This is my first Rizzoli and Isles story so please be kind also I have been aware of my grammar and all that jazz so please spare those comments I'm still in negotiation for a beta reader. Please read and review thank you ~LNR~
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Jane gave a "Kill me" look at her brother Frankie as their mother talked about the party for Lydia causing him to laugh though he tried to keep it held in.
"Can't you two ever take anything serious! Lydia is the mother to my grandson and your nephew and we need to make her feel part of the family!" Angela scolded her two older children though it did no good. For the family, Lydia was just the woman that Frank dated and the one night stand for Tommy but then Tommy Jr. was born and in order to keep the baby part of the Rizzoli family they welcomed Lydia into the family.
"Yes Ma we can, don't worry Maura and I will keep Lydia occupied"
"And I will go get the cake, I ordered it like four days ago, no worries Saturday will go perfect," Frankie added trying to put his mother at ease because god knew that if he didn't she would start pulling her hair out.
"Okay, I'm counting on you two, now about the gifts that you two chose," as if Frost knew that Jane needed an out, her phone went off.
"Look at that, gotta go" she rushed off before her mother could get a word in, Frankie gave his mother a kiss on the cheek,
"Don't worry Mom everything is going to be okay but I have to get back to work." Angela just nodded not completely convinced but let it go and just sighed as her kids walked off.
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"Her name is Melanie Orbro, a college student here." Frost began to inform Jane but for some reason she couldn't shake the feeling that she knew the young woman laying on the medal table in the middle of the warehouse, but where was it in which Jane had encountered. She started intently at the young woman, according to Kosak, Orbro was only 23 year old but then how did Jane know her, it was on the tip of her tongue until Maura solved the puzzle when she walked into the room.
"Oh my god not Mel," she gasped as she slowly walked over to the young woman.
"You know her, from where?"
"Jane you don't remember she was a barista at the café until last week,"
"Ahh! I knew that I knew her, she was always so kind!" The victim's kind nature recaptured itself in Jane's mind she always greeted Maura and her so warmly it always made her day. Maura pulled a liver probe out of her bag and inserted it into the side of the gray woman.
"Liver temp shows that she has been dead for what I conclude to be about at least eight hours." She always had to conclude, never guess, god forbid. "We just need to get her back to the lab so that I can examine her and find how this poor woman met her demise."
"Sounds good, I'll drive you back so I can do a background check on the victim and gather a list of any known enemies," Jane jumped on the opportunity to get out of the crime scene of a person she knew. She watched as Mel was loaded into the van remembering the young girl talk about what her hopes were and where she wanted to go all that shattered by the Grim Reaper, the girl didn't seem like she had any enemies she was too sweet.
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"Hey Jane, I'm just finishing up here," Maura slid her latex gloves off and placed them in the biohazard bin and picked up Mel Orbro's chart. "I've have concluded that Mel died from blunt force trauma but also the bruising around her stomach shows that she had a massive bleed and even if she did survive the blow to the head she would have died from internal bleeding." Maura wore a frown, she like Jane was thinking of the young woman's ambitions and hoping of becoming a lawyer only to have it ripped away by tragedy much like many of the bodies that passed through.
"Did you find anything?" Maura asked intently, ever since Jane and her started the odd couple partnership she actually got to hear the back stories.
"Nothing at all!, I checked the campus everyone said she was amazing, the café said she had no stalkers or mean clients, there is no criminal record from her or anything that she filed on anyone I mean Mel was a saint and I can't find motive!" Jane was distraught, she wanted to bring this murder to justice.
"She was so nice, her sweet disposition will be missed," Maura said out loud as she looked at Mel on the slab in front of her, "When do her parents arrive?"
"They are three hours away, her mother couldn't even finish the call I had to talk to the father which was not much better, god to lose a child it's hard to think on this job of possibly putting my mother through that, go knows she worries."
