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Chapter 3: Denial at Work

Lisbon had been sitting in her office doing practically nothing for about twenty minutes since arriving at the CBI. Her mobile was on her desk, but she'd stopped staring at it about ten minutes ago. Now she was staring at her coffee. Just… thinking. Listening.

…

"Do you think he'll be ok?" Grace asked Rigsby, keeping her voice down as they sat, caseless, in the bullpen, none of them insensitive enough, or was it - brave enough, to go ask Lisbon what to do.

"Yeah, of course he'd ok. I mean – what's the worse that could happen right?" Rigsby offered a small smile.

"I hope so…"

Cho had looked up from his book, eyeing the two, making himself part of the conversation.

"I'm not worried about Jane." Cho spoke up, causing the two agents to look from each other, to him.

"I'm worried about the Boss."

"Me too," said Grace, peering over in the direction of Lisbon's office. The blinds were closed.

"Ok guys, we have a case." Lisbon said, and they all whipped around to see her standing on the other side of the bullpen. "Van Pelt, Rigs, you come with me. Cho, you're on phones."

Van Pelt shot Rigsby a wide-eyed look of 'how-long-was-she-standing-there', then got up and followed the boss out of the bullpen, Rigsby following soon after.

…

Although she'd spaced out a few times, Lisbon coped rather well with being back at work. She found that she'd accidentally slip semi-unprofessional comments that Jane might've said, had he been there. Stuff like,

"Yeah right. It's obvious you two had something going on." And then she'd snap her mouth closed, eyes wide, and receive a shocked expression from not only the suspect, but Van Pelt or Rigsby too.

…

When she finally got home, at around 8.30pm, she was worn out, tired, and frankly, hadn't gotten anywhere on the case. She dumped her bag by the couch and then sat down, putting her head in her hands. She shut her eyes. Listening to herself take a deep breath, she started to relax, then suddenly the buzzing of her phone in her bag interrupted the silence. She practically fell, no jumped down from the couch and into her bag, searching frantically to answer the call.

"This is Lisbon!" She almost yelled, after not checking the user ID, and panting a little.

"Hey, it's Cho. We got a lead."

Lisbon hoped her disappointment couldn't be felt through the phone. She stood from the kneeling position she had been in and began to pace around the room as Cho described the new evidence they'd found. Somehow though, she could quite listen to him, so she ended up cutting him off.

"That's great… You know what? How 'bout you and Rigs go check it out, or even leave it until morning."

"Uh.."

It seemed that for once Cho had no snappy comeback. There was silence for a long 5 seconds.

"Kay Boss, tomorrow then. Night."

He hung up, but Lisbon said "night" back anyway, then hung up and dropped her phone back into her bag. Sighing, she headed over to the fridge. It had only been two nights since Jane left and she couldn't concentrate on anything except her worry for him. Maybe it was because he hadn't replied to her text or called her yet.

Holding the fridge open with one hand, she glanced back over her shoulder at her bag lying on the floor. Maybe that text didn't go through… perhaps she should text him again…

She shut the fridge and walked back over to the couch, taking out her phone, she selected his name.

'Where u Jane?'

She sent the message and went back over to the fridge. Taking out a punnet of strawberries, Lisbon closed the fridge and headed upstairs to her room. A lovely light was shining in through the small window on the wall opposite the door. She sat on the small section of her bed bathed in that light, and ate the cool juicy strawberries slowly. Thinking. Then as her thoughts became too muddled, she spoke aloud, but quietly to herself.

'Teresa Lisbon put yourself together. It's been two days for Christ's sake.' She blinked hard at the thought of how stupid all this was. She looked over to the window. 'Jane… Where are you?'

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