Chapter 4
They arrived and Sabrina locked her bicycle on the carport. Jane and Lisbon got out of the car and followed her. She opened the door with her keys and let them in. 'Mum?' she shouted but there came no response.
'Hmm' she said and walked through the entry hall. On the left side there was the living room and right to her kitchen and dining room. Then she saw a little piece of paper at the wall next to the stairway to the first floor. Jane and Lisbon followed the girl and read the note.
'Dear Sabrina,
As you may know I like to keep my anonymity. I fully trusted you and you disappointed me deepest. I hope this will be a lesson for you not to betray me anymore. If you still don't know what I have done to your mother up in your sleeping room you can ask Jane standing behind you who can explain without the need to being a psychic.
Sincerely, your loved dad'
'Oh my god' Lisbon murmured silently and stared at the little red smiley under the letter which was printed by computer. Without a word, Sabrina ran upstairs, taking to stairs in one and stopped in the upper hall.
'Sabrina?' Lisbon shouted coming upstairs after her but Jane hold her back. Sabrina didn't turn around but stopped in front of the door to her room. Lisbon freed herself from Jane's grip and walked next to the little girl.
'You don't have to—' she started but Sabrina already opened the door. Lisbon's glance directly fell on the huge, crying and bloody smiley at the wall over the bed. The girl fully opened the door and they noticed the body of a thirty-nine year old woman lying on the floor. Several scratches and stab wounds decorated her body.
'Oh my god' Lisbon commented and took Sabrina into a big hug. Jane now entered, too and looked at the room of the pupil. It was full of books and posters of sport teams and he directly walked toward her desk.
It didn't take long for him to open an inconspicuous box and saw dozens of letter, most of them addressed to motels or hotels in California. The name was Roy Doe and each of them had a little smiley on it, painted with a biro so that it didn't attract any attention.
'You're mother didn't know about them?' he asked and looked at the two women staring at the body.
'No. I filtered them from the usual letters before she saw it. Most time it worked and a few times not and I got a lot of trouble' she said.
'You're not crying.'
'I can't cry that fast…I don't know why' she answered but Jane had to admit that she didn't look that well either.
'Come on, we're going down to the kitchen and talk a bit' Lisbon said and put the arm around her shoulder.
'Jane, can you please call Van Pelt and get a team her' she ordered and the counselor saw how the women walked out of the room. He put out his cell phone and called Van Pelt's number. 'Hey' she answered.
'Hey, Grace. We have a new case.' He gave her the address but didn't tell that it was a Red John murder. Now, he first wanted time to think. He closed the door and examined the room. There were no photos in it, neither her mother nor any friends were pictured. There were to posters, one of a handball and one of a soccer team, unusual for girls, however.
Most of the books were school books but also classical poems seemed to have been in her interest. There were notes for piano but he hasn't seen one yet. Probably she only played in school. Jane opened draws and searched her things. He found a knife in a double-bottom-draw of her clothes cupboard.
He took a look at it and it was exactly the one Red John used. He shrugged and put it back. He found more evidence that she really was in some kind of relation to him and also found picture in a little box showing the building of Visualize or Bret Stiles. The images seemed to be taken secretively because the perspective was a bit curious.
When nothing more was in interest he left the room and walked down stairs, exactly in the moment when Rigsby, Van Pelt and Cho entered the house. There was more police coming but the three CBI agents were the fastest.
'So what have we got?' Cho asked when they saw Lisbon and Sabrina sitting at the kitchen table together.
'The body is upstairs. And please bag and tag this note over there' the boss ordered and the agents nodded. Jane followed them upstairs again to help them make understand that this girl they had just met was the daughter of their most hunted serial killer.
'Do you have any idea where Red John can hide right now?' Lisbon asked when the agents disappeared upstairs.
She shook her head. He has a lot of friends and a lot of names.'
'How do you contact him?'
'I've got a number. It's a prepaid phone and the GPS chip is disabled. Don't ask me why I know.' She put her cell on the table.
'I will have to check the number anyway' she explained. 'Do you have any relatives?'
'I have an aunt, she lives in DC' she explained.
