Chapter 4

"Is this the new way to do mouth to mouth?" Both women turned quickly towards the door to see Angela smiling. She hurried over to the other side of the bed and took Jane's hand. "You're finally awake, you gave us a scare young lady."

"Sorry Ma. Can someone tell me what day it is and what's been happening?" She looked back and forth between her mother and Maura. "I know I was shot by Doyle." She turned to Maura. "Sorry Maura."

"Why are you saying you're sorry to me? My father shoots you and you're apologizing to me?"

"Because I know it's hard to know what he did. He killed Dean too didn't he?" She asked this in a very small voice.

Maura leaned forward and kissed her on the forehead then bowed her head unable to look at Jane knowing she liked Dean enough to sleep with him the night before. "Yes he did I'm sorry. I just found that out myself today."

"This is your first time visiting me isn't it? I didn't hear your voice." Maura didn't hear any anger in her voice. All she could do is nod her head. "It's ok Maura, like I said we'll work things out. We'll get past this, you're too important to me not to." Maura started crying again. "Ma make her stop crying, I can't handle her crying."

Angela had to laugh at the desperate look on her daughters face. "I think you had better get used to it Janie because I don't think this will be the last time it will happen." She looked at her daughter and saw that she was getting tired. "Why don't you rest sweetie, Maura and I will be here when you wake up ok."

Jane turned to Maura. "Will you be here?"

Maura felt guilty at the doubt in Jane's voice. "Of course I will. Now rest."

"How long have I been here?" Jane asked sleepily as she turned to her mother.

"You've been in a coma for 6 days." Angela was the one to answer her.

Jane finally reached up and touched her head. "Aw shit! They shaved my head. Oh I bet the guys have had a field day with that."

"Not yet, but now that you're awake I'm sure they'll make up for lost time. Now go to sleep." Jane finally gave in and fell asleep. Angela leaned over and kiss her forehead like she had so many times when she put her to bed as a child. "She's too stubborn for her own good."

"Angela, I have a couple of phone calls to make. I'm going to step out in the hallway and I will be right back ok?"

"Take your time sweetie I know you're not running away this time." Maura smiled guiltily at Angela's statement.

"I'm not going to make that mistake again." Maura stepped out in the hallway and called her friend Jan, a nurse at this very same hospital and set the wheels in motion to do something she hoped would help Jane. "Remember Jan, I don't care how much it costs. Offer them anything then tell them to expect a large donation in a few days. Thanks." Maura smiled as she returned to the room and took her place beside Jane.

"What are you up to? You've got that cat that ate the canary smile on your face."

Maura smiled back at Angela. "All will be clear in a couple of days but I hope it will please Jane." She turned to Jane then lifted her hand to her lips and kissed each finger lovingly.

Angela felt like she was intruding on a very personal moment but it also proved to her how much this young woman loved her daughter. "You really do love her don't you?"

"Oh yes." It came out as almost a sigh. "I love her very much and I will forever regret that I turned my back on her and that I wasn't here for her this past week. And it saddens me that she knew I wasn't here. As a scientist it's hard for me to believe that people in a coma are aware of what is happening around them but what she said about not hearing my voice makes me wonder. We'll have to ask her when she wakes up. There's something that's been bothering me. How do you think Barry, Frankie and Frank are going to react when they see me here?"

"I do know that Barry blames himself. You know how stubborn Jane can be. She told Barry she was fine and told him to take care of you and Agent Dean so he did. He wasn't able to see any wound because her hair covered it up. He thinks if he had been with her she would have been ok. Frankie didn't make it any better by blaming him for not staying with his partner, he was really angry. He's the one you're gonna have the hardest time with, he still can't believe that you never called at all. I don't think Frank Sr. is going to give you a hard time. He's always liked you so all you have to do is smile at him and he'll melt like he always did."

"Work is going to be very uncomfortable when I go back."

"Why do you say that?"

"How many of the cops that were hanging around here noticed I wasn't here? They all knew how close we are. And they had to have heard what happened in the warehouse and that I left with Doyle and not Jane. They couldn't have taken that very well."

"Stop blaming yourself for something you didn't know about and take care of what you can fix. You're going to have to deal with the fallout from this but I do believe that Jane will help you through it." She smiled at the smile that lit Maura's face.

