"How did it come to this?" Maura sighed and shook her head. A lone tear fell from her eyes before the rest came flooding out.
"Doc it's not your fault." Frost placed a reassuring hand on the crying woman's arm.
"Yes it is! I let my best friend take a bullet for me, and die, just because I was too stupid to realise that the guy dating me was a serial killer!" The words came out in angry cries.
"That's not your fault! He fooled us all, even had Jane going for a while."
Maura was holding her face on her hands.
"But it's still my fault." She said. Frost gathered Maura into his arms and said "I know it's hard, but things will get better. You loved her and she knows that you didn't mean to hurt her."
"I didn't just love her Frost! I was in love with her! And now I'll never get to tell her!" She slapped her hand over her mouth in an attempt to cover the confession.
"I should go now. I can't stay here any longer." She made to leave but Frost grabbed her by the hand.
"Stay. It's what she would have wanted. And know that she loved you too. Not just platonically. She felt the same way. She didn't want to push you though."
"She should have! Then maybe she wouldn't be lying in my autopsy room, dead! She could be here with me now!" Again Maura broke down and Frost held her until she stopped crying.
"Maybe she would, maybe she wouldn't. We don't know. But what we do know is that she wouldn't want us to be upset. She would want us to carry on with our lives and be happy. Ok?" Maura nodded and Frost released her from his grip.
"I still have to go, Frost. I haven't eaten."
"I'll take you out." And the two of them left. One leaving behind a partner, knowing they would never find one as great again, the other leaving behind a friend, a companion and a soulmate, knowing that they would never love again.