A/N: The majority of this chapter and the next are from S1E9, some of the dialogue and scenes are close to the episode. However some things were switch up including names to suit the story.
A special thank you to Ann (without an e cause that's how she rolls) who helped me so much. Thank you for the advice, thank you for letting me babble and bounce ideas off you into the wee hours of the night. Without your constant push this story never would have happened. I am in your debt!
"I don't see a way to work this out Mother." Maura said to Constance as they sat in the sun room of her parent's house in London.
"There is always a way to work things out." Constance said, "Especially if you still love her."
"I never said I still loved her." Maura said putting her tea cup down.
"Darling, of course you still love her." Constance said, "It's written all over your face."
"I've hurt her too much now." Maura said to her staring down into her tea cup. "And besides, we're finally at a point where we aren't yelling at each other over the stupidest little things."
"She still loves you Maura, and you still love her, I don't see the problem." Constance said. "You broke up with her so you wouldn't lose her, but that's exactly what happened, you lost her."
Maura stared at Constance and she knew her mother was right. "What should I do?" Maura asked.
"Just be honest with her, if you've made a mistake then tell her that." Constance told her. "Just tell her you still love her."
"She'll never forgive me." Maura said sadly.
Constance covered Maura's hand with hers. "You'll never truly know that unless you try."
"This has to stop." Angela said to Jane as she picked up Jane's dirty clothes that were flung about Jane's apartment.
"Ma, I didn't ask you to come over and clean up." Jane said as she lay on the couch hung over again. It was 7am in the morning and Jane had a splitting headache.
"It's been six months Jane, enough is enough already." Angela said to her as she dropped the armful of clothes she had held on top of Jane.
"Damn it, Ma." Jane said sitting up and pushing the clothes off of her.
Angela pointed a finger at Jane, "Don't you curse at me young lady." She warned.
Before Jane could say anything to her mother, her cellphone rang, "Rizzoli." She said staring at her mom.
She listened for a minute before she hung up and got up from the couch. "I've got work." She said and went into her bedroom to get dressed.
"Doesn't Maura come back to work this morning?" Angela asked as she picked up Jane's dirty laundry and put it in a laundry basket.
"How should I know?" Jane asked from her room. She came out into the living room as she buckled her belt, "How do you know she's coming back to work today?" Jane asked looking at her mother.
"We talk from time to time." Angela said as she took dirty dishes from Jane's coffee table into the kitchen and put them in the sink to soak.
"Must be nice." Jane grumbled as she went back into her room.
"Janie, I've got to go now. I'll see you at the station." Angela called to her as she grabbed her purse then left.
Jane sat on her bed as she put on her shoes; Maura had been gone for 2 weeks in London with her parents. They hadn't spoken since she'd said goodbye in the squad room. Jane hoped that when Maura got home things wouldn't be awkward; she hoped that they'd resume their calm work relationship and things wouldn't be tense.
With a sigh Jane got up, clipped her badge to her belt, put her gun in her holster and went to work.
Jane and Frost ducked under the yellow tape and walked onto the crime scene. "Hey lady come on I gotta get to work." Some guy shouted to Jane from his car.
"Shut up!" She shouted at him pointing a finger in his direction. "Why the hell is it taking so long to get a damn warrant signed?" Jane asked Frost.
"Why are you so wound up?" Frost asked then he realized why as he saw Maura ducked under the tape and come onto the scene.
"Welcome back Dr. Isles." Frost said to her.
"Thank you." She said smiling, "Sorry it took me so long to get here, I was stuck in traffic." She said as she put her gloves on.
Jane stood on the other side of the blue gray car, where the body was inside. She watched Korsak yell at the same guy she'd just yelled at moments ago.
Maura came over to the other side of the car and stood next to Jane.
"We're waiting on a warrant but since it's a holiday weekend all the judges are off doing god knows what." Korsak to them as he walked over.
Jane got fed up waiting she called a tow trunk and had the tow truck driver take the car and the body back to the evidence garage.
