Chapter 1: Lunch
Maura POV:
It is Tuesday at 11:37am and I am waiting to hear back from Jane to see if she is meeting me for lunch still. We try to have lunch together everyday but our schedules clash and something ends up happening so we are lucky if we get to even get one day a week but it is not so bad as when Jane gets off of work she comes over to my house because as she puts it This is my getaway Maura, you are my getaway. Those words will forever be etched in my brain. I love her beyond life itself and that is not something I would say because logically one cannot even imagine beyond life itself so therefore there is no knowledge of it, so it doesn't make sense for me to say that but I do anyway because there is no other way to describe how I feel about her.
BUZZ BUZZ: Hey Maura, yes I am still on for 12:00 at the Dirty Robber- Jane
Okay sounds delightful I will meet you there- Maura
Okay-Jane
I love being around her and it makes me feel all jittery inside. Jane and I are so close, we are best friends but I want something more than that. I want her in every aspect of my life. I want to be able to wake up next to her every morning and go to sleep next to her every night. I want her to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be okay when we get into a fight or something goes wrong at work. I just want her.
I get in my car and drive over to the Dirty Robber. I find us a booth and wait for Jane. When she comes in and sits down we start our usual conversation.
"How are you doing today?"
"Everything is going by pretty slow. How about the astounding Dr, Isles?"
"Well Jane, my days seem to have connected to each other somehow because this whole week has felt like one long day."
"Then I shall fix it, I will come over and you can pick any documentary or movie that you like and we will watch it."
"Really Jane, you would do that for me?"
"As long as I get to choose the take-out."
"That is fine with me, because I have been waiting very patiently to show you this documentary about anatomy."
"Okay then anatomy it is tonight."
After we have our lunch we both head back to work. She goes upstairs and I go down. Whenever I have to leave Jane it always leave me feeling a little lost and sad because I just want to be around her all of the time. I love the feeling I get when I am around her, it is nothing like I have ever felt before. The day seemed to drag on just slower than usual. Now I am a person who believes in what can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt but everytime I look at the clock it just seems like it is going slower and slower. The stairway is right near the morgue so I hear a bunch of footsteps running down. Screaming, "Close all exits and entrances. Lock down the building."
Then a man burst into my office, not even a minute later in comes Jane with her gun raised.
"Put the gun down, you don't want to do this. You won't make it out alive."
"If I die, the doc is coming with me also."
"Take me then. You will get more fame holding a cop hostage than holding an ME hostage."
The man then points the gun at Jane and takes her out the backdoor. I am in shock so I just stand there like a fool when the love of my life could be dead within the next few minutes, but my body won't let me move.
JANE POV:
This lunatic holds Maura hostage I finally was able to let him take me. This world without Maura there is not much I could live for. This world without me would be just another day. Korsak and frost along with a bunch of other cops have their guns trained on this man and I just keep screaming for them to shoot. I don't want to die today but no one will take the shot, that is when I remember something someone told me. If you get right under the ribcage you can still live so I took the man and the gun, and put it under my ribcage. I feel him pull the trigger and I just lay on the ground imagining Maura's beautiful face as I fade.
Maura POV:
I hear a bang and I knew, I just knew. Something has happened to her. I finally muster the strength the move and when I get out there she is laying on the pavement blood spilling from her unconscious body. I scream and run to her but I am in shock I can't help her, my hands why won't they move. She is dying and her own best friend can't even help her.
I hear everyone in the background but just barely. My focus is on Jane. I see flashing lights and I know the paramedics are here to take her. I ride along with her in the ambulance and I can't get my eyes off of her. Please don't leave me Jane. I need you more than you'll ever know.
We arrive at the hospital after what seems like forever. They rush her in and something must have gone wrong because the doctors face goes white as a ghost and all I see is them wheeling Jane away from me, and it could possibly be the last time I ever see Jane again