Ok normally I don't worry about reviews. They are awesome and a lot of times make it so much easier to write, but with this story it different. I have to admit that I feel the least confident about this story than any other I have ever written. I have never written one where I physical harm to one of my characters like this. Because of that, I would REALLY like to know what you all think. The review can be three words "I like it", "I hate it", "What the hell!", I think you get the point. I just want to make sure that you guys are still with me. Trust me I will always bring them back to where they were. So thanks for the help. The last chapter was very quiet and sorta freaked me out, I aint gonna lie.

As far as 'One Thing I Never Knew About You', it was giving me all kinds of trouble so I did what you have to do sometimes. I deleted the chapter and started over. I am about half way through it and hope to finish it up tonight or tomorrow. The time it's going much easier. So it would be up tomorrow night sometime.

And as always thanks to buddy Ash, aka y0ungalaska, for being my beta and keeping me insane. Hope you all enjoy.

Chapter 3

"I'm here." Jane said over the phone.

"Wait!" Korsak shouted.

"I can't, Vince. They will kill her. They can't…I can't…..they can't kill her."

"You don't have back up, Rizzoli. Stay put, we're almost there."

Jane looked at the building. "Somehow, I think my back up will get here before you do." Jane put the phone on the seat as she heard Korsak screaming "Jane! YOU WAIT, JANE!"

Jane exited the car making her way to the building when she heard a loud whisper. "Jane. Hey Jane."

She looked to see her partner quickly, yet quietly walking toward her. Jane whispered back. "What are you doing here?"

"Are you kidding? When I gave you an address, I knew you wouldn't wait. We are partners, so here I am."

Jane nodded in agreement and they quietly walked into the building. It was eerie and quiet. They came in gun drawn and checked the rooms. She came to one in the back where the door was closed. They both stopped as they heard sounds coming from the room. Just as Jane was almost to the door, she heard it. A woman screaming, crying. A cry that wasn't pain, but devastation. Jane took the door handle and slowly turned it. She nodded to Frost who would enter first. She quickly pushed the door open screaming "FREEZE!"

Jane looked at the man standing over Maura. Her heart was in her throat and she wondered if she would pass out. "Back away from her!" Jane looked at the woman in the chair. The second man quickly tried to make a run for the door, but was shown quickly that Brian Frost wasn't to be messed with. As he held the man at gunpoint, Jane turned her attention to the man standing over Maura's very still frame.

"Please help her. I don't know….she hasn't moved in a while." Monica cried out.

Jane looked at the man again. "BACK UP!" He did as she asked. "On your knees. Hands behind your head! Don't move. Don't even give me a reason to pull this trigger." She kept her eyes on him and walked toward her best friend that lay lifeless on the floor. "Maura." Jane called out. "Maura!" She never took her eyes off the man as she bent down and ran her fingers through Maura's hair. She was on her side with her face down. Her hair draped over her face so Jane had to run her fingers through Maura's hair to look for a pulse. "Maura."

Her pulse was there, but very light. "Don't you move." She said as she held her gun on the man and took Maura by the shoulder barely rolling her over. She slightly moved Maura's hair. "Mau…" Jane stopped and lost her breath. Every inch of Maura was covered in blood. Her eyes were swollen and her nose obviously broken. Had Jane not know it was Maura, she wasn't sure she would have recognized her. It was then that Jane lost all reason, all sense of her surroundings. The oath that she had taken was no longer a part of who she was. Something snapped as anger boiled within her. "You son of a bitch!" She screamed and made quick strides to the man. Before Jane knew it she had the gun against the man's head. He lowered his head and actually began to cry. "Please don't." She was frozen. He was on his knees and her gun to his head. It would be easy. It was what she wanted. He deserved it. She wanted to see him suffer.

Jane, in her shock, didn't hear someone enter the room. "Detective?" Jane never moved. "Put the gun down, Jane." She looked out of the corner of her eyes to see Paddy walking slowly toward her. She shook her head. "Put it down, Jane."

"Look at her!" She began to cry and scream "Do you see what he did to her?" She returned her attention to the man as she swallowed the tears.

"I see that." He took more steps toward Jane. "She needs you, Jane. You can't help her like this. This isn't the person she loves and trusts." He had now reached Jane. He placed his hands over Jane's that gripped the gun begging herself to pull the trigger. "Put it down. Let me deal with him. This isn't you. You are a good cop, a good friend." He slowly lowered Jane's gun. "I promise you, he will pay." Once her gun was lowered, two men grabbed the man and stood him up. Another made his way to where Frost stood, only making eye contact with the young detective. Paddy walked over to Maura and took in the site before him.

