Hello again my dearest of dear readers! Are you ready for another exciting/thrilling/suspenseful chapter in this story? Are you sure your ready? Are you completely sure? Are you so sure that you're sure your sure? Are you...(readers:) GET ON WITH IT! (Yes, an ode to Monty Python). Alright, alright already! Yeesh. Just wanted to be sure that you're sure that you're sure(runs off stage, shouting behind her) ENJOY!
At lunch time, everyone except Lisbon and Jane went to the corner deli to get some sandwiches. Lisbon had decided to just order a basic pizza, while Jane said that he was fine and would find something to eat later.
After the others had left, Lisbon picked up her phone to call for a pizza, but stopped when she noticed Jane sitting on his couch still, fiddling with his tea cup. She decided to go out and see what he would like. She walked over to him and he looked up.
"Ah, I see you finally left your cave and decided to visit the outside world."
She rolled her eyes. "Jane, I have work to do. And if getting that work completed means being locked up in a 'cave', then so be it."
"But you need to get out more, move more, at least make sure you leave your office enough to get a drink or you'll get dehydrated."
Lisbon stared at him. "Why the sudden concern of my being in my office a lot?"
Jane shrugged, standing up. "I have just been noticing that you work a lot, and since we are, you know, I figured that gives me the right to worry about you more."
Lisbon glanced around the office. "Well, I guess you can order the pizza and get me some sort of desert item since we are, 'you know', and I want to make sure that the labor is split equally between us." She smiled at him and handed him the phone before taking his spot on the couch and relaxing.
Jane was not sure if he liked her new way of looking at their marriage, but ordered the pizza anyway, making sure to order some cinnamon buns as well.
When the pizza came, Jane brought it over to Lisbon, who had still not left the couch, and sat down. Lisbon's eyes brightened when she saw the cinnamon buns.
"I knew there was a reason I had you order the pizza."
"I thought it was to 'split the labor', as you put it."
Lisbon shrugged as she grabbed a slice of pizza. "I am allowed to have multiple reasons to have you do things."
Once the pizza was finished, everyone had come back from lunch and work continued. Well, at least for everyone except Jane. He was stuck once again without a case and the only thing to occupy his thoughts being Lisbon.
Not that he was complaining, mind you.
He was trying to think of a way to sneak into her office to, well, he had not yet decided on what to do when he got in. He just wanted to get in. But that was kind of difficult right then as people kept going in and out of her office, discussing cases and taking her paperwork. He finally decided that he needed a good excuse to get in, and having her put a new tea on the grocery list was not going to work again(ah, he actually had a grocery list with Lisbon!).
He walked around the office, watching her door, peaking in from behind furniture, observing the situation. Van Pelt finally noticed what he was doing after he tried to hide by her desk while he looked at Teresa's door.
"Can I help you?" Van Pelt asked. Patrick smiled and stood up.
"Yes, actually you can."
Okay, what do you think? Sorry for the long wait and short chapter, but I had several events happening at once that all required my attention. Also, feel free to suggest anything that Van Pelt can 'help' with as, at this time, I have no clue. But that is the fun of my writing, just making it up as I go and running with random ideas. Please REVIEW and let me know what you think of the chapter and if you have any new ideas for the next chapter! Until next chapter, Li Li.