Once at the garage Korsak, Jane and Frost worked on getting evidence from the car while Maura looked over the body for initial evidence.
Maura noted that the victim, a male in his 20s didn't have any fingerprints. "They were probably burned away by some type of acid." She said.
Korsak was digging through the trunk and found countless and passports with different names and cities on them. Also inside was a big white drawing pad with hand drawn art inside. "That shows signs of a very high IQ." Maura said to them.
"Well whatever it is, this guy was doing his best to remain a ghost." Jane said to her. "There's no registration for the car and no I.D on him."
Maura had her team come in and transfer the body down to the morgue once there Maura worked on the autopsy.
She had finished the autopsy and was making notes when Jane came in. "Hey." Jane said standing on the opposite side of the autopsy table.
"Hello." Maura said finishing her notes.
"Find anything?" Jane asked and Maura got up and went over to one of her computers.
"Cause of Death was massive cerebral hemorrhage caused by the ice pick." Maura said to her.
"Well I figured the ice pick had to play some part in it seeing as it was stuck in the guy's ear." Jane said, "But I'm talking about a possible I.D."
"I ran his dental records and found no match." Maura said to her, "However you can't hide from your DNA." Maura said as she took off her gloves. "I'm waiting on his results."
"Ok that's good." Jane said getting up to leave. She paused, "Did you have a nice time in London?" Jane asked trying to make polite conversation.
"Oh, well yes, thanks for asking." Maura said surprised Jane had asked. "I spent a lot of time with my mother. We went to a few gallery shows and an opera." Maura told Jane.
Jane smiled, "I'm glad you had a good time but I'm also glad you're back home." She said and she lingered a bit and the silence became awkward. "Let me know when you get the results." She said and made a quick exit.
Maura sat down in a chair by her computer. Constance's words rang in her ears, "Just tell her you still love her." Maura couldn't be that selfish, nothing had changed in the last 2 months, not really. Jane was just starting to be pleasant with her and if she told Jane she'd made a mistake 6 months ago who knows how Jane would react.
Maura couldn't put any more thought into it because her phone rang. She answered it and listened to the tech on the line tell her about the DNA sample from the John Doe on her table.
"What? That's not possible." She said to the tech. "No listen to me, I am looking at the results right now and I'm telling you that's not possible." Maura said as she stared at her computer screen.
Korsak walked into the morgue, "Is there a problem, Dr. Isles?" he asked her. She looked over at him and held up a hand.
"I don't cross contaminate my samples." She said into the phone. "You know what, I'll call you back." She said and hung up.
"I'm sorry about that Detective." Maura said to Korsak.
"Is there a problem with the DNA?" He asked.
"It's not possible." Maura said typing on her computer, she pulled up two DNA profiles, "This is the victims' DNA and this one is mine." She said showing Korsak.
"You see these two markers here?" She asked Korsak as she pointed to them on the screen, "They're the same in both samples."
"Well the department keeps our DNA samples just in case we contaminate crime scenes or other samples." Korsak told her. "Obviously there's been some kind of mistake."
"No, there are enough markers in both samples to come to a conclusion." Maura said to him.
"And what would that be?" He asked.
"It's a biological match." She said to him, when it didn't quite register to him what she was actually saying she said, "The man on that table is my brother."
"How can that be?" He asked. Maura just shook her head; she didn't really want to think about it right now.
"We have to tell Jane about this." He said to her.
"Why?" Maura asked confused.
"She's lead on this case Dr. Isles, she has to know the details." He told her and Maura nodded her head in agreement.
He left her down in the morgue to go get Jane. Maura sat down next to the man she knows now as her brother and stared at him. "Who are you?" She asked quietly.
Jane's entrance into the morgue scared Maura and she jumped, "Korsak said you needed to talk to me about the John Doe." Jane said walking over to her.
"The DNA results came back for him." Maura said standing up and going over to her computer, "It seems that John Doe and I are a match." She said showing Jane the computer screen.
