I do not own Rizzoli & Isles, most of the characters in this story belong to Tess Gerritsen and TNT.
I would like to thank Ava for beta reading this chapter.
Chapter four
When the first bell of the morning rang out, the quiet hallways and peaceful class rooms flooded with teenagers. Maura had been standing outside of her door a few minutes earlier waiting to greet her class but had to admit, she was a little nervous, she'd never seen so many teenagers in one place. The blonde smiled as some students were holding hands on their way to class while others shoved and punched each other playfully but most simply walked at a slow pace and whined about the first day back.
After a few minutes, the hallways began to clear, just a few stragglers left behind as more and more student piled into the doctor's classroom. Maura gave each student a small smile, some stared at her, others didn't hide the fact they were checking her out and one even ignored her, too busy glued to his cell phone. The blonde waited until the last student in the Science corridor entered their class before she turned on her heels and entered her own room, happy to see each student appeared to have found the name tags she had placed on each desk, preferring her students to sit boy girl, boy girl.
"Hello class, my name is Doctor Isles." Maura stood in front of her desk and glanced back at the board where she had written her name.
"You can call me Doctor Isles or Miss Isles, whichever you prefer. This is my very first day teaching at Boston High School and I am very excited to be teaching the senior class for my first ever lesson." The doctor paused to return the small smiles she had received.
"I am going to be teaching you all Advanced Science. If for some reason you feel you're in the wrong class, please put your hand up." Maura did a quick scan of her students, happy to see no raised hands.
"Great!" The teacher clasped her hands together.
"Now I'm sure you all know each other but I unfortunately am at a disadvantage so I decided to do a small ice breaker activity while I take attendance." Maura explained as she grabbed the list from her desk.
"When I call out your name, could you either stand or raise your hand and tell me what your aspirations are for when you graduate high school. If I pronounce your name wrong, don't hesitate to correct me." With a smile Maura began to read the attendance sheet.
Going through the attendance list and listening to each student's ambitions took a lot longer than Maura had intended. The blonde had been so caught up in how natural teaching felt that she decided to go easy on her senior class; it was the first day after all. However, as the blonde came to the end of the register, she circled one name she didn't get a reply for and wondered what type of student would be absent on the first day of a new year.
"Does anyone know where Jane Rizzoli is?" Maura looked around the room.
"Ha, Rizzoli? She's always late. That girl will be late to her own funeral!" One of the jocks chuckled, earning a laugh from the class.
"Okay. Well then class, before we get started, I'm going t-"
"Miss Isles, I thought you should know before we start, I forgot my textbook. Do you have one I could use?" Maura rolled her eyes and looked around her desk.
"I'll go check my office; you may talk amongst yourselves for a few minutes class." The blonde smiled as she headed out of the room.
The doctor spent a good ten minutes rooting around her office for a spare textbook. She finally found one shoved in the back of an extremely messy supply closet. Maura made a note to spend a free period organizing her office and classroom some time soon. Maura sighed as she headed back towards her class, she was glad this lesson was a double lesson as half an hour had been spent getting to know her students, she wanted to spend at least a solid hour teaching. As she approached her classroom she heard laughing and wondered what the joke was that had the whole class in stitches. As she opened the door, preparing to quiet down her students a strong weight ran into her smaller body, forcing the air from her lungs and the items from her hands.
"Oh shit, I am so sorry. Let me get those." A deep husky voice apologized before the girl bent down to pick up the dropped items. Maura was brought out of her stunned state when she heard the swear word. The doctor cringed and was about to scold the student only to look down and see long, thick wavy black hair tied up, bouncing around as the woman gathered her things together.
"It's okay." The words left Maura's mouth as she crouched down to help pick up the scattered papers that had fallen with the textbook.
The doctor reached out to grab her lanyard at the same time the other woman did. Their hands met and when the tanned hand didn't leave hers, she looked up surprised to see she was face to face with such an incredibly beautiful girl. Dark brown eyes stared back at her, not the light brown of her husband, no; the opposite in fact. They looked more black than they did brown, forcing you to look longer to try and define the color. Olive colored skin covered every exposed inch of the younger woman. With thick, black naturally shaped eyebrows that seemed furrowed when staring back at Maura. The left one having a slight bend in it compared to the right.
