So this is it! (not really, there will be an epilogue) The last chapter! I just want to thank you all for sticking out this story until the end! This is my first fanfic ever, so I greatly appreciate all of the advice you guys have given me. Thank you all for your reviews!
Sorry it took so long...... I had finals/regents, cleaning, a week long family vacation, and a house inspector so I've been really busy, and now I'm taking care of a thee month old for a family with a deathly slow internet connection! But this is the last chapter (there will be an epilogue/optional ending for you Jibson [Jello?] and RigsPelt fans)
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While Cho was doing the paper work with Jane in the lockup, Van Pelt had given her statement to Rigsby. Jane and the Lisbon's still needed to give theirs. Since Jane was still down in the lockup, the twins and Lisbon entered the interrogation room with Rigsby. Minnelli and Van Pelt filed into the observation room. They silently watched as the three began their account of what happened.
"Okay- Let's begin with your names whenever you three are ready." Rigsby stated, beginning the official interrogation.
"Our names are Theresa Lisbon, James Peter Lisbon (Jamie for short), and Terrance James Lisbon (Jimmy for short)." Theresa stated.
"This whole fiasco began when I began dating Darlene Rosaline McIssacs-Johnson. She hated how long her name was, and she shortened it--just Rosa. After a while, once I began sleeping with her, I noticed something was odd about her. Once I began sleeping with her, she would always yell out another man's name in bed." Jimmy said before being interrupted by Rigsby.
"How is this relevant?" Rigsby asked, interrupting Jimmy's story.
"If you let him continue, then the relevancy will show itself." Theresa scolded lightly.
"Sorry Boss. Please continue." Rigsby apologized.
"As I was saying before you interrupted, Rosa was yelling out another man's name--Patrick. As time progressed, I realized that she was fixated upon him-obsessed about three weeks ago, I confronted her about it. She got very violent and she fought with me." Jimmy Stated.
"Hearing the commotion, I called Tessie-- our sister and your boss--to come break it up before the neighbors called the cops. I didn't want to get either of them arrested." Jamie added. "As soon as I got off the phone with her, I noticed that it was quiet--next thing I knew, I was hit over the head with something." Jamie continued.
"While he was on the phone, Rosa produced a set of handcuffs from somewhere and pulled a Jedi-Warrior move like Tessie does for a living and cuffed me to a table leg. She went into the Kitchen and came back with a frying pan. She hit me in the back of the head and knocked me unconscious. The last thing I remember is seeing her walk into Jamie's room with the frying pan." Jimmy said.
"When I arrived, the house was quiet. At first I just assumed that the two of them settled their dispute. As soon as I walked into the house, I knew something was up. It was too quiet. I walked through the doorway, and promptly got hit in the back of the head--presumably by Rosa with a frying pan." Lisbon said.
"I was the first to recover from the blow. Us twins were handcuffed together through a hook on the wall, opposite the place where Tessie was. She was tied up with moldy ropes on a nasty old mattress. I didn't recognize where we were. Rosa was in the room too. She was sitting in the corner directly in between Tessie and us. She noticed that I was awake, so she uncuffed me at knifepoint and led me to another room where she re-cuffed me. I believe she then returned to the room where my siblilngs were." Jamie stated.
"I was next to regain consciousness. Rosa basically did the same to me as she did Jamie." Jimmy said.
"When I awoke, I found myself in the state that Jamie described. Rosa noticed that I was awake and she began interrogating me, using some rather unethical techniques--i.e. a unique form of torture." Lisbon said, beginning the long story of what happened to her.
"A little while after Rosa left me with Jamie, she brought me back to the original room, where she was still holding Tessie. I have to give it to Rosa for being the most creative in her ways of trying to get our Jedi-Master sister to talk. I admire and curse my lovely Tessie for being so darn unbreakable. I mean, it's good that she withstood what Rosa was doing, but man, it was aweful." Jimmy said.
The interrogation room was silent for a bit as Lisbon was collecting her thoughts and steeling her nerves to describe the horrific details of her 'interrogation'. Jamie did not want to give the details of the horrific experience that his sister went through, and Jimmy was too ashamed at the memory of what he was forced to do, but was unsuccessful in the attempt. Minnelli and Van Pelt waited silently for the tension to break, immensly caught up in the tale of the events of the past few weeks in the lives of the Lisbon's.
