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Ancel’s mother had been a liar and a whore, but she’d still taught him a few things worth knowing before running off with a merchant’s son and leaving Ancel to fend for himself.
Always get your money up front.
No amount of gold is worth risking the pox.
And most importantly- a soul bond can be faked.
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- Part 36 of Captive Prince Fanfiction
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
14 Jan 2026
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With his first wife, Jane had no concept of what it would be like to lose everything. Now that he knows that pain, he clings all the tighter. It's complicated. His thoughts about Lisbon range from acceptable to physically impossible. He wants to put a ring on her finger. He wants to bring her flowers. He wants to read her mind. He wants to violate the principle of impenetrability and occupy the same space as her. If he could carry her with him everywhere he goes, maybe that would be enough to soothe his battered and ruined heart.
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aka writing letters and defining boundaries and tip-toeing around things and making promises
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- Part 2 of would you give me the time of day?
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
04 Jan 2026
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when you kiss me, heaven sighs by xxDreamy for FlagsWithFeelings
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
31 Dec 2025
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Jane had forgotten how vibrant the world could be.
How all the shapes could be sharper and more colourful. How full of life every frame of vision could be.
He had forgotten how to feel alive.
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aka what happens right before the porch scene in 7x01, because I am not normal and we all know they did the thing
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
30 Dec 2025
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Like a Thousand Suns (Anything for You) by whereyourtreasureis
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
10 Jun 2025
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Nothing would ever come close to the feeling of losing her mind in his embrace. When they came undone together, Patrick was everywhere, everything—their physical and mental connection the pivotal point of the world. What she felt was more than pleasure or satisfaction—it was an all-consuming, effervescent feeling of love for the man who was finally hers, who was willing to do anything for her. It felt like the fire between them was going to consume her, and she would have let it. She would have gladly taken her last breath right then if it was with him.
Or: What we didn't get to see after that poker game in 7x07.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
14 Dec 2025
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“You went to therapy.”
“Excuse me?”Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
13 Dec 2025
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Usually, Jane’s in charge in the bedroom, and Lisbon doesn’t have any complaints.
Sometimes, though, when Patrick is feeling anxious, he needs something different.
Fic takes place about eight years after the finale. Kid is mentioned but not in the story.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
12 Dec 2025
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Hold You Without Hurting You (What a Girl Wants to Hear) by whereyourtreasureis for light_loves_the_dark
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
27 Nov 2025
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A girl wants to hear that your body
and your wrecked soul ache
in need of her in the dark of the night,
when your subconscious conjures up her face
in the veiled realm between sleep and waking
losing itself in the desperate desire
to become one with her.A reflection in free verse on everything Jane never said out loud until Blue Bird—and everything Lisbon deserved to hear.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
10 Dec 2025
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“Come on,” Jane said, tapping the table. “Don’t get distracted. The quicker we start, the quicker I’m going to win.”
“Yeah, right,” Lisbon said, sitting back down opposite Jane. “You think I didn’t use your absence to practice?”
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Jane and Lisbon are trapped on a mountain during a storm and there's nothing else for them to do except to play poker.Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
07 Dec 2025
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|sō-ˈlar-əs| noun.
''of the sun" warmth, light, and energy — all the qualities commonly attributed to the sun.
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patrick jane, a character study.Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
06 Dec 2025
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“Angela’s words are on my hands,” Jane says, admiring the gentle cursive. “Every time I use them, I’m reminded of why I need to be successful - to keep us all safe and secure. No matter how many people I need to cheat.” He leans in, taking her hand and pressing it against his chest. “Your words are on my heart, darling. You were meant to make me a better man.”
“You’re saying that if I give in, the streets of California will be safer." Lisbon huffs, rolling her eyes at him. “That feels like blackmail.”
He smiles. His saintly soulmate. How lucky he is. “As you like,” he replies, full of affection.
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aka angela, jane, and lisbon are soulmates. lisbon kills red john before he can hurt their family. why, then, is their path to happiness not easy?
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
25 Nov 2025
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epithalamium (noun). pl: epithalamia. a song or poem in honor of a bride on her wedding day.
Patrick Jane has been singing one for Teresa Lisbon longer than he’d care to admit.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
24 Nov 2025
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“Lisbon,” Jane tries, affecting a wobbly smile, a little drunk on the sight of her despite how angry she looks. “It’s good to-”
“Why are you here, Jane?” She interrupts, folding her arms over her chest. It’s not her usual upset posture, where she juts out her chin and raises an eyebrow, making herself bigger. Instead, it looks like she’s holding herself together, and he wants suddenly to go to the ocean and drown himself.
A thousand possible answers pass through his mind at once, all of them true, but none convincing enough. Because I need you. Because I love you. Because I wanted to see you. Because you’re the only light in the darkness, and I’m the moth. Because you’re mine. To apologize. To make it up to you. But when he opens his mouth, what comes out is: “Because you’re here, Lisbon.”
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aka the one where i attempt to robert frost better than the mentalist writers, all for dreamy's birthday
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
24 Nov 2025
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He studies her for a moment longer before he straightens, apparently content with the way he’s just ripped her worldview into pieces. Her mind is spiraling, and he’s already ready to brush it all to the side. “So you see, it’s just a few weak moments of fantasy,” he says, proving her right immediately. “Perfectly natural. So if we could head home-”
Oh no he doesn’t. This might be her one chance, and it might kill her, but if she can help him and have him for one night, can she really leave the opportunity sitting on the table?
