Authors Note: As a reminder, Lisbon's brother is named Andrew aka Andy, his wife Andrea and their kids Andrew Jr. aka A.J. (9), Anastasia (7), and Alan (4). Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and to Ebony10 who betaed for me
Disclaimer: If they were mine, I would not be freaking out about the fact that while I have paid for the hotel and the tickets for my trip to Disenyland, I forgot to put money aside to get there, oops.
Lisbon was sitting with her family, eating breakfast—cold cereal, fruit and coffee—when Jane walked in and she almost choked on her cereal. She almost didn't recognize him when he walked in. It appeared that he hadn't planned on wearing his normal suit to Disneyland today. Instead he was dressed in a pair of jeans and a casual light blue short sleeve button down shirt.
"What do you know," she said as he walked up to the table, "You really do own something besides suits. Same shoes though." He smirked at her.
"Cold cereal, Lisbon? Really, that's no way to start the day. You should at least have a donut."
"You know, that's a great idea. Why don't you grab me one when you get your own breakfast?" She asked. He just walked off toward the breakfast set up. She watched him go, surprised at how nice he looked when he was dressed down.
"You know, sis, for a couple that's dating, you sure do act funny. I don't think I've heard either one of you call each other by your first names since you got here yesterday. What's up with that?" Her brother asked, looking at her with a confused look on his face.
Lisbon stalled by taking a long drink of her coffee. "It's to keep the relationship interesting." Jane answered for her, placing a donut on the table in front of her and sitting down next to her. "It's vacation. Don't the kids get donuts, too?" He was trying to take the subject off of his lie to Lisbon's brother and it worked.
"Yeah, Dad, can we have donuts?" A.J. asked.
He pretended to debate for a minute before he said "Yeah, go ahead. It's vacation, right?"
Jane laughed at the eager way that all three kids jumped up to go get donuts and Lisbon just rolled her eyes. "I'm going to go make sure I have everything ready for today, batteries and all that." Lisbon said, standing up. "I'll see you guys in a bit."
Back in the hotel room she wondered about the wisdom of leaving Jane alone with her brother. He couldn't cause too much damage at breakfast, could he? Trying not to think about it, she checked to make sure that her camera had batteries and that she had at least two extra sets in her backpack. She made sure to grab the sunscreen and the water bottle she had brought with her. It was a reusable one—she used it when she went to the gym. As an afterthought she put in the extra bottle that she had brought with her. She could almost guarantee that Jane would not bring a bottle of water with him. She checked to make sure that she had her wallet in her bag as well before going in search of Jane.
She found him standing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel room. "Do you have everything ready, Jane? I know the hotel is close to the park, but we probably won't be back before dinner. Alan doesn't take naps anymore so we probably won't be coming back for any reason."
"I'm ready if you packed me that extra water bottle of yours." He said, looking at her with a knowing smile on his face.
"Keep it up and I'm going to make you carry the backpack." She said, swatting his arm playfully. Jane just chuckled and they waited for just a few more minutes in silence for her family to emerge from their hotel room so they could get going. The children were barely able to contain their excitement as they walked across the street. Lisbon had her camera out and was already shooting pictures of the looks on their faces as they walked through the gates for the first time.
"Lisbon, give me your camera." Jane said,s standing very close to her.
"Why?" She asked, turning and finding that she was almost standing on top of him.
"It's your vacation. You should be in the pictures too." He said with a smile, easily taking the camera from her. What he didn't realize is that Andy also had a camera and was capturing the whole exchange. Jane took over the picture taking for the moment, making sure to get ones of Lisbon with all of her family in front of the Mickey face made of flowers just inside the main gate.
"Let's go see Mickey!" Yelled out Alan, tired of all of the picture taking.
"Yeah, Mickey, let's go!" Anastasia started pulling on Lisbon's hand.
Laughing and finally giving in, they all headed toward the train to make it easier to get to Toontown to see Mickey. The wait in line was almost unbearable for the children. Luckily Jane was there. Lisbon just stood, watching as he enthralled not only her nephews and niece, but also the rest of the kids in line with his mind reading and magic tricks. It would seem that she had finally found a place where his talents were appreciated and she wondered if Disneyland was hiring any line wranglers.
