Missing That Certain Spark: Chapter One: Not Quite Grabbing The Concept Of Sarcasm

The dark haired woman rolled over, letting out a silent curse as she slammed the stop button on her alarm clock. Monday was never one of her best days in the week.

Slowly heaving herself up, she rubbed her face. 6.30 am… Monday… I'm gonna need a lot of coffee. Especially after last night… looking over at the honey blonde woman, she had freckles, nice figure and pretty smile. That pretty much did it for Jane. It would do, but it wasn't exactly what Jane wanted.

What Jane wanted was a doctor Maura Isles, medical examiner of Massachusetts and not to mention her best friend. Ever since Maura had fixed Jane's 'nasal hairline fracture' Jane had secretly been head over heels for the good doctor.

Jane used her wonderful stealth skills to sneakily work her way round the house, getting dressed for work, finding where she'd last left her gun, feed Jo Friday ect.

Once all that was done, it was near half seven. Quickly hurrying out the door, half buttoning her blue shirt up, Jane started the black car and drove off to the doctor's house. She knew she was going to get a lecture about skipping breakfast, and driving while dressing, but hey-ho what can ya do?


Maura was mentally placing a ruler against the crease on her dress to see if the crease measured out with all the others, once it had met her atmospheric standards, she started to head out to the kitchen, quickly grabbing a banana. Knowing she'd lost a bit of time on choosing which dress she'd wear today.

Suddenly a knock on her door echoed around the empty house.

"COME ON MAUR! WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!" Maura heard Jane shout from outside. Quickly hurrying to open the door in order to stop Jane's shouting (as well as getting another complaint from her neighbors about the noise.)

"Ok I'm coming, don't stress out! It's not good for you!" Jane just rolled her eyes as the scent of Maura wafted past the detective as Maura continued to catwalk to the car, Jane following soon after.

As the taller woman started the car up, the radio kicked on causing Maura to jump.

"DIE, DIE, DIE MY DARLIN! DON'T UTTER A SINGLE WORD!" The man screamed on the radio. Causing Maura to automatically turn the radio off.

"Jane, what have I told you about starting the car up with the radio with such a high decibel?!" Maura demanded to know, as if the answer was obvious.

"That it's fun? Oh come on Maur that was one of my favorites!" Jane whined.

"You're ear drums will thank me later."

Grumbling, Jane turned into loud cursing as they hit the everyday Boston Traffic.

"Son of a bitch." Jane cursed as she slammed on the steering wheel.

Haven't had ONE cup of coffee! I swear to Joan of Arc herself, if the old man puts his socks in the coffee machine again, I'm going to hit the roof!


As time went on, Jane's car finally got passed the traffic light. The worst one known to Boston, it would let about two cars through at a time, and stay on red to let about all of America through. And if that wasn't bad enough, it was the camera from hell that would take your picture if you go through amber! And if you thought it was wrong, bloody hell you'd have to go through a lot of paper work just to get a 60 dollar fine revoked.

Will I have to go through this for the rest of my life?! Jane asked herself in her mind, pouring the horrible coffee into the cheap cup. Handing one to Maur, but then stopped herself.

"I know, I know, caffeine evil. Caffeine take over the world, stick with green tea, its friendly eyes will lead you to the path of happiness." Jane said sarcastically.

"Well at least you pay attention to me." Maura side commented.

"Oh how could I not doctor Isles?"

Maura gave Jane a look.

"Was that sarcasm?"

"No."

"Oh ok then." Maura gave Jane her best smile, and started to walk down to the seats in the cafeteria.

Jane just rolled her eyes.

"Oh hi girls!" A woman called out from behind the counter.

"Hi ma," Jane said just as happily as she'd addressed Maura this morning.

"Hello Angela, how are you this morning?" Maura asked. Ignoring Jane's disgusted face at the coffee.

"I'm fine and yourself? Any murders I can help you with today?"

"No…" Jane spoke out, as she put her phone away. "Unless you can help us tackle a perp who's trying to escape right now… Maur I gotta take this."

"Ok be safe!" Maura called out, but Jane had already sprinted to the stair case.

Both Maura and Angela let out a heavy sigh.

"I wish Jane hadn't chosen such a dangerous job sometimes." Maura was about to say she felt the same, but if Jane hadn't chosen this job, the two women would never have met. And Maura dreaded to think of where she be today without Jane.

