This is a bit of a 'Lisbon tells everyone' chapter but I feel its necessary Thanks for all your lovely reviews, they mean so much to me!

A week after the case in Santa Cruz, Lisbon decided that she had to bite the bullet and tell the team. She and Jane hadn't spoken about their kiss outside the motel, but he had made no effort to bring it up, and she sure wasn't going to. She did however, force herself not to avoid him as she had after the last 'incident', and continued to drag him around with her to talk to suspects and relatives.

That Friday (as she reached exactly 12 weeks), she told the team to meet at O'Malley's after work. She tried to busy herself with paperwork all day (they had closed their latest case that morning), not thinking about how she would tell them, or what their reactions might be. By 5 she had run out of excuses to put it off any longer, and she was feeling guilty for holding the team up on their Friday night.

"Shall we go?" she asked them as she locked up her office, pretending not to have noticed that they had all packed up half an hour earlier.

"Yes" Van Pelt smiled at her and made her way towards the elevator, the rest of the team following "wait, where's Jane?"

"Just coming" his voice sounded from behind them. He'd stopped by the kitchen to put his mug away. He grinned at them all, catching Lisbon's eye and giving her a reassuring wink, to which she rolled her eyes with a smile and turned around.

"I need to tell you all something" Lisbon began nervously, as the team sat down at a table at O'Malley's. They looked expectantly at her, Jane included; he was intrigued to see what she would say in response to the inevitable questions about her child's paternity.

"I'm pregnant" she said quickly, worried that if she put it off much longer she might not be able to say it. Van Pelt smiled widely and immediately congratulated her, Rigsby looked surprised, and Cho let the corners of his mouth turn a little "It's just between us so far" she added "so don't mention it to anyone else"

"Of course not" Van Pelt replied, still smiling "so how far along are you? Who's the father? It's not Walter Mashburn is it?"

Lisbon blushed slightly at the last remark. She hadn't realised that her short-lived relationship with Walter was common knowledge.

"Only 12 weeks"

Van Pelt nodded, clearly waiting for a response to her second question.

"And as for the father, it's-" she paused "it's Jane's" she finished quietly.

"James?" Van Pelt frowned, she wasn't aware her boss was dating anyone currently.

"Jane" Lisbon corrected her, watching as the penny fell.

Funnily enough Jane looked more shocked than anyone else. He had had no idea that she was going to tell them that straight away, he had assumed that she'd put it off for a few months at least.

"Jane, as in our Jane?" Rigsby asked, looking rapidly between the two of them.

"Yes, our Jane" Lisbon confirmed, meeting his wide and questioning eyes.

"Well congratulations" Van Pelt burst out "I had no idea you were together! Especially now the rules have been updated and-"

"Oh, we're not together" Lisbon cut in quickly and corrected her. Rigsby's eyes widened slightly, and even Cho looked slightly shocked.

"I'll go and get some drinks" Lisbon said, looking for any excuse to get away from the table for a bit.

"Well you two both owe me twenty bucks" Rigsby muttered to Van Pelt and Cho as soon as his boss was out of earshot "are you and Lisbon really not together?" he added to Jane.

"Really not" Jane replied, still staring at the place Lisbon had just vacated.

"So how did this, well, happen?" Rigsby pressed.

"What?" Jane's head snapped round to look at him.

"You and Lisbon…you know, sleeping together"

"After the Christmas dinner" Jane explained, after checking that Lisbon was safely at the bar.

"I knew there was something going on!" Van Pelt said excitedly "I was sure she was avoiding you after that, I just assumed you'd pissed her off"

Jane nodded and forced his mouth to smile at her, but unable to bring himself to actually reply. He was still shocked that she had told them. He had never expected that to happen, not for another month at least. He looked over to the bar again where he caught Lisbon glancing nervously at him. He smiled, and she shot him a grin back. He turned back to the team, noticing that Rigsby's eyes were also on Lisbon. Jane frowned, and then smiled as he worked out what he was doing.

"She's not showing yet, Rigsby"

"Huh?"

"I can see you looking and wondering how you managed to miss it, but it's not that hard to do. I didn't notice either, not until she told me"

"Oh" Rigsby looked down at the table.

"Do you know the gender yet?" Van Pelt asked excitedly.

