Oops, I Did It Again – Chapter 30
Maura had driven home that morning as Jane typed an email off to Nick to let them know where they stood on the case. Jane knew she wouldn't hear anything until possibly the next day so she put her phone away and told Maura, "Thanks, babe, for taking the extra time to work with us on this case. I have a feeling we are getting close to wrapping this case up. We just have a few more pieces of the puzzle to figure out."
"You are welcome, Jane. I know you want to close this case before my parents get here and I think it is possible. I am curious to see if Nick's team has come up with any other information."
"Me too," Jane said as they pulled into the driveway. "I think I am ready to just fall down on the bed and fall asleep, clothes and all."
"No, Jane, you will take your work clothes off and either sleep naked or put on some shorts and a t-shirt." Maura insisted.
"Oh, naked with you, sounds great." Jane suggested as she winked at Maura.
"I thought you said you were tired."
"No, I said I am ready to just fall down on the bed and fall asleep, clothes and all. There is a difference. Tired, means that I am dead to the world. I could be persuaded to fool around with my girlfriend." Jane stated as they entered the house.
"Jane, love, as much as I would love to make love with you. I need some sleep and considering it is now 3:30 AM and we have to be back to work at 9 AM, we do not have that much time to make love and sleep. I, just this once, am choosing sleep over making love with you, sorry!"
"Bummer, I guess I will just fall down on the bed then clothes and all."
"No, Jane, you will lay naked curled up with me until the alarm goes off in the morning."
Jane followed Maura's advice and lays naked with her. Maura set her alarm for 8 AM as she would need time to get ready. She knew Jane wouldn't need too long so she set a second alarm for 8:20. When the alarm went off, Maura kissed Jane on the cheek and quietly got out of bed and went to take a shower. Jane stirred as she missed the warmth of Maura's body. She opened her eyes to find that Maura was not in the bedroom. She heard the shower turn on and immediately jumped out of bed so she could join Maura in the shower.
Maura didn't hear Jane come in as she was getting fresh towels out of the linen closet and humming to herself. When she turned to place the towels down, she saw Jane standing there with a big smile waiting for her. "Jane, why are you up love?"
"I got up to take a shower with you. why didn't you wake me?"
"I thought I would let you get an extra twenty minutes of sleep. I figured I would take my shower while you were still sleeping."
"Oh, so you don't want to shower with me?" Jane said as she pouted.
"I didn't say that Jane, don't try and put words into my mouth."
"Can I put my tongue in your mouth?" Jane smirked at Maura.
"Jane!"
"Maur, the water's going to get cold if we don't get in soon."
"Okay, but no funny business. I have to get ready for work."
"You're no fun, Maur."
"Jane, you know I have a routine and with so little sleep I am pushing myself already. You can take a shower with me but please try and keep your hands to yourself."
"I will try, but I make no promises." Jane stated.
"I know and I let you have some play time with our naked bodies last night, I mean this morning. So please try harder than you normally do." Maura said as she hopped into the shower.
She put her hand out to stop Jane from entering because Jane hadn't promised yet. Jane just looked at her and kept trying to enter the shower. Finally, she gave up and said, "Okay, I will try harder to keep my hands to myself." With that Maura put her hand down and let Jane enter the shower. Jane was good except as they exited the shower then she wrapped Maura up in a hug as she wrapped the towel around her. She started kissing her neck as she tightened a towel around herself. They got dressed and left for work.
Maura thought they might have a little more traffic getting to work as it was later in the morning and she was right. She called Frost to see if someone was bringing in coffee and pastries.
"Hey Maura." Frost said as he answered the phone. "Is my partner misbehaving this morning?"
"Not any more than normal." Maura admitted.
"That's good to hear. So, what's up doc?" Frost said as he laughed. He never got tired of saying that to her.
"I was just wondering if anyone was bringing in coffee and pastries this morning?"
"Yeah, Korsak said he would grab that. I think he wanted to make sure that he got his favorite type of pastry. You know how he is with his snacks."