After a few moments, Lisbon began the long and horrific description of her interrogation--how Rosa tried to get Jimmy to rape her, and then how he failed and she did the job herself using a toy.
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Down in the lockup, Jane had begun giving his statement to Cho.
"I bet you wish you were upstairs with the rest of the team listening in on the Lisbon's interrogation." Jane said, breaking the monotonous process of completely unnecessary paperwork that Cho was doing.
"Even if I do, not even you can convince me to break protocol and go up there with you." Cho stated, trying to squash Jane's characteristic rebellion.
"Oh! I wasn't suggesting that we go up there... I was just saying that maybe, since this paperwork for my 'arrest' is completely unnecessary, that you can take a break and begin my 'interrogation' and take my statement that will clear you from having to do all of this pointless grunt-work."
Cho knew that Jane wasn't going to let him get any more paperwork done, so he agreed after several rounds of Jane's pestering, and went upstairs to get his laptop so that they could begin. While upstairs, Cho caught part of Jamie's statement.
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"...I was really surprised that Rosa thought of getting Tessie excused from work. She made me email her boss and call someone on the team to tell them that she was spending the next two weeks with her 'boyfriend'. What surprised me more was that she didn't specify which person from the team that I had to call, and that she wasn't in the room when she had me call. So I called who Tessie often address as the "pain-in-the-ass" consultant, Jane. From what I heard of him, he's really perceptive and he would figure out that Tessie didn't have a boyfriend. I mean, no offense sis, but you don't have a personal life..."
As much as he wanted to stay and listen in, Cho had to pull himself away from Jamie's statement because he had to get back to Jane down in the lockup.
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Cho returned to the lockup to find Jane not where he left him. He was sitting in Cho's chair, sleeping. "Hey! If I'm not allowed to sleep until I finish this, then neither can you!" Cho exclaimed. The combination of the sudden loud noise and the shove he received from Cho, Jane fell out of the chair.
"Well, I got pulled into this mess a LONG time ago... about six years ago, actually. I'm surprised you guys did not catch on... I mean, you guys are the best in the state, and yet you couldn't figure out that a serial killer was using Lisbon to get to me. I mean, it was obvious. First with Lisbon disappearing for two weeks with her boyfriend... I mean, we all know that she doesn't have the time for it.. none of us do! It's evident in the hours we spend in the office. And then with me conviently disappearing with her right before the incriminating postcard arrived, Lisbon's car being left in the most obvious place it could to tell you where we were, my car being in the CBI parking lot... And then finally, my house being blown up after being found with two hostages and the serial killer herself! I've got to say, Lisbon's brothers came up with the perfect escape plan... who would've thought that such a mastermind of a serial killer would let her first living victims trick her into a suicide mission? After all, we are talking about Red John. It was perfect! And now, I should probably go into more detail into how I knew it was Red John." Jane stated once Cho was ready.
"That would be helpful." Cho deadpanned.
