Ok lovelies here is my fifth story here on fanfiction. I do hope you will enjoy this one as much as the others and I would like to thank you all for the continuous follow, favor and reviews of my others stories, now let the show begin :-)...
Summary: Jane Rizzoli thought she left her life on the mean streets of Boston far behind, until a terrifying late at night attack makes the woman she loves a target! On the run with Maura Isles across the Wild City, Jane knows they can't watch their backs forever. Her best hope of keeping the beautiful doctor-to-be alive is to face down the threat together!
Maura believed her future was all planned: graduating medical school and marrying Jane Rizzoli. Jane struggled so hard to rise above her violent past, and trusts Maura with her life and vice versa. But when a deadly gang starts demanding retribution, no place may be safe… not even in the sweet haven of her lover's embrace!
Note: Jane Rizzoli is G/P… if not your cup of tea then please move along and don't troll!
Disclaimer: Tess Gerritsen and TNT are the owners of the R&I characters, not mine! I'm only having fun writing about them for my peeps...
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Chapter 1
Jane hurried towards the train station near Boston Medical School, holding her cell phone to her ear. "Maura, where are you? I thought you were going to meet me in front of the library ten minutes ago!"
"I'm almost to the station," Maura stated while closing the small metal box. "Didn't you get my text?"
Jane lowered her phone and glanced at the text messages.
M: Had to swing by my mailbox. Will meet you and the guys at the station.
Great! Now she's wandering around in the dead of night in Boston! Jane thought while bringing the phone back to her ear. "I'm sorry… I didn't see your message sooner. I had my sound off while I was inside the library." She glanced about the streets. Ever on guard- always looking and watching the shadows, constantly aware of the slightest of movements. "Did you at least get security to escort you across campus?"
Maura's voice laughed. "No, I'll be fine! I'm sticking to the lighted walkways and I have the pepper spray you insisted on giving me currently in my hand."
Jane started jogging, wanting to get to her girlfriend as soon as possible. "I'm a couple minutes behind you! When you get to the station, find a security guard or a place very well lit to stand…" she instructed Maura once more. "And preferably with people around."
"You worry too much," Maura said. "I'm almost there now, just a couple blocks away."
"Stay on the phone with me! But be vigilant! Always look around and be aware of your surroundings!" Jane stated, always on alert from her training in the police academy.
"I know, I know!" The ginger blonde sighed, trying to repress her aggravation. "It's not like I haven't done this a million times since I started medical school." She sighed, "I did all right before we started dating. I'm sure I'll survive now."
As Jane picked up the pace, her pulse started to race and breathing became more labored. Maura simply had no idea just how harsh Boston could be at night!
Sometimes the ever-troubling gang violence spilled out onto the college campuses, especially the one housing Boston Medical School. She knew this because as a beat cop, Officer Rizzoli was dispatched every so often to the campus for reports of a fight among the gangs and students.
"Are you still there?" Jane asked between breaths, cutting across a field, and in-between buildings.
"I'm here. What are you doing?" Maura asked. "Why are you breathing so hard?"
"Just getting in my exercise for the day!"
"You don't have to run to catch up to me! I can stop and wait."
"No," Jane said, stretching her legs, glad she worked out every day. She refused to give in to the life of a fat beat cop who ate donuts all day. "Don't stop! Get to a lighted area inside the station."
"Okay… I'm a block away now. Where are the others?" she asked.
"Nina, Susie, Frankie, and Frost were wrapping it up in the library when I left." Jane dragged in another breath. "They're a few minutes behind me. I really wish you'd waited for me! I don't like you walking around this late at night by yourself!"
"Wait a minute," Maura said.
Jane's phone gave an odd ringing sound. She slowed just enough to look down at the screen. Maura's pretty face appeared and her heart-skipping smile began to form. "There. Now you can be with me and see that I'm all right." She smiled more broadly into the screen. "Happy?"
"Always happy to see your beautiful face, but could you find a better lit path?" Jane asked, resuming her pace.
The medical student laughed. "Why are you so worried? We haven't had any attacks on campus for over a year." Maura stated truthfully.
"Now's not the time to test that record," Jane muttered.
"I heard that." She winked and held up the phone. "I'm going to turn the camera around so that you can see that I'm quite alone and safe." She touched the screen, reversing the camera, and panned her immediate vicinity.
The screen was too dark for Jane to pick out much, but she did detect movement. "Put the phone down. I think someone's coming." She informed Maura.
She lowered the cell phone, giving Jane a bouncing view of her sexy leg. "I don't see…oh, wait…shoot!" A loud slam was followed by the clattering sound of Maura dropping her cell phone.
