Reversed
Alright, I know I'm asking for trouble taking on another fic in my exam time, but I am. Being the idiot that I am.
Plotline: The roles of Jane and Lisbon are reversed as they try and catch Red John. Thus, heavy AU.
Inspired by the fic 'Imagine If' by raquelvalente91.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine
He walked into the CBI building, sipping the cup of Starbucks tea. He's dreading going in there.
Today is the day that his team will be adding a member – a consultant, who apparently, has some behavior issues.
"Jane, can I see you in my office please?" Minelli asks him. The older man leads him to the office; after years of working at the CBI, Jane likes to think that he and the boss has developed a father-son-like relationship. Minelli took him on as his protégé when he first came here.
"Is there something wrong, sir?" Jane asks as soon as the door is closed.
"Nothing wrong. But I'm assigning a consultant to your team."
"A consultant? Like… to do what?"
"To consult, of course. You might've heard of her before. Teresa Lisbon."
His face scrunched up in a pained expression. "Please no, Virgil! The psychic woman? We're already getting a new rookie to deal with…"
"She's not a psychic. She just pays very close attention. Look, she closes cases like nothing I've ever seen in all my life and she's an asset to the Bureau. But we can't hold her down to a team. In the last six months alone she's been kicked out of seven teams. You're my best agent and your team is incredibly competent. You might be the only ones in the bureau that can handle her…"
"Please Virgil, don't try and soft-soap me. She's a walking complaint file! Everything she touches explodes!"
"Look, I'm she's on your team whether you like it or not. So why don't you make the best of it? She can up your closed-cases numbers like a fiend. Just give her a chance…"
Honestly, he didn't feel like giving her a chance at all. But what was he to do? She was arriving sometime today to help with their first case together.
In other words, the first scandal in what's sure to be a long line.
Cho briefs him when he enters the bullpen of the case that just got called in. The murder of a young girl; they were going to talk to the parents. Lisbon called in before he arrived apparently – she's meeting them at the scene, she's going to be late.
Not a very promising start… Jane thinks as they leave. The other newbie, a young redheaded woman called Van Pelt, enthusiastic and eager to please is rambling off facts about the deceased all the way to the pretty house in the suburbs. She's pretty and seems competent, Jane thinks. Rigsby seems to have noticed the former as well, by the soulful glances he keeps sending her way. I hope that it goes away with time; I can't handle more trouble!
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The mother was an emotional wreck. She excused herself from the room no less than five minutes into it to go calm down in the kitchen.
The father was much more composed and told them all everything they asked in the living room. That was until he heard his wife call out an agonized cry from inside the kitchen and went to see what's going on.
He sat on the couch and a silence fell over the team. Seeing the families deal with the loss has always been the hard part, especially with someone like the mother. She could barely keep her tears at bay and now she was sobbing loudly in the kitchen…
Wait, is that sobbing? Jane thought. Because it was suddenly starting to sound more like shouting; and there was a conspicuously calm female voice sounding between the mother's agonized cries and the father's angry yelling.
He started getting up to see what's going on – the team was also sensing something was wrong, and was not far behind him – until a loud gunshot sounded, and their walking turned to running. They burst into the kitchen, guns drawn and saw before them an incredibly puzzling sight.
The mother was standing, pointing a gun, eyes red and puffy; her husband lay on the floor, shot.
And by her side, with her hands up in a defensive position was his new consultant –Teresa Lisbon.
"Honestly, it's not as bad as it looks." She says.
Yes it is... He thinks. And it's probably gonna get much worse...
Alright, so I tried to incorporate the real pilot episode with my first chapter (which I'm also about 70% sure Raquel did too, but I really didn't mean to steal. Besides, I did it kinda from the team's POV…) Please review, they make my LIFE!
Zanny Xx