Hi guys, I'm back! Thanks to all that reviewed the last chapter! Well I left you all in kinda suspense last chapter so I added an additional chapter too the story!
This is short, but shows what happened after they jumped...
Disclaimer: No I don't. Fortunately enough for the actors and actresses of the show! LOL =P
The Mentalist: Open your eyes.
PREVIOUSLY ON OPEN YOUR EYES:
`Jumping is our only option Lisbon` `we`ll die Jane` `I know` `I don't want you to die` `shall we jump? `
The both of them looked at each other and smiled as they ran for the edge and leaped, for the 20 foot drop beneath them.
`Every minute from this minute now, we can do what we like anywhere`
"I want so much to open your eyes because I need you to look into mine"
Grace gaped horrifically at Rigsby as they watched Jane and Lisbon fall from the barn roof...smiling.
` Cho! Stop the car! ` She exclaimed as she began to run for her boss and friend who were rapidly falling hand in hand. Rigsby grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back as she tried to fight against his grasp but it was too late by then.
The barn blew up, a massive gust of flames swallowed up the building and it spat out pieces of wood, while ash, debris and burning lumps of hay fell from the sky like rain. Grace screamed when Jane and Lisbon were thrown against her SUV and rolled onto the grass in a thud.
`Oh sweet mother divine` gasped Cho and both Rigsby and grace looked at him confused.
`Ugh` moaned Jane as he rolled in the grass in agony. He opened his eyes and blinked when he saw someone tower above him and to make sure this was all real. It couldn't be could it?
30 MINUTES LATER
`Oh my god Patrick, are you alright? `Questioned Grace.
`I'm meant to be dead` he said, staring up at graces pretty face which was etched with fear.
`No Jane. What are you talking about? ` She asked and he widened his eyes.
` I'm meant to be dead and so is Teresa` he said panicking, sitting up and looking around the place until he saw Lisbon's body lying only a few centimetres away from him.
He crawled over on his hands and knees and looked down at her beautiful face. She had scrapes and cuts on her face along with them on her arms and hands. A sideways "L" shaped cut was bleeding at the top right hand side of her face and a cut ran down by her ear.
`Teresa, can you hear me? ` He asked, patting her cheek but he got no response.
"Tell me that you'll open your eyes"
`Teresa wake up` he pleaded, gently shaking her by the shoulders but her limp body just shook from him doing so.
He felt someone come and crouch down beside him and wrapped an arm around him. He turned to his right to see graces caring smile stare him straight in the face. It wasn't that she was in the mood to smile it was just it was automatic to grace but it gradually curved downwards.
`Patrick calm down please? ` She asked right after he took Lisbon's pulse with his shaky hand. He got nothing; not even the slightest vibration.
"Tell me that you'll open your eyes"
`Don't tell me to calm down! I'm just after killing Teresa! Do not tell me to calm down, please! `He cried, standing up and trying to back away but just fell to the ground in agony.
`Patrick, I'm sorry` apologized grace as she watched Jane panic and saw those tears coming just as fast as they left.
He crawled his way over to Lisbon and took the gun from her holster, putting his finger on the trigger and with an unsteady hand he put it to his head.
`Jane, put the gun down` ordered Cho as he took out his gun as did Rigsby. Grace just stood there, and emotional wreck.
Jane squinted his eyes so hard trying to eliminate the haunting flashbacks that began to become clearer in his head. The Red John smiley face, the beautiful video of his wife playing with his daughters' new puppy, saving Lisbon's life and when he shot sheriff hardy, finding Bosco`s team and Rebecca dead, Lisbon's beautiful smile...they wouldn't leave his brain.
`Get out! Get out! Get out! ` he cried, holding his left hand to his head and even Cho, the most unemotional guy you could ever meet thought it was hard to watch.
`Jane, everything's ok. Just lower the gun and we can bring to the hospital to get checked out` Rigsby said, doing his best to stay calm himself as Jane stood back up again.
`No. I don't need to get checked out. I want to be with Teresa` he said, fighting the pain boiling up his head.
`Patrick, you got to listen to me` Grace began as she made her way closer to Jane.
"Tell me that you'll open your eyes"
`No. I can't` he cried, bringing the gun closer to his head.
`Yes you can Patrick. I know you're scared and upset, so am I but you're putting yourself and your friends in great danger. I need you to put the gun down. People care about you Patrick; we can get through this together. But you have a nasty wound on your head and you need to get it stitched up, you're beaten up pretty badly. Just leave the gun on the ground`
`No Grace. I can't. I just can't. I have to be with Teresa`
`You're an atheist Patrick, you don't believe in the afterlife! `
`It's the closest I can get to Teresa`
`Why is it so important Patrick? I don't want to lose you, none of us do, but you're being selfish and un-thoughtful and I want you to stop it! `
"Tell me that you'll open your eyes"
Somehow he did manage to open his eyes but they looked like they were on fire. They were red and bloodshot and surrounded by wet tears along with those falling down his cheeks in all directions.
`The last thing T-Teresa told me was -` he began and he swallowed the gulp forming in his throat.
`-was that she loved me to bits and that she didn't want us to end this way...` he continued to sob and grace just let the tears fall, she wasn't going to hide it but it was like a modern version of Romeo and Juliet.
Rigsby kept the tears at a minimum and stood tall while Cho wiped his eyes while his bottom lips upturned. Poor guy was a hopeless romantic at heart.
