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China Teacup: Part Four
"Jane, it could be hours before the doctor is able to come to see me on his usual rounds, he's not going to come directly in to see me when he arrives at the hospital. I am not in critical condition and I'm sure that considering his specialization he has many patients falling under that criteria." Maura argued softly as she watched Jane struggle to fold up the z-bed the nursing staff had been nice enough to bring in for the detective when Jane had made it clear to them with a suspect still on the loose the Medical Examiner was too high profile a person to be just 'left' alone. Her main night nurse, who had clearly seen the notes about who Jane was on file, and had walked in on them earlier to find them both cuddled up asleep together had made a slight 'knowing' noise but in the end had been the one to arrange the extra bed for Jane to get some comfortable sleep in rather than being sat up in a chair all night by her beside. "I know you have to get into work, your mother will be here before 9:30 depending on traffic and even if Dr. Bester agrees to let me go there is going to be paperwork and instructions. Plenty of time for me to call you and update you on the situation before I'd be going home." She had to admit that on one hand she felt more human this morning, having been helped by Jane first thing to wash up a bit and get into her more normal morning routine but on the other hand she'd awoken far more in pain from her general injuries. All of the 'minor' injuries now adding up to severe stiffness and intense discomfort that she was trying to mitigate with the idea she would be going home to her own bed soon to continue her recover.
"I know all that but Frankie texted me already and let me know that I don't have to rush anywhere if you need me and I think you need me, you look worse today than you did yesterday." Jane frowned as she trapped her finger in a fold, cursing she sucked it into her mouth and lightly bit onto the throbbing flesh.
"I am..." Maura was about to give in and admit how she was feeling but seeing that Jane had hurt herself she just held out her good hand and softly indicated for her to come towards the bed. "Let me see." She requested in a soft voice, pleased when Jane did walk over and stuck out her hand for her to inspect it. "I think you'll keep the finger." She brought it up and kissed the tip of it ever so lightly. "And to answer your question, I do feel a little more... bruised and battered today generally. But considering the time now that the contusions have had to swell, that my body will have assessed the damage and be working already to repair the injured skin tissue, that nerve ending immediately dampened will have been reactivated for my nervous system to further assess the extent of the damage..." She began a medically long winded explanation. "It's not unexpected Jane."
"Doesn't mean I have to like it." Jane admitted with a soft pout, as she shifted to sit on the edge of the bed. "I am happy that we didn't run into any complications with the concussion." She went on to say as she looked at the blonde tenderly. "No throwing up or in coherent rambling, even if a part of me was almost looking forward to you rambling about pink elephants or bananas in pyjamas."
"I could imagine you finding great pleasure in that kind of hallucination." Maura admitted with a soft smirk. "I also have to admit I was hoping that after some refreshing and repairing deep sleep my brain would have been able to find and properly file the memories of the accident that I'm missing but..." A frown pulled at her mouth now. "I still can't remember anything, I'm sorry." She genuinely looked ashamed of this fact. "I should be helping you with the investigation by giving you details but... instead I can remembering leaving the house, I can remember being in the park but after that the next thing I remember is waking up to see you." She looked at Jane still sad. "I know it's normal, I would tell any patient it was normal but there is a big difference between the evaluation on paper and when you are experiencing it for real." She admitted her own shortcoming.
"Maur stop it okay, by the way the case is going other than being helpful we might not need anything from you." Jane shook her head softly and reached out to lightly take the blonde's uninjured hand. "Really all I need you to do is focus on getting better, the bits and pieces will come back to you and if they don't..." Jane gave a shrug. "They don't... who really needs to remember being run over?"
"Is it natural to be concerned that I might have forgotten other things as well?" Maura admitted squeezing Jane's hand harder. "I mean I couldn't remember what clothes were in my dry cleaning pile, what if I've forgotten the fundamentals of blood spatter interpretation, or my security code for the house or what your favourite food is?" She looked a little forlorn.
"Well later, when you're at home and rested a little more we can test a few of those things." Jane offered trying not to frown at the idea that Maura was questioning herself like she was. "Are you worried enough to want to talk to your specialist about it?" She offered.
