Jane enters the bookstore where she has bought all the books, and spots Darryl immediately. "Darryl!"
He looks up from his book and smiles. "Girl."
"Yeah."
"The spirit's with you, isn't it? You can't bring that thing here. What are you thinking?"
"Listen, man." she replies. "You were right. She's alive."
He nods again. "Righteous."
"But she's in a coma. Her best friend'll take her off life support."
Darryl now shakes his head. "Not so righteous. So, what, are you guys socializing now?"
Jane looks at the blonde and frowns as Maura smiles at her. "We've ... acclimated."
He's grinning as he looks in Maura's direction. "Yeah, I can tell. In fact, I'm sensing some pretty intense feelings she has for you, girl."
Jane's eyes snap to Maura's. "Really?"
Maura blushes a little. "No, I don't."
Darryl chuckles amused. "Uuh, major red aura. Somebody's embarrassed."
Maura slowly closes her eyes. "I am not." she glares at Jane. "Can we focus here?"
Jane clears her throat but can't hide her grin. "Okay."
"Ask him if there's a spell ..."
"Is there a spell. Or a chant, electric shock. Anything to get her spirit back into her body?"
He holds an hand up. "Whoa. You're totally asking the wrong question."
Jane furls her eyebrows. "Why is that wrong, man?"
He takes a deep breath. "Look, I have the gift. I didn't ask for, but I do. I can sense these things, spirits, whatever you wanna call 'em. Why they're hanging here in the first place? That's their unfinished business."

Jane furrows her eyebrows and points at herself. "So, do I have the gift?"
Darryl snorts amuses. "Girl, please. You definitely don't have it. You're a civilian."
"But if I don't have it," Jane says carefully. "how is it that I can see her and talk to her when no one else can?"
"Exactly."
"Exactly what?"
He frowns with a nod. "That's the right question."
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Jane stomps into the apartment and toss her jacket on the couch. "What the hell is he talking about? God, I feel like it's right there in front of us. I just can't get a handle on it." she grumbles and looks through those spiritual books.
"How do you solve a problem that isn't possible in the first place?" Maura asks.
Jane snorts. "Because nothing seems impossible to me anymore. I mean, why did I move into your apartment in the first place? Or why ... why can I see you when no one else can? I mean, why ... why was I down in that restaurant when that guy collapsed? It all seems to interrelated somehow."
Maura furls her eyebrows. "What are you doing?"
Jane's massaging her forehead while she's reading in a book. "I don't know. I feel like I missed something here. Wait a second Rosemary Preston lives right here in Boston. We could go talk to her." she gets up from the couch that got her into this mess. "I'll call information, maybe she's listed."
Maura is pointing on an object that is lying on the coffee table. "Where did you get this?" she asks and sits down on the couch. "It was just in the hospital."
Jane walks back to her and swallows hard when she sees the picture of Maura and Amanda. "Yeah. I ... uh ... I took it. I'm sorry. I ... I just ... I wanted to have a picture of you. I wasn't sure that I was gonna ever see you again. I'm sorry."
Maura nods and then shakes her head."Don't be sorry." she says with tears-ladden voice. "That's really nice. I really like that picture."
"Yeah." Jane says softly and sits down next to the blonde. "Yeah, I liked it too."
Maura takes a deep breath. "I just gotten my MCAT scores back."
Jane takes the frame in her hand. "Well, you must've done well."
Maura laughs briefly. "No, actually I bombed. My scores were so low I couldn't even get into correspondence school."
Jane frowns a little. "And that's a good thing?"
Maura shakes her head. "No." she says and chuckles with the Italian. "I know it sounds kinda crazy. I wanted to go back to the library and start studying immediately, but Amy said no. The only thing to do was to burn my scores and drink margaritas. Lots and lots of margaritas."
Jane caresses the blonde's face on the picture with her thumb. "Well, looks like she was right."
Maura laughs agreeing. "It's just funny because the one time I completely failed at something, I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life."
Jane's sighing heavily. She would do anything to see and get to know that,Maura from the picture. "You look happy."
