Prompt: The idea is that jane is a secret genius but only her family knows because something bad happened in her past and she never told anyone because of it. But when a case involving her past comes across korsacks desk she has to tell the team how smart she really is to keep them safe. Ideas for how smart she could be are she could have medical skills and training she could speak a lot of different languages she could be able to hack on the computer she could be able to do math really well.

This story takes place when Jane is about 30. The relationships and dynamics are the same though as everyone else's ages are relative.

Thank you Annajadekin for the prompt.

In the bullpen, the day had been pretty standard so far. It just so happened that Jane had closed her most recent case and just had to do the paperwork; her favourite. She sat unenthusiastically at her desk, slowly typing up all of the details. Occasionally, she'd glance up and look around the room in attempt to cure her unrelenting boredom. Frankie was with Nina at her computer trying to figure out what exactly she did to crack the encryption on the iPad of their last victim. - Jane thought about joining them but, unlike Frankie, hearing all the tech talk would bore her more than paperwork. She doesn't care how they did it, she's just thankful they did. - Korsak was at his desk avidly tapping away at the keys of his computer, from time to time stopping to straighten his glasses. Eventually, she sighed as she looked back to her own screen and returned to typing up the case. That didn't stop her from wishing it would magically be done for her but, hey, a girl's got to try, right? She couldn't help but think about how Maura would have some stupid, logical reasoning regarding how to approach her workload.

After a few more minutes of very strained typing, she heard Korsak's phone ring. Any excuse not to do her work at this point. Please let me a case, please let it be a case she thought as she keenly eavesdropped on his conversation.

"Yep," he said with a painfully straight face.
"Okay," he said as he began to make a note of something.
"Got it. Thank you." And that was it.

He continued looking down at his desk, finishing the note and organising some of the papers. Finally, he looked up to Jane who was practically falling off the edge of her seat. He looked at her with a very perplexed look on his face.

"Oh, come on, Korsak," she said with clear frustration. She knew he knew exactly what she was waiting for.

Korsak shook his head with a small smile and eventually added, "Come on. We've got a case."

"Yes!" She exclaimed. "I mean: Oh, no, how sad…"

Korsak just laughed as he rose from his seat and grabbed his gun from his desk.

•••

"The library?" Jane moaned, already bored with the idea.

"Yes, the library," Korsak smirked. "Hey, in between looking at the body and groaning, you might even learn something," he jabbed.

"Oh ha ha. You might find a book on how to send a five-word text in under an hour," she returned playfully.

Korsak laughed and shook his head.

"What's the case, anyway?" She asked (almost) professionally.

"Library employee, mid-thirties, found stabbed in the store room. Apparently, it's just where they keep the books they no longer need so it was lucky that someone went in there looking for an old book otherwise she mightn't have been found so soon."

"Lucky for who?" She scoffed, although there was a sadness present that always lingered under her sarcasm at crime scenes. After all, no-one really likes it when people die.

"Whom," Dr Isles chimed in as she came up behind them, heels clicking away.

"Hey doc," Korsak said friendlily.

"Hey Maur."

"Hello Detective Korsak. Hello Jane. How are we all today?" She said chirpily.

Korsak shrugged a little as if to say 'neither good nor bad.'

"Thankful!" Jane said with a very exaggerated tone.

"Well that's wonderful. Gratitude is a fantastic thing. What are you thankful for today?" She replied interestedly.

"For not having to do anymore paperwork," she exclaimed sarcastically.

Vince laughed and Maura pursed her lips for not knowing that there would have been some sort of smart-arse answer.

Jane couldn't help but smirk a little. She did enjoy causing this response in people.

"Wow, this place is huge," Korsak remarked, looking around at the newly renovated library.

"Yeah. We've discovered a lot more since you went to school," Jane chuckled.

Maura raised an eye-brow. Whilst usually amused by Jane's sarcastic antics, there seemed to be more than other days.

Jane got a glimpse of Maura's response but chose not to act on it. Instead, she decided to get serious and focus on the case.

As they walked into the storeroom, they were greeted by a uniformed officer who had been guarding the scene. A few feet behind him there was a body on the floor splayed out with what appeared to be several stab wounds to her chest and abdomen.

They all took in the scene as professionals and as human beings.

To hide it, Jane added, "Who knew books were so evocative?"
The last word slipped out of Jane's mouth before she could stop it.

Both Korsak and Maura looked at her, quite perplexed that she'd used that word.

To play it off she simply smiled somewhat deviously and said, "What? I know big words too!"

"I didn't say anything," Korsak said with open hands raised in front of him.

They all once again focused on the body before them and Jane and Korsak watched as Maura began inspecting the body.

Her first point of call was to check the liver temperature by inserting a long needle-like instrument into the upper right quadrant of the woman's abdomen As she did she added, "I concur with the initial reports of the victims age. I will have to do further testing to confirm but she looks to be approximately mid-thirties."

Before they could respond, she added, "Liver temp is 29.6, putting time of death at sometime between 7 and 8:30 this morning."

"The place doesn't open until 9, so it must've been someone who had access," Korsak stated.

"Has anyone spoken to the rest of the staff yet?" Jane asked the young uniformed officer.

He shook his head. "But they're all in the green room along with people who were in the library when she was discovered."

Jane nodded in acknowledgement.

Alright, so, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. This one has really just been to set the scene and the coming chapters will be a little juicier.

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