A/N: Thank you all for reading this story, so pleased so many of you like it.

Chapter 4 - Making Amends

After getting some room service they fell asleep. Jane still suffered from insomnia at times but certainly nowhere near as bad as he used to. He woke just as it was turning six, his arm around Lisbon in a vice like grip. He lessened his hold. Even his subconscious was afraid of her wising up and leaving him one day. She murmured in her sleep and he smiled at her, kissing her neck softly before getting up. She was still not a morning person and would invariably be grouchy until she had a cup of coffee in her hand. On some occasions he found other methods of turning her mood first thing without the need of caffeine but that normally required her to have had a full night's sleep beforehand. Last night she had twisted and turned, obviously worried about her brother, so he was sure no amount of caressing and touching her would have the desired affect this morning.

He got the spare key to Jimmy's room, leaving Lisbon a note to tell her where he was. Before he put the key in the door he had another thought. He knocked first for fear of getting another punch on the gut. He saw the peephole darken and Jimmy opened it, his eyes bleary.

'Where's Reese?' he asked, looking behind Jane.

'Asleep. It's just me' Jane replied, entering the room.

Jimmy rolled his eyes. He didn't want to think about his sister's sex life.

'So, what do you want?' Jimmy glared and crossed his arms in front of him.

'To help you, you idiot.'

Jimmy rounded on him, his eyes blazing. 'From you? I'll take my sister's help, but not yours.'

Jane sighed, sitting on the bed. 'Okay, what's your top issue with me?'

'Top issue? I wouldn't know where to begin. You don't deserve my sister-'

'I'm more than aware of that. But she's chosen me anyway. So you need to get used to the idea.'

'Oh, just like that, huh?'

'No. Not just like that but the last thing she needs to see is the pair of us scrapping like teenagers. So, if you don't want her upset then you need to find a way to fake it while we're here. After that, feel free to think what you like of me.'

Jimmy finally nodded. 'Fine. But let's be clear. I don't like you Patrick. You've been bad news for Reese since the day she met you.'

Jane shrugged. 'Good. Now let's get back to me helping you.'

When Jane returned to the room he noticed the remnants of a cup of coffee beside the TV. She was in the shower.

'Teresa? It's just me back' he called from the bedroom.

'Are you still in one piece?' she shouted back.

He smiled, heading into the bathroom. He peeked inside the shower. 'You want to check for yourself?'

She grinned back. 'Sure, why not?'

He widened his eyes, shedding his clothes quickly. As he did so she asked, 'So, what were you doing there?

Jane entered the shower cubicle. It was a bit of a tight squeeze and he wrapped his arms around her from the back and kissed her neck. 'Mmm?' he mumbled as his hands began to caress her stomach as he nuzzled her shoulder.

She leaned back into him, her arm reaching back so she could put her hand through his hair. 'What were you talking to my brother about?'

'Oh, just straightening some things out' he replied, his fingers brushing over her breasts.

'Like what?'

He let go of her and kissed her neck one more time, picking up the soap to wash himself.

She turned to face him. 'He still doesn't like you, huh?'

Jane shrugged, soaping his chest. 'We've agreed to come to a truce on the matter. So don't worry. He even agreed to let me help him with his gambling addiction.'

'He has? Wow, I'm surprised.'

Jane nodded, washing his hair. Lisbon studied him as he closed his eyes and pushed his head under the shower stream. His body was pressed into hers to allow him to get closer to it. She planted a long kiss on his chest and wrapped her arms around him, stroking his back. He threw his head back, grinning as the water ran over his face. He bent down and kissed her as she backed into the wall of the shower cubicle.

He moved closer but then saw a thought cross her face. Before he could kiss her again she put the palms of her hands on his chest. 'Jimmy wouldn't have just agreed like that. And what kind of help have you offered him?'

'Can we wait another ten minutes or so before I tell you?' he asked, his hands sliding down to her waist.

She glared at him.

He sighed, moving himself away from her and getting out of the shower. She followed soon after as he was drying himself off in the bedroom.

