*Okay as always I own nothing of Criminal Minds or Rizzoli & Isles just enjoying using the characters.
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Jane found herself having trouble sleeping. It was one am in New Mexico and she knew it was three am in Boston. She laid there thinking about everything especially why Emily had wanted her to see the BAU side of things. She thought about the looks she had gotten from the New Mexico detectives when the team had come in and realized why the team viewed having each others back so seriously because here they were the only ones they could trust to have their backs. It wasn't like BPD where you call for back up and one of your buddies came running. These people viewed you just a step above the unsub themselves.
She thought about how quick her own response time was to information request from other agencies. Now she was on the other side needing answers to requests to save a life. "We are on the same team really. They just have a bigger range of information." She said out loud as she turned over in the bed and thought about where Bianca might be and if she was still alive. She hated the thought of having to tell Sandy that her girlfriend was dead.
She saw the blinking of her phone beside the bed on the night stand and knew that Maura would have hers by the bed side too. She always did especially when they had a case. The day had been so full of fact gathering and brainstorming that she barely remembered to eat let alone call her best friend back. She knew that there wasn't going to be any sleep tonight if she didn't at least try and text her. So she picked up the phone and was glad that she had a room of her own so she wouldn't be keeping JJ up.
Are you awake?
It took just a few moments for the reply.
Yes... Emily is feeding Bella. Can you call me?
Jane smiled at the thought of the little girl. She hit two on speed dial, "Jane..." and melted at the familiar tones of Maura's voice.
"It's me Maur..."
"Are you okay?"
"It's been a long day with flying here and hitting the ground running. It's a different world than BPD and yet it's similar."
"How's your stomach?" Maura asked knowing Jane had issues of nausea when flying.
"Spencer gave me some spearmint gum and it helped me to not throw up."
"I'm glad." She said as there was a pause for several moments. "Jane..."
"It's okay Maur..."
"How can it be okay when you do not know what I was going to say?"
"You were going to say something about Emily and you do not need too because this is between me and her."
"Well... while I agree with it being between you and her...it does involve me because I love you both. We also need to talk about what happened in my office and how it affects us. "
"Can we kind of put the last part off a bit?"
"Jane..."
"I'm good with it Maur... it's just... we interviewed the girl we hope to find alive's girlfriend today and well... it just doesn't seem like the right time to talk about it."
Maura smiled knowing what the woman was saying, "We can discuss it when you get back. But Jane I want you to know that I love you and nothing will ever stop that."
"I love you too Maur. Good night."
"Good night Jane... my phone is always by the bedside if you need me."
"I know... thanks." She said and disconnected the call.
Maura walked into the bedroom just as Emily was putting Bella back down. "In about a week or so she will be sleeping through the night love." She said coming up and putting her arms around Emily's waist as they watched their daughter sleeping.
"I think it will be sooner than that. She just suckled a little tonight. I think she just wanted to be held."
"She's very much like her madre." Maura said tightening her arms around the woman's waist.
"How's Jane?"
"I can tell the case is a rough one for her."
"It is always rough when the bodies have been dismembered."
"You are following it aren't you?"
"I try to follow the people that I love and watch for dangers when I can."
"You can't protect the world Emily." She said as the woman turned in her arms.
"No but I can try and protect those I love the best way I can."
"Couldn't that be viewed as controlling?"
Emily pulled back from her arms. "Do you feel controlled by me?" She asked with a concerned face.
"Only when you surround me with big body guards." She said smiling at the woman trying to lighten the conversation up some. "But..."
"But... what?"
"Jane might be feeling a bit controlled."
"I realize that..." Emily said taking in a deep breath and closing her eyes. "...but for this to work she needs to be under control." Maura started to say something until she held up a finger so she could finish her thought. "Jane needs to learn self control and when I can trust that she has it I will release my thumb."
"Emily... I know she pushes your buttons. I know she totally exposed you and Jennifer to arrest Ian but she really thought she was doing it for the good. You can't try and change someone to fit in a mold to your liking."
"Maura... I love you dearly." She stopped another moment and looked to the ceiling... gathering her thoughts, she took the conversation another way, "What would your perception of the world be if Boston was the only place you lived or seen?"
"A smaller one for sure."
"All I'm doing is widening out Jane's perception. I really do not want to change her because she will give her life for you, that I have no doubt of. But I do not want to loose her when I can have you both."
