Chapter 1 (Butter & Cookies)
"He's messing with you head…don't let him" had said Lisbon. Even thought the CBI agent wasn't aware of her consultant's plan to lure Red John at the time she maybe sensed something that even him was in complete denial…speaking of which…
He had told her those three little words just before he hugged her tightly and managed to let her think he would shoot her. A con he only had planned for his enemy to believe. But when she had asked him only hours later what he had meant by those words he had denied the whole thing and had claimed he was "hyphed up"…poor Lisbon he wasn't a fool he had seen all the deceptions sings of sadness in her face mixed with love and pain. How could he be so cold ? Then his thoughts wondered towards Lorelai. When she asked for Lisbon's dead body as a gift and proof of his friendship towards Red John it was too late. His nemesis had already known that his sense of protection towards Teresa Lisbon were more than just friendship ; it was true love. And now the worst is Red John wanted to take away from his again what he had most precious. At least Patrick Jane had a last card to play and he would plan to play it right.
For weeks now he had tried to make the new Red John little minx talk but she woudn't. He even had tried to hypnose her but when he miserably failed she would only smile at him and laugh and he could see clearly that his nemesis had taken away the lattest bit of humanity inside of her. She was pushing him to the edges and only that on Red John's commend. When he's gonna get rid of you and cut your guts open or poison you for his sole purpose we'll see who's gonna laugh last. The evil thought made him show a subtle grin on his face as he took a sip of his tea. Lost in his thougths he hadn't seen Teresa Lisbon enterring the bullpen.
"Jane, we need to talk" she said her high-heels still clenching on the floor.
"I know" he said with a serious tone knowing saying more would open the recent wound of his actions "I also know that you are mad about me for not telling you about Lorelai"
"I am not mad" she said chukling "I just thought we never lied to each others" she adds
"well I told you I was sorry Lisbon and I'm saying it again now I meant it" he told her as he gets a few steps closer to her "besides Lisbon when was the last time I told you something I didn't meant hein ?" he said as his eyes tried to lock with hers
Lisbon didn't know what to think. Was he trying to admit he meant those words he had told her in her office or he just was too stupid to remember ? She wanted to say something but Rigsby enterred the bullpen and Lisbon's gaze quickly shifted towards the tall men..
"Am I interrupting something ?" Wayne asked with fierce showing on his face.
"No. It's ok we'll be there in five minuts don't worry about us" she said nervously
"didn't you want to talk ?" Jane asked sarcastically
"It can wait. We have a reunion with the new boss in ten minuts and the FBI wants to talk to us" Lisbon said in a commanding tone
"I'm not gonna be there" Jane admitted.
"Look I know you want to make her talk and catch Red John, but we still have work to do" she said with a slow and soft voice
"Lisbon, Lorelai is mine and I'm gonna make her talk whatever it takes" he said looking at her intensly. "besides you don't need me" he said truthfully with a sad smile
"what is this supposed to mean ?" she said worringly.
"it means what it means" Jane said now smiling fully
"Jane I hate to say this but…" she said coming closer to him and took a long pause "remember when I told you years ago I wouldn't let you go blind's way when it comes to Red John" she paused again "well I still haven't changed my mind"
"I know" he said grinning at her. "me neither" he said softly as he passed her by before leaving
Lisbon knew Jane woudn't back down on his hunting against Red John. She had even comed to terms with the fact he would take revenge upon the men himself. All she wanted and wished for was to be there with him and cushionned all of the damage her consultant's last battle would cause. She would follow him at the end of the world if she had to.
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When Jane entered the small prison center where Lorelai was held captive she was waiting patiently in her minuscule cell eyes closed, legs crossed in an alsmot meditating position. When she saw the mentalist arrived she sat on the edge of the bed with an evil smile across her lips looking at him, provoking him.
"Hello lover, missed me ?" she said
"Not really" Jane said with a cold voice.
"Oh, that's not a way to treat a lover, Patrick…you and i have something very special here…don't you think ?" she asked with a crocked laugh toward the end
Jane didn't respond to that and approached her stoping only thirty centimetre away from her cell
"he missed you too you know" she said trying to look sad speaking of Jane's nemesis
Lorelai was now inched from Jane's face but the blonde consultant didn't inch.
"why doesn't he come to me ?" Jane said with a smile. "I'm sure Red John an his mighty power within the FBI can pull off something like that easily" Jane said sarcastically.
"too risky" she said as she seemed to think about it "Red John never meets all of his friends that's the golden rule" she said now with admiration.
"so I guess I've never seen him before hein ? sounds plausible" he asked as a rhetorical question.
"let's just say you woudn't recognize him if you saw him" she said without flinching "he's very…adaptable" she adds with a huge smile.
Jane now got the opportunity that he had waited for
"so he does get out every once in a while ?" Jane asked now trying to make her talk.