"Not for another few weeks" Jane answered "assuming Lisbon wants to know that is. I don't mind either way"

"Oh"

Van Pelt looked carefully at Jane. He didn't show any signs of being a man celebrating the existence of his child. In fact, she thought that he looked worried more than anything. It couldn't be to do with Charlotte could it? They had all watched how he had changed following Red John's death. He was so much happier and relaxed. Maybe he wasn't quite so at peace as she had thought, maybe this child had just thrown him right back to the first time he was expecting a child.

"Here you go"

She looked up to see that Lisbon had returned to the table. She handed out the 4 beers, and took a seat to sip her own lemonade. They sat in an awkward silence for a few moments, all trying to think of something to say. Rigsby's gaze continued to flicker between Jane and Lisbon, who were sat side by side. Cho was staring down at his beer, looking as relaxed as he ever did. Van Pelt bit her lip, worrying about how Jane might react if this child turned out to be another girl.

"So" Lisbon began, unable to take the silent intensity of the situation "it's nice to have a case-free weekend for a change"

"Yup" Rigsby nodded "lots of…free time"

"Hmmm" Jane nodded "lucky that I worked out that the sister was sleeping with the fiancé in time"

"Uh huh" Rigsby nodded "how did you work that one out again? You never told us"

"It was obvious really. He was clearly lying about his alibi, but he had a different type of guilt than someone guilty of murder. Therefore, he must have been sleeping with someone he shouldn't – in this case, his fiancé's sister"

Sleeping with someone he shouldn't.

The relevance of Jane's words sunk into Lisbon, but thankfully nobody else seemed to have picked up on them. Did he think he shouldn't have slept with her? She had definitely thought that to start with. In fact, she had thought that up until last weekend when he had suddenly kissed her. And it was the type of kiss that left no ambiguity that he had wanted her. So what did he want now? Did he just want to sleep with her again (from what she remembered, the first time had been amazing), or did he want something more? She snuck a glance at the man beside her. He was busy explaining something about micro-expressions to the team, probably in an attempt to alleviate the awkwardness of them finding out that their boss was now pregnant with their consultant's child. No, he was in love with his wife. He was attracted to her, Lisbon, and it was obvious that he did feel something for her, but he would never love anyone else as much as he had loved his wife. Were she not pregnant, maybe she would have settled for being his 'second best', but now that she had her baby's happiness and security to worry about she couldn't let that happen. Her child would grow up with two parents who got on well, and who loved it to pieces. She didn't want its upbringing to be tainted by insecurities and tension, even if it meant sacrificing her own possible happiness.

She looked around the table. The awkwardness had gone; they were chatting happily about a case a few weeks ago, whilst Cho took a twenty out of his wallet and for some reason gave it to Rigsby. She frowned in confusion at that, but ignored it. Her team were her family, and just like she wouldn't let her and Jane taint her child's upbringing, she wasn't going to let it taint her team's relationship either.

"You should all go home, enjoy your Friday night" she said suddenly, smiling at them.

"Boss?" Van Pelt asked.

"I've told you what I needed to, you don't all have to feel like you have to stay and try and pretend everything is normal. Go home, enjoy your weekends. You don't know when the next one you'll get might be"

None of them moved.

"I think what Lisbon's trying to tell you is that she's really tired and wants an excuse to go home and sleep" Jane said.

"No" Lisbon glared at him "that's not what I-"

"Sorry Boss, of course you're tired" Van Pelt broke in "and you're right, we haven't had a whole weekend for weeks"

"Yeah, I need to pick Ben up actually" Rigsby added "congratulations boss – both of you actually"

"Thanks Rigs"

Van Pelt and Rigsby said their goodbyes and left together. Cho followed them, muttering congratulations and even smiling at them. Jane and Lisbon were left alone at the table.

"Why did you tell them I was tired?" she demanded.

"Because they weren't going to admit that there was anything awkward and leave. Besides, you are tired"

"I'm not tired" she replied crossly.

"Yes you are, I can tell. Go home, have one of your nice long bubble baths and snuggle up in your sweatpants to watch some mindless TV"

How does he know I have long bubble baths?

"I'll go home, but I'm still not tired" she maintained.

"That works too" he conceded, knowing that she wouldn't back down even though they both knew he was right.

"Well, night then" she stood up to leave.

"Goodnight, have a nice weekend"

She picked up her bag and started to walk away.

"And Lisbon?" he called after her.

"Yes?"

