Okay folks, less angst more Jane and Maura. The plot thickens a bit. Sincerely hope you are all still liking this story. It's novel length now, (wow) never thought I had so much in there. You guys and your reviews are the best. You keep me focused, keep it coming, please. Remember, this is unbeta'd so any mistakes are my own.

Disclaimer-Unfortunately, these characters still don't belong to me, darn, darn, darn!

"Jane, Jane honey…" Maura whispered in her ear. They hadn't released Jane from the hospital until close to midnight and then only after she started threatening them with arrest for unlawful imprisonment if they didn't let her leave. But at least, it had given the doctor a chance to monitor her for awhile longer.

Maura hadn't objected but once she had gotten Jane home, courtesy of Frankie, she had been hard pressed to get Jane out of her clothes before she collapsed into bed. Maura had taken the time after that to take a hot cleansing shower, mindful of her stitches. Her tears had rolled down her face alongside the water as she tried to wash away what had happened that evening. Exhausted, she had thrown on one of Jane's long t-shirts and collapsed right alongside her battered detective, body aching, but not before setting her alarm.

"Mmmm…too early…sleep…" Jane mumbled. She had barely moved from the position she had fallen asleep in. Everything hurt too much.

"Ja-ane" not even Maura's singsong was going to help how she felt.

"Ohh…my head…no don't move please…" Jane pleaded with Maura as she started getting out of the bed. The movement was increasing the pounding and nausea she was feeling.

Maura put a hand on Jane's shoulder, "head?"

Swallowing thickly Jane rolled onto her back, "is it possible for your head to explode from a concussion?" she said softly. Throwing a hand over her eyes she realized even the bedside light was hurting her.

Maura looked down at Jane tenderly, she was concerned about the concussion but she knew that Jane would stress less being at home.

"What time is it Maur?"

"Four a.m., how's the pain?" When Jane didn't answer she shook her lightly by the shoulder.

"God, Maur please don't do that." Jane's husky voice filled with pain.

"I'm sorry Jane but I need to assess how you're feeling remember?" Maura gave her a second before continuing. "On a scale of 1-10 where would you rate your pain right now?"

"15" Jane groaned, "can't I take anything stronger?"

"Not yet, I'm sorry, how does your back feel?"

"Better but I haven't tried to get up yet."

"And you won't," Maura said, "not yet. I'm going to get you some Tylenol and a glass of water okay; I'll try not to move the bed too much"

"K"

Maura eased herself off the bed as lightly as she could. When she came back, she realized that even with the pain she was in, Jane had dozed off again. Maura checked the bandage on Jane's calf and changed the dressing before climbing back into bed for a couple of hours more.

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Frost and Korsak sat down with some coffee that morning and reviewed Jane's file. Seeing the jump drive clipped to it, Frost pulled up the autopsy files that Maura had downloaded for her.

"Well someone is definitely trying to cover something up" Korsak said.

"Why though? She was just a little girl, why would anyone want to kill her?" Frost could never understand how hurting a child gained anyone anything.

"Kill who? Jane?" Joey Grant had walked in at the end of Frost's comments but with his nerves on edge he blurted out the only thing he had heard. "Fuck but that was stupid"

"Who said anything about Jane?" Korsak hated this guy, he was such an ass.

"By the way Joey, did you hear about Jane?" Frost asked

"No," he said carefully, "what about her?"

"Car accident last night, somebody t-boned ' car" Frost watched for his response.

"She…uh…she okay? And Dr. Isles?" Joey looked at the two men carefully. He knew they didn't like him. Hell they never liked him but this look was different. "They know something" he thought.

"Yeah, she's gonna be okay, they both are,just gonna take a day or two you know?" Korsak could see that Joey was actually sweating. "interesting"

"Sure Korsak, hey I'll see you guys later okay?"

"Sure Joey" Frost looked at Korsak as Joey left. "So what do you think?" he said expectantly.

"I think we need to listen to the recording you made of their meeting yesterday."

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It was ten a.m. before Maura woke Jane again.

"Jane…Jane honey you need to wake up…come on baby…open your…" chocolate brown eyes glared at her.

"Aw Maur, really? Again…crap I have to go to the bathroom." Jane struggled to roll out of bed, her body and skull protesting every step of the way. "Shit Maur help me up please…"

Maura helped her out of bed and caught her as she started to fall. "Whoa…sorry Maur, dizzy…okay, I'm okay now." She reached for the cane but, "leave it Jane, let me help you"

"Maura no, your body has to be hurting too"

"It is, but I can take something stronger than Tylenol and I don't have a concussion." She said smugly.

"Fine, whatever…can we just get there please I really, uhmm… you know…" Jane's embarrassment at needing help to get to the bathroom showed on her face.

"Come on honey, lean on me." Maura helped Jane to the bathroom where she refused to let her go any further.

"No Maur," she insisted.

"Jane what if…"

"Maura so help me unless you hear a loud thud, please let me do this…" Jane was pleading with her now. Her head was pounding and she just had to go.

"Fine, I'll wait for you here." Maura said as she watched Jane limp into the bathroom using the doorframe and wall for support.

