CHAPTER 2

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Jane's POV

Jane had been lying lazily on his couch. The team did not have any active cases. Normally he would go back but today he just did not want to go back to the cottage.

After Lisbon had gone to DC, Jane had bought a little shack near a lake and had had that remodeled. He knew that it was time to move on, that Lisbon had chosen Pike but he just couldn't bring himself to stop hoping that maybe she might come back. He had bought the land because when he had set his eyes on it he had known that if Lisbon had stayed then he would have liked to build her a home there, although he kept telling himself, deluding himself that it was a step forward,a step towards getting settled.

Lying idly on the couch with nothing to occupy him always led to thoughts of Lisbon. From what he had heard from Cho about her was that she had gotten married and now had a daughter.

He sometimes wondered like now what he would do if she decided to come back to Austin, to him. It wasn't like him to thing of such unlikely and impossible scenarios but sometimes he just couldn't help himself. He was sure that his feelings for her were still unchanged. With that his train of thoughts went back to the day he had left him saying it was too late... A quote came back to him "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

He blocked his flow of thoughts and tried to distract himself by looking around at the bullpen and observing Cho and Wiley. Jane whose attention was fixed on Cho heard the elevator door opening and Cho looking around. He (cho) then got up with an expression of surprise on his usually deadpan face. Wiley also got up following cho's lead. Jane looked around curiously to see who it was to shock Cho like that. When he saw who it was his heart nearly failed.

It was Lisbon.

And she was holding her daughter in her arms, Pike however was nowhere to be seen. She looked more or less like she always did albeit a bit tired. Her posture was tense and there was worry in her eyes. He could tell something was wrong. He briefly wondered if something had happened to Pike. Even now he couldn't help hoping that she had changed her mind. Like the other two he also got up to greet her.

She caught his eye and they smiled at each other. For a fleeting second it seemed that no time had passed between them, that nothing had happened.

Cho and Wiley were asking her where was Pike after asking her how she was. She brushed of their questions saying she wanted to see Abbott. She topped near him as she made her way towards the senior agent's office. For a moment neither of them knew what to say to each other then-

"Hey", Jane greeted her softly.

"Hi", lisbon was trying not to look at his eyes.

"So is that her? Your daughter?" He mentally scolded himself, what a stupid question of course it was her daughter.

"Yeah, her name is Alaina. Alaina Grace."

Jane noticed how she avoided saying pike's name. So it was something that Pike did. He would to kill that jerk for hurting her.

"So where's Pike? Did you come alone?" Evidently she had been hoping that the question would be asked later. Jane saw her look rather angry at the mention of Pike's name.

"Yeah i came alone. I'll uh tell you later. Can we talk alone after I've talked to abbott?" Lisbon asked almost awkwardly.

"Sure see you outside in a moment then" Jane assured her with an easy smile which she returned.

"I can watch Alaina if you want while you talk to abbott. She's asleep anyways and I'm sure Cho and Wiley would like to see her too." Jane put forward the request.

Lisbon looking rather flustered carefully handed Alaina to him. "Um sure if you want to." Jane's arms formed an automatic cradle as he took her from Lisbon.

It had been so long since he had held a child like that in his arms. It was a beautiful feeling. Alaina opened her eyes drowsily for a second but then her tiny eyelids fluttered close as she went back to sleep. Alaina had a small mop of wavy dark brown hair and green eyes shaped like her mother's. Jane thought she was a smaller version of Lisbon. Lisbon seeing that Alaina had gone back to sleep went inside abbott's office with a last backwards look.

LISBON'S POV

She was surprised by Jane's request but tried to hide it as she handed Alaina to him. Just seeing Jane had seemed to cheer her up. She now had a friend to talk to who would listen to her, who would understand her. Although she still didn't know if Jane was involved with someone but simply seeing her had comforted her that maybe the future wouldn't be as bleak as it seemed to her.

With one last book she took a deep breath then entered Abbott's office.