A/N: Hiyah! I'm back from my (multi-chapter) death! I've spent all weekend working on this story, and even though I'm pretty nervous about it since it might be a bit too OOC, I'm also somehow very proud. I hope you'll like it! This story is set before Black Hearts, or at least before Pike proposed to Lisbon.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine.
'Light years away'
Prologue
When it came to insomnia, Patrick Jane was an expert. Nights where he could sleep during the night without waking up once had been so long ago that he couldn't even remember where he was, or when it had taken place. He supposed it had been in his early childhood.
He fiddled with his phone. It was eerily quiet around him, which was a strange occurrence. He was always surrounded by noise these days. The silence didn't help him relax in the slightest.
His mind went back to the mess he found himself in. How would he fix all this? He couldn't possibly walk up to her front door and tell her that the man she was dating wasn't the one for her, but the man standing in front of her was, now could he? She would hit him and it would make matters even worse, he knew.
"Jane!"
He startled, opening his eyes.
"Your phone is buzzing."
Indeed it was, Jane found as he looked down at it. He sat up straight and picked up. He already knew who it was.
"Lisbon?"
For a while, he didn't hear anything, except for some faraway panting. Until a familiar voice spoke eventually.
"Jane?"
"Lisbon? Are you okay?"
"Jane… Jane, I need your help."
His heart automatically started an Irish River dance in his chest, as it always did when she was seemingly in danger.
"I… I… Jane… I shot… I shot Marcus."
His mind was taking an awfully long time to process what she was saying, and as she continued, he still honestly had no idea what she had just told him.
"I killed Marcus Pike."
A/N: I've written everything of this story so far, except for the Epilogue which I'm not sure of, but just so you know, I will be finishing it! I hope you like the first look of this! It'll be largely Angsty, just a fair warning. Let me know if you like it, or if you don't like it - let me know anyway, thank you very much!