Title: Dressing Up
Author: Shannon – shannyfish
Disclaimer: I do not own "The Mentalist" or its characters, Warner Brothers and Bruno Heller do. This is merely for entertainment purposes only.
Rating: G
Summary: The CBI crash a local prom in order to solve a murder (Prompt: Prom)
Part of the "Red Hot Days" series: a series of different scenes both case and non-case related scenes. This can be read as part of the series or can be read on its own. Different POVs used for different stories. Lisbon/Jane shipping and most likely
Warning: Takes place during season 3, so spoilers during season 3 are fair game. So currently, that's up to "Code Red".
Author's Note: #6 in the series
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Hotel
Lisbon sighed as she paced the bed. Jane had just arrived moment before and laid out the garment bag that he'd purchased from the dress shop. She had agreed that they should dress up a bit to blend a little more at the prom that they were crashing, but she'd just planned on wearing a pantsuit with a nice top. She hadn't expected to see Jane's mysterious bag. He'd told her it was a gift and had left it at that.
She looked over at the small clock on the bedside table in her room and frowned. She was supposed to be ready to go in thirty minutes. It was a little pathetic, but this silly garment bag scared the hell out of her. Jane had enjoyed the dress shop way too much. Though she knew that Jane was ultimately harmless especially when it came to her, well…harmless as long as it didn't involve a case…then all hell could break loose at any given moment.
Pulling in a deep breath, she stepped towards the bed. She stared down at the bag for another moment before bending over the bed in order to unzip the bag. Lisbon did so slowly and carefully. Without knowing what was contained within the bag, she was afraid she could catch something on the zipper. She pulled the front of the bag open and over.
Inside was a beautiful dress and at the bottom was a shoebox. She gasped at the beauty of the dress contained within the bag. Lisbon ran her hands along the olive colored satin of the dress. The dress had straps, the V-neckline was formed by a twist in the fabric, and the A-line dress fell to what looked like the knees. It was beautiful, even just on the hanger.
She was going to kill Patrick Jane.
Smiling, she carefully removed it from the hanger and laid it on the bed next to the bag. Just as she realized that she didn't have the correct undergarments for the dress, she noticed the strapless bra that had been hanging behind the dress. She shook her head, but the smile didn't leave her face. Moving to the shoebox, she opened it to find a pair of very strappy copper high heels.
She just hoped that Van Pelt had something to wear that was more dressy, so that she didn't stand out too much. The guys had it easy. They could wear pretty much what they wore everyday and be done with it.
. . .
Brea High School Prom Site
"You know that this is completely unnecessary, right?" Van Pelt asked Jane.
"What? Policing the prom?" Jane asked.
"I think she means dressing up," Lisbon spoke up.
"I don't regret it," Jane said looking at Lisbon, a bright smile across his face.
Lisbon shook her head and went over to explain who they were and why they were there. The bad thing about the dress that Jane had brought for her to wear was that there were really no good places to put her gun or her badge. Though she'd found a solution, it really wasn't as comfortable as she was used to.
"We can go this way," Lisbon explained as she ushered her team into the dance.
As they passed the photo area, she had to drag Jane along as he'd stopped in place. "C'mon Lisbon! Let's take a group picture!" he pleaded.
She ignored him.
. . .
TBC…