A/N: I'm absolute trash, I know. Here's the middle chapter that fills some space so I can properly end this story in the next chapter. If you hate me forever and jumped ship from this story a LOOOOONG time ago, I don't blame you. I hate myself just as much as you do. *Offers up chapter and scurries away to a dark hole.*
As Jane and Maura stepped out into the soft light of the setting sun, they heard shouts coming from the front of the house.
"Move carefully! We don't know what's going on inside, but I'm pretty sure those were gunshots we heard!" Korsak shouted to Frankie and Frost. Both men nodded to Korsak as they approached the side of the house.
"Korsak!" Jane yelled, "We're coming out now, we're mostly fine." She looked at Maura and Maura nodded. Maura had already done a mental checklist of her own injuries. She was mostly fine, just sore from being tied up. She would probably have a bruise on her face from that last slap, too. Jane had a slight limp from taking a nail to the calf, and her ribs would likely be bruised for a while after being hit. They were lucky enough to have not sustained any worse injuries.
After hearing Jane, the three men ran to that side of the house and saw the two women. They looked a little worse for wear, but seemed to be no severe injuries.
"Frankie, go call for an ambulance," Korsak told him.
"Korsak, we don't need an ambulance, we're fine," Jane chided. Frankie looked between the two of them, he couldn't decide whose glare was more intimidating, but Maura spoke up.
"I think you're right about not needing an ambulance, Jane," at this Jane looked victoriously at Korsak. "…however, we should go to the hospital," she finished. Jane rolled her eyes and groaned.
"Really, Maur? You couldn't let me win just once?"
"On the contrary, Jane, you win almost all of the time. I do think you could use a Tetanus shot and it would be good to have a doctor check you over."
"Can't you just check me out, Maur?" Jane said slyly with a wink at her best friend. Maura blushed and the three men looked at each other in confusion. The men weren't unused to the two women subtly flirting, but Jane was never this open about it. Jane caught the look that the three shared.
"Something you guys wanna say?" she asked.
"Oh, no, no, we're good," they all fumbled over each other, knowing that if Jane wanted them to know something, she would tell them when she was ready to do so. "Alright, let's go to the hospital then," Jane said grudgingly. "Oh, and there's a dead guy in the basement, we should probably call that in. He kidnapped Maura and I had to shoot him when he attacked me," she said nonchalantly, shrugging her shoulders. Frankie gave Jane an unbelieving look while Korsak shot her a death glare for speaking about an incident like that in such a passive manner. Frost got on his radio and called it in. The group waited for the other officers to arrive so they could give their statements and then Jane and Maura started to leave.
"Hey, Jane," Frankie called as she and Maura walked towards the car Jane had driven here. "Do you two want me to come with? Or come over for dinner later so you don't have to be alone after all this?" The two women exchanged a glance and Maura responded just as Jane opened her mouth to do the same.
"That won't be necessary tonight, Frankie, but thank you for the offer. I think a little alone time is actually just what we need," she smiled at Jane. One look from Maura and Jane's heart jumped into her throat and it was Jane's turn to blush. Frankie looked back and forth at the two women. He was shocked to see Jane blush at Maura's words, since he was sure he'd seen Jane blush on only two other occasions, but he didn't want to push anything tonight.
"Ok," he said, "I'll let you tell Ma about all of this then," he said, chuckling.
"Ugh, maybe I'll just stay at the hospital instead," Jane replied. Frankie and Maura laughed at her, and the two women got into the car.
Two hours, one Tetanus shot, and two x-rays later, Jane was cleared to go home. Maura was tested for a concussion after being hit in the head so hard the night before, but everything was fine. Jane hadn't broken any bones, which the doctors said was nothing short of a miracle after Jane described what had happened, but that she would probably be very sore for the next few days. The doctors also said that Maura didn't have a concussion, but that she would need to take a couple of day off so she could fully recover from the entire experience. Jane and Maura all but ran from the hospital, skirting around Angela with excuses and reassurances thrown over Jane's shoulder. She knew her mom would be upset that she was ignoring her, but Jane didn't want to deal with that right now. She and Maura needed to get home, and they would probably lock themselves in the house for the rest of the weekend.
A/N: Like I said, I'm trash. I'm going to work on chapter 11 now, and that should wrap up our story. Hopefully some cute fluff/smut. Maybe that'll make up for my sins.