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"Hey Teresa" Said Patrick who was standing outside her appartment when she looked out, barely opening her door. She looked at him surprised. Of all the people it could have been it had to be him? After all he had done to the team? To her?

She surely didn't expect him and was about to close her door when his pleading stopped her. "Please wait" he said in his usual soft tone and although normally cynical and sarcastic, she could only register sadness in his voice. "Patrick what do you want?" She asked harshly, even a little more than she had meant to although he deserved an even harsher tone.

"I want to talk to you" he said calmly and completely serious. She couldn't believe her ears "So he wants to talk to me after not even listening and treating me like shit huh?" she thought to herself while glaring at him. If looks could kill he would be on the floor lying dead but, but luckily for Jane, they couldn't. However she didn't let him pass the door and closed it but didn't leave it or pulled apart from it.

"Care to hear my story Lisbon?" He said with a plead in his voice which really surprised her. She sighed before responding. "Are you going to leave if I don't?" She said already knowing the answer. "No" he replied. "Then spit it out and leave, but you are not going to enter my home ever again so you must do it from there" she said harshly. "But Lisbon," he began to argue "The neighbors will hear us." He tried to argue. "Talk already and go" she cut him sharply. Even him should be able to tell he had hurt her. He just sighed his story.

"So you know the most part about my past with my father the con man and how I grew tired of him right?" He began, she didn't answer but nodded and although Jane couldn't see her he must had felt it because he continued. "Well let's say he didn't take it too well when I left with my girlfriend, soon-to-be-wife. We didn't say anything to anyone so he didn't know where to find me, he went crazy but he left me no choice" She looked confused and didn't see where this was going. Boy this man could talk for ages without getting to the point.

"Jane where do you want to go with all of that?" She asked impatiently. "Well he responded. In reality we didn't scape alone. You see my wife had this weird friend, a guy, really strong who was really in love with her. So after debating one night we decided that he could come with us as protection because if my dad found out he would break all our bones. So in a way we used him to go away. We travelled for a few days together and he and I became close. We both knew the other was in love with Angela but didn't care. We were so bored that we began to play a game. I had to guess parts of his personality and he had to hide his personality, which was very dark I tell you." He made a pause and absent mindedly continued speaking, from the tone of his voice Lisbon could tell he was thinking about that old friend. "Curiously he was the only person I never read completely you know as he left a few weeks after when he caught my wife and I making out in our motel room. Casually my daughter was born nine months later and I stopped thinking about him. But he came back clearly back to my mind as I saw him last week."

She opened the door with wide eyes and pulled him inside. She looked a horrified look on her face as he hugged him. "So that's why he killed them?" She asked truly shocked "Just because she chose you and not him?"

Patrick broke the hug and shook his head sadly before responding. "No Teresa he didn't come back because of that. He came for them because of the interview, because as time will prove I was right about his personality all along and that meant I had won the game, so he as the crazed bastard he was invented a new, bloody game for us to play." He had tears rolling from his eyes but he himself didn't seem to realize. "So in the end Red John was yet another victim of my selfish reasons, a friend that I used I threw away, just like my dad did with all of his."

The sadness in his voice was so deep that she couldn't help but pity for her former consultant. "And I don't want the same to happen to you or the team, I don't want to be your enemy or know that you have been hurt for my sake" he explained. She almost laughed at the thought but quickly regained her composure giving him a smile. "Well I always knew being friends with you would bring me trouble" she said almost laughing and making him smile, although a bit sadly. "I don't think Rigsby or Van Pelt will have troubles with having you back, but Cho, well he never liked you in the first place so I guess it's ok" she continued jokingly.

Although when the end of the day came and Jane told her that she was going to apologize to the rest of the team in person and left, she felt sad as she deep knew what that was. It was an apology and a reconciliation but it also was GOODBYE.

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