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Our Train of Thoughts
This story will be set post Blue Bird. It will be a chapter story. I felt like they didn't need to get back to Austin right away. I wanted another day at the Bluebird and include a little trip on the train. This will be part of my story. The first chapter includes a talk between Fischer and Lisbon. I feel like Lisbon needed a girl talk considering all her drama with men.
Chapter 1
Abbott led the two to the FBI vehicle. It was the one Jane borrowed to go to the airport. Luckily, it was not towed after parked in the No Parking zone. "I'm glad nothing happened when you drove. I was worried it was towed." Abbott said looking at Jane.
"Why would anything happen?" Jane asked as Lisbon helped him in the back seat of the car with his sprained ankle he got jumping over the fence.
"Anything with you spells trouble." Abbott responded opening the door of the driver side and getting in the seat. Jane had left the keys in the ignition. He started the vehicle and started driving.
Lisbon followed and sat in backseat of the vehicle. She was tired but happy. Happy she did not continue on the flight. Truthfully, D.C. was not what she really wanted. Pike just pressured her into saying yes to it. She was glad Jane said the words she needed to hear from him even if they were at the last minute. They were the words that made her decision. She knew it was difficult for him to reveal his true feelings he kept bottled up for years. Now he had not kept his eyes off her.
"Jane, stop staring at me. You've been doing that since I came." Lisbon smiled.
"Why shouldn't I? I am happy you're here. I want to make sure you're not a figment of my imagination, Teresa." Jane smiled.
"Don't worry. I'm not. Are you putting me in your memory palace? Lisbon asked.
"You've been in my memory palace for years, Teresa. Though I'm adding this to it." Jane said as he leaned in and kissed her on the lips again. This time putting his arms around her. She did likewise.
Abbott looked and smiled in the rearview mirror and saw the now open affection between Jane and Lisbon. The suppressed love he knew between the two were finally out in the open especially by Jane. He knew Jane's tragic past and his crusade to hunt Red John. He knew that was part of his reason of the supressed feelings.
He knew Jane was in love with Lisbon since he came to work with the FBI and even before. Abbott knew Jane sent letters to Lisbon during his two years in South America. They had tracked where he was because of the letters. He figured it out when Jane's number one term on his terms list was he needed to work with Teresa Lisbon. He did not understand why the man, Jane never said anything. Abbott knew he had not. He held in his emotions. It must have become a routine. He knew when Pike came in the picture and Lisbon started dating him, Jane suffered in silence. He acted like he was okay about it but in reality he was not. Abbott could hardly believe that Jane dug the whole case up in Miami particuarly for Lisbon. He found a cold case and wrote a letter as the killer. He wanted to solve the case too. When Jane's plan did not go as hoped, Abbott stepped in to help Jane and so he allowed him to use his vehicle to get to the airport and say what he needed to say. He knew if his consultant was unhappy he would not be reliable to the FBI. Now that Lisbon came back he knew Jane was happy. Right now Abbott would not worry about the scene of their affection in the backseat. When they get back to the office he will worry about it. He just hoped no clothes will be flying.
"Jane, we need to stop." Lisbon responded pulling back from Jane's embrace.
"Why, Teresa?" Jane asked looking at Lisbon. "You can call me Patrick." He grinned.
"Number 1, we are making out in the boss's vehicle. Number 2, we just arrived back at the Bluebird." Lisbon stated as she noticed the car pulling up to the hotel. The two got out of the car. Lisbon helped Jane walk. She grabbed her bag from the back seat as well.
Abbott came out and slammed the driver door. "Okay, you two. I want to say something before we go in." They stopped.
Abbott continued. "When you get back to Austin and the office you two will need to limit your romance. I let the backseat romance slide because of you finally admitting your feelings. I am very happy for you, though." Abbott smiled. "Am I clear?" He said sternly.
"Yes. We apologize, sir. It will not happen at the office and work." Lisbon blushed.
"Is it clear, Jane?" Abbott looked at Jane.
"Crystal." Jane smiled.
"Good" Abbott stated then continued on to the entrance. Jane and Lisbon followed. They were met by Cho and Fischer in the entrance.
"Okay, now that everybody is here, let's go in the lobby and discuss our plans for tomorrow. " Abbott announced.
