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I am back after a long break...
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DISCLAIMER: ALL CHARACTERS BELONG TO BRUNO HELLER AND MY! DOES HE LIKE TO BUILD JISBONY TENSION...
'Ding Dong!' The bell sounded. Lisbon wiped her tears with a tissue, looked up from her book and stared at the door, willing whoever was there to go away. She wondered momentarily who it would be at that time of the night. A moment of silence ensued. She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the person has left. She smiled slightly and started reading again. 'Ding Dong!' the bell sounded again.
"Ah!" she said in frustration as she took off her feet from the coffee table and got up. She put her book on the very table next to her cup of coffee and picked up her glock from the side table. She made her way to the door, her weapon in her hand, ready to shoot. She peeped through the peephole and her eyebrows scrunched up. She relaxed her arms and opened the door.
"Hi Lisbon! What took you so long to answer?"
"It's 11pm and normal people don't show up at this time at other people's places." She said. Her breath hitched up as the familiar figure ruffled up his blond hair to shake off drops of rain. She just loved how his hair looked all tussled up.
"I got us some Chinese…" he said and held out a brown paper bag with the logo of a local Chinese restaurant.
"Come in, Jane…" Lisbon sighed and motioned to him with her head. He suddenly halted as he stepped in.
"Wow! She-James Bond! What's with the gun?" he said as he held up his hands in surrender.
"Shut up! How was I supposed to know that it was you?" Lisbon asked.
"I understand but please put it away. I am not here to fight you. It's just a friendly visit…" he replied as he shook the paper bag at her face. Lisbon rolled her eyes as she closed the door and walked behind him and put her gun back on the side table. "Whoa! Not here please!" he said.
"It's at the side table, Jane! And I am not touching it! It won't fire by itself!" she said defensively.
"Please keep it away from my sight!" he lamented. Lisbon could not help but smile slightly as she put it under the sofa. The truth was that she could not go anywhere without her gun. She had it with her wherever she was, whether in the living room reading a book, in the kitchen preparing a meal or in the shower, in which case she would place it at a higher shelf in her water cubicle. She felt secure when she had her gun with her. She felt she could counter anything.
"Are you happy now?" she asked, sighing.
"Yes! Thank you very much!" Jane said as he sat on the single sofa opposite her. He removed the boxes of Chinese take-out from the paper bag and handed her one. "Chicken schezwan and vegetable fried rice…just the way you like it."
"Awww…thank you, Jane." Lisbon appreciated as she dug in with her fork. She was hungry but was too lazy to cook. She thought of ordering something from out but was not sure what. So she finally settled in with her cup of coffee that was still on the table. As the initial hunger got satisfied, she gave Jane a questioning look.
"What?" he said as he looked up at her from his own food. "Can't a friend and a colleague visit another friend or colleague at her house?"
"Yeah…they can. But not this one…" she said as she pointed at him with her fork. Then her expression became serious. "Is everything alright?" she asked, concerned.
"Yeah…" he said as he tried to look away but his eyes fell on the book that she was reading. He put down his food and picked up her book to read at the back. Lisbon tried to snatch her book away but he held it away from her, still reading. "Ahhh…'As Long As We Both Shall Live' by Lurlene McDaniel…" he said as he held the book out to her which she forcefully snatched away from him. "That explains the used tissue papers…" he said teasingly as he motioned to her used stack of tissue papers.
"None of your business!" she said curtly as she tried to hide her embarrassment.
"No need to be embarrassed…I see that you are still a romantic at heart…" he said as she scowled at him. "Why do you read such books?" he asked.
"None-of-your-business!" she said as she narrowed her eyes at him.
"I'll tell you why!" he said as Lisbon rolled her eyes at him. "You long to have true love just like the people have in this book. You make up for your lack thereof by reading such novels and identifying with those characters as a way of satisfaction."
"That is not true! I am very much satisfied by the life I live right now. I don't need someone to fill the void in my heart!" Lisbon defended herself. "Besides, this book was a gift. So I was just reading it…" she said as she cautiously got back to eating, her attention not really in the food. She hated how he judged her.
"Who talked of a void in your heart? You have it there and that is why you subconsciously talk about it…" he said as Lisbon shook her head in defeat. "And besides…" he started as he imitated her "It's not a gift. It has a price tag on it…" he said as he motioned to the book. Lisbon looked at the price tag.
"Yeah…but that does not mean…" she started saying but Jane interrupted: "Do you want to argue with me on this? Because I could go all night…" Lisbon sighed. He continued: "I am not judging you…it's not wrong to wish for a partner who welcomes you at home with a nice cup of coffee and ask you about your day…someone who could lay you in his arms as you tell him about the day you had or about how you felt…it's normal." He finished. Lisbon held his gaze, almost wanting to pour out her heart to him. She felt lonely quite often and she also wondered how it would be to have a companion to share her life with. She got up from her sofa and walked over to her dining area and looked out of her window onto the streets that were still bustling with lots of activities. It was drizzling and that weather made her feel lonelier, thinking of how she could cuddle up with someone in that cold.
"It's alright for you to feel that void in your heart, Lisbon." He said as he walked over to her. She turned to look at him, loneliness in her eyes. Jane's eyes depicted sympathy and something else…something that she could not quite make out. "Sometimes I wish there would be someone waiting for me at home as well…" he finished. He stepped closer to Lisbon…and even closer to her until she felt he had entered her personal space. He looked down at her and her at him, his face inches from hers and continued: "someone who… uh… someone I can trust. Someone strong. Someone at peace with themselves. Someone better than me. Someone who knows the...worst side of me and still loves me."
"I love you, Patrick." Lisbon said immediately as she looked intensely in his eyes, her own emerald orbs moistening.
"I know, Teresa…I know…" he said and smiled lovingly as they leaned in for a kiss.
"Huh!" Lisbon exclaimed as she sat up on her bed, violently woken up by her alarm clock. She was breathing fast and was all sweaty. She turned to her alarm clock and forcefully banged the alarm button to stop it. She breathed out as she ran her hands over her hair, trembling as shock overcame her on her dream. She thanked God that it was just a dream and wiped the sweat on her face away with the back of her hands as she quickly got up for a shower. Just then, her phone rang. She picked it up and looked at the caller ID. She fumbled with her phone as she tried not to drop it. Once it was safe in her hands, she pressed the receive button and placed it hesitantly next to her ear.
"H…hello?" she said.
"Lisbon! Where have you been? Rigsby and Cho have been trying to call. There is a double homicide. You need to come to the crime scene. Rigsby has already texted you the address." Jane said from the other side.
"Oh…ummm...I will be there soon." She said cautiously.
"Are you alright? Did you just wake up?" Jane asked.
"Yes…thank God I was asleep…" said Lisbon in a daze as she remembered the exact moment when she confessed her love to him and they kissed.
"Sorry…?" he said inquisitively. That brought Lisbon back to earth.
"Nothing…I'll see you in a bit." She said and cut the phone. She quickly rushed to the bathroom as she still had time for a quick shower before starting her what was sure going to be a long day.