They took pictures of all of the kids with Mickey and—it would seem as an afterthought—also a picture of Lisbon and Jane with Mickey. They were walking out of Toontown after going on a few of the rides there when Jane started bouncing up and down like a little child. "What is it, Jane?' Asked Lisbon, not really paying attention to him.
"I know what ride we need to go on next." He said with his trademark smile, walking off in the direction of the ride. The rest of them followed him, not really sure where they were going. Lisbon knew the second they got near which ride he wanted to go on.
"No, I am not going on that ride with you. Or rather, you need to stay far far way from that ride." She said, stopping in her tracks.
"Come on, sis," Andy said, pulling her along. "It's not a trip to Disneyland without going on this ride once." Lisbon just shook her head. They didn't know Jane the way she did. This was not going to end well.
They stood in line for only a short amount of time compared to the rest of the lines they had been in that day and, as they got into the boat, Jane decided that he needed to share some little known trivia with Lisbon and the rest of her family, who were unwitting participants in the torture that was about to ensue for the rest of the day. "Did you know that this ride was originally at the 1964/65 New York's World Fair? The song plays on a continuous loop. And most recently the ride has been "updated" to include characters from the Disney movies and songs from some of the movies, too." He was sitting next to Lisbon in the boat and they were finally entering the building housing the attraction. The music started and Lisbon wanted to plug her ears and bury her head in her lap.
"Come on, Lisbon. It's a song about a world of laughter and a world of fun. What could you hate about it?" Jane was really enjoying her discomfort. He smiled and swayed along with the song slightly. For what seemed like hours, but actually wasn't very long, Lisbon endured the torture of Jane sitting next to her, humming and singing along. When the ride was over she left as quickly as she could.
To her surprise, Jane didn't immediately start to bombard her with the song. He was actually quite pleasant with them all, taking pictures and entertaining the kids in line. By the time they were ready to go back to the hotel and get ready for dinner Lisbon had lowered her guard and was actually enjoying spending time with him.
They were in the hotel room and Jane had decided to actually wash up before dinner, something Lisbon didn't think he would actually do. "You know, Lisbon. It is amazing how dirty you can get just walking around all day." He came out of the bathroom drying his face and hands on a towel.
"I know. That's why we came back to the hotel first before going to dinner. We have to get a move on. They want to be back for the fireworks tonight. I've heard that the fireworks alone are worth the price of admission."
"I love fireworks and we'll get a chance to see that Alan is much better off than he was just two nights ago." They had left the room and were standing out on the sidewalk in front of the rooms now.
"Still doesn't make up for what you did and you know it." Lisbon said. They were still arguing about it when her family came out and join them.
"Trouble in paradise, sis?" Andy asked with a wink.
"No, just a difference of opinion." She said. They had decided to go to Denny's for dinner. Lisbon thought that McDonald's would have been a better choice with four children, but she knew Jane would take too much pleasure in knowing that she thought he was a small child. Dinner was surprisingly uneventful and they were back in the park in time for the fireworks.
To Andy and Andrea's amazement, Alan had no problems with the noise of the fireworks and Lisbon wouldn't admit it, but she was secretly glad that Jane had worked his magic on Alan. It was nice to be able to watch the kids enjoying the fireworks without having to comfort any of them.
"Thanks Jane." Lisbon said to him while still keeping her eyes on the castle in front of them where the fireworks were coming from.
"What for?" He didn't look at her, but she knew he was smiling.
"Alan is really enjoying the fireworks; I just wanted to say thanks for what you did the other night."
"Are you saying that you were wrong Lisbon?" She could hear the amusement in his voice.
"No, I'm just saying that this one time, you actually helped with your meddling." Lisbon said turning away from him and looking at the fireworks again. Jane didn't say anything in response, he just looked over at her and smirked, she would admit it one day.
That night back at the hotel Lisbon once again banished Jane to the floor for sleeping. As she was nodding off she thought about what a wonderful day they had all had together and how much Jane had surprised her by not torturing her with that stupid song. She was almost asleep when she heard Jane start to sing quietly under his breath. "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all." She groaned and threw her pillow at him. It just wasn't fair. Now she was going to have that song in her head all night.
Authors Note: Notes at the top and bottom, I hate that. If anyone has a favorite ride at Disenyland I would love to have sugestions on which rides to have them go on, just let me know :)