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I'll never forget the time I first let my guard down around that stupid mentalist Patrick Jane.
"I noticed something about you after working with you for this past year Lisbon." Jane said with a smile on his face looking at all the people passing us by.
The both of us were sitting in the hospital waiting room at the moment waiting for the doctors to clear Cho and Rigsby who had just filed some injury reports. I looked over at him with a glare and then just groaned leaning forward trying to remember how we were now in this position.
A drug lord that was right. We were hunting down Keith Napolitano an Italian drug lord that ran this part of California drug ring. Now normally we would never be on a case like this but the guy had gone and killed some important person's druggie kid. Now why I was stuck with Jane rather then Rigsby and Cho was also mostly his fault to. That damned idiot had put them here in the hospital. Now where was Napolitano you ask? I had put the drug lord instead of a nice cell where he could tell us what he was doing with all those drugs, into a body bag.
Jane apparently took the term of dangerous drug lord as a new friend that he could play with and have no ramifications for his actions. Luckily I was catching on to how the consultant worked and had Cho and Rigsby follow after him, poorly, apparently. According to their reports however Jane had alluded them and went off to talk to said drug lord. Rigsby had gone alone after where he thought Jane would be and wound up getting knocked out by a man that was apparently twice the size of Rigsby, which is quite a feat in it self. Cho came soon after killing the man who was ready to finish off Rigsby and wound up getting shot in the process. Neither of them were close to where Jane was at the time. He was miles away on the other side of town at a restaurant.
Jane was now held in a room in the back alley of an Italian restaurant that had been Napolitano's cover, and I was luckily checking on a few hunches that had led us to that restaurant the night before. I had seen Jane's stupid car and immediately went into investigate knowing Rigsby and Cho were not where Jane said he was heading.
I had rounded the corner right as Napolitano was backing Jane against the wall with a gun. I issued my standard "Freeze CBI" and the man instantly aimed at me and fired missing barely. I fired he fell over and Jane let out sigh of relief and a small thanks. My cell phone rang after that. It was Rigsby number but a paramedic had picked up. Apparently someone had tipped the local cops about gun fire in a neighborhood and found two wounded CBI agents both awake but more irritated that they had let a Jane get away. The paramedic had asked if we could pick up the two agents at the hospital after they checked them over. Which was how we wound up in the hospital's waiting room which was surprisingly empty at 3 in the morning.
"And what's that Jane?" I asked putting my head back against the hospital wall awaiting the newest thing that he would notice about me from my previous actions in the past forty five minutes.
"You're just to up tight." he explained. At this point something in the back of my mind snapped. Uptight. He thought I was uptight. Oh I'd show him up tight.
"Is that so? Me up tight. No wonder you made all that money you did pretending to be a psychic" I spat back which made him grin. "Thanks Jane what else you going to magically notice about me all of a sudden? That I'm actually quite small to be a Senior Agent of the Serious Crimes Unit in the CBI? Cause that, would be quite amazing in itself too."
"Now now, there's no reason to get bitter about it. Its a good thing, in a sense but if we're going to work together you're going to have to trust me farther then you're little self could throw me." he explained. I clenched my fist at that comment. I could throw him for sure. Now how far I could throw him would send his little mentalist head spinning.
"Trust you? Ah that's what I've been doing wrong isn't it. You're schemes have now gotten my whole entire team hurt and hell you yourself were hurt a few times now. You're completely right I should defiantly trust you. Could you get that on my tomb stone by the way? Teresa Lisbon. I trusted Jane." I offered. The last part I had my hand out waving in the air where the words would go. He laughed and I couldn't help but smile back.
"Ok you make a good point." he said with a nod and I nodded.
"Damn right I do."
"But had you not sent Cho and Rigsby after me neither of them would of been hurt." He explained.
"Ah and had I let you just go after Napolitano you'd be in that body bag and he would have gotten away."
"Ok I do see your point, however I'm quite sure I could have set him up enough in a sense that he would have not killed me, let me go, and we together could have busted him later." he explained.
"Oh so this is my fault?" I offered as he flinched. "I've noticed something about you Jane. You, don't care about what happens to the people around you. The people that are supposed to be considered you're teammates. If I would of died, if Cho and Rigsby would have died, I don't think you'd really give a damn. You'd just try to get transferred to some other team and charm your way into their lives so they'd go about protecting your stupid ass." I stood up after this turning to look him in the eyes and found him looking up at me looking quite hurt. I frowned and then turned away. "I'm going to see how my partners are doing now. I made a few bad judgment calls I have to go apologize." I explained as something caught me by the wrist.
I turned around seeing Jane holding onto my wrist looking quite hurt he then got up and brought his other hand over mine.
"Lisbon wait a second, that's not true." he started off. "I care a lot about you guys." he explained and I felt my heart skip a beat. "I just-I-I don't care what happens to me. Lisbon, my life was ruined three years ago when Red John killed my family and now the only thing I have is bringing him to justice." he explained my eyes widened at this. Sure I knew what had gone down with him three years ago but I had never heard Jane say anything about it during he year I had worked with him ever. "Those other families that we get to help out, I mean it's nice and it does help me. Because of those families I can get by from day to day knowing I make a difference in the world, but I'll never truly be ok until we have Red John. Then I'll have finally made a difference in my own world."
I looked at the man that was now standing in front of me. The real Patrick Jane. The Patrick Jane that had his whole life taken away from him by that damned serial killer, Red John, 3 years ago. I saw the broken Patrick Jane instead of that pain in the ass consultant. I stepped back slightly not trusting my self to do anything else because I would have hugged him or something had I moved any closer to him.
He let my hand go after that and I couldn't help it after he broke contact with me. Taking a step forward I placed my hand against his cheek and patted his face once keeping my hand there as he placed his own hand against mine. I gave a half hearted smile.
"Jane, partners care about each other. When you suffer, don't think I don't suffer right there with you. I want to catch Red John just as badly as you do. I swear to you that I do. Just know that I worry about Cho and Rigsby too. And they worry and want to catch Red John just as much as I do also. We're in this together. I just don't want your hair brained schemes pulling us apart or getting us killed. Understand?"
Jane let my hand go and I crossed my arms as he smiled as I looked away completely embarrassed at what I had admitted to him. Jane tilted his head at me grinning a little more then crossed his own arms looking me up and down.
"I noticed something else about you Lisbon." he offered as I looked up at him with dread realizing I had let to many walls down when he let his own walls down. "You're the only person I would trust to come in and save me at the last minute no matter what the costs every time." He smiled coming towards me leaning down near me quite close. I backed up which sent me into a chair and could only look up at him. I could only wait to see what he would do next.
"Uhm, Agent Lisbon? Patrick Jane?" a nurse asked sending us both to look over at the woman who was quite unsure about ruining the moment we seemed quite wrapped up in.
"I'm Agent Lisbon, this is Patrick Jane." I explained quickly getting to my feet as Jane took a few steps back. The woman nodded.
"Agent Rigsby, and Agent Cho are able to be discharged now. Would you mind taking a few minutes to help us with the paperwork?"
"Not at all." I explained as the nurse then bailed on us seeming quite embarrassed about interrupting the situation we were in. I looked over at Jane who was now grinning madly which sent me to roll my eyes. He then started for the door.
"Come on! Aren't we going to go see how our partners are doing?"
Jane took off after that racing down the hospital wing of he ER almost taking out a cart of lunches and getting scolded at by a nurse who saw him dash by her. I smiled at this and shook my head walking after that damned consultant that I would always put my life on the line for. Idiot.