Authors Note: Thanks to Ebony10 for being my beta.
It had been a week since Grace had received the chocolate and two since she had received the roses. The chocolate had been really good, the note equally cheesy. She was actually very flattered at the attention that she felt when she got the gifts. She was wondering if today, like the previous weeks, there would be a delivery for her.
They had finished their previous case, it had been the neighbor, and were back in Sacramento. The weather had decided to turn nasty and it was currently looking like World War III outside. The wind was blowing like nothing else, and the rain was coming down in sheets. They were all still here because of the backup generator. The power all over town was out. There were tree limbs all over the ground, and it was really looking nasty.
Even if her secret admirer was going to send her something, she highly doubted that whoever was supposed to deliver it would be coming on today of all days.
"Mail call!" the mail boy called out to the people in the room. "Bet you all thought I wasn't going to come today."
"Not at all." Said Jane "Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night shall keep a post man from his assigned rout. Or something like that."
"That is right, however, it generally applies to the actual mail men. It is however a slow mail day, which is why you get me in person, and not just a bundle of mail dropped at the nearest person's desk."
"How kind of you." Said Lisbon, she had come out of her office when the mail boy had arrived.
"OK, I've got what looks like a bunch of official letters of you agent Lisbon, what looks like more fan mail for our favorite consultant and a package for Agent Van Pelt." He said handing out the mail. "Everyone enjoy!" ha called and walked back out of the room.
"You get fan mail?" Rigsby asked Jane with a smirk.
"Only sometimes." He replied.
The two of them and Cho continued to talk about the fan mail, while Lisbon walked over to Van Pelt's desk. "Who's the package from?"
"There's no return address. Do you think it could be from him?"
"I'd almost count on it." Lisbon responded.
Grace looked at the package nervously. "If you don't open that soon, I'm going to open it myself" said Lisbon.
"Ok, ok, I'll open it." She slowly cut the tape at the top of the padded envelope and put her hand inside. The first thing she pulled out was a card in a light blue envelope. It read simply "Grace" on the front of it. She opened the card and showed it to Lisbon.
"Puppies with balloons, very cute. What's the poem inside say?"
"How do you know there's a poem?"
"You don't have to be Jane to be able to see a pattern."
"Fine." She opened the card and read and reread the poem inside. There was no way that the poem meant what she thought it did.
"What does it say?" Lisbon asked impatiently. By this time, the guys had also come over to see what Grace and Lisbon were talking about.
"Another gift from your secret admirer?" asked Cho.
"Yea." Grace was still looking at the card. Lisbon got fed up with waiting, and grabbed it from her hands
"Thank you." She said and quickly read the card. "Does this mean what I think it does?"
"I don't know. I'm almost afraid to look."
"Well, what does it say?" Asked Rigsby impatiently.
Lisbon looked at Grace for her permission and then read
"Diamonds are clear
Emeralds are green
I'll always be near
If you know what I mean"
"What" said Cho, "Does that mean he sent you jewelry?"
Grace didn't say anything, she just tipped the padded envelop on end and dropped a long unmarked box on her desk. She was nervous, what if it was something really expensive. She took a deep breath and opened the box. She let out her breath and smiled. Lisbon came around the desk to see what was in the box and also smiled.
"So I'm guessing it's not precious gems" said Jane with a smile. Grace just took the jewelry out of the box and held it up. It was a delicate gold chain with a pendant on it that was two hearts twined together.
"It says forever for my love on it." Grace said. "I love it."
"I am so jealous," said Lisbon. "I wish I had a secret admirer."
"I just wish I knew who it was." Grace said. It was very intriguing.
"I'm sure you'll figure it out" Lisbon said patting her on the back. "Alright every one, we may be stuck here for the night, but we still have work to do."
"Sure boss." Said Jane as he turned and went back over to lie on the couch. Rigsby and Cho also walked back to their desks, leaving Grace to look at the necklace. She wanted to put it on, but was going to wait until she got home, incase whoever it was that gave it to her was still watching. It was going to drive her crazy, but she would hold off. If he wouldn't say who he was, she wasn't going to give him the pleasure of knowing how much she liked the necklace. He would just have to wait for a few days to see her wearing it.