a/n: new chapter, but im going to call it a long filler chapter since its to boring to have the chapter title. okay well, here it is. hope you like it. -anna.

disclaimer: I'd get less sleep than Patrick Jane if I where in the position of owning such an amazing show, but then again, i already get that much sleep, so maybe it could work.

all mistakes my own.

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He lightly picked up Lisbon's resting arm and looked at her watch. 7 a.m. He'd let her sleep 5 more minutes, but it was already to late.

"J-Jane? What are you doing?" Lisbon mumbled.

"Just checking the time, sorry if I woke you, you can go back to sleep if you want." He said apologetically.

"Thats fine, we have to get up anyways, what time is it?" She was rubbing her eyes and starting to clumsily sit up.

"Almost 7, should I wake them up?" His eyes wandered over to Rigsby, VanPelt, and Cho.

"I guess so" She started walking over to her miniature suitcase grabbing a change of clothes.

"Cho" Jane loudly said and started to shake him. "Cho!" He yelled.

"Oh god man you scared the crap outta me" Cho yawned and started to open his weary eyes.

"Sorry" he smiled and walked over to VanPelt & Rigsby's bunk.

"Get up sleepy heads!" He nudged Rigsby's head and tapped Grace's shoulder.

They both moaned and turned around, their backs facing Jane.

"C'mon lovebirds rise and shine"

This got both Grace and Rigsby to almost fall out of their beds, and also helped in giving their cheeks a nice red color. Lisbon shot a glare at Jane, they weren't supposed to talk about it, Lisbon didn't know, or that was what everyone else outside of the team thought. It really didn't help her conscience to be constantly reminded of her breaking of CBI rules.

"Coming dude, can you keep it down?" Rigsby rubbed his eyes as VanPelt started to crawl down from the top bunk.

"Morning" She stretched and smiled at everyone.

"Listen, we have to tell you guys something" Lisbon started to walk towards Jane.

"What? Is something wrong?" VanPelt asked, confused.

The whole team had worried expressions on their faces.

"Eh, not really, its just that we think the captain has gone missing." Jane stated as though they where talking about the weather.

"What?" Grace shrieked.

"What do you mean he's missing? You can't go missing on a boat, unless-" Cho started.

"Unless someone throws you overboard." Jane said, once again as if it where an everyday conversation.

"What are we going to do?" Rigsby asked.

"Well, I think we should look for him a little more, i mean for all we know, he could be locked up in some storage closet." Jane stated.

"No, i think we need to call for help" Lisbon said now looking at Jane.

"Well I think we shouldn't be irrational until we are sure something is wrong" He threw back with a calm voice.

"Oh right, because you idea's always turn out so wonderfully" she said sarcastically " and weren't you the one that said you had one of your stupid feelings " she made air quotes when she said the word, " that someone else was one board?"

"Y-yes, but if you recall I-"

"Hello? Guys?" VanPelt said nervously.

Lisbon turned back to the team, "Right, sorry. Okay, well Im the boss here and I say we at least tell people where we are before we drift of into the middle of the atlantic! Im calling Hightower." She jumped back when the boat shook and they heard a crack of thunder. "Great" she said through gritted teeth, dialing the CBI numbers on her phone.

"You really think your going to get reception here?" Jane laughed.

"R-right" Lisbon shook her head as if pushing unwanted thoughts away.

"Theirs a CB radio in the captains office, we can use it to get some kind of signal back, maybe connect to some police scanners." She suggested.

"Good idea, lets go check it out, you guys start changing" Jane told the team as he and Lisbon walked towards the area where the captain sat.

"Dont worry Lisbon we'll get out of this" Jane whispered to her while they where walking.

"Why would i worry?" She said trying to sound assure.

"Oh you can just stop hiding it, I know your afraid of boats for some reason that is beyond me. Its nothing to be ashamed of, we all have our phobias" he smiled.

"Oh really? Well then what are you afraid of? Hm?" She asked now curious.

"Me?" he said uneasily.

"Yeah you" she smirked.

"Um" he started.

"Ha, see, not all of us want to admit what we're scared of." she stated.

"Fine, your right." he said quickly, but his thoughts said something different, Im afraid of loosing you, Im afraid that their really is no point anymore, Im afraid that theirs no hope, Im afraid to hurt one more person.

"Here we are" Lisbon opened the door.

Jane walked over to the cb radio and started fiddling around with it, "Hm, interesting"

"Just don't break it" Lisbon said and started to try and get a signal.

"Whats wrong?" Jane asked as he saw the confusion in her eyes.

"Its not working, something is messed up, " she picked it up and examined it, "look" she pointed at the perfectly clipped wires.

"Someone really is on board" she whispered, slowly setting the thing down.

"And we are in the middle of nowhere."

"With no communication"

"And no way to get help"

"Crap."


"What do you mean?"

"Are you saying we are stranded out here?"

"What are we going to do!?"

The team was panicking as Lisbon attempted at calmly telling them that they not only had no capitain, but also no form of communication.

"Well, someone must realize that we have gone missing, and they'll send help" VanPelt suggested

Jane laughed and nodded. "What?" Lisbon snapped.

"You really think anyone will notice we're gone? Look at us, we work 10 hours a day with no one but each other, we don't know anyone else who will notice we are missing," he got some 'excuse me?' looks from his coworkers."well i mean, the people you know outside of work won't notice since its part of our job to go a few days without contact."

"Well Hightow-" Lisbon started.

"Hightower is sadly confused. She is new and has no idea what to do, I doubt she'll notice her least favorite team hasn't called her." jane stated mater-of-factly.

"Well then mister know it all, what do you suggest we do?" Lisbon asked.

"Hm, me? I think we should solve this case." He smiled and disappeared from the room.

"Oh damn. Jane! Where are you going?" Lisbon called after him and started to follow.

Jane wandered to the room where the captain should have been sitting, " Looks, the room is a complete mess, the papers disheveled and everything is all of the place, obviously, something happened in here, their was some kind of a fight. So, he runs out to the deck in hope to get away from said murderer, and is, thrown overboard? So, in a hurry to escape, the killer runs up and hides." He point above them. "We need to find him, but not to worry, we are not dealing with someone that has too much intelligence, "

"How-"

Jane started to walk around on the deck and stopped next to the small lifeboat " he could have escaped with this, but he decided to hide instead, unless -" Jane was cut of by a disturbing thought.

"What is it? Unless what Jane?" She asked .

"Unless, he wants to kill us too." He turned to her and she ran inside to grab her gun and inform the team what they where going to do.

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Yes, I know, boo to me for making another boring chapter, but i had to make one where they figure out whats going on & tell the team. I hope it will start to move along in the next one. Thanks for reading, it would absolutely make my day if you left me a review, it doesn't matter if its just one word (even though more is definitely accepted ;) it lets me know people are reading my story.

-andixx.