Hey guys, really quick update, it's about the same length as the others but I've written it quite quickly as I didn't want to leave you with a cliffhanger, so please forgive typos and spelling mistakes.

Enjoy :)


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Chapter 12

As the doctor spoke all three of them turned to face the doctor expectantly. Maura tried to read his face, but it showed nothing, nothing except maybe pity….is that what it was? Pity on his face? Please, she can't be gone, please? Maura begged internally.

"Yes, I am her mother, this is her girlfriend." She gestured to Maura. Maura was surprised but glad she'd introduced her. "And this is the detective working with Jane. He has become a close personal friend to me. Anything you want to say can be said in front of them. They are practically family." Angela gave Maura a weak smile. If Maura wasn't so worried, she probably would've been happier she'd just been called part of the family.

"Ok, if you'd all like to follow me, we can go to my office for more privacy." The doctor stated, gesturing for the three to follow him. Which they did in silence. All hoping the news they were about to receive wouldn't be bad news. Upon reaching the office, the doctor gestured for them to take seats, which Angela and Maura did, Korsak wanted to remain standing.

"Mrs Rizzoli, your daughter, Jane. She sustained some severe injuries that a should be impossible for a normal human being to survive." At this, both Angela and Maura broke down. Maura placed her head in her hands and began sobbing. Korsak placed a comforting hand on Angela's shoulder. "She got shot 5 times, was stabbed and had a severe laceration to her right shoulder. We've got all the bullets for you to take with you Detective Korsak, so you can catch whomever shot Jane." He looked at Korsak expectantly.

"That won't be necessary, the man who shot Jane is already in our morgue, but thank you. We recovered 4 bullets from the scene that match the gun. So we know he was the one who shot Jane, please just tell us if she's ok." Korsak requested calmly.

"In time Detective Korsak, Jane is a very complicated case. As you are aware Miss Isles, Jane arrested twice in the ambulance on the way here. She crashed 3 more times in surgery. Her heart rate was erratic throughout the procedure to close all wounds and complicated things extensively. She also awoke during surgery, which is practically impossible in itself. The injuries she sustained in addition to the anesthetic should've made it impossible, but for some reason she did. She faintly asked about you." He gestured to Maura. "We told her you were ok, she told us to say that 'She loves you, and you should've stayed behind the door', she said you'd know what it meant? Anyway, after she said that, she arrested once more. This time, we attempted to defibrillate her numerous times, but her heart had given out. It seemed as though she wanted to make sure you were ok before she gave up."

Angela's sobs drowned out the doctor and Korsak knelt in front of her and she smothered him in a hug. Her muffled sobs made Maura's heart break. She's dead because of me, because she was trying to protect me. Why would she do that? She was drawn out of her thoughts by the doctor.

"Mrs Rizzoli, there's more." The doctor tried.

"How could there be more?! By baby is dead, that's what you're trying to tell me, isn't it? Because if it isn't. YOU REALLY SHOULD'VE STARTED WITH THAT!" Angela yelled.

"I'm sorry Mrs Rizzoli, but yes, I should have. I had just pronounced her dead and the nurses were going to start detaching all the machines so you could say goodbye properly when the heart monitor showed signs of a pulse. I checked manually because the electrical readings can be deceptive when detaching the leads, but sure enough, she had a pulse. I don't know how it happened, I had the doctors running tests on her bloods as we speak. But what I'm trying to say, is that your daughter is a medical miracle. She should not be alive, I had declared her dead. There is no medical reason for the way her heart restarted, for the way she began breathing on her own, it just isn't possible. But she is alive, I close all her wounds, requiring a total of 144 stitches. She is currently in ICU and is sedated because when she woke up previously, she was extremely agitated and nearly ripped her stitches out. You can go and see her once we are finished here. But I have a few questions for you. I haven't had a chance to look at her medical records yet, but do you know of any reason that would cause Jane to wake up so quickly from anesthetic? Is she allergic to it?"

"I don't know, she has been drugged before, so maybe she's become accustomed to it?" Angela questioned.

"Statistically speaking, that is unlikely." Maura stated plainly. How is she alive? It is not possible? Is this real? Can this be real? What has happened? How did this happen? Why? So many questions Maura, you can't answer them. Just be happy she's alive.

"Ok, I also noticed some previous injuries on Jane's body in surgery, including two previous bullet wounds. How old is Jane? What profession is she in? How did she get these injuries?"

"With all due respect doctor, that's none of your business." Korsak spoke. "Jane has been through a lot, and we don't wish to make her relive through that."

