A/N - I noticed some people just have a story where they do one-shots, and I decided I wanted to try the same thing. Before I do each one I will give a short little summary thing, the pairing (if there is one) and that sort of thing. J


Title: Candy Grams

Pairings: Jane/Lisbon

Rating: K (The idea was thought up by my seven year old cousin who told me she had a dancing candy cane once, I just added on, haha)

Summary: The CBI office is doing candy grams, and Teresa gets a particularly interesting one.


Teresa was sitting silently at her desk, glaring slightly at the small elf holding a candy cane that had been handed out only a few minutes ago. They were doing candy grams as part of the Christmas holiday thing at the CBI. She personally hated it, I mean, first of all it was embarrassing for some of the agents who didn't get any, and then it was almost just as bad to get something.

She had gotten a few, all of them signed by the members of her team, Grace had given her a strawberry one, with only her name signed, Cho had sent her peppermint and Rigsby had sent her two, obviously assuming everyone else liked candy canes as much as she did. I was the unsigned one that was still sitting on her desk, untouched. A second ago she swore she saw it move, so here she was watching it intently waiting for it to move again.

"Maybe I've been up to long" Teresa murmured, rubbing her eye's tiredly. Just as she was taking her hands off her eyes it moved again. She was sure it had, not a big move, more like a small twitch of it's arms, which were holding the colourful candy cane.

She leaned over putting her face even closer to the elf, squinting her green eye's at it, hoping to see some sort of movement. Just as she was about to pick it up someone walked into her office unannounced, without even glancing up from the elf she knew it was Jane.

"Something wrong Lisbon?" Jane asked, walking over beside her and studying the elf she was stareing at fixedly.

Teresa glanced up to see him eating a blue-berry candy cane, an amused smile on his face as he watched her.

"What?" she demanded, slightly embarrassed, but trying not to show it. Patrick just looked around, acing uninterested, all of the sudden out of the corner of her eye she seen the elf move again, although his time it was more pronounced.

"Did you see that?" Teresa asked, pointing to the little man wearing green cloths in question.

"See what?" Patrick asked her, leaning closer to stare at the elf, yet nothing happened.

"Well, it was moving" Teresa said, a hint of disappointment in her voice as the little figure stood completely still, she was also quiet aware of how crazy she looked.

"I'm sure it was" Patrick said disbelievingly, holding back a chuckle at her 'drop dead' glare.

"It was, I don't care what anyone says" Teresa stated, then realizing she sounded like a pouting toddler she decided to shut-up already.

"I think your feeling a little tired" Patrick told her "I think maybe I should drive you home"

"I think I'm perfectly fine" Teresa said dismissively, Patrick just grinned at her and made a gesture towards the 'moving' candy gram.

"And people say I'm an insomniac" Patrick said playfully, Teresa sighed and looked back at the elf.

"Did you send this?" she asked him, changing the subject. Patrick just shrugged in a non-comitial way.

"Even if I did send it how would I make it move?" Patrick asked her, watching as she thought over his question.

"Maybe I am a little tired" Teresa said with a yawn, she hadn't slept in about thirty hours, and it was midnight already. They handed out the candy canes the night before so that the next morning everyone would come in and open them.

"Still want that drive home?" Patrick asked, Teresa looked up at him before sighing and nodding.

"I was going to watch a movie there if you wanted to stay" she said with a shrug, getting up and grabbing all of her stuff to bring back to her house.

"Sounds delightful" Patrick said with a charming smile, Teresa nodded. Then a thought hit her and she quickly frowned at the grinning man before setting her stuff back down.

"Maybe it's automatic, or something" Teresa said, Patrick nodded, waiting for her to check everything out about the tiny little elf. He knew she wouldn't find anything, he had cut the magicians thread he had been using to move the tiny little man as soon as she had decided that she would let him come and visit.