"See we NEVER saved her!" The woman screamed. "They will always come for her." She spat in anger.

Jane rushed to Maura afraid to move her.

Paddy looked back at the men. "She is too bad. I can't tell which hand did the damage. Take them both. I want all means of torture used. You know what to do with the body."

Paddy looked at Jane. "Detective?"

Jane rubbed Maura's hair as her tears fell on the doctor's face. "I never saw you here." Jane said in a even and knowing voice. "They were gone when we got here." Jane shot a glance at Frost causing him to take two steps back in a sign he was on board.

"I'll be in touch." With that Paddy was gone and the room was quiet again.

"Maura, please." Jane brushed her hair out of her face. "Please…"

Frost quickly untied Monica and within minutes heard the police coming through the doors. "Get the paramedics in here," he yelled to the Ko.

"Look what they did, Korsak." Jane said as she rubbed Maura's shoulder. "Look….."

He gently pulled Jane to him. "I know." He screamed out again. "Where's the damn medic?"

Jane ran in the emergency room with the paramedics. She was still in shock but caught bits and pieces of what the doctor's and nurse's were saying. She'd wished Maura could explain everything to her. There was some things that were shouted out that Jane understood. "Several broken ribs….a collapsed lung…broken cheek bone and eye socket…chest tube was needed and inserted in the field." Yeah, Jane understood enough. She was afraid to know more.

Jane felt someone put their hand on her shoulder. "Ma'am I need you to stay here. I need you to release her."

Jane was brought out of her thinking and realized the grip that she still had on Maura's hand. "She's…..she's a doctor. She's the chief medical examiner."

The doctor looked in shock. "This is Doctor Isles?"

Jane swallowed hard at the realization that Maura was in fact so badly beaten that it wasn't just Jane that didn't recognize her. Jane shook her head. The male doctor placed his hand on her arm again. "We'll take wonderful care of her. This is going to take several hours, but we'll try and keep you posted."

Jane nodded and leaned over the railing of the gurney rubbing Maura's hair. "You fight. Do you hear me, Maura. You fight. I need…I can't….." Jane noticed the tear that hit Maura's shirt. "Please, fight. Fight…for me, Please." Jane placed a light kiss on Maura's hand and released it as she watched them take Maura into the restricted area. That was as far as she could go. It was up to Maura now.

Jane was sitting with her head in her hands when someone sat beside her. She looked up to see the woman that was in the room with Maura. "My name is Monica."

Jane tried to smile. "Hi." She extended her hand. "It's nice to meet you." Tears came to Jane's eyes. "Wow, she does look like you."

The woman returned the smile. "Thank you, then. I take that as a compliment."

"You should." Jane returned her look to her wringing hands.

"Will you…..I mean, I was just trapped with her but it never really came up…Can you tell me about Maura?"

Jane smiled the largest smile that she had worn in hours. "She's amazing." Jane returned her look to Monica. "She's brilliant and sweet and caring and innocent in some ways and the person that you hope one day you become….." Jane stopped and took a deep breath. "She is amazing. She sees people the way that she never was. As someone more than what is on the outside. I think that is why she does so well around dead people. Because she has to see what's on the side first."

"People didn't see her that way?"

Jane couldn't help but chuckle through the tears. "She's…..goofy. She is so smart that sometimes people don't understand her. Hell, I don't half the time. People are intimidated by her mind, but when….." Jane tried to stop the tears. "When you know Maura, you love her. Every quirky and goofy thing about her, you love." Jane said looking at the hands she was now wringing.

Monica put her hand on top of Jane's. "I'm glad that she has friends like you."

"She just….she can't die." The woman wrapped her arm around Jane.

"She's a fighter. She is strong, I can tell that. She never showed them fear. She was brave and strong. She never gave up on you. She always said 'she'll come'. You were the one she knew would save her, and you did."

"JANE!" Jane looked up to see Angela, Tommy, Frankie, Frost, Korsak and Maura's mother coming toward her. Angela pulled Jane into a hug. "Honey, I am so sorry. How is Maura?"

"They just took her back."

"How bad is it?" Tommy asked.

"When they brought her in…." Jane swallowed her tears, trying not to look at her family. "The doctors didn't even recognize her." Jane broke down in Angela's arms and spoke through loud cries. "They hurt her bad, Ma. Really bad."

