I do not own the Mentalist.
"For the boss."
Grace has fire in her eyes and razor blades in her smile. She's spent six months watching the life drain out of Teresa, the hurt eat at the sewn up edges of soul, her mentor fall to pieces.
And it's his fault.
She had thought that they were family.
Apparently he doesn't put much stock in family. (And he had looked at her with sympathy and knowing and said "You're seeing Craig, aren't you?". Bastard.)
So now she's got her cloak of capable, and a plummeting solve rate, and a tumbling boss. (Mentor, Friend, Sister.)
For Lisbon.
