Note: The characters are a little out of character. I blame the song for that. ^_^;
Disclaimer: I do not own 'The Mentalist' or any of the characters from 'The Mentalist.' If I did own them, Jane would be living with Lisbon and they would be kissing in every episode.
Agent Teresa Lisbon stood watching through the glass as Agent Kimball Cho and the CBI consultant Patrick Jane work over a suspect in the interrogation room. What she is seeing is pissing her off. Not because Cho was doing a bad job of interrogating the suspect, but rather because Jane is sitting there flirting with the suspect. Now normally Lisbon would have just brushed off the flirting, but Lisbon had realized something just a few days prior. She was falling for the overly charming, somewhat childish, blond-haired, green-eyed consultant.
Not able to take watching the interrogation anymore, Lisbon storms from the observation room almost knocking into Agent Grace Van Pelt. With a mumbled apology, Lisbon goes into her office and closes the door to give her the privacy she desires to hopefully calm down. Van Pelt stands watching her boss walk away, wondering just what has the older woman upset and how she might be able to help fix the problem.
As Lisbon's office door closes, the interrogation room's door opens allowing Cho and Jane to walk out. Cho escorts the suspect off to booking while Jane turns to head to the bullpen. Jane stops when he sees Van Pelt and notices that she seems somewhat preoccupied so he says, "Hello Grace. What's on your mind?"
"Oh, hi Jane. Do you have any idea why Lisbon might be upset?" asks Van Pelt as she gestures with her hand toward Lisbon's office. "She and I almost collided as she left the observation room, but she just mumbled something and kept moving. It was kind of weird behavior for her."
Jane looks to Lisbon's door, concern for the lady boss welling up inside him. His first thought is to go bug Lisbon into telling him what was wrong, but some instinct told him to leave her alone for now. Though a frown flickers over his face for a moment before he answers, "I have not a clue as to what might be bugging our fearless leader. I could always go ask her if you'd like, but that might just upset her even more."
Van Pelt pales at the thought of an even more upset Lisbon, hurries to tell Jane, "No. I am sure she is just stressed over the case." Leveling Jane a glare, she adds, "Be sure to leave Lisbon alone."
Holding his hands up in a placating manner, Jane grins and states, "I have no intention of bothering Lisbon right now. In fact I just want to go lay on my couch." He proceeds to go do just that, though he looks over his shoulder and comments, "You might want to get back to work. Wouldn't want Lisbon to find you still standing there."
About an hour passes as Jane lays on his couch pondering over what might be bugging Lisbon, but so far he is coming up short. He hadn't pulled any of his more elaborate tricks on this case, but he also hadn't hypnotized anyone or even pissed someone off to the point of having a weapon drawn on him. True there were a few hurt feelings but nothing too bad. At least not too bad for him, since the all the suspects were cleared save the woman he had left with Cho. Then again she had confessed to the murder, so Lisbon should be happy now.
Lisbon has also spent the last hour of time thinking, debating with herself if she should keep her feelings hidden or not. The pros of letting her feelings be known is that maybe then Jane would taper down the amount of his flirting with the female suspects and maybe he just might return the feelings. The cons would be that they work together, but also he would then know and if he does not feel the same it could make things very awkward. After weighting her options, she makes a decision. Now she just has to follow through.
Peeking out of her blinds, she sees Jane laying down on the couch pretending to be asleep. Gathering up her courage and steeling herself for what she is about to do, she opens her door and storms over to the couch. She hopes he doesn't notice anything off about her mood and that he takes her mock anger as being real.
Jane feels a shadow fall over him before he hear, "Jane, my office now!" snapped out by Lisbon as she glares down at the consultant. Jane opens his eyes, a cat-got-the-canary grin on his face. He stands and stretches before walking into Lisbon's office. Lisbon follows him and closes the door.
"What did I do this time?" Jane asks, hiding his confusion over being called into Lisbon's office, "I haven't hypnotized anyone, been held at gun point or pulled any of my stunts in the field. In fact I haven't even had anyone threaten to file a complaint against me."
Lisbon stalk up so she's staring him right in the face as she growls, "You are driving me crazy," poking Jane's chest with every word.
"Oh? How so?" Jane teases, as he breathes an internal sigh of relief.
"Like this," Lisbon replies as she grabs his vest and pulls him down into a heated kiss causing Jane's eyes to widen in surprise. After the kiss, Lisbon smiles widely and cheekily says as she walks out of her office, "Bet you didn't see that coming."
Jane watches her walk out of her office in slack-jawed shock, when he finally processes that Lisbon had just kissed him. He races to catch up with her, his normal cat-got-the-canary grin back in place, "Hey Lisbon. Show me again!"
Lisbon replies with a grin, "Oh I'll show you again, but only if you do exactly what I tell you to do."
Quirking an eyebrow at her response, he asks, "Just what do you want me to do?"
"For now, grab you jacket then follow me," she answers before walking into the bullpen and address the team, "Go get some lunch, the case is closed and I want to be able to understand what you're writing in your reports. Not some drivel about how hungry you are because you haven't eaten since breakfast."
Agent Wayne Rigsby flushes red at Lisbon's last remark, though the rest of the team smiles. Rigsby hurriedly stands, pulling on his coat before sliding his gun and holster on with a, "Sure thing boss."
Lisbon turns and heads out with Jane falling into step beside her. They don't notice the team watching them walk down the hall to the elevator. They also don't notice as Lisbon's boss Minelli walks out of his office to see them. They are so focused on each other as they step on to the elevator and as the doors close; they never notice the team and Minelli watching as she wraps her arms around his neck to pull him into a hard, passionate kiss.
Rigsby watches shocked as he witnesses his boss kissing Jane. Van Pelt thinks it is sweet and that Lisbon is good for Jane. Cho and Minelli just look at each other with uncharacteristic grins while thinking, 'It was about damn time.'