Maura finally got Jane, exhausted from emotions and fear, tucked in for the night. Maura shot down every one of Jane's protests that she was able to drive home and finally convinced her to go up and sleep in her bed for the night. It wasn't like Jane had never slept there before.
Maura crawled in bed beside Jane, wrapped an arm around her and stayed there until she was sure that Jane was sound asleep before crawling out of bed, slipping out the door and tip toeing down the stairs. As she left the room, she grabbed Jane's cell phone so it wouldn't ring and wake her. She also knew there was a phone number in there that she needed.
Maura settled onto the couch to begin making calls. The first, of course, was to Jane's loving and well-intentioned but overbearing mother, Angela.
"Rizzoli residence."
"Angela. It's Maura."
"Oh. Hi, Maura."
"Hi. Sorry to call so late but I wanted to let you know that Jane will be spending the night, at my place."
"Is she alright?" Concern evident in Angela's voice.
"She's fine. hives She just had a bad day and was too tired to drive home. I suggested she stay here and she's upstairs sleeping right now."
"You're sure she's alright. She doesn't need to go to the doctor or anything, does she?"
"Angela. I am a doctor." Maura gently reminded her.
"Oh. Oh, yes. Of course you are" said Angela. "Just being a mother. Thank you for calling."
"My pleasure" said Maura. "I knew you would be worried if you tried to call Jane and weren't able to get in touch with her."
"Thank you, Maura. You are such a good friend to my Janie."
Before making the second and much more difficult phone call, Maura sneaked back up the stairs to check on Jane. Loud snores greeted Maura as she opened the door to her bedroom. Smiling, Maura thought "Jane is good at shaking the paint off the wall with those snores" then as quiet as she could, the blonde shut the door and went back down stairs.
Maura scrolled through the contact list in Jane's phone until she finally found the right one. Using her own phone, she dialed the number of Vince Korzak.
"Korzak." The familiar gruff voice said on the other end.
"Sargent Korzak. This is Dr. Isles. I'm so sorry to be calling this late but I need to talk to you about Jane."
"About Jane? Is she ok? Has something happened?"
"Well...yes and no" Maura answered.
"Come on Maura. What's going on? Has something happened to Jane?"
"Before I get into that. Can I be assured that what we discuss will be kept between us. Just you and me?"
Silence.
"Sargent Korzak? Vince?"
"I'm still here."
"Well? Can I trust that what I'm going to tell you will remain between us?"
"Depends on what it is, Maura. If it's something real serious, I might have to involve others."
Not happy with the possibility of involving others (especially since Jane knew nothing of Maura calling Korzak) but wanting to find out what happened to Jane, Maura agreed.
"Ok, Vince but only if we have to involve others in this."
"Agreed" said Korzak.
"Remember when I went out of town the other weekend for that conference?"
"Yah. I remember."
"Well..." She told Korzak the same story that Jane had told her, with some exceptions.
"Damn" said Korzak when Maura was finished talking. "I had no idea she had gone through anything like that. Roofied? Jane? Are you sure it was that bastard, Casey, that did it to her? How did you find out? Jane doesn't let tell anyone anything about her personal life."
She told me because of the guilt she was feeling because she cheat..." Maura trailed off.
"She what? Did you say she cheated?"
"No," hives
"Maura!"
"Oh. Ok. Yes. I said cheated."
"Are you and she?"
Big sigh.
"Yes. We are. Please keep that to yourself as well. We aren't ready for our relationship to become public knowledge."
"Sure, Maura. Sure. I can do that" said Korzak.
After a moment of uncomfortable silence, Korzak asked, "Where is Jane? I'm sure she's not feeling too well after reliving all of that."
"She's here. I mean, she's here, upstairs, asleep. She was too emotionally drained to drive and I wanted to be able to keep an eye on her.
"Sure, sure. I know you'll keep her safe. Now what do you want to do about her situation?"
"I was hoping that you could do some investigating and find out what Casey did to Jane."
"I'm on it."
"Thanks, Vince. I knew I could count on you."
three weeks later
"Good morning, Sargent" said Maura as she walked into the bullpen.
"Dr. Isles" he responded in greeting.
"Can we go somewhere and talk?" the blonde inquired.
"Sure, Maura. Where's Jane?" Korzak asked as he scanned the bullpen.
"She said something about needing to stop off in the ladies room and I thought this would give us a chance to talk."
Korzak nodded and followed Maura into the break room where, on the pretext of grabbing coffee, they closed the door and had a private conversation instead.
"What do you have for me, Vince?" asked Maura.
"Not much, I'm afraid."
"I don't understand. How could someone in the military simply fall off the graft?"
"It's off the grid, Maura, and he didn't fall off it. He took an early retirement. Twenty years and out with full pension."
"He must have given some sort of mailing address. Where does he get his mail?"
"Mail is to a PO box and checks are direct deposit into the account he's had for years."
"We must find him, Vince. We need to know what happened to Jane."
"Jane seems fine to me."
"I know Jane seems fine to you but she isn't. She thrashes about in her sleep, cries out, whimpers, and is becoming so upset over not knowing that she is becoming physically ill."
As if she sensed they were talking about her, Jane opened the door to the break room and walked in.
"There you two are" said Jane. "I've been looking for you."
"We weren't hiding from you, Jane. We were just in here talking while getting some coffee" said Maura as she pulled a face after a sip of bitter coffee. "I'll be in the morgue if you need me."
Jane looked at Korzak and asked "Why was the door shut?"
"It must have shut on it's own."
"Oh" said Jane and she started toward the coffee pot. After a few steps, she paled and stopped as she broke out in a sweat.
"Hey Rizzoli. You ok?" asked Korzak.
With one hand clenching her stomach and the other death-gripping the counter, Jane turned her dark eyes on Korzak and said, "Yah, Korzak. I'm fine." Then she fainted, dead away.