So I've had this in my head for a couple of months now, it started when Amber and I were tossing out theories about The Mentalist. Now, this isn't really what I think is going on. But it sounded fun to write, so I'm going with it. This will of course be continued.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything. I'm doing this for fun.

Sometimes, things happened that Teresa Lisbon did not expect. Like when the little origami frog that Jane had made for her years back as an apology jumped. Or when that jump suddenly made her less angry at him.

Sometimes, things happened that Teresa Lisbon really didn't expect.

Like when a bullet had mysteriously appeared to fell the man who had a gun pointed at her, leaving Jane holding a smoking weapon.

Or when the prints on that gun that killed the pedophile came back to be hers.

She certainly didn't expect to find Bosco and his team lying in a blood soaked room. She was surprised when the new boss said that she would be blamed for anything that Jane did. Krystina Frye being found believing she was dead was a surprise. As was the discovery that Bertram was not the man they were looking for, but O'Laughlin. Learning that Jane had shot a man in the middle of a mall was unexpected, as was his not guilty verdict.

She certainly was astonished when Jane had gotten into the car with her to reveal that he'd shot the wrong man.

Jane's failure to recognize her following his near death in the pond was not something she'd anticipated. Neither was Agent Darcy's accusation that Jane himself was Red John. She'd been jaw - dropped in finding out that her brother, Tommy, was a bounty hunter. Seeing her ex fiancé, out of the blue and after so many years, had surprised her. She'd been angry and hurt alongside her shock to discover that Jane had faked his CBI breakdown with Wainwright. She felt stunned for reasons other than the gunfire when Jane had blurted out 'love you' before proceeding with the plan to convince a serial killer that he had turned and cut all ties with his former life, both pre and post Angela and Charlotte. And her shock and confusion was obvious on her face when Lorelei revealed that she and Jane had slept together.

None of that was even close to the shock Lisbon felt when Agent Grace Van Pelt approached her nervously toward the end of a fairly uneventful day, asked to speak with her privately, and, when the two of them were in the senior agent's office with the door locked tight, the redhead looked down at her hands, remained quiet for a long moment, and then said, in a shaky voice barely above a whisper. "I'm working for Red John."