"Thanks for…well telling them, that its mine I mean"

"It's the truth" she said simply "see you on Monday, Jane"

He watched her walk away with a slight feeling of sadness. He wanted to race after her, kiss her, take her home and run her a big bath and make sure she relaxed. Instead he finished his beer and strolled out.

By the time Lisbon made it to 18 weeks, she was becoming increasingly aware that she had started to show. She also found that she was feeling amazing compared to how she had felt for the first 3 months. The nausea had completely subsided, and any extra fatigue she had felt was long gone. Jane was continuing to behave (how he was managing to overcome his usual need to cause trouble, she had no idea) and the rest of the team had already come to accept the news and act with normality about it. She'd told Gable about her pregnancy the previous week, and it was fair to say that he'd looked more shocked than anyone when she had explained that Jane was the father. Besides the inevitable awkwardness of that particular conversation with her boss, he'd reacted fairly well, and was happy to let her take time off for appointments or anything else she might need. That morning she and Jane arrived at the doctors for her second sonogram.

"Morning Lisbon" he called to her as she arrived outside the door, having been waiting for her on a bench nearby.

"Hi" she greeted him, as he stood up to follow her in.

They only had to wait for a few minutes before they were called through into the darkened room. Lisbon was feeling much less nervous this time, and Jane seemed relaxed as ever.

"Before I start, there are a couple of things I need to check" the technician began as they took their seats in the room. Lisbon nodded for him to continue.

"At this stage we should be able to tell you the gender, is this something either of you wanted to know?"

Jane and Lisbon looked at each other. Lisbon vaguely remembered that her doctor had said something about gender at her latest appointment, but she had forgotten to mention it to Jane, who presumably knew from past experience anyway.

"I assume you haven't discussed this" the technician said, noting their conflicted expressions "I'll um, step out for a minute to let you talk about it"

"I completely forgot to ask you" Lisbon admitted "what do you think?"

"I don't mind, whatever you want"

"I kind of want to know" Lisbon said "if you don't mind that is, it just feels weird calling it 'it' all the time"

"Then we'll find out" Jane smiled at her.

"Are you sure?"

"Completely" he reached over and squeezed her hand.

The technician stepped back in, having heard the room go quiet from outside.

"We would like to know the gender" Lisbon told him, shooting a smile at Jane.

"Ok. Secondly, I know you said you didn't want to be screened at a previous check-up, we just wanted to check that that was still the case?"

That was something else that Lisbon hadn't mentioned to Jane. She had decided almost immediately that as long as her baby was healthy, nothing would cause her to change her mind about having it. There was a risk involved with screening, and she simply didn't think it was worth it.

"No" she responded, purposely avoiding Jane's glance.

"Righty, let's get on with this then"

Lisbon lay down on the examination table, feeling almost embarrassed for both Jane and the technician to see her rounded stomach, even though it was entirely natural. The technician rubbed the gel on again, and a few minutes later the image appeared on the screen. Lisbon was amazed how much like a baby it looked already, being able to see its head and limbs.

"Everything looks fine" the technician reassured them "I can't quite tell which gender from this angle though…"

Lisbon and Jane waited patiently as he moved the rod across Lisbon's stomach for a few more minutes.

"There we go" he muttered "you've got a healthy little girl in there"

"A girl?" Jane repeated.

"Yep" the technician confirmed.

Lisbon turned her head slightly to look at Jane. He was smiling at the screen; he didn't seem at all upset about the fact that he was expecting another girl. Maybe her previous concerns about bringing back bad memories of Charlotte had been unnecessary. He hadn't noticed her looking at him, so she turned quickly back to the screen, wanting to take in as much of sight of her daughter as she could. All too soon the screen was turned off and the sticky gel removed from Lisbon's stomach. The technician handed Jane a pair of the ultrasounds as she pulled her top back down and got up from the table.

Jane and Lisbon left the building in silence, and walked out to their respective cars.

"I'll see you at work then" Lisbon told him as she dug her keys out of her bag.

"Bye Lisbon"

As soon as she returned to the office Lisbon was greeted by Van Pelt, eager to know how it had gone. Lisbon answered briefly, and then decided to get her copy of the sonogram out of her bag and handed it to Van Pelt to look at. Cho and Rigsby acted indifferent at first, but as soon as their boss stepped into her office to put her bag down they headed over to Grace to take a look.

