WDWGFH 21

Hope all is well with you al. Sending you very much love :)...

Korsak and Frost were at the right of the door and Jane was on the left. Janes heart was pounding furiously in her chest and she shifted the Kevlar vest under her shirt, in discomfort. They had finally gotten a break in a big case which had resulted in three dead people which included one undercover police officer. He had been in the narcotics department but Homicide was taking the lead on the case so as not to contaminate the evidence. Jane wiped the sweat rolling down her face on the arm of her jacket, time slowed as Jane focused on Frosts fingers as he counted before burting in the door of the suspects dwelling. Janes heart pounded furiously...One...Two...just as the third finger was raised Jane turned and kicked open the door savagely. People scattered around the room and one woman pulled a gun, aiming at Korsak. Jane noticed his attention was focused on the scattering men and yelled out his name as she lunged at him. The dark haired detective rolled sideways as a bullet slammed into her chest.

The pain was unbearable and she was gasping, trying to catch her breath. Several other police officers stormed in and were arresting the residents of the house and Jane could see Korsak and Frost leaning down over her with a worried expression on their face. Janes vision was foggy and she thought it was from when she hit the floor, Korsak tore her shirt open and saw the bullet had hit close to the detectives heart but had been blocked by the vest. The Sergeant opened the vest to see her skin was already discoloring and called for a ambulance to come for an officer down call. Jane shook her head no to the ambulance which was blatantly ignored. Jane took a deep breath when she was able and started coughing.

"You're OK, partner." Frost spoke to his partner worriedly.

"Maura..." Jane said breathlessly not wanting anyone to call her and upset her, but she knew Korsak well enough to know he would call her as soon as possible. Sure enough she heard him talking to someone she could only assume was her wife.

Maura had gone home early to pick up Jordan and make cookies. As far as she knew her wife was still safe and sound at work. Jordan was on a step stool with flour on her cheek and nose. Maura took a quick photo of her with the phone and sent it to Jane when her phone started to vibrate. Dread soon filled her heart as she saw that it was Korsaks number on the display.

"Is she ok?" Maura said immediately wanting to know that Jane was safe.

"She is going to the hospital under protest to get checked out but we think she is fine."

The blonde reached up to steady Jordan on the stool, drawing comfort from the closeness the little girl provides. As if sensing something was wrong she looked up and saw panic in her mothers eyes. "You ok, Mommy?" Maura failed to notice that was the first time the young girl had actually said Mommy instead of Ommy.

"Yes love." Maura said.

Korsak explained she had been shot at but the vest protected her they just wanted to make sure that there was no internal bleeding. Maura called Angela who immediately came over to watch Jordan and the Medical Examiner took off to the hospital. Immediately upon arriving at the hospital she saw Frost and Korsak leaning against the wall in the Emergency Room and walked up to them. Korsak tilted his head in the room and Maura went in to see Jane laying in the bed with her arm resting across her eyes.

"Are you okay?" Maura's voice was thick with tears and tension.

The detective jumped, not aware that anyone had been in the room. "Hi sweetheart." Maura noticed Janes jaw was tight and there were creases in her forehead showing she was in pain. The blonde lifted the detectives bullet proof vest from the dr's stool and winced when she saw the bullet hole in the chest.

"It's ok love, the vest caught it." Jane held out her hand and Maura walked up to the bed and sat on the edge, leaning down and resting her forehead on the detectives. "You have got to stop doing this to me and do not give me the statistics of bad things not happening. You have far exceeded what statistics say, if statistics were true you would not be alive." Jane wiped a tear off her loves freckled cheek and kissed the blondes nose.

"I will never leave you sweetheart." Jane promised.

"You can't know that..." There was anger in her voice but she cleared her throat and straightened up then looked at the chart at the foot of the bed.

"You have a pericardial hematoma, what do they recommend doing about it?"

"I have a huh?" Jane asked with a arched eyebrow.

"Bruise on the heart." Maura asked not giving an inch to her wife. She was upset with her and no amount of jesting was going to get her out of the doghouse. Seeing that the Medical Examiner was in no mood to be amused she lowered her head like that of a scolded puppy.

"Overnight observation and then 48-72 hours of wearing a heart monitor that sends the results to the Dr to make sure there are no complications." Maura nodded and put the chart down and called to Korsak.

"I know you two need to get back to the station, I am not going anywhere until they release her so I will let you know when she leaves. I am sure she will have to come in to fill out the report otherwise she will not be stepping foot into the office until she gets an all clear from the Dr." The Medical Examiner glanced towards her wife letting her know that there was no use protesting.