Everybody followed Abbott into the lobby and over to the couches. "Cho, Fischer, and I will be leaving on the plane to Austin tomorrow morning at 8:00. I decided to delay the flight since I needed to talk to TSA about getting Jane out." Abbott looked at Jane. "However, Jane and Lisbon will take the Amtrak train at 8:00, since Jane, disrupted the D.C. Flight last night and TSA put him on the no fly list for three weeks." Abbott explained.
"Excellent." Jane smiled. Everyone looked at him strangely, however Abbott and Fischer left to the bar. Cho stayed to talk to Lisbon and Jane. He wanted to know what was going with the two.
"Why is being on the no fly list excellent?" Cho questioned Jane. "We were supposed to leave this morning but we missed the flight because of Abbott pulling you out again. You cause so much trouble."
"I meant that going on the train is excellent. It is so much better. You can move around on it instead of being strapped in one seat. I apologize for the inconvience, Cho. Besides you get to enjoy the Bluebird one more night. This is a nice place."
"I don't understand what's going on between you two now." Cho inquired noticing Jane and Lisbon holding hands and smiling at each other.
"Well, let's just say it has been a long process. I realized I couldn't live without Lisbon. I finally told her how I felt. That's why I disrupted the flight. I couldn't let her leave without her knowing." Jane truthfully said.
"We love each other It's as simple as that. We have for a long time. We both took forever to realize it." Lisbon confessed.
"Congratulations. I gotta get a drink." Cho answered with a confused look on his face getting up and heading twoards the bar.
"I think he's confused." Jane laughed.
"Yes, I agree." Lisbon agreed. Then thought a minute. "A train? It will take so much longer than a plane to get back! That will take three or four days!" Lisbon worried.
" What's wrong with a train? We will get to see where we are going out the windows and see the scenery. I like the idea. We will have more time and it will be more romantic. Don't be grumpy." Jane beamed.
"I'm just worried about your foot. Going on the train might be hard on that. I suppose you are right. We should get you some ice on it." Lisbon worried.
After getting ice, Jane and Lisbon went back up to Lisbon's room. Jane's room was a crime scene. They entered her room.
"What exactly happened in your room?" Lisbon questioned Jane as he went to the bed and laid down.
"I solved the case.I'm so tired." Jane said, but then he was asleep before Lisbon could say anymore.
She saw he was asleep and nodded her head. Of course he solved it. She will have to get more details from Abbott. He must have had a sleepless night in the holding room.. She found her bag and grabbed her toiletry bag . She took the toiletry bag to the bathroom. She unzipped it and pulled out her toothbrush and paste. She brushed her teeth and then took a ten minute shower. She put on a fresh pair of clothes.
Lisbon came out of the bathroom and noticed Jane still asleep. She figured he spent the night being questioned why he was on the plane and thinking whether or not she went to D.C. thinking he was too late. She was tired but did not think she could nap because she was too hyped up after her first kisses with Patrick Jane, wonderful and intoxicating. She had been waiting for that moment for years. She had been in love with him for years. Maybe she should have said something sooner too. She was to blame as well. She was just as bad at hiding her feelings.
After an hour, she decided she should go downstairs and talk to the other agents to see abou the
case. She knew Jane solved but wanted to know the details. She found the notepad and pen from the
desk in the room and wrote a note to Jane in case he woke up wondering where she had gone.
Jane:
Going downstairs to talk to Cho, Abbott and Fischer.
Love,Lisbon (Teresa)
Lisbon walked downstairs and saw the three agents talking amongst themeselves on the couches in the lobby. She sat down and joined them. She ended up sitting by Fischer.
"Teresa, how is everything? Where's Jane?" Abbott asked.
"Fine. Jane's out like a log. He's tired." Lisbon explained.
"I'm sure." Fischer stated.
"Teresa, it will take a couple of days to get your papers transferred back to Austin. I am giving you and Jane two weeks vacation. Yours is a vacation and Jane is suspension. It will take a couple of days trip for the train. I tried getting Jane off the no fly list but the TSA were adamant they did not want him flying for a while after his stunt last night. He will have to start the community service after he gets back. I will go over the details when you get back to Austin. The TSA say he can do that in Austin." Abbott described seriously.
