A/N Sorry about the wait… the cliffy at the end of the last chapter came out of nowhere and I had to re-evaluate my entire direction with this fic… but now that I have hopefully the updates will come quicker.

Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter!

This chappie goes out to Neverfly, who gave me a kick in the virtual rare to get this up. Thanks! XD

He wasn't sure how long he stood there before finally pulling out his cell-phone and dialling 911. He gave out the details, disconnected the call and then rang Cho, not once taking his eye off of the smiley face on the wall.

Cho answered on the second ring.

"Cho."

"Ahh… hmmm"

"Jane?"

"Cho… I'm at Lisbon's… something's happened." Jane brought his hand up to his face. His vision was beginning to blur around the edges.

"Jane, what happened?"

Jane could hardly hear anything and from the dizzying sensation and the burning nausea at the top of his belly, he knew he was about to faint.

"Jane? Jane!"

Cho heard the phone drop, followed by a soft thud.

"Crap." He stood up and grabbed his coat, Van Pelt and Rigsby staring at him curiously.

"What's going on?" Grace asked.

"No idea." Cho replied. "Just got a phone call from Jane, something's happened at Lisbon's. I'm going to check it out."

Grace looked over, catching Rigsby's eye, before they both simultaneously got up and followed Cho out the door.

When they arrived at Lisbon's apartment, they were greeted with the flashing lights of two police cars and an ambulance. They entered the house, flashing their badges on the way through, to find Jane sitting on the couch being looked at by an EMT.

"I'm fine!" he protested. "I just passed out."

"Mr Jane your pulse is hovering around 150 and your BP is sky high. Losing consciousness is always something to be concerned about."

Jane noticed Grace and Rigsby standing in the doorway― Cho had already gone off to find out what was going on.

"Jane!" Grace said coming over to him. "What happened?"

Jane stared helplessly at the two team members, before Cho reappeared.

"You guys need to see this."

OOOOOoooooOOOOO

Jane felt like he had been swept up into a tornado of police officers. He was standing in the middle of Lisbon's apartment, while the local PD canvassed the area and forensics dusted her room for prints.

Jane was familiar with this scene, not only professionally, but also personally… he was feeling a slight sense of déjà vu. Even though Lisbon wasn't dead- as far as he could tell, he was worried it would only be a limited amount of time before her body turned up.

Red john had obviously taken her to mess with him. It had to have something to do with his message.

Obligation.

He shook his head in frustration. He wasn't any closer to interpreting his message now, than what he had been a couple of hours ago. He was having slight problems remembering the trigger that had led him to think Lisbon had truly gone missing this time. There had been something that had led him to the conclusion… but he just couldn't put his finger on it.

Cho came up to him in that moment, having taken lead on the case in Lisbon's absence.

"Jane, I'm gonna need a statement." He said with a sympathetic look in his eye. Cho knew Jane would be blaming himself for Lisbon's disappearance.

Jane nodded and Cho lead him to one of Lisbon's chairs.

"Ok, start at the beginning. What were you doing when you realised something was wrong?"

Jane gave Cho an exasperated look, to which Cho returned with a confused stare. This wasn't the time for stoic-ness.

"I can't remember." Jane looked up helplessly. "I was in the attic thinking and all of a sudden something came to me and I had this feeling Lisbon was in trouble, so I came over here and she was gone." His voice cracked slightly on the word gone.

"I need you to try and remember what you were thinking about Jane. That may well be very important to finding her."

Jane just stared at the Asian man.

"You don't think I don't know that? Come on Cho, for someone who is so smart, you can be unusually unperceptive at times."

Cho looked down to his notebook, not wanting to meet Jane's eyes.

"Just find her, ok?" He said as he got up, leaving Jane alone on the couch to his thoughts. Jane couldn't help but hear the silent or else.

Ok… so he had been thinking about Red John obviously… and the message he had left him… if Jane knew something, he knew it had to have something to do with that.

Why couldn't he remember?

Probably stress. His body and mind were going through a frightening ordeal… probably why he passed out… and the guilt probably had something to do with it too. He should have stayed with her. There was a reason he had stayed with her… had dinner with her… had sat through a couple of hours of House with her… and it wasn't just for the pure enjoyment of spending time with her outside of work. He had been trying to keep her safe.

Jane knew that there was a possibility that Red John would hurt Lisbon, from the moment he signed on with her, but he never knew it would hurt him this much if he actually lost her. He had never intended to become friends with her… to actually care.

