Sorry it has been a while since I updated. I haven't been doing too well in keeping things updated, it always seems like there's something else going on. But I've been wanting to get this one updated for daaaaays and I finally got the energy/time tonight.
"We haven't had a prominent case in twenty three days," Lisbon said, raising an eyebrow at Cho.
"That wasn't my question."
"No, sir, we are not working hard," Theo said. "This paperwork is tedius and all the information is running together. Jane has been torturing Wylie with a card trick for the past fifty minutes, and I'm pretty sure Vega is knitting a serape."
"Vega doesn't know how to knit," Cho said.
Lisbon leaned forward in her chair. "We haven't had a prominent case in twenty three days."
Cho nodded. "Point taken. You've finished up paperwork on the Terrill case?"
"He was a drifter who stole the governor's personal vehicle and robbed a gas station," Jane said, walking into the bullpen with Wylie. "You've solved more prestigious cases without me."
Lisbon rolled her eyes. Theo, even after five years of working with the team, still looked as if she wasn't sure how to respond. Instead, her eyes fell on Wylie and she frowned and cocked her head. "What are you wearing?"
He looked down, and then grinned as he looked back at Theo. "It's a poncho. Michelle made it."
"It's a serape," Vega said as she exited the breakroom. "A poncho is closed at the sides, this is open, this is a serape." She stopped in her tracks as she noted the expression on Cho's face. "We haven't had a prominent case in twenty three days."
"Don't worry, Vega," Lisbon said. "We have that picnic tomorrow to help us relieve the stress of the week."
Vega made a show of wiping her brow.
Cho shook his head. "I'm cancelling this picnic."
"Can't do anymore," Jane said, dropping to his knees in front of his wife and the younger couple. "Daddy's back is all worn out."
"Mommy!" Mimi said, dropping to the ground and running around to stand behind Lisbon.
"Mimi!" Lisbon said, mimicking her daughter's tone.
"Come on, come on!" Mimi said, jumping up and down with her hands on her mother's shoulders.
"Come on and what?" Lisbon asked, as if she didn't know.
"Piggy back!"
"Daddy just gave you a piggy back ride."
"That was Daddy," Mimi explained. "You are Mommy."
"Hard to argue with that logic," Jane said, laying back on the grass.
"Darling," Lisbon said, "Mommy's had a hard week at work."
"No you haven't."
If looks could kill, Cho would have dropped on the spot. "Don't listen to him," Lisbon said.
"You two thinking about kids?" Jane asked. "Because we may be willing to syndicate Mimi."
Wylie laughed awkwardly. Vega jumped up. "I'm going to go get drinks," she said hurriedly.
"Touch a nerve?" Jane asked as she walked off. He cocked his head to see Wylie better.
"Nah," Wylie said. "You want to touch a nerve with Michelle, ask her why I always drive."
Vega returned, arms full. "They ran out of those drink carriers," she said as Wylie jumped up to take a couple of them out of her hands. "This one's Jane's..." Wylie said, handing it down to him. "And this one's...Lisbon's, okay..." he sat it on a flat spot on the ground, then took his drink from his wife, settling back down on the grass.
"Where's Lisb..." Vega trailed off when she spotted the older woman awkwardly 'galloping' around with Mimi on her back, shrieking with glee. She smiled.
"So Vega," Jane said, "why does Wylie always drive?"
"You wanna know why Wylie always drives?" Vega said. "You really want to know why Wylie always drives?" She looked over at her husband, who was trying to suppress a smirk. "Every time I get behind the wheel, he points at every other car on the road and reminds me not to hit them."
"You used your vehicle as a weapon twice in your first what, four months at the FBI?" Wylie asked. "I've never done that."
"You're not as badass as me," Vega said, raising an eyebrow.
Wylie shrugged. "That is true."
"Party is over," Cho said, walking briskly up to them.
"Cho," Lisbon said, rolling her eyes as she spun Mimi in a circle, "you can't actually cancel the picnic."
"I'm not cancelling it," Cho said, "but we're leaving. We have a case."
