An (un)timely event inspires a bout of honesty: "Don't you get it? You could have died. And I wouldn't know anything. I'd have known nothing but that stupid mask you have on all the time. I wouldn't know the truth." "You have a mask, too." "But I'm willing to take it off right now. I want to. If I don't, I'll always regret it. You owe me - I deserve it. I want honesty. Specifics."

Riverdale High, lycée qui se situe à Sacramento dans un quartier pas des plus recommandable, est reconnu pour pour sa mauvaise réputation due à la tension permanente qu'il y a pu avoir entre les élèves causés par la différence multiculturel qui a engendré des tensions, surtout par le passé. [La suite dans l'introduction, n'ayant pas assez de place ici]

"Lisbon," he said, "I wouldn't do that to you. I'm your partner." She laughed out loud. "Right. My 'partner' who ditches me for six months for an undercover op he can't be bothered to tell me about. My 'partner' who hangs me out to dry in an interview with our lead suspect. I'm a stepping stone to Red John. Just like Lorelei. Except you've had to stand on me for a lot longer."

The truth of it is that she misses him. But she could miss him just as easily hundreds of miles away in DC as she does right now, sitting two feet away at her desk. s6 divergent - what if Lisbon had made her decision about Pike without any interference? [J/L fic, worry not]

As it turns out, getting Lisbon to open up was like peeling an onion made out of concrete. / Jane and Lisbon are finally together. But even after so many years of being friends, there's still a lot to navigate in their new relationship. This is how they handle the different hurdles and transitions in their new life as partners.

A simple post White Orchids story, with a bit of drama, a little introspection and a happy ending. No Jane/Lisbon conflict. No accusations, no recriminations, no use of the words jerk, jackass or smirk, no rolling of eyes!

"I want my life to be free. Free from my past." Teresa Lisbon is aware that the pieces don't fit. Patrick Jane is not himself, and it worries her. The picture constructs itself, but not before Jane has done the irreversible. Budding Jisbon, dark. Final chapter added!

The terrorist known only as Red John has sent the FBI a message: he intends to attack the 2017 Miss America Pageant! Special Agent Teresa Lisbon, along with her trusted consultant Patrick Jane, accepts an undercover assignment to put an end to Red John's reign of terror. Or a Miss Congeniality (2000) inspired The Mentalist fic that explores Jisbon. Also on AO3!

Carnival AU where Patrick didn't get married and he still works at the carnival. Teresa, a rookie cop, happens to meet him while on an outing with friends. / "I. Am. A. Psychic." He enunciated, leaning closer to her than was necessary. "Are you going to ask me these questions every time I do something amazing? I'll be nice and answer this one. Just once."

After Blue Bird. That was a lot left unspoken during season finale (6x22) and the last season so I really had to write this down. I'm not complaning bc after I rewatched it I realized how luck we were for having that last season. Buuut my mind just can't stop thinking about the moments we didnt get to see, so here we go. Teresa Lisbon and Patrick Jane, here we go.

The latest case brings back painful memories of Lisbon's difficult childhood. Patrick Jane is on it. Set during CBI days, around season 3.

"No," she said firmly, suddenly coming to a decision. "I want you to sleep in the bed. With me." Then, realizing how it sounded, she clarified, "I mean next to me. I want you to sleep on one side of the bed and I'm going to sleep on the other side."

AU: Done with Austin and free of the FBI, Jane and Lisbon chart their future in what remains a murky, dangerous world. Set realistically circa 2016-17 US, it immediately follows events in The Long Way Back. It stands alone, but is best after reading its precursor. / Any M sections are ID'd in the chapter. / I do not own The Mentalist and reap no economic benefits from this story.

She realizes suddenly that she doesn't want to share this, wants to keep him - and them - to herself, safe in their little solar system of two. (Fluff set in an AU in which there was no Pike arc).

Being locked up doesn't mean Thomas McAllister is finished playing his game with Jane and Lisbon's team just yet. Jane's decision to remove himself from the board is rocked when Lisbon brings him some devastating news. Set around six months after my one-shot Endings. As ever, reviews are always appreciated. T/M rating.

Lisbon could feel her headache returning, a dull, throbbing pain right above her left eye. "I know this might sound crazy to you, but what you're asking of me is a lot more than regular work." "It's a lot easier than regular work," Jane contradicted her. "People already think we're dating anyway."

Lisbon is trying to come to terms with her growing feelings for Jane, and Jane knows he's in love with Lisbon, but does everything he can not to acknowledge it because he knows it wouldn't be fair to her as long as Red John is still alive. But then Lisbon is abducted by a serial killer and Jane, the only person who could save her, is framed for murder.

"Did he consider Teresa a friend? He knew he enjoyed being around her. He also knew he felt happier when she was happy. He didn't actively want to cause her pain, and when he did, he wanted to make it up to her." Episode Tag - Pilot.

She blew out a breath. "I don't understand how it's so easy for you to pretend all this is real." His jaw tightened. "Well, that makes us even then. Because I don't understand how it's so easy for you to pretend that it isn't."

Rubies. The blood looks like rubies. The face on the wall looks like a nightmare. (A crime brings the old SCU team back together, and another drives them apart. Set during s6. Rating for canon consistent violence.) COMPLETE!

"This is your fault, Teresa." A voice in her mind whispered and sadly, it was true. Jane has always been honest about his plans for Red John. She was the idiot who thought that with time would be capable of changing his mind. Never try to change a man. Never. Semi AU after 5x16 "There will be blood."

Set in the Victorian Era. 'A dying Lady Madeleine secretly weds her granddaughter, Teresa, to a former American carnival employee, in order to save her and her fortune from the hands of her shady son, Tommy Volker.' Inspired from the novel "Prince Charming" by Julie Garwood. On-going. Jisbon AU.

Jane and Lisbon finally have a conversation they probably should have had sooner... (Post series-finale).

Kimball reflects on his life when Charlotte spends time at the office with them.

Twelve weeks since Jane had shuffled his way into the CBI in a crumpled shirt and lost expression, too exhausted to be guarded, falling into the platonic care of an intense Chicago-born CBI agent. The world has shifted more under his feet in the last eighty or so days than he ever thought it could. (pre-canon in addition to being only vaguely canon-compliant)