"Charmer." Maura said changing the atmosphere between them knowing that everything would work itself out some how by the woman's answer.
Emily stepped back into Maura's arms and wrapped her own around her, "Look... I am going to go into work tomorrow with Bella so Charlotte can watch her. But I would like to have lunch again with you since today was really nice and because I need your help in picking something out afterwards."
"OOO... What would this something be?" She said leaning in closer.
"It's a surprise."
"Mmm... surprise hum?"
"Yep... and my lips are sealed." Emily said taking her left hand and mock zipping up her lips since her right one was still in a cast.
"Come to bed love let me see how sealed those lips are." She said kissing the woman.
"You are not angry with me anymore about the guards?" Emily asked pecking Maura's lips again.
"You know I could never stay angry with you even when we were younger."
"Oh... I do not know about that my rose." Emily said smiling and pulling her tighter, "I seem to remember a couple of days of your wrath when I danced with Molly Favret."
"Oh no you are not bringing up that girl's name up right now!" She said wacking Emily on the arm playfully.
"Ouch..."
"That didn't hurt and I wouldn't have been so mad but the girl kept grabbing your butt as you two turned. Then she would look at me daring me to say something and you let her." She said indigent.
"First of all..." Emily started as she was smiling and trying not to laugh, "... she didn't know we were together and what was I suppose to do..." She paused for emphasis, "...wrestle her with all the nuns there?"
"Have you seen her since school?" Maura asked wondering why Emily was bringing her up.
"No... but would you wrestle her today?" Emily asked raising an eye brow in question.
"No..." She said smiling a sultry smile, "...I wouldn't have to..." Emily looked at her puzzled, "Jennifer would take her out before I would even have to think about it." She said as they both started laughing almost waking Bella up. "Shhh..." Maura said pulling Emily towards the bed.
"Whaaa..." Emily started to ask something else but her mouth was suddenly busy with Maura's lips. She loved how her wife never really got jealous but did claim her turf in the most sensual ways possible when posed with any question of whose girl she was.
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The team found themselves on a flight back to Boston by seven pm the next evening. Pen couldn't find footage of the earlier women but did manage to find some footage of Nancy Montago... since she only went missing a week ago. The footage showed the woman at the baggage claim area being up set that her luggage hadn't arrived with her. Pen started an inquiry and found that they all had lost bags from different airlines. She also found out that the same man picked up the luggage when it came in to be delivered to the women.
Bianca was the furthest that Eliot Nessian had to travel for one of his victims but that was lucky for her because she escaped him when he ran out of gas on the way back to Santa Fe. They got this information during the interrogation by Morgan. Pen did an inquiry of Jane Doe's to area hospitals and a woman matching Bianca's description had been dropped off to an ER two nights ago with no ID and a head injury. She had escaped into the Carson National Forest and hid but on her way out had fallen and hit her head on some rocks. Someone found her wandering the trails hurt and was good enough to get her to a hospital but didn't stay around to answer any questions.
It turned out Nessian had a crush on a Hispanic girl in high school that made funny of his body after a date with him. She spread the news of his short comings all over the school. He moved from California to New Mexico after graduating and married a girl and all was doing well until she left him for another man bigger in statue than he was. This was the trigger that set him off killing women that looked like her.
The team boarded the plane in a good mood since Sandy was able to go and see Bianca who's long term memories were coming back but was still fuzzy on the short term. She however did recognize her girlfriend who proposed shortly after being reunited with her again. The answer was a quick "yes."
Jane sat by JJ again on the plane who was digging in her purse when the woman sat down by the window.
"What are you looking for?" Jane asked wondering.
JJ looked up having found whatever it was and handed Jane the pack of Dramamine in her hand and the bottle of water sitting by her feet before they took off. Jane looked at the box then back at JJ and smiled, "Thank you." The woman just smiled back and acted like it was no big deal. But it meant something to Jane that JJ cared enough to remember she got air sick and had been dreading the seven hour flight back to Boston. But now with her stomach under control she might actually enjoy the flight.
Okay as I truly see it right now there is one more chapter before the wedding and I've had a thought... :p
Thinking hurts sometimes...
My thought is... since the wedding is suppose to be on March 7th in the story... I will try and make that the deadline of getting the wedding section posted by.