"I remember when Sarah and I found out we were having a boy" Rigsby reminisced "I was petrified, knowing how my dad had been"

"Oh shush, Ben is lucky to have you" Van Pelt swatted him good-naturedly "I wonder what they'll call her"

"So do I Grace" Jane replied, having just arrived.

"Jane! Lisbon just told us" Van Pelt gushed.

"Where is she?"

"Her office I think, didn't you come back together?" she frowned.

"We took different cars" he explained, already turning away from them to look for Lisbon.

He found her sitting at her desk, staring absentmindedly at the closed file in front of her.

"You ok Lisbon?" he asked, taking a seat on her couch.

"I'm fine" she replied quickly.

"Teresa"

She looked up at the use of her first name, straight into Jane's 'x-ray' look as she liked to call it.

"Ok…should I have asked you about the screening thing? I mean it's your child - your daughter, as well"

Lisbon had long since given up trying to pretend nothing was wrong when Jane fixed her with that particular look.

"You were worried about that?" Jane looked surprised "I'm perfectly happy without you screening, as long as she's healthy"

"Oh, ok"

Lisbon's eyes dropped back to the file in front of her and she opened it, pretending to scan the first page.

"I did actually have something to ask you, Lisbon"

"Mm hmm"

"I know this will sound crazy, but just hear me out" he began "but I think that maybe we should think about moving in together"

"What?" Lisbon's head jerked up.

"Hear me out" he repeated "it'll make things a lot easier for you in a few months time, and as soon as she's born then we can both look after her when she's waking throughout the night and you're exhausted"

"But" Lisbon racked her brain for protests "but I won't have a spare room, I've only got two bedrooms and one will have to turn into a nursery"

"Which is why I was going to suggest that you come and live with me. I've got enough rooms, and it's nearer to work" Jane replied calmly.

"But-"

"Just think about it Lisbon" Jane cut her off before she could think up another objection.

Thankfully Van Pelt took this moment to knock on the office door, coming to return the sonogram. Seemingly unaware of the tension in Lisbon's office, she placed the sonogram on the desk and thanked Lisbon for letting her look at it. Jane took the opportunity to slip out of the office.

Lisbon stayed in her office for the rest of the day, mulling over what Jane had asked her. Sure, it made sense logistically for them to live together. They would be able to equally share the responsibilities, as well as Jane being able to spend a lot more time with his child than if they continued living as they did now. It would also mean that her daughter would be able to have two parents to bring her up, instead of living with her mother and seeing her father every few days. The main thing holding her back was that the idea of living with Jane petrified her. It was a struggle working with him sometimes, how on earth would she cope if she was living with him as well? And didn't moving in together seem a bit…couple-y?

The pros and cons bounced back and forth in her mind all day, distracting her too much to get much work done. By the end of the day she had come to a conclusion. Whether or not moving in was Jane was a good thing for her was irrelevant; she knew that it would be better for her child, and that was what mattered most to her. Perhaps she was more sensitive to something like this than most as a result of her own childhood, she mused. As far as she was aware, Jane's childhood had left much to be desired in the parents department as well, which was maybe why he was so keen to create as 'normal' a situation as possible.

She found Jane dozing on his couch that evening and told him. He looked a little surprised that she had made her mind up so quickly, but pleased nonetheless. They decided that it was best that she had moved in properly by the time she reached the end of her second trimester, in a month and a half's time.

Lisbon returned home that evening feeling emotionally exhausted. She flopped down onto her couch with a sigh. She was much too tired to contemplate cooking dinner so ordered Chinese, thankful for the day she had decided to put her local takeout contact details on her phone so she didn't have to get up and search for the menu. After a few minutes of relaxation Lisbon sat up suddenly. There was a weird feeling inside her tummy, as if someone had just poked her from the inside. She put a hand tentatively on her swollen stomach as she felt it again. It was different this time, more gentle; like someone was blowing bubbles against her uterus lining. It was bizarre, but strangely comforting to feel the movement inside her. She moved her hand around to the side, trying to see if she could feel the movement from the outside as well. As it came near to where the movement had been, it stopped suddenly. Lisbon removed her hand slowly, and she felt something shift slightly inside her. That was her baby, her daughter, moving around inside her. Lisbon suddenly had the overwhelming urge to tell someone. This was such a special moment – more special than seeing the image on the sonogram, even – and she couldn't just sit here and keep it to herself. She picked up her phone from beside her and dialled.

"Lisbon?" Jane answered "are you alright?"