Maura nods agreeing. "I was happy. But what was I doing with the rest of my life? When I think about my life and I ... All I can remember is working." she wipes an tear off her cheek. "You know? Working and working and trying so hard. And for what?"
Jane wants nothing more than to take this blond mess in her arms. "You help people. You save lives."
The blonde's closing her eyes. "Yeah. Including my own. I saved my life, for later. I just ... I never thought there wouldn't be a later."
Jane is skidding closer and shakes her head. "No, don't say that. There's still time. We're gonna see this lady ..."
"You know," Maura cuts her off and looks her straight in the eye. "I just don't want to spend my last night crying. Or ... fighting my fate. I wanna do something ..." she sees the Italian's hurt expression. "with you, Jane."
Jane looks at her, a tear is rolling down her cheek without asking for permission.
She nods and gets up to her feet. "Okay. Okay, great." she's saying and wipes angrily the tear off her cheek. "What do you want to do? You want to fly to Paris?" she asks and the blonde laughs. "See the Eiffel Tower? No problem. You wanna dance on a beach in Bali? Lets go! Let's do it! Anywhere. Anywhere in the world that ... will take MasterCard or Visa. Anywhere."
Maura's still smiling. No one beside close friends has ever offered such a big heart to her.
She looks at the woman in front of her and frowns. "There is something that I would like to do."
Jane kneels down in front of Maura and places her hands next to the blonde's legs, looking up with soft brown eyes. "Anything."
Maura buries her face in her hands. "Oh, I'm so bad at this."
Jane frowns and tries to look into hazel eyes. "What? What is it?"
Maura looks long at her and frowns.
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Jane lies fully clothed on the right bedside and smiles softly. "Are you nervous?"
Maura hesitates. "A little."
The Italian's smile grows wider. "Why?" she whispers.
"I don't know." Maura's whispering back.
Jane runs her hand only a few inches along over Maura's body contours like she really could feel the body under her touch. Her eyes never leaving hazel ones. "How can you be nervous when I can't even touch you?"
Maura's holding the Italian's gaze. "I think I'm more nervous because you can't touch me."
Jane is grinning. She would never admit that her heart is thudding hard against her ribcage right now. "Why?"
Maura frowns a little. "You know, in the hospital when you touches my hand and kissed my forehead? I felt it. I mean, my spirit felt it. I ... I don't know how. But I think if you could ever really touch me ... I might wake up from all of this."
Jane holds up her hand and when Maura places her hand against Jane's palm, the Italian closes her eyes. "I can almost feel that."
"Me too." Maura replies and opens her own eyes again. "I think I k,ow what my unfinished business is."
Jane frowns deeply. "What?"
"You." Maura whispers back.
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Jane hasn't slept that well for quite a while, but when the sun rays caresses her face she's grunting and rolls onto her back.
A second later a thought crosses her mind. "Maura." she mumbles and cracks an eye open just to her bed empty. "Maura?" she asks louder.
"I'm right here." Maura says softly from the armchair that is standing in the bedroom.
Jane sighs relieved and get out of the bed. "Oh, good, good. I thought you were gone. Suddenly I know what I'm supposed to do. Because thus time I can do something."
Maura looks questioningly at her. "What are you talking about?
Jane puts on her shoes and looks at her. "Maura, when we first met, I kept saying that you were dead. But it was me that was dead, and you brought me back. You saved me. And now it's my turn to save you."
Maura gets out of the armchair. "How?"
Jane puts on her leather jacket and put her hair in a ponytail. "I'm gonna steal your body."
Maura blinks a few times and follows Jane got on her heels. "Jane. Jane. Jane, what are you thinking? You can't do this!"
Jane jogs down the stairs. "Why can't I?"
"Because you'll go to jail!" Maura retorts.
Jane stops abruptly and turns to the blonde. "So what? If something happens to you, you think I care where I'll be? Ar least this'll buy us a little more time."
Maura is rolling her eyes. "The things you'd have to know to even start to pull this off ..."
Jane steps closer. "You know theme. You'll talk me through it."
Maura is holding Jane's gaze and sighs, "Okay, you're gonna need a van. And somebody with no morals."
Jane walks to her car and nods. "I think I know someone who has both of it."
