Authors notes: I hope you're all enjoying the new season as much as I am..and I'm not a shipper! Here's an idea of a missing scene I had. I hope you like it.
Lisbon's looking out the hotel window waiting for Jane to return. She understands in her head why she couldn't go, three breaking in to Nemic's apartment would be messy, but did he really have to take her.
"She has a key, and knows the security code?"
"Have her give them to you."
He looked at her in a 'You know better than that' way and she waved him off.
"Go."
As he opened the door, she called his name and he turned.
"What?"
"Be careful."
He flashes her a heart stopping smile.
"I will."
And then he was gone.
She turns away from the window and lets out a sigh. Erika's a beautiful woman, intelligent and manipulative, the type of woman that fascinates him. Erika wants him, she can see that. But he hates being played, and she's using him for something. She always has another game in play.
As past conversations play through her mind she realises that he knows it too. Lisbon smiles to herself and orders a coffee to await his return.
He finishes his conversation with Wiley and hangs up the phone, he looks at her.
"What's up?"
"Erika's up to something."
He nods his head in agreement.
"Any idea what?"
He shuffles and makes room for her on the bed and she lies down next to him. He turns on to his side and looks at her.
"She after the money, she has no intention of going back to the states, she wants the one and half million that Nemic received as payement. I suspect she had the courier killed to set this whole thing up."
A smile plays on her face and he looks at her questioningly.
"It would be good to get her to reveal where the money is."
"Yes it would, she probably has it well hidden."
The penny drops and he smiles proudly at her.
"You have a plan."
She beams.
"Maybe I do. I bet she would reveal the whereabouts to you."
He shakes his head.
"No."
"Yes she would. If she thinks she has a chance…"
"A chance of what?"
This time she gives him a 'You know what' look. She sees in his eyes when the realisation comes.
"We pretend to have an argument and I say we're through and…"
He's shaking his head.
"That will never work, she'll see through it."
"It's worked before, remember? I'm well practised at being angry at you. And as you've said many times. We're giving her what she wants, she has no option but to bite."
"I feel so used."
He flops down flat on the bed in mock horror. She laughs and climbs on top of him.
"Now that's just what I have in mind."
Author's notes: I've only heard Lisbon call him Jane. So haven't presumed what she calls him in private, so went for nothing.