"I guess, but she's trained for this kind of thing. Well I'll see you later on Angela." Maura replied, trying to wave off the subject of Jane as she left the cafeteria. Taking the lift to the autopsy department.

Against her wishes, Maura's curiosity led to her to wonder where she'd be without Jane.

It seemed like a scary place…


"Why'd you try to run Bobby?" Jane asked the man, after he'd finally been cuffed and put to the chair thanks to the assist with Jane. It's not the men in the department were weak; Frost and Korsak were perfect examples of this… well more Frost. But the perp was 6ft 8, and defiantly not the lanky kind. Bobby had been training to be a wrestler, but now that he was being done for murder of his girlfriend, that career was slowly disappearing from him.

"Look, I ain't got nothin' to do with this."

"So why'd you run?" Jane pushed the question even further. "If you got nothin' to hide, why run?"

"Because they're after me."

Jane glanced at Frost, who was now holding ice to his arm after receiving a badly placed punch by the 'wanna be wrester.'

"Who's after you?" Jane asked, starting to get annoyed. She hated it when the perps did this, play hard at first, then go soft, divert the question to another area so the detective would have to round up all the answers back to their initial question. It was just starting to be a really boring and painful cycle.

"Talia's father! He was in some gang…"

Jane noticed Bobby's voice go high, there wasn't something off with his story. It didn't take long before the detective went through the file to see the man's plain lie.

"Talia had no father. Ok buster, I think we've rounded up here you just wanna tell porkie pies to avoid trouble. So I'm gonna leave you for about half an hour, come back, and if you don't wanna tell the truth, well then it's no more wrestling practice for you."

Jane left the interrogation room, it was half one in the afternoon. They'd spent their entire day trying to track down the boyfriend, only to end up finding him in some bar, drunk out of his mind.

Although to be fair, they were quite lucky to get this done in a day, usually it would take about a week to get this part done in the day, although thankfully on the first day of the murders discovery it had been Jane's day off, so the evidence about the victim had been found out by Korsak and frost.

Heading down to Dr. Isles office, Jane's stomach growled in anticipation of food. But Jane just ignored it and opened the door to find Maura sitting down shoe shopping on her laptop. Jane raised an eyebrow.

"What? It's my lunch break? And I mean look at the detail on this one…" Maura seemed to babble on about some shoe, unaware of Jane admiring her features.

"Jane?" Maura's voice cutting through Jane's fantasies as well as catching the detective off guard.

"Yup?"

"Lunch? Your stomach seems to be very eager to get there. Did you skip out on breakfast again? Jane that-"

Jane just rolled her eyes and left the office, knowing Maura would catch up soon.

Maura quickly scrambled her purse together, and left the office soon after Jane had left, but then she noticed Jane standing in the lift as the doors were closing. It reminded the doctor of some painful memories of school days, where the mean girls would lock her outside in the rain during P.E

Jane suddenly noticed a sad feature appear on Maura, she thought she'd tease Maura with making her run for the lift. But the look in Maura's eye said different. Quick as lightening, Jane shot her hand out and held the lift door open.

Trying to keep her heart at a steady pace as the smile on Maura's face made the badass detective's heart flutter.

"Thank you detective." The woman said sincerely as she walked and stood next to the detective in the lift.

"You're welcome Dr. Isles."


As the two gorgeous women walked into the cafeteria, two plates were already laid out on the counter with a pancake in the shape of a bunny.

"Thanks ma!" Jane called out, hoping her mother was there.

"You're welcome sweetie! Maura? Has Jane been bullying you today?"

"MA!" Jane called out, not giving Maura the chance to respond "I don't bully her! SHE BULLIES ME!"

This did cause Maura's jaw to drop.

"How on earth do you conceive that idea?"

"You tricked us into thinking there was a deadly disease, and made me strip tease and take a disinfectant shower!"

"Oh my go-" It was then Maura registered Janes's teasing smile.

"Angela! Jane tripped me over on the way here!" Angela quickly came barging in.

Maura gave Jane a smile that said 'two can play at this game sistah!'

"Jane! You didn't!"

"No ma! How could you think that?" Jane asked, despite her childhood reputation for fights… Jane was no bully…

"Oh I'm teasing Janie," Jane grabbed her plate of bunny pancakes as sat at the very end of the café, in a pretend sulk.

