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The Blazing Fire Within

"Teresa, what are you doing?" Jane asked as he started to take steps backwards away from her.

"Doing what he asked me to do." Lisbon said nonchalantly as she motioned her head in the direction of Red John who was standing by her.

"What the hell did you do to her?" He hissed at Red John.

"Just gave her a little push."

"Teresa, think about what you are about to do."

"Oh, I have." Lisbon smirked at him. "You should have trusted me more."

"You know I trust you." Jane said as he backed up against the wall.

"No, you don't"

"I trust you with my heart and life." Jane whispered as he watched her lift the knife higher. He closed his eyes waiting for the moment in which the blade penetrated his skin.

"I can't" Lisbon words caused Jane to open his eyes and noticed that the blade was mere centimeters from his neck.

"I knew it." Red John growl as he grabbed her arm and swung her around so she was facing him. Bending her wrist she dropped the knife and he shoved her towards Jane who caught her before she could fall to the ground.

"Can't say I'm surprised given that I killed your brother and not to mention Bosco." Red John stated as he bent down to pick up the knife. "But, I will admit I had hope that you could turn dark."

"I'm not you." Lisbon snarled.

"No, because saint Teresa actually has a heart of gold." Red John smiled at her and headed back for the door. "Let's see how that heart of gold works out for you in the end."

He slammed the door shut leaving her and Jane alone again. Lisbon turned around quickly and pulled Jane into an embrace. He held her tightly as he felt her tears start to sink into his shirt.

"I'm so sorry."

"For what?" Jane asked as he pulled back a little so her could study her.

"I couldn't do what he asked."

"And I'm grateful for that, trust me," He told her as he pulled her back into his arms.

"Jane, unless the team finds us I don't think he will allow us to leave alive." Lisbon confessed.

"I promise that I will get you out of this alive." Jane vowed as he sunk down the wall pulling her with him. "Try and get some sleep."

"Here?" Lisbon asked.

"Yes."

"What about you?"

"I'm used to not sleeping."

"You will wake me if he comes back?" Lisbon didn't feel like fighting with him on this subject.

"Yes, dear." Jane answered as Lisbon snuggled closer to him. Jane rubbed her back in soft circle and within moments her breathing began to even and she was relaxing against him. He looked down and noticed the cross around her neck. Using his other hand he place the cross between his fingers and whispered to himself. "I know I don't deserve to be saved but please save her." He gentle placed the cross back down before focusing on the door again.


"Where the hell have you been?" Rigsby asked as he saw Van Pelt walk into the bullpen.

"Didn't Jane and Lisbon contact you?" Van Pelt asked confused.

"No." Cho said as he came over to the pair.

"They are in trouble." Van Pelt stated as she went over to her desk and started to type stuff into the computer.

"How do you know they are in trouble?" Rigsby asked.

"They were supposed to contact you and since they didn't that could only mean that he has gotten to them." Van Pelt explained.

"Who has gotten to who, agent." Bertram voiced made all three agents look up.

"Jane and Lisbon, sir." Van Pelt told him.

"And who has them?"

"Red John."

"And you have proof of this?"

"Not concrete proof." Van Pelt admitted.

"So you are just basing this on assumption."

"But-"

"No, agent." Bertram told her. "Agent I recommend you get back to your current case." He told Cho.

"Sir, with all due respect they could be in serious trouble." Rigsby told him.

"Anything that involves Jane usually means trouble." Bertram corrected him.

"We aren't going to stand around and do nothing." Cho stated firmly as he dropped the case file he was holding on Van Pelt's desk.

"Are you disobeying a direct order, agent?"

"Yes." Cho answered.

"We all are." Rigsby added.

"Interesting." Bertram said with a smirk. "Then as of now all three of you are suspended. Leave this building immediately." He ordered before walking away.

"Great another suspension." Rigsby muttered under his breath.

"Quiet." Cho told him before focusing on Van Pelt. "You need to tell us everything that happened since we last saw you."

