Hey everybody!
I received this prompt on Twitter a few days ago and I totally fell in love with the idea. I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I'm enjoying writing it.
There's gonna be a lot of romance, friendship, family drama and of course, lots of Rizzles. If you haven't watched this movie yet, you totally should.
Happy reading.
It was a beautiful day in Boston, Massachusetts. Maura Isles could hear the birds chirping as she walked down the sidewalk to the little coffee shop in Beacon Hill. Maura couldn't go to work without a good cup of coffee and this little shop was very quiet and not at all crowded. Perfect for the introverted doctor. The delicate bells rang when Maura opened the glass doors, announcing her presence. The smell of caffeine and caramel filled her nostrils and Maura smiled widely. She didn't know why, but she always felt at home whenever she was there. Maura got in line and was soon attended.
"Hello, Doc! Will you have the usual?"
Mary Callahan was a young red-head woman from Chicago who had moved to Boston to become a doctor. Her parents tried their best to give their daughter a good education, but their financial problems didn't allow them to pay for Mary's college tuition. So the girl worked a shift everyday at the coffee shop to pay for her studies. Maura would sometimes sit down with her and talk to her about science and doctory stuff whenever she had the time.
"Hello, Mary. Yes, yes I'll have the usual." Maura smiled at the young girl behind the corner as she reached for her red leather wallet. She took a 20 dollar bill and handed it to Mary. "Keep the change."
"Oh, Maura, I-I can't. That's too much." Mary said looking at the bill with dazzled eyes.
"You can and you will." Maura put her hand on top of the girl's and nodded positively. The doctor could see a really big potencial on the girl, so she helped her in any way she could.
"Thanks, for real." The girl smiles in return. "And here's your coffee. Have a great day, Doc!" she added.
Maura grabbed her coffee and headed to her table, resting the cup on the hard surface. She opened her tablet and went over the autopsy files from the previous night. There were something wrong with it, but the doctor couldn't figure out what exactly. The bells on the door rang again and Maura's attention shifted immediately. Finally. She thought to herself.
A dark haired handsome man came into the store and got in line. Maura knew that his name was Frankie Rizzoli and that he liked his latte with three pumps of caramel. She also knew that he loved the Red Sox and that he was trying to become a detective, to his mother's horror. But she never really talked to him...She didn't have the courage to get over to him and introduce herself, so she would just sit there and listen to his conversations.
Maura shook her head and her thoughts went away. She took one last sip of her coffee as she closed her tablet and put it back in her Birkin. The doctor headed to the door and as she was opening it she felt a warm heavy hand on hers. She withdrew her hand quickly and looked at the figure standing next to her. Sparkling green eyes met chocolate ones for the very first time. Frankie smiled softly at the short woman and opened the door.
"Thank you." Maura managed to say those two words after a few minutes.
Frankie smiled softly and held in a giggle. "You're very welcome."
Maura stopped outside the store when she felt her phone buzzing in her back pocket. She recognised the caller ID and realised that she was late for work. How did that even happen? She never lost track of time before in her entire life. Maura answered her phone and apologised for her delay and promised that the would be at the lab as soon as possible. She was observing Frankie when she gasped at the sight of a bus coming at full speed. Maura ran over to Frankie as fast as she could and reached for his arm, pulling him against her.
They both fell to the ground with a huge thud. Maura hurt her wrist and scraped her elbows, but she was relived that nothing worse happened, they were both in one piece. But then she noticed that Frankie was just laying next to her, still as a rock. Maura got up immediately, reaching for her phone. She dialled 911 as she took a closer look at the man now underneath her. People started gathering up around them and some offered their assistance.
A few minutes later -which to Maura felt like an eternity- finally arrived. The paramedics put Frankie on a stretcher and on the back of the car. Maura was incredibly agitated and since she was a doctor she wanted to make sure that Frankie would be treated correctly. She approached one of the young paramedics and smiled softly.
"I-I'm Dr. Maura Isles, I was with him when it happened. Would you mind if I accompanied him?"
The young man smiled back and nodded. Maura hopped on the back with the ambulance and sat next to Frankie. Thoughts invaded her mind and she went over every little scenario. He hit his head. The doctor thought to herself. He's not responding normally to painful stimuli or to light or sound. Possible coma? Maura was shaking and sweating like she never had before. Please, just don't let him die. Even though Maura didn't believe in God, that seemed like a good time to say a prayer or two.
The paramedics rushed through the doors with Frankie, followed by the medical examiner.
"Male, early thirties, hit his head on the sidewalk." One of the paramedics told the doctor who had approached them.
Maura stopped listening as she turned her attention to Frankie. Why am I so desperate over this? How can I be in love with a complete stranger? It didn't make sense to Maura and for the first time in her 36 years of life, she couldn't understand what was going on inside her head or inside her heart.
"Ma'am?" The steady voice of a older woman shook Maura's thoughts away. She was wearing an all salmon scrubs and a her arm was straighten out, not letting Maura go pass her. "I can't let you go through...Family only, I'm sorry." The woman smiles sympathetically.
Maura stood still, watching the doctor and the paramedics take Frankie further away through the glass doors. Her heart clenched a little and she rested her hands on her chest.
"I was going to marry him." She says softly, just loud enough for her and for another nurse, a younger one, to hear.