"No, fundamentally if I look at this logically it's too early to expect to accurately expect my memory centres to be responding properly. There is a very good chance I will never remember the moments directly before during and after the accident due to my ancient brain activating an archaic self preservation system." Maura admitted to both Jane and herself. "And I'm quite sure that if there was anything on the very through scans that they did yesterday to cause any concern he will order another series today before my release, but considering I'm not experiencing any verbal disruptions, movement difficulties beyond the constraints of the tissue injuries, or emotional disturbances..." She paused. "I haven't been acting out of character have I?" She checked with Jane knowing the detective would know best.
"Not really." Jane shook her head. "You haven't been spouting Bulgarian or juggling cleavers." She offered with a grin.
"Then most probably I just have to admit that I am not above the common side effects of a medium grade concussion." Maura admitted softly. "Has the accident reconstruction been able to estimate the speed of the vehicle that hit me?"
Jane arched her eyebrow at the doctor and shook her head.
"Which part of stop worrying about it did you not understand?" Jane underlined softly. "He was going fast enough to hurt you but not fast enough to kill you, it was a deliberate choice on his part, or at least that's what we think." She offered the barest of answers. "And I know what you're going to say to that, that someone can be killed by a car traveling 5km an hour and walk away from an accident involving one at four times that speed, but go with what I'm telling you okay?"
"Yes Jane." Maura gave a soft nod and leaned back into her reiki pillow more. "This is one of those times when I need to shut off my inquisitive brain and just trust in that knowledge that you and the rest of the BPD are looking after it." She nodded and let our a soft breath. "Would you feel better if you talked to Dr. Bester again? He might do another scan if you insisted and it would make you worry less, this has been stressful enough for you and the baby, submitting to another series of imaging exams is the least I can do if it will alleviate your worry."
"It probably would make my stress levels drop a little." Jane admitted with a small smile. "I just want to know everything up there is as well as it can be all things considered. After all you're the smart parent, I'm the stupid one." She offered.
"Hey, you are not stupid." Maura corrected her immediately. "You just didn't spend as much time on a neurology rotation as I did during medical school." She re-framed it. "Well then if Frankie and the boys don't need you in right away, how about you try to wait until Dr. Bester arrives, we can share our general concerns and see if he is willing to conduct another series of images which under the circumstances I don't think is unwarranted. It will delay my release but also mean that it will probably be later in the day when you might be better able to take some time away from your desk and escort me home." She modified their plans. "How does that sound Detective Snuggle bunny?"
"Sounds like a great revised plan." Jane agreed easily and quickly considering all her concerns. "You know no matter how bruised and battered you are right now, you're still beautiful." She added with a soft smile. "Don't know how you do that, after a week or so in a coma I just looked like hell." She chuckled.
"Actually to me you looked beautiful, even with the tubes and the bandages, when you opened your eyes for the first time... I had been so worried we were going to lose you..." Maura admitted leaning up to pull herself to Jane's body a little. "I knew in that moment how much I loved you, how I didn't know how I would have existed without you..." She admitted in a soft voice. "You probably didn't even notice that day how I started to cry, just because you'd opened your eyes."
"Talking of not remembering things, I don't actually remember much about all of that..." Jane admitted with an honest smile. "Other than you and Ma taking real good care of me, you always have. I do remember my care of you when you donated your kidney was less... tender." She smirked. "And more cruel to be kind... it's how I got you running, which ultimately led to this which isn't exactly something to be proud of in retrospect is it?"
"You were mad at me for doing it." Maura admitted that she had understood why Jane's reaction had caused her to be so brusque at the time. "And you were nice enough when I was first recovering, it was when I was letting the emotional disappointment overwhelm my recovery that you started the tough love." She gave a soft laugh. "I still wanted to snap at you a few times to be nicer to me, which... I did didn't I?" She prompted.
"I didn't mind." Jane shook her head. "You and emotions are a little like me and emotions, acquaintances not BFF's."
"We're quite the pair sometimes aren't we?" Maura gave a soft laugh leaning herself completely against Jane's body. "At least we both know how to read each others body language, it goes a long way in figuring each other out." She let out a soft breath. "I hurt." She admitted in a small voice.
Jane closed her arms around the blonde and kissed her head softly.
"I wish I could make it better." She said softly and honestly.
"You do." Maura admitted snuggling closer. "Thank you for staying last night, every time I woke up I just had to look to see you and I felt better."
"I'm sorry I didn't stay awake and watch you all night..." Jane shook her head apologetically. "Pistachio has me worn out more than I expected. Maybe there's something to those vitamins you're trying to pawn off on me after all."
