Hey, guys. I am so happy about all your positive feedbacks. Thank you all so much. Well, I have the next update for this story, but I will be honest, in this chapter I have adopted some parts from another show. I tell that because I will warn you. But at some things I totally suck, I changed some things. Please don't hate me for that. If you do, I understand. However, enjoy. I hope you'll do.

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Maura's sighing and stretch her arms over her head as she is about to wake up. She frowns as she feels an arm over her middle and turns on her left side.
Her breath us hitching as she sees the dark haired, sleeping woman next to her who's keeping her close.
Suddenly she is well aware of the fact that this woman might harbour the soul of her long lost love of her life, but that she's also an own individual. That she lived a different life in a different country ... Inn a different century. And still, she can see the resemblance of him and Jane.
Maura runs an hand through the Italian's curly hair and smiles when Jane turns up her nose.
That is something he and she have in common.
Jane's growling low and sighs before she drag her eyes open. "Hey." she says sleepily as she looks into hazel eyes.
Maura smiles softly. "Good morning."
Jane stretch her arms over her head and pulls the smaller woman closer after that. "What time is it?"
Maura runs her hand over the Italian's clothed back and takes a deep breath. "Six in the morning. How have you slept?"
"You mean beside the fact that I am laying fully dressed on the sheets in your bed instead under it?" Jane groans as she looks down at herself. "And why on earth am I up at six?"
"Thank you for respecting my wishes." Maura replies with a smile. "And I don't know why you are up already."
"Oh, I wish I could sleep some more." Jane growls and rubs her eyes with both hands.
Maura's smirking and straddles Jane's hips. She leans a little down to the woman underneath her. "Feel free to sleep for another hour."
Jane's eyes are glued to the blonde's cleavage and she raises her eyebrows. She places her hands on the smaller woman's thighs and forces herself to look up into hazel eyes. "Now I'm up already."
Maura's biting her bottom lip and shrugs. "Are you liking what you see?"
Jane holds the gaze of the blonde and flip them over, bending Maura's right leg and runs her hand over the blonde's bare thigh. "You should know not to play with fire, Doc." she growls before she's kissing Maura's neck.
Maura's eyes are rolling back in her head and she moans deeply. She slips her hands under the Italian's shirt and gasps as she can feel the muscles of Jane's back tensing and relaxing.
Jane kisses Maura along her jaw and sighs.
Maura arches her back slightly. "Please don't stop, Jane."
Jane stops and looks down at the blonde, taking a deep breath. "We have to, Maura." she whispers.
"Why?" Maura whispers back.
Jane looks long at her. "Because I know that you are not that kind of woman, and because I know that you are not up to make out with me. Hey, you have yo save lives, Maura, and I don't want to push you. If we're taking that step, I don't want you to regret it."
Maura runs her hands over Jane's back and smiles. And there he shines through again. "What makes you think that I would regret it when we take the step now?"
The brunette just shrugs. "Well, it would be your first time ... with a woman. Sometimes only the curiosity can be overwhelming and after the sex with another woman freaks some girls out. And I want you to understand that I don't want just a quick ... I want to really get to know you before ..." she sighs heavily. "Before we make love. And I want that you know and trust me before we sleep with each other. I don't want it to be just ... an affair, Maura, because I care about you already."
Maura starts to beam and pulls Jane's head down, kissing her gently.
It's slow, and sweet, and not determining, and she places an hand over the Italian's strong beating heart.
She doesn't mind that Jane deepens the kiss, or that the Italian's rolling her hips a little.
Jane pulls away and smiles slightly. "I really can't stop kissing you."
Maura already has heard these words from a certain person and her heart jumps in her chest.
She knows that it was in a different life, but this woman is the reason why she is still her. "I ..."
Jane silences her with another kiss. "Go, take a shower, Doc."
Maura scrutinizes Jane's face for a second and frowns. "You aren't just a dream, are you? You won't be gone when I come back from the shower, right?"
Jane chuckles amused and rolls off of Maura. "The only place I will disappear to is the kitchen to get a cup of coffee."
Maura laughs and kisses her once more before she disappears in the bathroom.
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Maura arrives smiling at her department and is looking at Emma. "Good morning, Dr. Marsden."
Emma furls skeptically her eyebrows. "Good morning. How did your date go?"
