[WINNER OF BEST UNFINISHED FANFICTION IN THE MENTALIST FANFICTION AWARDS 2014!!] "Whatever her faults were, Teresa Lisbon was a good person. That's why she'd written those letters, sixteen of them, to be read each year on Lucy's birthday." When a passion-filled night with Patrick Jane leaves her pregnant, Teresa Lisbon is scared that the secret she's harboring could put her daughter in danger. So, despite Jane's best efforts to make her stay, she leaves soon after her daughter, Lucy, is born. She entrusts Jane with the task of reading sixteen letters, on each year, on Lucy's birthday. Will Jane & Lisbon ever reunite? Or will Lucy live with the fact that the only things she has from her mother are sixteen letters?

Patrick and Teresa finally have a perfect family, but Patrick fears he might endanger their lives because Red John is still out there, hunting him. This fear causes Jane to leave his family for six months, but when he returns, things change, and they aren't as safe as he thinks...