He Never Listens to Me

"Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk" - Marge Piercy. .

^^ I like that quote! It has a lot of imagery in it, it's a nice way to think of hope and everyone does have it, even Jane somewhere deep down!

A/N - Tag for S2E06, Black Gold & Red Blood. This doesn't actually have Jane in it, it has Lisbon and Bosco talking about Jane though. It occurs after Bosco says 'You two are close, he'll listen to you.' It's AU so imagine that Minnelli leaves and Jane doesn't call Bosco.


"Why would he listen to me now Sam?" Lisbon asked, as Minnelli walked out of the bullpen, "Why would he listen now when he hasn't listened at all for the past year and a half?"

Bosco looked at her intently, "Put on a sad voice and say 'Jane please come back, I need you here' and he will break and come back right away."

Lisbon actually laughed, albeit a little bitterly, "Right because he's so in love with me he'll do whatever I ask." She joked.

"Yes." Bosco said making Lisbons eyes widen, "No! I was just saying that because that's what Jane was saying about…" She trailed off but Bosco knew what she was talking about, "Me."

Lisbon glanced at him sheepishly but Bosco didn't seem angry, "I know, word spreads quickly in this place." He said simply.

Lisbon opened her mouth but closed it again, her mind finally spinning back to the matter at hand, Jane. "He's not in love with me, trust me." Lisbon said, "I don't even think he's capable of love after everything he's been through."

Bosco raised an eyebrow at her, "Your whole team can see it, Minnelli can see it and even I can see it." He said, his voice lowering as the team entered the bullpen, "The only people who can't see are you and Jane."

Lisbon was speechless, everyone thought Jane was in love with her? And everyone thought Bosco was in love with her? God she hadn't even been able to get the chess captain to date her in high school.

Before Lisbon could come up with anything witty to say or something to combat Bosco's idea of Jane being in love with her, her cell rang and when she looked at the caller ID and the familiar picture of Jane smiling came up she answered it immediately.

"Jane, where the hell are you?" She asked, trying to sound annoyed but she knew the others could tell she was worried.

"Oh hey Lisbon, I'm about to catch the killer." He said casually.

"Jane you escaped from jail! Do you have any idea how serious that is?" Lisbon asked, sounding hurt and worried.

"Sure, pretty serious I guess but Bosco is gonna drop the charges anyway." Jane said nonchalantly.

"Jane stop being so stupid. Bosco isn't going to drop the charges, trust me, he'd happily see you rot in jail." Lisbon said, earning a nod of agreement from Bosco for her words.

"But you wouldn't be happy if I was rotting in jail and you can get Bosco to do whatever you want." Jane said as he walked along the path and neared the house where he knew the murderer was.

"Jane I've told you, that's not going to work now can you please just come back?" She put on the whole worried, sad façade and Bosco smirked.

"Oh please Lisbon do you really think the whole sad façade Bosco told you to put on will work? If he doesn't drop the charges I'll see you in 2 years time." Jane said, in his usual calm voice, not caring about anything.

"Jane please don't do this to yourself-" Lisbon said but before she could say anymore he had hung up.

"He's at the victim's house." Lisbon said, her voice quiet, she seemed a little lost as she trudged away to her office without another word.

Bosco ordered his team to call the local police and take Jane back to jail and glanced at Lisbons office a little guilty. However there was nothing he could do about it now, the words had been said.

In the end they were all broken and lost, all three of them. So how could three broken people ever come together really?

The End.

A/N - There are a couple of episode tags for S2E07 coming up so look out for them!

Thanks for reading! xxx