One Second

Chapter 14

Upon arriving at the hospital Miss Dixon noted how all the doctors and nurses were all busy bustling around patience and talking amongst themselves. Angela appeared to know where she was going and so Miss Dixon just followed. They all walked through the hallways for what felt like forever. It's like a maze in here. They arrived at the room which appeared to be Jane's, each of them looking through the window at the bandaged teenager on the other side. Both of Jane's wrists were tied to the edge of the bed with leather straps.

"Excuse me, Mrs Rizzoli?" They all turned at the words, a nurse was standing there in purple scrubs with her blonde hair tied in a bun at the back of her head. Miss Dixon noted that she didn't look very old, perhaps 21. Whilst the scrubs didn't do much for her figure, it was clear that this young woman was beautiful.

"Erm…yes. Why are Jane's hands tied?" Angela enquired.

"Hi, my name is Sarah, I'm one of Jane's nurses. Whenever she's asleep she always has extremely violent nightmares and recently she's been pulling out some of her tubes in her sleep and so we had to ensure that she couldn't do that. But ever since we have her dreams seem to be getting more violent so the doctors say that whenever she's asleep we're to limit her movements." The young nurse explained nervously.

"Of course they're more violent, do you know anything about her? I demand that you untie her right now."

Before the nurse had a chance to respond, they could hear Jane screaming from the room behind them. Frankie and Tommy both ran into the room and untied her hands immediately and attempted to wake her calmly.

"Hey sis, it's Frankie. Come on, wake up." Frankie whispered to Jane, placing his hand on her forehead. A few minutes later Tommy made his presence known.

"Hey you, can't have you grabbing all the sexy nurses now, can we?" He leered. With that, Jane's eyes opened wearily.

"Hey guys, how long have you been here? And Tommy what are you talking about?" Jane questioned.

"Oh nothing, just trying to wake you up," he grinned. He looked around to see his mother and Miss Dixon talking outside, Jane followed his gaze and saw her teacher.

"Why's Miss Dixon here?" Jane didn't look angry but she also didn't look happy to see her, almost as if she knew why she was there.

"I'm guessing to see you. She turned up at the house today and asked Ma's permission to see you and then Ma invited her along. You don't mind do you?" Frankie stated. Jane plastered a fake smile on her face and merely shrugged.

After about 5 minutes of talking to her brothers her mother came in with Miss Dixon, who looked more casual than usual, just in jeans with a t-shirt and sneakers on. It was unusual for Jane to see her teacher so relaxed but she welcome the change but couldn't help she had a purpose for coming rather than just to see how she was doing.

"Come on boys, let's give them some time alone." She said as she waved her hands for the boys to follow her, which they obliged. Leaving them alone, Miss Dixon stood by the door, not really sure what to say or do, just shocked to see the amount of damage that Jane's body had taken.

"Hi Jane, sorry, in my head I'd prepared to see you, evidently not enough. I can't believe what you did. Well actually I can, it's so much like you, I guess I'm…oh I don't know. I'm just surprised I guess." She didn't look up from her feet, too worried that she wouldn't be able to hold back the tears if she did.

"You can sit down you know." Jane stated matter of factly. Miss Dixon walked slowly and carefully over to the chair that Frankie had just vacated and sat down, watching her hands as she gently rubbed one over the other. "Why're you so nervous to be here?" Jane enquired.

"I don't know. I guess I just don't know what to say. I don't think I was ready to see you like this. It is a well known fact that you are one of my favorites students and it comes to a bit of a shock to see you so badly broken. Well not broken, but injured, and so bruised."

"I think I know what you mean. I mean, my body hurts like a bitch." Miss Dixon gave her a look for the language. "Sorry, but I'm not in school now." Jane gave her the Rizzoli grin and Miss Dixon just laughed. "Anyway, yeah it hurts, but I'm ok. I had my reasons for doing what I did and everyone got out alive. Well most people. There was one point, when I could've changed my life forever, but I think I made the right decision, saying that, if I had done it, I wouldn't be in hospital now, but never mind, at least it's not on my conscious. Oh god, look at me, I'm babbling now. They really need to lower my medication." She chuckled.

"What'd you mean Jane? What could you have done differently? And would you now you know the outcome?"

"I had a chance to shoot the man who did this to me, before he shot me. Then I wouldn't be here, and I'd still have Maura, but I wasn't prepared to become as bad as them, so to answer your question. No, I wouldn't do it differently despite knowing the outcome. There are some things in life that happen, and you've got to make a decision on who you are and what makes you be the person you want to be, and I know I am not a killer. I wouldn't do that. I can't do that." On the last few words Jane's voice begins to break, but she manages to keep her emotions under control and regains composure to look at Miss Dixon again.

"Why would you still have Maura?" Miss Dixon looks expectantly to Jane, who just sits and stares. Opens her mouth, as if she's about to speak and shuts it again. She's sad, and regretful, she wished she could change things, it was obvious on her face. "Jane….why would you still have Maura? Why don't you have her anymore?"

"Because….I don't know. I wouldn't be here, they wouldn't have done it, Maura wouldn't have looked, and she'd still be here." Miss Dixon attempted to look confused, she wanted Jane to say it. She needed Jane to accept it in herself. She of course already knew because Maura had told her everything that happened, so she didn't need the information, she wanted Jane to accept it. Which would be an entirely different feat in itself.

"Jane, that couldn't have been more vague. What's going on? I'm a teacher remember, I've seen you and Maura together, what has happened that tore you apart?"

