Set after Rose-colored glasses. I loved that last scene. People keep me asking why I have that smile on my face all day. I say it's obvious...
CHAPTER 1
"How did you come up with such a stupid idea actually?" Lisbon parked the van in the parking lot and shut off the engine. She looked beside her as she waited for him to answer.
"It was simply the only way to catch the killer," Jane replied.
They stepped out of the car simultaneously and walked towards the CBI-building.
"If she didn't bite, we would have lost the whole case. It was too risky."
"What's your point? We caught her, Lisbon," he said while he held the door open for his boss. "And as I said it was the only way."
"Wasn't."
"Come on, you had no idea who..."
"We had some very useful leads, Jane. It hadn't taken much longer to figure it out," Lisbon scowled.
"So you confess I was faster than you."
"What do you mean confess? There's no denying in that you weren't. But faster isn't always better, you know," she said as they reached the elevator.
"No, not always, but in this case it was." Jane smiled when he watched Lisbon. She obviously didn't know what to say, but she kept her eyes on him angrily, while she pressed the up-button of the lift.
Ten seconds later the doors shoved open and the twosome walked in. Lisbon closed the fence and still looked at him.
Jane felt they were moving and watched the doors of the ground floor disappear under his feet when they went up, but he turned his head when he noticed he was being watched.
"What?" He said as he put up his innocent face.
"Don't you say you have no idea what. You're..."
Lisbon frightened when they heard something cracking above their heads. "What the hell was that!?"
The elevator came to a standstill with a jerk and Lisbon almost fell over.
"Ho, Teresa." He caught her arm and assisted in recovering her balance. "I already know you fall for me. Don't need to show me."
He began to sing and snapped his fingers to make a rhythmic tune.
"How easy it would be to show me how you feel.
More than words is all you have to do to make it real."
She listened hypnotized to his unexpectedly beautiful singing of her favorite song, but then she made this cheeky act result him in a merciless poke in his waist.
"I said no funny stuff, Jane."
"Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me.
Cause I'd already know... "
He stopped. "Okay, I'm sorry." His apology sounded surprisingly sincere to Lisbon and she looked up at him amused, almost forgetting that she wanted to be angry at him.
"Self preservation. If I make you too mad, I cant escape your fury in here. So I prefer to keep in with you."
Lisbon groaned. "No kidding."
They stood there for a few minutes in silence as Jane seemed to be out of his jokes. It started cracking again and Lisbon instinctively placed her hand on the railing.
Jane broke the silence. "Wanna play a game?"
She chuckled in response. "Have you ever done something else?"
He shrugged. "I'm just trying to entertain you for the next few boring hours we have to cope with."
"Hours?" Lisbon's jaw dropped. "I hope not!"
"Prepare yourself, Lisbon. I've a friend who was stuck in an elevator for a few days. He was nearly lunatic when he got rescued finally."
Okay, that was not completely true – not to say completely bogus – but it was a satisfaction to watch Lisbon's still open mouth and eyes filled with confusion and dismay because she thought she was gonna spend hours with him. She was terrified to have that in prospect, he loved it. Oh, he was so gonna have a good time with her.
There will be a next chapter. Thanks for reading, and reviews are always appreciated!