Maura sat on the couch in her living room, watching with tears in her eyes as Jane walked out of the door with a suitcase of her clothes and Jo Friday on a leash. She slammed the door and didn't look back, getting in her cruiser and speeding away. Curling into a ball on her couch, Maura sobbed into a throw pillow.
After crying herself out, Maura got up and went to her front door, opening it and walking outside to her Prius. She didn't know what she hoped to achieve, but she drove to Jane's apartment anyway. Halfway there, however, she was stuck in a traffic jam. She turned on the police scanner Jane had gotten her for Christmas, just in time to catch the tail end of a conversation, "Dog found inside wreckage, suitcase on the side of the road. Believed to have belonged to Detective Jane Rizzoli. No sign of her though."
Maura looked around frantically. Jumping out of her car she ran through the traffic and found the scene of the crash. Jane's blue cruiser was wedged in between two trees a bit off the road and the hood was still smoking. She spied a police officer by the vehicle and rushed over to him.
"Where is she? Where is Jane?" Where is my wife? She thought, but didn't dare say out loud. No one on the force knew that they were married, and she wanted it to stay that way. For now.
She heard a familiar bark, followed by a scruffy tornado at her feet. She smiled and picked Jo up and held her close. Petting her, Maura walked to the edge of the woods and listened for any shuffling or crunching leaves. She walked further in when she heard a moan.
"Jane, Jane is that you?" She walked towards the sound and saw a bloody pile of leaves.
"JANE! HELP SOMEONE! SHE'S OVER HERE!"
She began to move the leaves from Jane's face and gasped when she saw 'Hoyt' carved in her cheek. Pushing the leaves away from her neck she saw an incision from a scalpel running parallel to the jugular, a warning, she assumed.
"M-maura? Is tha... Is that you?" Jane's eyes were swimming in her head and she couldn't focus.
"It's me Jane, I'm here."
"Please, don't ever forget."
"Forget what, Jane?"
"I lo... I love you."
Jane's eyes fluttered for a moment before closing totally.
"JANE!" Maura cupped Jane's head with her hands, "Jane, no. You cannot die on me. JANE!"