"What are you doing here?" Maura turned to face a very angry Frankie. "Haven't you hurt her enough? You haven't been here all week and Jane can deal with you not being here when she does wake up."

"That's not what Jane said about half an hour ago." Angela had to laugh at the double take Frankie's head made.

"She's awake? Well I can see that's she's not right now but she's out of the coma?"

"Yes she is and if you don't shut your trap she is going to get up out of this bed and beat the shit out of you now shut up and let me sleep." Jane said everything without opening her eyes and Maura had to laugh, she moved to the bed and took Jane's hand. "What are you laughing at?" Jane cracked open the eye closest to Maura and had to smile. "Is Frankie giving you a hard time?" She reached up with her hand and touched Maura's cheek. "Cuz if he is I can beat him up for you."

"Jane I don't think you're in any condition to take on your brother right now. Go back to sleep and Frankie and I will work this out. We'll leave the room so you can sleep." The strength in the hand holding hers surprised her.

"Don't leave me." Maura heard the undertones in Jane's statement.

"Never. I'll be back in a few minutes ok?"

"No let's get this cleared up here and now ok? Frankie what's your problem?" Jane asked with no anger in her voice.

"She turned her back on you. She chose her father over you. She walked away from you when you needed her most. She hasn't called or anything for over a week. She turned her back on you."

"You said that twice so that must be the main issue right? Maura did you turn your back on me?"

"Yes Jane I did and I already told you the reasons behind my actions…" Jane held up her hand to stop her.

"You don't need to convince me you already did that you need to convince Frankie. By the way are we going to have to go through this with Frost and Korsak too?" She turned to Frankie for the last question.

"Probably." He took a deep breath and turned back to Maura. "Well?"

Maura still looked at Jane as she spoke. "Vince was the one that gave me your room number. He also read me the riot act for leaving you behind. I don't think he'll be a problem once he comes to grips with what I told him. Now I am going to tell you the same thing Frankie." She turned her attention to Frankie. "You weren't there so you have no idea what happened inside that building. Things happened so fast and then Jane shot Doyle and I ran to him. I was very unfair to Jane, I didn't know it at the time but I do now. I had no idea that Doyle had shot her until Vince told me today. Had I known that you could not have kept me out of this room. Doyle didn't say a word about it to me until today when I confronted him." She turned to Jane. "By the way Constance is my real mother. I hear you've been digging into Doyle's business practices, you were getting to close and he felt he had to shoot you. He was also planning to shoot Barry because he couldn't leave any witnesses. And Korsak and Frankie because they heard everything from the car."

"What about you Maura, you saw everything too?" Frankie was the one to ask her the tough question.

"I believe to save his own skin he would have killed me too. He went to that warehouse that day to clean up loose ends, did I say that right?"

Both Jane and Frankie had to laugh. "Yeah Maura you said it right." Jane said as she pulled Maura so that she was sitting on the side of the bed next to her. Frankie watched as his sister pulled Maura down for a kiss.

"Yup that's how I found them when I walked in the room earlier." Angela had to laugh at the shocked expression on Frankie's face. "Come on this can't be much of a surprise to you Frankie."

Maura and Jane turned to see what Frankie was going to say. "Well before this week it wouldn't have surprised me but after all that happened you can't just ignore the fact that she chose her father over you?" He turned to Jane.

"You heard her, she didn't know I was shot. She thought I shot Doyle for no reason, well there was that gun he was pointing at us but hey it's an easy thing to overlook right?" She gave Maura her best smirk. "She was angry so I decided to leave her alone so she could deal with it. I remember making you promise to make sure Maura didn't find out about this so how can you blame her? She really didn't know I was hurt. You saw her after I shot myself. Even though she thought what I did was stupid she was still there for me every day."

"But she hasn't called anybody all week, including you."

As Jane began to speak in her defense Maura interrupted her. "No Jane this is my fight let me fight it. This is no excuse but I was busy running between the ICU and room 304 where my mother is. I've been trying to get Doyle to tell me who my real mother was and I had hoped to use his weakened state to get what I wanted." She smiled when she heard a whispered 'that's my girl' from Jane. "I also spent some time getting to know him but after what I've found out today I will never see him again except in court. I called the District Attorney earlier and told him I would testify against him and tell him everything that went on in the warehouse."

Frankie was the first to react. "Does Doyle know you offered to testify?" Maura shook her head. "You can't let him know."