Hello people! Sorry for the late Update, I was trying to make the ending chapter good and actually make sense this time! LOL!
Can I just say sorry to those who reviewed chapter 4 right after I posted chapter 5 and never got a thanks in ch.5? SORRY and THANK YOU!!!
Um...so...School decided to bring us back a day early which is a big bummer considering I wanted to have the last half of this UD on Wednesday!(Back 2 school on wed) Yep, I have decided to make this chapter into two because I feel I have left you guys hanging to long since the last chapter! (Well actually I have)There are a few curse words thrown it but it's very little.
Disclaimer: Uh I forgot to say this for the whole story but I'm not snow patrol nor do I own the song of which this story is based on(and named after) and I don't Own the mentalist either...man if I did the cast would be in hospital more times than Jane smiles! LOL =D
On with the show then...
Chapter 6: Lights will guide you home part 1.
Another week later...
"Don't you think we should tell him to go home and have a shower?"Rigsby suggested, as he crossed his arms and looked over and back between grace and cho.
"That just sounds plain rude" stated grace, as she stood outside the hospital room and looked through the window.
"He needs a shave too" Rigsby pointed out as grace nudged him in the ribs. "I'm only stating the obvious. I know you`re all thinking it"
Cho purposely coughed into his clenched fist, grace rolled her eyes and Rigsby smiled. "Leave the poor guy alone, It's a miracle he`s sleeping" she said under her breath as she watched Jane slouch in the armchair and sleep peacefully.
"I'm guessing that's the first time he`s slept in weeks, months even" mentioned Rigsby and the other two nodded.
"But imagine living like that, never being able to sleep all because a serial killer is destroying your life" thought grace aloud as they looked at the mentally scarred consultant.
"I wouldn't be able to stick it" stated cho, crossing his arms.
The other two couldn't help but agree. It would be like living in hell. Someone threatening you if you let something slip from your mouth.
Back inside the room, Jane was slowly waking up.
He jumped when he didn't recognise where he was but it gradually dawned on him that he was inside a hospital. He let his gaze trail off to the slightly smiling pale face in the bed. He couldn't believe she was alive. How could he have been so stupid to take her pulse when he wasn't even sure his own heart had been beating properly? There was one question that floated about his slow and tired brain. He wouldn't let it go without an explanation. If anything he needed one. He stood and smiled down at his friend who was lucky to be alive and he glanced up at the window to see cho, rigsby and grace giving him their "pity" faces and Jane shook his head. Walking out into the hall, he went over to the water cooler and grabbed a plastic cup.
"Jane would you like to go home? " Asked grace and he poured the water and took a sip.
"No thanks, I`d prefer to stay here" he nodded, running a hand through his hair and pacing the width of the corridor.
"Man, go home, eat something, get a clean pair of clothes on and we`ll stay here overnight" offered rigsby, but Jane took it as a slight insult.
"What are you insinuating?"
"Nothing Jane, Nothing" rigsby stuttered, holding his hands up in defence.
"Good" he smiled, tapping him on the shoulder and rigsby stared at him like he just had a heart attack.
"Really?"Asked rigsby, barely believing what he was hearing.
"Yes" he nodded, sitting on the bench opposite them while he began to sip at his water. He stopped drinking and looked at them like he tasted the water before he swallowed it and furrowed his eyebrows, holding his finger in the air.
"There's been something I have been meaning to ask you" he began and the three instantly felt the dread coming on.
"It's about the Lisbon thing isn't it?" guessed grace, even though she knew the answer. Jane nodded and smiled as he ran his finger around the top of the cup and flicked the remaining water particles at the ground.
"It still confuses me as to why none of you told me sooner than last Friday that she was alive. You all lied to me" he said a hint of disgust in his voice as he observed all of their faces. Cho was being Cho, deadpanned as usual. Rigsby remained cool and collected, but looked like he was going to scream at any second. Grace just stared back at him, a slight blush washing over her cheeks at him smiling at her. She looked a little scared and nervous but failed to let it show in her voice.
"Guys you have to admit, it was cruel keeping it from him"
Then Cho and Rigsby started butting into each other's sentences which began to make them sound ridiculous.
"We didn't lie about anything!"Exclaimed rigsby and Cho and grace shot him a glare which instantly silenced him.
