A/N: I'm putting this chapter out there to test the waters. This is another song inspired fic. The song is Kiss Me Slowly by The Script. If you haven't heard it, listen to it and I'm sure you'll like it.
Jane woke slowly, she felt the warmth of an arm slung a crossed her naked stomach. She turned her head slowly to see a head of blonde hair resting on her shoulder and she smiled.
The two women had always flirted with each other. It was just something to do. Jane denied being attracted to Maura even though she was and Maura, who couldn't really lie would always change the subject when questioned about it. Other people could see it, Korsak, Frost, even Jane's mother, they could see this was more than just friendship and they wondered why the two women couldn't just admit it. But something changed and with a few simple words everything about them changed.
"You're not going to be safe!" Jane argued with Maura in her office down in the morgue.
"Jane, a police patrol will be by my home routinely through the night. That should be quite fine." Maura told.
"I'm sorry, are you insane?" Jane asked and she saw the little tilt of Maura's head as if she was actually contemplating the answer and that just frustrated Jane even more.
"People know who your biological father is now, bad people, Maura." Jane said, "People who kill rival mobsters families." She hoped her tone would get through to Maura.
"I'm sure I'll be fine. I have faith in the BPD." Maura said nonchalantly as she looked through some paperwork.
It pissed Jane off that Maura wasn't taking this seriously.
Jane's phone buzzed, "What?" She answered.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir." She apologized when she realized it was Cavanaugh calling. Jane spoke to him briefly then hung up.
"This conversation isn't over with." Jane said point a long finger at Maura and she just smiled at Jane as she left.
Jane went up to Cavanaugh's office and knocked on the door. "Come in." He shouted and she let herself in.
"We got a situation here Rizzoli." He said as Jane sat down.
"What it is?" Jane asked.
"A routine patrol went by Dr. Isles home this afternoon and spotted a suspicious brown box on her door step. They checked and saw the package wasn't addressed. The cop on duty called in a member of the Bomb Unit and they opened the package." He paused, "There was a heart inside."
Jane's eyes widened, "A heart? Like a human one?"
"Yes, a human heart. Who's heart we don't quite know yet but we had to send it to another lab so it wasn't tested here." Cavanaugh told her.
"There was a note inside." He said.
"What did it say?" Jane asked.
"Those connected to Paddy Doyle will pay the price." He told her.
"We have to tell Maura, she thinks it's not a big deal. She thinks no one will care that she is the daughter of one of the most ruthless mobsters in Boston." Jane said getting to her feet.
"Someone needs to stay with her or she needs to be moved to a different location." Cavanaugh told her.
"I'll do it. I can stay with her." Jane said.
"Ok you go make arrangements and I'll have a talk with Dr. Isles." Cavanaugh told her as he picked up his phone and dialed the morgue.
Jane had been sitting at her desk biting her thumb nail ever since Maura walked into the Lieutenant's office.
When Maura finally emerged Jane was on her feet and by her friend's side.
"He told me I should go home." Maura said in somewhat of a daze.
"Let's go." Jane said as she escorted to the elevators.
They rode in silence back to Maura's house. Jane went inside first and did a quick sweep of the house before giving Maura the okay to come in.
"Why would someone target me? I have nothing to do with Paddy Doyle or his business." Maura said as she kicked off her heels and slumped onto the couch.
"You're his daughter that makes you a target plus if they hurt you then it hurts him. Just like Colin." Jane said as she went into the kitchen and poured Maura a glass of white wine.
"Thank you." Maura said taking the glass from Jane. She sipped it then put the glass on the coffee table.
Angela came in the side door from the guest house. "Oh Janie, I didn't know you'd be here." She said coming into the living room. Jane looked at her and Angela knew something was wrong. "What is it?"
Jane explained what was going on, she told Angela about the threat and told her that it was probably best if she stayed with Frankie just for the time being. Thankfully her mother didn't put up much of a fight.
Frankie came and picked Angela up and Jane explained the situation to him. "You keep her safe." Jane said to him. "Yeah you too." He said with a nod to Maura.
Maura went upstairs to take a shower. Jane opened Maura's fridge and found a lasagna Angela planned to cook for dinner tonight wrapped up and ready to go. Jane preheated the oven; she was just about to click on the TV when her phone buzzed.
"Rizzoli." She answered.
"The lab has identified the heart as belonging to one of Doyle's men, a guy by the name of Cord Sullivan. He's pretty low on the totem pole but he was still one of Doyle's people." Cavanaugh told Jane.
"Well if he was a nobody then why bother leaving it on Maura's doorstep?" Jane asked.
"We don't know. Korsak thinks that it will somehow send a message to Doyle that not only do they know who Maura is to him but that they can reach her anytime." Cavanaugh suggested.
"Frost and Korsak are going over to the lab to see what else they can find out; maybe they can narrow down who the killer is." He told her. "They will call you when and if they find something out."
"Ok, thank you sir." She said and they hung up.
Jane put the lasagna in the oven then went upstairs to check on Maura. She knocked gently on the bathroom door. "Maura, are you ok in there?" She asked leaning against the door to hear a response.
"I'm fine Jane." Maura said quietly from inside. Moments later she opened the door, she was dressed in a robe and her wet hair fell all around her shoulders.
Jane gave a smile. "Cavanaugh called to tell me they identified the heart. It belonged to one of Doyle's men."
"Oh." Maura said quietly. She sat on the edge of her bed and rubbed her eyes.
"Frost and Korsak are working on figuring out what happened, and who possibly killed him and why." Jane told her standing awkwardly by Maura's bed.
"We know the why, Jane." Maura said looking up and Jane. "It's because of Doyle."
"We'll figure this out, ok." Jane said putting a hand on Maura's shoulder.
Maura looked at her again, "I know you will."
A/N: I just want to say, I don't include the lyrics throughout the story because for me as a reader, it's hard to get into a story if there's lyrics in-between the story. I think listening to the song is a much better way to figure out what the emotions are. That of course is just my opinion.
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