First of all a massive thankyou to reig for giving me the idea for the beggining of this tale, i hope i did your idea justice
Secondly i hope you all enjoy the story and dont forget to reveiw!
Thirdly i wish to place a blanket disclaimer over everything written here and everything that will be written here
thankyou for listening and on with the tale...
"Jane! Get your ass in my office right this very second!" Lisbon shouted down the corridor of the CBI building. Strangely enough Jane was happy to hear the sound of her voice, even if it was filled with anger and annoyance; so his heart lightened when he rounded the last corner and skipped through her door. Even now, after years of knowing her and seeing her every day, she still caught him off guard. Her raven black hair was waving freely over her delicate shoulders, framing her pale heart shaped face; even though everything about her was beautiful her eyes still took his breath away. Attention grabbing emerald green that flashed and changed with emotion, and right now they looked like lightning storms. Full of power and strength that he found incredibly endearing. Little did he know Lisbon was having a hard time concentrating too. His strong masculine face with that handsome bronzing always caught Lisbon's sense of beauty, but she was truly enraptured by his eyes, as he was with hers. So different from her own, they were a calming deep blue that still held a haunted and sad look, but she had noticed that had started to lift recently and she couldn't help but hope it was because of her.
"What the hell were you thinking?" she demanded, shoving her feelings to one side with unwavering professionalism
"I was keeping you safe. I was keeping all of you safe." He replied calmly, also leaving his feelings in a corner of his mind that was still not fully involved in the argument.
Jane had recently gone out on a whim to try and catch Red John, and was winning the battle. He had left Lisbon and the rest of his team out of it, going on his own to keep his family safe. But Lisbon wasn't seeing his actions as chivalrous, just plain stupid and selfish. Not to mention the fact she was very annoyed at the assumption that she was a scared little girl that always needed looking after. She wasn't. She had left that place a very long time ago and didn't plan on going back.
"I don't need looking after, Jane. I'm a cop. I can look after myself." she replied in a dangerous undertone which she knew people always found scarier than yelling.
"Really? Because Red John is better than every other serial killer out there and I felt a lot better leaving you guys out of it because then he wouldn't get the chance to kill you!" he bit back, all of his brain was now fighting to make her see sense so his feelings were seeping into his thought process. Making him try desperately to make her see why he couldn't get he involved.
"Wouldn't I be better prepared if I knew what I was up against in the first place? I could have taken extra precautions but you took that away from me when you decided to take this all on by yourself! Why do you even care enough to try and keep me in the dark like this? You act like we're friends and then you shut me out!" she countered seamlessly
"Can't you see why I've kept you in the dark? I'm hiding you from him because if he found out I'd fallen in love with someone else he would take you away from me in a second. I've kept you in the dark because I'm madly in love with you and I don't think- no, I know- I could face losing you!"
Lisbon's next angry report died on her tongue. Did he just say he loved her? No he couldn't have, he must have meant as a friend, she reasoned with herself levelly. Her head told her to keep her mouth shut and wait for him to explain, but her heart seemed to be ruling at the moment so without even realising her lips were moving she managed to stammer out "Y-you love me?"
"Oh you stupid woman." He told her passionately "I don't merely love you!" he carried on "I am infatuated by you, it's only when I think of you can I sleep, its only when you are with me that I can feel my heart beating, its only when we are together do I smile. Love is not a strong enough word to describe what I feel for you, but I cannot think of any other to replace it." He spoke softly as he closed the already tiny distance between them so they were merely inches apart.
She bit her lip softly, her breath escaping through her teeth in short sweet pants and their proximity, her eyes cast downwards, not trusting herself to look at him. She hadn't even noticed him get closer until he had pressed his lips to hers tenderly, until something seemed to explode inside of her and she pressed herself flush against him, melting into the kiss, until all the pieces of her topsy turvy world seemed to slot into place.
