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"Patrick? You okay?"

Jane blinked at her "yeah, I can do that."

Lisbon laughed "no need to be so worried Patrick; it's sleeping."

"I don't sleep Teresa."

"Never?"

"Well hardly ever."

Lisbon grabbed his hand to take him upstairs "well let's see if we can change that."

Jane gladly followed her upstairs. "So how do you plan on getting me to fall asleep?"

"Well" Lisbon answered after she had changed into a pair of blue boy shorts and her oversized 99 jersey "I was thinking of reading to you from the CBI handbook."

Jane laughed "I want to sleep not die of boredom."

"Actually" Jane smirked "what's the protocol on dating?"

Lisbon smiled "if you'd read the handbook you'd know. I gave it to you on your first day."

"And since then it has been a dust collector in my top drawer at work."

Lisbon rolled her eyes.

"Well?" Jane lay on the bed and waited for her to join him "what's the protocol?"

"For?"

"Damn it woman"

Lisbon laughed at Jane's mock frustration.

"For co-workers dating."

"Why do you want to know?" she moved to lie on the bed.

"Well I was thinking of asking out Mags the cleaning lady."

Lisbon laughed "she lovely Jane but she's old enough to be your mother."

Jane shrugged "it's Patrick."

"What?"

"My name" he whispered moving closer to her "you called me Jane."

"Oh sorry; it'll just take some time you get used to it."

"That's fine. So what's your problem with Mags? She's a lovely lady and she's got a really nice set of…"

Lisbon held up her hand to silence him "do not finish that sentence."

Jane smirked "I was going to say teeth."

Lisbon squinted her eyes at him "sure you were."

"I was I promise" Jane held his hand to his heart. "So" Jane turned to face Lisbon "what's the actual policy?"

"How much do you want to know Patrick Jane? What's it worth to you?"

Shuffling forward Jane placed one arm on the other side of Lisbon and leaned forward to kiss her beautiful lips. His hand reached up to caress her skin and he smiled into the kiss as a soft sigh escaped from her mouth. Pulling away he smiled down at her.

Teresa shrugged "eh I've had better."

"Well if that's the case I'll go." Jane moved away from Lisbon but was stopped when she wrapped her arms around him.

"No; you're not going anywhere."

"Oh really?" Jane queried looking down at her "and how are you going to make me stay?"

"Patrick I've tackled men 3 times my size."

"Touché" Patrick leaned over and kissed her once more.

"CBI regulation states that two agents cannot date without consent."

"Excellent" he smiled "I'm not an agent. Which means you're stuck with me."

"Oh look there's some fine print here" Lisbon pointed to the bottom of the page "it says pain in the ass consultants are not allowed to date anyone."

Jane leaned right over to look in the book before ripping it from her hands. "You my dear are horrible."

"Me?" She battered her eyes lashes at him "I am nothing of the sort My Jane and I don't appreciate the accusations."

"Look at you being all playful." Jane ran his fingers over her arm. "So it's safe to say that we can tell everyone about us?"

Lisbon softly shook her head "not yet Patrick. I want to see where this goes first." She looked up at him her eyes pleading for him to understand. "I just want to make sure we are strong before we announce it to everyone."

"Hmmm."

"It has nothing to do with being ashamed or anything like that."

Jane's eyes scanned her face looking for signs of deception; he found none.

Lisbon took a deep breath before continuing to talk "but if you want to tell the team I can deal with that."

Jane shook his head "no" he kissed her forehead "it's fine I understand. Besides a secret relationship could be kind of fun."

Lisbon couldn't help but roll her eyes "sometimes I wonder about your maturity levels."

"Meh; you're only as young as you feel Teresa."

"Well right now I feel very old." Turning off the bed side lamp Lisbon snuggled further into her blankets "good night Patrick."

Jane laid his arm over her waist "night Teresa." Closing his eyes Jane let the sounds of the woman next to him lull him to sleep.

