Chapter 1

Alone

Maura slowly regained consciousness as she tried to lift the fog that surrounded her mind groaning at the pain she felt in her arms. -Where am I? - She tried to remember the night before but drew a blank, panic set in as she tried to move realizing her arms were bound behind her back as pain shot through her limbs every time she struggled to break free. The cold ground sent chills alone her body as she placed her face against the hard concrete Maura knew struggling would only cause more pain so she tried to relax. All she could remember from the night before was being with Jane but the harder she pressed to retrieve the memory the farther away it seemed to get. –Oh, Jane- Maura felt a jab at her heart thinking of her best friend, panic returned as she thought of Jane being captured along with her but no one else was with her in the small concrete room that was barely big enough to fit Maura. Jane had been on her mind a lot lately and not just due to the case they both had been working relentlessly at for the past several weeks.

Her feelings for Jane had blossomed into something more than just friendship over the years they had known each other and the looming question in her life, was she in love with Jane, hung over her head every day. She knew the answer; she had known it for a while but was afraid to admit it to herself fearing Jane did not share the same feelings for her. Oh how Maura wished she had said something but now feared it was too late that this may be the end and she would never get to see the one person she could never stop thinking of again. Tears formed in her eyes, -I wish I would have told her- Maura felt numb from the sinking feeling that was setting in remembering her other former brushes with death, she had been in some bad situations before but none that felt so hopeless so vulnerable as this.

The case her and Jane had been working on was sending Boston into a panic, her Father, Pady Doyle had escaped from when being transported to a maximum security prison when his transport had been run off the road by several black trucks. The guards involved had been killed all shot once in the head and twice in the chest, a signature kill shot by hit men that worked for the mob. The weeks following Pady's escape were filled with disarray, a rival mob had taken hold over the streets of Boston and Pady, now free was determined to take it back. Violent murders and hits were being placed all across Boston and bodies seemed to be showing up left and right from the war that had broken out. But the rival mob didn't play by the old school rules Pady and his friends stuck by, no this newly formed mob was cut throat killing anyone who stood in their way. Maura's father was a horrible man but even Pady had standards never killing woman or children in his world he was a man of honor as sick and twisted as that may sound.

The FBI had been working closely with BPD trying to get the situation under control; Jane had gone undercover working with an FBI partner to get close to the inner circle of the new mob. It was dangerous and Maura feared the worst every time Jane went out in the field, sometimes not checking in with the department for days. But it had paid off after weeks of undercover work Jane had finally gained the trust of the lower members enough for them to set up a meeting with higher ranking leaders. The night before her capture Jane and the other members of their team where at the Boston FBI headquarters, Jane was giving them the newest intel on her last meeting with the "New Mob." Maura tried to remember more but the memories became harder and harder to recall, she let out a frustrated sigh trying to focus on last night. But it was no use whatever drug they had given her had caused memory temporary memory loss, Maura closed her eyes trying to think of a way to get out her restraints. Her feet were not bound but she was still to groggy from the drugs to stand but her head was clear enough to now recognize that her hands were bound with hand cuffs and not rope. A scuffing noise came from above causing Maura to jump; she needed to find a way to escape these restraints before they came back for her it would only be a matter of time.

Since Maura's hands were cuffed behind her back she could think of only one way to free her hands of the cuffs she rolled to her side dreading the next move she was about to make. She chose her left hand because it was her weaker side and she would need her strong hand to fight off attacks from her captors. Squeezing he eyes closed she used her right hand to swiftly and painfully dislocate her left thumb, pain screamed from her hand letting out a muffled shriek as she clinched her teeth to keep from crying out. Pulling her hand out of the cold metal restraint Maura sat up tears running down her face from the pain in her hand, without thinking she jerked the thumb back into place. Gathering herself she crawled toward the door and turned the handle it wasn't locked, -Oh thank God- she winced at the light as she opened the door.

As Maura slowly inched up the stairway her heart pounded against her chest, she knew she had to stay calm so she tried to slow her breathing. Leaning her ear against the door at the top of the stairs Maura listened for movement, hearing none she turned the handle and stepped into the room. It was night and everything was dark but from what Maura could tell she seemed to be standing in an abandoned house. With her senses heightened to detect any sound or movement she made her way halfway across the room when voices drifted in from another part of the building. She froze scared to make a sound, the voices drifted closer and she knew she had to move somehow she managed to make it to the next room and ducked behind a couch as two men entered where she had stood not 2 seconds before. Luckily she had closed the door behind her so they were not suspicious of her escape just yet, Maura glanced around the room seeing the front door was to her right not 10 paces away if only she could get to it without being seen, she looked back over the couch and panicked the two men had disappeared.-where did they go!?- She had no time to think she bolted for the front door but as she raced towards it a hard object made contact with her skull causing her to see darkness as she fell to the ground.