"Yes, I do. I am surprised that he doesn't have diabetes. Thank you, we will be there in about 10 to 15 minutes if we don't catch any more traffic. Jane has already threatened to turn on the lights and sirens several times to make sure we are not late."
"Tell her not to abuse her authority like that. If you are a few minutes late no worries. I will tell Korsak that you are on your way."
"Thanks, Barry."
"You are welcome, doc, see you two soon." With that Maura disconnected the call and then checked her email on her phone.
"Jane, we got an email from Nick." Maura informed her.
"What does it say?" Jane asked as she was curious.
"He said thank you for the information and that he will come to the precinct and should be there by 9:15 at the latest."
"That is great. I would love to hear what news he might have for us."
Ten minutes later they pulled into the precinct's garage. Maura had assigned parking so once Jane noticed that the lot was full, she pulled her cruiser into Maura's parking spot. She didn't see anybody around so she leaned over and gave Maura a passionate kiss. Maura wasn't expecting that, but she was pleasantly surprised. Jane quickly got out of the car and ran over to Maura's side to open the door for her.
Jane was facing Maura and didn't see the person walk up behind her. Then she heard a voice she hadn't heard in a while, "You think you are special getting to park in the Medical Examiner's spot Rizzoli?"
Jane turned around to see Darren Crowe. "Crowe what the hell are you doing here?"
"You caused me to get fired. I thought I would come here and have some words with you." Crowe said as he stepped into Jane's space. Maura called Frost. Jane had stepped to protect Maura. Crowe couldn't see Maura on the phone. She whispered into the phone, "Barry, Darren Crowe is in the parking lot confronting Jane, send someone please."
"On it, doc." Frost said as he told Maura, "Stay on the phone with me so I can hear what is being said." He covered his mouthpiece and told Korsak, "Crowe is in the parking garage confronting Jane, send someone down there quickly."
"Got it Frost." Korsak pulled out his phone and called dispatch to send officers as soon as possible to the parking garage, to the medical examiner's parking spot. Frost, Korsak and Frankie all went down as fast as they could to the garage.
Jane was trying to calm herself down using the techniques that her beautiful therapist had taught her. Crowe continued to bad mouth Jane. Maura was taping the confrontation. Crowe took a swing at Jane and missed as Jane ducked. He immediately tried again and missed again. By this time Frost, Korsak, Frankie and half a dozen uniformed officers had arrived.
Crowe looked at everyone and tried to depart the premises he knew he was not to set foot at BPD and here he had violated that request. He was to stay away from Jane as well and he was there to pick a fight with her. Maura was witness to the whole confrontation and had taped almost three fourths of it. Crowe was arrested on sight. He had already served time for this matter and the judge would not take kindly to his repeated offenses.
Maura hugged Jane after they took Crowe away in cuffs. Jane had handled the situation perfectly. She looked at her watch it was 9:10 AM, Nick would be arriving soon. They went inside the precinct and found that Nick had just arrived. They escorted him up to the conference room. Before they could get started Jane and Maura were called into an interrogation room to give their statements about what had just transpired.
Frost copied the video from Maura's phone as they would need that as evidence along with the statements from Jane and Maura. Frost, Korsak and Frankie also gave their statements about what they had witnessed from the time that they arrived.
The day was just beginning and all Jane wanted to do was go home and crawl back in bed with Maura and try for a fresh start tomorrow. It was almost ten before they got back up to the conference room where they would start reviewing the case again.
Jane apologized to Nick when she and Maura arrived in the conference room. She briefly explained what had happened. Nick had been reviewing all the documents they had pinned up to the wall. He was impressed with what they had put together. Nick could tell that Jane wasn't in any mood to work and asked if they could pick this up tomorrow morning.
Lt. Cavanaugh stepped into the conference room and told Jane and Maura to go home and come back at 8 AM tomorrow morning. Nick stayed and worked with Frost and Korsak on what information they had until noon. He had needed to be brought up to speed on the case and they would all meet tomorrow. Tomorrow Nick would share his information hopefully they would be that much closer to closing the case.