"I'm okay," she called out. Thankfully, she'd dropped her cell phone with the camera aiming upward.
Jane could see her bending over.
"Just dropped my book. Nothing to worry about."
The cop's nerves were stretching even thinner and the brunette ground her teeth as she pushed up harder on her pace. "Maura, just leave the book! I'll pick it up on my way through!"
"No way. That book cost me over three hundred dollars." She had yet to retrieve her phone and Jane could see only her jacket when she leaned toward the camera. She was far too busy picking up the damned book to be aware of what was going on around her.
"Maura!" Jane called out.
"I'm okay," she said. "But my papers are everywhere. Just gathering them—"
"Well, well, well! What do we have here?" a deep male voice came across Jane's phone speaker.
Her heart leaped, slamming against her ribs. "Maura?" she said, but not too loudly to alert whomever it was talking to her girlfriend to the fact she had her cell phone camera running on FaceTime.
"What's a pretty girl like you doing out this late at night?" Another voice, different than the first now sounded through Jane's speaker. Oh hell, Maura's in trouble!
"Hey," Maura said, "that's my backpack! Give it back, please!"
Jane's heart constricted. She could hear what was going on, but could do nothing until she reached Maura. She ran faster, afraid she'd be too late.
Maura pushed to her feet, her heart hammering and respirations becoming shallow, panicky breaths. Her book and papers lay forgotten on the sidewalk. Everything had happened exactly what Jane tried warning her about! While she had been worried about losing her work, she lost focus on her situational awareness of the surrounding environment. In the few short seconds she wasn't paying attention, a group of four young men and two women surrounded her!
Wearing jeans, red jackets or hoodies, and all of them had dark tattoos on their necks and piercings in their ears. However, it was the menacing way they gathered around her that ignited her fight-or-flight reflex.
She tried to bluff her way out of the situation by squaring her shoulders and pasting an annoyed expression on her face to hide her abject fear. "That's my backpack!" She held out her hand. "Give it back."
A dark-haired man with a long, jagged scar on his right cheek pulled the bag out of her reach and sneered. "What are you going to give me in return?"
"Not a damn thing," she said, praying her voice didn't tremble as much as she was shaking inside. "It belongs to me."
Hurry, Jane!
"Now, that's not very friendly of you." He handed the bag to one of the women and eased forward like a snake slithering toward its prey.
Maura lifted her chin, refusing to look away from the leader of the group of thugs, but she was afraid. If they decided to take her, she couldn't fight off four men and two women. If Jane showed up in time to help, they would still be outnumbered and she'd be hurt, as well.
All she could hope for was for a SWAT team to drive by at that exact moment with guns and lots of bullets, because the muggers didn't appear to be the type to be scared by much else. In fact, they likely wouldn't even be frightened by law enforcement even if the whole SWAT department along with the National Guard showed up.
"Such a pretty lady to be out this late…" The thug the medical student mentally labeled: 'Scarface' touched a finger to her cheek.
Maura jerked away and backed up.
He matched her steps, bringing him close enough that she could smell his foul breath.
"Give me my bag and leave me alone!" She yelled.
"Or what?"
"I'll scream," she said in a near shout.
The man laughed and shot a glance around them. "Who would hear you?"
"People," she said. "My friends are on their way to meet me. They'll be here any moment."
"Yeah, sure!" Scarface glanced around once more and then back to her. "I don't see them. You wouldn't lie to me, would you?"
"Look, you don't want to do something you'll regret," she said. "I just want to go home. You and your friends need to move on." She was stalling, but had no other choice. If Jane didn't arrive soon, these guys could rape or kill her. Part of her wanted Jane to hurry. On the other hand, she worried her girlfriend would get caught in the middle of it and die trying to defend her. How could she extricate herself from this before Jane arrived? Even if she managed to get away from them, would the gang harass Jane?
All those thoughts ran through her head in seconds. Since talking her way out of the situation didn't seem to be working, the next option was to run.
Scarface stepped closer and ran his finger along her cheek again, down her neck and across her jacket covered breast.
She had to make her move now, or never. Maura jerked her knee up, hitting the man in the crotch.
When he doubled over, Maura darted to the right and ran.
She didn't get three steps before one of Scarface's buddies stepped in front of her and wrapped his arms around her body, trapping her against his chest.
"Let go of me!" she yelled, before drawing in a deep breath and began screaming as loud as she could, praying someone would hear and come to her rescue.
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Will Jane make it to Maura in time, or will the gang have their way with her? Sorry, have to wait to see, until next time, Terri411...