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Jane woke up to an empty bed. Feeling the sheets next to her she figured Maura must just have gotten out. They were still warm. She had thought she would be the one to wake first but apparently the blonde was a morning person. She got out and could already smell the fresh coffee. A smile appeared on her face as she walked out of the bedroom. Then she heard her mother's voice. Her smile faded and made place for annoyance. They had explained the situation to the woman yesterday by sending her a text but she hadn't seen her mother since they were back. She didn't want her mother over the other night and use her comforting words on them. Jane was trying to distract Maura as much as she could, thinking it would be better for the blonde instead of facing the situation.
Jane walked toward the kitchen wearing her fake smile and being her usual self.
"Jane! How are you? How was New York?" Her mother said as she hugged her daughter, giving Jane a moment to roll her eyes at Maura over her mother's shoulder. She was happy to hear some laughing escape Maura's lips.
"Fine Ma, now let me go before you squeeze me to death." Jane said.
"Well," Maura interrupted. "She would have to be much taller than you and have your neck between her legs to actually squeeze you to death, and she would have to use a lot of pressure, because you are very strong."
Jane let go of her mother and looked at Maura. "I don't know if I should thank you for the compliment or be creeped out because you just explained to my mother how she can kill me."
"Did you know that people mostly mean it as a loving comment. People often feel the need to kill or even eat the people they love, that's why we use comments like 'I could eat you up'."
Angela Rizzoli looked at her daughter. "Can you make her stop?" She asked with a disgusted look on her face. She was used to the information the doctor always fired at her and other people but some things she just didn't want to know.
Jane laughed and told Maura to please save the information for later.
"I walked Jo Friday for you and I did some cleaning and laundry, that place is a mess Jane! You should take an example of Maura's place."
Jane laughed at her mother. "Come on Ma, we both know that's never going to happen."
Maura interrupted the discussion between mother and daughter. "I could help you. We could ehm.. clean your place up together."
Jane's head shot toward the blonde, staring at her and shaking her head, hoping that her mother wouldn't go on with it.
"Yes, you girls should do that, that's a great idea! I could help too, we could make a girls day out of it!" Angela said enthusiastic.
Jane mouthed a sarcastic 'thank you' at Maura. She just shrugged.
This time it was Maura's phone that rang. "Isles," she said as she answered, taking a sip of her coffee while she listened to the woman on the other side. "Great, thank you." She put the phone back and faced Jane and Angela who were having another discussion. She took another couple of her coffee and then asked for Jane's attention before updating her. "That was the lab. As you assumed cause of death was once again Anatoxin-a."
Jane nodded, put her empty coffee cup back on the counter, send a goodbye to her mother and followed Maura towards the bedroom, where Maura had some other clothes of her in the closet from another sleepover.
"Nice PJ's btw Jane!" Her mother called after her.
"Shut up Ma!"
Frost and Korsak were spending their morning interviewing suspects on the list that Jane had given to them. Jane had asked the men to do the 5 suspects first on their own and then give them a list of still possible suspects before Jane would interview them with Maura there, she wanted to keep her out of this as much as possible and it gave to doctor an opportunity to continue with the autopsies of the new victim and the first victim.
Maura had already gone downstairs when Jane entered the computer room, finding Frankie there.
"Hey Frankie." She greeted.
"Hey, you guys ok?" He asked, a concerned look on his face as he watched his big sister.
"Yes, I think so. I try to keep her distracted as much as possible." She said.
"That's good." Frankie said while slowly nodding and turning to the big screens where there was the information of three of the suspects. She could recognize Ian in the three guys. The other ones were apparently named Brandon and Alexander.
"They've already interviewed these ones?"
Frankie nodded. "Yes, Brandon already alibied out. Alexander had no one to confirm that he was home both nights so we're keeping an eye on him."
Jane looked at the screen. "And what about Ian?"
Frankie typed something and the full information about Ian was pulled up. "Well we had to arrest him because he got drugs and medicine illegally for his hospital in Africa." The officer answered.
"That's good." Jane said. She knew her friend wouldn't be happy with Ian in prison but if it could save her Jane was very happy to put him away.
"I'm going to check on them and then I'll go see Maura, call me if you have something." The detective said while walking through the door again.
"I will." Frankie called after her, a little loud because the woman was already on her way to the interrogation room.
Maura entered the morgue and sighed when she saw the two bodies laying down on the table. Jane had tried her very best to keep her as much distracted from all of it and Maura had to admit she was doing a great job but in this room with Maura Mackenzie and Katherine Isles she had to admit that she felt like her adrenal glands were producing amounts of adrenaline, she felt her heart rate increase and her breathing was becoming more rapid. Or, as Jane would say it, she was scared.
