Bittersweet Memories Mentalist Fanfiction

A/N: A couple of one-shots based on prompts found on Prompt Table C on the Paint It Red Activities page. Mostly Jane and Lisbon. Let me know what you think!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or the show… sadly

Do what you have to do

This was it… the final showdown.

Red John had finally slipped up and the team had found him. But Jane had already found him three hours earlier, so that is why they were now standing in a room with Jane pointing a gun at the serial killer.

Everyone had their guns drawn and aimed at Red John.

Everyone was anticipating what the end would look like.

"Go ahead Patrick," Red John taunted in his slightly squeaky voice. "You've been dreaming about this day."

Jane held the gun, but he had a little tremor in his hands and there were unshed tears in his eyes.

"Jane," Lisbon began in an almost pleading voice. "Jane look at me."

Jane turned his head to Lisbon who was standing next to him.

Lisbon gave him a reassuring, yet watery smile as she said, "It's OK Jane, do what you have to do."

Jane looked back at the man who had taken his life away. The man who had slaughtered the ones most precious to him.

But he also thought about all the things he had gained from Red John killing his family. How he had met the team and gradually become part of their family. But most of all, how he had met the woman he had fallen in love with.

Jane slowly started lowering the gun as he thought about these things.

"I knew you wouldn't be able to do it." Red John said with an evil chuckle. "You're too afraid Patrick. You're too much of a coward. You couldn't even…"

But Red John never finished what he was saying as a gun went off and the bullet hit him right in the chest, killing him.

Said gun belonged to none other than Teresa Lisbon.

Jane threw his gun to the floor and collapsed on his knees in a heap.

Lisbon put her gun on the ground and said, "Red John tried to escape, so I shot him. Are we clear?"

"Yes." Everyone replied as they surely didn't want anyone from their little family going to jail.

Lisbon went over to Jane and put her hand on his shoulder as she asked, "Are you OK?"

Jane sat silently for a while, not daring to reply. He looked into Lisbon's eyes and saw that she was afraid and somewhat sorry if he was reading her correctly.

Jane looked into Lisbon's eyes and put his hand on her cheek. Do what you have to do. Her words sounded in his head.

Jane leaned forward and brushed his lips lightly againt Lisbon's. At first Lisbon froze, but after a while she started reacting to his tentative lips.

The rest of the team just busied themsleves with calling HQ and the police, filling them in on the details.

Jane and Lisbon had been kissing for a while, until it became needy on Jane's part. Lisbon pulled away and looked into his eyes.

"Come on," Lisbon began. "Let's get you home."

"I am home." Jane replied simply as he pecked Lisbon one last time.

Red John was dead, things couldn't get any better.

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