Once Jane was a little more calm she told her family that it could be several hours. Everyone sat and was introduced to Monica. Together, the waited and waited and waited. After 8 hours of surgery, Maura had made it through. She would have to go back in and mend some of the bones, but for now the internal bleeding had stopped and some of the bones were reset. Now they had to wait. She was in an induced coma where she would stay for days.

"Well, Doctor Isles, this place looks like a florist." Jane smiled as she walked around the bed with the only response being the beeps of the monitors. Maura lay in silence. Jane took her hand, "Ma says to say hi and that she misses you. By the time you get out of here, she will have a label of Bass. It will say 'Bass- turtle- floor'." Jane uncomfortably chuckled. "I know. Tortoise." Jane said under her breath "he isn't a turtle." Her thumb rubbed across the hand in hers. "He is good by the way. Ma is taking very good care of him, but I'm sure he misses you. I don't know, I mean, if a tortoise can miss someone, he misses you." Jane took a long look at Maura. "I miss you." The tears started again. Jane had never cried this much. "I need you to wake up, Maura. I need you to open those beautiful eyes. I need to hear your goofy joke of the day. I need a reason to want to get up in the morning; a reason to look at my outfit a million times before I leave and wonder what you will say about it. I….I just need you." The words had never hit Jane like they had in that moment. "I need you. So you have to wake up. Please, Maura. Open your eyes."

It was a speech that Jane would give, in some way or another, over the next 6 days. Maura continued to lay quiet. All you could hear were the sounds of beeping machines. Jane had taken up residency in her room, leaving only for work.

Today she had arrived at 7 pm. After a long day and a longer week, Jane had her normal talk with Maura. Begging her to wake up. She was so tired that night that without really knowing it, she laid her head on the bed. She wasn't sure how long she was asleep.

Jane had her forehead placed on her hands that were just beside Maura's hand. Jane felt something softly rub her face, then when it touched her hair, she jumped up. She focused on Maura's opened eyes. One was just barely opened due to the swelling. "Maura?"

Maura had a confused and lost look on her face. Jane jumped up and hit the nurse's button asking for someone to come in, telling them that Doctor Isles was awake. Jane quickly returned her look to Maura. "Hi. I'm so glad to see those beautiful eyes open."

Maura swallowed hard. "Moni…."

Jane stopped her seeing she was in pain speaking. "Monica is fine."

"Pad…."

"I haven't seen him. He called my phone a couple times to see if you were alright, but he's ok."

The nursing staff and doctors were in the room before Maura could say more. Jane tried to step back to let the nurses look at Maura, but as Jane started to move, Maura quickly grabbed her hand. With pleading eyes she asked. Jane understood. "I'm not going anywhere. I'll stay right here."

Within half an hour the exam, by the doctors, was over. Once they were out of the room, Jane pulled her chair back over and placed her hands on the railing of the bed. Maura quickly grabbed them again causing Jane to smile. Maura tried to speak. "I…look like…..hell?"

Jane chuckled. "They wish. It would take a lot more than that to mess up that face."

Maura tried to smile. "Sure." Maura squeezed her hand again. "Truth."

Jane smiled trying to hold the tears at bay. "It's pretty bad. It will heal though remember that. You have a few broken bones in your face and ribs. Your kidneys were a punching or kicking bag. It isn't anything that isn't going to heal with time."

"What about the men?" Maura voice and strength was making it's way back.

"Four days later we got a call. Seems two men were found out in the middle of Johnson street. They were…." Jane looked away. "It was bad, Maura. He needed to send a message and he did. Both of their hands were missing and it was evident that the were tortured severely." Jane realized that Maura dropped her eyes to her lap. Jane knew the woman well enough to know something was wrong. "What is it?"

Maura took a deep breath. "Nothing." She tried to smile and reassure her friend that everything was alright.

"I know you, Maura." Jane continued.

"I- I just…." Maura couldn't finish the sentence. The words wouldn't come out. "I was wondering….." She looked away from Jane again and Jane realized what the problem was.

Jane got up from her seat and sat on the side of the woman's bed. She placed her hand gently on Maura's and finished the sentence that Maura couldn't. "No." Maura looked back at her. "All of your injuries were physical to your face and midsection. There was no sexual assault."

Maura smiled. "Thank you." She got the words out and laid her head back again. It was obvious that she was still very tired and weak.

"I'm here, ok?" Jane smiled at Maura. "Just rest."

Jane watched Maura quickly become the image of the past 7 days. Still and quiet. Jane sat back in the chair and looked up the ceiling praying to anyone that would listen that this nightmare would end.