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1. Important Things Are Worth Protecting by heartbroken_by_boundaries

   Fandoms: Psych (TV 2006)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   22 Dec 2025

   Tags

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   • Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer
   • Carlton Lassiter
   • Shawn Spencer
   • Karen Vick
   • Juliet O'Hara
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Henry Spencer (Psych TV 2006)
   • Burton "Gus" Guster
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Getting Together
   • Being in a Safe House
   • Forced Proximity
   • First Kiss
   • Case Fic
   • Background Case
   • Animal Death
   • There’s an incident with a squirrel
   • They do not handle it well
   • Poor squirrel deserves better
   • Death Threats
   • Sexual Tension
   • They are both so into each other and refuse to see it
   • Actually that is just the plot of Psych
   • Crime Fighting
   • Bad Flirting
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • No Smut
   • Implied/Referenced Sex
   • Bisexual Shawn Spencer
   • Pansexual Carlton Lassiter
   • POV Alternating
   • Carlton Lassiter & Juliet O'Hara Friendship
   • Good Friend Juliet O'Hara
   • Good Friend Burton "Gus" Guster
   • Attempt at Humor
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   Protecting a world-famous singer should be the perfect career opportunity for Carlton.

   Unfortunately, the singer in question is the most insufferable woman on the planet… or so he’s heard. Perhaps that’s why she’s been receiving death threats in the first place. Then there’s the puzzling question of why she’s so happy to be pictured in her underwear.

   Right when Carlton thought the assignment couldn’t get any worse, the Chief forces him to work with Spencer, the last person he wants to spend time with (allegedly). Carlton’s dream job is officially turning into a nightmare.

   But a few days together in a safe house might make Carlton reflect on how there’s often more to people than meets the eye. Why would a singer be so good with a shovel? And why is Spencer being so… nice?

   At least everything should go back to normal once the concert is over and their protection detail finishes. Surely nothing could happen inside a few days that would be truly life changing.

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