No. The answer is no. God, does she hate herself this much?
“What if it wasn’t just fantasy?”
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aka lisbon calls jane's bluff, and that's the beginning of the end.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
24 Nov 2025
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“You’ve been running a con on me,” Lisbon accuses him, but she can’t help the smile tugging at her lips.
Jane huffs. “Of course I have. Teresa, I’ve been running the most transparent, gentle con of my life on you.” He pauses, eyes scanning her face, taking in her lack of anger with relief. “To be frank, I hesitate to call it a con when I’m practically laying my intentions at your feet.”
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aka rewriting 6x10 but making jane twenty percent more obsessive, making lisbon care twenty percent less about the rules, and making both of them fifty percent more touch starved
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- Part 1 of would you give me the time of day?
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
24 Nov 2025
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so it’s best that we move fast (and keep quiet) by light_loves_the_dark for margaretintherain
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
17 Jun 2025
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As long as she’s in the detention suite with him, the mood is contained. This budding thing that he feels, ready to bloom and flourish and thrive between them, to drive them both into a new chapter of their lives, is still present. But if she leaves, if he can’t see her and watch her process these new changes, ready with the reassurance he knows she will need, he has no way to keep them on the right path. In two weeks, she could come back, determined to recreate their professional relationship. He can’t have that. He’s waited so long. The yearning is eating him from the inside, an insidious, hungry little thing that is calling now, now, do it now.
And Patrick Jane hasn’t gotten to where he is in life by not listening to the dark, covetous parts of his soul.
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aka jane tells lisbon about his plan in 6x10 before he runs off. as it turns out, this is the best move he’s made since his hand was wrapped around red john’s throat.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
24 Nov 2025
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The simple truth of it was that Jane was scared. It was an unusual and wholly unwelcome feeling, one that Jane was unaccustomed to. He knew that Lisbon expected sex, that she was waiting for it. The idea that she might have certain expectations of him was frightening. He was out of practice, out of his comfort zone, and overcome by the depth of his own desire for her.
The sure-footed, arrogant Jane that she'd known for the last fourteen years had no standing here. He felt embarrassingly like a teenage boy around her now. Poised on a hair trigger, unable to gather his composure.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
23 Nov 2025
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we might just get away with it (the altar is my hips) by margaretintherain
Fandoms: The Mentalist
11 Feb 2025
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Episode tag to 1x02 written for the anniversary celebration of ten years since the finale #tmfinale10
He calls the restaurant where Van Pelt and Rigsby will have dinner. “Could you put us on the terrace? It’s more romantic.”
He watches her face in search of recognition, whether her loyal team members have ratted him out already.
Instead, her eyes flicker almost imperceptibly from his eyes to his mouth. Oh, Lisbon. She’s definitely not aware of the plan. She’s thinking of something else entirely.
He hangs up the phone, watches her unguarded expression. She says nothing. He decides to have a little fun.
“Don’t fret. I wouldn’t seduce you over a meal, that’d be very sophomoric.”
He doesn’t tell her he’d be too impatient to sit through a whole meal watching her mouth move as she eats, little moans escaping her. The way she’d lick her lips to catch the last remnants of the rich flavor of the dessert. Their heated arguments are all the foreplay he needs. He’d just drive her to the motel, rip her clothes off her body with his teeth while her nails dig into his curls.
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Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
23 Nov 2025
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a sacred oasis (I had a bad feeling) by margaretintherain
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
22 Feb 2025
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Vignettes of Jisbon set between 2x13 and 3x07. No happy ending (sorry, I hurt myself, too).
Within two minutes of meeting Bertram he already has something to apologize for. Yet she’s convincing Hightower he’s mighty fine, lies through her teeth. It’s interesting how the lies come more easily when she’s lying about him instead of to him.
It’s also a little concerning how she manipulates him to work the case. She’s changing, and she’s not sure if she likes this newer version of herself.
He’s pushing all her buttons, annoying her, pulling away, being even more secretive. When she finally confronts him he breaks her heart.
“Anybody that gets close to me, bad things happen to them.”
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
22 Nov 2025
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I would die for you in secret (would it be enough if I could never give you peace?) by margaretintherain for Lady_of_Winterhell
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
18 Jul 2025
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Set between 6x08 and 6x09, this story explores the idea if Jane invited Lisbon to his little island paradise. It’s very indulgent like a summer iced tea, but that’s what I believe summer should be.
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
22 Nov 2025
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Whispered Confessions by margaretintherain, whereyourtreasureis for Vixx2pointOh
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
08 Oct 2025
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Another day at the office has Patrick Jane on an important investigation. What lingerie is Teresa Lisbon wearing today? That's it, that's the plot. Set in season 7. Established Jisbon.
“Your excitement originates in the assumption that your little secret will excite me,” Jane said. Studying her, he grinned and gave a tiny nod. Something in her face must have told him he was right.
He traced her body with his gaze, and suddenly, recognition and a different kind of excitement flickered in his eyes; an Eureka moment. Damn, he already had it. She had known it would only be a matter of time—but this fast?
“It’s something that you bought for yourself, but that the two of us will enjoy, yes?” he asked, obviously fighting to keep his voice down.
Teresa subtly licked her lower lip. “Maybe.”
Written for Felice's birthday!
Bookmarked by hxc-lz (protowrite)
22 Nov 2025