But as she went to sit down, a poster seemed to catch her eye.

"SWAT recruits wanted." Jane read aloud, not really aware of Maura's presence.

"Hmmn, did you know that very few people actually know what SWAT stands for? It stands for Special Weapons and Tactics, or maybe Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory. But I don't think it's that one."

"Maybe I could join. Seems fun." If it wasn't for the fact that Jane was standing in front of Maura, Jane could have sworn she felt Maura's smile.

"As if you job isn't dangerous enough, now you want to go gallivanting round Boston in a black helicopter?"

"Did you just assume what a special weapons and tactics person does?" Jane asked.

"No, I just-"

Maura was cut off as Jane nicked one of her pancakes off of the plate.

"Hey…"

"You were saying Dr. Isles?" Jane tried to say with as much dignity as she could with a mouthful of bunny pancakes. This was only audible to Maura… ish.

"So how'd your interrogation go with the perp?"

Maura watched as Jane tried to swallow all of the food contents… it took a while.

"It went well; I'll get back to him in about ten minutes. Pretty sure he did it, but tried to say someone was after him, ya know, ah some gang bangers trying to kill me even though I'm near seven feet tall!" Jane said doing an impression.

"Nearly." Maura corrected.

"How's the autopsy going?" Jane asked, trying to ignore Maura's corrections.

"Well, I'm nearly halfway through checking the stomach contents to see if it was poison."

The two sat in a bit of silence, as Maura used the utensils in the perfect manor to eat her pancake, Jane on the other hand just used her hands.

Maura noticed Jane just sitting there.

"Erm, what's wrong?"

"I'm waiting for you to finish." Jane said.

"Why?" Maura asked, completely struck by the gesture. They were still in the office; it wasn't like they were walking home at night after being at the dirty robber.

"Just because." Jane said, not wanting to sound too bothered.

"Oh… well thank you. I guess I'm just used to eating food alone, ya know childhood and all." Jane just nodded; she couldn't imagine what Maura's childhood was like. It sounded… so empty. Every night, Jane wished she'd been there for Maura during her childhood. But unfortunately you can't go back in time.

"Done?" Jane asked, noticing the empty plate.

"No." Maura said flatly.

"But… your plates empty" Jane utterly confused by Maura's response.

"It was sarcasm." Maura said with a smile.

"Oh ha-ha." Jane said, getting up, looking at the poster once more. The two left the cafeteria to return to their work stations. Jane hated leaving her best friend; it was like she felt like she needed to be with Maura as much as possible, and because what she wanted she couldn't have. So Jane would settle with what she could get.

As they got in two separate elevators, Jane called out

"I'm joining the SWAT team!"

"Ha-ha!" Maura called out as the elevators doors closed.


3 months later

Maura entered the café, wondering if Jane was here. She wasn't at her office desk, and wasn't at a crime scene.

The doctor had asked Frost, Korsak and was about to ask Angela, but a news report came in on the TV.

"Good afternoon Boston, it seems that the queen of England's daughter in law has now confirmed she is pregnant. In other news, a SWAT team have been injured from a drug bust gone wrong. Jessica Rover on scene.

"Hello Boston, I'm here at 34thstreet and as you can see there's been a terrible explosion and no known survivors have been found."

There were soon cries in the background.

"Oh wait, I'm getting reports that-"

The camera switched to view two figures coming out of the explosion area. As paramedic staff rushed to the aid of the one who was being dragged along by the other.

Maura and Angela gasped at the face that was on the TV, covered in blood and ash. A face they all knew too well.

"Detective Rizzoli?" the reporter astonished

"Look there's no time, he's been impaled in the leg, he's going to bleed out if you ass holes don't get him to hospital, I swear to fu-

"We've interrupted this broadcast as some viewers may find the language offensive, if you-"

Maura just looked at Angela as if she'd hold all the answers.

Angela looked like she was about to kill her daughter.

Jane slowly undid the bullet proof vest in the ambulance, once she got the word that her team member was in the safe, she left home. Leaving the scene with more questions than answers.

But the detective knew one thing.

She was in deep crap.


hi! this is my first attempt at writing a rizzles fanfic, so no mean words plz... pretty plz? :)

reviews would be great, and i'd really appreciate some tips of how to improve my writing.