He put his head in his hands, allowing himself to fully enter his memory palace, in the hopes of finding that trigger. He knew he couldn't just backtrack to finding the trigger straight away. If it was lost somewhere in his memory palace, he would have to go the full nine yards into finding it…

He had entered CBI after coming back from Lisbon's. Grace had updated him… no relevant information there.

He skipped ahead to when he was sitting in the attic. He had been thinking about Lisbon… naturally. One of the main thoughts that occupied his mind, her… and Red John.

Grace had come in then, showed him a newsprint. Something to do with… Todd Johnson. That's right… he had potentially been in leagues with Lucio Cortez… which was strange. What would Red John want to do with an ex owner/operator of a seafood restaurant?

He shook his head… that was beside the point. He could brood over that once Lisbon was found.

Lisbon.

God he hoped she was ok. She had still been so sick when he had left her. Her being taken by Red John would have been bad under normal circumstances… but adding the sickness into the mix… Jane just really hoped they would find her in time.

Anyway… newspaper article… Todd Johnson… Red John.

Red John has had many disciples over the years, and each and every one had had their different purposes.

Something in the back of his brain clicked.

Lorelei.

Jane mentally sighed. Of course.

Obligation.

What was the phrase he had used, while going over the message? …'I scratch your back, you scratch mine.'

He scrambled out of the chair in search of Cho.

"I know why he took her." he said in a rush once he found the agent.

Cho said nothing, but retrieved his notebook and pen from his pocket, and looked at him with expectant eyes.

"Obligation." Jane repeated out loud this time.

Cho sighed.

"Red John's message."

Jane nodded.

"Lorelei Martins disappeared because of me."

Cho looked up at him surprised.

"The whole kidnapping really was a scheme?"

Jane nodded sheepishly.

"And the car crash?"

"My doing… I used a branch…"

"You knowingly crashed a car… so a federal convict could escape?"

"Yep."

Cho rolled his eyes.

"What does this have to do with Lisbon?"

"I lost Red John his girl.. ridiculed him in a way… and now he's trying to do the same."

Cho stopped recording his statement and looked up at him with hard eyes.

"Red John took Lisbon, because you lost him Lorelei?"

Jane nodded.

"He thinks I owe him… an eye for an eye so to speak."

Grace, who had been standing a small way away, must have heard the conversation and stepped over with fear evident in her eyes.

"You don't think he'll… kill her… do you?"

Jane shook his head.

"I don't know… I don't think so… he's playing a game with me. I think he just wants to hurt her… and by doing that… he'll be hurting me. If he really wanted her dead, she would be lying under that smiley face upstairs."

Grace visibly shuddered, while Cho just looked sick.

"Where would he take her?" Cho asked, going back into agent mode.

"I… don't know." Jane said sadly.

"Well think." Cho said with a slight amount of venom in his voice. "Find her before there's nothing left to find."

OOOOOoooooOOOOO

It had been 32 hours since Lisbon's disappearance and Jane was as close to finding her, as he had been when he walked into her apartment to find her missing.

Obligation.

Everything seemed to be coming back to that message, and additionally Lorelei. Somehow, the place he had her hidden, had something to do with Lorelei.

Jane looked up from his couch, catching Van Pelt's eye.

"The warehouse… where Lorelei's sister was killed… where was that again?"

He saw a flash of hope in her eye before she returned her gaze to her laptop, looking up the location. He knew the moment she got the right page on the screen, because he deflated as she did.

"It was pulled down shortly after the body was found. It was abandoned anyway… and no one was going to want to get it up and running again after finding a murder victim inside it."

Jane sighed. This was going nowhere. No one had slept since the disappearance and it was beginning to run on their nerves.

"I'm going up to the attic for a while. Call me if anything comes up."

Grace nodded in reply and went back to searching any possibility on her computer.

Jane opened the door to the attic and stepped slowly inside. He flicked the light on, his eyes automatically drawn to his desk.

Sitting on the desk was an envelope, and on top of the envelope was a single yellow flower.

Jane felt heat coursing through his veins as he lunged for the envelope and ripped it open.

Remember the time.

He nodded down at the piece of paper in his hands, before he backtracked, running back to the bullpen.

His appearance was met with curious eyes.

"I know where she is." he said in a rush.

All eyes were on him now. He waved the piece of paper in front of Grace's.

"I can find her! I know where she is!"

Next chapter is already in the works. Please let me know what you thought in a review =]