Maura opened her car and slid back into the drivers seat. The comfort of the leather seat still didn't ease the feeling inside of her.
Rain began to steadily fall onto the windscreen, the M.E watched the droplets transfixed with their nature to melt away into each other.
Maura tried to melt away into her thoughts, but the constant nag of an unsettling notion pulled her from their comfort.
Maura sighed and slotted her keys into the ignition, the keys rattled softly as she pulled the car our of park and drove from the school.
I'm probably just missing the girls, that's why I feel uneasy.
That theory did ease her to the extent she'd hoped.
As her Lexus wound around the traffic and the rain fell heavier, her emotions bubbled.
She said she'd never listen to her gut, but right now that organ was telling her, screaming out something had happened.
Jane.
Maura gulped harshly, Jane was in trouble or an event was about to unfold involving those people she held close, she needed to prevent it.
Her heart raced a 4,4 beat.
The traffic halted and she felt the presence of her phone burn in her jacket pocket.
"Come on" her hands flexed around the steering wheel. Everything around her closed in like a cage, every item she'd ever loved was restricting her, the world worked against her efforts.
Every minuet dragged stretching out and menacing her racing mind. Maura clenched her jaw and resorted to nibbling on the loose skin of her lip.
It was go time.
The traffic was clearing, but the onslaught of rain dampened the glory of the advance.
Maura pulled up outside the BPD building and she rushed out of the Lexus.
Flashing the security her ID she crammed her small frame into an elevator.
The whirring of the metal box felt too much like a coffin for Maura's liking.
Maura practically threw herself out and her feet carried her into the bull pen. Jane was at her desk, clutching her phone, her knuckles white from the force she was holding the device.
"Jane" Maura stood inches behind her, gasping. Frost looked over her with hard eyes. Korsak huffed and punched in numbers on his mobile.
"What's happened?" Maura gulped.
Jane winced, Maura's voice was naive. She set the mobile down and pushed it away across her desk to rest near the monitor. It had betrayed the Detective.
"Maura" Jane's voice was shaky, her hands flexed. Maura took this as a bad sign, her innards told her to run, cover her ears and run.
Korsak's voice was low as he talked down the phone, he kept his words short. Frost flared his nostrils as he huffed and slid into his chair, he wouldn't set to work until the news had been delivered, it was respect.
The rest of the bull pen was hushed, Maura had no idea about the previous Rizzoli tornado that had swept the room. A few officers passed through, moving awkwardly through the tension.
"Jane, just tell me" Maura's voice had betrayed her, instead of staying strong her emotions had glossed over her every function.
Jane was hunched, she ran a shaky hand through her hair and rose to her feet. Sickness of the situation poisoned her movement, she looked unsteady to the point of appearing drunk.
Jane turned, her eyes pooling with a gloss that Maura knew all to well as tears.
"Jane"
"Who did you send the twins off with?"
"Their teacher...why? Jane, god..." Maura rose a hand to her mouth and Jane looked away to finish the sentence, her voice cracked.
"...Maur..."