The Seven Serenades of Patrick Jane
Summary: This was going to be fun, Jane decided; he was going to serenade his 'boss' for a week straight with love songs. For The Jello-Forever February Challenge: Love Songs.
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own anything. If you really want to sue me, you can have my college textbooks.
Songs Used: "Please Forgive Me" by Bryan Adams and "If you're happy and you know it…"
Warnings: Language, and oodles of fluff… Consider yourself warned! Mwhahaha!
A/N:
Yes, another story—because it's not like I actually do anything else but write! ;) Just kidding, but honestly? I feel like I slave away to these plot bunnies! Anyway, this multi-chaptered fiction is for the Jello-Forever February Challenge and I promise to actually have the whole thing written in… twenty five days!
Enjoy!
Chapter One
His fingers fiddled with the radio, changing stations with quick-like reflexes. While Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon however was fuming next to him, her narrowed green eyes on the road—Patrick Jane had not only once more ignored her orders but he was currently angering her by his method of said fiddling to the point where he would pause for a second before changing to a different station. Lisbon gritted her teeth as a particularly loud rap song came through the speakers causing Jane to flash a wide smile and change the station again, this time his hand froze before he could change the station, and a humming sound erupted from somewhere—it was then Lisbon realized that the humming noise was actually coming from Jane.
"Good song." He stated, she still held her narrowed green eyes on the stretch of road before her. "Oh come on, you can't still be mad at..." She brought her eyes from the road for one second, enough time to make him realize that she was still indeed angry with him. "Okay, so you are… but, you know what Lisbon?" He didn't wait for her to dignify that with a response. "I'll sing you…"
"No!" Lisbon interrupted. "And I have every right to be angry with you; you disregarded my orders again…"
"Meh. The guy was a pompous blow…"
"Not the point." Jane shrugged.
"I'm sorry." He stated and she laughed dryly.
"No you aren't." She responded. "We've been through this before, you do something reckless, you make me angry, you apologize with an 'I'm sorry' and here's a token to prove it, I'll accept and the next day we're back to the same" she glanced at him. "damn" he lightly frowned. "pattern. I'm done with it."
"I…"
"Last case, I specifically told you to stay in the car—and what do you do?"
"Technically, I stayed in a car…"
"We both know I didn't mean Allen's car."
"Really? Because…"
"I should stop this car, and force you out." He frowned again, before his hand fiddled with the radio controls once more. "No, actually I should cut your hand off."
"What would that do?" Lisbon sighed, and Jane continued on. "I'd like to redeem myself…"
"Hell…"
"I'll sing."
"—no!"
"We could call it a sing-along!" Jane suggested. "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands…" Lisbon remained with her hands clenching the steering wheel, her knuckles turning white. "Join in!" He must have noticed her glaring, because he then became extremely quiet after that.
* * * * * *
Lisbon gleefully noticed that Jane had some common sense as he still remained silent after the both of them had been in the car for the past twenty minutes or so. Music still floated through the speakers and at one point she even hummed herself which was met with a quiet 'a-ha!'
If she had known or had any idea what-so-ever that Patrick Jane's declaration of 'a-ha!' on a Monday afternoon would be her undoing, she would have made him walk back to HQ or leave him for the damned coyotes.
"So…" Jane began and Lisbon groaned, honestly… was silence a bit too much to ask for? Yeah, it probably was since this was Patrick Jane. "Why do they call sing-al…" his words drifted off as a new song flowed through the speakers and he grinned. "You'll thank me for this later, Lisbon" Dread and panic filled her as he turned toward her in his seat and leaned toward her, mouth parted slightly as if he were about to kiss her.
"So if I love you, a little more than I shoulddddddddddddddddd….."
"No. Please. No!"
"Please forgive me, I know not what I do, please forgive me, I can't stop loving you, don't deny me this pain I'm going through…"
"JANE!"
"Please forgive me, for I need you like I do… please believe me, every word I say is true, please forgive me I can't stop loving you…" Lisbon abruptly pulled in the rest stop, and slammed on her breaks to park, only to turn toward him in her seat to find that Jane was grinning at her. "Would you like an encore?"
"Get the hell out of this car."
"I was only singing…"
"Get the hell out of this car." She repeated, and he shook his head. "What part of that instruction don't you understand?"
"You see, I don't follow orders remember?" He cheekily grinned and she threw her arms up in aspiration, only to have her elbow come back down and hit the horn which caused the couple in front of the SUV to glare at her which caused her fury to increase.
"Get. Out."
"Make. Me." Instead of Jane leaving, Lisbon undid her seatbelt and left the car making sure to slam her car door behind her and he grinned. This was going to be fun, Jane decided, he was going to serenade his 'boss' for a week straight with love songs.