A/N: Looks like it wasn't late after all, even if it is a little shorter than usual.

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Frankie had just gotten back from his parents house when Korsak walked in.

"It's a match. That's enough for a warrant." Korsak said. Frost, Frankie and Maura looked up at him.

"Now we just have to find him." Frost pointed out.

"Yeah, he wasn't at his house at all since we started watching it." Frankie stated. He knew what that meant and he didn't like it one bit.

"Yep, so why don't you guys start on the other part of the plan while I go get the warrant." Korsak suggested before he left the room.

"Okay, Maura, call Colin and tell him you want to meet him somewhere. That you've messed up and love him and want to see him."

"Um…" Maura looked down in worry.

"What is it?"

"I can't lie." Her heart sunk as she realized she really couldn't help.

"It's okay, I'll do it." Frost said, holding out his hand. "Give me your phone."

Maura complied.

Frost wrote in a reply to Colin's last message. I'm sorry I've been avoiding you. I miss you. Meet me tomorrow morning at the park? Love, Maura.

It didn't take long for them to get a reply.

Absolutely. I miss you too and I can't wait to see you. Love, Colin.

"Well that was easy." Frankie said. He knew it wouldn't stay as simple though.

It was late but no one went home. Everyone stayed at the station, mostly to keep an eye on Maura. They all found their own places to sleep, some less comfortable than others.

Maura went into her lab to pay a quick visit to Bass and Joe Friday before she went and settled in on the couch. She had a hard time falling asleep and, when she finally did, it was fueled by nightmares. Half the night she was inside Jane's car, watching her slowly drown and she couldn't do anything about it. She woke up screaming in the middle of the night and stayed awake the rest of the night. She decided to leave the room and spend some time thinking.

"Hey Maura, how'd you sleep?" Frankie asked her when he went in for coffee.

She's been in that room for a few hours now. "Not very well. I had a nightmare during the few hours of sleep I had." She was sipping at her own coffee

"Yeah, same here." Frankie stated. His involved Colin going after him and the rest of his family. "You ready for the plan?"

Maura nodded. She wanted to finally catch him. She was sick of living in both fear and grief. She wished, though, that she could do something about the grief part.

Soon everyone joined them out in the break room and they had some coffee and went over the details once more before they left.

When they arrived Colin was already waiting. They tried to take their positions anyway while Maura walked over to the man.

"Maura, my love!" Colin said when he noticed her. He walked up to the woman with his arms outstretched, asking for a hug. "I've missed you so much!"

Maura backed away from him.

Suddenly Frankie was on top of the man. Going against the plan, he threw punches instead of handcuffs and versed insults in lieu of Miranda rights.

"Frankie, no!" Korsak shouted before he pulled him off of the now whimpering man. "Don't do this! Don't sink to his level!"

"I don't care!" He shouted, struggling against the hold he was in. "That bastard should pay for what he's done!" He snarled at the dentist.

Frost picked Colin up by the arm and put him in handcuffs as he recited words so familiar to anyone addicted to cop shows.

"Maura! Help me! Please, help – " He was shoved in a police cruiser and the door slammed in his face, cutting off his pleas of help.

"Jesus, Frankie. You need to learn to control yourself." Korsak said when he finally released him.

Frankie brushed some dirt off his shirt before he turned to the older detective. "I'm sorry… I guess I just kinda lost it." He gave the other man an apologetic look before closing his eyes and breathing in deeply in an attempt to calm himself.

Frost drove alone in the cruiser, listening to Colin's crazy rants about Maura's love for him, while Frankie and Maura were driven back by Korsak. They drove back to the station in silence. They were glad to finally have him in custody but were a bit worried on how easy it was.

After they parked, Frost led Colin into the building with Korsak and Frankie following behind closely. Maura was a few feet behind as per the orders of the three in front of her.

They took his fingerprints and a blood sample before shoving him in a holding cell.

"Don't I get a phone call?" Colin yelled out. The door slammed in response.

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They were a match, no surprise really. After a round of rock paper scissors between Korsak and Frost to decide who got to interrogate him first, they grabbed the uncooperative dentist from his cell.

They brought him into the room and put him in the chair across from the two way mirror. Frost, who won the contest, took the seat across from him. Maura and Korsak were watching from the other room. Frankie, who grumbled at the assignment, was outside, standing by as backup.

"Why did you do this?" The detective demanded.

"Do what?"

"Don't play games with me!" He glared at the man across the table. "We have your prints on a knife that was plunged into your latest victim! We also found your blood at another crime scene."

Colin just smiled, hiding his shock at his mistakes. "Alright, yeah. I killed them. And I enjoyed every second of it. Especially that first one. The rush of adrenaline as the chainsaw ripped through flesh." He closed his eyes and smiled as the memory flooded over him.

"So you confess to three murders?"

Colin shook his head. He slowly opened his eyes. "Six."

"Six?" He knew which six he was referring to but he wanted the crazed man to say it out loud.

"Chainsaw, baseball bat, hedge trimmers, fists, knife, though technically that one was done by my young friend, and, my personal favorite, brake lines." He listed, seemingly bragging about his killings.

Frost held back a growl. "Why?"

