Chapter 3 (Recollection)
Lisbon stood awake in her bed. She was so tired and exhausted but still couldn't sleep. She wanted to forget what had happened two hours ago to forget what had happened in the past ten years. She even wished she had never met Patrick Jane. She suddenly felt livid. It was way past 5 o'clock in the morning and in only half and hour she had to go to work but still she hadn't sleep a single minut. So she decided to get up put on some clothes and make herself cofee to stir her up. As she sat at her kitchen table the warmth of the hot liquid helped her getting back her senses. Notheless she wanted to cry but the tears woudn't come. She would be brave and go to work. Suck up the awful pain and act as if nothing happened last night. She suddenly tought of her team. What would she tell them, that her consultant wouldn't come to work anymore because he hated her and never wanted to see her again. Surely not. Her cellphone abruptely rang which caused her to startle…
"Hi Lisbon it's Grace we have a case" she said "it's between K Street and the 11th they found a head in the Cathedral's bell we need backup" she said
"people are sick" Lisbon said not caring about Van Pelt's reaction
"yeah I know…" she said not sure what to say "I will pick you up in thirty minuts okay" she asked
"no I will get there on my own" she said "thanks for briefing me" she said a lump in her throat
"besides where's Jane ?" the red-hed asked "I called his cellphone but all I get is his voicemail is everything okay ?" she asked like she senses something's wrong
"yeah everything is fine" Lisbon lied "tell the team I have to talk to them when we get there in the meantime tell Cho he's in charge and start gathering evidence" she said
"ok boss" Van Pelt said cheerfully
"Grace" Lisbon said with an almost husky voice
"yes boss" the young women asked insecure
"thank you" Lisbon added
"no problem" Van Pelt responded almost machinaly not knowing what had happened but saying the only sensible thing she could
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Lisbon parked her car in front of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. As a catholic and faithful believer she always loved church, it made her feel so peaceful. How could something so awful could happen in place of contemplation. Her thoughts immediately went back to the very day Patrick Jane had barged in her favorite church after his six month tribulations away from her and the team. She remembered perfectly the pain and the relief, the love and the hate than the forgiveness. What a better place than a cathedral to offer forgiveness. She didn't know if she could anymore. Maybe he had made her loose faith after all.
She flushed away the thoughts when she saw the sirens and the police cars parked in front of the pavement of the cathedral. The CBI was already there and as soon as she arrived. When she presented her badge a tall dark-haired approched her with a glaring smile, a men whom she had never seen before.
"you must be Agen Lisbon" he told her politely "I'm Jonathan Eyre and I'm the chief local of Sacramento" he adds presenting his hand as he introduced himself
"nice to meet you special agent Eyre" she said shaking the hand he had offered her
"let me lead you to your team" he said as she walked out "my agents will be happy to help you on with the following investigation" he told her with a grin as he led a hand on the small of her back as to guide her to the crime scene
Lisbon found the gesture odd from a men she didn't know and strangely familiar all the same. She then remembered of her consultant doing this gesture numerous times. She then felt sick so she chased the thought right away.
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"Hi boss" Cho said with his usual stoic tone
"Hi Cho" responded Lisbon nonchalentely and the asian man confonded her low tone for tiredness
"the victims is caucasian female the forensics haven't identified her yet…" as Rigsby started to brief Lisbon on the case she interrupted him
The sudden glares at her and gave her a huge lump in her throat. She then took a moment to look at the dim light of the sunset reverberating at the church bells and feel the wind blowing on her face before taking a deep breath and speak.
"I'm sorry but there is something I have to all talk to you about" she started "I know this is not the place nor the time to talk about this but Patrick Jane will no longer be working as a CBI consulltant among our unit" she ended
She heard the light protestation from Van Pelt and saw the look of disapprobation from Rigsby and Cho but ignored them.
"that's it" Rigsby spoke escaping a nervous chuckle
"I would like to give you further explanation but for the moment yeah that's sit" she said trying to contain the sadness bult still her eyes got a bit watery.
"it's about Red John" Cho mumbled with arms crossed and contempt visible on his face
"something along those lines" Lisbon said now a tear runing down her cheeck
She knew her team had seen her sudden outburst of sadness but kept quiet
"I'm not gonna complain" The tall agent spoke hastily
"Wayne" Van Pelt whispered to him and as to rebuke him
"what the guy's a jerk he didn't even say goodbye to us" he defended
"Rigsby's right Jane has give up on us and we will no longer try to help him unless he shows some remorse and promise to no longer put our lives in danger because of Red John…until then he can rot in hell" she said no longer caring if her last statement was unprofessional or not
She was definitly mad at the men but she definitly need to move on with her life and if he wasn't ready then she would not wait for him anymore. She was tired of beeing miserable and would not let him take over her life. Having a change of heart wasn't easy but she was willing to.
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When the team finally got back to the CBI headquarters they continued to work thoroughly on the case. When Teresa Lisbon passed by the bullpen she didn't even look at the poor old brown couch. There was no point since she knew her consultant woudn't be standing there arms crossed behind his head lost in his thoughts.
"Hey boss" Rigsby called as he Lisbon sat at her office's desk.
"forensics got an ID the victim's name is Vanessa Reed. Single. Mid-twenies. Her parents live in Downtown Sacramento said she moved out from home two years ago she now lives on K Street"
"Perfect go check her apartment see if you can find anything" she started "talk to the neighboors see if they saw anything unusal or someone breaking in to her apartment take Cho with you" she finished
"ok boss" closing the door of her office as fast as he had oppened it
The tall agent seemed to want to say something but her death glare stopped him from it. All of the stressed was now releasing from her shoulders. She was alone. It's only then she realized the aching pressure in her skull. The echoing of hard-working agents and lound conversations from upstrairs was pounding in her head like beating drum. She needed a distraction and fast. Something to make her forget all of her pain, the pain of rejection and loneliness. Just as she tought things could go worse, someone violently knocked at her door which make her jump.
A guardian prison cell was standing on her porch
"Are you special agent Senior Teresa Lisbon ?" the cop asked
"Yep that's me" she said in anticipation "what's going on ?"
"it's about Miss Lorelai Martins" the cop said calmly "she has been murdered this morning"
author : oh I know that's not a funny cliffhanger lol but I know most of you won't mind me for getting rid of this very evil character after all Red John's accomplice never last long so it seemed to make sense ! next chapter will both from Jane and Lisbon's POV…don't get excited to fast I didn't say they were going to reconcilliate that much easy. Btw all of the current locations in this chapter exists if you live in Sacramento you will know what I'm talking about haha :D hope you enjoyed xDD