"I understand. Mrs Rizzoli, Miss Isles, if you'd like to go with this nurse, she'll take you up to see Jane, I need a moment with Detective Korsak." He gestured for a nurse to enter the room and she lead them away, leaving Korsak alone with the doctor.

"What'd you need me for doc?"

"Due to the nature of Jane's injuries and her previous injuries, and the state she was found in, we took the liberty of performing a SAE kit. Would you like the results?"

"Woah doc. Jane would never have agreed to that. You did not have her or her mothers' permission to perform that. That would've happened months ago, if it did happen. Jane has never spoken about it, and you have just made a massive invasion of her privacy. So I suggest you destroy those results as soon as you can before Jane or her mother finds out you performed the test without their sayso." Korsak stated before storming out of the room and following signs to ICU.

Korsak found Maura sitting outside ICU with her head in her hands.

"How you holding up kid?" Korsak asked.

"I can't believe she's alive, 5 times she was shot, for me. Why would she do that? Why would she save me? This is all my fault." Maura sobbed.

"This is not your fault, Jane did what she did because well….I don't know why Jane did it, but I'm sure you can ask her at some point, but let's face it, this is Jane we're talking about. She would do anything for the one's she loves. Just remember that, she loves you."

"How do you know that? She's never told me. What did the doctor want?" Maura queried.

"How many people do you know would take a bullet for anyone? Me, I know maybe two or three people, Jane is one of them, the other two are cops. Jane took 5. If that's not love, I don't know what is. He performed a test that he shouldn't have done whilst Jane was unconscious. I politely asked him to destroy the results before Jane finds out he did it." Maura can tell that Korsak is angry at the doctor by the way he spits his name.

"Was it an SAE kit?"

"How did you know that? What do you know about that?"

"Jane told me. Well, sort of. I think I know more than most. Did you hear about the stitches? She's now had exactly 400 stitches from being taken." Maura joked. "Nobody should ever have to have 400 stitches in a lifetime, let alone in less than a year."

Just as she finished, Angela exited Jane's room and told Maura that she could go in, which she did.

Maura went in to see Jane's pale body all bandaged and weak. She looked so small against all the tubes and the white. So many wires. Why did this happen? My girl, so hurt, because of me. Maura took the seat next to the bed and held Jane's hand, she gave it a tight squeeze to feel nothing bad.

"Hi baby, I'm so sorry. I love you. I know, I should've said it before, but now I'm going to say it every opportunity I have. I love you so much Jane Rizzoli but how could you be so stupid. I came out without a scratch and now you're being held together with stitches. How could you do this to yourself? Why do you do it? Why do you think everyone else is so much more important than you? I can't believe it. I can't believe you're alive. I love you but you're so boneheaded." Maura rambled and sobbed at the same time. She didn't realize Angela was standing in the doorway listening to everything, just watching over her baby.

"Jane, I love you. One day I am going to make you see that you are the most amazing, infuriating, stubborn, heroic person I have ever met and I will spend my life trying to make you see that. I don't nor will I ever want anyone else, you're my girl. Forever and for always honey, but you have got to stop being so stupid, getting yourself hurt. Why did you do it? Why did you-"

"Cause….he'd….have…..killed….you…I couldn't…..let…happen." Jane struggled.

"Jane, you're awake. The doctors said you wouldn't be awake for another 5 or 6 hours." Jane gave a weak smile.

"What'd…..doctors….know….eh?"

Angela had now left the room to get the doctor.

"Excuse me, you know you said Jane wouldn't be awake for a while, well, she's awake." Angela then ran back to Jane's room with the doctor in tow.

"Wow. Miss Rizzoli, we didn't expect to see you awake so soon, again." He chuckled.

"If….you….stop….drugging….me…..you…..wouldn't have…to…..be…..constantly…surprised." Jane smiled her Rizzoli grin at the doctor who just laughed.

"You shouldn't try to speak. In surgery we had to intubate so your throat might be sore. We took it out when you began breathing on your own in surgery, which is practically impossible, so that shocked us enough. So please, if you could keep the surprises to a minimum, we'd sure appreciate it."

"That's….why…..it….feels…..like…..I've…..swallowed…razor…..blades."

"I need to use the restroom, how about I get you some ice cream whilst I'm gone?" Maura questioned, Jane just nodded.

Angela left shortly after to talk to Maura.

"Maura, wait up!" Maura turned upon hearing her name.

"Hi Angela, how're you doing? I'm so glad she's ok."

"Me too honey, me too. I heard what you said to her, did you mean it?" She enquired.

