A/N Hi! I'm amazed of the great welcome that this little story has had, I hope to meet your expectations with this one. Thank you once again and enjoy the next chapter ;)

Ah, I repeat here again in case you found it odd; I'm not following the series events so the murders and everything aren't going to be the same, bear with me, I promise nothing gruesome is going to come from this (?)

PD: To the worried ones, I'm a rizzles fan but I'm going to make Jane sweat a little since her character development is something I have being hating since they started changing her. I'm going to try to focus on that before doing any romantic movement, hope you stick with me!

The sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw […]

[…]People hearing without listening- Simon and Garfunkel "The sound of silence"

The first rays of Monday's morning sun touched the dead's body skin at the same time Jane arrived at the scene still trying to put tendrils of her hair behind her ears, sleep had been elusive once again and when the central had called her she had needed a few more minutes than normal to feel strong enough to go to the murder scene.

Making a face at the decomposed corpse she cracked her neck and started trying to find any clues near the victim's body. Maura was already there, kneeled next to the corpse and taking notes while instructing some of the lab guys to pick fragments that she later would be processing.

Jane opened her mouth and tried to greet Maura but her mother's voice filled up her mind for the umpteenth time since the woman had called her. Coughing soundlessly she tried to focus on the corpse once again, painfully aware that in another circumstances she would have made a prank about the state of the corpse and Maura would have replied with some scientific fact.

As she touched the faded lines of what appeared to be signs of burned car tires she glanced back at Maura who seemed to be engrossed on the body's clothes. She swallowed and smiled a strained grin; her lips were stretched over her teeth and when she talked her voice sounded even deeper than usual.

"Hei, morning" She rasped and when Maura finally looked over her right shoulder from her position near the body's head Jane rose her left hand and saluted to the other woman. "What do you think?"

"I'm going to need a little more time to know about the cause of death and the exact time frame" Maura replied after greeting her with a quick smile "There are a few conspicuous stains on her thorax and what seems to be powder but I will let you know later"

Jane hummed and opened her mouth once again, glancing back at the body for a second before stretching and approaching Maura in one long step, her body thrumming with nervousness as the other woman looked at her with a questioning gaze shining on her eyes.

To be truthful Maura hadn't exactly changed her way to interact with Jane, not in the most superficial way at least. But now, every time Jane tried to make jokes or just be with the medical examiner, she found herself thrown against a very strange crystal wall; she could see Maura but couldn't reach her and so every time they talked had turned out to be a strange dance in where Jane tried to be herself with Maura while Maura replied to her politely but not warmly. And that was another thing that made Jane nervous and unbalanced, as if she was a kid caught while trying to sneak the cookies from the jar.

"Eh, Maura, I was… how was your date? My mother called me in the middle of the night and I worried a little for a sec but it was just my mother trying to be my mother" Her voice sounded forced and she smiled quickly to one of the forensic while the man finished with whatever Maura had asked for and handed to her. When the man smiled back at her and turned she looked back to Maura, the woman already reading something on her phone and smiling as if her mind was in somewhere else "Maura?"

"Yes, sorry Jane, what were you saying?" The medical examiner asked sweetly to her while she pocketed her phone, the device chirping one more time as Jane sighed and shook her head, strangely disappointed with herself and the situation.

"Nothing, I… only wanted to know how your date was"

Maura beamed at that and for a second she looked ready to share everything with Jane but then a cloud covered her face and Maura glanced at her quickly before replying caustically as she busied herself with her tools.

"It was delicious, I'm going to give you the address of the restaurant where we ate, they had some interesting plates that you could enjoy"

"We can go together some night we both have it free" Jane replied but she knew already that they weren't going to make it and so when Maura nodded distractedly she knew it was her cue to leave. The body seemed to have been mugged and now she needed to start doing a report about it, unless Maura discovered something different of course.

"Well, I'm going to go to the station, do you want help here or something?"

Maura shook her head and while she smiled at her it didn't reach her eyes which turned sad the moment Jane pretended she wasn't focusing on them

"Ok, then I'll see you later"

As she drove away from the murder scene and approached the precinct she sighed, wanting to scream at the top of her lungs.