"I didn't say that" she said too quickly
"now what you said is that Red John is a very adaptable men and the only way to do that is to change environnement" he said "like a cameleon almost invinsible but vey effective right ?" he said now teasing her.
"you think you are so clever don't you ?" Lorelai asked in defence "but no one is as good as Red John at mind games…what do you want I've been trained by the best" she said with pride.
Jane escaped an offensive laugh
"Red John didn't trained you he used you" he starts looking down on her still inches from her "you're his puppet a clown sent to amuse me nothing else…if you think his gonna reward you for your long live loyalty you are more of a fool than I thought my friend"
When saw he wry smile become cold as ice, his own smile widened. He then stood up and got out of the prison center. For the first time he had tainted Red John's picture pefect in Lorelai's mind and it was only the beginning.
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- When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you (Nietzsches 1850)
When she got out of the conference room Lisbon found Jane sitting on his favorite couch. He was driking tea in his usual old-fashionned turquoise cup and his quick shifthing glance told her he was brooding. She slowly approached and decided to sit next to him on the couch. Her must have not noticed her presence because he startled immediately, breaking out from his reverie. He then took a last sip at the hot liquid with an evil grin on his face. Lisbon gave him a concerned look when she saw he didn't say a word.
"Jane" she called softly. "you sure everything is alright ?" she said.
He gave her a soft smile
"I have a plan to make her talk" he said looking at her for the first time
"great…so what is it ?" she asked frowning
"you're gonna love it" he said
Lisbon gave him a confused look which only encouraged Jane to have a wider grin
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"Agent Darcy" Lisbon said forcing a smile "what brings you here ? I didn't see you in at the reunion this morning" Lisbon said
"Yeah I would have liked to be there but unfortunately me and my team were working on the Peter Sanchez case" she said with pride
"right alias the Firemen, he is a dangerous arsonist if I'm not mistaken, glad you finally caught him" Lisbon said waving her first in the air acting as if she had interrest whatsoever in what the agent had told her
"yeah we are very proud of our work" she said flattered "if you'll excuse me agent Lisbon I have an important meeting I have to go but it was really nice seeing you again" the chesnut women said
"good to hear that" Lisbon said "actually before you go there is something I would like to ask you" Lisbon said with her best charming smile
"but I…" Darcy said a little confused but Lisbon interrupted her
"it shouldn't take long only five minuts it's all I'm asking" she said with a smile
"well since you ask so nicely" Suzanne Darcy said unable to turn down Lisbon's request
"the CBI recently have come to the conclusion that there might be a mole within the FBI. Of course I am not accusing anyone here but since what happened in Vegas we have now all reasons to belive so" Lisbon said
"oh really" Darcy said in shock "well since you mention…after our defeat at catching Red John and the tragic death of agent Wainright I have recently come to the same conclusions" the FBI agent said looking down with regret and guilt in her eyes
"glad to know we think the same reasoning" Lisbon said with a smile
Suzanne Darcy seemed pleased with her colleague's desire to collaborate with her on the Red John case and the turns of event
"so what do you want me to do agent Lisbon?"
"well I don't want to bother you…" Lisbon started with false modesty
"of course not…I would be only to glad to help a colleague catch Red John so please honor me" she said amused
"well there are a cople of Red John files at the FBI me and my team would like to look at if it's possible" Lisbon asked
"yeah sure that shoudn't be a problem" Darcy said "I will send one of my agents to lead you to our file chamber and help you with what you are looking for" the agent replied
"I would prefer not" Lisbon promptly said trying to hide her demeasuring reaction "It would be best if you would show me the files yourself…with the mole and everything it's hard to know who can be trusted" Lisbon argued trying to sound casual as opposed to her first statement
"yeah I understand better safe than sorry" agent Darcy said "my meeting will be over in an hour meet me in my office let's say at 10 p.m" Suzanne said before leaving
"great meet you there" Lisbon called as the agent was already far
Lisbon sighed. Beeing sneaky and coning people was not her best trade. Of course she had lurned a lot from Patrick Jane but he was the best. She already felt guilt and fear of being caughed. Blood rushed to her cheeks. This damn plan better work she though to herself or she would have a serious conversation with her consultant afterwards.