"She betrayed my trust, she did something she shouldn't have done. If she wanted to know, she should've trusted me that I'd have told her in time, she doesn't understand." The last few words came out as a sob and Miss Dixon could see how affected Jane really was by what had happened. She moved over to the bed and placed a comforting hand on the hand that wasn't in a cast. "She doesn't know how hard it is for me to talk about, she knows I hate talking but she doesn't know why."

"Jane listen to me. You need to talk to her, you need to make her understand why it's so hard, and then she wouldn't have to find the answers for herself. She clearly loves you and you clearly love her after all you've done for her. Obviously, I don't know what you've been through, there is no way that anyone but you possible could, but you could try to help her understand."

"No, you don't understand. I don't see why she would have to find answers, why do they matter? She said they didn't, so why do they now. Now she had the opportunity to find out, she doesn't even hesitate and delves into my private files to find out answers I was planning on telling her anyway. How can I trust her after that?"

"Jane, you and I both know what Maura is like, she didn't do it to hurt you, I don't think she has a hurtful bone in her body. I think she did it so she had a better insight into you so she knew what was acceptable and unacceptable behavior around you."

"SHE COULD HAVE JUST ASKED. We've already talking about my do's and don'ts, I thought she understood she could just ask. Evidently not. Miss Dixon, I don't mean to be rude, and I appreciate you coming and everything, but I can't do this. You're trying to make me see things from Maura's point of view, but I just don't understand why she did it. I know I'm not the easiest person to talk to, but I mean come on, she knows, or knew me better than that." With that, Miss Dixon merely nodded and exited to the room. Upon her departure, Jane's brothers and mother stormed into the room leaving her sitting alone outside the room. She was sitting there for about 5 or 10 minutes before she realized she was no longer alone.

"Is this seat taken?" Came the calm voice. She looked up to see a man with greying hair, and a little goatee. He was dressed in jeans and shirt, with a jacket that barely covered his gun. It made her slightly nervous, but this was Boston, everyone had guns. "Hello? Is this seat taken?" She just shook her head no and he sat beside her.

"Are you here for Jane?" He asked calmly.

"I was, but she doesn't really want to talk to me. Are you?"

"I guess so. She finds it hard to look at me in the eye because I've seen her in too many vulnerable situations and we all know Jane doesn't like to be vulnerable. I'm here for moral support for her family really. I've become quite close to her mother since the first incident." He spoke. "Oh I'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Detective Vince Korsak." He held out his hand for her, which she gladly took.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Sophia Dixon. I'm a teacher at Jane's school. My favorite student, but don't tell her I said that." She laughed. "I also teach Maura, Jane's…oh, I don't know what they are anymore. Maura is torn up about this. I don't know how Jane copes, with everything she went through first time, and now this. To be honest, I probably know less than most, all I know is what I heard on the news, I bet you're stuck in the middle with all the information and nothing to do with it."

"I guess you could say that. I've spoken to them both and after what they've said, I'm surprised there wasn't more bodies at the scene. I'm just glad the girls made it out relatively ok, well I'm just happy they're alive. I was planning on checking on Maura, I had a few things to check on, Jane's memory can be a little hazy, or she just doesn't want to give me all the information, which I wouldn't put past her, she's done it before."

"I think I can surmise what you're talking about. Maura told me a little about this situation, she was really, I don't know. I've never seen her so….broken?" Sophia looked at the detective with a knowing glance.

"How do you know what Jane hides? If she's told you anything I need to know." Korsak went almost instantly into detective mode, trying to pry information out of a witness or suspect.

"Well no, it's nothing I assume you don't already know. It's just about the SAE kit and that's about it. Maura told me about the argument they had and Jane hinted towards the same thing. I don't know the results, and I don't think I want to. I only know the minimal about what that girl has been through and I don't think I want to know anymore, I'm not sure how she has managed to get through it. I don't think I would've been able to."

"To be honest, I don't think most people would've survived the first incident, but Jane is Jane. She is one of the strongest people I know. First time, I don't know what pulled her through, only she does, the state she was found in was just ridiculous, second time, she had Maura as motivation, her love for her kept her alive and I think now her anger is driving her, which is never good. She has anger for Hoyt and for whoever took her this time, anger for Maura doing what she did, and anger at herself. She needs to divert it."

"How did she get away first time? It was never announced. What did she do?"

"I don't know what the final straw was but she got away, we don't even know how. We can only deduce from the scenes we found after, but it is only Jane and Hoyt that know how she got away."

"That explains her secrecy." As she looked up, she saw Angela and the boys leaving Jane's room, it made her wonder how long she'd been talking to Vince.

"Oh hi Vince, did you want to come back to ours?" He just smiled and nodded and then they left the hospital.

Back at the Rizzoli family home, they all went and sat in the lounge and one of the boys turned on the TV. Only to be shocked by what they saw.

Jane Rizzoli taken again, and found alive again.

"It has recently become known to us that the local girl who was taken just months ago, has been taken once again. This time with another teenage girl who is at this moment in time, unknown. The unknown teenager was unharmed in the incident but our sources have informed us that Jane Rizzoli has been severely injured in the ordeal whilst attempting to protect the other teenager. Jane Rizzoli is currently in a critical condition after sustaining several gunshot wounds and other injuries. Her heroism is being deemed 'unquestionable, irrefutable and overwhelming'. Where ever you are Jane, we would like to wish you a speedy recovery.