Author's Note: It's been such an amazing journey writing this Fic, I had such a great experience for this being my first ever story! I hoped you enjoyed as much as I did! I just wanted to thank everyone for their ongoing support and for giving this Fic a chance! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing!

Disclaimer: The Mentalist is not mine.

Epilogue

One Year Later

Mckenzie's POV

This day had been haunting me the last few weeks as it drew closer. Today was the day a year ago Mallory and I almost died. Mallory being only two, when it happened, thought it was a huge game that our parents had set up. While me on the other hand had just finished therapy. Every night I lay down in my bed I feel like Red John is going to come back to get me, when I look up at my ceiling where the smiley face had been I cry.

Red John died during his operation at the hospital, giving me some sort relief. I'm always watching my back now afraid that one of his followers wants to take their revenge.

On a happier note, three months ago Grace and Wayne had their baby. It was a girl they named Jessica Lindsey. Ben's face the day Jessica was born was priceless, he was so excited.

I was shaken from my thoughts as I herd Emily come into my room.

"Micky, guess what!" Emily smiled as she jumped up on my bed.

"What?" I asked putting her on my lap.

"Ben and Jessica are coming over for a party!" Emily smiled brightly. Teresa and Patrick decided that they were going to throw a party to keep my mind off of today. Yeah like that was going to work.

"That's good!" I sighed, remembering that Grace and Wayne had come over that day too.

"Yeah, Mommy wants you to come downstairs." Emily got off my lap and walked to the door.

"Kay, tell her I'm coming." I sigh laying back down on my bed. Emily left my room without saying anything else, but ran into Mallory's room where they started to play as I could hear them through the wall.

I had gotten a call from Jason yesterday, I actually answered it. We talked for a long time and mended broken fences. I can still never forgive him for killing Chelsea but after the year I had I felt he needed someone to talk with.

Jason's case had been re-tried giving him a lesser sentence, he only had to serve one more year, but had to live 5 years on parole. Which brought my thoughts to my nieces and nephews.

Luckily, Ann, Annie, Tucker and Ray were able to stay together through the foster care system. I was also happy to know that there foster parents were Mr. and Mrs. Marks, Leo's parents. They lived next door so I was still able to see them.

I still feel bad for the kids, there Dad is in jail, and there Mom is dead. The only family they have is Emily and I.

I broke up with Austin a few weeks after that day. He kept treating me like I was incapable to take care of myself. I felt really relieved when things finally ended, he didn't take it as well as I did. His Mother and sisters moved away a month later, probably one of the better things that has happened to me.

"Mckenzie come down here!" Teresa yelled from the bottom of the stairs. I slowly got up from my bed and walked down the stairs.

"Why?" I asked as I reached the bottom step to be greeted by Teresa and Ella who was asleep in her arms.

"Watch Ella please." Teresa said handing over the baby girl.

"Why can't you, I have stuff to do." I lied reluctantly taking the baby.

"Just take her upstairs and play with Emily and Mallory." Teresa smiled as she left toward the kitchen.

"Emily, Mallory is it okay if Ella and I play with you guys?" I smile as I take a seat on Mallory's bed.

"Yay!" Both girls chanted as they ran over to the bed to play with Ella.

"Don't wake her up." I say pushing both girl's hand's away from Ella.

"But she's always asleep." Emily sighed as she jumped onto the bed followed by Mallory.

"That's what babies do, they sleep all the time." I smile as both girls look over my shoulder to see Ella.

"Did we sleep all the time?" Mallory smiled as she started to play with my hair.

"You did, Emily didn't." I smile as I remember when Chelsea brought Emily home from the hospital, all she would do was cry for hours on end. While, when Teresa and Patrick brought Mallory home from the hospital all she would do was sleep. Ella was a mixture of both Jane kids according to Teresa, Braden was just like Emily cried all the time. Ella would sleep until she was woken up, but once she was awake she would cry to no end.

"Micky!" Braden yelled as he ran into the room, which unfortunately woke Ella up which made her cry.

"What?" I ask while rocking the baby back and forth while Emily and Mallory got off the bed immediately loosing interest in Ella once she started to cry.

"Ben and Jessica are here!" Braden smiled and Mallory's head shot up at the sound of Ben's name.

"Alright." Before I could move Mallory was out of the room running down the stairs with Emily close behind followed by an irritated Braden.

"Hi." I say as I walk into the kitchen where all the adults have gathered.

"Hey, Mckenzie how are you?" Grace smiled while pulling her hair out of Jessica's grip.

"Good, how are you?" I smile while walking over to Teresa to give her Ella who still happened to be crying.

"I'm good." Grace replied while putting Jessica on her hip.

"Did she just wake up?" Teresa asked while looking down at Ella who had calmed down a little.

"Yeah, I guess she's hungry." I sigh while popping some cheese into my mouth. That was sitting on the table as an appetizer.

"Do you want to make her bottle?" Teresa asked while taking out some baby formula.

"Not really." I sigh smiling at Jessica who was happily playing with Grace's hair.

"Fine." Teresa continued to make Ella's bottle with one hand.

"Where's Patrick and Wayne?" I ask looking around the room to realize that they were not in the kitchen.

"They went to the basement." Grace replied while trying to take control of her hair from Jessica's grasp.

"Oh." Just as I said it both men came into the kitchen, Wayne holding Ben upside down over his shoulder, Patrick doing the same to Braden.

"Look who we found." Patrick smiled while setting Braden right side up.

"Put me down Dad!" Ben said once he realized that Braden was safely right side up on the floor.