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Andy is holding tightly on the seat as Jane's speeding into the corner. "What are we moving again?"
Jane's focused on the street and chuckles. "Medical supplies."
"You didn't tell him?" Maura asks from the backseat.
"Ssh." hisses.
"You have to tell him." the blonde replies. "You know, he looks really familiar to me."
"You saw him at the bar." Jane mumbles.
Andy glance at her. "Saw who at the bar?"
"No ... no one, never mind." Jane replies and turns left. "Here we go."
He went tense in the passenger's seat. "Okay, and we're in such a hurt yo move this stuff because?"
Jane doesn't look at him. "Uh ... There's a one-day sale on hospital beds. I always wanted one."
He rolls his eyes. "Oh, great. Now you're gonna become a bed potato."
Maura skids behind the driver's seat. "You've gotta tell this poor guy."
"Not yet." Jane hisses again and looks in the rearview mirror.
Andy glances at her. "What yet what?"
"We're not there yet."
"Okay, Jane, be honest with me. Has your imaginary friend come out to play?"
Jane frowns deeply and forces the can into the driveway of Mass Gen.
Andy raises his eyebrows and screams on top of his lungs.
Jane hurries into the storage room of the hospital.
Maura follows her and frowns deeply. "Okay, grab a cart. You need a blood pleasure cuff ... and a portal ventilator, right there, that yellow thing."
Andy throws his arms up. "Jane. Jane, what the hell are you doing? This isn't a sale!"
Jane huffs. "All right. I know you wouldn't come if I told you."
"Do I really want to hear this?" Andy replies.
Jane glance at Maura and clenches her teeth. "My imaginary friend is not imaginary. She is the spirit of a girl in a coma upstairs, who they're about to take off life support. And we have got to get her body someplace safe."
Andy frowns deeply. "Really?"
Jane nods agreeing."Really."
Maura rolls her eyes. "I knew you should've told him."
Jane looks desperately at her. "He wouldn't have believed me."
Maura points at the man. "Does he believe you now?"
Jane is realizing that the blonde really get the best of her and stomps her foot on the floor. "I had to get him into the hospital." she nearly growls.
Andy is holding up his hands. "Jane. Jane, let me take you to the psych ward. There are people up there who can help!"
Jane furrows her eyebrows, ignoring Maura's pitiful gaze. "There's no time. It's 11.30 right now. She's gonna be dead in half an hour!"
Maura has never experienced that someone has stepped up for her like the Italian is doing right now even not Amanda, even though they were more like sisters than friends.
How could she leave Jane alone in all of this. "Tell him I know this is a stretch for him."
Jane's pointing at the blonde. "Maura is standing right behind you now. She says she knows what a stretch this is for you."
"Oh does she." Andy growls.
"Yeah." the Italian replies.
"Okay, if your friend's really behind me, ask her what I'm doing with my hand. Rock, paper or scissors?"
Maura keeps an eye on his hand behind his back. "Rock."
"Rock." Jane's saying.
"Scissors."
"Scissors."
"Paper."
"Paper."

Andy furls his eyebrows confuses.
"Rock again." Maura informs Jane.
The Italian rolls her eyes. "Seriously? Rock again?"
The blonde gasps as And is raising his middle finger. "He's flipping me off."
"Are you flipping her off?" Jane asks with an high-pitched voice.
Andy looks confused over his shoulder. "How ..."
"You're flipping her off!"
He closes briefly his eyes to sort his thoughts. "Okay. Okay, sometimes people with emotional and mental disturbance can have psychic moments. All right. But even if she was real, do you know what you're risking for this woman?"
"Yes!" Jane answers emphatically.
"Why?"
Jane's hesitating and sighs. "Because I love her. I love her." she looks at the blonde. "I do, I love you."
Maura furrows surprised her eyebrows. "No one's ever said that to me before."
Andy rolls his eyes and huffs. "Fine. Let's get the stuff we need to save your girl."
Maura is beaming broadly.
"Thank you." Jane mumbles and starts to gather the things they need.
After they have done so, they emerge on the third floor with a gurney and dressed in white coats.
"Jane?" Maura asks.
Jane is frowning deeply. "What?"
