ceyreading
Recent bookmarks
-
Purple Stained Laelia by thankyoufortheletters (dazzlingdecay)
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
26 Jun 2026
Tags
Summary
She didn't even need to say anything, it was written all over her face, those beautiful sage eyes as wide as can be, as if she got caught doing something she shouldn't.
He quickly recomposed himself, brushing it off playfully, telling them to have fun.
But as he watched them head to the elevator, Lisbon looking so into it, so interested, something very heavy sank into his core. Bile rose up to his throat, seeing that shy smile of hers directed towards someone else. Mr Art Attack over there made him feel like a rabid animal trapped in a cage.
·𖥸·
What would've happened if, instead of pretending like nothing was wrong when clearly his heart was breaking, Jane didn't just... say what he wanted to say?
A little what-if short story set during Silver Wings Of Time (s06e17), following what happened after Violets.
Bookmarked by ceyreading
29 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
A day at the beach can never be just a normal day for Jane and Lisbon. Today, they're here to investigate a murder, it sure does cast a gloom on the already overcast day. And then there's the scream for help.
Or: Jane gets hypothermia and Lisbon helps warm him up.
Series
- Part 1 of Fem's Whumptober (All Year Round)
Bookmarked by ceyreading
26 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Jane and Lisbon have been sleeping together.
Not dating. Not together. Not saying what it is.
At least, that is what Lisbon keeps insisting.
It starts after a case, the way too many dangerous things do: exhaustion, grief, adrenaline with nowhere to go, Jane at Lisbon’s apartment making tea like he has always belonged in the quiet corners of her life. One night becomes another. A stolen kiss in her kitchen becomes his jacket left over her chair, her tea cabinet rearranged by hands too careful to be casual, his body in her bed, her name in his mouth, and both of them pretending they are not building something fragile in the dark.
To Jane, it has never been casual.
To Lisbon, calling it casual is the only way she knows how to survive wanting him. Jane’s grief has teeth. His love comes with ghosts, revenge, vanished rooms, and a wedding ring that still catches the light. She is terrified that if she lets herself call this love, truly call it love, she will spend every morning waiting for him to disappear.
So she makes it smaller.
Jane lets her.
Because some of her is better than none of her.
Until it is not.
Bookmarked by ceyreading
25 Jun 2026
-
Five Times the Team Realised Jane Loved Lisbon, And One Time They Saw What That Meant by Word_Woven
Fandoms: The Mentalist (TV 2008)
24 May 2026
Tags
Summary
Patrick Jane does not realise he is in love with Teresa Lisbon all at once.
He realises it in pieces: in tea made without asking, in a crooked tie fixed before an interview, in her voice cutting through the dark before he can drown in it. Lisbon realises it harder, after the apartment feels wrong without him in it and the silence starts to feel less like peace and more like absence.
The team notices after that.
Cho notices first, because of course he does. Van Pelt notices because Lisbon smiles differently. Rigsby notices last, dramatically and far too late for his dignity to survive intact.
But when an old enemy of Jane’s comes back with bodies, messages, and a plan designed to tear him apart, the team finally sees the truth beneath all the teasing, domesticity, and quiet office touches.
This was never casual.
Patrick Jane survived losing his wife once.
He would not survive losing Teresa Lisbon.
Series
- Part 1 of 5+1 Jisbon Universe
-
Tags
Summary
Six months after Patrick Jane walks away from the CBI, Teresa Lisbon gets the call she has been trying not to expect.
Jane is in Las Vegas. Arrested. Hurt. Refusing help.
Lisbon tells herself she is only going because someone has to make sure he is alive.
But Jane’s collapse is not as simple as it looks, and when Lisbon reaches him, the distance between them finally starts to crack.
A canon-divergent Season 4 finale rewrite about grief, loyalty, Red John’s shadow, and the terrifying danger of loving someone you cannot bear to lose.