Here is chapter 26 I had a little bit of fun with it, I hope you like it as much as I do. And I know you've all told me how frustrated you are getting with their relationship don't worry I'm just as frustrated and I'm the one writing it. So as usual I own nothing.
After Jane left last night I sat on the couch by myself until I forced myself to go to bed. Even there it was hard to go to sleep, it shouldn't be hard I had been sleeping alone for at least a week now why did it matter whether Jane was in the same house as I was or not. I had settled on the theory that maybe I was just feeling guilty because the only other place he had to sleep was at a motel.
"Good morning." Jane was sitting in my kitchen when I wandered downstairs.
"What time did you get here?" I frowned, internally kicking myself for giving anyone permission to break into my house in the morning even if it was Jane, maybe I shouldn't be feeling so guilty.
"Not long at all, your coffee isn't even ready yet." He smiled, leaning back in his chair.
"Did you pick my lock?" I sat down across the table from him.
"Of course not." He seemed offended, "I borrowed your spare key."
"I suppose that's supposed to make me feel better." I rolled my eyes.
"I can give you the key back and pick the lock tomorrow if that's what you want." He smirked.
"Have you ever heard of knocking?" I got up to get my coffee.
"I didn't want to wake you, or the kids." He responded, sipping his tea.
"What's your excuse at the office?" I wondered.
"I haven't just walked into your office in a month." He smiled.
"You haven't been at work in three and a half weeks." I reminded.
"Meh." He shrugged, and I had to hide my smile.
"Go wake the kids up, I'll be up in a minute to help get them ready." I changed the topic it's not like I was going to suddenly change his habits, I hadn't been able to do it in eight years why should now be any different.
"Yes ma'am." He set his glass down and left the room. How come he would listen here but at work he ignored every word that came out of my mouth? I went up and helped the kids get ready while Jane went back downstairs to put together a breakfast.
After breakfast Jane left to beat everyone to work and it had me wondering was it even worth it for him to come over in the morning if he was just going to be hear for an hour and half and then leave again. Or was it worth it for him to even leave at night.
"Morning Lisbon." Jane looked up from his couch.
"Jane." I nodded, he looked so smug sitting there with his cup of tea I just had to turn and retreat to my office. He was enjoying this it was all just another game to him just to watch me react. Well I had news for him I could play along with his little charade if that's what he wanted. We caught a case early in the day and things were normal, until I had to leave the interviewing to Cho and Jane because I had to pick up the kids.
The car was a buzz with excitement tomorrow was Friday and they had almost finished their first week of school, while all I could think about was I hoped we solved this case before the weekend because I have no idea where to look for a babysitter. Back at the office Jane and Cho were still out conducting interviews while Van Pelt and Rigsby were going through everything we had on the victim and his family.
"Teresa?" Emily questioned running into the bullpen only to turn around again.
"Yeah sweetie." How come I had a feeling I knew what she was going to ask?
"Where's Patrick?" She was just staring at his couch.
"He's out working with Agent Cho I'm sure he'll be back soon." I tried to smile, the crime scene was a good hour away and I didn't know how many people they were going to end up talking to. "But you know what until he gets back why don't you jump around and make a mess of his precious couch." They just giggled and ran over to jump on the couch, realizing I would probably never let them jump on the furniture ever again. "What did I miss?" I sat down on the corner of Cho's empty desk to talk to Rigsby and Van Pelt.
"Cho called about ten minutes ago he thinks they found a good suspect, he's bringing him in, but shouldn't be here for another forty minutes." Van Pelt looked up from her desk. It was weird having to talk about an investigation with a baby in my arms but there were no other options.
"Alright what else do we have?" I asked, one suspect was good but if he fell through I would like to know we had other options.
"Cho's bringing in the brother, the rest of the family all seems to have a solid alibi, there are a couple of his friends that we're looking into, but nothing real solid on any of them yet." Rigsby offered.
"Okay good, I want to be there for the interrogation, can you guys watch those three and make sure they don't break their necks." I sighed, taking Cass with me to my office. I was in the middle of re-reading the notes from the crime scene when I heard a commotion in the bullpen assuming Cho and Jane were back I grabbed the notes and headed out there to hand Cass off to Jane and watch the interrogation.
I don't know what I expected but it wasn't this Jane had both girls hanging over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes while Liam giggled from his hiding place behind Grace.
"Teresa told us to!" Alyssa's scream was mixed with laughter.
"Teresa told you to." He repeated swinging the laughing girls around to face me.
"She told us to play on your couch!" Emily agreed laughing.
"Now that doesn't sound like her at all." He smiled, "I think you to must be lying to me."
"No! Miss. Agent Grace, tell Patrick we're telling the truth." Alyssa squealed, Grace just grinned at the events going on in front of her and as much as I wanted to stand and stare at how adorable the whole thing was they were starting to attract attention from other units.
"Jane put them down your making a scene." I instructed, and he just smiled girls still dangling from his arms. "I told them to jump on your couch okay I confessed now put them down." I watched him smirk as he set the girls down on the couch, Emily whispered something in his ear and he chuckled.
"I don't know if I would get away with that." He shook his head.
"Try!" Alyssa giggled, I had a really bad feeling about this.
"Hmmm, you think I should try?" He wondered looking from one girl to the other, they both nodded. "If I do this you have to tell me all about your day at school okay." They nodded again so he turned and faced me. "Cho and Rigsby have the brother in the interrogation room." He smiled taking Cass from me the baby was asleep in her carrier.
"I'm going to go watch." I nodded, what was he going to try, I glanced at Grace who just shrugged.