"Okay." Wayne sighed while putting Ben down. Before anyone could get a word in both Braden and Ben pulled out silly string and spayed it all over me.

"What the heck!" I yelled jumping up from the stool I had been sitting in and ran after the two, who had taken off moments before.

Patrick Jane's POV

I watched as Mckenzie took off after Ben and Braden. It had been the boys way of cheering her up today, I had to commend them on realizing that Mckenzie needed her mind off of things especially today.

The year had been an interesting one to say the least. Once Mckenzie and Mallory had come home safely, Lisbon and I were trying to make everything as normal as possible. Mallory was easier to convince than Mckenzie. After about a week we were able to convince Mallory that 'Mommy and Daddy' were playing a joke. It hurt me to think that we would ever what to play a joke like this to our kids, but it didn't scare Mallory and that was all that mattered.

Mckenzie on the other hand, had gone to therapy after about a month of therapy she was about ready to graduate when we found out that we were going to have Ella. Mckenzie had a panic attack thinking that something bad was going to happen to Lisbon or myself once we had Ella so she went back to therapy, graduating last week.

"Jane hold your daughter!" Lisbon said while handing Ella to me then finishing making Ella's bottle. Even at one month Ella looked almost identical to Charlotte, they could have been twins they looked so alike.

"Control your kids!" Mckenzie yelled as she ran past us, still chasing Ben and Braden. Rigsby laughed as he saw the kids running through the house, now getting joined by Emily and Mallory who had felt felt left out.

"So how's Mckenzie?" Van Pelt asks as the children disappear into the basement.

"She's doing better now." Lisbon sighed while getting the bottle out of the microwave and handing it to me to feed a fussy Ella.

"That's good, Mallory still doing okay?" Rigsby asks while taking Jessica from Van Pelt.

"She still thinks it's a joke." I say while putting the bottle in Ella's mouth. "It makes me feel like I failed her."

Rigsby exchanges glances at Van Pelt who eventually looks at Lisbon.

"Care to elaborate on that Jane?" Lisbon asks taking a seat next to Van Pelt at the table.

"It just makes me feel that I'm a horrible parent, using Red John as a joke not to scare Mallory, when he was all too real." I say readjusting Ella in my arms.

"Right." Rigsby said looking down at Jessica.

"So Jessica has gotten so big." Lisbon said trying to change the subject.

"Yeah, she eats constantly." Van Pelt laughed.

"Well at least you know she's Rigsby's." Lisbon laughed along with Van Pelt.

"Hey, I don't eat everything." Rigsbys said trying to defend himself.

"That is such a lie." Van Pelt smiled taking Jessica from Rigsby.

As Ella finished her bottle, she had fallen back to sleep in my arms. I excused myself from the table to put her in her bassinet, while walking to the stairs Mckenzie was walking up the stairs from the basement.

"Hey Patrick." She smiled as she followed me up stairs.

"Did you like your surprise, Braden and Ben thought of it all by themselves." I smiled as we walked into the master bedroom.

"Oh yeah it was great." Mckenzie smiled as she gestured to her now ruined outfit. "Thanks." Mckenzie said while sitting on the king sized bed, watching me put Ella in the bassinet next to the bed.

"Your welcome." I smiled knowing exactly what she meant by saying 'thanks'.

"Do you think Mallory will ever understand what happened?" Mckenzie said laying down across the bed looking up at the ceiling.

"Maybe once she get's older, but I think it's better for her now not to understand it." I say while turning on the sound machine that would soon be playing sounds that included a tropical rain, which I hated immensely because it would always wake me up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom.

"But it's not fair, I have to live with it everyday, while she get's to live a carefree life like nothing happened." Mckenzie says grabbing a pillow and putting it over her face. I sat down next to her on the bed. This was not the first time Mckenzie made this point so Lisbon and I have had practice on how to respond.

"You're right it's not fair at all. In you're life you have see your sister get killed by your brother, both your parents die, your sister-in-law shot by her own Father. You had to change your life completely over and over again, while all Mallory's challenges include what color she wants to paint her dog in her coloring book." Mckenzie took the pillow off of her face and looked at me, signaling for me to continue. "But you have seen more joy in your life too, you have had 16 almost 17 amazing birthdays, while Mallory has only had three. You are an Aunt to five wonderful kids, you have seen the birth of both your adopted sisters. Plus you have four parents that love you so much." Mckenzie smiled, sitting up.

"You know I can say that whole thing by heart." Mckenzie said hugging me.

"I bet you can, I just want you to remember that you are incredibly lucky to have so many people that care so much about you." I say hugging her back.

"Thanks, you know that means a lot because I know you don't believe in luck." Mckenzie laughed and so did I.

"Why don't we go back downstairs and get revenge on your brother and Ben." I say pulling out more silly string. Mckenzie smiled grew even wider as she took the can from me and popped the top off.

"This is for not letting me in on your little plan." Then Mckenzie sprayed me with bright green silly string, while taking two more cans in her hand while running out of the room.

"Oh isn't revenge sweet." I smiled while cleaning off the silly string quickly, grabbing the bag of cans filled with silly string and sprinting to get Mckenzie back before she had the chance to attack anyone else. This is how family is supposed to be, I think to myself as I run down the stairs handing out silly string to all the kids who were preparing for a silly string war.

Author's Note: I really like this chapter for some reason, I thought it was really cute. I hope you enjoyed reading and have a very happy Mentalist Sunday!

P.S. I'm currently writing another FanFic called 'Shattered', it's going to be more fluffy than this Fic :) Thank You again for reading it was a really great feeling to finally finish this story! Well until next time! Bye, Bye :)

~Serena