
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 442
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own

 

The Eight times Shawn Spencer knew (or at least suspected) that Carlton Lassiter loved him.

 

When Shawn walked into the police department looking for Lassy and Jules and had accidentally overheard Lassiter yelling at a new recruit. It wasn’t until later that he heard from Buzz that the detective had been lambasting the recruit for making lewd comments about Shawn.

 

When Shawn had lost his pineapple smoothie (made just the way he liked it), in a foot chase. They ultimately caught the guy because of Shawn’s quick thinking, but he lost his smoothie that he had waited half an hour in line for. Later, when they were finishing up at the precinct, a fresh smoothie had been thrust into his hands and Lassiter had disappeared before Shawn could even say thank you.

 

The time that Shawn had been stalked by some crazed fan and Lassiter had been stuck guarding him. The older man could have made him stay locked inside the house at all times- instead he allowed himself to be dragged out to see the new Iron Man movie and then to get Chinese afterwards. Shawn found out after his stalker had been caught that Lassy had volunteered for the assignment.

When Shawn had had enough of his father and of life in Santa Barbara, had hopped on his motorcycle and taken off after a really tough case; only to be stopped on the outskirts of town by a red Crown Vic. He probably wouldn’t have come back if it had been anyone else.

 

The time when they had been down at the docks, and he’d been stupid and had had a gun pointed at him, only to not feel the bullet hit him, but a hard body instead. The rush to the hospital was a blur with Shawn riding in the ambulance and Lassiter on the stretcher, bleeding from his stomach and not really conscious.

As Carlton Lassiter, most straight edged cop in Santa Barbara pinned him to the wall in his apartment and promptly sunk down to his knees to finally give into something that had been building from the beginning.

When Shawn showed up at his dads house for some dinner his dad had insisted he come to and found Carlton sitting on the front porch with his dad, drinking a beer. Apparently it was his father’s version of a new ‘family’ dinner.

When Shawn bought a ring, made a fancy dinner for two and promptly set the food on fire. He’d bumbled his way through an apology and an explanation and Carlton had just smiled, nodded and said yes.