I never really knew Maura that well to begin with; I remember her being introduced to us all. She trailed behind everyone, we were expecting her to go into the other lift but she just stuck to us. Once we reached the office she walked in and Korsak made the announcement. "Everyone, this is the new Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Maura Isles." he looked at me once she said hello and left the room. "Be nice to her, it isn't easy starting in a new place." I never did understand why he said that to me, I'm not that much of a horrible person. Frankie had only recently joined but I guess that is different because he's family, I would look after him.
Our first case together was I suppose you could say, interesting. We had never properly spoken to each other, or really seen each other around. She would arrive way before I had even gotten out of bed. Once I got to know Maura she wasn't what I was used to, "this reddish brown stain" which was obviously blood. She has a tendency to go a little 'Google' on us sometimes, I have to remind her not everyone went to college and got their degree. With this being said I still wouldn't want to change her in any way. She's my Maura Isles, the one that I know and love.
If I am going to be completely honest about Maura, since she isn't going to hear about this she is my best friend, I would do anything for her. Even though she knows how to rub me up the wrong way sometimes I can't picture my life without her. My ma absolutely loves her, she calls her the second daughter. You see, the problem with Maura is that because she was adopted into a quite dysfunctional, and I mean that in the nicest way, when she came into the Rizzoli household it was shock for her. She once said to me "How do you put up with being with family all the time? Do you not get space from them? Do they not go away for weekend trips and leave you alone?" I think she soon caught on. Her family was different from most; she was an only child to parents who adopted her at a few days old. They love her, of course they do, they just aren't the best at showing her. That is all she wants.
One day we both had it off, we decided that we would each make the other person do what they wanted to do. Maura took me to this place to have a bath in mud, "it's not mud, its clay" she would say to me when I complained to her. I don't care what she said, I was bathing in some stuff, that pigs and hippos lay in. Once I got used to it though, I did love it. I made her promise that next time she sees blood to call it blood and the "this reddish brown stain". That's what I make her do whenever we have to do something for each other.
She's the sister I never had. Whenever I have a problem she is always there for me, she listens and she gives the best advice, that could be because she can't lie, she breaks out in hives if she does. At first this was a weird thing to come across, I always thought she was being rude just because she could get away with it because she used her clever language to cover the insult, it soon learnt that it's just the way she is.
We are complete opposites. She turns up to work every day in a new outfit looking like she could walk down a runway, if you saw her out in the street you wouldn't think she spent so much time with the dead.
Det. Jane Rizzoli.