The dentist smiled. "First, I did it for Maura. I just wanted to see her and I know she loves her job so I just gave her more work. Then I got addicted to it. The feeling of power over another human being. I had their life in my hands. Each and every one of them. I could decide whether they lived or died. All of them died; it was always too good an opportunity to pass up." He looked up at the detective. "Do you know what it feels like? To have warm blood running through your fingers? Seconds ago it was pumping through someone's heart. That same someone who happens to be lying ten feet from you with their head cracked open from a baseball bat or their midsection in two from a chainsaw." He laughed and looked up at Frost with a sick smirk. "I was where you were not too long ago. A steady job – a dentist, doing very well. But after that first kill," he shook his head, "I was done for. It well surpassed the satisfaction I got by killing animals."

"And what about the kid?" Frost glared down at him.

"What about him?" He shrugged. "I helped him. His life was going nowhere and I taught him how to succeed."

"By killing people!" Frost slammed his hands down on the table. He was starting to lose it. This guy was sick.

"Success is making a difference in the world. Affecting as many people as you can. No one said it had to be a positive thing. Of course, who knows, maybe I've helped someone by killing one of those people." He leaned forward in his chair and spoke with a smug grin. "Tell me, Detective Frost, have you ever wanted someone dead?"

Frost narrowed his eyes at the suspect and ignored the question. "A detective is dead because of you. One of my own is DEAD because of you!"

"She was in my way. Maura is mine and she was keeping me from her."

"Maura doesn't want anything to do with you." Frost sneered at him.

"You can't say that. You don't know the way she looks at me. We're in love."

"You're in love with yourself you sick bas – "

"Frost!" Korsak entered the room. "I think you've had enough for now." He looked at his friend in concern.

Frost nodded and traded places with the heavyset detective behind the two way mirror.

"He's lying." Maura said, sitting on the table. Her face was pale and emotionless. She hadn't slept or eaten for days. "I'm not in love with him."

"I know, Maura." He put a hand on her leg in comfort.

They sat there for a few minutes in silence, just watching the questioning continue.

Maura just shook her head. "I should have told her."

Frost looked back at her, surprised to hear her speak. "Should have told who what?"

"Jane." Maura winced at the name. It took her a few seconds to open her mouth again. "I should have told her that she is… was…" Her eyes closed and she strained to keep it together. "The one that I love."

This came to no surprise to Frost. Since the day Maura started working there he could sense that there was definite chemistry between the two women.

"This is all my fault." Maura looked down and just stared at the hands that were in her lap.

Frost jumped up and to her side. "None of this is your fault." He said firmly. "Do you hear me? None of it!"

Light brown locks shifted as her head moved from side to side. "If I would have never gone out with him. Or if I never stopped going out with him…"

"You didn't know." He grabbed her hands. "Look at me."

Maura's head moved up, meeting his eyes with her own.

"None of this is your fault." He said this slower than last time, trying to get the message across. "You had no idea that this man would do any of this. There was no way you could have known. I bet Jane would say the same thing."

Maura wrenched her hands away from him. Her eyes narrowed. "Jane is dead because of me!" She yelled. She hopped down from the table and left the room.

Seconds later the door to interrogation slammed wide open.

Colin's face lit up. "Honey! I'm so glad to see you!"

Maura shoved Korsak aside when he tried to stop her. She moved swiftly to Colin's chair and lifted him up by his shirt, at either shoulder. She slammed him against the wall. "Don't you honey me! Don't you get it! I hate you! I hate you more than I even thought it was possible to hate another human being!"

"Now don't get irrational, Mau – "

"Irrational! I'm not the sick fuck who killed – " Her grip weakened as tears began to cloud her vision. " – the woman who – " She collapsed on the floor. " – means the world to me." Her last words were barely comprehendible as heart breaking sobs started to wrack her body.

Korsak picked her up and carted her outside.

The body in his arms spasmed as another sob ripped through her body. "Frankie!" He called over to the young police officer who was standing guard.

Frankie walked over to them. He looked down at Maura and winced. He wished there was something he could do to stop her pain.

"Take Maura home."

"Home?" Frankie asked, taking Maura in his arms. Home meant a lot of different things these past few weeks. First it had been Maura's actual house, then Jane's place, then the precinct. Where was home now?

"To your parents. Get some sleep. Make sure she does too."

"But – " He started to argue.

"Uh-uh. We already got him into custody so there's nothing more you can do. Just go home, watch over her."

Frankie opened his mouth to argue again but thought better of it. He nodded and made his way out of the station and to his car.

He placed her gently in the passenger. She had already cried herself to sleep, finally exhausting her energies.

Halfway there Frankie glanced at the sleeping Maura. He couldn't imagine being in her position. Yeah, he lost his sister, but losing someone you're in love with must be brutal, especially since, as he had learned from her earlier, she doesn't really have that many people in her life.

He arrived at his house and found his mother and father on the sofa asleep, looking like they just got done with a round of crying. He carried Maura to the spare room before he went to his old room and collapsed on his bed.

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Colin was sitting in his holding cell, replaying Maura's words from earlier in his head. She tricked him. That whole meet up at the park was a setup. He loved her and he'd give the world for her and that's how she repaid her. She broke his heart and he swore she would pay for it.

He looked around his small room, trying to figure out a way out of there. He grumbled when no immediate plan came to him and decided to just watch the guards and memorize their routines as it might come in handy later.

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A/N: School starts tomorrow so that means I'll have less time to work on this.