Much to Lisbon's annoyance Sunday brought a case to the serious crimes unit. Calling her team and giving them the details she rushed out of bed and headed to bathroom. Jane had gone to get some breakfast and was going to head straight to the crime scene instead of back to Lisbon's.

'What have we got?" Lisbon asked Rigsby as she arrived on the scene.

"Connor Wilks 21 years old. Moved here from Seattle 2 months ago. Jogger found him this morning. Estimated time of death is between 5 and 7am. Looks like blunt force trauma."

Lisbon looked over at Rigsby "you talk to the jogger Jane and I will…"

"Good morning Lisbon, Rigsby."

"Jane" Rigsby smiled "how was your weekend?"

"Best I've had in a long time."

Lisbon lowered her head to hide the smile that fell on her lips.

"Do your thing Jane."

Smiling at her Jane bent down over the body to take a closer look "he has blue hair on his shoulder?"

Squatting down next to the body Lisbon grabbed tweezers from the nearby kit and placed the hair into a bag before tagging and sealing it.

"Shoes indicate he was on his way to somewhere extravagant or that he was trying to impress someone."

Looking down at his shoe Lisbon smiled noticing that they were polished and barely scuffed on the bottom "they look expensive."

"They are" Jane added "they're about $600."

Lisbon whistled "that's insane."

Jane hummed.

"Boss I think I found the murder weapon!"

Lisbon turned to see Rigsby hold a bloodied brick.

"Good work. Anything else?" Lisbon wondered turning back to Jane.

"Breakfast, come on." Jane grabbed her by the elbow and started to drag her away.

"Rigsby, Jane and I are heading back to the office you take the car and go and check out the vics home." Lisbon managed to yell as Jane took her away from the crime scene.

"No worries boss"

Back at Jane's car he opened the door for her. Smiling she silently slipped into the car. Once Jane was positioned in the driver's seat he gently grabbed Lisbon's hand and kissed it never taking his eyes off hers.

"Let's have breakfast by the river" he suggested.

"Okay but we have to be quick."

"Meh" Jane checked for traffic before pulling out of his parking spot "we'll just say that I got a flat tire."

Lisbon laughed but didn't disagree with his suggestion.

Breakfast was great. Ham and chess croissants, a coffee for Lisbon and tea (of course) for Jane. They both sat on the front of Jane's car down by the river on private property which belonged to "an old client" Jane confessed.

"This is nice" Lisbon sighed as she closed her eyes and lifted her head towards the sun.

"Apart from the whole murder thing."

Lisbon opened her eyes and looked over at her blonde haired companion "well that does kind of put a downer on the mood."

Jane slid closer and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Better?"

"Mmm-hmm" Lisbon rested her head on Jane's shoulder. "We really should head into work soon."

"Do we have to? Maybe we could text Cho and tell him that we've been suddenly abducted by aliens but we will be back in the office tomorrow."

Lisbon shook her head "where do you come up with these insane ideas?"

"I think maybe I was dropped on my head as a child." Jane confessed very seriously.

Lisbon placed a kiss on his cheek "that explains a lot."

"If you keep being mean to me I might just have to ask Mags out." Jane threatened as he jumped off the car and held his hand out for Lisbon.

"Empty threats, it's all empty threats."

Much to Jane's surprise and delight the ride back to CBI contained conversations about where they should go on their first date.

"Oh my god Jane we left the crime scene 2 hours ago!" Lisbon realised as they entered the lift.

"It's okay Teresa, flat tire remember."

The elevator doors opened on their floor and Lisbon put on her game face. The team didn't ask any questions about where Jane and Lisbon had been. They figured that they'd been chasing down a lead or something.

"Flat tire" Jane mumbled as he went and sat on this couch.

"Cho what do we have?"

"The vics family live in Clovis; his sister is in Sacramento for a conference; she's on her way into the office now."

"Nice work; Van Pelt got anything on Connor's phone records?

"I think so." Van Pelt looked up from her computer "our vic called the same number 54 times in the last week."

