Watch the Street
(Don't watch me)
Summary: For two minutes, she is happy. Drabble- Lisbon, Jane.
Warning: -
Set: Post-ep to s04ep01
Disclaimer: Standards apply.
Word Count: 381
The pain is as sharp as the happiness was elevating before.
She picks him up from the court – the hell how he got the money for the bail, the hell how he talked the jury into clearing him from all charges. All she cares for right now is that he is there. He is free, he seems more relaxed than she saw him after the shootout in the mall, and he greets her with his usual, cheery smile. There is darkness in his eyes she prefers to ignore. She also ignores the fact that he seemed pretty nuts to her before, with all his hacking and sneaking and nosing, but the fact that he was right once again proves that her faith in him wasn't in vain. For a second – for more, if she is honest – she doubted him. Teresa Lisbon knows Patrick Jane is not the mentally stable man everyone takes him for. Actually, the calmer he seems, the crazier he is, has proven it (to her) again and again. But damn her if he isn't convincing. For two minutes she is calm and relaxed, too, the pain in her left shoulder is fading slowly (it doesn't hurt as long as she doesn't move her arm), the sun shines on her face and the coffee isn't bad. Jane greets her and they drive off, and she has conveniently forgotten that she still is suspended from her job, as well.
Then he tells her Red John's still out there.
Teresa cannot say what hurts most: that he lied to her, of all, that he pretended he was innocent or that he used her to get out of prison. That he smiled at her as if everything was over – she had really thought he could go on now, hadn't she? How stupid, idiotic, incredibly foolish – that she had, for a split second, believed he would be free now. Or that she had seriously hurt her shoulder when she craned her neck to look at him. The latter, she convinces herself, is the actual reason her eyes are stinging. Did he, even for a split second, consider how she–
"Watch the street, Lisbon," Jane tells her and she clenches her teeth and refuses to look at him for the rest of the drive.