"I'm fine Jane – she's moving!"

"What?"

"She's moving" Lisbon repeated "I just felt her"

"She is?" Jane replied, suddenly realising who 'she' was.

"She's doing it again" Lisbon nearly jumped in excitement.

"Hold on, I'll come over. Cam you tell her to keep it up?" Jane replied, jumping to his feet from where he was sill dozing on the CBI couch.

"You can't feel it from the outside" Lisbon explained sadly.

"Oh"

"Sorry" Lisbon suddenly felt bad for disturbing him "I just wanted to tell you"

"Don't apologise Lisbon. I'm glad you did"

"Well, ok"

"I don't care if you call me at 3 in the morning to tell me that she turned over" Jane joked.

"I won't go quite that far" she yawned, remembering why she'd collapsed on the couch in the first place. "I'll let you go now"

"Night Lisbon, sleep well"

"Night Jane"

Lisbon hung up and put her phone down next to her again, smiling around her empty living room. A couple of second later her phone rung again, and she picked it up without even bothering to look at the caller; it was nearly always Jane.

"Hi Jane" she answered, smiling at how soon he'd called back.

"Reese?"

Lisbon frowned, that wasn't Jane.

"It's me, Tommy" the voice continued.

"Tommy? Sorry, I thought you were someone else" she apologised "how are you? I haven't heard from you in ages"

"I'm good, really good actually" he replied.

"And Annabeth – sorry, Annie?"

"She's fine, what about you sis?"

"I'm good, how come you're calling? There's nothing wrong is there?"

"Jeez, can I not just call my big sister to say hi?" Tommy joked "actually I do have something to ask, Annie's got a week off school in a few weeks' time and she wanted us to come and visit her aunt for a few days, since we haven't seen you in so long"

Trust Tommy to pull the 'we haven't seen you in so long' card already.

"That would be nice; I could probably book a day off work and we can have a long weekend" Lisbon suggested, quickly calculating how many days leave she had to take.

"There's room for us to crash in your apartment right? I can get a hotel if we need it, but-"

"I've got a spare room" Lisbon reassured him, and then something hit her: she probably wouldn't be living here in a month's time. That thought was quickly displaced by another, much scarier one: she hadn't told her brothers that she was pregnant. Shit. How could she have not told them? She had meant to not long after she told the team, but she'd just never got round to it. Or she'd never plucked up the courage, more like.

"Actually Tommy" Lisbon began, already bracing herself for what was to come "I uh, there's something I need to tell you"

"You haven't got married and not told us have you?" Tommy asked suddenly.

"What? Married?" she spluttered "no I'm not married. I'm actually, well, pregnant"

There was silence from the other end of the line.

"Tommy? Are you there?"

"You're pregnant? You're not just messing with me are you Reese?"

"No, I'm not" Lisbon replied calmly.

"Congratulations then sis. Wow, I didn't even know you had a boyfriend, let alone this"

Tommy sounded like he was reacting fairly well to the news. Then again, he had called her at the age of 20 to tell her that his ex-girlfriend had turned up left him with their child he didn't know he had. Lisbon actually considered lying to him for a moment, and telling him that her and Jane were together just to save herself further questioning from her brothers. She had no doubt that Jane would relish in the opportunity to embarrass her when Tommy and Annie came to stay and they were forced to act the happy couple for a weekend.

"I don't have a boyfriend" she admitted, knowing that telling the truth would ultimately be the best option.

"Who's the father then? He'd better not be leaving you alone in this sis, or else I'll be right-"

"He's not leaving me alone Tommy" she cut in "he's being great actually"

"He'd better be. If he does anything to mess you around Reese, I'll be over there to sort him out"

Lisbon smiled at his fierce attempts to protect her honour, imagining Tommy marching up to Jane's door to demand exactly what he was doing with her.

"Thanks for the support, Tommy. I've got to go now" Lisbon lied "I'll ring up and sort out you and Annie coming sometime ok?"

"Bye Reese"

"Bye"

Lisbon sighed deeply. That has gone…well, better than expected. She'd always known that her brothers would get protective over the whole 'you're having a child with someone but you're not together' issue. Just as long as she could keep Jane's identity a secret until they'd calmed down enough not to try and kill him. Now she just had to ring her other two brothers and tell them, since Tommy was unlikely to last more than a day without telling them, and they'd go mental if they heard it from him first. This was going to be a long night…