"I figured, but he's not going to talk." Jane answered setting the carrier down by his couch. I rolled my eyes and started for the door the last thing I need is the idea of Jane trying something bothering me the rest of the day and yet that's what I get. "Oh and Lisbon." Jane called and as I turned around I was being hoisted over his shoulder just like the girls had been only a couple minutes before.
"God damn it Jane put me down!" I hissed, this was beyond embarrassing we were at work.
"Lisbon you should really eat something you weigh less than the girls do." He chuckled, was he seriously holding me with one arm, I swear to God if he drops me I will kill him.
"Would you put me down!" I tried to wiggle my way out of his grasp but he was a lot stronger than I thought he would be.
"The more you squirm the more likely I am to drop you." He stated and I could hear Van Pelt trying to cover her laughter.
"Damn it Jane." I settled for punching his back.
"The girls told me to do it, I'm only doing what they told me to." He chuckled turning around so now I was facing two giggling girls.
"We didn't tell him to." They giggled, the evidence of their lie all over their face.
"I assume he didn't say anything." Jane wasn't talking to me which only meant the guys had given up on the interrogation. I twisted myself so I could look around to see the guys standing there.
"Umm why are you holding boss upside down?" Cho asked I could feel my cheeks turning red, maybe I could brush it off as the blood rushing to my head.
"The girls told me to." Jane smiled, he was not putting me down this was getting a little ridiculous.
"It's payback because I told the kids to jump on his couch." I answered, "And he's going to put me down now."
"I am?" He questioned.
"You are." I confirmed, he just chuckled and next thing I knew I was right side up again.
"I suppose I am, but do you eat anything when I'm not around, I was serious when I said you weigh less than the girls." He chuckled, at least he didn't say when he wasn't cooking for me that would have spread a hundred more rumors, not that this wouldn't.
"Well I for one am impressed Jane, I didn't think you could lift anything heavier than your cup of tea." Rigsby smirked.
"I'm not sure she is heavier than my glass." Jane smiled and I had to smack him, I really wanted to hurt him but we were still in the office.
"What did he say?" I turned to the guys straightening my jacket, and brushing the hair out of my face we were going to put that behind us as soon as possible. "The guy in interrogation." I prompted.
"Jane was right he said nothing." Rigsby shrugged.
"Do you think he's worth hanging onto?" I looked at each of team.
"I do if that matters." Jane took a seat on his couch and lifted William onto his lap.
"After what you just did no it doesn't matter." I snapped, he just shrugged and started talking with the kids about school.
"Yeah we can hold on to him over night if that's what you mean. He had opportunity and motive with no alibi." Cho nodded.
"Alright we'll keep him over night I'm going to take the kids home, call me if he decides to talk." I instructed, "Time to go home." I turned to the kids who jumped from the couch. I went over to the couch making an effort to avoid Jane who just chuckled. "I swear to God if we weren't at work and those kids weren't here I would have shot you, don't you ever try that again."
"Understood." He chuckled not moving from his couch.
"You even think about doing something so stupid again I will shoot you." I warned.
"Understood." He repeated. "As long as you eat something more often."
"That would be possible if I knew someone who could cook semi decent food sometimes." I returned and again he just chuckled. "Come on guys we got to get you home." Alyssa, Emily, and William slowly made their way out of the building and to the car.
"Is Patrick coming to make dinner tonight?" Alyssa wondered.
"You made fun of his cooking." Emily added.
"Yeah he'll come over to make dinner." I assured buckling them in.
"But you made fun of him." Alyssa frowned.
"I did, but he knows I didn't mean it." I tried to explain.
"Are you sure?" Emily asked.
"I'm sure." I nodded, pulling out of the CBI parking lot. "He won't be mad about this, he knows I was just getting back at him for picking me up."
"It was fun when he picked us up, you didn't think it was fun?" Alyssa giggled.
"No I didn't think it was fun." I couldn't help but smile, if it had not been so embarrassing I'm sure I would still want to hurt him but it may not have been that bad. When we got home the kids ran up to their room to put away their backpacks and I sat and played with them in the room. An hour or so later I heard the door open and the kids were off running.
"Patrick!" Emily and Alyssa rushed down the stairs.
"We didn't think you would come because Teresa made fun of you." Emily announced.
"Oh it would take a lot more than mean words to keep me away from you beautiful kids." He closed the door behind him, "but she's more than welcome to cook dinner tonight."
"Did anything happen after I left?" I stayed in the staircase.
"Not a thing, they moved him to a holding cell and then the team went home." Jane looked up from the kids.
"And you think he did it?" I frowned.
"If he didn't he knows who did." Jane nodded, I almost hated how sure of himself he was sometimes. "But that's work talk and it's boring enough when it's at work. I'm more interested in all of the interesting things that happened at school." I watched as he led the kids to the couch so they could finish their stories. At work it was easy to ignore the fact that I might have feelings for Jane but watching him here in the house with the kids he was making it really difficult on me. "You okay Lisbon?"
"I'm fine Jane." I nodded, but he was watching me more closely now.
"Alright who's going to help me with dinner." Jane lifted William into his arms and led the girls into the kitchen, "Lisbon you want to help to?"
"I'll watch Cass you guys can take care of dinner." It was a lame excuse and he saw through it but I didn't really care right now.
"Are you still made that I lifted you over my shoulder at work?" He frowned.
"Like I said you do that again I will shoot you." I shook my head, and I think he knew it wasn't the reason I was avoiding the kitchen but he didn't say anything else. After dinner he helped me tuck the kids in and then left and again I just stood in the doorway watching him drive off.