Written for 
numb3rs100 Summer Crossover Spectacular 2009
Bonus Challenge – Universe
Crossposted tomentalistfic and n3crossovers
Title: Avoidance is Just a Way to Get Through the Day
Pairing/Characters: Patrick, Megan
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Judgment Call (Numb3rs), Pilot (Mentalist)
Summary: Patrick avoids the grateful parents of a murdered child
Notes/Warnings: Read the disclaimer on my LJ
Sunlight filters through the trees, the distant wake of a pleasure boat rippling tiny waves against the lake's shoreline just a stone's throw away. Patrick's foot deliberately crunches the one dried leaf that the obsessive landscapers haven't descended on in their quest to remove any imperfections from their utopian gated community.
There are no birds here. It's uncomfortably silent. The faux serenity befits the truth behind the facade: a girl was drowned here - murdered.
Patrick does not think about how old his daughter would be now, how close in age to the murdered girl. He does not think about how their hair looked so similar. He does not think about how badly he wants to hurt the neighbor that took her life over such a trivial matter as infidelity and that most despicable of excuses for robbing a human being of life: money.
It's an FBI joint case so he can relax here for a moment, let them handle informing the grieving parents.
"There you are..."
Megan's one of the better FBI agents he's met; both educated and naturally astute, insightful.
"Yes, here I am."
"The Grables were asking for you; they wanted to thank you for finding their daughter's killer." Patrick's shoulders tensed subtly. "I told them," Megan continued, her voice soft with compassion, "that the CBI had needed to pull you away for an urgent case, so they wouldn't be able to thank you in person, but that I'd pass on their gratitude to you." She paused briefly. "If you wait another ten minutes they'll have left and you can head back to Lisbon's car safely."
Patrick nodded.
He waited for her to ask why he was avoiding them, but she just sat with him, watching the sun glitter pretty diamonds of light across dead water.
"Thank you."
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numb3rs100 Summer Crossover Spectacular 2009Bonus Challenge – Universe
Crossposted to
mentalistfic and n3crossoversTitle: Avoidance is Just a Way to Get Through the Day
Pairing/Characters: Patrick, Megan
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Judgment Call (Numb3rs), Pilot (Mentalist)
Summary: Patrick avoids the grateful parents of a murdered child
Notes/Warnings: Read the disclaimer on my LJ
Sunlight filters through the trees, the distant wake of a pleasure boat rippling tiny waves against the lake's shoreline just a stone's throw away. Patrick's foot deliberately crunches the one dried leaf that the obsessive landscapers haven't descended on in their quest to remove any imperfections from their utopian gated community.
There are no birds here. It's uncomfortably silent. The faux serenity befits the truth behind the facade: a girl was drowned here - murdered.
Patrick does not think about how old his daughter would be now, how close in age to the murdered girl. He does not think about how their hair looked so similar. He does not think about how badly he wants to hurt the neighbor that took her life over such a trivial matter as infidelity and that most despicable of excuses for robbing a human being of life: money.
It's an FBI joint case so he can relax here for a moment, let them handle informing the grieving parents.
"There you are..."
Megan's one of the better FBI agents he's met; both educated and naturally astute, insightful.
"Yes, here I am."
"The Grables were asking for you; they wanted to thank you for finding their daughter's killer." Patrick's shoulders tensed subtly. "I told them," Megan continued, her voice soft with compassion, "that the CBI had needed to pull you away for an urgent case, so they wouldn't be able to thank you in person, but that I'd pass on their gratitude to you." She paused briefly. "If you wait another ten minutes they'll have left and you can head back to Lisbon's car safely."
Patrick nodded.
He waited for her to ask why he was avoiding them, but she just sat with him, watching the sun glitter pretty diamonds of light across dead water.
"Thank you."
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