A/N: It's update day! I am on my four day and really just slammed this out. I didn't proof read it so hopefully there aren't too many mistakes. Hope you guys enjoy it!
The two women are sitting in the loungers, on the patio; in the backyard holding each other's hands, as they watch the sun begin it's descent. After lunch they spent all afternoon talking. The two of them discussing a myriad of things, anything from: their relationship, to reminiscing about old times.
They had just been discussing going to a baseball game when they returned back to Boston. Jane had expressed the fact that she would love a jersey to wear to the game, when Jane started, "Let me ask you something."
"I know you too well Jane, I bet I already know what you're going to ask me." Maura states as she squeezes the other woman's hand. Jane smirks at the blonde, "I bet you don't know my next question." The wheels are turning in her head for the wager of the bet. "I bet I do." Maura counters.
After a moment of thinking a grin forms on Jane's face. "Okay, if you aren't correct about what I was about to ask, then I get to throw you into the ocean." She finishes nodding in the direction of the water, "fully dressed." Maura narrows her eyes at the brunette before she answers. "Deal!" She taps their intertwined hands on the arm of the chair as if to seal their verbal agreement.
"Oh? Little Miss Know It All, huh?" Jane tries to give the blonde her most serious face, "Then, pray tell, what was I going to ask you?"
"You were going to ask me, if I would wear a baseball jersey with you when we went to the game. Wait, we didn't wager on what I would get if I was correct." Maura said smugly, as she was sure that Jane was about to say.
Turning her lips into a straight-line Jane tried to hide her shock and the smile from the very right Maura. Knowing this would be the only way to throw a fully clothed Maura into the water AND more importantly, not wanting to be proven wrong Jane lies, "Doesn't matter, I wasn't going to ask that." Sticking her tongue out at the blonde she thinks of another question. "I was going to ask you, if you had a preference to what game we want to go to?"
Jane stands and stretches her muscles out, getting ready to pick up Maura. "LIAR! I know that that was not what you were going to ask me…DO…NOT…DARE!" The blonde warns Jane, as she sees the brunette crack her knuckles and smirk.
"JANE! I swear I will never forgive you if you throw me in the water!" Maura screams as Jane hoists her offer her shoulder. She carries her off the back porch and into the sand.
"Maur, you are going to get hives. You'll forgive me, you will also give me a kiss afterwards, I guarantee." They both laugh uncontrollably and the blonde begins to flail around. "That doesn't mean I'm okay with you throwing me into the ocean!"
"Maura you must weigh like ten pounds, because you are so easy to carry. It's going to be so much fun throwing you in the nice salt water." The brunette teases as she carries the blonde away, "I am wearing designer clothes!" Maura tries to plead.
As they near the water, Jane falls to her knees, dropping Maura in the process. "OUCH! Jane that hurt! WH—" she begins to ask but stops, as she sees Jane's face contort from the pain. "Did I hurt you?" she redirects her questioning.
All Jane can do is ball up and scream wildly from the agony. She then begins to thrash violently in the sand. "JANE!" Maura screams in fear. The blonde tries to soothe the brunette but nothing seems to work.
"Mau—" Jane tries to get out but cannot. Sweat pouring off her face she tries to sit up and only makes it to her hands and knees before vomiting. "MAURA!" she wails out as her nose begins to bleed. Maura doesn't even have time to process what these symptoms mean, because within seconds Jane vanishes into thin air.
Still kneeling in the same spot in the sand Maura hugs herself while she cries. The sun has set and the moon is the only light shining down to give any light. Hours have passed and there have been no sign of Jane and Maura begins to cry harder, "Jane? Please not again, please, please, please? Don't let this happen again." She cries out to no one in particular.
When Jane appears she is in a living room. Her pain has lessened so she wipes the blood from her nose as she stands. Looking around the room, she sees a form on the ground and she runs to it. "COME ON! WAKE UP!" The brunette tries to shake them.
"Jane?" the person warily asks as they come to.
"Yes, I'm here. It's going to be ok." She tries to say in a calming voice but it only comes out in a whisper.
"How did you get in here? What is going on?" The person asks as they become a little more alert.
"It's okay. I just knew that you needed me and so I came. I here, I will help you." She says with a steadier voice and she gets up to call for an ambulance.
She doesn't know how much time has passed when she eventually gets let into the hospital room. When she gets there the Doctor had told Jane, what procedures were done before leaving Jane in silence. The room is dark, save for the bathroom light that's on, it's shining through the crack from the bathroom door. She sits down in a chair that is facing the patient. After they were given some pain medication, they seem to have been exhausted enough to fall asleep. Noticing a phone, Jane picks it up and dials Maura's cell phone number.
After finally making it back to the house, she begins to search it just in case Jane is somewhere inside. When she stops searching, Maura collapses onto the bed. She wonders if she will ever see Jane again. Jane had told her that this time was different, but it didn't seem different when crying on the ground after being left again. Maura was not only worried about Jane not coming back, she was also worried about Jane's health. She has never witnessed Jane in pain before and it scared her. Completely drained, Maura begins to drift off into sleep. Not hearing the vibrating buzz from her phone, she misses Jane's call.