"Its maternal instinct, back in the 1800's parents would.." Maura stopped knowing that Jane really didn't want to hear it, "The best thing we can do now Jane is to find this killer, and put this young girl's parents minds at ease," Jane nodded in agreement, this was a top priority.
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A new lead had been made when Mel's parents arrived, her ex boyfriend had been stalking her and begging for her back. Jane and Frost travelled to Jack Mcdonners apartment in hopes to fund out the truth to Mel's death however they could tell that Jack was visibly upset and questioned his involvement in the murder.
"Jack, tell me about you and Melanie's relationship, her parents said that you two dated but broke up?"
"No, he parents hated me, I wasn't the guy they wanted her to end up with."
"Meaning what," Frost asked
"A poor kid, my parents cut me off when I told them I didn't want to inherit the family business and wanted to be a writer, I couldn't but Melanie expensive things or spoiler her or even guarantee a lavish life and she knew that but she still loved me." Jack broke down again and started to wipe the flow of tears from his face.
"Melanie's parents said that you were stocking her and that you constantly called and came after her," Jane said in a questioning manner, as of right now she was getting a gut feeling that this was not their killer.
"That's not true she wasn't afraid, after we broke up she iced me out to fool her parents, when she came to school the next week she told me it was a ruse and that she still loved me but we had to keep it a secret from her parents, didn't you ask her friends about boyfriends they all knew of me and they can tell you about the whole thing, I'd never kill Melanie!"
"Okay, Jack I'm so sorry for your loss, I knew Melanie from the coffee shop, she was sweet."Jane placed a hand on the man's shoulder and gave him a smile of sympathy.
"Please Detectives find her murderer!"
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"So you don't think Mcdonner is the killer?" Maura asked Jane over coffee at Angela's café.
"No not one bit, the way he took that news was to sincere to me so now we are right back to square one." This frustrated Jane, the killer still being at large and having no motive at all this led the team to a dead end.
"Well, I'm sure it had to be some one that Darcy didn't know, I mean they brought her to a warehouse in the middle of an abandoned neighborhood."
"Hold on is the great DR. Isles making an assumption with no solid facts?" Jane said in a surprised and taunting voice.
"Oh shut up!" Maura and Jane burst out laughing soon to be cut off by Jane's phone.
"Rizzoli, yes , another okay no she's with me we will be there soon text me the address." Maura looked confused at first thinking it must be a lead but then why ask for her and the expression on Jane's face seemed to be one of annoyance and a tinge of anger.
"Another body with an almost identical crime scene of Mel's" Jane said, letting Maura in on the news.
"Another girl?" Maura asked with sadness
"No an older man this time, his name is Garrett Lekner," Maura gasped and placed her hands over her mouth, "Maura what is it?!" Jane asked confused and scared for her friend.
"I know him Jane, he taught science when I was in high school, they killed my mentor."
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Maura stared down at the 70 something year old man and her heart was sunk, this man helped her though so much and now he was dead. She was hesitant to stick the probe in the man's liver it was a hard thing to do because it would confirm that he was dead to her.
"Maura, hey Maura are you okay?" Jane made her snap back to reality, she was wearing a face of sympathy, Maura knew it was out of kindness it was always hard for Jane to make the situation better when she was hurting but she always knew Jane would be there.
"Yeah, um I'm just going to step out for a second, I need some air."
"Go ahead, I'm going to process the scene."
"Okay," Maura pushed past a group of officers and stepping outside into the cold muggy afternoon only to be greeted by another Rizzoli.
"Woah, Maura you okay?" Frankie asked in a concerned tone, the Rizzoli's had become a second family to Maura, Angela was always kindhearted, Frankie acted like a brother and as for Tommy well that was complicated.
"You sure?" he looked at her in the eyes and it made her break down, immediately Frankie caught her as she fell to the ground as she sobbed for the loss of a friend. Jane walked out to this and ran to the, "Maura!"
"I'm okay," she said as she picked herself up and wiped away the tears.
"Maura, I have some bad news." Jane said in a solemn down.
