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Taking Back the Title
Chapter 3- Taking Back the Title

Later that evening…

After their carnival date, Jane and Lisbon drove out to the CBI building. They had purchased some souvenirs for the team and Jane suggested that Lisbon drop the bag of gifts off in her office so she could distribute the gifts on Monday morning.

Jane and Lisbon arrived on the SCU floor, where Lisbon was a little surprised to discover her office door slightly ajar and papers were scattered across the floor.

"It looks like someone was in my office." she stated in disbelief.

"Actually it looks like that someone is still there." Jane replied, pointing to the light silhouette of a person in her office that was cast from the moonlight outside.

Knowing that the custodial staff had yet to clean this floor, there could only be one other option. An intruder had broken into Lisbon's office. Lisbon pulled her gun from her holster and slowly and quietly walked down the hallway to her office. When she reached her office, she gently pushed the door open and the lights suddenly flickered on. Alarmed, Lisbon shot at the figure. Jane, who had crept up behind Lisbon and turned the lights on, jumped when she fired her gun.

"I didn't think you were going to shoot it Lisbon!" Jane stated, shocked.

Lisbon's jaw dropped as she saw what Jane was referring to. Inside of her office stood a life-size cardboard cut-out of, none other than, Patrick Jane.

"What the hell is this thing?" Lisbon exclaimed.

Jane entered into her office and stood next to the cardboard version of him. He smiled.

"It's me Teresa!" Jane said happily. "Surprised?"

Lisbon placed her gun back in her holster and joined Jane over by the cardboard cut-out.

"Yeah."

"In that case, I win!"

Lisbon looked at him curiously.

"Win what?"

"I am the Prank Master!" Jane declared, slinging his arm around his cardboard self.

"There were some casualties in your victory, though."

Lisbon pointed to the bullet hole in the forehead of the cardboard Jane. Jane looked at the bullet hole and winced.

"When I planned this, I didn't think you would shoot it, woman."

"So, would you like to tell me when you came across this…monstrosity?"

"It's not a monstrosity, Teresa. I think it's rather handsome if you ask me." Jane told her. "I planned this about a week ago. I received a call from Juan saying that he was coming into town with the carnival this weekend. He also told me about a new souvenir thing that the carnival is doing. In addition to caricatures, you can have a picture of yourself blown up to become a life-size cut-out of you. When I heard that, I knew it was perfect. I sent a picture to Juan and he told me that he would have it ready for me when the carnival came to California."

Lisbon let out a loud, very annoyed sigh.

"That's what Juan meant when he said everything was all set and ready to go, wasn't it?"

"Very perceptive, Teresa. So Juan had the cardboard me delivered to the CBI and the team set it up in your office and staged it to look like someone had broken in. They're actually watching this off of Van Pelt's webcam on her computer right now."

Jane walked over to Lisbon's computer and showed her the webcam that was angled to capture Jane's prank in action. Jane pulled the webcam from atop Lisbon's computer and handed it to her.

"Say hi!"

Rolling her eyes, Lisbon mumbled 'hello' to her team, who were watching safely from one of the conference rooms.

"Now tell them that your super-gorgeous boyfriend has reclaimed his rightful title of Prank Master."

Looking into the webcam, Lisbon told her team: "My pain in the ass boyfriend has taken back the title," a devious smile crossed Lisbon's face. "But he shouldn't enjoy his victory for too long because I'm going to take the title back!"
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A/N: And there you have it, Jane managed to take back the title. He's just so devious! I hope everyone enjoyed the story. I do have an idea for a part three, where Lisbon would reclaim the title. Reviews let me know that you're interested :)

Please Review! (I mean really, who doesn't want to tell the world how much they want a life-size cardboard cut-out of Jane?)