Maura takes a chart in her hand and lifts her shoulders. "It wasn't really a date, but the meeting was really nice. We had a couple of drinks and went separated ways."
"And that's why you're grinning like a Cheshire cat?" Emma retorts.
"She might has called me when I came home and came over."
Emma smiles and shakes her head. "You know, I am really used to a lot of things, but I will never get used to the fact that a woman who was born 1726 get called on a cell phone."
Maura chuckles amused and looks briefly at her. "Now you know how I'm feeling. I still remember how the first car looked like, or how it felt to sit in a horse-drawn carriage because it was a normal means of transportation. Against all movies, it wasn't really romantic or comfortable, Emma."
Emma is rolling her eyes and takes a deep breath. "So, this handsome woman came over to your house. What else did happen?"
"Nothing else did happen, Emma." Maura simply replies. "We were talking about why we are drawn to each other."
"And? Is she ..." Emma is whispering. "You know, is she ... he?"
Maura nods once. "Yes."
"Sure?"
"Yes."
Emma's eyes went huge. "And does she know? Did you tell her?"
"Of course not." Maura answers. "What should have I told her? Hi, Jane. My name is Maura Isles, I'm 289 years old and you are the reincarnation of Jacopo Mazzini, my forbidden love?"

Emma is rolling her eyes again. "All right, so you didn't tell her. But now what?"
Maura takes a deep breath. "Now we wait and see what happens. What shall happen will happen." she's flinching as middle-aged woman steps into her way. "I'm sorry." she says as she almost bump into the woman.
"Do I need to take my son to another hospital?" the woman asks her almost reproachfully.
Maura furls confused her eyebrows. She's afraid that this woman accidentally overheard her and Emma's conversation. "Excuse me?"
The woman points at a patient room. "My son is in pain while the two of are gossiping, and those nurses won't give him any painkiller." she nods to Emma. "You and your friend ... I thought you are doctors."
"I'm sorry, Mrs ..." Maura says and looks with a frown at the chart. "Griffin. We immediately take care of him."
Mrs. Griffin takes heavily a deep breath. "Carl's my son. My only son, and my only person and something is wrong with him. So what I'm asking you is, do I need to take him somewhere else?"
"No." Maura replies instinctively. "No! I'll make Carl my person, okay? I promise you, I'll make Carl my person, Mrs. Griffin."

The worried woman nods and smiles slightly.
Emma looks long at the blonde and frowns deeply.
Maura nods at her before she enters the room. "Hi, Carl." she says to the boy who is maybe seventeen. "I'm Dr. Isles and this is my colleague Dr. Marsden. How are you feeling?"
"Awful." the teenage boy groans. "My back is killing me."
Maura raises briefly her eyebrows. "All right, when did the pain start?" she asks and helps him to sit up in the bed.
He groans again. "I don't know. A few weeks ago."
Mrs. Griffin is staring at her son. "Growing pains. I took him to see our doctor. He's a bad doctor. He ... hr stands there texting while I'm talking to him. He diagnosed Carl with growing pains. You know, I grew up, and growing pains did not cause me fall down on the soccer field."
The light brown haired teenager looks long at his mother. "Mom, you're being a little dramatic."
"Your pain is dramatic to me, Carl." she replies.
Emma furrows her eyebrows. "Your mom's right. It's a good thing that you came."
Carl rolls his eyes and sits down on the edge of the bed as Maura takes place on a stool. "Okay. Thanks because it does hurt. Everything hurts, all the time."
Maura nods and furrows her eyebrows. "Okay. I'm gonna give you a quick exam. Let me know if the pain gets worse."
He looks long at her and tilts his head to the side. "Hey, Doc. Do you have a boyfriend?"
"Carl!" his mother admonishes her son and Emma chuckles amused.
Maura smiles broadly and looks up at him. "You ready?"
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Caroline enters the break room where Maura's brooding over Carl's medical record and sits down next to her friend. "Emma has told me about your patient Carl Griffin. Do you have an idea what it can be?"
Maura turns problems over in her mind and sighs. "I have a kid in my department. Seventeen years old, previously healthy. He has back pain bad enough to cause vomiting." she looks hopefully at Caroline. "Can you talk it through with me because I can't figure out what it is and you know I think best out loud."