Shrugging her thoughts of she know that fear was all about her own emotions and she knew how to control them. She took a couple of seconds before walking up towards Katherine and starting the autopsy on the 33 year old woman, which Jane didn't let her do yesterday.
Before she could start undressing the woman one of her colleges walked up to her. "Doctor Isles, here are the lab results of Misses.. ehm.. Isles."
Maura took the file the woman was holding and looked over the words very quickly. "Thank you Susie." She said as the scientist walked back toward the lab again.
Of course she had thought that the woman was injected by Anatoxin-a but she couldn't have been sure about it until the results came back. Maybe, if she was lucky, she would find prints on her. The autopsy on Maura Mackenzie had come clean, no fingerprints no other broken bones or wounds just the knife to the back and the poison. She did found out what knife it was but that information couldn't help them much further right now. Sighing, she undressed Katherine hoping to find something more useful on her, something that might bring them closer to their killer, because if he was serious about the other people than they had to rush before someone else got killed.
Jane stood on the other side of the mirror, watching as the two detectives interviewed their fourth suspect. A guy named Jaydon Carter from which Jane had heard Maura talking about only ones, in the beginning of their friendship. She remembered the guy being a bit too sweet. Always bringing her roses – which she hated – and necklaces and other stuff. Maura liked it at the beginning but then she thought it was a bit too much for and she dumped him. Jane remember that he kept calling her for a month before he finally gave up. The guy seemed like a good suspect.
"So your saying you weren't in town during neither of the murders?" Korsak asked.
The guy sighed in annoyance at the question. How many times was this guy going to ask him.
"Like I said, no. I was with my wife visiting her parents in Canada. They live in a small town so lots of people can certify that."
Frost put an arm on the older detective pulling him back a little to let him know that he shouldn't push it any further. They didn't want this to escalade.
"You'll be hearing from us when we checked your alibi. Just.. don't leave town." Frost said while both detectives walked out of the interrogation room, giving the uniforms a sign to bring him out.
When walking out they walked straight into Jane who had the same frustrated look on her face as the others did. "Nothing yet, huh?"
"Nope. But we've got still one to go." The younger detective said, trying to sound hopeful.
Jane, however, didn't seem more hopeful by the comment. "Guys, what if this is just some random guy thinking he's in love with her and that they dated."
Korsak stared at Jane, both remembering the situation with her and Dominic. Only then it hadn't been this bad.
"I don't know Jane, right now we just have to hope that something will come up or maybe he'll send another message or something."
Frost nodded and continued. "Yes, or maybe the last guy is our guy."
All three were silent, lost in their own thoughts thinking of a way how they could do anything. "I can't believe that I'm actually hoping that he is going to kill another woman just so that we get another hint or something." Jane said.
Frost and Korsak nodded in agreement. "Well we should go back to Frankie, see if he found something." Frost said softly.
"Yeah, I gotta go check on Maura anyway." Jane said. Then she turned away from them and already tried to work on her fake smile that she was going to show to the doctor in just a couple of minutes.
"Hey there Maur, how's it going?" The brunette said as cheerful as she could get. "Got anything?"
Maura looked up from her work and smiled at Jane. It was not really a smile actually, just a slight curl of her lips but Jane knew she meant to smile at her.
"No, not really. Found no prints on our second victim. But I did found out that he used more pressure on the second victim, like he was feeling angry of frustrated. If we're lucky he will send us something very soon again. Ran other tests too but they all came up clean. And besides, I forgot to tell you, Anatoxin-a is inactivated by strong sunlight. Maybe he knew or maybe he was just lucky with the first two victims but if he doesn't know we could hope that if he decides to kill again he makes the mistake of doing it in sunlight."
"Yeah how about the Anatox whatever, shouldn't he have registered that he had it?" Jane asked.
"No, it is actually synthesized by the blue-green alga anabena flos-aquae that is a common component of pond scum throughout the world that is commonly found as a bright green layer on stagnant water."
"So he wouldn't have to buy and register it. Smart guy."
Maura nodded. "I'm also running a tax screen."
"You thinking something will come up?" Jane asked her friend while looking down at the victim, it was a good thing the woman didn't look like Maura. Katherine had reddish hair, no curls. Her eyes were closed so see couldn't see if they had the same color of Maura's but she figured no one could have the same beautiful eyes as Maura did. And also, she looked a lot more pale then Maura did.
"I don't know, I'll have to wait for the results." Maura said.
Jane smiled, of course she had to wait, Maura Isles doesn't just assume. Her smile faded when thinking about the new she had to tell her best friend. She was still satisfied with the thought of Ian behind bars but she knew her friend wouldn't.
"Maura, I have to tell you something." She admitted.
The woman looked up at her worried, putting her scalpel down and pulling her gloves off.