"Cho, if he has them..." Van Pelt whispered.

"Then we are running out of time quickly." Cho answered before walking out of the bullpen with Van Pelt and Rigsby right behind him. They met up with Bertram at the elevator.

"Good to see that you know how to take a order." Bertram told them.

"We aren't taking orders." Cho explained as he pulled his badge off his belt and handed it to Bertram.

"What are you doing?" Bertram asked shocked

"I won't stand around doing nothing when it comes to those I care about." Cho answered stoic.

"So you are willing to sacrifice your job for them?" Bertram asked.

"They would do it for me." Cho said as the elevators doors opened and he got in.

"They are family." Rigsby said as he handed his badge to Bertram and joined Cho. Van Pelt nodded and gave her badge to Bertram.

"Last chance, agents." Bertram warned.

"We stand by our decision." Cho replied before the doors closed.

"I hope we did the right thing." Van Pelt confessed as the elevator descended downwards.

"We did." Rigsby told her as he placed a hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze.


Lisbon started to shiver in her sleep and Jane pulled her closer to him. He couldn't blame her since it felt as if the temperature in the room had dropped quickly within the last hour. So either they were somewhere in the mountains and it was getting closer to night or mostly likely answer was that Red John was trying to make their little living space unbearable. The door clicked opened softly and opened revealing Lorelei as she walked in and shut the door softly.

"What are you doing here?" Jane asked quietly.

"I'm going to try and help you." She told him as she opened her jacket and gave him a knife.

"Why?" Jane asked skeptical.

"If you don't kill him then he will slowly torture her in front of you until she begs him to kill her." Lorelei explained.

"Why help us?"

"Because we want out." She answered quickly.

"Who is we?" Jane asked just as he felt Lisbon stir.

"It isn't important." Lorelei whispered before heading back to the door. "That is your only chance." She pointed to the knife and then opened the door slowly, walked out and closed it once again.

"Jane?" Lisbon asked groggily.

"Yeah."

"I thought I heard Lorelei's voice." Lisbon said as she sat up and stretched a little.

"You did."

"What?!"

"It is okay, she gave me this." Jane showed her the knife.

"Why would she do that?"

"I think we may have allies within this place." Jane smiled as he laid the knife against his leg.

"That or she is lying to you."

"Are we really going to have this discussion?"

"We never really had that discussion." Lisbon reminded him.

"She isn't lying." Jane told her.

"You can't be positive."

"Lisbon, she wants to get away from him."

"Oh, she is playing you."

"No." Jane shook his head.

"I love the fact that you feel so confident about that." Lisbon said annoyed.

"No need to be jealous." Jane pointed out.

"I'm not jealous." Lisbon growled through her teeth

Jane smiled at her "Sure."

"I'm not."

"Okay." Jane held his hands up in surrender.

"It is getting colder." Lisbon said as she moved closer to Jane for heat.

"I noticed before." Jane said as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "I think he is doing this on purpose."

"I hate the cold."

"I would have thought you were used to it since you grew up in Chicago."

"And I moved to California so I wouldn't have to deal with the damn cold."

"Ah." Jane replied as he looked at the door.

"What is it?" Lisbon asked.

"Something is wrong." Jane told her as he removed his arm and got to his feet.

"What?" Lisbon asked again.

"It has gotten quiet." Jane told as he walked over to the door and placed his ear against it so he could hear what was going on outside.

"You can seriously hear stuff that is going on out there?" Lisbon asked as she got to her feet and joined him.

"Shush." Jane ordered as he listened more quietly.

"What do you hear?" Lisbon whispered. Jane waved her off right before he heard a loud scream and jumped away from the door.

"Jane?"

"I think he might have found out what she did." Jane said as he backed away from the door and pulled Lisbon with him.

"What are you talking-" Lisbon was cut off by the door opening with a bang and Red John walking in with a bloody knife in his hand.