"Every word Mrs Rizzoli. I love Jane with every fiber of my being. I knew that before the last few days, but I couldn't bring myself to say it, and now my reasons seem invalid. She saved my life Angela. Twice, in the space of about half an hour. I don't love her because of that though, that just showed me another reason of why I love her."

"I'm glad to hear it Maura. You know, that Jane, in that room right now. That's not the girl who came home from Hoyt. That's my baby before she left, and that's because of you. So thank you."

Angela left to return to Jane whilst Maura entered the bathroom, she didn't need to go. She had other ideas. She pulled out the cellphone Doyle had given her earlier, clicked on the internet app, and typed in the website for medical records. Again, she used to her logon and attempted to access Jane's files. Just as she was scrolling through the information, there was a banging on the door and Korsak came in.

"Maura, if you're in here, Jane needs you. NOW!" Korsak shouted before running back out.

Maura closed the stall door and ran down the hallway to find a hustle and bustle of nurses that worried her extensively.

"What's going on?" She asked anyone who'd listen.

"She crashed again, Angela asked me to come and get you." Korsak replied from behind her, his voice startled her slightly.

"Oh my god." She began crying again. Before she got an idea. "I've got an idea, let me in there." She shouted whilst pushing her way into Jane's room.

"Miss Isles, you shouldn't be here." The doctor stated once he was aware she was there.

"I've got an idea, it's unorthodox, but you said yourself Jane isn't normal. She needs me. Scientifically impossible, but give me a chance."

"Miss Isles, if we stop resuscitation, she may not come back no matter what we do."

"Let her do it. Please." Angela's voice startled her. "I'll do anything to have my baby back and I trust Maura wants the same thing, and she wouldn't risk Jane if it wasn't a calculated risk." The doctor just shrugged and stepped aside.

The ringing of the heart monitor running flat line was like a humming in Maura's ears, it made it hard to concentrate, but it was necessary at this point. Maura leaned in and whispered in Jane's ear.

"Jane, I need you, please help me, come back to me please. Help me. Don't leave me on my own." The beep from the monitor showed Angela and all the doctors that whatever she was doing was working. It was scientifically impossible, but they were seeing it with their own eyes. "Jane, I need you, you can do this, don't give up, don't leave me on my own. Please, just help me. Fight for me."

At this point, the machine began beeping violently and Jane sat bolt upright in bed and opened her eyes. As soon as she saw Maura, her face visibly relaxed.

"Maur…..what…..happened?"

"Oh my god. You do that to me again and I'll kill you myself." Maura stated whilst hugging Jane.

"What'd…..I do…..this….time?"

Everyone in the room just laughed. The nurses checked Jane's vitals and left shortly after. Angela left with the doctor.

"Mrs Rizzoli, I don't know how that happened, it's not possible, if I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it. But what I do know, you need to keep that girl around your daughter. She is clearly her lifeline."

"I agree. Thank you doctor." Angela went back into Jane's room and sat with Maura.

"Jane, you should get some sleep, you've been through a lot, you've barely slept for the past three days and you've had extensive surgery. I'll be here when you wake up, I promise." Jane nodded and began to close her eyes. Then seemed to change her mind and reopened them.

"Thank….you….and….I….love….you….too….I….know…Ma….is….here…..but what…..does…..a girl….have….to do….for a…..kiss….around….here?" To this Maura and Angela both laughed. Angela then motioned for Maura to kiss her whilst Angela turned around. Jane then smiled, and closed her eyes.

"Angela, I'm going to stay here if you want to go back to Frankie and Tommy. I promise to call you if anything happens." Angela nodded and made her way to the other side of Jane's bed and kissed her daughter's forehead. She then moved back around the bed and did the same to Maura before giving her a tight, Angela like hug.

"I'm glad she's got you sweetie. Thank you for saving my baby." With that Angela left. Leaving Maura to her own devices.

Maura waited until Jane was asleep and then sat back in the chair, thinking of everything that'd happened over the last few days. She pulled out the cellphone and re-read the medical reports, and the latest update. The results from the SAE kit. Did she really want to know? Would it make a difference? Of course it won't make a difference you idiot, I love her not matter what happens. Maura told herself.

Maura hadn't noticed Korsak enter the room and was surprised when he spoke.

"What does it say?" At Maura's confused look, Korsak plowed on. "I know you've looked at her records, I'm a detective remember. On some levels I want to know, but on others I really don't. Jane has been through enough, she doesn't need Hoyt being dragged up again and I certainly don't want the one to be doing the dragging. So…what do the results say?"


Ok, so i saved you from one cliffhanger just to give you another :P