Jane took a deep breath and hoped that her friend would understand, Maura could be very emotional when it's about Ian.
"Look sweetie, I'm sorry but we uhm.. we had to put Ian away." Jane said, putting a comforting hand on the other woman's shoulder, if Maura wanted a hug she would be ready.
"Yes, I figured you would have to do that," Maura said, "he is, after all, doing illegal things. The chances were high that this would happen."
Jane chuckled slightly. "What's so funny about all this?" The smaller woman asked, seeming a little accused.
"I don't care about the facts or the logic here. I just want to know if you are okay."
Jane knew about the no control that Maura had over the connection of Amygdale and her whatever so she hoped her friend wasn't going to cry on her. But when she looked closely into her friend's eyes she saw that her friend was already trying to avoid eye contact which told her that she was close.
"I feel that my tear glands are producing tears and spread by my whimpers, also I feel them going through my tear duct, moistening my nose."
Jane pulled her friend in for a tight hug, holding her close. "It's called crying Maur." Jane explained.
Maura felt herself slowly relaxing in Jane's embrace. She felt so safe in the woman's arms that she never wanted to leave.
Jane could feel Maura relax and her sobbing becoming louder. "I don't know why my brain reacts like this. We're over and he went to Africa.." Maura muttered. "And of course he did some things that I can't really accepted, and also apparently lying to me. He could never have been in Africa is he got here this fast."
Jane outstretched her arms so that she could look the woman in her eyes. "Yeah Maura, he was in Los Angeles, we brought him over by the night. But Maura, listen to me; you're crying because you loved him. You loved him with your whole heart."
The blonde opened her mouth to protest and give Jane a lecture about that love is just a reaction of your brains but she decided to hold it back, for once.
"I think I did." She admitted.
Jane nodded and pulled her in once more.
"You aren't mad at me are you?" Jane asked a bit uncertain.
Maura chuckled. "Of course not. You did your job, I can't be mad at you for doing your job."
By the time that Jane went back to the guys - which was pretty late already because she had taken some time with Maura - she found them sitting at their desks, looking up information and talking rapidly with each other. Before she could actually ask them something, Frost stood up and walked towards her.
"Jane, we think we got something." He said excited.
"Really?" Jane said. "That's great. Let me see!"
Frost turned his computer screen so the detective could see it. "Our last suspect, Clifford Smith, did 3 years for stalking. He was also assaulted for rape but never got convicted for it. And he got out 3 months ago." Frost said.
Jane gave him a friendly pat on the shoulder. "You got an address, phone number, credit card?"
Frost frowned. "Unfortunately, no address or phone number. That's why we also weren't able to bring him in. We do have his credit card number and he has recently spend a lot of money in a company called 'KnifeYourWay'. It is illegally selling knife's on the internet. I checked, they sell the knife's that our killer used."
Jane smiled widely. "That's him. Good work Frost."
Korsak coughed. "Yeah you too." Jane added with just a slight hint of the sarcasm she always used.
"You think you can track him down?" She asked in the open.
"I'm working on that right now." Frost said. He typed in a couple of things and then pulled up some information. "Seems like he has been using his credit card in a small town outside of Boston. We'll go there first thing in the morning when we get our search and arrest warrant. Wanna come?"
Jane smiled in relief. This was good. Maura was going to be okay, they were going to be okay. She checked her watch and saw that is was 6 pm already.
"I'd love to get this basterd but I promised Maura to stay with her and let you guys to that kind of work." She said.
Korsak looked up at her, smirking. "You girls enjoying your recent situation?" he asked.
"Shut up Korsak." Jane fired back at him.
"Okay, okay no need to get aggressive." The older detective said with a smile. She felt herself smile back at him before saying goodbye's to the both of them and they promised to let her know if anything happened. She also send a quick goodbye to Frankie and on her way to the morgue she walked into her mother and updated her.
"That's great!" the woman almost screamed. Maura might not be her biological daughter but she felt like the doctor was one of her own too. Hearing that she was going to be okay meant a lot to her.
She gave her daughter a quick hug before the woman pulled back with a annoyed look and then went to her home, well actually, Maura's home.
Maura heard Jane coming in the morgue as she was just finishing her autopsy on Katherine. She felt a bit disappointed in herself that she came up clean again and felt even worse when she saw that Jane was clearly in a better mood than before. Having to tell her now that she didn't find anything wasn't pleasant.
"I'm so sorry Jane, I have nothing." She said immediately with a sad look on her face.
Jane, surprisingly, smiled at her. "That's okay, because I do."
She showed a picture of a handsome guy's features. "Clifford Smith." Maura stated. "Pretty facial proportions, almost symmetrical. And the most beautiful dark blue eyes."
