It was the middle of the night, the weekend was over. Maura had woken up to the ringing of her cell phone. She glanced at the called I.D. and it was Jane. She picked up answering with a yawn. "Maura Isles."

"Maura, it's me Jane," she spoke in a whisper.

"So my caller I.D. says. Jane, you do realize it's two in the middle of the night and we have school in the morning, can't we talk then?"

"No it's important, can you come over?"

"Jane, I can't come over I'm not allowed to be out this late driving. You couldn't have called me during I don't know the day time?" Maura asked, she was tired and more than frustrated at Jane for wanting to talk now at the worst possible time.

"I, sorry Maura I guess I just needed to see you, I can't sleep, honestly haven't slept well for a while. I know I have bad timing and you're probably really mad at me for what I did on Friday. I had a lot of time to think about it."

Maura sat up in bed and sighed, "Jane I really wish you would have called earlier."

"Me too I just, I wasn't sure of what I wanted to say. I was an idiot the other night and I can explain all of it."

"How about this, I come pick you up early and we can have a talk somewhere private. You can explain all you need to and I'll listen."

"You mean that?" Jane asked a little too cheerful.

"Of course I do Jane, just because you hurt me doesn't mean I just randomly stopped loving you."

"I love you too Maura."

"You mean that?" Maura asked with a smile.

"Of course I mean that, sweet dreams and well sorry for interrupting your sleep."

"You owe me Jane Rizzoli, I think you owe me twice actually."

"Probably three times. I'll make it up to you I swear."

"Sounds promising, goodnight."

"Good night Maura," Jane whispered before hanging up the phone. Maura laid back down on her bed, thinking for a moment before falling back asleep. Sounds very promising indeed.

After talking to Maura on the phone Jane realized just how much she missed her, how much she loved hearing her voice, even though she was frustrated with her at first but hearing her voice soften up at the end warmed her heart that she broke herself. After talking to Maura Jane was actually able to get some sleep, sure she still had the nightmares but Maura was safe this time.

Jane woke up to her alarm a few hours later, she got ready for the day before heading downstairs, her brothers were eating breakfast and Coach Korsak was in the kitchen helping Angela with the dishes, they looked like they were having a conversation. "Good morning Ma," Jane came up behind her mother kissing her cheek and patting Korsak on the back.

"Well someone seems to be in a good mood this morning, you've been completely miserable lately. It's a nice change sweetie," Angela smiled.

"Yeah sorry just dealing with everything after getting hurt, it's hard."

"It'll get easier soon Jane, why don't you go join your brothers for breakfast?"

"Actually Ma, Maura is coming to pick me up early, I kind of blew her off on Friday and we're going to have a talk. I have to make things right."

"I'm sure everything will be alright. You two really do go well together."

"Thanks Ma," Jane felt her phone vibrate, she looked and Maura texted that she was outside. "I have to go now, bye Ma, bye coach." And with that she was out the door.

"We should probably tell her soon." Angela sighed.

"I'm sure she'll be fine with it."

"I don't know Vince, she doesn't do well with change."

"It'll be a good change, I promise. She doesn't seem to like it in this house after everything anyways. It'll be absolutely fine, a little sudden, but fine," Korsak kissed the top of her head.

"I do hope that you're right. The last thing I want to do is upset her."

When Jane got into Maura's car there was a little bit of awkward tension, "So um, where are we going to have that talk?"

"A place with a nice view, somewhere I like to go sometimes to think, enjoy the Boston atmosphere," Maura explained as she pulled out of the driveway.

"Hmm I wonder if it's the same place I'm thinking of."

"Guess we'll find out when we get there," Maura shrugged.

The car ride was spent in silence, no talking, the radio on low. Jane sighed, hoping that their talk would go over well. She kept glancing over at Maura who had a frown on her face.

"Maura, what are you thinking of?" Jane decided to ask.

"Nothing much really, we'll be there soon, okay?"

"Yeah sure," she turned to look out of the window, it was really tense in here. It felt like one of her nightmares where she couldn't move, she just laid there defenseless waiting for the end to come. Jane felt tears fill in her eyes, wiping them before they fell down her cheeks. Maura took notice.

"Jane, are you okay?"

"Me yeah, I'm fine, or well I will be, hopefully..." Jane closed her eyes, she felt Maura place a hand on her knee.

Soon enough the car stopped moving, Maura shut off the engine and looked over at Jane. "We made it, was this the place you were thinking of?"

Jane looked out of the window and nodded, they were at the Boston Public Garden, "Yeah, actually it was," she smiled. "The view and atmosphere is definitely breathtaking."

