Thank you SO much for following and reviewing this story, anons and non-anons. I hope you will enjoy this chapter, just fluffy things; next one will probably be heavy M.

I'm trying to respect everything that happened in canon but I'm going to ignore Lisbon asking about what happened between Jane and Lorelei because that was just a huge plot hole.

Again, I'm totally open to your opinion.

Jane woke up feeling cold. His feet and butt frizzing. Before having the courage to open his eyes, he analyzed his surroundings.

It was cold and the air conditioner was off, he heard rain against the window. That was weird, yesterday had been such a warm day, no indication that was going to rain either. He heard her breathing. That was the reason his butt was a block of ice. That was the reason he slept so well. He smiled remembering their night together.

"What are you smiling about?" Lisbon's teasing voice. She had been awake for a while.

Jane slowly opened his eyes.

"Hey you"

"Hey"Lisbon stared at him. The messy hair and the husky voice always did things to her. Waking him up from his old couch had always been one of the favorite parts of her job. And now she could have sleepy and naked Jane. Sharing the same bed with her. Patrick Jane was all hers. Not that she hadn't imagine that a hundred times before, but the real deal was so much better.

She leaned in and placed a soft peck on his mouth. She bit her lips shyly watching him savoring her kiss. He kept his eyes closed for a few moments after they parted lips, as if he wanted to enjoy every bit of her taste.

"Wow"

"What?"

"You're beautiful" Lisbon blushed and looked down, running from his eyes. He held her chin up. "A beautiful sheet stealer" He said amused and kissed her.

She laughed in his mouth. "I'm sorry" She showed him that she was holding the blankets. "I was going to cover you."

"But then you thought I deserved to freeze to death. That's okay, I understand"

"No, I-I was just enjoying the view a little too much."

"Oh." He looked over his shoulder. "So you were watching me sleep." "More likely you were watching my butt. I've always knew you spent too much time staring my behind, Agent Lisbon."

"Shut up, Jane!" She laughed and threw the blankets over him.

He fixed the blankets over his body. "I don't usually sleep naked. But you if enjoyed it so much, I might start."

He tried dragging himself closer to her but when he moved his leg carelessly he felt an excruciating pain shot through his body. He closed his eyes releasing a low painful grunt.

"What's wrong?" Lisbon quickly sat on the bed and reached for his ankle.

"Is it bad?"

"Well, it's swollen and it looks worse than it did yesterday. I'll get you some ice."

She moved to get out of the bed but Jane held her arm.

"No, wait don't go" His voice was soft. "Come on; get in here" He lifted the blankets on her side."

"I'll be back soon; you need to put ice in that."

"It's cold."

She crawled back and got really close to his face. "Don't be such a baby, Patrick Jane." She kissed him.

"No, really, I'm fine. Just lay down with me a little. Please."

She analyzed his face, he was serious this time.

"What is it?"

He lifted his body using only his arms this time, sitting with his back against the headboard as Lisbon got under the covers.

He pushed her closer to him and she buried her face in his neck. She got one of her hands caressing his chest and one of her legs over his. When she became self-aware she was brushing against Jane's completely naked body she felt just like yesterday, when he first saw her naked. Her heart was racing, she could feel her face burning, and she knew Jane could sense everything, all of her little reactions, but this time she was okay with it.

"What time is it anyway?" One of his arms was scratching her back as he tried using the other one to reach for the clock in the nightstand.

"About 11." She kissed his jawline.

"Wow."

"Yeah, you were really tired."

"Well, I hadn't slept well like this in years. I can't even remember the last time I slept for the whole night. "

Lisbon stopped caressing his chest; she slowly ran her fingers in his abdomen until she wrapped her arm around his waist. She felt him shuddering at her intimate touch, she wondered if she always have the power to arouse him so easily.

"Not even when you were in that island?"

"No." It was all he answered and Lisbon thought it was better no to ask about that now.

"I hope I can help you with that from now on." She sounded as if she was sorry for him, that was not her intention but she couldn't help it. She also spent uncountable sleepless nights during the CBI days, worried sick about him. If he was making something stupid, if he was putting his life in danger or if he was could. She could not believe how many nights she spend worried if Patrick Jane was not using enough blankets or eating well; during those days she would felt so stupid for caring so much, now she was glad she did.

"I'm sure I'll only have good nights from now on. All I need is to share a bed with you. Or the couch, the floor…"

She held his face and kissed him.

"You looked as if you wanted to ask me something before. Were you just stopping me from getting you ice?"