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A few hours later, the younger nurse guided Maura to a private room on the 5th floor. Maura couldn't quite understand why the young lady was being so kind when all of the others were determined to prevent her of seeing Frankie. She smiled at the nurse who nodded in response. Maura was getting ready to sit on the arm chair next to the bed when she heard loud voices coming from the hall.
"Where is he? I need to see my son." It was a woman's voice and it sounded a lot like an angry mother.
"Yeah, I wanna see my brother." This time a male voice, and by its tone, Maura knew that it was from a young man.
"Angela, Tommy, why do you have to be so noisy?" Another male voice, a deeper one.
"Hello, I'm detective Korsak. We're here to see Frankie Rizzoli?" A much older man addressed one of the nurses who jumped on her feet and directed the loud family to the room.
"Oh, he looks so pale. My poor baby." Angela ran towards the bed and rested her hands on Frankie's shoulder.
"Come on, Ma, don't be so dramatic." Tommy said, rolling his eyes at his mother's reaction.
"Hey, who are you?" The older man points at Maura. He was the first to notice her presence in the room.
"Shh, Frank, don't be rude." Angela scolded her husband as she turned her attention to the doctor.
"I-I..." Maura tried to speak but she found her tongue was suddenly dry and she couldn't form a complete sentence.
"She's his fiancée." The nurse winked at Maura and looked back at the family. Their eyes were wide and their jaws dropped, completely in shock. "And she saved his life." The young woman added before leaving the room.
Maura got up from the chair and smoothed the fabric of her skirt. She looked at the family and their eyes now were sparkling with excitement, waiting for a better explanation.
"I'm Dr. Maura Isles." She smiled and before she could carry on she was involved in a bone crushing hug. Angela had her arms around the doctor's slim waist so tight that Maura couldn't breathe.
"Oh, look at that Frank," she turned to face her husband "She's a doctor...I always wanted a doctor in the family." The older woman smiled widely.
"Is it true?" Tommy looked at the blonde, his brows narrowed. "Did you save this life?"
Maura intertwined her fingers, her thumb drawing circles around the skin of her palm. "I suppose I did..Yes." She smiled shyly. And she got another warm hug with that affirmation.
"How come my son got engaged and didn't even tell his family?" Frank Sr. arched his brow, but didn't look directly to Maura.
"The way he's always busy trying so hard to follow Jane's steps into becoming a detective...He never has time for anything." Angela said.
Another few hours went by and Maura had to excuse herself, it was getting late and she still needed to drop by the precinct to get the results of the victim's toxicology screen.
"It was nice meeting you all, but I have to go. There's something at work that I need to check on."
They all hugged her, and kissed her and said their goodbyes and reassured her that everything was going to be fine. That Frankie was a strong man, a hero even, and that he would get through that. She smiled back softly and walked towards the elevators.
"She's hot." Tommy said after a while with a grin on his face.
"Tommy!" Angela slapped the back of her youngest son.
It was way pass midnight, and Maura couldn't sleep. At some point she got up and drank some warm milk, in hopes that that would calm her nerves. Her maid used to do that whenever she couldn't sleep as a child. Dorotha was actually like a mother to her, since her mother was always too busy to tuck her daughter in or to tell her that there were no monsters under her bed and that everything would be okay.
The digital clock on the kitchen counter showed the hours. 3:20am. Maura sighed in frustration as she walked towards her closet to grab her coat.
She drives silently all over to Massachusetts General. The night was beautiful, the sky was clear except for a few little lonely stars. The moon was as thin as a nail, but it was still magnificent to Maura's eyes.
Maura got her visitor's tag at the reception and wasted no time in heading to Frankie's room. He was still as a rock but now he looked very peaceful and very comfortable. The doctor's heart melted a little as she approached the hospital bed.
"I bet you were wondering what I'm doing here in the middle of the night." Her voice was steady, yet as soft as ever. "Well, I thought I should introduce myself. My name is Maura. Maura Dorthea Isles and I think you should know that your family thinks we're engaged." Maura scoffed. "I've never been engaged before so this is all very sudden for me. But what I really came here to tell you was that I didn't mean for this to happen. I don't know what to do. If you were awake, I wouldn't be in this mess. Oh God, not that I'm blaming you. I'm sorry." She patted on his knee gently. "It's just that when I was a kid, I always imagined what I would be like or what I would have when I got older. And you know, it was normal stuff. I'd have a house and a family and things like that. It's not that I'm complaining or anything, because I do have a tortoise and I have a lovely home. I have a all the piece and quiet in the world. That's very important. It's just that I've never met anybody that I could laugh with." Maura looked down at her hands, her delicate fingers playing with the ring."Do you believe in love at first sight? I bet you don't. You're probably too sensible for that. I was too, you know? Until I met you.." She smiled. "Or have you ever seen somebody and you know, that if that person really knew you, they'd dump the perfect woman that they were with and realize that you were the one that they wanted to grow old with? Have you ever fallen in love with somebody that you haven't even talked to? Have you ever been so alone that you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?"
Maura reached out and rested her hand on Frankie's. She needed that, she needed to tell someone how she was really feeling. Maura Isles never told a lie in her entire life and just the thought of it made her tremble. But you aren't lying. Well, not technically. She thought to herself. It was the nurse that told everybody that you were engaged, not you. But she was kind of relieved that at least someone knew the truth, even if that someone was in a coma.
Little did she know that Vince Korsak was right there, resting his head on the door frame...