Chapter 16

"Dr Turner?"

"Can I help you?" The doctor said, turning to the three people standing behind him.

"Agent Cho, Lisbon and Patrick Jane. We're form the FBI." Cho held out his badge for the doctor. "We want to ask you about Marjorie Pike."

"Mrs Pike? Has something happened?"

"That's what we're here to find out." Dr Turner put his flies down and motioned for them to follow him. Janes eyes flicked around him, taking in the staff, the patients, the orderly's. Nothing seemed out of place.

The doctor opened the door, allowing them to precede him inside. Lisbon and Cho took a seat while Jane did his thing and wondered around the office, taking in the doctor's belongings.

"How can I help you agents?" Doctor turner asked, taking a seat behind his desk.

"Mrs Pike was a patient here, correct?" Lisbon started.

"Listen, Agents, I'm not sure what this is about but as you can imagine I can't disclose personal information. Doctor patient confidentiality and all that."

"I understand, Dr Turner," Lisbon replied, "we don't need her personal information or medical information. All we really want to know is if she's still here?"

"Well, Mrs Pike was transferred to Mountview, California. I have the contact information here," Dr Turner rummaged through his desk draw, pulling out different pieces of paper until he found the one he was looking for. Cho reached out and took the offered piece of paper, taking down the number and sending it to Abbot.

"I'll ask our boss to give them a call, thank you Dr Turner," Cho said, putting his phone back in his pocket and standing.

"If there's anything else I can do," he let the sentence hang, shaking hands with both Lisbon and Cho.

"Just one question, Dr Turner," Jane spoke up for the first time since arriving. "When was the transfer put in place?"

"Two months ago. A couple of doctors from Mountview came to get her."

"Could you describe them for us?" Lisbon asked.

"Of course."

-M-

"It was Volker and Haibach," Lisbon stated, she and Jane were stood by the car processing what had just happened. Jane didn't reply, hip leant against the hood, eyes staring blankly at the building before him. She knew that this was a serious situation, a woman was kidnapped, a mad man was out to kill them, but she couldn't stop her heart from beating like a bongo when she looked at him.

His blond curls blew gently in the wind, she just wanted to run her hand through them. She watched as a shiver passed over his frame, his eyes closed, and he took a deep breath. He opened his eyes and looked over to her, he reached over and took her arm, pulling her towards him. She circled her arms around his waist, head resting on his chest.

"Jane?"

"Mmm."

"What's wrong?" He sighed, dropping his hands to her arms pushing her away slightly.

"I thought we were done with this."

"With what?"

"This. The planning, scheming, working out a way to not get you killed." He stopped talking then, and she could see a look in his eyes that she hadn't seen since Red John. Desperation and fear mixed into one.

She pulled him back, wrapping her arms around his neck, pressing her head into his. His hand came up and cradled her head, tangling his fingers into her head. Holding her tighter than he probably needed to.

"I'm not going to promise you that I'll be ok, because I don't know if I will. But I can promise you that you're not alone in this." She pulled back, making sure he looked her in the eyes. "I'm afraid too, I'm afraid of losing you. I'm afraid that somethings going to happen, and I won't be there to protect you, to save you. I can't lose any more than you can lose me."

"Lisbon, it's not the same."

"How? Please explain to me how me losing you is not the same as you losing me?" She pushed away from him, throwing her arms to her sides in frustration. God this man can be impossible sometimes.

"Because, if you lose me you'll be ok. You have your family, you're not alone. If I lose you, I lose everything. There's no one left except you and if I lose you I will be alone. You'll survive, I won't."

"Jane, you're not alone. There are people who care about, there's not just me. You know that."

"Who, Lisbon, who is there?"

"Wayne, Grace, Cho, Sam, Pete, they all care about you. They all love you! Why can't you see that? You're not alone."

"Hey guys," Cho said, walking up to them, waving his phone. "Just spoke to Abbot, Mountview haven't heard of Marjorie Pike. So that confirms it, Volker has Pikes mum. Now what?"

"Now I have a little word with Agent Pike." The drive back to the office was done in silence. Jane's mind was going over his plan, and his conversation with Pike, whereas, Lisbon couldn't get Janes words out of her head.

'I lose everything. I will be alone.' She knew this wasn't true, he was isolating himself again. Not letting himself believe that there were people who care about him, no matter how many times they proved that they did. Well, this time she wasn't going to let him. She wasn't going to let his fear take over him again.

When they got back to the office, Abbot waved them into his office. Drawing the blinds as they entered and locking the door while they sat. Fisher was already at the desk, flipping through a file. AS they entered, she looked up and handed it to Lisbon.

"Pike's file," she said. "Figured it's best to know as much about him as possible."

"We don't need a file for that, Kim," Jane said, tapping his temple. "We've got it all up here."

"You can tell me everything that's in this file?" Kim replied, sceptically. Jane just rose his eyes brows. Lisbon smirked and caught Cho's eye, the straight line that was normally his mouth was curved slightly at the edges.