She pressed her face against his neck again.

"No, I do have a very important question."

He peeked under the blankets.

"Why am I the only one naked here?"

She laughed against his neck.

"It's cold, Jane"

"Are you trying to tell me besides getting in the way of my view that tiny nightgown is helping you to get any warmer?"

She laughed. "Jane, seriously, what were you going to ask me?"

"I just want to know how you waked up."

"Is that all?"

"Well, yeah."

"Can't you tell? I just can't take this smile out of my face, Jane."

That was so good to hear, she was happy and he was the cause. His own smile became wilder.

"But you're still a little shy around me. Is it awkward?"

"It's not like that. I'm just no used to it." She sat up so she could look at him. "You have been my best friend for a long time. You know everything about me. But being… physical it's different."

"Yeah I know. I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable around me."

"Jane, you're completely naked and five seconds ago I was snaking my hand all over your body. How uncomfortable do you think I am?"

"Well, when you put it like that."

He wrapped his arms around her and carefully dropped her head in the mattress, getting half his body over hers, using one of his elbows to support his weight.

"When most couples have their first time they are just beginning to know each other. But we have been in the know each other process for over ten years."

"Which means?"

"Which means the physical barrier is the last one between us. At least it was, until yesterday. Now we're completely exposed." He kissed her belly. "We know the worse of each other, and yet we're here."

She caressed his face. "I need you to continue to honest with me, Jane. No more hiding the truth, you can tell me anything."

"I will. I promise."

He kissed the tip of her cold nose making her giggle. He moved to her mouth, his warms lips pressed against hers made her moan.

"Jane" She said against his lips.

"Hmm" He murmured against hers.

"We're not doing this."

"Hm" Another murmur. He broke the kiss "What do you mean?"

"We're not doing this while you're in pain."

"Good, I'm not in pain." He started kissing her shoulder.

"Jane, seriously."

"Oh, come on." He watched her face. "Seriously?"

She nodded and he rolled off of her, but not without a sad whimper that made her feel guilt. It's not like she wasn't dying to be with him again, and if he had continued to kiss her she was sure she wouldn't have the strength to stop him. But she was trying to be responsible, plus it was such a lazy rainy day, just snuggling and being cozy with him sounded like heaven, she didn't need anything else.

He laid next to her, fingers locked behind his head.

This time Lisbon was the one to get half her body on top of him.

"Are you really going to spend the day grumpy" she gave him a peck "because I won't have sex with you while you're injured?" She noticed how the word sex still sounded too weird to be said in reference to Jane.

"I'm not grumpy." He sighted. "I'm just angry at myself for spraining my ankle jumping that stupid fence."

"Well, it's not like you were in an important mission on anything."

He smiled with eyes still closed. "I'm not saying it wasn't totally worth it."

"I'll take a shower; go downstairs get you some ice and something for us to eat. We can spend the rest of the day here… snuggling. It's not like we can go out in this rain anyway. Does it really sound that bad?

He smiled again. "No" He took her face in his hands.

"No?"

"It sounds great." He kissed her gently.

She stared at him, under her. She bit her lower lip and stroke his hair, Jane just watched her completely mesmerized. She shift her gaze to his mouth as her thumb traced his lips.

"God!"

"What?" He looked at her with the damn dazzling smile.

"My shower will have to be a cold one."

Jane laughed as Lisbon quickly got off the bed.

He watched her lean down to dig in her suitcase. "And whose fault is that?"

Lisbon looked back and gave him a smile turning again to look for clothes to wear after the shower.

"Damn it I didn't brought any coat. How did this happened? Yesterday was hot as hell."

"There was probably a bet going on that we would only get together when hell freezes over."

"Ha."

His lips turned into a mischievous smile. "Or maybe god got angry that you used his name in vain so many times yesterday."

Lisbon got a pillow lying on the floor and threw at him "Shut up, Jane!" She said laughing but trying to sound angry.

Jane continued to watch her. The delicate fabric of her nightgown revealing her curves in the thin light coming from the window.

"You sure you don't want me to get in that shower with you? I'll take my behind with me."

She had separated her clothes and closed her suitcase. "Sure, if you can bring your butt and leave your ankle resting in the bed we have a deal."

Jane dropped his head in the pillow with dramatic exasperation.

Could you toss me my clothes before you get in there please?

Lisbon got his shirt from the floor and held it front of her eyes.

"It has sand everything. I'll get you something from your room once I'm out of the shower."

