Adventurous Secrets

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde.

^^ I LOVE Oscar Wilde! He's so cryptically intelligent! A lot like Jane ;D

A/N - As Jane said in S2E02 about a victim's secret… "It's an adventure because it's a secret." Jane finds out something VERY interesting about Lisbon…

"You like secrets."

"What?" Lisbon looked down at Jane with a look that clearly said, 'Jane I am working, leave me alone!'

From Lisbons couch Jane smiled, "You like secrets."

"I like secrets?" Lisbon asked, looking at him like he was crazy.

"Do you Lisbon?" Jane asked, pretending to sound surprised, "Why do you like secrets?"

"Jane what the hell are you talking about?" Lisbon asked in annoyance, getting snappier by the minute.

"I'll tell you why you like secrets." Jane said, winding his boss up, he loved to do it because it was so easy, she wasn't exactly a hard person to piss off. He continued, "You like them because when you have a secret you feel special, like you have something that no one else in the world knows you have."

"No." Lisbon said, lying quite well for once, "I don't like secrets Jane."

"Yes you do." Jane said, still looking up at her from the couch, "When you were 17 you dated the High School jock, secretly of course because his father was the coach of the football team and didn't want a girlfriend to distract him."

Lisbon avoided the topic, she looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "I think you've watched High School Musical one too many times Jane."

"Maybe." Jane said casually, not relenting however, "But this happened, you know it did. The secret relationship made it feel special because no one else knew that he was yours and you shared this special secret with him, right?"

Lisbon sighed, staring at him for a long moment, "Yes." She said, he could read her mind anyway, she really didn't see the point in lying to Patrick Jane anymore.

"But then something changed, the secret wasn't so fun anymore…He left for a scholarship?" Jane suggested, but Lisbon shook her head, not looking up from her desk.

"He broke up with you because his father found out?" Jane guessed.

Once more Lisbon shook her head and before Jane could make another guess she took a shaky breath and looked at him, unshed pain in her eyes, "He died." She said in a quiet voice, "In a car crash, his idiot friend got high and drove the car off a cliff into a lake, a week before we were meant to…" She breathed in sharply again and looked back down, unable to find her voice.

"You were meant to run away with him?" Jane asked, now feeling guilty for teasing her. Lisbon nodded and Jane internally slapped himself a couple of times and punched himself more than a few times.

"Lisbon I'm sorry for teasing I-"

"You didn't know." Lisbon said, looking up from the desk, her eyes back to normal, her smile fixed on like nothing had ever happened, "I know a lot of dark things about your past, I guess its only fair I return the favour."

"Lisbon I-"

Once more Jane was cut off, this time by Cho, who knocked once then opened the door, "Boss, case."

In a second Lisbon was on her feet and out of the office and Jane was 5 seconds behind her, so she did have secrets, many of them, but he was wrong about her liking them, she didn't, not anymore.

The End.

A/N - This was my 2nd tag to Season 2 ep 2, there are 2 or 3 more because so much potential story ideas came up in that episode! I wish Jane and Lisbon shared little moments like these where they relied on one another and trusted each other :'(