Korsak nodded and Frost kissed Maura on the forehead lightly. Jane felt bad for scaring her wife but she hated to feel like she was being scolded.

"I couldn't have done anything different, Maur." Jane said sure that she handled the situation as best as she could.

"So if I asked other officers or Cavanaugh whether this situation was carried out without flaw they would agree with you?" Maura hated to be angry with Jane especially with her being hurt but she needed to have Jane see things through her point of view.

"How would you feel if I did an autopsy on a cadaver that had an extremely contagious virus?" Jane pondered the question for a minute. "I would request you let someone else perform the autopsy and you read the results." The blonde nodded, running her fingers through her wild mane. The blonde reached down and picked up Jane's hand and kissed each knuckle lightly. "I know you are careful as you can be when you are out there but when someone else is at risk you will react without thinking. Korsak told me that they were aiming at him but you took the bullet. One of the things I fell in love with is your heart, you give so much of yourself without asking anything in return." Jane patted the bed and Maura climbed up next to her "Jordan and I would be devastated if anything happened to you, please consider us when you are out there saving the world. I will let you save the world as long as you stay safe because YOU are my world."

Jane nodded and wiped a tear off her cheek. It was hard to believe that the Medical Examiner had chosen her to spend the rest of their lives with and it was her own responsibility to make sure that the rest of their lives were as long as possible. She shift a little and groaned as pain radiated through her chest. Maura glanced in her wifes eyes and then gently kissed her chest then moved the gown so she could see the huge bruise covering her chest. She shook her head and laid back down on the edge of the Italians shoulder making sure not to hurt her.

"I love you so much, Maur. I am sorry I scared you but I would really love to go home to our bed and cuddle with you. I do not want to be stuck in here all night with nurses poking and prodding me."

"No you are staying and this time I will not compromise, that bullet bruised your heart. Had that jacket not been there you would not be here at all so I am not taking any chances and you my love are staying."

Jane sighed causing Maura to smile. "You will live, my love and I will be here with you until you are released."

"What about Jordan?"

"She is with your mother but we can call her, she knew something was wrong but didn't know what. We were making cookies when I got the call and Angela came over immediately." Maura reached over and got the phone off the stand beside the bed, her cell was off due to the fact there was heart equipment being used and the signal could cause issues with the equipment.

Angela answered and the dark haired Italian listened to her wife reassure her mother that she was indeed okay but she knew there would be lots of smothering from both women. Soon Maura was talking lightly to Jordan and then handed the phone to her "Hi squeaker" Jane spoke softly as she didn't want her girl worked up as it was way past her bedtime.

"Hi mama, are you ok? Jane immediately noticed that she didn't say ama and man she loved that but she knew their girl was getting bigger.

"I am okay little love. Mommy and I are going to spend the night away from the house but we will be there as soon as we can tomorrow ok? You better not eat all those cookies, you know that some of them are mine."

"Nope, gamma and I said no cookies for mama's." Jane pretended to cry over the phone and Maura could hear their daughter giggle and sure enough you could hear her little squeak the more she laughed.

"Okay Mama, 2 cookies for you but no more."

"Okay, that's a deal sweetheart." Jane said with love shining through in her voice. The blonde could tell that between the medicine and the pain her wife was struggling so she took the phone. After telling Jordan good night she dimmed the lights in the room and pulled a chair close to the bed.

"Nope." The detective sounded rather stern.

"Nope, what?" She asked not sure what her wife was talking about.

"Get your sexy ass in the bed. I will be damned if you get to sleep over there when this bed would be so empty without you." the blonde nodded and climbed in the bed and the room was silent and dark except for the overhead light that had to stay on so the nurses could see what they were doing.

They lay there for a while and Jane heard a small sniffle and stroked her loves hair lightly. "It's okay sweetheart. I am ok." Maura nodded and kissed her chest lightly, not looking up at the gorgeous detective who was so good at taking her breath away. Her heart was still pounding thinking that her world was being ripped apart.

"I know you are, just tired and emotional." the blonde wiped her face with her hand.

"I love that about you, I never want you to keep your feelings locked away, you are truly my entire world. The day I saw you I knew my world had changed and every day it gets better. Our love was something I thought was just written in books and shown in movies. I know better now, I know I was born waiting for you to walk into my life and there is no way in hell I am leaving you."

Maura was crying again and laughed lightly "Damn you for making me cry again."

"You can punish me later." The detective said with a large yawn. Maura shushed her and the two fell asleep holding each other tight.