The Cruellest Prison
Chapter 10 - Any Minute All the Pain Will Stop
A/N - I lied. I said nothing till Sat/Sun, but I really wanna finish this so I can start on my new fic, "Dear Teresa." So here is another chapter and as usual, I don't own the mentalist or for that matter the name of the chapter, Take That own the wonderful song "Patience" I just singing it really badly! :3 Hope you enjoy! Xx
Patrick Jane strode through the hospital with a determined air about him, he was going to see Lisbon whether the Doctors said he could or not.
"I'm here for Teresa Lisbon." Jane said when he reached the desk. The woman glanced up at him and typed something into her computer, "Mr. Jane?" She asked, Jane nodded, "That's me."
The Nurse glanced at the screen again before smiling up at Jane, "Your fiancée was moved out of isolation this morning Mr. Jane. She's in room 403 on the 4th floor."
Jane actually grinned, his life was falling apart at the moment, but Lisbon had been moved out of her isolated ward which could only mean she was getting better, that one little thing made his whole world seem so much brighter. "Thank you." Jane said happily to the nurse as he practically skipped to the elevator.
The elevator ride up to the 4th floor seemed to take forever, but when he walked out he spotted room 403 right across the hall, he walked over, nervous and happy at the same time and entered the room. It was the complete opposite of how it had been the last time he had seen her. She had been crazy, with wild eyes and a manic way about her. Now she was peaceful, she was lying in the white hospital bed, her raven hair spread out all around her head, she looked the vision of perfection.
With a soft smile on his face Jane sat on the chair by her bed, took her hand in his own and watched her for a moment. She was breathing deeply and he was glad to see she only had one wire attached to her arm, before there had been so many wires. She wasn't on life support, just meds for the pain and suddenly Jane's life felt so much better.
As he watched Lisbon breathe in her sleep he didn't care that Cody Simpson was Red John, he didn't care that he wasn't on that mission because he was here instead and for him, here was the best place to be at the moment.
"I've missed you Lisbon." Jane whispered, knowing Lisbon was so lost in sleep that she wouldn't hear him, but wanting to speak anyway.
"We've all missed you, the team doesn't function as well without you and I can't function without you." He tried not to get teary as he squeezed her hand lightly and gently kissed her forehead. He lay his head next to her arm and felt the exhaustion of the events of the past few days kick in and with Lisbons hand in his own he drifted into a peaceful sleep.
The assault team, led by Grace, marched proudly into the serious crimes unit bullpen where Hightower awaited them.
"We caught Red John, aka Cody Simpson, aka the Mole." Grace told her, Hightower smiled, "Good work Agent Van Pelt." She said before turning to Rigsby, "Get him in an investigation room and lock the door, we are not letting him escape."
Rigsby nodded, "Yes Ma'am." Rigsby along with a few of the assault team went to follow the Boss's orders and the rest of the assault team filed out to disarm themselves, after a shuffle of people leaving only Hightower, Grace and Cho remained.
"I'm going to call Jane and-"
"We'll tell him." Grace interrupted as Hightower got her cellphone out, "Uh, Cho and I will tell him, if you let us go and visit Lisbon in the hospital, that's where he is right?"
Hightower smiled a little, "Yes, when he's not here these days he's there. You can go visit Lisbon and tell Jane the news, but I need you back here soon to deal with this."
Grace nodded, "Thank you Ma'am." She told her Boss and she meant it.
Hightower nodded, "Take Rigsby with you, oh and tell Lisbon I'm asking for her."
Cho nodded, "We will, thank you Ma'am."
Hightower nodded once more and watched as Grace and Cho went to get Rigsby before leaving in the elevator. She had always been taught that caring too much was a problem in her line of work, but the more she worked with the CBI Serious Crimes unit, the more she started to change her mind.
The team walked into Lisbon's hospital room to a very adorable scene, Lisbon and Jane, both asleep, hand in hand.
Grace grinned at Rigsby, "That's so sweet." She whispered as she placed the flowers they had bought Lisbon on the bedside table and put their get well card and box of chocolates next to them.
"Do you think we should go?" Rigsby asked, glancing at the private scene between his boss and the consultant.
Grace shook her head, still smiling, "One of them will wake up soon." She said as she sat down on the sofa in the room, the other two joined her, "So does this mean Boss and Jane are finally gonna get together?" Rigsby asked Grace who shrugged, "Maybe, its not against the rules." She reasoned.
"Its not?" Rigsby asked, Grace nodded and was about to reply, but Cho did it for her, "It was against the rules with you two because you are both Agents, but Jane's just a consultant."
Rigsby looked bewildered and Grace rolled her eyes, "Did you read the CBI rulebook you got when you joined?"
The tall man scoffed, "No." At the look on Graces face he asked in surprise, "Did you?"
"Yes." Grace hissed, "And Cho did too!"
Rigsby turned his attention to Cho, "Seriously?"
Cho shrugged, "So?"
Rigsby scoffed again, "Rubbish."
Grace rolled her eyes at the man for the second time, "Be quiet Rigsby, they're asleep!"
"It's kinda hard to sleep with you lot bickering." Jane announced, making Grace and Rigsby jump, Cho just glanced at him unsurprised.
Jane grinned at his team, "How was the mission?"
Grace glanced at Rigsby who shook his head and looked pointedly at Cho, seeing no way out Cho answered, "Good. We found the underground hideout and we found a massive lab with computers that showed you on security cameras everywhere, as well as a massive room with pictures of you on every wall and we cornered Red John. He's at the CBI right now."
Jane's eyes widened, "You caught him?"
Rigsby nodded, "Yeah, looks like he's gonna get the death penalty too."
Jane looked confused and awed at the same time, it was almost as if his brain didn't know whether he should be happy that Red John had been caught or angry that he hadn't been the one to find him and kill him, he wasn't going to get his families revenge now and he didn't know how he felt about that.
He was going to leave, leave Lisbons side, leave the hospital, go for a walk and maybe never come back, but as he stood up and tried to slip his hand out of Lisbons she grasped it tighter in her sleep and in a pained moan said, "Patrick."
Immediately Janes eyes softened and he was by her side again, sitting in the hard plastic seat, vowing silently not to move, looking at her with such adoration that it almost made Grace cry.
"I'm not going anywhere Lisbon." Jane mumbled against her hand and for once he believed it himself. He saw that she was more important than Red John, she always had been. She was more important than revenge and really by moving on and loving again he was taunting the man because he thought that Jane couldn't be happy again, but he could, Lisbon had made him realise that.
He saw that his wife and child wouldn't want him to become a murderer for them, they would want him to move on and live a normal life and he would do that, for them, for himself and for Lisbon.
He was fed up living for Red John, he was living for himself now.
Jane was drawn out of his epiphany when Grace chuckled, she was looking down at him with a grin on her face looking very mischievous.
"What?" Jane asked cautiously.
Graces smile only widened, "You read peoples minds and see their emotions every day. For once you need to read yourself Patrick Jane."
Jane looked at her like she was crazy for a moment before looking back at Lisbon, the moment his eyes fell on her face a small smile tugged at his lips, he heard Grace chuckle, but he didn't mind that time because in his heart he knew she was right.
To Be Continued!
A/N - The next chapter will be the last one, Lisbon wakes up and stuff happens =] Might do an epilogue after Chapter 11, but I'm not sure.
Hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, thank you! xx