Forgive me if this is slightly off. I've never written The Mentalist fanfic before.
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Patrick's in a facility for the criminally insane. He's finally killed Red John. He thinks he can be happy here, or at least content. But Lisbon would much rather he were on the outside, and these days he likes to give Lisbon as much as he can. So he's speaking to one of his many doctors, trying to prove to her that he's no longer a threat to society.
"If you could change one moment in your life, which one would you choose?" she asks him.
Patrick thinks it's a strange question. She could only be expecting one answer. She is expecting it, he can tell.
Instead, he is transported back to the 1980s. He's a teenager. There's a girl. One day she'll become his wife. But now he's just a boy living under his father's thumb.
The moment that Patrick wishes he could take back is upon him. He doesn't wish that he'd never met his wife-to-be. He doesn't wish that he'd never become a psychic.
He wishes he'd never let his father bully him into something he didn't want to do. He wishes he'd never let his father show him how easily morals could be compromised. He wishes he'd never begun to think people were just things to be played with.
Patrick wishes he'd never scammed a dying girl and her grandmother.
But he doesn't say that to this woman he doesn't trust. Instead he says, "It's obvious, isn't it? I wish I'd never taunted Red John on television."
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Date: 2012-01-24 01:17 pm (UTC)x x x
Patrick's in a facility for the criminally insane. He's finally killed Red John. He thinks he can be happy here, or at least content. But Lisbon would much rather he were on the outside, and these days he likes to give Lisbon as much as he can. So he's speaking to one of his many doctors, trying to prove to her that he's no longer a threat to society.
"If you could change one moment in your life, which one would you choose?" she asks him.
Patrick thinks it's a strange question. She could only be expecting one answer. She is expecting it, he can tell.
Instead, he is transported back to the 1980s. He's a teenager. There's a girl. One day she'll become his wife. But now he's just a boy living under his father's thumb.
The moment that Patrick wishes he could take back is upon him. He doesn't wish that he'd never met his wife-to-be. He doesn't wish that he'd never become a psychic.
He wishes he'd never let his father bully him into something he didn't want to do. He wishes he'd never let his father show him how easily morals could be compromised. He wishes he'd never begun to think people were just things to be played with.
Patrick wishes he'd never scammed a dying girl and her grandmother.
But he doesn't say that to this woman he doesn't trust. Instead he says, "It's obvious, isn't it? I wish I'd never taunted Red John on television."