Jisbon
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Red John is gone. The hardest part should be over.
Patrick Jane has spent years reading everyone around him.
Teresa Lisbon has spent years pretending not to love him. The problem is, they're both just as good at lying to themselves.
As Lisbon begins building a future that doesn't seem to include him, Jane is determined to be happy for her—even if it breaks his heart.
But some truths refuse to stay hidden forever.
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06 Jul 2026
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It all started with a legendary hangover and a stupid bet. To alleviate the boredom at work, the CBI (and later, FBI) team creates a morbid bingo game: tracking crimes committed by men dressed as Santa Claus. What was meant to be a passing joke turns into a years-long tradition, an absurd constant that survives city moves, career changes, relationships, and even the growth of their own families.
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21 Jun 2026
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Patrick Jane knows how to survive.
He has been doing it for years.
After the accident that took Angela and Charlotte, Patrick rebuilds what is left of his life around the one person who still needs him: his son, Oliver. A small house in Sacramento. A yellow kitchen. Dinosaur books. Pancakes shaped badly enough to become legendary. Bedtime stories, grief that never fully leaves, and one little boy who deserves every ounce of love Patrick still has left to give.
Then Oliver meets Teresa Lisbon in a bookstore and immediately decides she is important.
Teresa does not mean to become part of their lives. Patrick does not mean to let her. Neither of them is prepared for the strange, ordinary, terrifying way love begins to grow—not by replacing what was lost, not by erasing the past, but by making room for something new beside it.
A warm, emotional, domestic Mentalist AU about grief, parenthood, slow-burn love, the CBI team noticing far too much, and the quiet miracle of a family becoming three.
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18 Jun 2026
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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.
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01 Jun 2026
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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.
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28 May 2026