"Good, that's what I was going for, come on, let's go," Maura got out of the car and Jane joined her. "It's really nice in the morning here, that's when I usually come out." Maura linked her arm with Jane's good arm as they walked a little bit until they found a nice place to sit, looking out into the pond. "So..."

"So yeah, um... to be honest I'm not really sure I know where to start."

"I find the beginning is always nice, like why you've been acting odd lately, it wasn't just Friday night where you've seemed completely different and very distant. I feel like I hardly know you anymore Jane, and I don't like it. Ever since the incident with your father, he did more damage to you mentally then he did physically, didn't he?"

"He scares me Maura, I never thought someone I loved could scare me so bad. I just, it's so hard dealing with all of this stuff, you know? My father going to jail, not knowing what to say or how to feel. Being on edge every moment of everyday, afraid one day he'll get out and try to force his way back into my life. Try to hurt the people I care about, try to hurt you..."

"You really think your dad would do something like that a second time?"

Jane shrugged, "Who knows, I thought I knew him, but I don't... I went to go visit him him jail one day, it was the worst experience of my life. You know he tried to persuade me to be at the trial and tell them that I accidentally fell down the stairs that he didn't do anything. I called him out and he didn't like that. Said I was an ungrateful shit and that it wasn't over. He practically threatened me. I don't even know who he is anymore, I'm beginning to think that I never did..." she didn't even try to hide the tears that began to fall. Maura wrapped her arms around Jane's shoulders.

"Hey sweetie, it's going to be okay. He's not going to get out, they'd be foolish to let a abusive man walk free, especially when he threatened you and hurt you like he did."

"But he could though and I'll have to keep looking over my shoulders, and probably be on edge all of the time. I don't want you to end up stuck in the crossfire if things go wrong."

Maura kissed the side of Jane's head, "I want to be by your side though Jane, it's better to have someone by your side then to do this on your own. You don't have to be alone. I'm here for you and frankly I have always been, even if you push me away, or break my heart even more. I want to be there, I want to be the person you always run to, not someone you run from when things get hard. I love you more than anything Jane Rizzoli and I always will, no matter what. You don't need to have doubts about that."

Jane wiped the tears that fell down her cheeks, "But what if I can't protect you Maura, what if I lose you, I wouldn't know what to do with myself."

"Then I don't think your approach of dumping me was a good choice, if you say you wouldn't know what you'd do if you lost me, then why push me away in the first place, that I just don't understand, I want to understand, I deserve to know Jane..." Maura found herself starting to cry as she spoke, she wanted to hold herself together during this conversation but she felt weak and confused by Jane's actions. "You can't say you want to protect me and end up abandoning me, it just doesn't make sense."

"I know Maura, I know it doesn't make any sense, I just..." Jane took a deep breath. "I met someone else when I was in jail, I didn't know who he was at the time until I looked him up. He was really odd and strange and before he went back to his cell he said that he liked my neck, he sniffed my hair and I felt nauseated. His name was Charles Hoyt. I started to have nightmares about it, about what he did, about him coming for you and me just because we were together. I know it's an irrational fear because he's in jail but I just... I was avoiding you because I didn't want him coming after you, hurting you."

Maura listened to Jane explain, she did hear about this Charles Hoyt man, remembered her father telling her about how he was stalking women, it was when she was in Paris, he told her to keep an eye out because there was no telling where he could be. "I... you met Charles Hoyt?"

"You heard of him?" Jane looked up and Maura nodded.

"Yeah my father told me about him, wanted me to be careful in Paris just because he didn't know where Hoyt could be and that was when Garrett and I were still a couple, he didn't want anything happening to us. I don't want to live in fear that something could happen to someone we love because if we spend that time worrying we push people away when we really need to stick together."

"I didn't want to push you away Maura, but I was still scared, I wanted to protect you at all costs, even if that meant pushing you away. I know it makes no sense and I've come to realize how much my life sucks without you and that sticking together is always the better option. I gave you that crap excuse of not being enough for you, because I thought you'd be safer if you hated me. If you wanted nothing to do with me."

"Well that didn't go over so well, that's why I gave you a chance to think about it before you made any other rash decisions. Don't you ever decide that I am better off without you, I know what I want Jane, alright? I know what makes me happy in life and I don't need others making that decision for me. It's my life and I want to be by your side no matter what, can we please try to work things out and talk instead of running away? I don't like feeling like I did something wrong, that I screwed things up because honestly that was what was going through my mind. That you rather live without me than to work through any issues together."

"I never meant to hurt you Maura, I was trying to protect you. I should have been completely honest with you."

"Yes you should have," Maura nodded her head, before there was silence, Jane bit her bottom lip and ran her fingers through her hair. "Don't ever lie to me again Jane Rizzoli and don't for a minute think pushing me away will protect me, because you'd be pretty damn wrong about it."

