Disclaimer: I do not own Rizzoli and Isles or its characters Jane and Maura, they belong to Angie, Sasha, as well as Janet and Tess. But if I did own them, i would carry each on my shoulder, devil and angel style ;0)

Summary: set after the shooting in season 1 finale, maura and the team wait to find out whether Jane is going to pull through and it goes from there.

Chapter 1 - BANG BANG...YOU SHOT ME DOWN

The gunshot.

That was all she could hear.

A deep, loud, resounding noise that one gets accustomed to when one hangs around with police officers. sure, she was scared at first, being an ME after all, but from time to time, she would get caught up in some mess and one thing would lead to another. But she's gotten used to it, over the years, it was sort of like a symphony to her in some weird way.

First it would start with the ringing of the safety being pushed back, "click, click click click, lock"

Then, it would be the slick sound of the barrell ticking away loading another round and last, the grand finale...

the trigger slowly being pulled towards the shooter, silence for a minute and then...BANG!

She always looked at things from a scientific point of view. Never flinching at the mere sight of a bullet being eased out of a bloody wound, but merely gazing at the bullet itself and finding out what gun it came from, what bullet it was, searching out clues as to what killed a person just by looking at a small piece of metal...if she wanted to be really clever she would state what distance the bullet what shot at and the speed, but she would never brag.

Yes, she had grown used to that.

But today...today was different.

The sound now held a new meaning to her...that sound was no longer mechanical, no longer scientific, no longer part of a world that was distant to her...no, the sound was one of metal, being blasted into the skin and muscle and bone of two human beings.

One: a sleazy dirty cop, who had joined a drugs ring and was recently holding the BPD down with a group of armed men...

and two: Jane Rizzoli, a sarcastic, moody, impatient female Homicide detective, a decorated police officer, a loving daughter, a big sister, a loyal partner...and a very dear best friend.

Today, as Maura Isles held her best friend in her arms waiting for the ambulance to arrive, holding her hand to her side to stop the blood from leaving her friends body...the gunshot was all she could hear.