"Then just toss me my underwear, please."

She tossed his boxers at him. "If this is your idea of punishing me, it's not working, Jane." She said laughing.

"No at all, I'm just cold. If you say take those off, they will be out in a second."

"Right." She walked feeling his eyes following her. She left the bathroom door half-open so he could get a glimpse of her getting in the shower and watch her silhouette through the smoky glass door.

"That's very mean, Agent Lisbon" He heard her giggling as a response.

…

Lisbon got Jane's things from his room and brought it to hers. He chose to wear only his flowered shirt to pair with his boxers. She carefully helped him to the bathroom and left him there so he could brush his teeth and clean his face while she went downstairs to get something for them to eat and the ice for his ankle.

She went back to room, carrying a food tray to found him wrapped up cozily in her blankets.

"You stay right there." She said at the sign of him getting up to help her.

She handed him the tray and he placed it on his lap.

"Wow, not what I was expecting."

She got the ice she brought along with the tray and placed it on his feet.

All she heard was a low "Aah!"

"Cold?"

"It's fine. Thank you."

Lisbon took her pants and jacket off. She sat next to him on the bed, getting her legs under the blankets.

He turned his head to the side and kissed her.

"I tried getting you eggs but we were too late for breakfast food."

"Well this looks really good."

He held a strawberry in front of her mouth, she bit half of it looking him the eye but she couldn't keep a straight face for long and bursted into laughter.

"What?" He looked at her amused and puzzled.

"Nothing, I'm sorry."

"Well it was not supposed to be funny but whatever works for you." He said laughing watching her trying to calm down.

He was going to eat the other half but she grabbed his hand and took the piece with her mouth.

"Hm" He liked the feeling of her warm tongue licking his fingers.

"I'm sorry" She still had her mouth full. "It's just, I don't think we are that kind of couple. It's a little weird." Jane used his thumb to get strawberryjuicerolling down the cornerofher mouth.

"What do you mean?" He licked his thumb and got another berry.

"It's not…" It was getting hard to thing as Jane started to kiss her neck, letting a trail of red juice in her skin to which he came back, sucking it with his lips.

"I just can't see ourselves" Without noticing she cocked her head to the side to give him more space "being all romantic and using pet names."

"Teresa, we can be any kind of couple we want." He handed her a champagne glass andgot one for himself. "Tough cop and smart ass consultant by day; romantic, sexy couple by night. Oh and that pet names thing it's a great idea."

"No. Don't you even start." She saw his smirk realizing what she got herself into.

"Start what, sweetie pie?" He gave her a quick kiss in a different location every time she asked him to stop.

"Please don't"

"Don't what, my Punkin' butt?" Another peck on her nose.

"Your what?" She giggled.

"My Angry little princess"

"Oh" She would never forget the time he said she looked good in that horrible dress but she was surprised that the little moment between them had a place in his memory palace. "You remember that?"

"Of course I do, my hot tea"

"That's not a pet name, Jane. That's your favorite beverage."

"My pocket rocket. Literally" He kissed her ear.

Giggling she squeezed his cheeks so that he puckered his mouth and placed a kiss on his lips.

"You've made your point, cute tushy." She released his cheeks.

"We don't need to be the usual romantic couple; we don't need to be like any other couple." He got the last strawberries and handed it to Lisbon, placing the food tray on the floor next to him. "We will be ourselves, and maybe that means that instead of pet names you will only call me by my last name, maybe it means that whenever we try to be romantic we will end up laughing at each other and snorting." They both laughed.

"Does it bother you that I never call you Patrick?"

"No at all. You can call me whatever you want, I'll be pleased as long as it's coming out of your lips."

"Wow, I guess you can be romantic." She laughed knowing he only said it like that to get a reaction from her.

"Really thought, I don't mind. Plus I always called you Teresa before. To show you that I was worried, that I was being truthful or..."

She interrupted him "…Or just to tease me."

"Anyway. You never used my first name in those occasions; I was Jane no matter what. That was until yesterday."

"Oh"

"Yeah, I'm sure I heard the word Patrick coming from this lips yesterday." He gently took her lip between his fingers. "And I liked it'

"You did huh?" She raised an eyebrow to tease him.

"Oh very much." He teased back.

"So, about that" She fed him a strawberry "Yesterday you said you had fantasized about us before." She asked shyly and feeling a little embarrassed.

"Not exactly what I said." He answered still chewing the berry.

"You know what I mean."

