"Checkmate!" Sarah Rigsby said.
"Good game." Tyler Lisbon replied, shaking her hand.
The two children giggled. Sarah Grace Rigsby was the youngest daughter of Grace and Wayne Rigsby. She had her father's eyes and her mother's hair. She was seven years old. She had an older bother named Donnie. Donavan Steven Rigsby, a boy of eleven. He took after his father.
Tyler Lisbon was the eight (and 3 quarters) year old son of Theresa Lisbon and Patrick Jane. He looked like his mother. He had her dark hair and eyes.
"Mommy I won!" Sarah said as her mother walked into the bullpen and took a seat at her desk.
"Again? Is Ty letting you win or something?" Grace said smiling at the children from her desk.
Tyler shook his head with a playful smile. "The only time I'm not the smartest person in the room is when Sarah is here."
Sarah Rigsby was brilliant. So brilliant that she was able to skip 2nd grade and go to 3rd. Young Tyler was brilliant too. But in a different way than little Sarah.
"Mr. Patrick show us a magic trick!" Sarah chimed as Jane came into the room.
"Well certainly little lady, how could I refuse." Jane said.
The two children giggled as they gathered around Patrick Jane who sat down on his couch.
"What's that in your ear?" Jane said as he pulled a quarter from behind Sarah's ear.
Sarah laughed and clapped her hands in delight. Jane closed his hand around the coin and when he opened his hand again the coin had seemingly disappeared. Once again little Sarah was in delight. Jane smiled at both kids. Tyler smiled back, a knowing look in his eye that his father recognized.
"You know where the coin is." He said.
His young son nodded. He reached forward and took the coin out of his father's pocket. "Its right here."
Jane smiled proudly at his boy. He reached out and ruffled his son's hair.
"The young mentalist." He said.
"Are you trying to teach our son to pickpocket again?" Lisbon said, appearing in the bullpen.
"Trying? No.. Ty knows how, he just won't." Jane said.
"That's cause stealing's against the law." Tyler said matter-of-factly.
"That's right." His mother said, smiling down at him and brushing some of his hair back. Tyler smiled up at her before looking back at his father.
Jane winked at him. "So much like your mother."
"Alright, well we got a case." Lisbon said to her team. "Let's go. Ty you coming or are you staying here?"
"Coming!" Tyler said.
"Me too! Me too!" Sarah said.
"Great, afterwards you can help me pick up your bother from Karate." Rigsby said picking up his little girl.
The CBI children often went to crime scenes. They stayed in the car most of the time of course. But every once in a while they would get to walk around or explore depending on where they were.
Once Tyler went out to a beach crime scene with his parents and while they were investigating a murder, young Tyler was dipping his toes in the ocean and collecting seashells.
"Alright let's go." Lisbon said.
"I call shotgun!" Jane said running pass his son and toward the elevator.
"Dad! No fair!" His son called out as he ran after him.
Today's crime scene was at a museum.
"Mom, can I go look at the Dinosaur eggs?" Tyler whispered with excitement to his mother as they entered the museum.
Lisbon nodded and off Tyler went.
"I was working late last night when I heard a sound. I came out here and I saw a man trying to steal the eggs. He came at me. I told him to stop. He didn't so I drew my weapon and shot." The security guard told Lisbon and Jane.
"Why would anyone wanna steal a fake dinosaur egg?" Tyler said from across the room. He was looking at one of the eggs in the glass case.
"Haha excuse me young man but those aren't fake... they're millions of years old." The security guard said.
"No they're not. Look." He said pointing. "It says made in China on the bottom."
Jane came over to take a look. His son was right.
"Where's the real egg Mr. Boon?" Lisbon questioned.
The man didn't answer.
"You took it, didn't you Mr. Boon." Jane said was a cunning smile.
"What? No. That's absurd." He said.
"No it's not. This job does pay well, does it Mr. Boon... so when you saw a man trying to steal one of the eggs you did the right thing and stopped him, but then you thought. There was this million dollar egg just right there. You knew we'd be more interested in the murder at first so you'd have plenty of time to run. So you took the real egg, replaced it with a fake one and locked up the glass case so it would look like the thief didn't succeed."
The Security guard looked at them for a moment before bolting.
"Cho!" Lisbon shouted as she gave chase.
Cho cut him off at the door and Lisbon arrested him. Patrick and Tyler hit high fives.
