The Wedding

She was nervous. She had the butterflies like they say, and she thought she might throw up her breakfast at any moment. But, she couldn't help and smile when she thought of the tea and eggs. Jane would be the death of her - really. All those eggs and she'd never quite understood how he could eat so many.

"You look beautiful." Grace Van Pelt said from her left.

"Thanks Grace, I just want to thank you again for this."

"There's no need to thank me, Teresa, you are my best friend. There's no other place that Wayne and I would want to be right now."

"Where is Wayne?" Teresa asked looking around.

"He and Cho wanted to go and check on Jane. I swear out of the two of you... I don't know who's the most nervous."

"Yea." Teresa responded softly.

Grace Van Pelt looked at her former boss and smiled. She was getting married. No one ever thought this would happen. Cho ended up paying Wayne 100 bucks because he said he saw it from the first time he saw them together. She had to admit she saw it too. It's just after everything with Red John and the Blake Association it was good that they were getting a happy ending.

*WD*

He kept looking at the words on the cards over and over again. Were they what he wanted them to say? Did they tell her just how much she meant to him? Could she know what this day was doing to him? You're not supposed to see the bride before the wedding but he couldn't help himself. They had met up like they had many mornings before and had eggs. She liked his eggs, it might be awhile now before she had them again.

He looked at himself in the mirror and he liked what he saw. His hair was doing that thing she had told him once she liked. He remembered it well, she had commented on his curls and then she had placed one where it should be. He smiled. She made him smile a lot. He took another deep breath and looked at himself in the mirror. He was wearing a tie. He didn't like wearing ties, and the last time he wore one... well, he didn't want to go there, not today.

"Do you think you should do this?" asked Cho from the doorway.

"She asked and I said yes."

"Should she have been the one asking the question?"

"She asked Cho, she's not even your boss anymore but if she were to ask you anything right now could you say no to her?"

"No."

"Well then let us get this show on the road."

*wd*

The church is filled with lots of people - was the first thing she thought when she took a peek out. She didn't have any family but on her side of the church was her FBI and CBI family. She was so truly blessed that they all came out for her that day. Even Abbott, and he was smiling which was a rarity. The only person missing was Minnelli. If only this could be happening six months earlier, he wasn't happy when he heard the news.

Flashback

"Say something." She asked while he was lying in the hospital bed frail from cancer.

"Teresa, I've always thought you were a smart girl but marrying him, you are making me rethink every compliment I ever gave you."

"It's time - we're not getting any younger?"

"He's the one you want to see every morning you wake up and at night when you sleep?" he asked her looking her in the eye.

Teresa Lisbon took a while to answer. Then her mind went to Jane and everything they had gone through. Those six months in Las Vegas, Lorelei, killing Red John, and Jane leaving her for two years. How all of that made her feel then and how they were now.

"Yea there's no one else for me." She smiled.

"Well then I won't be there to walk you down the aisle that day. Make sure you get someone special, and tread lightly my dear Teresa I'll be watching. Be sure, too, that you name your first kid after me!" he smiled.

She couldn't help but smile back. He was like a father to her and it was going to kill her that he wouldn't be there, but she firmly believed he'd be watching. Lots of people would be watching on their day.

*WD*

"Are you ready Teresa?" a voice from the left asked.

She looked up and there he was. He was so gorgeous in his tuxedo. He had gotten a haircut and shaved the stubble he had for so long. He was a dream come true. When she thought of her wedding day this is what she always thought she'd see.

"I know this is a bit different, but you know me when and when have I ever done things by the book? Let's go - you have people waiting."

Grace couldn't stop crying. If anyone asked she would blame the hormones of this third pregnancy, she just couldn't stop crying. It was a wedding and it was Jane and Lisbon. How can you not cry at a wedding that had both Jane and Lisbon? It was so very beautiful to see them together.

Kim Fischer watched with mixed emotions as her friends walk down the aisle together. Her job was to seduce Jane and bring him into the FBI fold and once she did that she sealed their relationship. He never really looked at her the same way. She had learned a long time ago that he knew her deep dark secrets including the fact she was a mole sent to his island to bring him back into the fold. She had done it. She regretted it more and more each day. One of the reasons alone was having to sit through this garbage.

Patrick Jane was a good man. It took him a long time to realize that after what had happened to his wife and daughter. I mean how someone can be a good man after being the only reason that a mad man decided to kill his wife and child. That was why he didn't deserve this. He was a good man and that's why he let her go. Pike was a good guy who would give her the life she deserved. The life that he wanted to desperately give her but couldn't. He had waited too long and for that he paid the ultimate price. He got to walk Teresa Lisbon down the aisle, but as her best man.

He took seat beside Kim and braced himself for what was about to happen.

"How can you do this? I know that it must be breaking you up inside?" Kim whispered to him.

"I toyed with her for far too long. I could never be that guy, and besides I know you Kim. You're feeling it as well." He took her hand a give it a little squeeze.

"Patrick that little crush that I have on Lisbon, I knew it could never be from the moment I saw the two of you together. You can't love a girl for almost twenty years and sit quietly while she marries another man."

"Who says I was going to do that?" he smirked.

He took his speech from his pocket and waited for that moment. Waited for his opening. Then it came...

"If there is anyone present who knows why these two shouldn't be married, they should speak now or forever hold their peace." The preacher stated.

"Oh yes, Lisbon, can I have a quick word." Jane shouted as he rose from his seat.