A/N: New chapter, this one is a little different I guess.
Pairing: Jane/ Lisbon, this time with a tiny hint of Rigsby/ Grace.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Mentalist, it's characters, or any other cool stuff like that.
Patrick Jane had come to expect a lot of things from where he worked and the people he worked with.
He would always expect Cho to be like his right hand man, to provide reasonable argument, dry humour and those brilliant interrogation skills that saw through the majority of his parlour tricks that so frequently baffled the rest of the team. Cho would always be the down to earth friend he had needed in the past, but was more than happy to have now.
He would expect Rigsby to always act as the overprotective brother in the 'CBI family', but change that persona once around Grace Van Pelt, where he would become the good guy best friend who never quite got the girl. He would always remain overprotective of women, something of which has gotten him into trouble before, but always has the best intentions. Jane would expect him to always stay loyal though, to everyone in the team.
He would expect Grace to always stick to her moral and religious beliefs. To always be the member of the team to not back down from him when he insulted her beliefs. He would expect her to return Rigsby's feelings, but will never act on them because of regulations. But who knows? He might just get surprised, which he had come to expect from the team, though he would never admit that.
He had come to expect authentic friendship from Teresa Lisbon. He would expect her to sway his way during an investigation, sometimes even without thinking it through. He would expect her to not admit it, but always feel a soft spot for those involved with family disputes in cases she worked on because of her past. He expected her to wear her silver cross every day because it reminded her of her mother. He would expect her to always try and make her younger brothers proud of her, to prove to them and herself that she is still the strong woman that brought them up. He had grown to expect that she would always be quietly thrilled when he did something to make her blush; he had also come to hope that she would never guess that he liked knowing that.
What he didn't expect from his work place or the people here, however, was that despite it being a constant reminder of the crime he is still aching to commit, it is slowly easing his pain because the people here were slowly filling the hole in his heart.
He didn't expect to accept the death of his wife and child, and most certainly didn't expect it to be because of one person.
He didn't expect to fall in love again.
It is finished!
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