They return to the Office, and Van Pelt has already pulled up the list of people who bought the cologne.

"I don't get it", she shakes her head in dismay, the way she does when something just doesn't seem to fit. "These are all rich people. You'd think they would hire someone to kill for them. Why would they be at the crime scene?"

"Oh, they weren't", Jane grins, his eyes twinkling in the way that they did when he knew something the others didn't.

That know-it-all grin always annoys Lisbon. She crosses her arms over her chest. "I'll bite, what's your guess?"

Instead of answering her question, he asks Van Pelt one of his own. "Did you find any woman in your list?"

"Yeah, there was one", Van Pelt pauses, searching through the list. "Some… Lindsay Smith. She's the wife of James Smith, owner of the Smith Industrial Corporation."

"Trophy wife, how cute", Jane grins again, staring at the picture of the woman.

"How do you know it's her?" Rigsby asks, staring at Jane with the kind of awe that he had for him.

Jane decides he's worthy of an explanation. "It's a men's cologne. Why would a woman be buying it?"

Lisbon snorts. "Maybe she bought it for her husband?"

Jane shakes his head, this time refusing to argue. He knows what he knows, and he knows he's right. "My guess is, she was having an affair with someone, someone that she bought the cologne for."

Lisbon bites her lips. Jane is offering a baseless theory, without any evidence. And this woman is high profile, they can get into trouble- she can get into trouble. Jane will just have his fun insulting everyone and get away with it.

But then, this is all they have got right now- no DNA or prints from the crime scene- and Jane is usually right. "Ok, let's go interrogate her then."

Jane clicks his tongue and shakes his head again. "Don't be silly, Lisbon, she's a rich industrialist's wife, she's not going to admit to having an affair." Before she can ask him what his brilliant idea is, he says it himself. "We're going on a stake out."

She closes her eyes and groans inwardly. Stake outs with Jane are so annoying. He gets bored with waiting and starts studying her every time to pass the time. Last time he somehow figured out that she had a secret collection of pink napkins.

Also because this is, once again, alone time with him, and with the way that she's been feeling lately, she's not sure if it's such a good idea to be in such close proximity with him for so long.

A blush involuntarily creeps up her cheeks at the thought, and she immediately scribbles down the address on a piece of paper and starts to walk away. "Ok then, come on, Jane."

The drive is filled with her glaring at him and pleading him to keep his mouth shut under all conditions. "My job depends on it", she points out. "You'll do this for me."

He shrugs, not making any promises. But she knows she's got him.

She parks the car near the entrance to the mansion, and waits. A few minutes later, a car leaves- James' car. Soon enough, there's Lindsay. Walking.

They wait a while to make sure the distance is enough, and she starts driving again, following the woman. It's killing her to drive this slowly, but hey, it's part of the job.

Lindsay enters a coffee shop, and Lisbon holds up her hand from the steering wheel. "Now what? We just go in there?"

"Yeah?" he says it like it's obvious. "You can pretend to be on a date, right?"

The blush returns, and this time, there's a warm tug in her stomach too. A part of her keeps saying it's just an undercover mission, while another part keeps wishing this was for real. She wills both of them to shut up and tries to focus on the job at hand.

They enter the coffee shop, and sit down on a table far away from Lindsay, yet close enough to be able to study her perfectly.

Jane opens up the menu card as the waiter stops to take their order. "The usual, dear?"

Lisbon stumbles at the "dear", taking a moment to catch herself. "Uh, yeah."

And so maybe she doesn't really catch herself. Maybe her heart is still beating uncontrollably, as if she is a teenager with a crush. But whatever. He can think she's just nervous. Or something. She tells her mind to shut up again, and focuses on Lindsay.

Soon enough, a man joins her- a man with the unmistakable smell of the same cologne.

Even though Lisbon knew that Jane's right, it still catches her off guard how he can find a killer just from the smell of cologne. Who wears such strong cologne to the crime scene anyway? It doesn't even smell so good!

More importantly, why was he at the crime scene? Why would he want to kill a CBI Agent?

She decides it's time to find out. "Come on, Jane."

He doesn't move an inch. "Hold on, they are not going anywhere. Let's have the coffee first."

She thinks for a moment, and then decides that she wants to finish this little "date". Of course, she can't think of anything to say to him, she's so nervous. So she pretends to watch Lindsay and the guy closely.

And if he notices that she's just pretending, she's thankful that he doesn't bring it up. Instead, he just sips his coffee quietly.

If she had turned around to face him, she would have seen him staring at her face with a smile on his lips while she stared at Lindsay. By the time she finishes her coffee, he has looked away.

They pay the bill, and she walks up to the table where the two are seated, Jane trailing behind her. She flashes her badge to the guy. "CBI. Will you please come down to our Office, Sir?"

"What's going on?" Lindsay asks, startled.

Lisbon waits for Jane to shoot a snarky remark. When he doesn't, she sighs in relief. "It's just a routine interrogation man."

Thankfully, the guy- named Will as they later learn- doesn't run away. They get him to the station, and Cho gets him to break down and confess at an interrogation. About how the CBI agent had found out that he was stealing money from the Smiths and spending it on drugs, and had to kill him to get him out of the way.

Another case closed, another crime solved, and she still has her job. This is the perfect day.

Cho cuffs Will, and on the way to the jail, he pauses in front of Jane. "I thought you were just there to have coffee with his pretty little girlfriend, but no." he sputters angrily, before Cho drags him away.

Lisbon blinks. So everybody do think they are a couple, everybody do ship Jisbon.

And then it hits her suddenly. "Jane?"

He's lying down on his sofa, and he doesn't even open his eyes to look at her. "Yeah?"

She hesitates, wondering if she should say it, wondering if this will make everything weird between them and wreck it all. But if she doesn't now, she may never again. If she can have the courage to pick up a gun and shoot, she might as well gather enough courage to get this done. "You said everybody ships Jisbon." She pauses to swallow. "You didn't say everybody but me."

Her breath is rapid, heart beating fast, as she watches him intently to see his reaction.

He only grins calmly. "I didn't say everybody but you either."

And just like that, everything that needs to be said, is said. But she'll wait till they are comfortable enough to say it out loud.

They'll wait.

-The end

A/N: Hope you liked it :)