"By tonight I want you back on schedule." Maura outlined. "And please don't think I wanted you to stay up all night, that you were resting made me feel calmer, made me know it was all okay. Detective Rizzoli doesn't sleep if the world is ending." She outlined the reality check she had used to assure herself. "How is Pistachio this morning?" She settled her hand against Jane's stomach.
"Ugh, so so." Jane gave Maura a look of uncertainty. "Unsettled and a little nauseous." She admitted. "Happy I can't smell the 'hospital' and am instead surrounded with all things Maura."
"I'm happy to be your happy smell." Maura snuggled closer. "You could come lay down with me until your mother gets here, it will help with the nausea until she arrives with something yummy for you to eat." She suggested patting the bed again.
"You know I could begin to think you like lying around with me." Jane smirked, shifting slightly to ease more onto the bed.
"You're just beginning to think that?" Maura gave a soft laugh and snuggled into her, leaving her sorest side up so that she didn't have to lean against any of the scrapes or bruising. "By the time Pistachio is ready to greet this world you'll be thinking the only thing I like to do with you is lie down." She settled her arm high across Jane's body.
"I'm going to be so huge by then." Jane groaned rolling her eyes. "I won't be able to do anything other than lie down."
"Don't be ridiculous, there is no reason for you to be doing almost all 'normal'..." She stressed the word. "Activities even late into the third trimester." She gave a soft laugh. "Though considering what you think normal activities are I might have to agree you won't be able to do much... except sit down and watch sports a lot? Yay." She made a badly enthusiastic noise. "I personally can't wait to see the changes in your body Jane, to experience the maturation of your pregnancy as you and Pistachio develop in anticipation for delivery."
"You want to see me get fat?" Jane arched an eyebrow at the blonde and then hugged her a little tighter in their reclined embrace.
"No, I want to see the changes in your body as you progress into the third trimester. You're not going to be fat Jane, you'll be carrying a baby." Maura clarified as she was sure she'd done at least three dozen times by now. "Knowing you, Angela will barely be born before you're trying to get out running in order to get back to your pre-baby weight."
"I thought we could get one of those running pushchairs." Jane nodded.
"I actually think that would be a wonderful idea, it will also give me a chance to take her outside while you are still resting at home. Fresh air and stimulation is great for development." Maura agreed with her. "I thought also when she'd old enough we could join a baby and me water therapy class."
"Totally, Ma took all of us to one when we were small. 'Little swimmers' I think it was called." Jane nodded enthusiastically agreeing with the blonde. "And you and she are signing up for baby yoga."
"Of course." Maura snuggled her head closer. "It's going to be wonderful Jane, every step of the journey." She underlined her belief to her girlfriend. "I know right now the maladies seem to be difficult but I think your mother is right about one thing she keeps saying, the rewards are worth the negatives." She moved to gently rub her hand, lifting the heavy cast out of the way as she did, against Jane's stomach.
"Yeah I also know she was right when she said I can't do this on my own, and to know that I have you through it all..." Jane rubbed her fingertips over those that touched her stomach. "Makes me feel like I have a chance of making it through the whole thing sane." She softly laughed. "Thank you." She added her voice dipping softer. "For everything you do, for just being you and everything that means."
"You're welcome." Maura leaned up to look into dark eyes. "Thank you for those very same things, and for trusting me, loving me enough to share this baby's life with me, to share with me the responsibility of her growth and her development, the chance to be a roll model and cheerleader for her... to be there to love the two of you." She underlined. "It's the greatest gift."
"I'll make sure to remind you of that when she's kept us up for 28 hours straight and we're arguing about whose turn it is to feed her or change her and she's screaming the house down." Jane grinned.
"I know you'll say I'm crazy but I'm even looking forward to those moments." Maura grinned back. "Because I also know by hour 30 your system will shut down and pass out on the couch and it'll just be me and the baby time." She gave a soft laugh. "I'm going to perch her on your back and let the rhythm of your breathing and my Tibetan chanting lull her to sleep."
"You're weird and a little crazy, you know that right?" Jane smirked as she settled back more against the mattress. "It's one of the things I love about you."