"Maybe he liked Pizza" Jane mused from his couch.

"No it's the number of a girl that he was enrolled in a cooking class with."

"Good work. Jane and I will go and talk to her. Text me the address."

Lisbon turned to leave followed closely by Jane.

The ride to Lucy Turnbull's house took 20 minutes giving Jane plenty of time to suggest ideas for their first date.

"How about bowling?"

Lisbon shook her head "we went bowling with the team last week."

He also suggested "pizza, rock climbing, ice skating."

"You don't seem to me to be the rock climbing type."

Jane shrugged "I'm not."

"How about dinner and dancing?" Lisbon didn't miss the way that Jane's eyes lit up.

"Sounds perfect."

"Great, I made the suggestion so you can do all the hard work for a change."

"Are you saying that I don't earn my keep dear Teresa."

She smiled "that's exactly what I am saying."

"Why am I with you again?" Jane joked.

"No idea." Lisbon smiled a little sadly.

She has no idea. Well I'll change that. He smiled mischievously.

"What are you grinning at? Should I be scared?"

"Always." Jane laughed.

Lucy Turnbull was very co-operative with Jane and Lisbon; she even answered Jane's more unorthodox questions. It turned out the Connor had a bit of a thing for her. They had traded numbers when they were given a class assignment together. Lucy mentioned that he seemed nice if not a little obsessive but wasn't her type. Jane got the feeling she had a thing for bad boys.

"She likes bad boys." Lisbon stated.

"Big time. We should head back and talk to the sister."

Lisbon silently agreed and they headed back to CBI.

Connor's sister was sitting in Lisbon's office with Van Pelt when they returned to CBI.

"Rebecca I'm Agent Lisbon this is Patrick Jane. I'm so sorry for your loss."

"Thank you" Rebecca looked at both Jane and Lisbon.

"Did Connor have any enemies anyone giving him grief?"

Rebecca shook her head but promptly stopped "my ah my ex-boyfriend Ryan started hassling him not longer after we broke up." She sat wringing her hands together.

"Why was that Rebecca?" Jane asked leaning against the now closed door.

"Ryan was pretty demanding of my time. Connor suffered because of it. He's my little brother." Tears fell from her eyes "He was my little brother and it was my job to look after him; Ryan didn't like that so we broke up."

"And Ryan threatened Connor?" Jane already knew the answer.

Rebecca nodded. "Said Connor was the reason we broke up. I just couldn't handle him controlling me anymore."

"Rebecca do you know where Ryan is now?" Lisbon prompted quietly.

Nodding once again she pulled out her phone and read out Ryan's address. "He lives with his Dad who's just gotten out of jail. Do you, do you think that maybe they had something to do with it? That they killed my brother.""

"That's what we need to find out. Thank you for your help Rebecca." Lisbon handed the weeping sister her card "let me know if you think of anything else."

"Rebecca before you go was Connor into performing at all?" Jane looked her straight in the eyes.

Rebecca looked confused "No, not that I know of."

"Agent van Pelt will show you out." Once Van Pelt had shown Rebecca out Lisbon turned to Cho and Rigsby "you two check out Ryan and his father."

"I'll come." Jane jumped up, winked at Lisbon and left with Rigsby and Cho.

While Jane, Cho and Rigsby were talking to Ryan and his father Van Pelt went through his computer and Lisbon contact SAC PD to see if they had any further information on Ryan's father. They had a file on him and said they would send it over to her.

About 30 minutes later Van Pelt entered Lisbon's office holding the Connor's laptop "think I've got something boss." Van Pelt sat the laptop on Lisbon's desk and spun it around. So our vic looked up this address in Midtown it coincides with credit card transactions."

"Okay so what is this place?"

Van Pelt smiled "a club called Go-go. By the looks of his credit card he goes there a lot."