"Marcus Pike, age 39. Only child of Jacob and Marjorie Pike, born 2nd April 1975 in Santiago, Chile. Joined the Army at 18, when his service was done he joined the FBI. Rose through the ranks and became senior agent of the Bureau's art squad. Any further enhancement in his career was hindered by his mother's needs." Fisher just sat there with her mouth agape, and Lisbon had to stifle a laugh at her look. She could swear out of the corner of her eye, she saw Jane flash her a quick wink when Fisher looked to Abbot for an explanation.

"How did you?"

"Oh, you know," Jane said, smugly, "I'm just a very clever man, whose deduction skills are-"

"He had already read the file," Lisbon interrupted, taking pity on her co-worker. "When he first suspected Pike, he had Wylie get him the file. He was reading it in the silver bucket this morning."

"You're starting to take all the fun out of this Lisbon." The rest of the occupants in the room laugh at his face while Lisbon just shot him a cheeky grin.

"Ok, ok. Let's get back to work," Abbot said, sitting down at his desk. "So, it's confirmed, or at least, strongly suspected that Thomas Volker has Agent Pikes mother in a place unknown. We have Haibach in custody, Fisher I want you to talk to him with Pike. Jane, any thoughts on where Volker might be hiding?"

"No, but I have an idea of how to find him," Jane replied.

"Ah, yes. Your plan."

"Phase one of the plan," he corrected.

"Right, phase one. So, what's phase one?"

"I need to be in the interrogation room." Jane said with a smile.

-M-

Jane and Pike entered the interrogation room, Haibach gave them a smug grin resting his elbows on the table, his hands stuck together by the cuffs around his wrists. The pair took a seat opposite him, Pike laying a folder on the table, Jane a folded piece of paper.

"Mr Haibach, we have some questions for you," Pike started.

"Well, I hardly expected you to come in here to join me for tea," Haibach sneered at him.

"Well, actually," Jane put in, "I don't have any questions for you, it'll just be a waste of our time." Pike looked over at Jane, shocked. A move the mentalist didn't miss. "Come on, he's not going to tell us anything."

"That's right," Haibach said.

"He's going to show us."

"What?" Pike and Haibach said at the same time. Jane gave them his signature toothy grin and unfolded the paper in front of him.

"Excuse me," he said, pushing Pikes file off the table to make way for the map he had spread across it. Then, standing, he took out some keys from his pocket and proceeded to unlock Haibach's cuffs.

"Jane, what are you- "

"It's alright, if he tries anything you'll just shoot him. You have got your gun, right?" Jane said, pausing a little, giving Pike a searching look.

"Of course, I do," Pike said, sounding a little offended.

"Good, plus we've got at least three other guns back there," he said, pointing to the one-way glass. "Maybe four if Fishers there too. Ok, here we go." Jane threw to cuffs over to Pike and took Haibach's wrists.

"What are you doing?" Haibach almost shouted, trying to shake him off.

"Just relax," Jane said smoothly. He placed Haibach's hands on the map and started to move them around. "You are going to show us where Volker is hiding."

"No, I'm not."

"Yes, you are." Jane continued to brush Haibach's hands across the map.

"What is he doing?" Abbot asked from the observation room.

"He's reading his body, whenever Jane gets close to where Volker could be he reacts," Lisbon explains, he used to do it all the time.

"Yeah," Cho laughed. "Do you remember when he got Van Pelt to hide the car keys?"

"Yeah." The pair laughed at the memory. Despite everything, those times at the CBI were the best of their lives.

"Ah ha!" Jane exclaimed, drawing their attention back to the interrogation. "He's here." Jane was holding up the map, pointing out the place where Volker was hiding, a huge grin on his face.

"But, I- how did y- I didn't- "

"No, you didn't," Jane said turning back to Haibach. "He did." Jane smiled, pointing his thumb over his shoulder at Pike.

"I di- "

"Oh, please, Marcus. Don't embarrass yourself," Jane said, putting the cuffs back on Haibach. He then sat on the edge of the table, back to Haibach.

"How long have you known?"

"Since we got Annie back. Someone told Volker where we were and, out of all the people who knew you were the only one I didn't know. Therefore, the only one I didn't trust." Cho walked in the room then.

"Agent Pike, come with me." He held out his hand, waiting for the other agent to stand. Pike looked between the two of them, weighing up his options. Eventually it seemed like he decided. Nodding, he stood and followed Cho out of the room. Grinning, Jane turned back to Haibach.

"No, Richard. It's your turn."

"My turn for what?"

"Well, I'm assuming you wouldn't hide Agent Pikes mother the same place you guys are hiding out. I mean, she's a 'crazy old lady' right. You two couldn't handle her in the same hideout for longer than a day? Less? Wow, she must have really got on your nerves," Jane chuckled.

"I'm not putting my hands on that thing," Haibach said, putting his hands under the table to prove it.

"I don't need you too." Jane put his hands over the map and grinned. "So, lets begin."