"Why thank you Detective." Maura leaned and brushed their lips together, having to admit to herself the swelling in her face made hers all the more sensitive this morning before she leaned back down against Jane's body. "That you're weird and a little crazy is one of the things I also love about you."
-x-
"Tell her what you got Frankie, this is your work." Korsak made a motion with his hand for the young Detective to take the floor when Jane came in clutching her coffee looking for a status update.
"Thank you..." He did a soft bow and then used the tablet to change the screens they were looking at. "It took a lot of collating, and some digging through evidence but... I think I can tie our hit and run thieves to at least 16 different pedestrian attacks in the last six months. All of these correspond, sometimes a little tenuously, to the make and model of high end luxury cars that were stolen in the wee hours of the morning of the 'accidents'..." He made quotations with his free hand. "And all the vehicles are later recovered with damage, that according the the police and insurance reports, to the front area of the vehicle consistent with crash damage we'd expect. In most cases the damage was repaired by the owners insurance without any real investigation, because there was a stolen car police report and all of these babies are worth money so it's not like our owners are going with cut rate insurance policies." He continued. "Add to that... eleven of our sixteen target cases involve the pedestrian who was hit also reporting a breech of their credit card and bank account and we have ourselves a ring here. The information was never collated together to realize that we had a duo working on this whole set up because most of the credit card fraud was dealt with by the companies and any breech of banking information usually was spearheaded by the banks fraud officers who filed a mandatory police report for theft but in most cases only to expedite the return of the funds to their customer not in the expectations of an extensive police investigation. Because of the length of time between the victim's accident and the statements coming in, in today's world a good number of our victims might not even have collated the events."
"Now tell her the bad, good news." Korsak urged him.
"Early on one of the pedestrians was an eighty year old woman by the name of Florence Winters, she died two months later of her injuries Jane. From that point on our duo only seems to hit younger people, I'm guessing they realized they were better targets." He frowned. "So now Cavanaugh says this is officially our case as Ms. Winters case is listed as a vehicular homicide."
"Our case." Jane actually smiled like a child that had been given the gift she had been wanting for weeks. "I love you, both of you." She grinned more and sipped her coffee. "Let's get these bastards." She slipped into her chair and looked at the data that Frankie had already transferred for her to peruse. "But..." She stopped turning from the screen for a second. "I might have to slip out if I get a call just to get Maur home. We're running a second batch of tests done, but we should get her released later today and I want to be the one to take her home, Ma's said she can handle it, but I just want to do it."
"I have it on the QT that even the Governor has called the Chief to send it down the line that this is a top priority case. He doesn't like the idea that anyone thinks they can run over any pedestrian in this city and not find yourself being hunted, but we all know it's because the Globe and the Herald both had stories this morning about Maura being targeted." Korsak threw in. "So I like to extrapolate to the direction that you Detective should take care of the ME, so whenever you need to go just let us know." He threw her a wink.
"Thank you." Jane gave him a soft smile. "I apologize now if at times I'm not as on point as I should be, just tell me if I'm not." She added looking at the two of them. "I'm worried."
"Because the doctors are running more tests?" Frankie questioned right away, feeling a thread of worry himself. The last time he'd gotten an update from his mother, Angela had seemed optimistic and pleased with Maura's progress and the specialist's opinion on her case.
"Yeah, but no, I mean we talked them into that, I just..." She stopped. "I don't want anything bad to happen to her, ever." She admitted. "But there's more to it..." She stopped again. "Forget about it, lets start working this."
Korsak looked at Frankie for a moment and then pushed up out of his seat.
"Your coffee's given me ideas, I'll grab you one Frankie." He made the point of giving the other man a long look.
The younger Rizzoli waited until their Sgt had left the room before he looked at his sister who was studying the screens of details.
"Maybe we could work better if you get the, forget about it, off your chest." Frankie leaned back in his chair softly appraising her.
"I don't think so." Jane looked at him shaking his head. "It's so complicated Frankie." She sighed hard. "And I don't even know where to begin."
"Let me give you a start... Maura woke up from her concussion thinking you two were dating, you began playing along and now... it's not feeling so much like playing anymore?" Frankie quirked an eyebrow.
"Since when did you become so enlightened and smart?" Jane arched her eyebrow at him and dropped her head into her hands with a huffed sigh. "I love her." She just summed up with an exhausted breath. "And some time, any time actually she's going to wake up and remember that she doesn't love me."