Jane glanced at her friend. "Anyway, he went to prison for stalking." She left the rape part out of it because it made her sick.
"He just got out." Maura read from the information on the backside of the photo.
"He did indeed, we're going to give him a little visit first thing in the morning." Jane said proudly.
Maura's feet shifted awkwardly and she looked down at the ground. "I would rather have you here with me. It makes me feel like I'm in a safer environment." She said.
Jane beamed again, having her friend say this made her feel warm inside. "Hey," she said, bending down a bit to catch Maura's eyes. "I'm not going anywhere, the rest is going but I'll be here, with you." That seemed to comfort Maura because she sent a relieved smile Jane's way.
"Okay then, let's go." The brunette said.
Maura's eyes widened. "But it's only half past six, I can't leave yet."
Jane sighed. "There is nothing more you can do here, I need to take you home, get you safe and give you some good food okay? That's my duty as a friend."
The lips of the blonde curled into her beautiful smile ones again. "Okay then." She gave in.
Lying in bed a couple of hours, beer and wine glasses later Maura and Jane were talking about that date they had coming up the next evening.
"Did you find anybody yet that you are going to bring to our double date?" Maura asked. "Maybe Jorge?" She teased.
"Well he thinks I'm gay, thanks to you, so no I don't think Jorge is going to work." Jane answered, trying to sound annoyed. It was a good think that it was dark because Maura would have caught her smile in the light.
"Like I said, I didn't tell him you are gay, he simply assumed."
Jane turned on her side and caught the glimpse in the woman's eyes. "Then what did you tell him?" She asked.
"I said that the two of us had made a decision to explore something else in the line of sexual relationships."
Maura turned her head at the brunette looking into her eyes. She couldn't see if she was staring down at her like she always did but knowing Jane, she probably did glare down at her.
"So you basically told him we are gay." Jane said.
The blonde smiled. "I didn't want him to hit off me too, Jane!" she simply said.
"It's hit on me Maura." Jane explained to the woman with a sigh. She really needed to learn Maura some things.
"Ow."
"Anyway," Jane continued. "There is this friend of Frankie called Alex who has asked me out three times already."
Maura nodded although she knew Jane probably didn't really see it because it is dark in her room.
"Do you like him?" She asked. This was a questions friends asked each other right? This was not only for people who are secretly in love with their best friend.
Jane shrugged. "I don't know, he's okay I guess." She answered. She did think he was cute, but she didn't feel any attraction to him. At least, not like that. She has just known him since they were kids. Although he was Frankie's friend Jane was always a tough girl and played along with the boys. So she and Alex played a lot when they were young but Jane never even thought about dating him. Only recently he has started asking her out but the idea was just too weird for her so she made excuses about not being able to come. But maybe she saw this completely wrong. She did talk about finding a guy right? Maybe Alex was perfect for her, she knew him and she knew she could trust him. This didn't like sound like such a bad idea after all. Now she just had to get over the thought of being there with Maura and her date. Seeing them make out wasn't going to be easy for her so she just hoped Maura wasn't going to give herself to this guy completely, at least not while they were there, or even better, not at all.
Maura was excited about going on a date with Jane. That fact that here were also two man that they had to pay attention to did ruin it a little though. She would love to be alone with Jane, unfortunately that wasn't going to happen. At least, not a real date.
"Do you think you are going to have intercourse with him?" The smaller woman asked. Was this still appropriate? Seeing Jane's eyes go wide (she's got that amazing shine in her eyes that you can catch even in the dark) at her question she realized it probably wasn't.
"Maura oh my god, of course not! It's the first date. Let's just get to know him better first." Jane said a little frustrated, why was Maura asking all this?
"But you've known him since like forever!" Maura defended.
"Yeah, but not like this!" Jane spluttered. She didn't expect this for the doctor.
Maura was silent for a moment. She turned on her side too, now they were in the same fetal position facing each other. She didn't, however, look Jane in the eye.
"Well maybe me and Samual might." She said eventually, avoiding Jane's gape.
"Maura I did not want to know that." Jane said, her voice drowning with disgust. This was her usual reaction but now that she had certain feelings for the doctor it was even worse to think about her best friend with anyone other than herself, especially a guy.
But the doctor ignored her and continued, feeling now brave enough to keep talking.
"I think you should too. It's been what, 3 months for you. You must really feel sexually frustrated. I can already see the signs, you know. For example I keep noticing that you swirl your hair between your fingers a lot." Maura explained. "Maybe I can help you loosen up a little Jane." She finished, looking at Jane and trying to read her face in the dark.
Jane's widened eyes shot to Maura's. It was dark so she was happy that Maura couldn't see her blushing. "What do you mean?"
"Just let me help you Jane, ok?"
owww what's gonna happen? do you think she'll say yes?