Her high cheekbones complimented her face and a slightly crooked nose that from Maura's medical experience, had been broken numerous times but suited the girl's face perfectly and to top it all off - dark, dry, pink lips hung open, revealing beautiful white, straight teeth. The girl's bottom lip appeared slightly plumper than the top one and kept moving up and down as if the girl was having trouble finding her words. Maura stood up, brushed down her outfit and smiled softly at the girl. When she didn't move from her crouched position on the floor and continued to stare, Maura bent slightly once again and gently placed her hands on her arm, tugging upwards.
When Jane stood she was met by golden honey blonde hair, curled into loose waves just past the shoulders. This woman's skin was creamy white like silk and her gorgeous hazel green eyes stared at her, as if they could see right into her soul. The older woman's eyebrows had been perfectly shaped, no doubt waxed or threaded as one rose in an amused gesture. The blonde's face was covered in makeup but Jane could still see the hidden freckles dusted along her small button nose, cheeks and stopping just below her plump pink lips.
"S-s-sorry I didn't see you there, I-I hope I didn't hurt you?" Jane stuttered, too stunned by this woman's beauty.
"No, of course not; it was just unexpected to nearly be tackled to the ground when walking into my classroom." The doctor laughed lightly.
"Yeah, sorry." Jane went to run a nervous hand through her hair when she realized she had it tied up.
"I can be extremely clumsy." She replied, bringing the textbooks closer to her chest as if she was hugging them. The blonde glanced at Jane's hand, with a knowing look before meeting her dark eyes.
"Oh! So you must be Jane Rizzoli?" The teacher inquired, leaning back ever so slightly, crossing her arms with an expectant smile.
"Err-I-I-how did you know-I mean yeah." Jane furrowed her brow.
"Yeah, I'm Jane Rizzoli." The Italian cleared her throat.
"Well considering there was only one student missing earlier and you weren't here when I took attendance. Oh, and you have a nice sign on your hand." Maura replied with a chuckle.
"Wow, you're very observant. I mean yeah cool, err-I-yeah." Jane stumbled over her words. She put her hand over her eyes, took a deep breath and then pulled her hand away, looking at her 'sign' as this beautiful woman called it. She chuckled and looked back at the teacher with a nod.
"Are you okay? You seem nervous." Maura said in a caring tone as she placed a reassuring pat to the younger girls upper arm.
"No, yeah - I'm fine, it's just, well its Monday morning," The Italian laughed.
"But thanks for asking, I'm just gonna take a seat." Jane began to walk down in between the desks.
"Jane?" Maura stared at the girl with a raised brow.
"Yeah?" The student hesitated, looking extremely guilty for some reason.
Doctor Isles smiled at how nervous this girl was, she wasn't stupid, she had seen the way her students had been admiring her and clearly Jane Rizzoli was no exception. Maura was an attractive woman, she always had been and the fact that this teenager seemed to be effected by her good looks wasn't surprising, she'd experienced many nervous men and women stuttered when trying to hold a conversation with her. It was flattering if anything. Knowing this teenager was having a hard time piecing together sentences, Maura walked over to the taller girl and leaned in as close as deemed appropriate and looked right into her eyes as she placed a hand on the text book the student was clutching onto for dear life.
"I believe this is mineā¦" Maura trailed off, her eyes never leaving those dark ones as her student slowly released her grip on the book.
"Your seat is in the back right row." The blonde watched as the girl swallowed harshly and her hands dropped to her sides.
"And I'd prefer if you would refrain from using such language in my classroom Miss Rizzoli." The teacher gave her student a coy, seductive smiled, leaving the brunette flustered and shocked as she walked off and dropped the spare textbook on a desk in the second row.
"Thanks Miss." Joseph smiled, grabbing the book.
"For those who don't know, my name is Doctor Isles and I will be teaching you Advanced Science for this academic year." Maura's voice was louder than before and her tone silenced her students as she glanced at Jane.
"Now that you're all here, shall we begin?"
