Hi! I'm really happy, I hope you like this chapter! Please read and review. Have an amazing day! Oh yeah I almost forgot... I saw The Mentalist season 5 premiere, it was awesome. But I was sad because Grace wasn't in a lot :( Oh well... I still LOVE The Mentalist

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Chapter 7

It was a rainy Sunday morning; Grace was eating breakfast with Alexis. She was waiting for Sophie to arrive so she could get to work. She heard a knock on the door. Grace stood up and opened it "Hey Sophie!" Grace said cheerfully

"Hi" Sophie smiled.

Alexis came running down the hallway bouncing up and down "Hi Sophie!"

"Hey there Alexis, how are you?" Sophie asked

"I'm awesome!" Alexis answered energetically

"I have to get to work. Bye Sophie, thank you!" Grace said as she collected her stuff. She scooped up Alexis and spun her around, Alexis giggled. "Bye Alexis, I love you" Grace said, placing Alexis back on the ground

"Bye Gracie, I love you too" Alexis said.

Grace waved and said "I'll see you too, after work. We can have pizza!"

They had made it a tradition that every Sunday Grace, Alexis, and Sophie would have pizza together.

"Okay, see you then Grace!" Sophie said

"YAY! See you soon Grace! I can't wait" Alexis cheered

"Bye, I'll call you when I'm at work" Grace loved how excited Alexis could about little things, she would always get so happy about little things. Honestly the little girl was always so positive, it was one of many things Grace really loved about Alexis.

When Grace pulled up to the CBI building and climbed out of her car. When she got to the office she saw Jane making tea and Lisbon in the bull pen.

"Good morning Lisbon" Grace said cheerily. She sat down at her desk and put her stuff down.

"Good morning Van Pelt" Lisbon said, Rigsby and Cho walked in and greeted Grace and Lisbon.

Just then Lisbon's phone rang "Agent Lisbon" She said as she answered.

A few minutes later she hung up "Another murder?" Jane asked as he walked in

"Yeah" Lisbon said

"Oh goody! I was starting to get bored, time for some fun!" Jane said enthusiastically

Lisbon rolled her eyes and looked back at Grace, Rigsby, and Cho.

"Like I was saying… Late forties, no kids, not married, his name was Jared Benwood" Lisbon informed her team

They all nodded, "Jane, Cho, and…" Lisbon paused as she pondered whether to take Grace or Rigsby with her. She hadn't taken Grace out in the field for a while and the younger agent had proved that she was just as good as any agent so Lisbon decided to take Grace "Van Pelt you come with us too. Rigsby you stay here look up the victim and see what you find."

Grace smiled proudly, but Rigsby frowned. The team followed Lisbon out, leaving Rigsby behind. Grace mouthed an 'I'm sorry' to him as she left.

They were on their way to the crime scene when Grace realized she had forgotten her cell phone at her desk. She weighed her options, she could ask Lisbon to turn around and let her get it or she could deal with it. What could happen in a few hours? She didn't really need her phone and she really didn't want to annoy Lisbon, especially right now. After a 40 minute car ride with Jane, Lisbon wasn't really in a spectacular mood and Grace preferred to be alive at the end of the day- Car rides with Jane tended to make Lisbon hostile, aggressive, and unpredictable. Jane tended to have that effect on people, but Grace had to admit Jane was pretty fun to be around. So she ultimately decided she would just wait.

They pulled up to the crime scene, it was a thick forest. They saw the body and walked over. Jane and Lisbon studied it. Cho started talking to a police officer about the victim and Grace was talking to the person who had found his body.

Lisbon's phone rang, it was Rigsby "Lisbon" She said

"Hey, it's Rigsby. I found some information on Jared Benwood."

"And…"

"He had a record of kidnapping kids. He was released from prison last year."

"Okay, nice work Rigsby. Let me know if you find anything else out."

"Will do boss. Bye"

"Bye" Lisbon said and hung up.

She informed her team about Jared Benwood. Grace groaned silently, she hated kidnappers, kidnapping was just a sick and a terrible thing to do. After searching the crime scene for a few more hours the team headed back to the CBI headquarters.

Grace listened as Jane and Lisbon discussed the case

"He was only killed an hour or two before we came" Jane stated

"How do you know?" Lisbon questioned

"The blood hadn't completely dried" Jane stated simply

"True" Lisbon agreed

Grace zoned out and looked out the window, her thoughts drifted to Sophie and Alexis. She couldn't wait to see them.

When the team got back to the bull pen they talked about what they had learned at the crime scene and Rigsby told everyone what he had learned about Jared Benwood.

Once the group dispersed Lisbon assigned everyone their job. Grace was going to go with Lisbon to talk to Jared's family.

As Grace rushed out of the building she slid her phone into her pocket. Lisbon stepped into the driver's seat and Grace sat next to her.

"How's Alexis?" Lisbon asked with a smile

"She's good" Grace replied happily, Alexis always brought a smile to her face

"Does she like kindergarten?"

"Oh, she loves it! She's doing really well too; her teacher says she's top of the class."

"That's great!"

"Yeah and she's been making lots of friends."

"I can imagine!" Lisbon said

"Hey, I promised Alexis and Sophie I'd call them. Would you mind if I called them now?" Grace asked hopefully

"Go ahead" Lisbon told her

"Thanks!" Grace said

She pulled out her phone and turned it on. She had over 10 missed calls from Sophie. Lisbon watched Grace, her face turned pale and she stared worriedly at her phone.

"Is everything okay Grace?" Lisbon asked gently.

Grace nodded slowly, Sophie was probably just asking if Alexis could have ice cream or something. She was just being paranoid. "Yeah, I'm fine. It's just I have a lot of missed calls from Sophie." Grace answered

"Oh, did she leave a message?" Lisbon asked

"Yeah, she left a bunch. I'll listen to the most recent one" Grace told Lisbon

"Okay" Lisbon said

Grace clicked on the message and listened she heard Sophie's voice it was strained, weak, and worried "Grace I'm so sorry, help me please" Sophie said desperately. Grace froze and dropped her phone her mind was racing with possibilities of what happened. Something must have happened to Alexis. Everything felt fuzzy and she was having trouble thinking, she couldn't lose Alexis. First her sister and then Alexis too, no it wasn't possible. Alexis had to be okay, she couldn't lose both of them. It would be too much, she needed to know what happened.

"Grace? Grace what happened…" Lisbon asked quietly

Grace didn't say anything she didn't trust herself to talk with out crying. She simply picked up her phone and handed it to Lisbon.

Lisbon listened to the message, she leaned over and hugged Grace. Grace was now sobbing and shaking her head in disbelief.

"Let's go to your apartment and find out what happened. I'm sure everything is going to be okay" Lisbon said

Grace nodded but she didn't really listen to what Lisbon was saying she kept thinking about Alexis and the sound of Sophie's voice desperately saying "Help" replayed in her mind.

A bit of a cliff hanger but nothing major. If you use your Jane-like qualities you can probably figure out what happened to Alexis, any guesses? Thanks for reading, please review!