"A match for what?" Jane asked looking at her.
"We're siblings, he's my half-brother. We share the same father." Maura told her.
"What?" Jane said looking at the John Doe, "How is that possible?"
"You know I'm adopted." Maura said, "This man is the son of my biological father."
"Are you sure?" Jane asked and Maura nodded her head yes.
"Well do you know who he is? Or who his father is?" Jane asked her.
"No, not yet." Maura said to her. Maura noticed that Jane was carrying something under her arm.
"What do you have there?" She asked and Jane took it over to a table and put it down.
"It's the drawings he had in his trunk." Jane said opening the big drawing pad.
Maura came over and looked through it, "They're very beautiful." She said admiring them. "It looks like the same view over and over again." She said as she looked at it closer and flipped through a few pages, "Wait, this might not be just a random pattern, this could be a building."
"Really?" Jane asked as she looked at the drawings trying to see how it could be a building.
Maura went to her computer and as she typed she mumbled something about trigonometry and building fronts. "If he drew this over and over, then he must have had a lot of time to stare at it." Maura said.
"That could mean he was staring at it from wherever he lives." Jane said finishing Maura's thought.
Maura scrolled through pictures on her computer of landmarks. Jane noticed it as the financial district.
"Wait, stop. Look, right there." Jane said and pointed to the screen. Maura stopped scanning through the pictures and came up to a building front that had the same stone arch that was in the drawings.
"I'll grab Frost and we'll check it out." Jane said to Maura then left.
Frost and Jane stood outside the front of the building from John Doe's drawings. "He has to live over there. But the building has been vacant for a while, it looks like it's in the process of being sold." Frost said.
"Well let's go take a look around shall we?" Jane asked and Frost smiled as he followed her across the street.
They walked cautiously into the building and up a long hallway. "Hey Frost." Jane said to him when she noticed a green laser pin light on his pant leg. He looked down then up towards the ceiling and spotted the camera, "Security system." He said to her and drew his gun as he walked up to the door at the end of the hall.
Jane pulled out her gun and Frost kicked open the door. They scanned the room with their guns out, looking for any evidence that someone was inside. They searched room to room there was a clear indication that someone was living there.
They went into one room and there was expensive computer equipment everywhere. They gave each other a look when Frost spotted a shoe under a desk. He signaled for Jane to cover him and they moved in.
"Alright come on out of there right now." Frost yelled and a guy crawled out from under the desk with a duffle bag, he put the bag on the desk then put his hands up. Frost grabbed him and handcuffed him.
Frost and Jane looked around and Frost grabbed some of the equipment, including a black and silver electronic box. "This looks like some kind of scanner." He said to Jane. They took the suspect down to the station for questioning later.
Frost, Jane and Korsak were looking at the information from the box that Frost brought back from the suspects place.
"It's to steal identities." Frost told them, "But get this, we think our suspect Becker and John Doe built it together and then Becker used it to find out who John Doe really was."
"So who is he?" Korsak asked.
"Well the only information we have on here is the name Colin Doyle." Frost said. "But he's not in the system.
Korsak looked like he was going to be sick, "He won't be."
"What do you mean?" Jane asked.
"Look up Patrick Doyle." Korsak told Frost and Frost typed in the name.
"You've heard of Paddy Doyle right?" Korsak asked Jane.
"Yeah he's Irish mob, an enforcer." Jane said.
"Colin is his son." Korsak said to her. "Paddy Doyle was Whitey Bolger's right hand man, when Bolger disappeared so did Doyle and he's been in hiding for 20 years."
"Hey, that's not all. Check this out; Becker had $250,000 wired into an offshore account." Frost said as he looked at his computer.
"Someone must have paid him for selling out Colin." Jane said looking at the monitor.
"No one ever really knew what happened to the kid." Korsak told them.
"Why kill Colin, if you want the old man?" Frost asked.