"Yes. And I said I'd tell them if you tell me yours."

"But what I'm asking is when did start having those fantasies." She could feel her face getting red asking him that question.

He looked her in the eye and stroked her hair.

"Lisbon, the answer to that question is not the same answer to question you really want to make."

"What do you mean?"

He sighted "What you really want to know is when I started having, hum, feelings for you."

"Well, when did you…?" She asked nervously.

He layed down resting his head in her lap, his eyes were lost in deep thoughts. She played with his messy curls and for the moment he stayed in silence, she wondered how luck she was to be with the man she loved. She ran her finger in his beard mapping in her head the features of his face.

"Lisbon?" He called for her attention.

"Hm?"

"I don't know"

She looked lost.

"I don't know when I started feeling like this for you." He closed his eyes to enjoy the feeling of her fingers. "When I realized, I was already deeply in love." He smiled teasing her with his last sentence.

She was sure her heartbeat was so loud it could be heard from the hotel lobby. Jane could say it a thousand times, in the most casual way, hearing him say the word love seem to always have the same effect on her. She was glad his eyes were closed.

"You should know though that from the moment I met you I always admired you. Trusted you. I was so impressed by that tiny cop. Such a strong and kind person. Far from innocent, you had seen what evil could do, still you believed in people and you believed in me. You wanted to help me, you felt sorry for what had happened to me, but you didn't treated me with pity."

"Really?" She smile touched by his words. "That's how you saw me?"

"That's how I see you. A strong, good hearted, tiny" She soft slapped him as a joke for calling her tiny. "Beautiful woman."

"Thank you, Jane"

His hands reached for her face and she lowered her head to kiss him.

"I didn't answered you question though."

"I just wanted to know if it was before you going to that island."

"Of course it was! You know that."

"Sometimes I thought you did, but a lot happened, and then that was Lorelei and…"

"Lisbon" He sighted. "Lorelei, really?"

"It's just-"

"Look I really don't know when my feelings for you changed, but I can tell you when I noticed they had changed. Remember the six months I spent in Vegas?"

"Are you really asking if I remember the six months of sleepless nights that I spent crying worried about you?" She regretted those words the second they came out of her mouth; she could see the guilt in his look and how it was painful for him to hear it. "Jane I-"

"No that's OK. I'm sorry." He took a big breath and continued. "In those six months Lisbon, I was so afraid that you would stop calling, sending me messages and trying to reach me. I tried convinced myself that was worried for your life, that something could happen to you and it would be my fault, you were my friend of course I would be worried about your safety, but I knew it wasn't that. I was worried you would stop caring about me. That you would notice I wasn't worth the trouble and that you were better off me. I realized how much I was craving to have you close to me."

He seated in front of her with his legs crossed Indian style, his hands on her knees.

"I couldn't do anything about it. It wasn't a matter of having the courage at the time, I just couldn't do anything."

"I know, Jane." Lisbon answered tearful in a low voice.

"I'm sorry my actions made you think I didn't value you as the most important person in my life. I know most of the time I wasn't a good friend or partner but believe me, I never took you for granted and I still can't believe how lucky I am to have you by my side."

"Hey, I'm just as luck. Believe it Patrick Jane" She wiped a tear off her cheek. "You've made my life a lot more interesting, if there's one thing I'm not when I'm with you it's bored. And you were never a bad friend. It's true that you put me in a lot of trouble and made me worry all the time but you were always there when I needed it. For all the trouble you gave me, you made me a thousand times happier."

Lisbon could see Jane's smile was completely sincere and that he really needed to hear how happy he made her.

He got on his knees took her face in his hands and gave her a long kiss. When they finally broke for air Jane recognized the look on Lisbon's face, he wondered about that look before, but yesterday he was sure of what it meant.

"Jane?"

"hm?"

"For long did you kept the ice pack on your feet?"

"Really? Now?"

"Jane!"

"It felt to the floor after I minute you put it there."

"Damn it, Jane" She said frustrated.

"It still worked; it looks a lot better now."

"It wasn't magical ice, Jane"

"We only have a few hours before we have to go to the airport. Do you really want to waste our time on this?"

She sighted and stared at him biting her lips. "We will go very slowly."

"Oh, okay" Jane answered laughing and wrapping his arms tightly around her waist, pulling her against him.

"And I'll be on top."

"Very demanding, Agent Lisbon. I can't find one single thing to complain about your arrangements." He answered her with his best smooth voice.

"Good!"