"Ok. This serial killer business is fairly easy to figure out on your own, as is my involvement. So as you know, I was hell-bent on getting revenge for my family's deaths. I made that clearer than night and day. I knew that Lisbon did not have a boyfriend, and that the only males who she was in close contact with were us here at CBI, and her brothers. I also knew that one of Lisbon's brothers was having some girlfriend problems, and that she was hiding something, and was methodical. I got this from the way Lisbon went running out of here several times to break up fights between them, and I remember overhearing the phone call from her brother asking her to come to breakup another dispute. When didn't show up for work the next day, I connected the fact that Red John had to be a woman from the way she painted her victim's toenails, the fact that Red John was after Lisbon because of her connection to me, and that Red John had to be preparing another attack because of the pattern between his previous killings. This brought me to believe that Lisbon was being held by Red John, and Red John was Lisbon's brother's girlfriend. I did a little research after snooping through Lisbon's stuff, and found out that Red John's real name was Darlene Rosaline McIssacs-Johnson. She hated that long of a name, so she shortened it... if you look closely, Red John is in her name--the first and last letters of her first and middle names, and then her last name shortened to just John. It made perfect sense. I was expecting Red John to try to frame me with Lisbon's death, but I wanted to prevent Lisbon from actually dieing. So I did a little more research, and found out how similar Red John looked in comparison to Lisbon... they could almost be twins, except for the difference in eye color. When Lisbon's brother called, I told him my plan for getting the three of them out alive. I told him that he needed to convince Rosa that the best way to get her final revenge on me was to blow up my house, using the help of her half-brother, Officer McIssacs. She should hand cuff the two twins together through the hook on the wall in one of the secret rooms in my house. The cops wouldn't think to look any farther in that area of the house, especially once they saw the bomb's timer. the cops would go out the way they came in, and then Rosa could escape by going the other way into the safe room, which was made of steel, so it did not burn or melt in the explosion. Rosa, as I expected, got cocky, and filled my house with manikins, splattered animal blood all over my house, and spread hair from her salon's disposal around the house. She thought she was infallible because she had gotten away with so many murders before, that she even tied herself up, expecting that the cops would untie her and bring her out of the building for the EMTs to bring her back to consciousness. She and the twins were to pretend to be unconscious, so that they would be uncuffed/tied, and then brought to safety. Once they were unbound, Officer McIssacs was to flip the switch which activated the bomb, and lead the rest of the cops out to give Rosa time to prevent the twins from escaping, yet allow herself time to get to the safe room. The twins fooled her into thinking that, since she looked so much like their sister, Lisbon, that I would be pinned for her death, making Rosa free to escape and kill Lisbon herself, and never leave a trace. As I expected, Rosa fell for this hook, line, and sinker. She didn't know that I instructed the twins to look more seriously injured, so that Van Pelt would see to it that they got the attention they needed, so they could escape as well. I knew that Cho would be too wrapped up in discovering Lisbon than actually untying her, so that Rosa would inevitably be killed in the explosion. I knew that it would be Cho, not Rigsby there because Rigsby would try to be the chivalrous gentleman that Van Pelt would approve of, so he would be stuck upstairs holding the door. I told the twins that, once they were free to leave the EMTs, to find Lisbon and I at the Belaview Bed and Breakfast." Jane stated.
"And that's where your plan went wrong, right?" Cho asked.
"Yes. I didn't realize that they wouldn't have the time to get out of the building. Instead, they improved and went into the safe room, taking Van Pelt with them. I was sure to watch the news to make sure that the deed was done and Rosa was in fact dead. When the news reporter said that Van Pelt and the twins had died in the explosion, I knew that something went wrong--although it meant that Red John was definitely dead. I was pleasantly surprised when the three of them turned up at the Belaview. Shortly after, you guys showed up, and here we are now." Jane finished up.
"So basically, this was all a bunch of mind games played on the bunch of us to get your revenge on Red John? And you expect us to arrest Officer McIssacs now?" Cho summarized.
"Essentially, yes. Officer McIssacs is a dirty cop, who staged a few crime scenes to ruin my credibility, and get Lisbon to remember what happened to her, to draw her out." Jane replied.
"Is there anything else you need to add to this statement?" Cho asked, handing him the copy of his transcribed statement.
"Nope, that's it. Are we done now? I'd really like to get back to my couch." Jane stated.
"Yeah, sure." Cho replied. They both got up and went up to the bullpen, Jane being cleared of the charges against him.
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So as I was writing this chapter, I realized that Jamie and Jimmy are nicknames for the same name--James. OOPS! Oh well... I made it work (Like the Tim Gunn in Project Runway!) Sorry, random TV show reference.....
Thank you all for reading this story! It's been almost two months since we began this journey, and now it has come to an end. At some point, I will post an epilogue that is an additional/optional ending for this story, if you aren't satisfied with this ending.
Just so you know... a friend of mine helped me along when I had writer's block, so here's his well deserved shoutout-- Thanks Jesse!
Thank you again for reading my first fanfic! Please review. Reviews=Chocolate Ice Cream, I love them, good or bad (meaning reviews, not ice cream)!