"Great work. We'll head there now." Picking up her jacket Lisbon hit speed dial 2 on her phone and waited for Cho to answer "Van Pelt and I have a lead; we're heading to Go-go in Midtown. Connor went there a lot." Lisbon smiled as she heard Jane's voice in the background.

"Jane says look out for someone with Blue hair." Cho recited.

"Will do." Lisbon closed her phone and placed it back in her pocket "let's go."

At go-go Van Pelt and Lisbon found the club manager to be very evasive, only when Lisbon threatened him with obstruction of justice did he decide to answer their questions.

"One final question Mr Monroe do you have any girl's hair that wear blue wigs or have blue hair?"

Mr Monroe looked at Lisbon as though she'd asked the strangest question known to man "we do yeah, one of our singers called Layla" pulling out a headshot of the girl he passed it to Lisbon "she starts work at 8 tonight."

"Thank you Mr Monroe" Lisbon handed over her card "call me if you think of anything."

"He's hiding something" Van Pelt whispered as they left the club.

"You're right; I just don't know what. If only Jane was here." Lisbon sighed.

"You okay boss?" Van Pelt frowned at her.

"Yeah fine."

Cho, Jane and Rigsby's luck wasn't much better on the other side of town. Jane had managed to piss of Ryan's dad who in turn started yelling abuse at him.

"Ryan were you aware that your Dad had a thing for Rebecca?" Jane asked. That was it Ryan's dad launched himself at the consultant who managed to slip past him and hide behind a very unimpressed Cho.

"Well that was successful" Jane stated as they walked back to the car.

"What was the point of that Jane?" Rigsby asked as he walked to the passenger's seat.

"Well Rigsby I was trying to see if either of them had motive to kill Connor."

"Anything?"

"Meh." Jane smirked at his tall friend.

The next day Lisbon sat in her office "9.45pm?" Lisbon shook her head. She couldn't believe that the day had gone so fast. They'd managed to check Ryan and Lucy's alibis and they were both fine.

"Damn it" Lisbon slammed her pen on the desk.

"I made you coffee." Jane walked in and handed her a cup.

"Thanks." They sat down opposite each other and sipped their drinks quietly.

"You okay?" Jane reached forward and squeezed her hand.

"Yeah just tired and frustrated with this case. No one seems to want to give us any information"

Lisbon's phone rang and the two were pulled out of there little bubble. "Lisbon. Great Cho good work."

"Looks like the blue haired girl Layla is Lucy's roommate. Layla's real name is Penelope Grey. She said that Connor came into the club all the time asking her about Rebecca."

"Sounds like he was obsessed."

Lisbon nodded in agreement.

"Does Layla have a boyfriend?"

"Not sure" Lisbon dialled Cho's number. Holding the line she got her answer. "Layla's boyfriend is Sebastian Munroe the club manager."

"Bring him in." Jane suggested.

Turns out they didn't need to interrogate Munroe; as soon as Cho mentioned the words death and penalty he went into a long rant about how Connor was hitting on his girl at the club and that he didn't take the hints to back off. Munroe didn't seem too happy when Cho mentioned that Connor was sweet on Layla's roommate.

"It seems that Layla was getting paid by Connor to give him information about what Lucy was doing." Jane explained at close case pizza.

"She wanted to leave Munroe but didn't have the money so she was subsidising her income with money from Connor." Rigsby added before digging into the pizza.

Both Cho and Van Pelt noticed that Jane and Lisbon sat particularly close to each other but either of them said anything about it they just gave each other a knowing look.

Jane's story about how he once tried to hypnotise himself was interrupted when he received a text message. As he opened the message the jovial look on his face fell.

"Patrick what is it?" Lisbon placed her hand on his shoulder.

The use of Jane's first name didn't go unnoticed.

Without saying a word Jane handed over the phone. Lisbon looked down to see a picture of her and Jane sitting on his car by the river. Jane's arm was around her and she had her head on his shoulder. Underneath the picture were the words.

She's next Patrick. This will be fun. Catch me if you can. R.J