"Tell him thank you."
"We're really grateful, Andy." the Italian says.
"I'm not doing it for you." he crumbles.
"Well, then why are you doing it?"
"Because someday, trust me, I'm gonna need help moving a body. When that day comes, I don't wanna hear any shit from you."
Jane looks long at him before she opens the door to Maura's room.
Maura's licking her lips. "Okay, get me on the gurney, quick."
Andy looks at Maura's comatose body and his eyebrows shoot up. "Oh, my God, Jane."
Jane put the grid down and doesn't look at him. "I know. She's pretty, right?"
Maura rolls her eyes. "That's really sweet of you, but we've gotta go."
Andy still stares at the blonde. "No, that's not it. This is her. This is her. This is the woman I set you up with, the woman you stood up that night!"
Jane points perplex at Maura's lifeless body. "I ... I ... I was gonna meet Maura?"
He nods vigorously, "And she didn't make it either, because she had an accident."
Jane looks at Maura's spirit as the realization starts to set in. "It was you. Is that it? Is that why?"
Maura's face softens. "I was supposed to meet you."
Jane looks with big eyes at her friend. "How did you know her?"
He furls his eyebrows. "I'm friends with her best friend. We went out years ago."
Maura is narrowing her eyes. "I knew I'd see him before. That's A.J.!"
"Andy is A.J.?" Jane laughs and point at him.
Maura nods. "Yeah."
Andy straightens up immediately. "What did you ... No one's called me A.J. since college."
"He's older and hairier, but it's him."
Jane's staring at Maura. "He's the one who tongued Amy at her wedding?"
Andy points at the Italian. "How the hell did you know that? Nobody knows that!"
Jane frowns deeply. "It's Maura."
He holds up his hand. "Oh, my God. She really is here, isn't she?"
"I told you!" Jane replies emphatically.
"Well, let's get her on the gurney! I don't want them killing Amy's best friend!"
Jane is about to pull the blanket back. "Thank you!"
"Come on." he demands.
Maura smiles relieved. "Okay. Be really gentle."
They are stopping as the door opens briefly, but no one's coming in as a phone starts ringing.
Maura glance at Jane. "That's Patrick."
Jane looks down at her watch. "He's fifteen minutes early!"
Andy's frowning deeply. "He's coming in."
Jane is hurrying to the door.
"Careful, Jane." Maura warns her as the Italian emerges from the room. "He's really smart. His name is ..."
Jane smiles at the tall man. "Dr. McMahon?"
He looks confused at her. "Yeah."
"Hi, Jane Rizzoli."
Maura eyes him skeptically. "Buy some time. Tell him you're a doctor."
Jane clears her throat. "I'm a ... uh ... doctor. I'm a ... um ... special consultant from PAC Medical. Dr. Irving sent me down for a final evaluation."
McMahon stares at her. "I had no verbal or written instruction to that end."
Jane licks her lips and says what Maura is telling her. "There are new evidence to support the full functionality can be restored. We need to go and need to run some more test."
Ha places his hands on his hips. "Who's we?" he asks skeptically.
Maura raises her eyebrows. "Tell him your team is downstairs."
Jane scratches her chin. "My team is downstairs with a signed order from Dr. Irving."
Maura smiles proudly. "You got it."
McMahon takes a deep breath. "This is the first I've heard of this. You won't mind if I talk to Dr. Irving?"
Jane shakes her head and points to the opposite direction. "Oh, no. Go ahead. Go confirm with him. We'll wait right here."
McMahon takes his phone out of his pocket. "I'll just ... uh ... get him on the phone."
Jane is cursing in her head while she considers her next move.
She's staring nervously at him and slams her left gist to his chin as he smiles cocky at her.
"Jane!" Maura calls out shocked.
The Italian shakes her hurting hand. "Okay, I'm not convincing as a doctor!"
Andy rolls the gurney out of the room and sees the beaten McMahon on the hospital floor. "Oh, God, Jane. The felonies just piling up!"
Maura points in a direction. "That way, Jane."
Jane sees Karen and Amanda rounding the corner. "Go this way."
Karen starts to run toward the punched McMahon. "Patrick!"
