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meridian_rose ([personal profile] meridian_rose) wrote2012-09-26 10:02 am

Psych fic: Hungry, Hungry Haikus

Title: Hungry, hungry haikus
Fandom: Psych
Pairing/Characters: Shawn, Gus
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 429
Prompt: For the [livejournal.com profile] writerverse prompts 'fruit' and 'Empty Cookie Jar', bonus for a fanfic rather than original fic
Summary: Shawn's quest for a snack during a night alone at the office. Crack. Plus haikus.
Warnings: None
Also @ AO3

Part i
Anticipation
Followed by disappointment
Not even a crumb


Shawn was hungry. There was nothing in the fridge. Well, nothing edible. And Gus probably should clean out the mouldy things that might have been sandwiches, and that half of a doughnut, and the empty milk cartons and that apple that had been there for at least six months now.

There were only empty candy bar wrappers in his desk drawer and Gus had locked his drawer which was just rude.

With sudden inspiration Shawn opened the stationery cupboard and tossed aside the papers and sticky labels and, ooh, glitter – no, don't get distracted because – ta-dah!

A gift from a client from Texas who'd lost her necklace while visiting her relatives in Santa Barbara. (Given it was her brother who'd stolen it, she probably wouldn't be back in a hurry). It was a cookie jar and he'd stowed it away partly for emergencies, but mostly because the jar wasn't filled with chocolate chip cookies but carrot cookies. Which Shawn was sure was a crime against the culinary arts.

Beggars couldn't look a gift horse in the crotch or something, though, so Shawn pulled open the lid.

The jar was empty.

Oh, right. Shawn had got the munchies that one night while planning a prank on Lassiter – which would have worked if he hadn't used most of the helium to play at singing like Alvin, the coolest of the chipmunks.

Part ii
Humble pineapple
A ubiquitous delight
Orange spiky fruit


Shawn curled up on the floor, desperately hungry. Then he saw it, Sticking out from under his discarded towelling robe was something orange and promising. Shawn crawled over to the robe, which he'd dashed down to the office in three days ago when he had an insight about the case he was working and hadn't bothered to had time to dress.

Luckily Gus had showed up fully dressed and with a change of clothes so Shawn didn't have to go and watch the prep get arrested while wearing a robe. Shawn wearing the robe, not the perp. Obviously.

Shawn reached under the robe and pulled out a pineapple. He cradled it to him. He was saved! Wonderful, ow, spiky, but still wonderful, spiky fruit!

Part iii
Oh Burton Guster
Is that pizza in your hands?
Great bringer of sustenance!


Then Gus showed up with pizza and gave him a lecture about how if the office was any more of a disaster area he was going to call FEMA, but Shawn paid no attention because he was gobbling more than his fair share of Italian goodness.

[identity profile] eternal-moonie.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
*HUGS*

AWESOME short fic of Psych, Lisa sweetie!

[identity profile] n3m3sis42.livejournal.com 2012-09-27 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I love Psych, and this is so dead-on. It cracks me up that Shawn is waiting for Gus to clean out the fridge because, y'know, why bother doing it himself? Also, "ooh, glitter" made me laugh out loud. The final haiku was just love, too. I feel like it could be actual dialogue from the show.Z

[identity profile] ami-ven.livejournal.com 2012-09-28 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Very nice! Shawn would probably write haiku about being hungry and/or foods...

[identity profile] lilycobalt.livejournal.com 2012-09-29 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
I love the haikus. They caught my attention right away. I don't even watch this show, but it isn't necessary to enjoy the comedic food descriptions and the total lack of anything resembling organization. I particularly enjoyed this snippet: "Beggars couldn't look a gift horse in the crotch or something." Proverb mixing is excellent.

[identity profile] crazyfoolstiney.livejournal.com 2012-10-01 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, this was awesome and hilarious!

[identity profile] the-moogie.livejournal.com 2012-10-01 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
SO what I needed just now. Lovely!