I am sooo sorry for the late update! I was really busy.. I think this is the last chapter, I felt like I should end it, cause I feel like with all the new episodes this just doesn't fit anymore. I'll be writing oneshots from now on for the next time;)

The dinner had been really nice and after they'd gotten to Lisbon's apartment, a tiny little bit drunk, they decided to watch tv and drink some more alcohol. Why? They didn't know. The trick had worked quite well and Van Pelt totally seemed to believe that Jane wanted to woe Lisbon. She had been extremely excited for both of them, not knowing, that they had been a couple for a while now. It was so much fun, this pretending and the secret meetings and all that stuff, for now. So they decided to watch TV, they stopped at "Monk". The show always remembered Lisbon of Jane and herself, but only a little. She thought about Jane having his troubles and making trouble and in the end he always solved the case, with her and the team's help of course. So when the show was over, they decided to go to bed. Lisbon took a quick shower, but Jane couldn't refuse to visit her there.

The next day they got to the office again, as every day and they decided to go there after each other, so that no one would notice anything. When Lisbon vanished into her office, Van Pelt asked Jane to come to her and he got up and asked her what she wanted. He already expected a Lisbon themed question, and he was right.

"So how did it go?! " she asked him totally excited and Cho and Rigsby got up and gathered around them. Jane didn't really know what to say, so he just answered:"Huh? What...Oh the reason for the flowers!"

"Yeah! Tell us!"

"Hm, it was ok.. I guess..."he said and smirked at them.

"Oh my gosh, Jane, do we have to hit you to get it out of you?"

"Okaaay... so we had dinner and then we dr..."

"How's the case going? Everything alright?" Lisbon walked towards the team, which quickly tried to spread again. Van Pelt looked like a hungry bear, her eyes jumping between Jane and Lisbon, trying to figure out what had happened the last night.

Sadly there hadn't happened anything after the drunk shower sex, which none of them couldn't really recall. They had both woken up with a little headache today, but they just ignored it.

Jane looked at her. "I don't know, I wasn't really involved..." he looked at her, making those puppy dog eyes and she said: "Of course Jane, why don't you get involved, you would save us a ll a lot of work..."

"You know I'm trying something here... I'll not help you and look how you guys manage without me. I think that's a great idea, don't you, Lisbon."

"Ahm no! But you'll see, we are just as good without you!"

A few hours and coffees later Lisbon sat at her desk, realizing, that having a case wasn't that fun without Jane, who had been lying on the couch for the last few hours, which she couldn't blame him for. He has only got up once in a while to make himself a new cup of tea. Rigsby and Van Pelt were out catching the killer (or not) and Cho was at an other suspect's house, questioning him. Normally she would be more active too, but today she just didn't feel like it. So she had decided to get some paperwork done.

She hated this kind of work from the depths of her heart and it was always a torture to do it, but on the other hand it was way better than going out and move, but only today. So in the evening, Jane was sleeping on the couch now, she got up and decided to go home. Should she get him or leave him there? After a short moment of doubt, she got over to the couch and poked him.

"Jane, we're going home, come on." He moaned and sat up.

"Home?" he asked her smiling.

"Yes, home!" she told him, happy because he seemed to like the idea.

"It's nice to go home. I haven't done that for a long time."

Jane got up and looked around the bullpen to check if it was empty and leaned forward to give her a cute little kiss. She smiled and he took her hand as they walked towards the elevator.

Could life really be that beautiful? Could it be this easy? In this moment he believed it. And so did she.

The next day they finally caught the killer. After several interrogations and after sending cho in, the murderer finally committed the crime. He had killed the victim because he hadn't paid him back his money. A boring one, like I'd said before.

Jane and Lisbon managed to steal a few secret kisses from each other, in her office, the attic, the elevator and the room behind the fake mirror of the interrogation room.

In the evening, when all the paperwork was done, the team went out for having a closed case pizza, the first one in years. They discussed the case and how hard to solve it was.

It was a lot of fun, but not for Jane, who was sitting next to Lisbon noticed the glances of Van Pelt who tried to be as unobtrusively as she could, but it didn't work. He felt her glare even when he didn't see them and it started annoying him soon. After a time of meaningless conversation they decided to just go home, but Jane and Lisbon had plans.

Lisbon was looking forward to a bath and some wine with or without Jane, who was looking forward to a cup of tea and Lisbon. Since Van Pelt had gotten on his nerves he decided to end the game...It annoyed him.

When they left the restaurant, saying good by to everyone and walking to their cars, Jane laid his arm around Lisbon' waist and kissed her on her hair, everyone could see it.

Lisbon knew she couldn't change the fact of Jane and her acting like a couple, so she just lay her head on his shoulder and went along with it. They could hear Van Pelt breathing noisily, saying "I knew it!" and afterward whispering something to Cho and Rigsby.

"You did that on purpose, right?" Lisbon asked him, suspecting the answer already.

"I don't want to play this silly game anymore. I don't wanna hide and pretend that wer're not together, I wanna be with you, everyone can know and I want them to know that I love you, but most of all, I want you to know. Lisbon, you know that, right? Is this ok with you?"

they were already sitting in the car, Jane at the steering wheel. He looked at her full of love and concern, hoping she would feel the same.

"Jane... Of course I love you too. I've always loved you! Also all your dark sides and mistakes you may have made. But it doesn't matter! All I want is you. And all I want for you is to be happy."

" But you know that you'll be stuck with me forever then, right?"

She giggled, he took her hand, gave her a kiss and they drove off.