"Rizzoli are you ok?… Rizzoli… Rizzoli…JANE"

She could sense a commotion around her, but she couldn't hear anything. She was paralysed. She could do nothing but stare at the freeze frame of Charles Hoyt. Stare at his smirking face as he looked directly into the security camera.

She felt Frost grab her arm. She felt him shake her. She heard him tell her to snap out of it.

And then. The world went dark.

She woke up 15 hours later in Walter Reed Military Hospital in MD. She was surrounded by 3 nurses, a doctor, 2 Secret Service Agents and an Off-Duty Barry Frost.

She slowly looked around her. Her heart rate spiked. She tried to get up. She didn't know where she was, her last conscious memory was Charles Hoyt's face smiling at her. The nurses noticed. They held her down, she fought back. She heard alarms blaring. She heard Frost telling her to calm down, that she was safe, that she was in hospital, that she had blacked out at work. She couldn't calm down. She could only see his face. Taunting her. Frost was now helping the doctor and nurses holding her down.

She felt warm. She felt fuzzy. Her nose itched. She fell asleep.

A few hours later, she woke up. Frost was still there, sleeping on a chair beside her bed.

It took a few minutes, but she got her bearings. She was in hospital just like Frost said. She heard her heart rate and oxygen monitor's beep. She tried to move, but found she was restrained. She started to panic, but her rational brain was reminding her irrational fear that she was in hospital. Safe.

Frost heard her stirring

"Are you going to try and fight me again Rizzoli?" He asked, only half joking

She shook her head

"I'll call the nurse to get the restraints off then"

He pushed the call button and they waited

"Do you want to talk about it"

She looked straight ahead and didn't say anything

Frost was about to push again, but he was interrupted by the nurse.

"You're not going to try and fight me again are you Agent Rizzoli?"

"I feel like there's an echo in this room"

"I asked her the exact same thing" Frost laughed

She removed the restraints and left the room

Jane and Frost sat in silence for a moment

"Charles Hoyt"

"What?"

"That's his name. The man in the security footage"

"And you know that how?"

She looked at him

"He's how I got these" and held up her hands, showing him her scars

He didn't say anything. He took one look at her hands, and decided it would be a bad idea. If she wanted to tell him, he'd listen, but he would never ask.

"Ok" he replied

"This isn't about the President or Maura. This is about me."

He looked her

She carried on. Not looking at him.

"He was a doctor at the base I was stationed at when I was in the Marines. To cut a long story short, he killed couples. Raped the wife in front of the husband, then killed him and made her watch. Wife would go missing, then turn up dead a few days later."

Frost remembered that case. He had just joined the Secret Service when it happened

"Turns out, Hoyt never finished Medical School, and forged his papers to get into the Marines. One of the Generals who happened to lived off base looked into him after a few Marines started dying in simple procedures, discovered he never finished his degree and was recommending he get dishonourably discharged."

"Hoyt somehow found out, and did the same to this General. That's when the higher ups started to suspect that Hoyt was behind all these killings, it was too coincidental that this happened right as he was about to be discharged."

Frost looked intently at Jane

"A top secret task force was set up, off the books because we're not allowed to operate on US soil…"

Frost nodded

"We got a tip off that Hoyt was leaving base, so I jumped in a car and followed him. I shouldn't have went alone, I should have told someone I was going after him, but I didn't have time and I couldn't let him get away. I saw him break into a house and went in after him"

Frost looked horrified. He knew what was coming next.

"I went down the basement, but it was a trap, he knocked me out. Taped me up, waited until I was awake and drove scalpels into my hands, pining me to the floor."

She choked back tears

"He was about to rape me, when Korsac burst through the door and shot him"

"KORSAC?"

"Yeah, turns out the FBI were following him too. Neighbour saw him break into the house, called the cops described Hoyt. Gave his car licence plate, this tipped off the FBI who showed up… Well, that's what I think happened anyway. No-one ever told me how they knew about him and I never asked. I was just thankful to be alive"

Frost said nothing. Taking in everything that Jane had just told him.

"Ok. So how does Maura fit into all this?"

Jane stopped. How DOES Maura fit into this?

"I… Don't know?"

"You seemed pretty close at the opening of the DC clinic…"

"I'm her bodyguard, I'm supposed to be close"

"She put her arm around you"

"So?"

"She's into you"

"No, she's not."

"That video says otherwise. I bet if we go through all the footage of her other public appearance's, we'll find the same thing."

"Are you accusing me of inappropriate behaviour?"

"No. I'm saying she's into you. And now Charles Hoyt has a way to get his revenge"

Jane didn't argue. She knew he was right. She knew that if they went through the footage they would find exactly the same thing happening. She knew Maura thought of her as a friend rather than a body guard, but she also knew that Charles Hoyt should still be in Prison.

"How did he get out of Prison?"

"He escaped" He didn't look up from his phone "One of the prison guards helped him escape"

"And now they are both on the loose in DC" She rolled her eyes

"No, they caught the guard. Turns out, Hoyt was training him as an apprentice of sorts and they caught him in the act"

"Well, at least we only have on psycho to deal with" she laughed nervously

She looked over at him

"What time is it?"

"Midnight" He replied

"You should go get some rest, it's been a long few days"

"Yeah, I'll go catch Marshall up on this then get some sleep. Make sure you get some natural, non drug induced sleep Jane" He said as he got up and put his jacket on

"Yeah, yeah. I'll try"

He left, and a nurse came into the room to make sure Jane was ok. Jane confirmed she was fine, but asked for another blanket. Once received, she settled down to try and get some sleep.

The next morning, she was allowed to leave the hospital. Her boss came to pick her up

"Do you need time off?"

"No sir"

"Are you sure? Blacked out at work"

"I'm fine, I didn't hit my head"

"No, but you did have a PTSD episode"

She stayed silent

"You've not had one of those since you've been here"

Still silent

"If you're sure you can still go about your day with a clear head, and help with this investigation then I'll let you stay at work"

"Thank you sir"

"Have you spoke to Korsac yet?"

"Not yet sir, we're getting lunch when I get back"

"Excellent"

She smiled

"Jane"

She turned to look at him

"Are you sure you're ok?"

"I'm as ok as anyone can be when they have a murderer after them" She laughed

"Well, you live in the safest place on earth" He said, cringing

She looked at him

"Did you hear what you said"

"Yeah, I couldn't stop myself. Force of habit" He laughed

Jane strolled into a Diner near The White House, and sat in the booth opposite Korsac

"I hear you passed out" he said, not looking up from his newspaper

"PTSD"

"What was the trigger?"

"Charles Hoyt"

He looked at her. He folded his paper and took a sip of his coffee

"Son of a bitch"

"Ready to order Guys?" A waitress asked

They ordered food and drinks

"What are we going to…" Korsac started, then shook his head "What's the plan?"

"What makes you think I have a plan?"

"I know you better than you think Jane Rizzoli"

She smiled "I've got a few idea's."