I was sitting at my desk finishing up some paperwork from the last case we had closed. Jane had used one of his famous diabolical schemes to catch the killer, which resulted in a mountainous stack of papers for me to file. The office was rather quiet for it being the middle of the week and it was surprising that we had not had a new case yet. My attention was redirected when someone knocked on my office door.
"Come in." I was hoping it would be Jane but the fact that the person knocked showed it wasn't him. The door swung open and Director Bertram walked in.
"Agent Lisbon I need to ask a favor." He paused a moment to see if it was okay for him to continue. "Another team has an overload of witnesses and I was hoping that you would be willing to interview some of them."
"I'm sure the team would love to help." I was lying but after the whole incident with Jane and FBI the SCU was on thin ice.
"Thank you Agent Lisbon they will be in sometime this afternoon." I got up and followed him into the bullpen. I stopped in front of Grace's desk and he continued to the elevator.
"Hey guys we are going to help another team out with a case. The director wants us to interview some witnesses. I know that it isn't the most enjoyable thing to do but we don't really have a choice." I could see that they were unhappy with the task and I understood why. Jane was sitting on the couch looking at me like an excited puppy.
"I for one think it will be exciting. I mean its not like you guys are really doing anything." Jane was receiving death glares from the team while he spoke. He just smiled and walked over to me. I turned and walked away knowing that he would follow me to the kitchen. "Our fearless leader doesn't seem to be so fearless today."
"Shut up Jane. The only reason I said yes was because of the stunts that you pull. If you haven't noticed the Director isn't very happy with us, we could use a few brownie points right now." He smirked at me and went on making his beloved tea. I was just hoping that he would behave during the interviews. All I needed yet was to be reprimanded for messing up this favor.
"I will behave I promise." He took in my look of surprise and winked at me. I rolled my eyes and walked back to my office without my coffee. The sound of the kettle whistling could be heard from behind me. I sat at my desk and tried to finish the paperwork before the witnesses arrived. The paperwork was done a few minutes later and Jane burst through my door making me jump. He was holding his cup of tea in one hand and my mug in the other. My mouth watered at the sight of the steam rolling off the top of the cup. Jane saw her reaction and smiled again.
"I think you forgot this Lisbon." He walked over to my desk and stood there for several minutes before placing it on my desk. I grabbed it eagerly and took a long gulp. It was the perfect temperature and it was fresh just the way I liked it. Jane chuckled lightly as he watched me geek out over my coffee.
"You do the same with tea." He held up his hands and tried to contain his laughter. I glared at him trying to bore holes in him with my eyes.
"That's because tea is delicious and relaxing. Coffee is terrible and makes people jumpy. There is no way that something that color is healthy for you." He pointed at my coffee and then stuck out his tongue making a face. I put my hands on either side of the cup like I was covering its ears.
"Jane stop she will hear you and be upset." I removed my hands and took another sip.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry she would find out eventually. I mean everyone else knows already." He took a sip of his tea and walked of my office.
About an hour later Agent Lucker came in to brief us on the case they were working on. The team gathered in the bullpen as the other agent prepared the files.
"We currently do not have any suspects but obviously there was quiet a few witnesses. We are investigating the murder of a Ms. Amy Yoder she was killed during a seminar at a hotel downtown. We had to bring in everyone that was at the event and booked into the hotel." He handed out the files to my team. "Any questions before we bring them down." When no one responded he started to get ready to leave. "They will arrive within the hour."
I went to the kitchen to refill my coffee before heading to my office to read over her file. She appeared to be a pretty normal woman she was 21 and was finishing up her last year of college. Her parents lived in Northern California with her younger brother and grandmother. She was currently top of her class and was part of various extracurricular activities. I put the empty cup of coffee down and reread through the file making sure that I had not missed anything important.
None of the witnesses had arrived yet so I sat and organized my desk. I pulled sticky notes off of my computer and rolled them into small balls. I threw them one by one at the trashcan getting most of them in. I walked over and picked them up. I could hear some noise coming from the bullpen and decided to check if anyone arrived.
There was a young woman sitting at Cho's desk looking around nervously. Cho was leaning against Rigsby's desk waiting for me. I motioned for him to follow me into the interrogation room and he stood up. The young woman did the same and followed him past me while I instructed the rest of the team what to do.
"Jane and Grace you guys take the next one that comes in Rigsby you stay out here to man the phones." Rigsby raised his eyebrows in surprise at this. I walked off to the interrogation room to see Cho already interviewing her. I left the door open in hopes that it would calm her down slightly. Cho was very intimidating and the girl already seemed scared to death. When I sat down Cho slid his notes over so I could read over what he got so far. Sally Guild 26 guest at the hotel. He took the pad back scribbling a few more words down sliding it over again. Dead end? She was mumbling on about how she was asleep when the cops came to her and asked her to come down here.
We were about to dismiss her when we heard a distinctive sound of a gun being fired followed by a scream. I grabbed my gun and ran into the bullpen. The first thing I saw was a man in his late sixties laying face down in a pool of his own blood. What I saw next caused my heart to stop beating. Jane was standing beside Grace's desk holding her gun. There was smoke still coming out of the barrel. Cho was came from behind me his gun lowered but he was still ready to use it.
"Jane drop the gun!" Cho said firmly taking slow steps towards Jane. He stopped at the man on the ground checking for his pulse with one hand. Keeping his gun on Jane he glanced back at me and shook his head. "Jane put the gun down and put your hands in the air!" Jane just stood there as if he could not hear Cho. Jane had not even moved when Cho raised his gun. I cautiously walked to stand beside Cho.
"Jane it's Lisbon can you put the gun down please?" Jane still stood staring at the man. Rigsby was coming from the other side and in a moment had Jane on the ground and in handcuffs.