"Damn it Jane, what did I tell you before you left." Lisbon was sitting at the small conference table that was in front of Cho's desk reading a file. She looked up at Jane as he walked into the bullpen. It was obvious that he had been punched in the nose and Lisbon knew who probably the person who punched him.
"I'm sorry Lisbon, I really am." Jane had a look of genuine sorrow and Lisbon's heart ached because it would seem that he had really tried to stay out of trouble.
"Ok, what happen?" Lisbon asked as Jane took a seat a seat on the couch. Jane then sighed before starting to tell Lisbon what had happened.
(A half hour earlier)
"What can I do for you Agent Cho, Mister Jane." Mr. Hallsworth asked as Cho and Jane entered Hallsworth's house.
"Agent Cho has a few more questions for you." Jane looked around the house, it was the first time he had been there, and he was trying to get a feel for Hallsworth by studying the surroundings.
"Well I'm glad to help in any way I can Agent Cho." Hallsworth replied as he led Cho and Jane to the living room.
"Mister Hallsworth, you told Agents Rigsby and Van Pelt that you were at a bar when Miss. Madison was killed." Cho said as Jane turned his attention from the room to the man they were interviewing.
"Yeah I was." Hallsworth replied in a confident tone.
"Well we talked to the bar owner and it turns out that the bar was closed that day because of a broken pipe." Jane noticed the subtle signs that Hallsworth was about to lie.
"It was?" Hallsworth questioned as if he thought that Cho was lying to him.
"Yes." Cho replied as he crossed his arms.
"Well then, I guess that I was at church then."
"That's a lie." Jane said earning a glare from Hallsworth.
"What makes you say that?" Hallsworth asked in an annoyance laced tone.
"Well only someone who is deeply devoted to their faith would go to church on a day other than Sunday." Jane knowing that he was about to break his promise to Lisbon.
Hopefully you will forgive me Lisbon Jane thought knowing that the Senior Agent - the woman that he loved and mother of their child - would be very upset when she found out that he broke his promise to her, and if Hallsoworth's reaction was going to be what Jane thought it would then she would know as soon as she saw him.
"How do you know that I'm not deeply devoted to my faith?" Hallsworth asked knowing that Jane had caught him in a lie.
"Well you don't have a single item of faith anywhere in sight" Jane started as he gestured to the room around them, causing Cho to glance around the room as well, "In my experience those who are deeply devoted to their faith usually have a few items that say that out and about."
"So you're basing your opinion that I'm not deeply devoted to my faith because I don't display any items of my faith." Hallsworth replied with an angry chuckle.
"Well that and I know you're lying." Jane was trying to get a response out of Hallsworth because the man really irritated him now.
""I am not lying."
"Jane." Cho calmly said, trying to get Jane to stop because he knew what the outcome would most likely be.
"So then you didn't kill Miss. Madison then." Jane said as bluntly as he could.
"Your lack of denial makes me think that you did it." Jane said with a smug smile when it took Hallsworth a few minutes to answer.
"Why you." Hallworth said before landing a punch to Jane's nose.
"All right on your knees." Cho said as he grabbed the arm that had connected with Jane's nose and brought it behind Hallsworth's back.
"You know, I don't think this is what Lisbon meant." Cho said to Jane, who had covered his nose with a hand, as the Korean agent pulled out his handcuffs, locking them around Hallsworth's wrists.
"You do know that I believe in my faith." Lisbon said once Jane was telling his story.
"Yeah Lisbon, but you don't show it off at the work place or at your apartment," The memory of Lisbon reciting the 'Hail Mary' when she had the bomb strapped to her came to Jane's mind, "The closest you come to showing off any item of your faith is your necklace."
Lisbon then ran a finger over the cross necklace her mother had given her before her death.
"So let me guess." Lisbon started, her head slightly slanted, as she looked at Jane, "You made him hit you so we could hold him and run down every possible alibi he could use."
"Right, this way nobody would have to drive to see him after its discovered he lied again."