`-and she said she`d see me up in the clouds. I want to keep that promise I made her`
Grace glanced at Rigsby and he nodded, looking back at Jane. She walked closer so that they were face to face.
`You pick your fate Patrick, I was wrong to try and stand in your way. Can I hug you? ` She asked and he looked up at her and fell captive to her awaiting arms.
`Patrick...-` she began and he just hugged her tighter and cried.
They could all hear Cho muffle something on his phone and snap it shut, kicking the back tyre of Graces SUV.
`Have respect for the car, man` mumbled Rigsby and Cho just came back up beside him.
Jane let the gun fall to the ground and he turned when he heard a shot fire as did grace.
Rigsby fell to the ground, trying to put pressure on his gunshot wound to his leg while Cho assisted him to try and stop the bleeding.
`Grace, could you bring Jane to the hospital? ` Asked Cho, looking up from behind him and grace seemed hesitant as she looked over and back between Jane and Cho.
"Tell me that you'll open your eyes"
Before Jane could butt in and say no, Cho held up his hand to stop him.
`Jane, the ambulances are on their way. Grace would be faster driving you there, go with her`
Jane nodded and glanced down at Lisbon's helpless body, while Cho knelt down beside her.
Grace looked behind her as Jane walked his way to her car and Cho nodded when he stood up from her body. Grace didn't know entirely what he meant by that nod, all she knew was that it was either going to be good or bad.
She wandered over to her car casually and sat in, pulling down the sun-visor while she put on her seatbelt. Before she even got to glance into the mirror, Jane's depressed- sounding voice mumbled `You look fine`
She jolted up from his words and furrowed her eyebrows. `Excuse me? `
`I said you look fine, no need for the mirror` he repeated, playing with his fingers.
`Oh...I'll just look in case` she smiled and he grabbed her hand to stop her. `I said you look fine` he repeated in a more darkened tone. She wouldn't say it was aggressive but it wasn't Jane.
She furrowed her eyebrows and her breathing suddenly became uneven. `Jane, it's only a mirror`
`Do I need to drive? ` He asked, still gripping her arm and looking at her with his blue eyes that had turned a darker shade of blue.
`No. I'm content with driving` she nodded and his stare grew intense.
`Jane, can you please let go of my arm? Your creeping me out`
His stare continued but he let his tight grip loosen and grace snatched her arm back, rubbing it to try and get the feel into it again, but she watched him as he began to chew on some gum and look at the handbrake.
Once she got her thoughts in order, she put the key into the ignition and reversed the whole way down the long laneway out onto the slip road.
Every few seconds she would glance at Jane, just to make sure he wasn't trying to choke himself with the chewing gum.
She pulled in on the grassy bit at the edge of the road when she saw the fire engine and ambulances come her way and Jane watched blankly as they passed the SUV.
`Jane, are you alright? ` She knew it was a stupid question but she needed to know what his obsession was for not letting her look in the mirror.
`Cant believe I killed her` he kept whispering, until Grace began to think it was becoming routine. Every 6 seconds he would mumble it while staring at the dashboard.
`I don't get it Jane` she said, furrowing her eyebrows and glancing at him while she pulled out onto the main road.
`Cant believe I killed her` he mumbled again, but grace did the one think she knew (or hoped) he would answer to.
`Jane! Snap out of it! `
He shut his lips and trained his eyes to the steering wheel.
`Jane, stop it its getting creepy`
He lightly smiled and looked out the window.
`My sincere apologies Grace, I'm in another world` he said sadly as he thought back on what he said. ` I wish I was`
`Jane, why are you saying you killed Teresa when you didn't. It wasn't like you shoved her off the barn or that you made her commit suicide, or other wards you wouldn't have gone down with her`
"Tell me that you`ll open your eyes"
Jane lifted his head hesitantly and looked at grace. He was still crying, so was she but they were allowed to.
There friend and boss had just been `killed` in an `accidental` accident and was lying outside a blazing farm barn.
All of them were lucky to be alive, especially Jane.
` I don't really wanna talk about it...`
`Talk to me Jane, cause people are gonna start asking question that we`ll need to answer`
`We were either gonna get blown to pieces or jump. We knew that we were gonna kill ourselves. It was the better choice` he nodded and grace nodded in return.
`You chose the right choice Patrick. You were a hero to even get Teresa out of the building. You're a great person don't you forget that` she smiled, tapping him thoughtfully on the arm.
`Mm. It didn't keep her here though, did it? `
"Tell me that you`ll open your eyes,
Tell me that you`ll open your eyes"
The Mentalist: Open your eyes.
Okay, turns out the typed version didn't end out being short! Am I making my chaps to long???
Okay...It might be killing you (Not physically...obviously) that I killed off Lisbon...Patrick Jane's 2nd half...
But...I dropped about 2 or three clues in there if anyone found them that there is a 50/50 chance she's still alive! If you found them, let me know and all will be revealed next chapter! =P
Listen guys I was typing this up during the premiere of ugly Betty, greys anatomy and Desperate housewife's (it's a bummer they're all on a Tuesday from 8.05 till 11pm...
But...I haven't even written a whole paragraph to the next chapter only 5 lines of the chapter after that...so I may get it posted tomorrow, who knows!!!
Lemme know whatcha thought! Thanks!
~JNS x