Teresa Lisbon studied the case file sitting on her desk, inside were details from a murder that had happened years ago, they believed it was Red John's earliest murders, they had just found the body and had to head up to check out the crime scene.

"Cho, you Van Pelt and Rigsby take one car, me and Jane will take the other" she told her team who nodded in response, before grabbing their jackets and doing as she had just said. Well, except Jane who was still laying on his couch pretending to be sleeping.

"Jane" Lisbon said again, he opened one eye at her before slowly getting up and stretching his arm's out in front of him and yawning dramatically.

"Coming Lisbon" he said smiling at her, Lisbon roller her eyes before turning around and walking towards the door.

"If your not in the car by the time I leave, I'm leaving you here" she called over her shoulder as she exited the bull pen. By the time she had gotten into the car and started the motor Jane was opening the passenger door and climbing in beside her. They both buckled their seat belts before Lisbon turned and drove away from the CBI building.

"I don't think it's Red John" Jane told her as they drove towards the crime scene, she glanced over at him before looking back to the road.

"You haven't even seen it yet" she said in disbelief "how do you know?"

"It just doesn't seem like him to hide the body" Jane murmured, putting his hand up to his chin in thought, his shrewd blue eyes going over the facts in his head.

"Maybe if he was only a teenager when he committed the crime he panicked" Teresa said thoughtfully "Maybe he hid the body because it was one of his first kills"

Jane shrugged as he thought it over.

"It just doesn't seem like him" Jane finally said "But it's close to him"

Lisbon felt a small smile pull at the corners of her lips and couldn't hide her smile.

"We'll see when we get there anyways" she concluded "we'll definitely figure this out"

Jane smiled, but Lisbon noticed it didn't reach his eyes, she knew the case was already starting to bother him, he just got this way when it came to Red John, and it seemed to have gotten slightly worse after whatever Bosco had said to him in the hospital.

Finally they pulled up to an old abandoned house that had been about to be torn down. They had found the body when they had gone in to make sure no homeless people had decided to go to sleep in there and were still hanging around, instead they had found a body.

It was pretty much bones, but there were similarities, from the cloths the victim had been wearing it looked like they had been cut repeatedly Red John style and then hidden in a secret cubby underneath the window frame.

"The way of death is similar" Jane admitted bending down to study the body, Teresa crouched down beside him and looked over the remains of what was once a healthy person.

"The cloths look female, and the size of the skeleton looks small and feminine too" Teresa acknowledged, just then the other car with the other agents arrived and the rest of the CBI team came in and started to investigate.

"Look at this" Cho said reaching down beside her and lifting up a pink leather wallet, he opened it up and started taking out it's contents which happened to be : driver's licence, $20 and a library pass, the rest was empty.


"Looks like the Vic's name was 'Cindy Grey'" Lisbon said studying the driver's licence "But that's not all, says here she's from Philadelphia Pennsylvania" she added in disbelief.

"Road trip!" Jane called out from the couch, an unmistakable cheerfulness in his voice, Lisbon sighed.

"Were not actually going on a road trip right boss?" Van Pelt said desperately " I mean, shouldn't we give it to their agents?"

"Um, yeah boss" Rigsby said, probably only to agree with Van Pelt.

"No, Jane's right, we'll have to drive up their and talk to the detectives, it's part of the Red John case" Lisbon said smiling, she wouldn't admit it, but she loved traveling, having lived in Sacramento her whole life she never had gotten the chance.

"First I have to go okay this, but meanwhile tonight I want all of you to pack a bag that will last you for about two weeks" she told them, then when they all nodded she went into her office and sat down in her chair to calculate how long this would take. She was thinking that a plane would be faster not to mention cheaper and decided that they would be doing that.

Just then Jane popped his head in her door, without even knocking he walked in and stood before Lisbon.

"We aren't going to drive are we?" he asked, well more whined. Lisbon shook her head and looked back down to her paperwork, when Jane didn't leave she looked back up.

"Yes Jane?" she asked, raising an eyebrow, Jane smiled slightly and looked up at the ceiling.

"You hate flying" he stated, Lisbon narrowed her eyes and looked back at her work.

"So, it's faster than driving" she said, still looking down at her desk. She didn't want Patrick to see the fear in her eyes… she more than just hated flying, she was terrified of it. Not that she would ever admit it.

"Tell you what" Jane said grinning "I'll sit beside you to help you relax"

"I don't need the help Jane" Lisbon said with a sigh "I just don't like it very much, I am still perfectly capable of doing it"

Jane just shrugged, obviously he was still going to sit with her to try and 'relax' her, like it would help, nothing could relax her on a plane.

"Don't worry, I wont tell the everybody else that the ever brave Teresa is terrified of flying" Jane said, smiling once again.

" I am not terrified…now get out of my office!" Lisbon said irritably, when the consultant had finally left she sat back in her chair and let out a sigh.


A/N - well, here's the prelude thing…leave a review please and tell me what you think ! :D