"Come on, Jane! We are almost out. Keep your eyes open for me okay, just keep talking, I need to know that you are awake!" Frost frantically yelled at me as I struggled to keep my eyelids from shutting.
"I…need…t-to…Frost…" I stammered.
"We are almost there! Let me hear that voice!" He just kept screaming so desperately.
"Maura…she…she told…me…" I tried to explain.
"What did she tell you?" He asked.
"She told…me…that she…she hated me…we were fighting…and she…she said she hated…me." I could hardly say without basically choking out the blood that was coating my throat.
"She doesn't hate you, Jane, I'm sure once we get out of here, she will tell you sorry. I'm sure of it Jane. Keep focusing, I can see the door!" He looked down at me and curved his brow. "Here, I'm going to pick you up, okay?"
I managed a nod right before he picked me up as gently and as rushed he could before he picked up his pace and ran for the door. As he ran I could just see the ground, and in the matter of a couple seconds, the ground turned to shallow water and instead of Frost holding me, it was my Pop…
"Pop, where are we?" I asked.
"Sweetheart, we are at the beach!" He said back very excitedly.
I looked up from the ground and I saw Maura. She looked so marvelous, with her tiny, dark blue bathing suit top that made her breasts look so amazing. Her hair was drenched as she ran towards me.
"I'm going to put you down now, baby." Pop said before he softly laid me on the sand and ran into oblivion.
All that was there was Maura, she kept running and running until she reached me and knelt down to kiss my cheek.
"Jane, hello." She said with her award winning smile.
I smiled back at her and leaned into kiss her. Our lips hardly brushed against each other's before I was whipped awake.
All the paramedics were moving so fast, I could hardly tell what was going on.
"She's bleeding too quickly, we need to get these bullets out before it's too late!" The EMT shouted to the others as he held pieces of gauze to my open wound.
"What's…happen…in…" I stammered as the other EMT held my hand and said, "Jane, you are in an ambulance going to the hospital, okay? You are just bleeding a little, but we are going to get you all fixed up, good as new." She said confidently.
My eyes slowly shut as I felt pressure on my chest and back. It was Maura. She had me in the tightest embrace I've ever been in.
"I love you, Jane." She whispered into my neck as I gently smiled to myself and rocked us back and forth.
"I love you too." I replied.
She gently pulled back and kissed my cheek before pulling even closer and started stroking my back.
"Maur, how are you not suffocating?" I asked with a small laugh.
"I can breathe later, just shut up." She whispered back as she starting lowering her hands into my back pockets and kissed my collar bone.
"Let's go to bed, I'm tired." I said as she took my hand and we walked into her bedroom. I got into bed first and she got in shortly after. She backed herself up into me to give me the signal that it would be a cuddling night. I wrapped my arm around her tiny waist and buried my head into her neck.
The beeping of the alarm woke me up, but it wasn't the alarm, it was my heart monitor. It was beeping unsafely fast and I blinked before asking "What's going on?"
The doctor who was operating on me said, "Jane, we are removing the bullets from your muscle, I know you are probably a little worried, but don't worry, we are already on the last bullet and you were a true trooper." He said as he continued scooping the bullet out.
"Where's Maura?" I asked before I even thought of anything else.
"Your family is out in the waiting room, you will be able to see them in a little while, just relax." He said as I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.
"Maura is family." I say with a smile. "Maybe not blood, but she is as much of this family as Tommy and Frankie."
"Who are Tommy and Frankie?" The doctor asked, so I would stay occupied.
"My brothers." I replied. "And Maura is the love of my life."
The doctor nodded and asked, "What is she like?"
"She's…breathtakingly stunning. And she knows everything about anything. She has the most gorgeous smile…" And that's all I got out before my eyes shut and I was on the couch with Maura.
"You are cute when you are so focused." She said as she put a hand on my cheek to pull me into a kiss.
"Well…I really love this show." I say.
She smiled and cuddled up against me, adjusting the blanket so it would continue to cover us.
I kissed the top of her head and said, "Stay here, I'm going to get us some ice cream."
"Only the fat free kind for me! I know you smuggled your chocolate ice cream into my freezer, so you can enjoy that, but I'm not." She said.
I smiled as I stood up and walked over to the freezer. "I thought I hid that so well. Maybe you should be a detective too." I said back to her.
I made her ice cream exactly how she likes it, with five scoops and a small sprinkle of chocolate sprinkles on top. I made mine the exact same because I was just so used to the Maura Method. I picked up both of the cold bowls and handed her one and kept the other one.
She put the ice cream covered spoon in her mouth and smiled with a "Mmm," added onto the end. I tilted my head to lean it against the pillow, and as soon as I felt the soft fabric, my eyes opened back in the hospital bed.
I looked around to see white walls and a head on the edge of my bed. It was Maura's head. It was Maura.
"Maura?" I asked for her attention softly as I coughed from having a dry mouth. Her head snapped up and she stared at me with her tired eyes, but with the biggest grin on her face.
"Jane? Hi." She replies.
"Water..." I mumble. She stood up and handed me the cup that was on the table.
I drank it quickly and licked my teeth before I took a deep breath and looked up at her. She looked so incredible, even if she was sleep deprived.
"Jane, I missed you."
