A/N: Sorry it took so long to update, I wanted to finish the whole thing before posting the next Chapter. So the story is done and I'll be posting the last two/three chapters in the next week. I hope you guys enjoy the last installments. :)
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Jane and Lisbon were in the observation room watching Rigbsy and Cho interview Sal.
Sal seemed to have been shocked at the fact that Taylor had died, and he wasn't denying the fact that they dated. He also admitted to the fact that they had sex the night she died.
"But we broke up that same night. I told her it was too dangerous for her to be around me."
"Because you kill people for a living?" Cho asked solemnly.
"No. Because my family is crazy." Sal retorted with some attitude.
"Maybe you killed her because she wouldn't let you go." Rigsby implicated.
Sal shook his head. "She was totally cool with it. She understood. I would never harm her." Sal looked down at his necklace around his neck. He took it off and put it on the table. "This ring was her mother's. She said that one day she wanted me to propose to her. I would give her this ring and we'd run away together. She used to wear it around her neck, but she gave it to me the night she died." Sal was lost in sadness.
"We're going to need to take that." Cho took the necklace from the table.
Lisbon looked at Jane with a knowing look. "That's it. I'm booking him."
"On what evidence?" Jane questioned as he turned from the window to face her.
"He's been carrying around a piece of evidence from the victim."
"He said she gave it to him that night. It wasn't on her body when she died."
"We don't know that." Lisbon said blankly.
"I think he's innocent. He's clearly hurt by her death. Besides you really don't have anything to hold him on." Jane looked at her as if she should be cutting the guy some slack.
"Fine. We'll let him go. But I'm putting him under surveillance."
Jane shrugs his shoulders as to not argue the point.
Lisbon opened the door to the observation room just as Cho opened the door to the interrogation room, both meeting in the hall.
"What do you think boss?" Cho asked her with his hands on his hips.
"We're going to let him go but keep an eye on him." Lisbon informed him. Cho nodded his head as he walked back into the interrogation room.
"Boss!" Van Pelt yelled from the bull pen in an urgent tone.
Lisbon turned around and quickly walked into the bull pen followed by Jane. As soon as Van Pelt could see Lisbon in her view she got up from her seat at her computer.
"Look at this." Van Pelt moved over so that Lisbon could see the screen to her computer. There on the screen was a photo of Rizzo with a list of priors and warrants.
"The Feds are on her for murder?" Lisbon was confused.
"She's a suspect in all of them but there's been no real evidence linking her to the actual murders. She's also had 3 priors."
"For?"
"One for illegal possession of drugs and two for illegal possession of weapons."
"How many murders has she been linked to?" Jane asked curiously.
"Four."
Rigsby and Cho arrived in the bull pen and made their way over to Van Pelt's desk.
"What's going on?" Rigsby was now standing next to Van Pelt as Cho folded his arms across his chest next to Jane.
"Rizzo has priors with weapons and drugs. And the Feds are on her for murder." Lisbon told them as she backed away from Van Pelt's computer.
"You think we should bring her in for questioning?" Rigsby asked.
"Let's see where Sal and the necklace lead us first. I'm sure the FEDS are keeping a close eye on her. Did you release Sal yet?"
"We were waiting for you, boss." Cho answered.
"OK, Van Pelt and I will keep an eye on Sal tonight. You guys go down to the bar and see if you can find out anything else on him."
Just as they were about to depart their separate ways, Sally walked into the bull-pen gripping something in her hand.
"Sally?" Cho said in bewilderment.
"Kimball." She said with a smile.
Jane leaned into Cho so that only he could hear him. "Usually when you're undercover you don't give anyone your real name."
Cho gave him no-nonsense look and reverted his attention back to Sally. Van Pelt, Lisbon, and Rigsby all looked on, waiting to see what the woman had to say.
Sally looked at all of them before continuing on with what she was going to say. "You left this with me." Sally handed him the picture of Taylor. "I thought you might need it."
Cho took it from her and gave her a small smile. "Thanks."
"Also, I thought you might want to know that she was there the night she died."
"Why didn't you tell me before?"
"You hadn't mentioned when she died, and I remembered seeing her, so when I went home I read about it in the paper."
"Do you remember who she was with?" Lisbon stepped closer to Sally.
"Not Sal. She was with some boy, must have been around the same age as her. Tall, dark hair. Looked like he stepped right of Happy Days, like Fonzi."
Lisbon looked over to Jane.
"Do you remember what he was doing there with her?" Cho asked.
"I think trying to get her to leave, but to no avail. She stayed for a while after he left, maybe 10-15 minutes. Then she left, by herself."
"That's pretty observant of you." Jane said.
"The place isn't that popular. It's always the same people, so when new people come in you notice them right away. Plus she was awfully young looking to be in a bar."
Jane nodded and leaned forward on his feet a bit with his hands in his pocket.
"Thank you, Sally, you've done more than enough." Cho said with some appreciativeness in his voice.
Sally leaned in towards Cho, "You'll make sure-"
Cho gave her a reassuring look. "No one will know it was you."
She smiled and slid back into her own space. "Thank you." She turned around and walked away.
After she was gone, Lisbon turned to Rigsby and Cho. "Change of plans. You boys go home get some rest and then in the morning pick up Travis. Van Pelt and I will keep an eye on Sal tonight."
Lisbon and Van Pelt started walking away, when Lisbon realized that Jane wasn't behind her she looked back at him. "Jane?"
"Oh, I'm going with the boys." Jane smiled at Rigsby and Cho.
Lisbon looked a bit confused as she turned back to Van Pelt. "Let's go."
Jane looked at Rigsby and Cho for a moment. "OK, goodnight." Jane put his hand in the air and then turned around and threw him self of the couch.
Cho and Rigsby looked at each other before shrugging their shoulders and walking out the door.
Van Pelt and Lisbon sat in the car down the street from the Maretto's house.
Van Pelt was falling asleep in the passenger side seat of the SUV.
"Van Pelt." Lisbon whispered over to her.
"Yeah." Van Pelt shot her eyes open.
"I think it's time we get you home."
"It's only 1."
"I don't think he's going anywhere. I'll call down to the locals and have them do a drive by every half hour."
"I'm sorry boss."
"It's OK. I think it's been a long day for all of us."
They drove on in silence until they reached the parking lot of the CBI. Van Pelt got out of the car but before shutting the door she looked Lisbon in the eye, "I know it's none of my business, but I think someone has to say it, and I know that Cho and Rigsby, well their guys, so they won't. You like Jane. I think everyone can see it."
Lisbon was speechless, she opened her mouth to protest, but nothing would come out.
Van Pelt closed the door to the car and smiled shyly at her before walking off to her own car.
RnR, if you wish.
- Kai
