Okay Guys, this chapter's a little less exiting. More about the case, although there is a little Jisbon. Pay attention though, it may be boring but the next chapter is going to (hopefully) Blow your mind!
Now that there was only three on the team until Rigsby and Vanpelt recovered, Jane and Lisbon ended up doing most of the fieldwork. This was decided without opinions or arguments seeing as Jane wouldn't answer phones if someone paid him, and Lisbon had served her time with that job when she was junior agent of Bosco's team.
So Cho sat alone at his desk, answering phones and taking numbers and messages while Lisbon and Jane made their way to the sister of one of Tanner's victims' house. The victim's name was Tina Crowde, and she was poisoned a week after poison was delivered to the now deceased Gregory Mill's address. Her sister was Deally Dandroy, and she owned a small cottage out in the country.
When Jane's many questions of and similar to, "Are we there yet?" were finally answered with, "We're here," the two CBI workers made their way up the driveway of Deally Dandroy's property. Jane was obviously already improving, as he was acting slightly cheerier and more annoying. Lisbon had forced Jane to wear a bulletproof vest and she was wearing one too as she knocked on the dark wooden door.
"Hold on! I'll be right with you!" called a voice from inside, followed by bumps and crashes and taps turning on and off.
"CBI let us in now!" yelled Lisbon as she slipped Jane a look of worry and a little fear after what happened to their fellow agents.
To their surprise, about five seconds after Lisbon said they were CBI, the door opened revealing a thin, blonde woman about Lisbon's height, wearing a pink apron.
"Hello… What's this about?" Deally Dandroy asked with a curious expression.
"We have reason to believe that you may be able to help us with a few queries regarding a certain murderer that goes by the name of –" Dandroy cut Lisbon off.
"Frederick Tanner. Who was it this time? Who did he take from that wretched Crowde family now? Rebecka? Jodi?" Dandroy asked, as sadness struck her face.
"It was Stacy Crowde ma'am, she was a cousin of your sister's brother in law. Bullet straight through the heart. We're sorry for your loss ma'am." Lisbon said, lowering her gaze in respect. Deally Dandroy offered them to come in, but Jane quickly replied with,
"Um… we should take you back to headquarters… it's uh… safer there let's just say." He said as he exchanged looks with Lisbon's agreeing eyes.
When Jane, Lisbon and Dandroy arrived at the CBI, Lisbon told Cho to conduct the interviews and got a man from Bosco's team to take their calls while she sat at Grace's desk and watched Jane sit down on his couch.
When Cho was inside the interview room, Lisbon and Jane were alone in the office.
Jane was now laying on the couch with his eyes lightly closed. Lisbon knew he wasn't asleep.
"This case is… Pretty interesting huh?" she small talked, trying to get a conversation going with Jane.
Jane opened his eyes suddenly, but didn't move in any other way.
"I guess. I think it's like any other in my part, can't say the same for Vanpelt and Rigsby, the hospital said they will live. I suppose that's good news."
Lisbon, seeing that Jane was acting quite unsociable, went to her office and began to tidy things up. Maybe Jane would get more sleep if he stayed in her office, he had lay on her couch before, and neither of them seemed to mind. It was a lot quieter in Lisbon's office, and if one were to shut the blinds it would be dimmer too.
Jane could hear Lisbon's heals clicking against the floor of the office long before she actually spoke up.
Lisbon cleared her throat.
"Uh, Jane?" She asked, hoping she wasn't waking him.
"And what could I do for you my dear?" said Jane as he sat up in his couch.
"I was wondering… Perhaps you might be less disturbed, maybe, that is if you wanted to… I don't know…"
"Spit it out woman!" he said mockingly as he noticed her blush slightly.
"Perhaps you might like to try to rest on the couch in my office? It's quieter and dimmer and cooler in there than out here. Maybe it would do you good?" she asked, trying to sound as formal as possible.
"Thank you for the offer Lisbon, I'll keep it in mind, but Cho looks like he's found something important, turn around my dear." Jane said, turning to Cho.
Lisbon turned around to see that Cho was standing directly behind her.
"What have you got?" She asked, hoping Cho hadn't heard her offer Jane a spot in her office.
"Here boss, Dandroy said that Tina Crowde was continually receiving calls from this number," Cho said as he held up a small sheet of paper with a number scribbled down, "It traced to an abandoned building. Here are the coordinates," he said as he handed her another sheet of paper.
"Good job. Me and Jane will go check it out." Have fun with the phones Cho.
Okay so I admit, nothing really happened in this chapter, not action-wise anyway. But I know you will like the next chapter, I just needed this to happen in order to write the next part… Please review!