"Hand it over now." He order Jane.

"What?"

"The knife." Red John hissed as he took a step towards him. "Unlike Teresa here I won't stop." He told him as he lifted the knife.

"Why prolong the wait?" Jane asked.

"What the hell are you doing?" Lisbon asked angrily.

"He wants me to suffer then why not get it over with?" Jane informed her.

"It won't be that easy."

"Kill me." Jane dared him. Red John laughed and took another step towards him. He smiled before he lifted the knife and swiped it towards Lisbon. Lisbon hissed as the blade made contact with her arm.

"That is a warning." Red John told Jane as he walked by him and picked the knife off the floor.

"You bastard." Jane snarled.

"Let's see how long she can survive without the proper medical care." Red John walked out the door and slammed it once again.

"How bad is it?" Jane asked as he carefully grabbed her arm.

"Pretty bad." Lisbon flinched as he touched her arm.

"Damn." Jane said as he pulled his jacket off and his vest.

"What are you doing?" Lisbon asked as he tore the strap around the vest off.

"We need to stop the bleeding." He told her as he tie the strap tightly around her arm trying to stop the circulation of blood.

"Who knew that you knew something about taking care of wounds?" Lisbon smirked at him as he used his vest to wipe some of the blood.

"I have time to read while you run down all those leads." He countered.

"What haven't you read?" Lisbon asked.

"Self-help books."

"Well, I suggest that you look into those when we get back." Lisbon said as she tried to hide the pain she was in.

"I can make the pain go away." Jane offered.

"No, I want to suffer."

"Why?"

"Because it gives me another reason to kill the bastard."


"That is the last time I saw them." Van Pelt had just finished explaining everything that had happened. The three of them were sitting a local coffee spot away from the CBI.

"What do we do?" Rigsby asked.

"We retrace their steps." Cho started. "Van Pelt I need to call local hospital, morgues, or any other place that he might have left them."

"You think they are dead?" Van Pelt asked worried.

"No, but I'd rather cover all of our bases." Cho replied. "Rigsby I want you to call any of your contacts and see what you can find about any unusual activity that might have happened in the direction they were traveling."

"But we have no clue which way they were heading." Rigsby informed him.

"Then you have a lot to cover."

"How are we supposed to do anything without our badges?" Van Pelt asked him.

"We have done it in the past we can do it again." Cho reminded them.

"But-"

"Don't think about it for now." Rigsby told her.

"I'm going to go and talk to some contacts of my own." Cho told them as he got to his feet. "We meet back here in a hour."

"Do you think they are alive?" Van Pelt asked Rigsby after Cho had left.

"I believe they are."

"I hope you are right."

"They are better together than apart and as long as they are together then they can survive whatever fate throws at them." Rigsby told her as he got to his feet. "Have a little faith."


"At least the bleeding has stopped." Jane told Lisbon as he checked her arm.

"Thank god, because my arm is asleep." Lisbon said as she leaned her head against the wall. The two of them were back to sitting in the spot they were original sitting in before Red John came in.

"Can you wiggle your fingers?"

"Yes."

"Then your arm isn't asleep."

"You know sometimes you can be really annoying." Lisbon closed her eyes just as the door opened again and a different man came in holding a gun.

"A gun?" Jane lifted an eyebrow at the man. "I thought Red John only preferred knifes."

"He prefers them but allows us to use what we need to complete our mission." The man said as he walked over to them and pointed the gun towards Lisbon. "You, up."

"Like hell." Lisbon remained rooted to the spot.

"I will use force if you don't move." He told her.

"Go." Jane told her.

"What?" Lisbon said shocked.

"Please." Jane begged and got to his feet in order to help her.

"Why?"

"Just trust me, please." He told her as he moved away from Lisbon.

"Let's go." The man holding the gun gestured to the door. Lisbon nodded and made her way out of the room but not before giving Jane one more last look as the door closed as the look of defeat play on his face.

To Be Continued.

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