Chapter 4

It has been a couple hours since the doctor had informed Jane's friends of her condition. The waiting had been excruciating for Maura she just wanted to see her friend. Both Korsack and Frost had headed back to the station to finally give their statements about the hostage taking and shooting. Maura said that she would call if anything changed.

"Maura?"

"Mrs. Rizzoli." A startled Maura looked up from the spot on the floor she had been staring at. "How's Jane? Is she ok? Frankie?" She stood up and walked over to Angela.

"It's ok Maura there is no change. Jane is still sedated and holding her own. Frankie woke up for a little bit. Frank Sr. is with him. We did not tell him about Jane, we don't want him to worry right now." Angela explained.

"That's a good idea. He should remain as calm as possible." Maura replied slipping into doctor mode.

"I figured that you would want to sit with Jane for a bit."

"Yes very much!" Maura exclaimed not able to contain the relief in her voice.

"She's down in ICU 10."

"Thank you Mrs. Rizzoli." With that Maura headed down the hallway to the ICU wing.

Maura slowed her pace as she approached ICU room 10. The ICU rooms formed a half circle around the nurses station which was along the right side of the curved hallway. The rooms did not have normal doors but rather sliding glass doors with floor length hospital yellow curtains for privacy. Maura stopped in front room 10. With a deep breath she reached out and drew back the curtain to Jane's room. Her breath caught in her throat at what lie before her. Jane's bed was surrounded by medical equipment, IV's, heart monitor, respirator, blood pressure monitor. IV tubes running to both arms. In fact it appeared that tubes were going everywhere on Jane. The heart monitor beeped at a constant 70 beats a minute, the respirator glided up and down in rhythm moving oxygen in and carbon dioxide out. Jane was the strongest woman that Maura had ever met, but she looked so fragile lying there.

"Oh Jane." Maura exhaled releasing the breath she had been hold without knowing it. She walked over to the left sign of her bed and gently picked up Jane's hand and sat down in the chair next to the bed. "Jane, it's me Maura." She knew that it was not likely that Jane knew she was there. The research was not conclusive about whether or not a person in a medically induced coma knew what was going on around them. "Stop." Maura mentally slapped herself. She needed to be Jane's friend right now not a doctor.

"Jane, listen to me you." She cupped Jane's hand in between hers and leaned in close. "You need to fight. You need to come back to us. We all need you. Your parents, Frankie, Korsack and Frost….and me. Jane I need you to come back." The emotions of the day finally came to the surface. Tears began to flow freely from Maura's eyes. "Jane you're my only friend. No one else understands me like you. I need you to reach down inside you're self and find that strong headed feisty Jane Rizzoli that we all love and fight, fight to come back to us!" Maura pleaded as she brushed back a piece of hair from Jane's forehead. "Please, please come back Jane."

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