What will Jane do if his wife and unborn baby died in an accident….how would he survive this?
As she opened the door leading to her doctor's office, she gave a huge sigh. It had been a long day; her maternity leave was finally here. She didn't realize how tired she was the last couple of months. Jane was concerned about her and wanted her to take her leave early, but there was so much she had to either get closed and paper work that needed to be done.
She went up to the receptionist desk, noticing it wasn't Margaret, the normal girl. "I'm Theresa Jane; I have an appointment with Dr. Hatch at four." She says as she signs in the log sheet. "Is Margaret off today?
The receptionist looks up at her and smiles. "The doctor will see in a few minutes, he is finishing up with a patient now. Margaret started her maternity leave this week."
"Oh, well I was hoping to say goodbye to her."
"She decided to take her leave a few weeks early; she said she had a lot of things to do." The phone rings and receptionist smiles at her and picks up the phone. Lisbon turns and finds a chair to sit in; there were a few patients there, probably due to how late in the afternoon it was. The door opens and she smiles as she sees Jane come in. She notices how the other women took a long look at him; she smiled knowing that he never even noticed it. He smiles as he comes over to her, gives her a quick kiss and sits down by her. He had never missed appointment with her, always holding her hand, asking the doctor all the right questions.
"Sorry, I was late, Cho and I just got back from the interview with Masterson. I think Cho broke all the speed laws getting me here. You would have thought you were having the baby today."
Lisbon laughs at that as the receptionist calls her name "You can go in now, second door on the right."
Jane stands up and takes her hand and helps her stand up. "Shall we my dear?"
Later they come out of the doctor's office and are heading down to the parking lot. "Still sure you don't want to know the sex of the baby?" Jane smiles as he holds her hand and leads her to her car.
"I always like surprises, I know you are sure it's a boy, but Kathy did the needle test today." Jane looks at her puzzled. "Needle test? How does sticking a needle in you show the sex?" Lisbon laughs at him "
"She tied a needle to a thread and then puts it over my navel. She makes the needle sway a bit, and the way the needle moves, in a circle or back and forth shows the sex. Do you want to know the answer?" Jane looks at her a bit puzzled, but nods in agreement. "She said we were going to a boy." Jane nods in agreement to that.
"That's why I painted the nursery blue. I didn't need a needle and string." He opens her car door and helps her into it.
"So you are going to pick up pizza for dinner right? Lots of cheese." She says to him.
"Yes, otherwise you will make me get up at two in the morning craving it. I'll even get two just in case." He gives her a quick kiss and watches her put on the seat belt.
"I'll see you soon, drive carefully." He says to her as she closes the door and watches her drive off.
In another part of town, a van pulls up to a park and stops her car. She watches people running as they seem to be trying to get through their run before the sun goes down. She waits a while as the runners get less and less. Smiling she sees the woman she has been waiting for and per the runners habit she slows down and takes out her phone to make a call. That's a problem for people keeping to the same schedule; it was like asking for something to happen to them. She opens the van door and gets out slowly; she looks like she is due to give birth at any time. She gets out and walks a short distance, and then bends over screaming out in pain. The runner looks over at her, and puts her phone away and rushes over to her.
"Are you okay…is there something I can do for you?" The runner says bending down a bit too looks at the pregnant woman.
"Just a little cramp I think…could you help get me to my van?"
"Should you be driving, maybe I should call 911 to help you?" The runner says as the other woman stands up slowly, and looks scared when she sees a gun pointed at her.
"You can help me by getting into the back of the van now…don't do anything that would me shoot you, believe me when I say I will." The runner opens the sliding back door and starts to get in, when she is hit over the head with the gun, and pushed into the van unconscious. The other woman gets in and tapes her hands and legs with duct tape so she can move. She gets out and removes the maternity prop from her under her blouse. "Now we are going on a short drive, afraid it will be one way for you."
