Very short tag to 5x01. Continuation of the last scene, which left me with tears.


The wind is cold against her skin, and it soothes her, but it doesn't really matter, for his dark eyes flash before her eyes, and she almost throws up. A hand in hers, palm sweaty, and she remembers taking Korsak's hand, holding onto it as if it would somehow prevent the truth from being true. Maura is in her arms, trying to comfort with words and caresses, and lights of ambulances and police cars flash around them, sirens shout at her, voices, voices, voices, a body on the ground, and she gasps for air. This isn't happening. It can't.

Maura's steady inhales and exhales tickle Jane's neck, but she barely registers it, only hears the soft voice close to her, soothing and low: "There's nothing you can do."

The smell of Maura overwhelms her senses and she closes her eyes, swallowing loudly. Nothing you cannothing you can do.

"He's gone," Maura says again, voice breaking, and Jane lets go of Korsak's hand, doesn't mean to, but Maura's voice never breaks, and that's about the only thing her chaotic mind can register. He's gone.
She wraps her arms around Maura, eyes on the body on the ground, the body, the body, it's not breathing, it's not standing, it's lying, is it lying if it's just a dead body? Where the hell is she, because it just looks like a crime scene but it can't be, because it hurts so damn much to look at this scene, to see the body on the ground, is it a body, a crime, no an accident, no it's….

It's Frost.

He's gone.

There's nothing you can do.

There is nothing she can do but stand there, arms around Maura, eyes on the covered man on the ground, waiting for the truth to sink in.