AN: Hey y'all! Just wanted to say thank you so much to all of you who read, followed, favorited, and reviewed on this last chapter. I am constantly blown away by all of the wonderful feedback you give even when we've had a rough couple of chapters. Thanks again. Enjoy!

Her eyes cracked open and then quickly slammed shut again. Though the light in the room was dimmed it was still bright to someone who had been unconscious for a few hours. Slowly, she tried opening her eyes again. Once she could handle the intensity of the lights, Maura's eyes began to scan the room around her.

She could tell that she was now indeed in a hospital room. They must have moved her here after ascertaining that she was stable enough. After looking at some of the other things around the room her eyes finally landed on a cot that was set up beside the bed. Maura could see her best friends dark locks splayed out on the cot and her breaths appeared even. Maura knew that Jane must be sleeping and she didn't want to wake her.

Maura couldn't help but smile to herself. Even when they were mad at each other, well when she was mad at Jane to be more accurate, Jane made sure that she was at her side when she needed her most. A slight tear started to streak down her cheek as everything from earlier started to come back to her now. If Jane hadn't come over to find her she wasn't sure where she would be or what else could have happened to her.

There was a movement on the cot beside her as Jane's body started to stretch out some. "Hey," a sleepy breath greeted her. "What are you doing awake? They didn't think you'd be up until tomorrow."

Maura's eyes flitted over to the clock on the wall for a moment. "Technically…" she started before being silenced by Jane's stare. She couldn't help but smile at the other woman. "Why are you awake? You should be getting some sleep yourself."

Jane shrugged as she sat up more on the cot. "Just haven't been able to sleep much. Guess I've been worrying about you."

"I'm sorry," Maura said as her eyes shifted down to the blanket across her lap.

"Aww, Maura, no. You don't have anything to be sorry for."

"I do," she said as she nodded her head. "I got mad at you when I found out that you had a girlfriend that you didn't tell me about."

"Maur… If anything I should be saying sorry to you." Jane got up from the cot and moved to the edge of the bed. "I'm sorry that I didn't tell you about Jenny. I didn't really know if it would turn into anything. Then it started to get more serious and by the time that I thought I might want to say something you found out that you were pregnant. I wanted to give you some time to get all of that settled out before I said anything and that plan backfired on me."

Maura avoided Jane's gaze still. None of this really had to do with the fact that Jane hadn't told her about Jenny. No, the big issue here was the fact that Jane was with Jenny at all. After all, part of the reason that Jane had turned her down was because she was in a dangerous job and might not come home one night; and that wouldn't be fair to her if that happened.

Apparently it had just been words. Maybe Jane meant them in some fashion, but apparently not completely. Why was it alright for her to not come home to Jenny one night, but not for her? It might be irrational thinking on her part, but it felt like it was more that Jane just didn't want to be with her; that maybe she just wasn't good enough for Jane.

Jane sighed, "You still look exhausted. It's probably going to be a couple more hours before the doctor comes in for rounds. Why don't you lie back and get some more sleep?"

Maura shrugged as she leaned back against the bed. She felt Jane adjust her blankets slightly before she moved back to the cot. Maura knew she should say something to Jane, but she didn't know what. She didn't really know how to just tell Jane what she was actually feeling about the whole situation. Jane gave her away, so what else was there really?

R&I

At some point she must have closed her eyes and fallen back to sleep because the next thing she knew there was a knock at the door. It was the doctor coming in to do the morning rounds. Since she already knew the process of what had happened to her in having a miscarriage and what they needed to do it didn't take him long to explain everything from the night before. He also explained that she would need to follow up with her own doctor in a couple of days and that she could take care of anything else that she might need.

"Now, I'll have the nurse draw up your discharge papers. You will need someone to be with you for the next couple of days in case there are any complications."

"Oh, well…" Maura hesitated.

"It's fine," Jane piped up from the seat she had taken over in the corner when the doctor had come in. "I'll be with her."

The doctor had glanced slightly over at Jane as she spoke and now glanced back to Maura. He gave her a look that asked for her clarification about Jane's comment. She nodded slightly and he smiled. "Well as long as that's settled we should have you out of here soon then Mrs. Isles."

Maura flinched slightly at the missus remark. She was suddenly glad that she had decided that it would be beneficial for all of the paperwork she had to do to keep her own name. It was only the missus that reminded her that she was in fact married. "Thank you," she said as he headed for the door.

"You don't have to stay," she said softly after he had closed the door to her room. "I am a doctor; I know how to take care of everything myself."

"Like hell," Jane sat as she continued to sit in the chair.

"I mean it Jane. You have work you should get back to at the precinct. I'll be fine."

"Oh yeah? And how exactly do you think you're going to get home if I'm not here to go with you? Last time I checked you had to have someone to take you home to be released."

Maura closed her mouth. She hadn't entirely thought that through yet. There were a couple of options that she had. "I could have them call Nate. He is listed as my next of kin on my forms."

Jane remained silent, but Maura gathered that if looks could kill she'd probably be buried by now.

Maura sighed a little and then asked, "Do you have my cellphone?"

Jane nodded silently, just watching.

Maura held out her hand waiting to see if Jane would actually produce it and let her have it. With some reluctance Jane finally stood and pulled it out of her pocket and handed it over. A minute later Maura had scrolled through her contact list to the number that she wanted. She double checked the exact time to make sure that she wouldn't be calling too early.

She smiled as she heard the voice on the other end of the phone greet her. It had been quite some time since they had spoken, but she was treated as though almost not time elapsed. "Hello Angela," she greeted.

Maura could see Jane's eyes nearly pop out of her head at the mention of her mother's name. The death glare came back a moment later. "I was wondering if I could ask a favor of you."

When she had received a guarantee that she could ask anything of the older woman she took a breath. "I was wondering if you could bring me home from the hospital?"

Maura was pretty sure that Jane could hear Angela's exclamation about what she had just asked across the room where she was seated. "Angela," she said to calm down the woman's excited and rapid fire questions that were now going. "Angela! Everything is fine. I did have something happen last night, Jane has been with me, but now she needs to go back to work and the hospital needs someone to be here to take me home. So, I was wondering if you could come."

She had to listen to a little more rambling on the phone. "Yes, I will explain everything to you later. Hopefully I'll be discharged fairly quickly." Maura nodded as she listened to the last of what Angela had to say. "I will see you soon then," she agreed before she hung up the phone.

Now she turned her focus to Jane. "Problem solved. You can go to work now."

"It's your funeral telling my mother all of this. You know that she's going to be upset that you didn't tell her sooner and that she had to find out like this."

Maura simply shrugged her shoulders. "At least now you can go to work. They need you there working on the case, not at my house taking care of me."

Jane huffed as she stood from her chair and made her way over to the bed. "I'm not completely oblivious you know," she said as she looked Maura directly in the eyes. "You're not going to get rid of me that easily. We're going to have to talk about everything at some point. It might as well have been sooner, but since you're being stubborn I suppose we shall have to put it off until after work tonight."

She took a couple of steps back from the bed now. "If you'll excuse me, I think I'll go grab a cup of coffee to have until Ma gets here to stay with you."

So, hopefully this one wasn't as rough for you; though I know there are probably a few questions that you still have about everything. Thanks for reading! As always, I would love to hear any feedback that you may have on this chapter, or any of the others, so don't forget to leave some for me. (Though I have little time these days for writing your reviews do help keep me going.)