"Right before Jane went to sleep he said he solved the case. He was asleep before I could ask more. I saw his room was blocked off with police tape." Lisbon asked. She wondered what in the heck happened in his room.
"Well, the lawyer and Wes Baxter came to Jane's room before Cho and I arrived. They solved the clue in the letter Jane wrote, then the friend and business partner of Greta came and there was a shootout. No serious injuries. This happened before Cho and I reached the scene. Jane really quickly pointed out the two women as the killers. Then he asked for my keys and left for the airport." Abbott elaborated.
"You let him take your vehicle, Abbott!"Abbott nodded his head yes. "I'm glad you did." Lisbon grinned.
"I guess I'm a romantic at heart. He seemed so desperate." Abbott affirmed.
Fischer then spoke. "Hey, Teresa. Do you want to join me for a martini? Can I talk to you woman to woman? I know we are not exactly best friends." Fischer got up and headed towards the bar at the end of the room in the resturant.
"Of course. I suppose I could go. Isn't it kind of early though for a martini?" Lisbon wondered. She was not sure what Kim Fischer wanted to talk about. She assumed it was about Jane's stunt on the plane. After all when she first met Fischer, she asked Lisbon if they were involved. Both women went over by the bar and sat on the stools in front.
"No. So, Jane stopped the plane to D.C.?"Fischer questioned Lisbon and then "Two cranberry martinis" She said to the bartender.
"Yes. I was surprised but then I shouldn't have been either because he's Jane. It's typical of him to do surprising stunts like this." Lisbon said.
"If you don't want to say anything to me. It's okay. This incident is going to be gossip hour at the office. Also if I were in your position I would require old fashioned "girl talk"." Fischer pointed out. The bartender handed the two women martinis. Kim sipped the straw. Lisbon sipped.
"You're right, Kim. I can imagine the talk at the office." Lisbon blushed. That was something she was not looking forward to was the talk and looks at her especially from Pike's friends. It was not going to be easy coming back to that. She was not sure how Jane would react to that. He would probably not worry so much about it. She could hear him telling her not to worry. "I do need girl talk." Lisbon thought about it. So much happened in the last couple days. She had gone from planning to go to D.C. with Pike to being mad at Jane and accepting Pike's proposal to Jane bursting in the plane confessing his love for her to breaking up with Pike and then coming to the TSA room and kissing Jane. Her life had just become a soap opera in one day. It was hard to get her head around it. She needed to talk to a woman about this and she had somewhat become friends with Kim Fischer. Her only other girlfriend was really Grace VanPelt but she was in California. Most of her friends were from work. She did not really have any friends outside of it.
"What did he say on the plane?" Fischer asked holding her drink and sipping it.
"I tell you the full details but he mainly told me he loved me." Lisbon smiled at the thought. She was still thinking of everything he said. She wanted it to be completely her own, of course everyone on the plane heard it.
"I have to admit that is romantic. Teresa, I am a romantic at heart. I'm not as hard as I appear." Fischer admitted.
"Did Abbott tell you Jane wrote the letter from the killer?"
"Yes. Abbott did. That tricky, tricky man.I still don't understand how you put up with him all those years. I guess Jane must have dug that old case up." Fischer exasperately sighed.
"I don't know. He has a way of charming himself to my heart. I should have known what he was doing. Miami. Fancy lodge. Dresses. Convertible. Connecting rooms. Everything that screams romance. He was trying to tell something." Lisbon sighed.
"Don't feel bad. I know you've known him a long time but he is hard to figure out." Fischer admitted.
"Yes, I know. I still don't know sometimes. As soon as I found out from the hotel clerk that he had booked the room last week and then he said he wrote the letter. I got mad at him for tricking was when I left." Lisbon confessed.
"I was mad too when Abbott told me that when he called. I had gone to talk to Ted Randolph at his house and questioned him."
"Truthfully, I was glad Jane came on the plane. He rescued me from making the worse decision of my life moving to D.C." Lisbon revealed. She took another sip from the martini. She really did need the martini. She would drink only one though.
"I thought you wanted to go to D.C. with Pike?" Fischer asked.
