Disclaimer: The Mentalist and all the shows characters belong to show Creator Bruno Heller, as well as CBS and anyone else who may hold a claim. I don't own any part of the show. The only thing I lay claim to is the plot of the story, as well as the mysterious character that goes by the name Robin Hood.

Chapter One

Senior Special Agent Teresa Lisbon felt like a big weight had been lifted off her and her teams shoulders as she looked around the Serious Crime Unit bullpen area at CBI headquarters. Red John, the serial killer that had killed over a dozen people, including Patrick Jane's wife and daughter, was now dead. It was all thanks to this semi mysterious man - who only went by the name Robin Hood - who had found the name of one of Red John's disciples that he had inside the FBI. Lisbon didn't want to trust the man, and Jane would have agreed, but the Blond consultant was still mad that the serial killer had gotten away from him after his last plan. Which hard nearly cost him the friendship he had with Lisbon. Partly Jane had thought because of the combination of not reading her into his plan, Red John wanting him to kill her, what he had said before he faked her death, and finding out he had slept with Red John's disciple Lorelei.

If the mysterious man could get him to Red John then Jane was sure as hell going to use the plan this Robin Hood guy had came up with. The plan had worked. Which surprised everyone including Lisbon. After all was said and done the guy named Robin Hood disappeared into the night, never to be heard from again.

Since nobody had ever seen Red John before and his disciples that they had rounded up were seen untrustworthy to identify him correctly. So they brought Rosalind Harker, the only person that had known Red John and not end up being killed partly because she was blind, in to identify him. She positively identified Red John as Roy Tagliaferro. That was enough to officially close the case of Red John.

As Lisbon made her way to her office she wondered what Jane was going to do since Red John was dead. He had said plenty of times to her in the past that he would kill Red John himself, well technically he made it clear by killing Timothy Carter who had claimed to be Red John. Lisbon hoped that Jane wouldn't have done it a second time, and was happy that the plan that Robin Hood had come up with hadn't allowed Jane access to a weapon. Now that the murderer of his wife and daughter was gone for good, she wondered if Jane was going to stay or would he leave. The Brunette Agent hoped that he was going to stay even though Jane's reason for being apart of the CBI team was to get Red John.

The team had been taken off rotation of catching cases until all the members of the team had visited the departments psychologist. Everyone except for Jane and Junior Agent Wayne Rigsby had taken their time with the psychologist. The thought of Jane made Lisbon notice that he wasn't resting on the bullpen couch, which meant that he was probably sleeping on the couch in her office. Something he had been doing a lot since Red John's death.

"So what are you planning on doing now that Red John is dead Jane?" Lisbon asked after she entered her office and found Jane laying on the couch with his hands behind his head.

"Why, do you want me to leave Lisbon?" Jane replied casually.

"Just wondering since you haven't seen the psychologist yet" Lisbon said as she sat down behind her desk.

"You know I hate psychologist" Jane replied knowing exactly what Lisbon's reply was going to be. They have had the same talk since Lisbon had seen the psychologist almost as soon as the Red John case was closed.

"I know, but we can't catch any cases until everyone sees the psychologist and that includes you"

"I'm actually surprised that you went to the psychologist Lisbon, since the last one you went to was paid to frame you for murder" Jane replied referring to the psychologist that the CBI made her see after Jane saved her life by killing Sheriff Hardy, who was the son of a Red John disciple. The psychologist was hired to frame Lisbon for the murder of a suspect she had arrest as an Inspector for the San Francisco Police Department, so his case could be thrown out.

"Well I want to get back to work, and that was the only way" Lisbon replied.

After Lisbon sat down at her desk, Jane looked at her through the corner of his eye. He wondered if the senior agent had figured that part of the after action report from the night Red John was killed was false. However, Jane knew that if Lisbon had suspected that something was fishy with the report, that she would have asked him by now, besides it was better if she didn't know exactly what had happened.

The blond consultant then started to think about the future, something he had never done before. The reason was that Jane never thought that there would be a future, he always thought that the duel between Red John and him would end in either the deaths of both of them, or with Jane ending up in prison. The more Jane thought about it, the more he thought maybe that was just the way he had wanted it to end, so that he wouldn't be in the position that he was in right now. Having to confront his feelings for Lisbon. He had spent the last several years trying to keep her way from him, claiming it was for her own safety, but maybe it was mostly because he didn't want to admit that he liked her more then just friends. Heck he went so far as to get Lisbon and Walter Mashburn together, though nothing became of that other then a one night stand he suspected they had. Jane then looked back to the ceiling before Lisbon caught him looking at her.

Lisbon shifted her eyes slightly from the paperwork on her desk to Jane. Yet again she started to wonder what Jane was going to do. Was he going to leave the CBI, the team, her. She did care for Jane - like a mother when bailing him out of trouble or like a sister when helping him pick up the pieces after a Red John case - though she started to think that her feelings for Jane may have morphed from just caring to love. The thought that she might be in love with Patrick Jane scared her. Which was saying something because very little seemed to scare her, the last time she felt totally scared was when that gas station attendant had strapped a bomb to her. What also scared her was that she had no idea how Jane felt about her. Sure he had said 'Love You' to her the night he pretended to shoot her, but he never actually said what he meant by that.

"Good night Jane" Lisbon said as she got up from her desk to head to her apartment for the evening.

"Good night Lisbon" Jane replied with his eyes closed.

"Jane, go and see the psychologist" Lisbon said as she stopped halfway to the door and looked towards Jane.

Jane just yawned which caused Lisbon to shake her head before she left the office. As Lisbon left she hoped, like she did everyday when she left the CBI building since Red John's death, that Jane would be there the next morning.