Lisbon looks relieved when she notices that she is only a mile away from their cabin. Jane had done miracles with it. They had a master bedroom and a nursery, a large living room and dining room together. Jane's pride and joy was the kitchen, it had everything a cook could would like, and she smiles when she remembers how great a cook he was. As much as he wanted to do it on his own, he knew he needed help to get it done before the baby got here so he hired a huge task force to work on it.
Someday he was going to have to tell how deep those pockets were that he could afford the help.
As she follows the road around a curve she sees a van parked on the side of the road and a young woman looking under the hood of the car, she looks puzzled. Lisbon pulls up behind the van and gets out slowly and walks over to the woman. She looks at the pregnant woman in surprise. "Margaret what on earth are you doing out here?
"What a surprise to see you out here…I'm on my way to the Jackson farm, they are friends of mine. I don't know what is wrong with my car, it's not out of gas, just won't start. My cell phone isn't picking up a signal out here so I can't call for help, and I don't know how far it is to walk there."
Lisbon notices that Margaret looks tired, and her face has sweat on it. "The signal goes out a lot around here. They are putting in a new cell tower soon, my husband and I have a land line, so why don't you get in my van and I'll drive you to our place and you can call your friends."
"That would be great, I don't think I'm up to a long walk, and I'm sure that Dr. Hutch would be upset if I tried it. Now that we are both close to the end he has a ton of rules to follow." She laughs as she says that.
"To bad my husband took all those rules to heart. It's like having the doctor reminding me every day about not to do this or that. Come on, let's get to my house, I could sure use the bathroom about now."
They walk back to Lisbon's van when Margaret lets out a moan, Lisbon turns around to see what is wrong and she sees the woman holding a gun on her.
"What are you doing?" Lisbon asks, trying to figure out what is wrong with the other woman.
"I'm under a very tight schedule here Mrs. Jane, now walk over to my van slowly and get into the passenger seat. I am a great shot, and I won't shoot to kill you, but you won't be walking anytime soon. No mistakes now." Lisbon walks to the van and opens the door, Margaret motions with the gun for her to get in, she can see that Margaret is very calm and she doesn't want to take a chance that she could over power the woman. She gets into the front seat, and looks at Margaret, before she say or move the woman hits her in the jaw, and Lisbon falls over in the seat, unconscious.
She moans as she comes to, looking around to see where she is. Her hands and feet are taped up and she can't move. She sees Margaret pushing another woman towards her van, the other woman is begging to be let go. The runner is pushed into the driver's seat, and then she is hit very hard with the gun and slips down. Margaret sits her up, and puts her hands on the steering wheel; Lisbon watches as Margaret starts her van, she had left the keys in the car when she stopped to help. She takes the van out of park and pushes the car down a slight hill and the van stops when it hits a tree. Margaret looks at her work and walks back to where Lisbon is. She takes out the prop from under her and throws it in the back of the van.
"You're not having a child?" Lisbon says surprised, "What are you going to do?"
"Well Mrs. Jane I'm going to have a baby boy in about two weeks….we'll have plenty of time to visit and talk about this later. I'm very pressed for time. I just have time to make sure you are dead to the world." She puts a piece of tape over Lisbon's mouth, takes out a cell phone and makes a call.
"Yes, I'm calling about a car on fire, it's near the Morgan Hill turn, and I can't get near it to see if anyone is there. Yes I'll wait here." She hangs up the phone and goes back down the hill. Lisbon is watching Margaret, afraid of what is going to happen. Margaret opens the gas tank and puts a cloth down the entrance. Lisbon sees the woman in the driver's seat sitting up and looking around. Margaret lifts up a lighter so Lisbon can see it and lights the cloth. She runs back to the van, the young woman in the car is terrified, she tries to get her hands untied, and Lisbon is horrified watching the scene in front of her. The car goes up in flames and Lisbon last worry before everything goes black, is what will this do to Jane.