Title: Breaking Point
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters and I am not making any money off of them.
A/N: I started writing this after I saw the promo for Red Sails in the Sunset, so it incorporates some of the ideas from that episode but doesn't actually follow the plot of it. I've been pretty annoyed at Jane this season for how condescending he's been to Lisbon, and I'm annoyed at Lisbon, too, for letting him get away with it. So this is my version of Lisbon not letting him get away with all his crap anymore. The story is six chapters long, but each chapter is pretty short.
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Lorelei Martins was in custody again. Jane was in jail. And Teresa Lisbon had finally reached her breaking point.
She couldn't believe he'd broken Lorelei out of jail. Helped one of Red John's disciples *escape.* Let her slip through the hands of justice for his own personal agenda.
Actually, she could believe it. And that was precisely the problem. She'd known from the moment Cho told her about Jane's passing question about how to break someone out of federal prison what Jane was planning to do. She'd tried to tell herself that it was a non-issue, because no matter how much Jane wanted to break his ex-girlfriend out of jail, it was impossible to break someone out of a supermax prison.
She should have known that Jane could pretty much always achieve the impossible when he put his mind to it.
She'd felt uneasy when Jane stopped answering his phone – that was never a good sign. But she'd known for certain what had happened once she'd gotten the call that Lorelei had broken out of prison.
The FBI was leading the search, for which she was grateful. She instructed the team to assist in any way they could, but at least she wasn't responsible for bringing the fugitives in herself. She tried to help where she could, but the truth was, she had no idea where Jane had taken Lorelei. The FBI had finally caught them when a gas station attendant recognized the couple from the pictures that had been on the news. Lorelei was returned to prison, and Jane was arrested for assisting in the escape of a prisoner.
Lisbon had had the option of being present at the arrest, but she had declined.
She hadn't gone to visit him in jail.
She knew he had been asking for her. He'd used his one phone call to call her, but she hadn't felt like listening to his explanations and excuses, so she'd cut the conversation short and called him a lawyer instead. Cho had gone to visit him in prison. He reported that Jane looked well and was asking to see her. "Tell him he can see me when he gets out of jail," she'd responded tartly. He was looking at three to five years. Maybe she'd have cooled off by then.
Grace and Rigsby went to see him a couple days later, and told her that Jane was looking less well, and was still asking to see her. "I'll think about it," she said brusquely, which was the first time in her memory she'd ever deliberately lied to her team.
She had no intention of going to see him. It had been a long time coming, but she was done with Patrick Jane.