"Or she's going to wake up and find out that in a weird way this attack bridged the gap between you and her getting romantic that she's always wanted." Frankie pointed out to his sister seriously. "Do you really think that her feelings for you are new Jane?"
"I don't know." Jane frowned. "But today when we were talking about whether or not she should have more tests her only reason for having more would be if she were acting 'not like herself' well she's not, not towards me." Jane revealed her worry. "She's clinging, and emotional and calls me 'snuggle bunny' a lot, which is just not normal, I don't even know if it would be normal if we were dating, and I'm worried that it's not just the 'dating' thing that the injury is caused, it's the emotions behind it." She explained. "I know Maura loves me, but not necessarily like she does right now."
"Hold on." Frankie held up his hand to stop her. "You're seriously telling me that if you and Maura were dating, were planning your life together with the baby, you don't think after almost getting killed by a car while out running she'd be emotional and clingy?" He raised an eyebrow. "Do you not remember what she was like when you were in the hospital?"
Jane pulled in a deep breath and shook her head.
"I don't." She admitted. "I think I blocked it out because it didn't fit with how I needed to feel about her to function, I've had to ignore any attraction I've felt towards Maura for a while Frankie." Jane made the very rare admission, internally blaming the pregnancy for her seeming inability to deal with all of this herself.
"Then let me tell you what was told to me... your 'friend'..." He quirked his eyebrow at the word on purpose. "After doing procedures on me to save my life..." He pointed out purposefully. "Was the first one to rush to your side despite the fact there might be more shooters in the building and buried herself in your blood to try and stop you from bleeding out on the front steps of this building, she was in the ambulance as you were rushed by a police escort to the hospital, she was in emergency the whole time as close as she could get to you until you were rushed into surgery, then she spent the next 10 hours waiting to get word as to how the surgery had gone and she spend the next 16 hours covered in your dried blood in the ICU waiting room getting moment to moment updates and watching you through the glass observation walls." He frowned softly. "I know this because when I woke up from surgery and Ma was there she explained how Maura was taking point with you so she was able to be there with me most of the time." He explained knowing Jane would want to know how he knew this. "It took Korsak and Frost promising that they would both stay in the same spot to even get her to budge long enough to go home, shower and change. From what Ma told me she showered with her phone in a baggie in case someone called." He smiled softly at her. "Whatever you've been doing to ignore this attraction between you two, I think it's safe to say Maura's been trying to ride the line in her own way Janie. I don't think the knock she took to the head created how she feels about you, I think the only thing it did was make her forget to hide how she felt." He summed up.
"I want to marry her." Jane announced suddenly.
"Whoa Tonto, a minute ago you were afraid she doesn't love you and now you want to marry her?" Frankie moved around to stand next to his sister. "You're serious aren't you?" He asked the question almost rhetorically. "How much love have you been repressing?"
"A lot, and I want Angela to have two mothers right from the start, I want Maura's name on her birth certificate and I want it there as my wife." Jane kept her hair back off her face with one hand as she looked at her baby brother.
"You're naming the baby after Ma if it's a girl? Janie." He couldn't help but move to hug her. "Okay..." He was surprised when she didn't squirm and he only hung on for a moment to not ruin the effect. "We need a ring. You can't just ask a woman like Maura without a ring."
"I can't ask her at all if she only loves me because of this head thing." Jane shook her head, brown eyes looked at him forlornly.
"No, she needs her memories to be sorted again but think about it, when she finally has her 'whoa' moment and realizes that since the accident she's been all over you, clingy as you even put it, and that you've been allowing her brain to work things out, wouldn't it be better if when she figures she's ruined everything with you that you're there pulling out a ring telling her how much you really love her?" Frankie offered the romantic option. "You are on a deadline if you want those things you just listed." He motioned to her stomach. "But I'm willing to bet that offered the chance to really share this with you, for it to be the three of you against the world, Maura's a smart lady, she's not going to pass that up." He smiled at her more.
Jane pulled in another breath.
"You really think I should go ahead and get a ring?" Jane's brow pulled into a unsure frown.
"I think you should do what your heart is telling you to do, and from what you just said to me, that involves getting a ring." He reached up and put his hands on her shoulders. "I can honestly tell you that if you were my brother, I'd be telling you that having watched the way you and Maura are together, that you needed to grow some balls and get on that. So... it's 2015 and what's it they say, love is love, so grow some balls Janie and get your girl." He grinned at her.