It had been ten minutes and nothing from Jane. "Jane? Jane honey, are you okay?" Worriedly she knocked and walked in not knowing what she would find.

Jane was sitting on the edge of the tub with her head in her hands.

"Jane? Are you okay?" she asked tentatively.

"I'm sorry Maura," Jane's voice was hoarse.

"Oh baby for what?" sitting down next to her she couldn't understand Jane's despondency.

"For this, "she said throwing her hands in the air, "aren't you tired of having to take care of me? She said in disgust.

Taking her hands she forced Jane to look at her. "I hope you'll let me take care of you for the rest of our lives Jane, don't you know that? You, me, we had no control over what happened last night. Thankfully we're both alive, a little worse for wear, yes, but alive." Maura kissed the back of each scarred hand, and helped her lover up.

"Hungry?"

"A little" Jane admitted.

"Come on Jane, lets go change and I'll make us some breakfast."

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"We have to talk to Jane, Korsak" Insisting for the third time, he couldn't understand the older detective's reticence.

"Not today Frost, it can wait till tomorrow. She's probably resting or something" Korsak knew it wasn't enough to stop Frost.

"Vince," he whispered, "you saw the video, the car sped up, whoever was driving didn't even try to avoid Maura's car. It was stolen less than a half hour before, the driver booked it out of there, come on Korsak, you know something's fishy."

Leaning back, "I mean even Grant coming in this morning, he was nervous as hell, I've never seen him like that, have you?"

"No," he was forced to admit. "Frost she doesn't remember the accident."

"She didn't remember last night," he emphasized "we need to talk to her. You know folks see things during an accident that they don't remember till later, besides, if we don't tell her and we sit on this, how pissed do you think she's going to be with us. I mean shit Korsak, she's grouchy on a regular day, how do you think she'll be with a concussion."

Barry watched the expressions that crossed Korsak's face and knew he had won.

"Fine! But you call Maura."

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Jane lay on the couch, eyes closed with her head on Maura's lap. The feel of Maura's fingers stroking her forehead was more calming and pain relieving than any medicine. Her head still hurt but nowhere near with the intensity it had. So far today she'd learned she wasn't tolerating loud noises very well or sudden bright light.

"God what a mess"

"What?" Startled, Maura didn't understand what Jane was talking about.

"Hmm…oh sorry Maur, nothing, I was just thinking out loud." Jane said quietly eyes still closed.

"Maura? How long was I out…you know...unconscious?" she couldn't remember if she had been told or not.

"About thirty minutes." She said quietly. Maura bit on her lower lip as she relived that half hour, not knowing if Jane would wake up.

"Hmmm" Jane couldn't say anymore, she didn't want to upset Maura anymore. "What time did they call?"

"About twenty minutes ago, they were coming right over."

The sound of the doorbell made Jane wince, "shit remind me to unplug that."

Jane sat up as Maura went to answer the door.

Korsak stood there with flowers and a stupid smile on his face, while Frost carried two large bags that smelled wonderful.

"Thai food?" Jane said as she sat up straighter.

"Beware Greeks bearing gifts" Maura said suspiciously. They never brought food unless they wanted something.

"Hey!" Frost said 'we're not Greek, how you feeling?" he said nodding to Jane.

"I've been better…but then I've been worse too so I guess I can't complain." Watching them get plates and setting up the coffee table to eat right where she was, "so…what's up guys?"

Frost looked at Korsak before flashing Jane his thousand watt smile "why should something be up?"

"That's what I thought…look I may be concussed, but I'm not stupid, what's going on?"

Frost looked at Maura first, who nodded. "Jane the accident? It wasn't an accident." There, he said it and now he waited for the explosion.

Looking at Maura, "you knew?" she said incredulously.

"Jane, he only told me when he called and asked to come over. I asked why and he told me. I agreed with him that you needed to know." Maura spoke quickly, seeing the signs of a Rizzoli about to blow. "Jane, you need to stay calm remember?"

Jane was trying but it was hard, she wasn't mad at them so much as the whole fucked up situation. Bad enough she was in the car, but Maura had been too. When she thought about what could have happened…She put her hands to her temples and rubbed. Her head was pounding. Taking a deep breath she looked at them all.

"Fine…I'm fine…both of you, sit down. Maura, can you get me a beer?"

"Jane that's not a good idea with the concu…" Jane's glare cut her off. "Jane Rizzoli, do not give me that look! One glass, that's it."

Turning on her heel Maura stomped into the kitchen leaving stunned silence behind her.

"She's becoming more of a Rizzoli everyday." Korsak muttered.

"What did you say Korsak" eyebrow raised Jane looked at her old partner.

"Nothing, nothing" he said raising his hands in surrender.

"Now talk to me…" leaning back, she listened as Frost told her the day's events, his suspicions, and about Joey's appearance at the station that morning.

Well, what did you think? Please let me know. Badass Jane will be making an appearance as will Rondo once again and a step or two closer to fulfilling some of those resolutions of hers. So campers, stay tuned.

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