'I will call her. But you're first coming with us to Headquarters for an official statement, okay?'
She nodded and then they already drove back to DBI HQ.
'What do you think?' Lisbon asked Jane when they were alone in her office.
'I think that she wants to help us. She knew what happens when she gives us information.'
'You think she knew he would kill her mother?'
'No, but she didn't seem much surprised, did she?'
'Jane, she has just lost her mother!'
'Do you think she loved her?'
'Jane?'
'I mean, she forbid her to get in contact with her dad.' 'Because her dad is a psychopathic serial killer.'
'She's Red John's daughter and she decided to help us to find him. The death of her mother was her sacrifice' he said in amazement. Lisbon just couldn't believe her ears. She rolled her eyes and walked out of the office to where Van Pelt, Cho and Rigsby worked. Sabrina sat next to Van Pelt and watched her doing her job.
'What about the Linda Parker case?' she asked.
'Solved. We've got a confession and they already got him away' Rigsby informed her.
'Good' Lisbon decided when another woman appeared in the office.
'Excuse me, I'm Carina Johnson. I'm Sabrina's aunt' she explained and hugged Sabrina. Lisbon smiled at her and invited her to sit down so that they could talk about how to get on.
When Lisbon and Carina talked alone, Sabrina visited Jane upstairs in the attic.
'Hey' she greeted and sat down next to him at the table.
'Any idea how it will go on?' he asked.
She shrugged. 'Only one week until school is over. I have a scholar ship for medicine at Sacramento University.'
'I've heard that. It's great.'
'I've found a night job as a waitress and I hope that I can pay a small flat with it while I study' she explained.
Jane nodded. 'You don't want to live with your aunt, right?'
'I don't want to go to DC. And my mum and her weren't the best sisters. She was angry on my mum because she got pregnant without being married and then got a baby from a serial killer.'
'I understand that.'
'Hey, Jane. I…I'm sorry what happened to your wife and child. You must know…the evening after he had killed your family, he visited me at home. My mum was out so he could see me. He…told me what you did…I was eleven…and I didn't feel anything…I still…'
'It's okay…You still don't feel anything toward any murder, right?' he asked curiously.
She looked up.
'You're a psychopath' he said in a very direct tone.
She looked back on the table.
'You know that. Because you don't feel any bad when people are hurt or die.'
'I'm like my father' she sounded a bit sad or she just was a good actress. Jane thought the first conclusion to be the right one.
'Maybe. But this doesn't mean that you're gonna do the same as he does. Only the point that you want to help me already proves that' he tried to cheer both of them up. 'And as soon as you hear from him, you call me, okay?'
She nodded and they looked up when Lisbon entered the loft. 'Your aunt and I have spoken. She will take you home now' she informed and Sabrina said good bye to Mr. Jane.
It was two weeks later and Jane or the team haven't heard about any new action of Red John. Jane still was in contact with Sabrina who already waited table in a night club in Sacramento to pay her very tiny flat in one of not the best districts of the town.
Jane had a bit pity with her but she had wanted to live there. She seemed to feel attracted by the darker sides of the town and Jane didn't doubt that she inherited some of Red John's attitudes.
It was early morning, around four o'clock when Sabrina came home from her job. Studies would only start in three months and so she had time to save a bit money. She was glad to have a full time scholar ship and used most of her free time to study. She entered the door to her rooms in the big, shabby skyscraper and stopped immediately when she saw a man sitting on the chair in the kitchen. She closed the door behind her and threw the keys on the shelf.
'Dad' she said in surprise and removed her jacket. She walked toward him and hugged him deeply. Then she sat down and waited for an explanation why he suddenly appeared here again.
'He believed you?' Red John asked. He had a slimy, evil voice and his dark-blue eyes were fixed at her brown ones.
She nodded. 'You sure that I had to reveal so much information about you?'
'I need him too trust you, Sabrina' he smiled. 'And I think that it is gone so far that he believes everything you say. Could get quite fatal for him.'
She smiled looking at her evil father and wondering what plan he had to finally finish off Patrick Jane. She knew he wouldn't kill him, he loved him too much.
But she really liked the idea to play a role in the newest game Red John was playing with Jane.
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