"But there's the case we have to focus on." Jane shook her head. "A high level in depth case doesn't lend itself to shopping for rings." She admitted.
"Okay slight hitch in the plan but we can work around it, jewelry shops have online catalogs now." Frankie grinned at her softly. "What kind of a ring do you think you're looking for?" He moved back around to his computer. "Susie says the lab should be finished processing Maura's cell phone and sim card within the half hour, so we still have some time to look. I've done all the collating of the data on the other cases, the most we could be doing is driving around looking at the various scenes but honestly I don't think it's going to tell us a lot other than opportunity meets location." He shrugged. "So... I'm going to assume you're thinking solitaire... right?" He began to search waving her over.
"Actually..." Jane admitted with a little look. "I was thinking it would be more Maura if I bought her something antique. You know something that was a piece of art, a piece of history a piece of something more than just off the shelf of a jewelers store. A one of a kind thing that had survived the rigors of time."
"I like how you think." Frankie smiled at her. "Even the antique stores have inventories online these days, lets see what we can find..." He restarted his search.
-x-
"Jane..." Korsak stuck his head around the corner into the BRIC to see the tall brunette still mapping out incidents with her brother to see if a 'comfort zone' could be worked out for their duo as to where they stole and where they used the stolen cars to hit their victims. "Just got a call from dispatch, we have a woman trying to use Maura's credit card at a high end Boutique on Morton, the company had the card flagged and the store attendant had the presence to call in foot patrol. They're bringing her in now." He smiled at the other detective. "Who wants to bet she knows at least one of our duo?"
"I'll bet on that one." Jane broke her attention to look at the sergeant with a half smile. She was about to ask which room she should head to but then stopped as she realized with a certain amount of discontent that she wasn't sure she wanted to. "You want me to deal with her?" She asked of Vince not letting her own query show.
"All depends, you up to dealing with our fake Maura who is still insisting to the uniforms she's Maura Isles and this is all a misunderstanding?" Korsak warned her softly. "She even had a fake driver's license made up." He warned her.
Jane's jaw locked a little when she heard just how far apparently this woman had taken the charade.
"I could do it, you know I could." She offered. "Depends what kind of an approach do you think we should take with her. Is she giving them the weepy helpless female routine?"
"I'm guessing the tears will come out when she realizes we're not buying the whole misunderstanding angle." He admitted. "But they will also probably dry up when she finds out we're not just booking her for credit card fraud, but trying to tie her into a homicide and fifteen attempted vehicle homicides." He summed up. "I know you can do it, but do you want too?"
"No I don't want to look at the woman who is involved with the group who at best just blatantly ran down Maura with the purpose of stealing her identity and robbing her blind, I want to beat her senseless, run her over and take away her freedom." Jane replied honestly. "But I'm a cop so I can only legitimately try and do one of those things."
"I'll let Frankie take the interview." He nodded. "You want to watch with me?"
"Okay." Jane agreed to the slight change of plan, taking a quick glance at her watch with a frown, noting that it was already midday and she hadn't heard anything from the hospital. "Do you think that the threat of something more than fraud and impersonating the medical examiner of the state of Massachusetts will be enough to make her roll?"
"It would be more than enough to make me roll, after all the charge she thinks she's facing is at maximum a 5 grand fine and two years, the charges we can press her with add up to the rest of her life." He explained. "I'm thinking she doesn't even realize where her guy is getting these cards he's getting her to impersonate. She probably gets a cut of whatever they can buy once they liquidate it." He continued to offer an explanation. "If she doesn't budge we'll have to be ready to put surveillance on her." He thought ahead. "She's likely to go right back to her contact to bitch him out for getting her nabbed." He saw Jane checking her watch again. "No news from the hospital? Call your mom, it'll be a few until she's in a room."
"They would have called me if there was news or if she could go home." Jane shook her head. "I'd just be bugging them if I called now." She breathed out. "And I wouldn't be better if all the news was 'she's still having tests' or 'they're keeping her in'." She admitted frowning harder.
"Yeah but it's better to know, gives you a chance to plan out the rest of the day." Korsak tilted his head. "Go on, I don't want to see you in that observation room until you have an update on what's going on in the hospital for me." He pointed out moving off. "Phone."
