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A New Family, a New Future-Part 17:

Jane and Maura had both managed to free themselves up so they could go to the school and collect Louisa. They knew that it would not be the most amazing idea but they wanted to get Louisa and see for themselves that she was OK. Angela would have her in the café for the remainder of her shift and then take the teenager home and prepare the dinner.

They arrived at the school and Jane got out the car and headed to reception where she would meet Louisa and Chloe.

"Hey Lou," Jane smiled as she saw the two girls.

"No! You cannot be here. Everyone will see me. This is not cool Jane," Louisa said, instantly beginning to panic.

"Lou…we came because we had to see that you were OK," Jane said, "we'll stay here for a few minutes and let the major rush go then we'll go out and join Maura and head to the station." Louisa nodded and said bye to Chloe before the teenager said by to Jane and joined the crowds leaving the school.

Eventually the crowds died down and Jane and Louisa were soon in the Prius and heading back to the station.

"You two really did not need to come and get me. I'd have been fine going to Chloe's until you were home," Louisa insisted but saw the look she was getting from Maura told her to keep her mouth shut so she just stuck her headphones in and looked out of the window until they arrived at the station.

They headed inside and Angela hurried to meet them.

"You three are going to that new sushi place tonight," she said, "I've managed to get you in once I mentioned your names."

"Ma come on! You know I hate that stuff," Jane said.

"Thank you Angela," Maura said before she turned to Louisa, "do as Angela says until we come and get you," she said and Louisa nodded before she headed off with the Rizzoli matriarch.

"Fancy helping me with the rush that's about to happen. Just the till before you get any ideas."

"Yes Angela," Louisa said before she dumped her bag on her usual table and then went and sat down behind the till and soon the two were tackling the mid afternoon rush and made a pretty good team.

"Well that went rather well," Angela said before spotting Jane and Maura walking over hand in hand.

"Thanks Ma for watching her but we really should be going now," Jane said before looking over at Louisa and watched as the girl packed up and walked over to them.

The journey to the sushi place was quiet. Jane and Maura had decided that they'd talk to Louisa there because the teenager wouldn't be able to shout if she was in a public place. Louisa knew that something was happening because Jane and Maura were quiet whenever there was about to be a serious discussion about something. She hated it but this time, at least, she had a very good idea what the discussion would be about.

"Come on Maura," Jane said as they were quickly shown to their table after they arrived, "raw fish? Really?" she asked.

"Well have Salmon then. That I know you'll eat," Maura said before playfully smacking Jane's arm and smiled as the gesture produced giggles from Louisa, the first proper reaction they'd got out of her.

"You want to know what we want to talk to you about don't you?" Jane asked.

"No because it's pretty obvious," Louisa said, a hint of attitude in her voice, "I'm not stupid you two. You want to talk about what happened at school today."

"Well it was something pretty big and for you not to tell us…" Jane said, "Lou something spooked you."

That was truly the wrong thing to say as Louisa instantly put the walls up around herself and only let them down to order her drink and a sample platter. As soon as that was done the wall went back up. Maura sighed before looking at Louisa.

"We accept that you didn't know that fire alarms would trigger a flashback," she said gently, "but there are clearly things from before your mother died that we need to talk about."

Louisa looked at Maura, a sign that she was listening behind those walls that she'd put up but she still wouldn't speak. Maura knew she was listening though.

"So the alarm went off and it triggered something, something buried so deep in your memory that you didn't know you remembered it…?" A nod from Louisa and a hidden sigh of relief from Maura as she was slowly getting through to Louisa. Jane, obviously, still lacked the sensitivity that a subject like this required.

There was a brief interruption as the food and drink was brought and Maura decided to use the distraction of eating to prise more information out of Louisa.

"So you don't remember anything just black?" she asked and Louisa nodded,

"If I remembered anything I would have told Chloe or my teacher or the nurse," she said softly, "but I just couldn't remember anything at all other than the black. I knew you'd do this here."

"We just care and worry about you," Jane said, "we were thinking it might be an idea…"

"Therapy?" Louisa said as if she could read Jane's mind.

"They may be able to help you again. It's clear that there's stuff buried so deep within your head and we don't know what could trigger it or anything and that's scary for all of us."

Louisa looked at her food in silence. Jane and Maura watched her as well, hoping that their words were somehow being processed because all they really wanted to do was help Louisa. Jane was right. The fact that anything could trigger a flashback or panic attack was a scary thing for them to deal with.

After a few minutes Louisa sighed,

"I guess you're right as always," she said softly, "I mean it is kinda scary and they did help rather last time. Who knows what could happen if this all comes tumbling from my head?"

Jane and Maura looked at each before nodding softly.

"Then we'll sort that out," Maura said, "now let's just enjoy the rest of the meal," she said giving Jane a nudge under the table before they carried on eating and enjoyed the meal before they went home and relaxed for the evening. Louisa was even being let off homework as it had been an emotional and tiring day all around.