The Calm of the Storm

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Rizzoli/Isles

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Summary: It's in the calm of the storm we discover the truth about who we are and what we want- but more so exactly how far we may have to go to get it.

It's funny…no, wait…that isn't the word that should be used. It's not funny. Ironic perhaps? No. That doesn't seem to fit either. What word would work here she wonders? What word describes that moment one's life when things seem to fall into place, the moment when one thinks, "It's my turn to make it happen isn't it?"

But that's when you're also hit with the sudden realization that everything you want to believe in, everything you've dreamed of can be taken away from you in a heartbeat.

Patrick Doyle. Or as they called him in the mob, Patty Doyle.

Would Patty understand? He dedicated his life to crime, but also in the midst of that craziness found his true love, had two beautiful children from that love, and a few months ago, he'd almost died protecting it. Protecting her.

Jane rang her hands together, feeling the familiar ache that came with rainy days like this. Jane would have died for her too.

She almost did.

But Patty's near death was different. He'd almost died at her hands. Her gun. For her best friend Maura, the hope she had of finding out her real mothers identity almost died with Patrick Doyle. That "hope" ironic enough, all but vanished in a heartbeat.

Was life really nothing more than a digital display beeping to a slow steady long never ending beep, erasing a life from this world. Could one moment change it forever.

For Jane and Maura the same thing faced them. A moment. A heart beat. A second that would change the rest of their life.

Tic-tock.

Tic-tock.

If you could go back in time and change one thing. What would it be? Would you have said goodbye? Would you have taken back that argument over something so small and insignificant? Would you hold on to them a little bit longer? Would you risk your life for theirs? Those questions would face Maura and Jane in a way they'd never assumed and the answers surprised them. They may even surprise you.

So now…our story begins…

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