Jane nodded with a soft smile, pulled out her phone and moved to push out of the BRIC and eased into the to hall towards the elevator, already calling her mother's cell.
"You must have a break in the case, I was expecting this call an hour ago." Angela answered with a soft chuckle. "Did you catch the bastard?"
"We have someone in questioning to do with the case but it's not the driver." Jane shook her head. "And you were expecting a call? I was expecting a call? How are you? How is Maura? Have they done the tests? When can she come home?"
"I'm fine thank you for asking." Angela purposefully answered that question first. "And the tests are done, but apparently Dr. Bester had another emergency so we're stuck waiting on his final approval as to the results and if she's coming home. But..." Her smile could be heard in her voice. "I made friends with the nurse and she already assured me that the report from the scans are good, they just need his okay to send her home so it could be anytime." She summed up. "I was waiting to call you when we actually knew something officially."
Jane breathed out an audible sigh of relief.
"And how is she? She was in a lot of discomfort this morning not just from her head." Jane continued her questioning. "Did you remember to bring the panda tea in with you and has she had some?" The brunette rattled off her questions quickly.
"She's sore, but that's to be expected Janie." Angela tried to reassure her daughter. "And yes I brought the tea, yes she's had some." She listed off. "She's been reminding me of you since about eleven, every time someone goes by she expects them to be on their way to tell her she can go home." She gave a soft laugh. "She's fed up with this place which personally I think is a good sign, though... did you really promise her you'd take a few days off to stay at home with her?" There was a hint of question in Angela's voice.
"Yes." Jane admitted. "If we get things here with the case that I can, I'm taking some time to spend with her." The detective confirmed. "Is it that much of a shocking thing to promise?"
"It is coming from you, my daughter doesn't normally take days off work." Angela pointed out to her softly. "Though... I think it's a good idea. Maura is going to need help especially for the first few days, she's as good at asking for help as you are." She reminded the brunette. "She misses you." She added suddenly in a softer voice.
"I miss her too Ma." Jane said matching her mother's softness. "Is she resting?"
"Yes, she's meditating." She admitted. "I went to get the newspaper to try and distract her when she's done." She gave a soft laugh. "Jane..." She let her voice drop to an even softer tone. "Have you thought anymore about what we talked about?"
"I've done nothing but think Ma." Jane admitted honestly.
"It's just..." Angela could be heard settling some things on some sort of table. "Maura and I talked this morning, and I know we're all curious as to whether what is going on is just because of the accident or just an expression of what she's already been feeling. And..." She heard a disgruntled noise from her daughter. "I know, but I wasn't doing it to just be a snoop or anything, I just want to get you a clearer answer, and be able to support Maura when she does reset." She tried to explain her reasons.
"Did you get any clearer idea? From Maur? I just..." Jane offered obvious interested in anything her mother had managed to gleam.
"Janie, did she ever talk to you about what she arranged with her lawyers after you were shot?" Angela's voice dropped lower.
"What are you talking about?" Jane asked confused. "Arranged with her lawyers about what?"
"I'm not telling you all the details but... you know how we weren't sure you were going to be able to go back to work? It wouldn't have been a problem baby." Angela tried to softly explain without going into details.
Jane took a small breath.
"I need to talk to you Ma." Jane admitted softly.
"You can always talk to me baby." Her mother's tone was purely sympathetic.
"No, not on the phone. I need to talk, talk to you." Jane outlined.
"Come to the hospital then, we're in a holding pattern, I can meet you downstairs if you're not up to seeing Maura." Angela gave her the option. "I know this has been hard on you sweetheart, you're not used to being the one watching someone you love in pain, that you can't stop no matter how much you want too."
"I don't know if I can Ma, we have someone in questioning and I should be here..." Jane pressed her free hand to her brow. "I want to, because I want to talk over a lot of things and I want to feel... grounded." She admitted.
"Then you either get here as soon as you can, or when we get Maura home you and I are going to have a conversation before you go back in." Angela outlined with a certain amount of authority. "But let me tell you this baby..." She hesitated only long enough to take a breath. "I'm here to look after you and I'm here to look after Maura. We're going to get through this, together."
"I hope so." Jane admitted. "Thank you for all you are doing, for being there with her." She added. "I'll call you with updates, do the same."
"As soon as the doctor comes in." Angela vowed for her.
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