"What ?" Maura asked eyes wide, Jane handed her an large messenger envelope with the seal broken.
"There is a connection between Melanie and Garrett."
"What is it?" Frankie asked.
"Us," Maura answered, the envelope held two pictures, one of Jane laughing with Melanie and the other of Maura with Garrett in the park, also a letter from the killer.
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The note was not to long but the contents made Jane's and Maura's stomach ache with what was in store. The killer Thomas Drake was the father of an old murderer of Jane's and Maura's, he was sentenced to life in prison after he killed his best friend. Thomas wrote that he was out for revenge on the two women who put his son away and he wasn't going to hide his identity, that as each day passed another person that they knew was going to be killed, and that the closeness of each victim to Maura and Jane would only escalade.
"What do we have on Drake?" Kosak asked, the whole department was on the case and protective detail had been placed on Rizzoli and Isles and their families.
"Well William Drake was murdered last Tuesday in a jail riot by some fellow inmates and I bet that's where his motive comes from." Frost but a picture of Will Drake in the bored.
"True , Thomas did hate us when we took in his son especially towards Maura and I."
"Well let's find him before he finds his next target, Frost and Jane go talk to Lekner's widow see if he felt like he was being followed."
"Can I go, I know Henrietta she might talk easier with me there." Maura asked.
"Yeah but take a uniform with you for protection." Lt. Martinez.
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Michelle Lekner had tears streaming down her face, as she should she had just lost her husband of 53 years the love of her life. She played with her hands not making eye contact with anyone in the room as they asked her hundreds of questions and slowly she grew aggravated.
"Look I don't know what you want me to say, no Garrett had no enemies, no one was following him and he wasn't acting any different!"
"We know Mrs. Mcdonner, but we just want to catch the person who did this to your husband."
"You haven't even told me how he died, why should I help you!" she said in a tone of hatred, he didn't hate them she hated the fact that her husband was dead and she had no answers.
"Mrs. Mcdonner, we believe Garrett was killed by a serial killer and I know it's hard but you need to know that we are doing everything to bring this man or woman to justice, " Maura believed that the only way to get corporation from the widow was to blunt though Jane gave her a look of diapproval. This tactic seemed to help because soon after Mrs. Mcdonner remembered that there was a man who had followed them from dinner one night and when Jane brought out a sheet of people Michelle picked Thomas Drake. After thanking her for her time Jane, Frost, Maura, and the officer left to tell the other's of their findings.
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It traveled from delivery boy to desk clerk then on to mail boy and finally finding its resting place of Detective Jane Rizzoli's desk. There is no return address just Jane's name written in block letters in red ink, the contents unknown until Jane opens it, awaiting her return. Nothing is know about the letter and the Delivery boy does not know where it came from but all the team will find out is that it's a game changer.
Jane opened the letter an hour after its delivery, she stood with Maura at her desk and stared at it until Frost and Kosak entered. "What does it say?" Kosak asked in an anxious tone, fear that more shall die.
"It's from him, he says the first two murder's where just to get our attention, now we better watch the our backs including the precinct." Jane said in a monotone voice.
"Okay you two," Kosak pointed to two officers, "Put a protective detail on Rizzoli and Isles Family and get the word out to everyone that we need to keep our eyes peeled and our backs watched." The two man nodded and sprinted off.
"Was there anything else?" Frost moved closer to the desk as Jane nodded and held out the manila envelope. Frost pulled out a picture of the two crime scenes, taken from a far but enough to see every detective of officer's face, "Turn it over," Maura said in a cracked voice.
"One of the people at these crime scenes is my next victim, just know you reap what you sow." Frost's eyes grew wide as he handed the photo to Kosak, "We have to indentify everyone in these pictures, the officer's are different in both crime scene but I want detail on all of them, he is escalating"
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Author note: first off RIP Lee Thompson Young, he was an amazing actor, I'm gonna miss his character . Second this is the end of the start so I promise it will get better as in more suspenseful big things are going to happen.