It's not a guest room, its Jane's room. It has been for years now. It screams Jane the second you walk in. From the smell of her raspberry body spray to the miss matched pyjama set strewn at the end of the bed, to the way the bed has been messily made. None of it says Maua Isles any more, but Jane Rizzoli. Without a doubt Jane sleeps in that bed more often than she sleeps in her own.
She can't explain the need to be near Maura ever since the incident with Hoyt. Even though he's dead, she needs to be in close enough proximity to the doctor to be able to protect her. Not just from him, but from anything that hurt her. So for the last 2 months, Jane has been living in Maura's guest room just down the hall from Maura's own room, and that's been enough for her.
She still sees his face in all of her dreams; some of them end with Hoyt dead at her hands. These are the better ones. Others aren't so true to the events that played out all those weeks ago. In her worst nightmares she sees Maura lying on the hospital bed, unable to move, to help herself as he takes a scalpel to her dress. She's bound to the bed next to her and is totally helpless to the blonde M.E. She tries to scream but finds her voice is gone. She struggles against the restraints that keep her to the bed but Mason sees her and quickly sets the taser onto her, rendering her in the same state as Maura, stuck watching as he slices though her bra. They both know what's coming next and as he pulls the scalpel over her underwear, a stray tear leaves Maura's eye. It's as though she's resigned herself to the knowledge that he's going to rape her then kill her, and it breaks Jane's heart to see her that way. Just as he's about to rip the scalpel through the doctors throat, she wakes up
It's always the same, night after night. Only this time she feels the need to make sure Maura is still there, that she's ok. She gets up and slowly makes her way down the hall towards Maura's room tip toeing as not to wake her. She gets to the door and carefully opens it, just enough to be able to thee the doctors silhouette under the covers of her bed. Just as she goes to turn back to her room she hears a muffled cry come from the behind the door. She turns back and re opens the door to find the doctor stretched out across her bed, covers thrown from her and breathing heavily. Jane watches silently as she thrashes around the bed as though trying to free herself from something.
Jane watches her helplessly until she stops. It's only then that the detective notices that she's almost completely naked. She has been watching her best friend throw herself across her bed while only wearing frilly turquoise underwear. Just as this realisation hits her, the doctor begins to wake. Jane knows she should go, but can't bring herself to move, she's frozen on the spot watching as Maura slowly lifts herself to a sitting position, trying to control her breathing. She noticed Jane there the second she woke up, but can't bring herself to acknowledge the fact, scared that she'll go away. Just as this thought enters her head, she sees Jane slowly begin to turn.
'Wait…' she whispers across the room so quietly that she doesn't know if Jane has heard her. But she has, she's stopped in her tracks. 'Please' is the only thing that Maura can bring herself to say at this moment. Jane turns around again and looks across the room to see the doctor close to tears. She instantly walks towards the bed and sits on the edge. She doesn't know what to do next and she's not sure that the doctor is even aware of the fact that she's almost naked at this moment in time; she looks too terrified to have any type of awareness other than Jane's presence.
'Maura what's wrong? Honey talk to me' and that's all it takes. Maura lunges forwards towards Jane and holds onto her for dear life while the sobs shake her entire body. The detective just sits there holding her and whispering comforting words into her hair. It's a while before the doctor loosens her grip in Jane; she leans back slightly and looks deep into her eyes. 'You can tell me anything, just please don't cry' she whispers to her as she wipes away the tears from her face.
'Stay with me, please? I don't want to be on my own, I don't want to be away from you. He keeps coming back and hurting you, and hurting me so that he can hurt you and I'm so scared and I don't want to be alone and I don't want him to hurt you and I don't want him to…'
'Shhh, I'm ok' she cuts her off. 'He's gone now and he's never going to hurt either one of us ever again, I promise. I'll stay here as long as you need me too, I'm just down the hall, remember?'
'No I don't want you to stay down the hall anymore' Maura says forcefully.
'Oh, ok. Well I'll go back to my apartment tomorrow and I'll just come by every now and agai...'
'NO!' Maura almost screams. 'I want you to stay here, in my bed with me. Please Jane don't leave me I don't know how I'd even begin to cope if you weren't here and I just need…'
'Maura, I won't go anywhere if you don't want me too, of course I'll stay here with you' Jane smiles down at the doctor who has visibly began to calm her heaving chest. 'but don't you want to put on some clothes before I do? I mean I don't mind but maybe you wouldn't want me to be so near to you when you have hardly anything on'
At that moment Maura realised that she has next to no clothing on her, but by now it's a little too late, she's already tackled Jane tonight, what harm could it do if Jane sleeps next to her like that? Without a word, Maura moves over on the bed and pulls Jane over with her. As she pulls the covers over them both, she places a small chaste kiss on Jane's cheek.
'Thank you' she says quietly as she turns to face the opposite direction, a small smile pulling at the edges of her lips. Jane just lies on her back in a shocked silence. 'Aren't you going to come closer to me?' the doctor asks in an uneven voice, and without hesitation Jane is behind her, holding her tightly around the waste as she spoons into the back of her.