At first she had been terrified when she felt the difference on Maura's behavior towards herself, the first impression was that maybe something had happened on the other woman's life, like her mother or her sister being in danger but it hadn't been that and after that moment of confusion came the mild anger when she realized that the woman's change was only applied to her. Maura repeated once and again she wasn't mad at Jane and knowing the inability of Maura to lie Jane believed that. That didn't explain what was happening though and after days of anger and confusion it came the sadness and remorse of something intangible she could feel floating between Maura and she but she couldn't pinpoint what. Her family and friends weren't aware of the problem- at least she had believed that until her mother's call last night- and the way Maura had keep carrying herself next to them had dissuaded Jane to ask for help.

But, as her mother had repeated her every time she had broken something when she was little "If you feel bad it's because of something" and so her remorse and sadness had started eating her alive. She had spent hours on her couch trying to discern what those feelings truly meant but they were silent and so, every time Maura and she interacted the sadness grew stronger inside of her.

"I'm just stupid" She whispered as she entered the station, her hands hurting a little because of the way she had been grabbing the steering wheel.


After the failed attempt of making pasta with the broken tool both women had sat on the couch and ate what they were going to put inside the ravioli. Jane was still smiling a bit because of the way Maura had punched her right arm when she had started to play with the "kitchen thingy" and for a moment the quiet friendship had been between there, untroubled.

Then, as Maura had yawned and had tried to cover her mouth with her right hand while her eyes closed a little, filled with sleep, Jane had put the TV on with a satisfied smirk playing on her lips.

She had been worried because of Maura's behaviors after her jump but the woman seemed to be more relaxed now and Jane sighed inwardly for that, happy to see her friend at ease with her once again.

"It was delicious Maur" She said as she moped up the remaining of her plate "Next time I need to jump off a bridge I'm going to think twice because of this"

The tension inside the room grew until it was almost unbearable and as Maura's body stiffened at Jane's side the brunette woman knew she had made a mistake.

"Jane" Whispered the other woman tiredly but her voice was empty and so the detective kept staring straight ahead of her, shame coloring her cheeks and making them burn.

"I wanted to be funny" Jane replied lamely and as her voice died down she heard Maura sigh, making her swallowed nervously as she bit her tongue. Wincing in pain she glanced back at Maura; the woman's eyes vacant and unfocused for a moment filled with something close to resignation.

"Would you have think twice if I had been at her side instead of a few feet away?"

The question was said softly, almost as if Maura hadn't expected herself to be able to ask it but Jane heard it nonetheless and as she glanced back at the other woman she frowned, feeling that something was up with the other woman but not quiet seeing what it was.

"I told you" Jane finally said after a few more moments of silence "I love what I do, when I'm working my priority is catching the guilty. I… didn't think of anyone, I just jumped."

It was true, but she wasn't saying the other part, the part where she had resurfaced from the river and her first thought had been Maura. She still wasn't ready to admit it in front of the medical examiner and embarrassed of herself as she was she let the moment pass, telling herself she still could explain to Maura any other day.

It seemed she hadn't understand as much as she had first believed on the water because after she had dozed off in front of the TV she had felt soft hands covering her body with a blanket before Maura's soft accent whispering something close to "I did miss you Jane"

After that their relationship had started to change.


Jane raised her head when her brother plopped on a chair after he had dragged it next to her desk. She had been daydreaming once again and the reports were still blank in front of her, waiting to be written.

"Sis" Frankie greeted her while munching something that looked as crackers. "New case?"

The woman hummed as she tried to put the papers in order, her hands grabbing nervously a pencil before she changed it for a pen.

"I'm going to need your help in case anything new comes up so I will send you the details about it" Jane replied as she started filling the starting code in the files.

"Fine by me" Frankie replied and for a moment he sat there, eating and reading the information from time to time over Jane's shoulder.

At the beginning Jane found her brother's presence something reassuring, and as nervous as she was she greeted the man's sounds as he ate cracker after cracker from the little bag he had on his left hand but after a few minutes the sound of Frankie's teeth against the biscuit made her nervous and so she cleared her throat, trying to make Frankie understand he was bothering her.

"Jane" The man asked her instead "Any reasons Ma would have send me here?"

A/N Hi, a quick note, if anyone wants to know what Jane is talking about in the flashback scene there is a little one shot I made for Awesome23 that's the root of this story. If anyone is interested it's called "Truths that are lies"