"Hey Donnie guess what!" Tyler said as Donnie, Sarah, and their father stepped out of the elevator.
"What?" Donnie said.
"I helped solve part of a case today!" Tyler said proudly.
"Really!?" Donnie said.
Tyler nodded. "Yep!"
"That's so cool! Hey check this out!" Donnie said as he pulled a model plane from his backpack. "I finally finished it."
"Oh cool! Can I see it?!" Tyler asked.
"Yeah, just be careful Ty." Donnie said handing it to him.
"I will, I promise." Tyler replied as he examined Donnie's plane. He handed it back to Donnie when he was finished.
"I'm gonna fly a fighter jet just like this one when I grow up." Donnie said.
"Is that what you wanna be when you grow up? A pilot?" Tyler asked.
"Uh hu. What do you wanna be when you grow up Tyler?" Donnie said.
"A cop." Tyler said proudly.
"Me too." Said Sarah.
As the day was winding down everyone was finishing up and preparing to go home. Little Sarah was listening to her parents tell her the story of how they met and fell in love, while they finished up their paper work. Donnie was going around the room picking up pieces of trash and paper and using them to practice his basketball shots into the trash cans. Tyler was sitting on the couch in his mother's office while his parents teased and bickered with one another. The radio was on.
"Hey shh, listen.." Jane said to Lisbon. "You hear it?
"Oh my God.. I love this song." Lisbon said.
"You remember how we danced to it at that high school reunion murder case?" Jane asked.
Lisbon laughed. "I do!"
Jane got up from his seat and extend his hand to Theresa. She chuckled, got up and took his hand. Tyler smiled as he watched his parents dance.
It was a warm weekend night and the carnival was in town. Grace, Rigsby, Jane, and Lisbon were there with their children. The had extend an invitation to Cho but he had a date so it was just them. The two couples indulged in carnival food and drinks while their children went on the rides and played the games. One of the young carnies had stolen little Sarah's tickets. Of course her big brother Donavan and best pal Tyler didn't stand for that. The young mentalist out foxed the out foxer, and Donnie showed off a few of his Karate moves. In the end the young teen gave Sarah back her tickets.
"Mommy can we go in the haunted house maze!?" Sarah asked, bouncing up in down in front of her mother.
"Aren't you scared?" Donnie asked his little sister.
Sarah smiled and shook her head. She was a brave little thing.
"That's my girl." Wayne said to his daughter. "Donnie would you go with her?"
"Me?" Donnie said, slightly hesitantly.
"You're not scared, are ya?" Sarah said with a giggle, teasing her brother.
"Naaa, let's go sis." He said, taking his little sister's hand and heading towards the spooky maze.
"Can I go too!?" Tyler asked his mom and dad.
Jane and Lisbon nodded. Tyler told them thanks and off he went too.
The haunted house maze was very spooky. Lots of things jumped out, made scary sound, or grabbed at the kids. But each scream was followed by a laugh.
"I see the exit!" Tyler exclaimed. It was pitch black in this part of the maze and they were almost to the end.
"Race ya!" Donnie said. And they all made a mad dash to the end of the tunnel.
"I win!" Donnie said.
"Hey where's your sister?" Grace asked her son.
"Right behind us." Donavan said. But when he turned around she wasn't there.
"Sarah! Come on slow poke!" Donnie called into the end of the maze.
Tyler turned around and called for Sarah too, when he heard his parents gasp from behind him. Tyler turning back around. His parent looked like they had just seen a ghost and Grace and Rigsby looked the same way, only Grace was crying.
"What? What's wrong?" Tyler said confused and a little frightened.
"Sarah!" Grace screamed as she went into the exit of the maze.
"What's going on? Ty wants on your back?" Donnie asked.
Lisbon pulled her young son close as Rigsby did the same with Donnie. Jane took off after Grace. Tyler was really frighten now. He tried to look over his shoulder to see what was on his back.
"Tyler don't touch the back of your shirt." His mom said taking his hands in her's after hanging up her phone.
"Mommy what's wrong?" Tyler pleaded to his mother.
"Tyler, Sarah's been kidnapped.." Lisbon told him.
Tyler's face went white. "By who mom? By who?"
On Tyler's back was a message written in red ink... I Have Sarah. ...It was signed with a smiley face.
R&R! If you want to see pictures of the kids and the CBI team you can go to my website. Just google "Hayleigh's Comet weebly" or click on the link on my profile :) Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for the next Chapter!