Even with her hair wet and dressed only in a towel she was still intimidating when she looked at him like that. 'You hypnotised him, didn't you?'

'Um, yeah, a little' he replied, beginning to get dressed.

'What does that mean!'

He rolled his eyes. 'Yes, I hypnotised him so that when he thinks about gambling that he'll feel sick instead. And if he does want to gamble despite that then the first thing he'll do is call me. That way I can talk him through any further...therapy he might need.'

'He didn't agree to it though, did he?'

'No. I would have liked to have talked him into agreeing but let's just say he has some trust issues with me. So I hypnotised him without him realising it.'

Jane sat on the bed after putting his trousers on. He was about to put on his socks when he felt her hand run through his hair. He glanced up to find her smiling. 'You're not mad?'

'I was when you were lying to me. But you're trying to help him. It...it means a lot, Patrick.'

'Well, he's your family, right. That makes him my family too, despite what an imbecile he is.'

She smiled and then whacked him on the arm.

'Ow! What was that for?'

'He's still my brother. Only I get to call him an idiot.'

He pulled her onto his lap. 'Oh, so it's like when anybody else calls me a jackass or punches me you defend me but it's okay for you to do those things?'

'Exactly' she whispered into his ear as Jane removed her towel, laughing.

When they got to the FBI office later that morning, Jane helped Jimmy come up with a better picture of the shooter by putting him in a mild trance. He had resisted initially but he was getting nowhere looking at mugshots and, to keep his sister happy, he had agreed. That enabled a better composite picture to be formed that was put through facial recognition software. A short time later a match was found belonging to a business partner of the crime boss. A warrant was put out for his arrest.

'Do you think I'll have to go into witness protection?' Jimmy asked Lisbon.

'Hopefully not. It was an internal matter, obviously. We're hoping to get him to confess without needing your testimony at all.' She put her hand on his knee. 'It's going to be okay, Jimmy, I promise.'

'It's quite a pickle I've got myself into, isn't it? I'm sorry, Reese for bringing all this to your door.' He hung his head in his hands.

'Hey, what else are big sisters for, huh?' she smiled. 'Besides, Jane's going to help interrogate him. He won't let him out of the room until he's confessed. No matter what it takes.'

'You have a lot of faith in him. You're really in love with him, aren't you?'

She nodded. 'Yeah, I am. He makes me happy, Jimmy.'

'And he's also made you miserable, Reese. I know you always tried to put on a front that the things he was up to didn't get to you but I was there when he took himself off to Vegas, remember, I visited you in Sacramento during that time? You tried to tell me afterwards that it was some big six month operation but I know it wasn't. And we got the call from the CBI telling us that you were dead, have you any idea what that felt like?'

Lisbon shook her head, tears welling up. 'I know, Jimmy. I called you as soon as I could. It was only for a day.'

'It didn't have to be that way, Reese. You chose him over your family. There's no point denying it.'

She nodded, brushing the tears away. 'You're right. I did and I'm sorry, okay? I screwed up. I wasn't thinking at the time-'

'You rarely do when he's in the picture.'

Lisbon rose to her feet. 'Look, Jimmy, all I can do it apologise. I can't change the past. It was a plan to catch a serial killer, I made a judgement call. If it had worked we would have caught Red John. I figured a day where you thought I was dead would be worth it.'

'Is that how he talked you into it? That we would all be so relieved you were okay that we would get over it.'

She shrugged. It had been more of less the argument Jane had made at the time. 'Things are different now. He's a different person now, believe me, please. Just give him a chance. For me.'

'We'll see.'

Jane had watched the exchange from a distance away. He had read their lips and wished he hadn't. He could hardly refute any of it. He hadn't even thought much about the impact his plan would have meant for Lisbon and her family. Even after Sarah broke up with Rigsby after him pulling the same stunt he was ashamed to admit he hadn't felt guilty. All he thought about was catching Red John at the time. Lisbon had just told her brother that he was a different person now. He had to make sure he was.