"I thought so too. The truth was that Marcus was pressuring me to go and move. He didn't let me decide. He made it seem like I had to make this decision or else. He is a good guy but pushy. He is perfect on the outside. He complimented me, he brought me to places he thought I wanted. He's stable,tells me exactly what is on his mind. I did enjoy should have been perfect. He's too perfect if that is a negative." Lisbon narrated.
"I can see what you mean. I wouldn't want to be pressured into something I wasn't ready for." Fischer said.
"I'm not a fancy woman. He didn't understand that. I changed. I wasn't myself with Pike. I was a different version of myself now that I think it about it. I didn't really like who I became. I was fake. I lied to myself and him and everyone I knew. It was wrong." Lisbon acknowledged.
"I see. You seemed a little off. I haven't known you long but I could tell you were different." Fischer admitted.
"Pike gave me a crappy proposal. Then I agree to marry him after I was angry with Jane. I called Pike and accepted it last night when I was going to the airport." Lisbon confided.
"Pike proposed to you! When was that?" Fischer exclaimed.
"A few weeks ago when I agreed to go to D.C. with him. We were in the office and he said "I know this isn't the most romantic place but what the hell. Will you marry me? It was too soon for him to propose. We had been only seeing each other a short time." Lisbon admitted rolling her eyes.
"I agree that is a crappy proposal. I'm sorry a guy should not say "what the hell" in the same sentence as will you marry me. You don't do that. It sounds like it's something you have to get done and not "I want to spend the rest the rest of your life with this woman." Fischer rolled her eyes. "You said yes to that proposal?"
"I was mad at Jane at the time. I wasn't thinking. Now that I think of it, Jane's love confession was so much better. He was so emotional. He was seriously crying when he said "I love you". I knew instantly he was telling the truth. It wasn't a lie. I had to come back."
"Wow! I have never seen Jane cry before. I think you had your answer right there. Oh, are you going to break it off with Pike?" Fischer asked. She sipped her martini.
"I broke it off last night. He called asking about my flight and I told him I wasn't coming. He was upset of course. It was still difficult for me. I did care for him. I didn't like hurting him. I wanted to love him." Lisbon admitted. She sipped her drink.
"Good." Fischer said.
"I'm glad I got it done." Lisbon admitted.
"It's obvious you love Jane, since you got off the plane and you're here now." Fischer questioned.
"I have loved him a long time. I never knew what he felt until last night. I suppose I should have said something sooner too before I got involved with Pike. I guess I figured he would read me. I can understand how it's been hard for him. For 10 years he had been so fearful of Red John and getting close to anybody was difficult. He had told me once "that everytime I get close to anybody something bad happens." In a way he still might have that fear. He has gotten better and has peace now. I think his time in South America helped." Lisbon confessed.
"Yes, I noticed when I met him on the island." Fischer admitted. Fischer wondered if Lisbon was still upset about that.
"Oh, that." Lisbon said sadly.
"Teresa, nothing happened between us. We just had dinner and talked. I was undercover then." Fischer admitted notcing the sadness with Lisbon.
"I know, Kim. I was just surprised he knew you." Lisbon stated.
"You said you have loved him a long time. He has loved you a long time too." Fischer smiled.
"I thought he might have just thought of me as just a friend."Lisbon said.
"Oh, come on, Teresa. He sent you those letters. Cho is his friend. He didn't send letters to Cho. That's how we found him. He put you on the number one on his terms list. I saw his expressions when he saw you with Pike. He looked sad. When I talked to him on the island I told him "Moving back doesn't mean going backward. It can also mean moving on." I think he must have took that to heart. He was thinking of you when I said that." Fischer declared. She took another drink.
"I'm glad he told me what he felt, even if it was last minute." Lisbon smiled.
"Yes. I know." Fischer smiled.
"Thank you, Kim. You're right. I needed a girl talk. I needed to get some of these things out that only a woman would understand. I better go back upstairs and see how Jane is. He might wonder where I am." Lisbon got up from the stool.
"It was good talking to you, Teresa. I am glad it helped. See you later. Bye."
"Bye." Teresa said as going towards the lobby and headed towards the stairs. She had talked to Fischer nearly two hours. It was good to talk to a woman She walked back up the stairs.
Please Review. I had the conversation between Fischer and Lisbon in my head for a while but just now I put it on paper.