Thankyou for all of your lovely encouraging reviews! Thankyou all for taking the time to sit down and read my story, and thankyou especially for your patience… I am sooo sorry it takes me so long to UD. Also, Sorry Rothelena, You must have been sitting on the edge of your seat for a looonnnngg while xD
Lisbon face-palmed herself so hard when she got home. Why the HELL did she use her badge? She was on SUSPENSION. Urgh… did she really want to go see Jane that much? She'd been updated by Van Pelt on Jane's trial. According to the doctor's report, he was not coping well with the surroundings, and was acting disorderly, yelling and swearing, causing fights. As her eyes scanned over the report, her eyebrows creased. Causing fights? Jane? Would he? She doubted it. But they were shortening his prison sentence every day, bringing the death penalty closer. She had to get him out of there.
Jane had not been sleeping well. Who would if they new they were to be killed after a few years in jail? He lay back on his jail bed and stared at the bunk above. Why him? He was just about to go over what happened that fateful day in his mind when the guard knocked on the bars of his cell, causing him to sit up almost instantly.
"Mr. Jane, Dr. Ravenshire wishes to see you."
"Has he changed his mind?"
"Regarding certain things, yes. Now come with me."
The door slid open and Jane was cuffed for transportation. The officer lead him down the familiar corridors that lead him to the interview room. Sitting Jane down, the officer left the room and Jane took a paperclip from the desk just before the doctor entered.
"Ah, Patrick. How are we today?"
"That depends..." Jane said, instantly irked by the doctor's presence, "Which aspect of my sentence have you changed your mind about?"
"Only one, and only today."
Lemongrass? Green? Irish breakfast?
"I heard you had a visitor yesterday. Well, she wasn't supposed to come. She used a badge that she wasn't supposed to use. Do you know what that's done Patrick? It has shortened your sentence. I, being the good man that I am, have allowed you to have one phone call to her today in our session."
Jane couldn't help but allow a pure smile to spread across his lips and had to restrain himself from hugging the doctor he loathed so deeply.
The doctor stood to leave as the door was opened and an officer with a mobile strolled in. As Ravenshire closed the door behind him, Jane took the phone, and found Lisbon was already on the other side of the line. It was just like any other phone call between them, but this time in a private, monitored, room.
"Hey Lisbon."
Lisbon cleared her throat,
"Hey Jane… Look, I can't talk long so I need you to remember this word for word ok?"
He nodded, the smile weakening as he realised Lisbon was worried for him… and… herself? Then he remembered she couldn't see him nod, and said,
"I'm all ears Lisbon."
"I ate my strawberry under some palms earlier, not doing ethical doings," she said, and Jane was utterly confused, "Maybe even never talk about Lisbon helping old Sam pass in the after lounge over nothing listen yesterday octopuses passed through iowa on nothing."
"What?"
She repeated herself.
"I have to go now. Don't forget what I said."
The doctors in the observation room watched as Jane hung up the phone confused. Maybe she should be submitted to a mental institution.
That night Jane lay awake in his bed whispering Lisbon's odd speech to himself over and over again. Until finally...
"Ate... Strawberry... Under... I ate my strawberry under some palms earlier..."
That's it. He took the paperclip he still had up his sleeve and carved each word into the wall so you could only just see it.
I
Ate
My
Strawberry
Under
Some
Palms
Earlier
Not
Doing
Ethical
Doings
Maybe
Even
Never
Talk
About
Lisbon
Helping
Old
Sam
Pass
In
The
After
Lounge
Over
Nothing
Listen
Yesterday
Octopuses
Passed
Through
Iowa
On
Nothing
He stared at the words. Studied them for a message. Finally he got it.
Ok before I say what Lisbon's message was I want to give you guys a chance to figure it out. So that's the end of this chap, hope you liked it xD please review.