Chapter 21

Oof! I didn't mean to make you guys mad! If you continue reading I assure you this will all have a happy ending and I promise you that Jane isn't as evil as you'd suspect! I just wanted there to be a nice twist before the happy ending.

Maura was just so mad at Jane. She didn't really understand herself though. Just a day earlier she had wished for him to be dead. I mean he killed a lot of people and he probably would have hurt Jane, maybe even killed her. What would have happened then? She was just so mad at her at that exact moment that she wished she was dead. Oh no. She was turning evil? What had happened to her? Was this all because of Paddy? She started crying. She was freaking out because of her feelings and she just didn't know what they meant, and why she was feeling this way.

Suddenly there was a knock on her door.

"Frankie? What are you doing here?" Maura asked surprised.

"I'm sorry, I just, I felt bad you know. And… I wanted to see if you needed some company?"

"Oh Frankie, I don't know."

"I brought wine, and uhm, Pizza?" He said as he took it up from the ground.

"Well, I can't let you drink all that and eat the whole pizza by yourself, come on in."

"It's by the way fine if you want to complain about Jane, I can participate in that if you want."

"I thought you were her brother and therefor you'd be on her side?"

"You are an only child, I mean I love her and all but still, I can take your side if I want. You're family too right?"

"After this I'm not sure."

"Oh come on Maura, ma absolutely adores you and so do I. You are like the sister I never had. Cuz Jane was always more like a brother, always bullying me and stuff."

They ate the pizza, drank the wine and enjoyed being together.

"I had no idea that Pizza and wine were so good together." Frankie said after he had his last slice.

"Wine goes with everything. I have got fruit and more bottles of wine if you'd like."

"Oh yes please. I'm not on duty tomorrow so I can drink."

"Then let's get hammered so I can forget my problems, just for tonight. I'll deal with them tomorrow."

"Cheers to that." Frankie said and took a big sip of the wine. "Man that's good."

They drank and enjoyed each other's company, they talked about Jane's flaws but Frankie was surprised when Maura could only think of five flaws. Then Maura started crying again.

"I miss Jane." She said crying.

"She misses you too. She actually called me and asked me to come here and comfort you."

"She did?" Maura asked hopefully.

"She regrets so much what she did, she just felt like she had too."

"That just makes me mad. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel you know?"

"Oh I know." Frankie said like he knew exactly what she was talking about.

"What do you mean?"

"I know It's not the same, not at all, but what I mean, is just, I don't know. I feel happy for you guys, well felt happy, until you broke up, but still I was jealous."

"Jealous?"

"Yes."

She didn't know what it was, the alcohol maybe, or maybe the hatred for Jane at that exact moment or maybe she just wanted to. But at that spur of the moment she jumped on Frankie and started kissing him.

"Maura. Relax."

"Please Frankie. It's over between me and Jane, and even though it wasn't I'd never tell her. Please. You are the only one who can make my pain go away." Maura said and almost started crying and she sat on the couch. Frankie followed her to comfort her.

"You know I love my sister and…" Maura kissed him again.

"Oh screw her! She shot your dad! Let's do this." Frankie said and participated.

Maura was thinking about Jane, it made her mad but somehow she got undressed and helped Frankie undress too.

"Are you absolutely sure you want to do this? This might just be the grief and the alcohol talking, I know the alcohol has something to with why I'm doing this. But I wouldn't unless I knew you were absolutely sure."

"I don't care what it is! I never do this, I always plan everything ahead and never do anything spontaneous and fun! Please, I just want to forget!"

Maura woke up the next morning with a massive headache. She looked over to the other side of the bed, where Jane Rizzoli used to sleep. Well, at least she got the Rizzoli part right. Frankie was still sleeping so Maura decided to sneak out of bed and take a shower.

Frankie was right! This was not a great idea. Why didn't he stop her? She knew she couldn't blame it on him though, this was one of the stupidest things she'd ever done. That's why she always planned ahead and never did anything spontaneous. Jane could never find out though. It would tear her family apart. Maura thought the best thing to do would if she'd just keep her distance.

When she got out of the bed she heard that Frankie was already up.

"Uh, morning." She said awkwardly.

"Morning to you too." He said with a smile on his face. "And by the way, I am so sorry I slept in your bed last night, I just, I was drunk you know, and after I carried you from the couch to your bed I just, somehow fell asleep.

"We didn't have sex?"

"WHAT?"

"Sex? You and I?"

"Maura, are you crazy, I mean, I would never do that, not you Jane nor you, because I know I'm not the one you want."

"Then why the hell did I think we had sex?"

"I have no idea. You kissed me and then walked to the couch and fell asleep immediately. You must have dreamt the whole damn thing."

"Oh thank god!" Maura said relieved and started laughing. "I, I was so sure we had sex last night and I felt disgusted, I mean, not by you, just you know, at myself, for doing a thing like that, using you to fill my grief. Oh god."

"I wasn't that drunk, I'm really sorry about sleeping your bed though, I don't really know how that happened. But I promise you! We did not have sex."

Maura felt relieved and saw that Frankie wasn't disappointed and looked happy as well.

Out of nowhere someone knocked on the door.

"Shit. What if that's Jane?"

"She sent you over here didn't she?"

"She probably didn't want me to spend the night."

"We'll just tell her the truth, she knows I can't lie." Maura said, stood up and walked towards the door. She looked through the peephole but didn't see anyone. She opened the door anyway, and found a letter.

"Who is it?" Frankie called.

"Uhm, no one. It's just the mail." She said as she picked it up, Frankie then walked towards her.

"Is everything alright?"

"It's from Paddy."