"Come on Maur, answer your phone! That thing is tied to your hip, but when I need you this one time, I can't get through!" She yells at the ringing tone as if she can will Maura to answer.
"Hello, you have reached Dr. Maura Isles. I'm sorry to have missed your call but if you leave me your name and number, I will return your call." Jane has heard this message for the eighth time before deciding to leave a message.
"Maur, it's me!" Taking in a big breath she decides what she is going to say. "Don't worry, I know you are but everything is okay. I'm at the hospital, but it's not for me. It's my person that I'm with. I will call you later. I love you. Just be safe and don't worry Maur." And she hangs up disappointed that she didn't get hold of Maura. Needing to stretch her legs and clear her mind, Jane heads down to get some coffee.
It's almost morning when Jane decides to go and talk to Sean. She wants to talk to him about her new job. She has an idea of what she must do but she wants to make sure.
"Hello." Sean greets Jane as she walks into the office.
"Sean." She gives him a curt reply. "I need to talk to you."
"About you getting out? Well, there isn't much to talk about. I haven't hea—"
Before he finishes Jane cuts him off, "No, sir. It's about the new job."
Thinking he has an idea of what she wants to talk about he just, nods his head and sits up straighter in his chair.
"I don't think I can do it Sean, I can't." She says with tears in her eyes
Understanding what Jane is meaning he begins, "Jane, I told you it was going to be hard. I warned you many times that of the consequences of all your choices. Just like I am warning you now, of becoming human. If you think this is bad Jane, then how can you be able to live a human life? You have to know that in life things aren't easy, you want to be human than you have to do this job Jane." Sean tries to reason with Jane.
"How can I do that though? How can I be the one to guide someone to the end? Take away their life sir? How can I do this to her? Maura will never forgive me for this." Jane declares as she nervously twirls her charm bracelet around her wrist.
Sean clears his throat before speaking, "She will if she loves you, of all people, she should understand death."
Still holding back tears Jane chokes out through her raw throat, "Not, if I'm the one taking her mother away from her."
"Jane?" The older woman screams as Jane appears before her in the room. "How did you just do that?" the startled woman asks.
"Constance, we need to talk." She says as she sits down in the chair by the bed. Not waiting for an answer she begins, "You are not going to believe me, but I need you to have an open mind about what I'm going to tell you."
"Jane, you are worrying me. Is Maura okay? Why are you here?" She bombards Jane with her questioning.
"Maura is fine. But you are not, right?" Jane decides to ease into this conversation.
Constance doesn't look at Jane; instead she turns to look out the window. "You should know Jane, you were the one who found me right?" she throws a question back at Jane but Jane doesn't answer. "That's what they told me when I woke up, that you were the one who found me and called the paramedics." She stops to look at Jane, "How did you know, about everything?"
Taking this opening she starts, "That's what I need to talk to you about. I know you are going to think I'm joking but I am not. I'm Maura's Jane."
"Yes, I know that. We were introduced not too long ago, I may be old, but I am not that old. I didn't forget who you were." She states confused to what Jane is meaning.
Bracing herself for the worst Jane speaks, "No, I'm Jane, the same imaginary Jane Maura had when she was younger."
After a few moments, Jane thinks that Constance is letting this information sink in but is startled when the woman laughs thinking that Jane is joking, "You are too funny Jane."
"Constance, I am not joking. I can prove it." She says as stands she fades away and fades back. "SEE! I'm serious." She declares to a very frightened older woman.
Shaking her head in disbelief she tries to rationalize, "I must be on some medication that is making me loopy."
"You are not. Do you remember when Maura's friend came it was a little after your husband died? Do remember, those nights when you would stay up looking at old pictures in the study? I do. I would come in there with you and comfort you, the same way I comforted you the last few nights. I'm connected to you and Maura. I don't know why, but I am." Jane expresses this with a sad voice.
"I don't know…how can this be?" Constance tries to wrap her head around everything the brunette has just said.
"It's my job." Jane tells her. "How long have you known that the cancer had come back?"
It takes a moment for the older woman to register what Jane has just asked, "Oh, uh…a few months ago. They told me that it had rapidly progressed and suggested chemotherapy but there would be little chance of it working." She says a little dazed. "I didn't want to spend the little time I had left here in a hospital," she laughs seeing the irony in her statement, "But look at me, here I lay in a hospital."
"I'm sorry Constance. Does Maura know?"
"No, and I would prefer her not to know either, not now. She seems so happy…with you." She says smiling at Jane.
Jane smiles back before continuing, "Constance, the reason I am here, is that I am the one who is going to guide you to the afterlife."
In the next chapter we will get more Jane/Constance interaction and Jane will explain more to her. Thanks for all the reviews and follows! Have a great weekend!