Hypocrites (1/1)
Title: Hypocrites
Author: tromana
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Jane/Lisbon
Summary: Missing scene/tag to 4x01
Spoilers: As above
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Notes: Written for ch19777 as a part of the Holiday Fics challenge. And see, I can keep it under 500 words!
Hypocrites
There’s a hubbub of noise surrounding her.
Lisbon weaves through the gathering crowd, surprised at just how many people had turned up.
Then again, it isn’t really surprising at all. Not when she really thinks about it.
Red John is big news. He’s always going to hit the headlines. Even in death, he cannot escape it. The serial killer is just that infamous.
It’s ironic, really. There are celebrities who’d kill (literally) to have the same kind of notoriety as Red John had once indulged in during his life. And in his death, too, for that matter.
But today’s not inherently to do with Red John.
It’s mostly to do with Jane and what he’s done.
The doors aren’t open yet and part of her wishes they would just hurry up and get this farce over and done with. Lisbon knows that the rest of her team (if they’ll ever be her team again, that is) are here somewhere. They told her they would, at least. Each of them had said they’d wanted to offer him some sort of moral support.
Not that she suspected Jane would need it. If their previous discussions were anything to go by, then theoretically, Jane shouldn’t regret his actions at all. And he’d be more than happy to accept whatever punishment goes his way.
Including death.
Though, of course, she doesn’t think he deserves that. What he’s done (if he’s done it, she can’t shake that lingering thought just yet) has ridded the world of an undeniable evil. Really, he’s just done them - and everybody else, for that matter - a massive favor.
However, a life is a life. That’s something that cannot be denied. If Red John had died lawfully, then…
She shakes her head as she waits impatiently.
The gossiping is driving her insane; it almost feels like it is slowing time itself down. There’s people she vaguely recognizes dotted around, some from work, others maybe from cases or other agencies they work with. Then, of course, there are just the random people who have no other interest in the case other than sheer morbidity.
They’re all here for one reason and one reason only: to see if the CBI hired a guilty man, a murderer.
They want to see if one of the big crime-fighting agencies in California has made such a massive, damaging mistake. How they’ll survive if Mr. Jane is guilty.
None of them care about the human cost. Nor do they care about the personal issues involved. Jane’s vendetta, the people he cared about, those who are close to him…
They’re just here for the hottest gossip.
They want to judge him themselves, with their own eyes, as if they’ve never done anything wrong in their sorry little lives.
And she hates that most of all.
Author: tromana
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Jane/Lisbon
Summary: Missing scene/tag to 4x01
Spoilers: As above
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Notes: Written for ch19777 as a part of the Holiday Fics challenge. And see, I can keep it under 500 words!
Hypocrites
There’s a hubbub of noise surrounding her.
Lisbon weaves through the gathering crowd, surprised at just how many people had turned up.
Then again, it isn’t really surprising at all. Not when she really thinks about it.
Red John is big news. He’s always going to hit the headlines. Even in death, he cannot escape it. The serial killer is just that infamous.
It’s ironic, really. There are celebrities who’d kill (literally) to have the same kind of notoriety as Red John had once indulged in during his life. And in his death, too, for that matter.
But today’s not inherently to do with Red John.
It’s mostly to do with Jane and what he’s done.
The doors aren’t open yet and part of her wishes they would just hurry up and get this farce over and done with. Lisbon knows that the rest of her team (if they’ll ever be her team again, that is) are here somewhere. They told her they would, at least. Each of them had said they’d wanted to offer him some sort of moral support.
Not that she suspected Jane would need it. If their previous discussions were anything to go by, then theoretically, Jane shouldn’t regret his actions at all. And he’d be more than happy to accept whatever punishment goes his way.
Including death.
Though, of course, she doesn’t think he deserves that. What he’s done (if he’s done it, she can’t shake that lingering thought just yet) has ridded the world of an undeniable evil. Really, he’s just done them - and everybody else, for that matter - a massive favor.
However, a life is a life. That’s something that cannot be denied. If Red John had died lawfully, then…
She shakes her head as she waits impatiently.
The gossiping is driving her insane; it almost feels like it is slowing time itself down. There’s people she vaguely recognizes dotted around, some from work, others maybe from cases or other agencies they work with. Then, of course, there are just the random people who have no other interest in the case other than sheer morbidity.
They’re all here for one reason and one reason only: to see if the CBI hired a guilty man, a murderer.
They want to see if one of the big crime-fighting agencies in California has made such a massive, damaging mistake. How they’ll survive if Mr. Jane is guilty.
None of them care about the human cost. Nor do they care about the personal issues involved. Jane’s vendetta, the people he cared about, those who are close to him…
They’re just here for the hottest gossip.
They want to judge him themselves, with their own eyes, as if they’ve never done anything wrong in their sorry little lives.
And she hates that most of all.