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"Don't say it" Jane said with a huge smile on his face "she said yes" he said as he sat the his favorite restaurant table
"sometimes Jane I swear you scare the crap out of me" she said as she sat at the other side of the table with Jane "so you think it's her ?" she said almost whispering
"I am not sure yet" Jane said honestly "but I have my doubts"
"well maybe she's just glad to help us out on the Red John case" Lisbon said in difense
"you see it makes her even more suspicious" Jane said jockingly
"I hope he's gonna make it" Lisbon said worringly now fidgeting on her chair
"Rigsby is gonna be fine" Jane said calmly as he took a sip of the glass of water the waiter had brought them "besides it's the only way I could think of to know if she could be trusted" Jane said
"by spying on her and asking one of my team members to put a chip under her desk are you out of you mind ?" Lisbon said almost shouthing
"meh" Jane said childishly
"Jane have you think about the consequences ? Not only it is illegual to put a member of the law inforcement under surveillance but have you think of what could happen if we got caugh or worse if the real mole found out about this" she said now almost yelling
"okay we are in a restaurant Lisbon if you want to draw attention to yourself I can put you on speaker it would be rather more effective" he said with a soft smile across his lips and rolling his eyes back in despair
"Patrick Jane don't you dare" she said looking at him with a death glare but stopped when she saw the waiter coming towards them
"Is everything alright here ?" a young men in his mid-twenties wearing the name's restaurant on his outfit asked looking at both of them
"yeah thank you. We're gonna have two ham omelettes with a glass of orange juice and tomato juice please…oh and some anti-depressant for my friend here you see she has trouble sleeping she won't admit it but she needs help" Jane said to the waiter while giving him back the order plated
"he's just kidding" Lisbon said with an abnormally huge smile looking at the waiter
Lisbon was trying to contrain the amount of rage inside of her toward the mentalist.
"yeah right" the waiter said with a nervous chuckle looking at both of them simultaneously as if he he was watching to mentally damaged people before he got away to make their order
"happy now ?" Lisbon mumbled to Jane so no one else could ear her "everyone in this restaurant must think I'm a crazy lunatic" she said in an semi-angry tone
"okay you're exaggerating Lisbon. What do you want the waiter has no sense of humor. Plus didn't you want to hear about my plan ?" he asked in defense almost offended
"yeah right" she said regaining her normal self "go ahead" she said defeated
"What does Red John looks like ?" Jane asked Lisbon seriously crossing his arms on the table
"I don't know" she said eyes fluttering because he had caught her by surprise
"When I asked Lorelai if I had already seen him she said I woudn't recognize him if I saw him. What does it mean ? It means he's a shadow, a ghost looking for poor miserable souls to join him. She probably never have meet him in person nor see his face." He said
"what else did she say ?" Lisbon asked with curiosity
"she said he was adaptable" Jane said
"I don't understand" Lisbon said in confusion
"read between the lines Lisbon it means at some point we have already seen him he had crossed our noses without we even noticing because he changes identity. One day he's a FBI agent another a guardian prison cell. That's Red John's biggest secret he can be anyone he wants anytime he wants that's what makes him so powerfull. Not to mention he has many accomplice that work for him night and day" he said poking his finger at the restaurant table
"so what are we gonna do ?" Lisbon asks
"nothing Lisbon that's the beauty of it. We have two very usufull pawns. Once the roles are set we are gonna use them as bait." He said
"how we gonna do that ?" Lisbon asked
"I will tell you when we know for sure who is Red John's mole in the meantime trust no one" he said moving his index finger side to side
"our team has the right to know" Lisbon said
"and I intend to do so Lisbon as soon as we get a better results" he said
"I'm serious Jane, no more lying and no more fake psychotic break-down. We are a team they have the right to know" she said pleading
"I know and I'm deeply sorry Lisbon but I don't have a choice. As soon I gather more information I promise I will tell them everything you want me to, anything you wish" He said trying to convince her
"fine but it better work" she said playing evasively with her fingers
"Better use the tablespoon earning revenge and never die cutting off over kindred identity and evil spirits" Jane said in a breath
"WHAT ?" Lisbon asked confused
"Butter and Cookies Lisbon. Butter and Cookies" he said
"great another riddle" she said smirking
"it's an old russian proverb that means keep your friends close but keep you enemies closer"
"you couldn't have just said that" she said laughing
"now that would have been just plain boring" he told her
Their breakfast had finally arrived and they ate almost in silence. Almost like they were mentally preparing to their plan to work out. Catching Red John was a very difficult task. If he was a tree, then he would be the root and rammifications, his accomplice the fruits of his labor. Her and her team were only the fools who crunched blindly every piece of fruit he had to offer in the contryside. But now the fruits had been pulled out of their environnement, they would naturally start to ripen and eventually turn rotten. The hardest part was to use them when it was still time : when they still have something juicy and sweet to offer.
Author's note : I hope you liked this first chapter ! It is not too dark and a little light but still i tried to make the character the less OCC possible because i like to be realistic. xDD If someone asks me about the proverb at the end it will say it exists but the acronym is invented by me ;)) so don't get off you high horses if you don't find it on wikipedia lol :D Next chapter will a little darker but still with a hint of humour. We will lurn more about Jane's plan and Lisbon and team's role in it. Don't forget to comment and don't forget be constructive thank you ! xDD