CH21
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"Whatcha got Frost?" Jane asked clearly itching to get to the office. Frost could tell it in her voice.
"Jane...it's bad...Maura's gone." His voice was scared for several reasons.
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"Jane...did you hear me?" Frost repeated with apprehension in his voice. "Jane...did you hear me?" The line went dead.
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The only sound that resonated with Jane was "Maura's gone." Over and over again, that was all she heard. In an instant, her eyes went red and her fang were displayed, she disconnected her phone and screamed into the air. She ran out of the apartment, but was stopped abruptly by the suns rays that had not dissipated yet.
There were only a few times that being a vampire had really been a hindrance, this was definitely one of them. She was a prisoner of herself.
She was terrified for Maura, she was terrified for herself, what if she lost her...what would she do? She knew one thing, she could not live through it...she would not want to and so she wouldn't.
She still had a few minutes before she could leave the apartment and be on her way to finding her love. She couldn't do anything but pace back and forth, she kept opening the door and looking out to see if it was clear to leave. The moment the time had come, she was out of there in less than the blink of an eye.
She made it to the station so fast, she couldn't even believe it. She found Frost and Korsak still in the morgue.
"Frost...what the hell happened?" She asked with a disturbing sound in her voice and a penetrating dead stare in her eyes.
She scared the hell out of both Frost and Korsak, she literally appeared out of nowhere. Well Frost knew from where but Korsak had no idea, of course.
"I don't know, someone hacked into the database and retrieved Colin's file...where they saw everything." He said. Jane could tell Frost was scared of her, he had never seen this side of her before.
While she did retract her eyes and her fangs, her demeanor was in complete kill mode... and Frost noticed it immediately, even Korsak could see the difference in Jane's usual poise.
Frost and Korsak continued to tell her everything they knew, down to the littlest detail. While they spoke she walked the perimeter of the morgue, taking in everything little thing, touching everything, smelling everything, observing everything. She stopped all movement and just stood there with her eyes closed as they continued to speak.
Since Jane had been feeding on Maura more frequently, she was becoming as one with her and the bond between them was effective at very great distances now.
When they were finished telling her everything they knew, her eyes opened and Frost had seen that look before. She excused herself and left the room, Frost and Korsak tried to follow her, but she was gone.
Jane had made her way to her desk, opened the bottom left drawer, removed specific items from them and then was gone again.
Frost had came into the bull pen looking for Jane, when a fellow officer had told him that she had just walked out. He walked over to his desk and picked up his phone and dialed her number. He let it ring and ring, she never picked it up. He was really worried about her, wondering what she would do.
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The van backed up and Doyle opened the rear doors to a frightened Maura. While she was scared, she did calm down a little on the ride, when she realized who it was that had her and not someone else...she still wasn't happy though.
When the door opened, Doyle stood there.
"I'm sorry, but I couldn't go back to see you... there was no other way to bring you to me." He sounded honest.
"What about a phone." She barked back.
"Let me take those off." He leaned forward motioning to the tie strap that bound her wrists.
"Don't touch me." She barked again as she shrug away from him.
Sensing her uneasiness, he nodded for his men to give them some privacy, which they did...but they did not go far, they kept him in eye shot, but not earshot.
"I assume you know you're already in danger." He calmly asked her.
"There's a lot I don't know, lets start with who my birth mother is...is she alive?" Her voice matched the look on her face.
"She is, but it's in both of our interest to leave it at that. We don't have a lot of time, you need to listen."
"No...you need to listen." She almost shouted. "You don't get to terrorize me...to kidnap me...and...and interrogate me...I want to know who my mother is."
"You have her intensity...her intelligence...and class...She gave you up to keep you safe... we both did. I need to keep her safe too; she had a right to live her own life, but know she was heartbroken...she never forgave me."
"For giving me up?" She asked hopeful.
"For who I am." He said sadly.
She proceeded to ask about Colin. He told her the story of his mother and how he found him. He then told her how he had always kept an eye on her and showed her photos of her when she was 5 years old, and of her high school graduation, her college graduation and her medical school graduation.
She asked him to remove the binds around her wrist, which he did.
"You're in a great deal of danger, the police can't keep you safe. If I can get to you, so can my enemies, Maura I want to protect you but I can't do it without your help. I don't know who killed your brother, but I do know they'll come after you next." He then handed her a cell phone.
"The phone is programmed with a number, I'll always answer it...I know you have people close to you in homicide. I need for you to tell me who did this to Colin." He said.
"We don't know who did this." She told him honestly.
"When you know... as soon as you know."
"So you can kill him?"
"So I can keep you alive by sending a message." He told her bluntly.
"Well I'm not going to be a party to murder, besides I have someone who will protect me." She said with certainty in her voice.
"She won't be able to protect you like I can."
"I doubt that...you don't know her." She said adamantly.
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Jane left the office on foot, running as fast as her legs would take her...which was a blur to the naked eye of everyone else. She followed Maura's scent out of the area, crossing streets, subdivisions and shopping centers, her scent led her to a warehouse district just outside of town.
She stopped in front of a distribution warehouse where Maura's scent was exceptionally strong. She found an opening on the second floor and within seconds she had opened the window and entered. As she peeked in she saw Maura facing her speaking to a man.. She could not make out who it was from this view.
As Doyle spoke with Maura, he noticed out of his peripheral vision his men falling lifeless to the ground one by one, with no reason as to why.
He drew his weapon, scanned the area, not seeing any reason why his men were being taken out. He grabbed Maura and pulled her behind the van for protection from whatever it was that was out there.
Before he knew what hit him, his gun was knocked out of his hand and he was pulled away from Maura.
Jane had her right arm around his throat and a gun jammed into the side of it, right under his ear.
Maura ran towards her and yelled for Jane to stop but before she finished those words, Doyle had slumped lifeless to the ground.
***Whoo hoo... it's been less than the two weeks plus it took for the last chapter. As always thank you for the feedback, there were a few who were not signed in, so I could not personally thank but I thank each and every one of you for hanging in there with me.***