Jane nodded, "I'm sorry for being an idiot, I promise I'll be open and honest with you from here on out, I never want you doubting my love for you. I love you so much Maura and I feel sick for pushing you away when we needed each other the most. Can you forgive me for being an idiot?"

"Yes, I forgive you, but just know Jane, there has to be a change, we have to do better, alright? I forgive you, but it's going to take some time for me to trust you again."

"That's understandable, I just want you to know that I'll never stop loving you either, no matter how much of an idiot I am."

"You do and make these rash decisions without thinking about the consequences. You have a lot to work on, but I'm here for you and I will be. This can only work if we're open about everything, hiding things just makes things worse. And I don't for a moment want to think I'd be better off without you. I want to talk to you about absolutely anything. Like, for example, I still want you to wear that promise ring because if there's one thing I don't do, it's go back on my promises. Do you still have the ring?"

Jane nodded, pulling it out from her backpack, "It's right here." Maura smiled, taking it from Jane and sliding it onto her finger.

"It's more than a promise you know, it's a symbol of our love, I always want you wearing it because when you wear it I know that you're thinking about me. That you love me."

"I love you so much Maura, I'll never stop loving you," Jane squeezed Maura's fingers before leaning in to give Maura a soft kiss on the lips. "I've missed you so much."

"I've missed you too," Maura replied by placing her hand on the back of Jane's neck, pulling her close to give her a kiss, a deeper one, all the love she felt for Jane was shown in that kiss. Jane groaned against Maura's mouth as the girl moved to straddle her waist, pushing her gently down into the grass.

"Maura," Jane whispered as Maura's lips trailed down her neck causing the girl to pull away. "I just want to make sure, are we girlfriends again?"

"I'd like to think so, yeah."

"Good," Jane smiled, "And one more thing, I hate to ruin the moment, but we should probably start going to school before we're late."

Maura looked down at Jane and shook her head, "Forget about school."

Jane looked up at her girlfriend in concern and curiosity, "Did I just hear you say what I think I just heard?"

"Yes, you did, I'm at the top of my class I can miss a day. My parent's house is supposed to be empty and we can have the whole place to ourselves. We need to make up for lost time."

Jane chuckled, "Who knew Maura Isles could be such a little rebel?"

"You just don't know me as well as you think you do, guess there's a lot you don't know about me."

"All of which I'm willing to learn and discover."

"Glad to hear it," Maura removed herself from Jane's waist helping her stand up as they walked back to her car, hand in hand.

The ride to the Isles household was spent in comfortable silence, Maura was really glad she had gotten Jane to open up, there was a lot to work on but at least they could do it together.

When they arrived at the house, Maura smiled not seeing her parent's car in the driveway. Jane and Maura went into the house, there was no silence as there was shouting in the kitchen.

"I can't believe this Arthur, you had my own daughter lie to me, bribing her with a car to keep her mouth shut? Yes Garrett had to tell me because you scared our daughter into thinking she couldn't tell me about your little affair. I had to hear it from him in New York! I can't believe this, I can't believe you'd destroy 20 years of marriage for his mother!" Constance shouted.

"I didn't mean for it to go this far Constance..."

"Save it Arthur, I found myself a lawyer while I was in New York. I don't even want to look at you or even be in the same city as you."

Jane looked at Maura who was upset at the shouting. "Come on Maura, we should probably get to school."

Maura shook her head and walked into the kitchen, Constance heard the footsteps, turning to her daughter, giving Arthur a chance to leave the room unnoticed by Constance. "Maura, shouldn't you be in school?"

"I-I forgot to grab my backpack," she said in almost a whisper.

"I'm sorry if you heard any of this, I can't believe he made you keep this secret, you don't have to be here anymore Maura. You don't have to go to school today either," she rested her hands on Maura's shoulders. "In fact since you're here there's no need to delay, you can go upstairs and pack up your things. You and I are moving back to New York City."

"Wait, we're what?" Maura asked in a shout, not knowing Jane was coming into the kitchen.

"Yeah, you're what?" Jane asked just as loud as Maura.

Well shit definitely hit the fan, Constance wanting to go back to NYC taking Maura along with her, Arthur's affair being out there thanks to Garrett. The good news is our Rizzles had their much needed talk, I love scenes where they open up to each other and just overall being cute and honest. Maura needs to be able to trust Jane fully though and she will eventually, especially with these new developments and what exactly was Angela and Korsak's talk about, I mean unless you caught on to what they were discussing. It all sort of goes together of what's to come. Until next time, love to read your thoughts as always.