"Technically you didn't rigsby, unless you call anyone me. You led me to believe that my friend and boss died when she didn't. All I want is answers. All I ever wanted were answers. They never get answered, never. Are you going to give me answers or act like a pathetic fool?" Jane questioned and rigsby looked over and back between grace and cho. Confusion was crossing all of their features.
"Hey steady man, it wasn't Rigsbys problem and grace found out twenty five minutes or so before you did. The only reason we never told you was because you were lounging around on that couch of yours and hadn't spoken a word since you got released from hospital on New Year's Day. How could we possibly tell you? And you blame us? It's not us who has the problem it's you Jane"
Grace glared at Cho and Rigsby was stuck in the middle of this death glare showdown. "Cho...stop it" she instructed but he ignored her and Jane held his hand in the air to quieten her.
"It's okay Grace. I want to hear what Cho has to say. He's testing out his vocal chords" Jane smirked and Grace and Rigsby were growing confused.
"That was low man" whispered Rigsby and Grace nodded, knowing he wasn't voicing it directly at Jane but to the four of them in general.
"You screw up anything good you actually manage to have in your life! You basically killed your wife and child, destroyed any link you could get to catching Red John, jeopardising your job every single day, trying to kill yourself at least once a week and pissing everyone off!"
"Hey Cho man, quit the bull" warned Rigsby and Grace nudged him in the ribs. Obviously the men had forgotten they were in a hospital and only a corridor away from the kids ward.
"Do you want to know what I think?" asked Jane watching the anger well in his eyes. Personally, Cho`s comment hit a soft spot in his heart and stung it. He had no right to say what he said. He never had a family. He never had a serial killer following and threatening anything and everything he did. He took his work way too seriously and he rarely ever saw the fun in life.
"Not really" he snorted and Jane grinned. "Well I don't really care I'm going to say it anyway. If this is the way you want to live the rest of your life being a workaholic and a very acute socialist then I'm afraid you're turning immoral and believe me I've met a few in my time and they all said that if they had a choice they would turn back the clock to when they had a choice. The vibes you`re giving me are that you don't wanna turn back and you`re feeling a great pang of jealousy"
Cho gave Jane a death glare and Jane smiled and shrugged it off. It was becoming a very uncomfortable atmosphere to be in and grace and rigsby decided to not butt into the situation.
"I'm not immoral nor am I jealous, why would I be?" he spat out and Jane sat forward, his eyebrows nearly hitting his hairline.
"Cho my friend, you said all those things about my wife and child and Red John and about me screwing up my job out of jealousy. You never had a family and you wanted one but you think that you would have kept your own family safer than I had if a serial killer was after you. I said the wrong thing at the wrong time and I paid for my stupid actions. Believe me; you wouldn't want to go through it"
"I wasn't thinking that" mumbled Cho, doing his best deadpanned face but couldn't help the corners of his lips twitching when Jane grinned widely at him.
"Oh I know you weren't" he smiled standing up and getting more water and grace and rigsby exchanged confused glances.
"Why did you say it then?" asked Cho as he kept looking up the corridor and Jane tapped his nose with his index finger.
"That's for you and me to know only Cho. Now go and do what you were planning to for the last week" Cho looked up and Jane nodded knowingly.
Cho stood and walked to the nurses' station looking like he was a man on a mission. The trio watched Cho as he did his best to ask the pretty, spiky- electric red haired nurse out for a drink or dinner. She chuckled and nodded as she scribbled something down on a sheet of paper, fold it and place it in his shirt pocket and patted it as she walked off throwing a smile over her shoulder.
"Aww Cho man bagged himself a date" teased Rigsby and Jane and Grace joined in.
"Shut up Rigsby" he muttered hitting him upside the head and he just gaped back. "What was that for?!" Exclaimed Rigsby as Cho made his way for the elevator and grinned over his shoulder. Cho grinning was a sight to see.
"Where are you going?" asked Jane as he stepped into the elevator and turned around.
"To get changed for my date at eight tonight" he said as the elevator closed and Grace smirked.
"You work like magic, Patrick Jane"
"That I do" he grinned as he saw who was walking up the corridor from the elevator.
Her green eyes sparkled from the sun that shone through the veluxes and her dark hair flickered around her beautiful face from the open window. She looked like a Goddess in Jane's eyes, a small yet stubborn Goddess.
Smiling, she asked "Hey guys, what did I miss?"
Chapter 6: Lights will guide you home part 1.
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