"What happened?" Amanda squeals.
"Are you okay?"
McMahon groans and sits up, and pushes a button on the phone. "This is Dr. McMahon. I need security on the third floor."
Maura jogs beside Jane down the hallway. "Don't jostle. But go faster. Take a right up here."
Jane heart is beating like crazy. "Right here. Right, right, right, right, right! The elevator!"
A security man spots them and starts to run. "Hold it! We need to ..." he grunts as Andy tackles him down in the elevator.
Jane raises an eyebrow but continues running.
The next security gut spots her and points at her. "Stop right there. Stop! Stop! Stop! Hold it!"
Jane makes an hard stop and looks for the next best escape, realizing that she's surrounded.
Maura is staring at her own body. "Jane."
Jane furrows her eyebrows. "Maura."
"Oh, my God, Jane. My breathing tube is gone."
Jane looks down at the blonde's body. "What? No! Well, what can I do?"
Maura shakes her head. "It's too late. It's happening."
Jane furls her eyebrows. "No!"
Maura starts to vanish into air. "It's strong."
"Be stronger." Jane whispers.
"It's pulling me away." Maura replies before she disappears completely.
"No!" Jane yells panicky as the hearts monitor starts to show a flat heart line. "Stay with me!" she demands before she tries to safe the blonde with a mouth-to-mouth.
Suddenly, a security man tackles Jane to the floor and another holds the struggling brunette down.
Jane tries to sit up again. "Maura! No! Help her!"
McMahon looks at a male nurse. "Gimme five of Haldol."
Jane growls like an wild animal as another man is holding her down. "Help her! Maura!"
"Hold her." one of the men orders.
Jane sits up for a second. "No! Maura!"
Everybody becomes silent when a beep from the heart monitor fills the hall.
Amanda, who has witnessed the whole heart breaking scene, furls her eyebrows. "What's going on?"
McMahon stares at the gurney. "That's impossible. That's impossible."
Maura furls her eyebrows and starts coughing.
Amanda gasps and hurries to the gurney with Karen at her side. "Maura? Can you hear me?"
A stunned Jane stands up without fighting the men who are holding her back.
Amanda takes Maura's hand in her own and starts crying. "I can't believe we almost let you go. Honey? It's me, Amanda."
Maura's slowly opening her eyes. "Amy." she whispers.
The other woman nods happily. "Yeah."
Maura tries to sit up and lies back on the gurney with a groan. "I think I bumped my head."
Amanda looks at the security men and nods approving. "It's okay."
Jane still can't shut her mouth and walks to the gurney. She looks at the blonde and smiles relieved. "Hey." she whispers at Maura.
Maura looks long at her. "Hello." she replies.
"It's me." the Italian whispers with soft eyes.
Maura shakes her head. "I'm sorry. I don't ..."
Amanda smiles at the blonde. "Honey, it's Jane. You don't remember Jane?"
Maura looks back at the Italian and sees the hurt look.
Jane furls her eyebrows. "The apartment. The rooftop. Garden. Nothing." she takes a shakily breath as she sees the confused eyes and wants to touch Maura's hand, but blonde pulls her hand away.
"Honey," Amanda says hurt herself. "you don't remember her at all?"
Maura looks up at her and shakes her head.
A single tear escapes Jane's eye and make its way down her cheek as she steps nodding back.
She lowers her eyes as everybody stares at her.
Maura looks confused after her as Amanda embraces her. Something feels different, somehow she feels like she knows this foreign brunette. And somehow she feels disappointed that this woman os leaving flightless.
Jane glances one last time at the blonde before she rounds the corner.
She's sure that all the efforts and stress was worthless.
She's sure that she will be in jail by tomorrow, but she already said it this morning. It doesn't matter where she'll be when she can't have the nagging blonde in her life.
She wipes the tear off her cheek and takes off the coat, heading out of the hospital.
She's asking herself what wishful thinking she as she've done this.
That it would end like in Sleeping Beauty, and she would be the knight in shining armor?
Who the hell was she kidding?

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Hey, guys. This was the last chapter, but I still have an Epilogue. It will be short but sweet. Anyway, I hope you liked it. Thanks for joining.

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