"It's the best way to lure him out. With a guy like Doyle, the best way to get to him is through his family. Blood is very important to him." Korsak said to Frost.
Downstairs in the morgue a lab tech stopped Maura as she was leaving. "Dr. Isles, this man is here to identify his son." The tech said as a tall man stood by him. "This is Mr. . ." The tech looked at the man.
"Mr. Selsi." The man said and Maura nodded and led him into the morgue.
They stood next to each other, Maura tried not to stare at the man. "I'm very sorry for your loss." She said to him.
"How was he killed?" Mr. Selsi asked staring at his son's body.
"He died of a cerebral hemorrhage." Maura answered him. The man looked right at Maura and she looked back at him. "I want to know how." He said.
"An ice pick." Maura said to him and he looked back at his son, "He was stabbed with an ice pick."
"We're looking for his killer." Maura said to him and he looked at her, a little smile crept onto his face, almost as if to say, 'not if I find him first.'
"What was he like?" Maura asked.
"He was too much like me." Mr. Selsi said with a hint of sadness.
"I've seen his drawings, he was brilliant." Maura said to him and Mr. Selsi nodded. "I have them if you'd like to take one to remember him by."
"No, I'm not going to forget my boy." He said to her.
"May I get you some water?" Maura asked him looking around for a glass.
"No." He said as he stared at Colin.
"It's right here. It's no trouble." Maura said as she turned to go get it he grabbed her by the elbow.
"Let me make this easy for you." He said letting her go and pulling out a small pocket knife. He cut a slice into his palm, took out a Kleenex and dabbed the blood and then handed the tissue to her.
"Goodbye Maura." He said staring into her eyes then he turned and walked away.
Maura did everything she could to not faint. She was shaking as she pulled out her phone and dialed.
"Jane, I need to see you." She said then hung up.
Jane rode the elevator down to the morgue. She found Maura in her office sitting at her desk.
"What's wrong?" Jane asked as she sat in the chair opposite her. She spotted the bloody tissue on Maura's desk. "Did you cut yourself?" She asked concerned.
"What?" Maura asked, and then looked down at the tissue then back at Jane, "No, I'm fine." She said then stood up and went to close her office door.
"He was here." Maura said to Jane as she paced.
"Who was here?" Jane asked confused. "Why are you fidgeting?" She asked as she noticed Maura twirling the ring on her middle finger.
"He does that too." Maura said remembering the man twirling the ring on his left hand. "He fidgets." She said shaking out her hands.
Jane stood up and took Maura by the shoulders, "Stop." She commanded of Maura and she stopped pacing. "Now, sit down and tell me what the hell is going on?"
Maura went back to her seat and Jane went back to hers, they sat down and Maura stared at the tissue.
"I sent a sample of the blood on this tissue to the lab and put a rush on it." Maura said to her.
"Ok and who's blood is it?" Jane asked.
"It's the blood of biological father." Maura told her, and then she turned her computer monitor so Jane could see. "This man is my birth father." She said and pointed to the screen.
Jane stared at the black and white photo of a Paddy Doyle. "He introduced himself as Mr. Selsi, that's my adoptive name spelled backwards." Maura told her as she got up and started pacing in her office again.
"He was toying with me the moment he got here." Maura said to Jane.
"Maybe he just came to say goodbye to his son." Jane suggested.
"He's a ruthless killer; I've looked at some of his files Jane." Maura said to her.
"Whoever killed Colin knew it would draw Paddy out of hiding." Jane said to Maura then looked at her, "Please for the love of god, stop pacing." Jane asked getting frustrated by Maura's constant movement.
Maura sat back down at her desk and put her head in her hands.
"You could be in danger." Jane said to her and Maura looked up.
"Paddy Doyle isn't going to kill me." Maura said to her.
"Whoever killed Colin, if they figure out who you are they won't hesitate to go after you." Jane said and pulled out her phone. "We need some help."
A/N: Any and all errors are mine. Thanks for reading. Reviews are welcome good or bad.