"You think Hallsworth killed Madison don't you." Lisbon said as she rolled her eyes.
"Of course, you think I would break a promise to you if I didn't.'
"The thought has crossed my mind." And how could it not, Jane has lied to her since basically the day they met.
"Well I wouldn't break a promise to you that was this important." Jane replied which surprised Lisbon.
"What's important?" Rigsby asked as he walked into the bullpen from the break room.
"Nothing!" Jane and Lisbon both said as they stared almost wide-eyed at the other.
"Okay" Rigsby replied cautiously as he reached his desk. The tall agent then looked from his boss to Jane and could tell that something was up between the two.
Lisbon gave Jane a slight smile before getting up to go back to her office. As she did Cho had returned to the bullpen from putting Hallsworth in one of the interrogation rooms.
"What's going on with Hallsworth?" Lisbon asked Cho.
"I'm going to keep him on ice for now" Cho replied.
"Good, in the mean time I want you and Rigsby to try to find every place Hallsworth could claim to be the night Madison was killed, and prove that he wasn't there." Lisbon started as she glanced over her shoulder at Jane, who had laid down on the couch looking at her. The Senior Agent then drew her attention back to her two agents, "When Van Pelt gets back I want her to take over for you Cho, so you can interrogate Hallsworth."
"Yes boss." Rigsby and Cho replied.
"And don't let Jane anywhere near the interrogation room." Lisbon pointed over her shoulder to Jane with thumb.
"Don't worry Lisbon, I won't go anywhere near Hallsworth." Jane said as he pointed to his nose.
"Remember what happen the last time you made me a promise." Lisbon retorted, a tiny smirk passed over Cho's face.
"I will keep this promise Lisbon don't worry." Lisbon raised an eyebrow giving the blond consultant a look that said she didn't believe him, a smile then crept across Lisbon's face before she turned and went to her office.
After Lisbon left the bullpen Jane pulled the sonogram out of his inside jacket pocket, making sure that neither Cho or Rigsby would notice, a smile crossing his face as he looked at what was growing in the great Teresa Lisbon - what they created - their child. A part of Jane felt that it was wrong to feel happy that he was going to be a father again, since he had been the reason that his first child was killed, but another part of him knew that it was time - especially since Red John was now dead - to stop feeling so guilty over what had happen. Then a thought popped into his head, if he hadn't antagonized Red John which caused the serial killer to kill his family, then he would have probably never met Lisbon or the rest of the team. The people who followed him to hell and back, people who he came to consider as family.
"Hey Jane, what are you looking at?" Came Van Pelt's voice as she entered the bullpen, drawing the attention of both Cho and Rigsby.
"It's a - It's the sonogram of my daughter." Jane started, annoyed that he had been caught looking at the sonogram and nearly blowing Lisbon and his secret, but luckily he had a reasonable answer, although he didn't like using his deceased daughter in his lie. He knew however that Lisbon wasn't ready to announce that she was pregnant yet, and would most likely kill him if he let it slip, "I found it in the back of a closet at my house the last time I was there."
Jane glanced over at Van Pelt and saw a look of sadness. He knew that the three agents in the bullpen knew what had happened to his wife and daughter. It was the reason he suspected, besides wanting to end Red John's reign of terror and just doing their job, that they had helped him all these years. That was until his six month plan to catch Red John made him fake the deaths of Lisbon and Rigsby. The plan had cost Rigsby his relationship with Sarah, which Jane really did feel bad about. What also made Jane feel bad was how the plan had effected his relationship with Lisbon. It made Jane's heart ache that he had hurt the brunette Senior Agent.
"There is no reason to feel sad Grace," Jane started hoping that what he said would remove the look of sadness off the red head's face, "Red John is dead and I am probably as at peace with what happen to my wife and daughter as I ever will be."
The image of Red John's face when he died, floated through Jane's mind at the mention of the serial killers name. Nobody knew, except he and the guy who called himself Robin Hood, what had exactly happen the night Red John died. That was just the way Jane wanted it.
