Jane sat in the chair next to Maura's bed, chewing on one of her thumb nails whilst anxiously tapping her foot against the metal frame of Maura's bed. The stress of the whole 'keeping out of it' situation felt like she had the world on her shoulders and adding to the weight on her shoulders was the weight on her chest of it being two days since her surgery and Maura still hadn't woken up. She knew it was a major surgery but she should be awake by now, right? Despite the fact that Maura's face was covered in bandages, that was the only thing that was keeping her sane right now. The image of the woman she loves. Her soft brown eyes that she had got lost in so many times, the portholes to her beautiful soul, her soft, silky honey blonde hair that smelt like coconuts, the smell that had invaded her nostrils and made her heart melt so many times, her smile, framed by her luscious pink lips, the ones that she had kissed so many times, the ones beautiful moans of pleasure had escaped from. The image of them growing old together, Frankie baby sitting their children on date night. She was the only thing keeping her away from the case. Jane glanced at the clock on the wall and bit her lip as she fought with herself over leaving Maura's side to go and see Frankie. As much as it broke her heart whenever she left Maura she had to go see Frankie.
"I'll be back soon babe, I promise" Jane whispered as she kissed Maura's hand.
Jane closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The smell of Maura invaded her senses, bringing back all their happy memories. The way she would bite her lip when she was seducing her, the way she looked in her BPD sweatshirts and tshirts, the way she snored. Jane kissed her hand again before placing it down softly aginst Maura's side. She tooke another deep breath before exiting he room, two of the burliest security guards watching the door...both of which we're terrified of the scrawny, black haired woman who threatened to feed them their own balls if they let anyone but her and doctors into Maura's room. Jane walked through the hallways, racked with guilt for leaving Maura incase she woke up when she wasn't there...or something worse that she was pushing to the very back of her mind. As she rounded the corner to Frankie's room the sound of laughter hit her like a train on a track. She hadn't heard her mother laugh in months. The sound of her mothers hearty laughing made things slightly easier to deal with. She took yet another deep breath before entering her brothers room.
"Where have you been?" her youngest brother asked.
"I could say the same to you" Jane lauged, punching Tommy in the arm avoiding answering his question. "How you holding up?" Jane smiled, pulling up a chair next to her father.
"Fine. It hurts whenever I cough or laugh or breathe but I cant complain" Frankie laughed, then whinced in pain.
"I know how you feel" Jane laughed, looking down at her torso to where she had a scar that held the memories of being undercover as a hooker in the drug unit.
"Matching scars, hey" Frankie laughed again follwing by wincing in pain.
"Nothing like a good knife in your guts to help you get promoted to detective quicker" Jane laughed.
"LALALALALALALALA" Angela shouted, her eyes squeezed shut tight and her fingers in her ears.
"MA?" Jane shouted, pulling her mothers arms down from her ears.
"I'm sorry if I don't want to listen to my two children talking about being stabbed and their scars. I worry enough about the pair of you, day in and day out. Not knowing what's going to happen to you-" Angela started ranting, the same rant they had heard time and time again.
"-Okay ma, i'm sorry!" Jane cut her mother off, she knew the rant word for word by now.
"I mean, you just dissapear of te face of the earth for two months and then I get a phone call saying you've been caught up in some bomb blast and you're in the hospital and Frankie wants to be just like you" Angela continued her ranting, this part they had not heard before.
"Ma!" Frankie growled, not wanting to hear his mother rant any longer and not wanting Jane to hear it any longer as her face had already dropped knowing she'd always feel guilty for anything that happened to him as he just wanted to be like her.
"What?" Angela snapped.
"Angie, not now" Frank Snr interjected.
The ringing of Jane's mobile phone made everyone in the room silent.
"I've got to take this" Jane excused herself seeing that it was Frost phoning her. "Rizzoli" Jane answered.
"They got him"
"What?" Jane spat
"They got him! The guy that stabbed Frankie. He's in interrorgation right now"
"Who was it?" Jane asked, trying to stay as far away from the case as she could.
"Some jumped up meth head that got paid to do it...you'll never believe who by!"
Jane was silent for a second. She wanted to know who paid him to do it but she knew that if she did, she wouldn't be able to keep heself out of the case. She would go after them all guns blazing.
"I don't want to know, Frost" Jane huffed, already regretting it.
"What?" Frost scoffed, compleatley shocked by his partners response.
"I don't want to know, I promised Frankie i'd stay out of it. You know me, you tell me who it is and i'll go after them"
"You want to know who this is. Trust me"
"No, I don-"
"It's Jessica Donagal"
Jane's chest felt like it had collapsed in on it's self. Her mouth went dryer than the Sahara desert in summer. Her blood boiled as rage and betrayal surged through her veins. She clenched her fist so hard her nails dug into her skin. She didn't feel the pain or the blood, she just felt the rage and betrayal.
"Are you sure?"
"Well, all we have is the word of a methed up junkie but his story makes sense Jane"
"Meet me outside the hospital"
"I'm already here"
Jane hung up her phone and raced to the exit where Frost was waiting for her. Jane got inthe passenger seat of the car as Frost spead off.
"You know where she is?" Frost asked.
"I have a pretty good idea" Jane spat.
(-)
Before Frost's car came to a stop outside the bar where Jessica worked Jane was already bursting into the bar. With it being only 4pm there weren't many peoplein the bar, only the occasional drunks. Jane bolted up to the bar where the barman who had hit on her a week before was working.
"Hey sexy, finally came to your senses?" The man winked.
"In your dreams. Jessica, where is she?" Jane spat.
"She hasn't been in today, she said she's visiting her sick Aunt in hospital. That means you and me have got the place to oursleves" he continued to flirt.
"You realise thats a detective you're harrassing?" Frost spat as he caught up to Jane.
"What do you mean she is visiting a sick aunt?" Jane spat
"I mean what I said I mean, hot stuff" the man winked, causing Frost to stand up and put himself inbetween the man and Jane.
Jane racked her brain for 30 seconds until it clicked. By sick aunt she meant Maura. If she hired someone to kill Frankie, then she would do the same for Maura.
"Frost, we need to go back to the hospital, NOW!" Jane spat, running out of the bar and towards Frosts car.
Jane jumped in the drivers seat, and pressed the gas peddal to the floor. She spead through the busy streets of Boston, swirving in and out of the many cars. Getting lots of angry honks, middle fingers and getting called all the names under the sun. Frost flicked on the lights which people were happy to move out of the way for once they realised it was a cop car that was speeding through the traffic. Jane's hands gripped the wheel so tight she eventually started to feel the pain from where her nails penetrated her skin, but somehow that made her grip the wheel even tighter. The pain drove her. Fueled her. Made her feel alive and and if she was in the hospital then Frankie and Maura's lives were at stake. Frost got off the phone with hospital security just as Jane skidded around the corner, blasting through the security gate. Jane pulled up into a parking spot closest to the hospital and hopped out of the car, followed by Frost.
"Jane, take this!" Frost threw his back up at Jane.
"Thanks" Jane shouted, hiding the gun under her jacket so not to alarm the thousands of other people in the hospital.
Hope you guys like the new chapter. Will Jane be able to get to Jessica in time? Is it a good thing Jane going after her? Let me know what you think, keep the awesome reviews coming!:D