Caroline smiles a little and nods agreeing. "You ever seen such symptoms?"
Maura runs a hand through her hair and sighs. "I really did. It was poliomyelitis. But that's rare today. And it only exist in the third world today."
Caroline glance briefly at the chart. "What else?"
"Measles." Maura sighs heavily. "But he inoculated. This can't be it. I don't know what's wrong with him, I have not a clue, C."
Caroline nods slowly with a frown. "And how's his neural exam?"
Maura sips her coffee and rubs the bridge of her nose with her index finger. "Normal."
Caroline is thinking for a moment. "Could it be a compression fracture?"
Maura shakes her head. "Pain films and CT are negative."
"Any congenital problems?"
"Nope. None reported."
Caroline sighs heavily. "Okay, your case is really tricky."
Maura raises her eyebrows and nods agreeing.
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Maura's looking at Mrs. Griffin and is hating herself for not having another diagnosis like their bad doctor. She has the feeling that she let the family down and she's hating it.
For her there is nothing more worse like when she doesn't have an answer for the families who are relying on her abilities.
Mrs. Griffin frowns deeply as she looks at Maura. "You too, huh? Growing pains? You're saying this is growing pains?"
Maura's shaking her head. "Oh no, not just growing pains. He has a mild case of scoliosis, which combined with the grow spurt, could account for the pain and the clumsiness on the soccer field. So, we'll see if it settles in a couple of weeks. And if not, you come back in for more tests."
Mrs. Griffin looks desperately at the blonde. "Why don't you just run them now?"
Maura smiles politely at her and Carl and takes a deep breath. "Because the next set of tests involve things like sticking large needles into your son's spine."
Carl's eyes went huge and he skids to the edge of the bed. "All right, then. Heading home."
Maura chuckles amused and exhales through her nose.
Mrs. Griffin smiles a little. "You sure about this?"
"No." Maura sighs heavily and starts to write down a prescription. "But I'm gonna write a prescription for muscle relaxants. And you know that I am here if you need me," she hands it to the caring mother. "which I really hope that you won't."
Mrs. Griffin can't help the smile and nods. "Thank you, Dr. Isles."
Maura shakes Carl's hand and furrows her eyebrows. "Don't take it the wrong way, but I hope I won't see you again, Carl."
He's grinning broadly. "Me too."
Maura smiles and is rubbing his leg before she leaves the patient room.
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Jane is sitting in the Cafeteria and looks long at the blonde next to her, and furrows her eyebrows . "What's wrong?"
Maura shakes her head and sighs, staring down into her own mug. "I had to sent a kid in pain home today."
"Did you have other choices?" Jane asks in a neutral tone. She doesn't want to sound like someone who's questioning the doctor's ability.
Maura looks at the Italian and smiles sadly. "No, I hadn't. I just hate the feeling when I have to send someone home without really helping them."
Jane raises her eyebrows and sips her coffee. "I know the feeling." she pauses and furrows her eyebrows. "Well, not like you are feeling because I don't save lives, but I know how it feels when you don't have the right answers the families want to hear. When you have the feeling that you let them down. When I feel like that and have to go home it leaves me restless, and I can't stop digging around until I have a more ... um ... plausible answer, an answer that brings peace to the families."
Maura looks long at Jane and smiles. "You're unbelievable."
"Why?" Jane asks with a smile. "Because I can sympathize with you? Or because I love my job like you're loving yours?"
Maura licks her lips and frowns slightly. "Because ... because ..." she takes a deep breath. "Because I'm starting to fall for you." Again! Damn it, she adds in her head.

Jane gets a little tense and swallows hard." Okay!"
Maura opens her mouth to add something as her pager starts to buzz. She rolls her eyes. "Damn it."
Jane's still stunned by the blonde's confession but her brain starts to function again. "Go, Maura. We can talk about this later. Right now someone else needs you."
Maura furrows her eyebrows. "You sure?"
Jane tucks in her chin. "Seriously? There is a person in need right now. This conversation can wait."
The blonde smiles as she gets up to her feet. "We'll talk later."
"I have to go to the headquarter, but I have to finish Melanie's interview anyway." Jane replies and nods. "I'll come back."
Maura smiles broadly before she hurries out of the Cafeteria.
Jane buries her face in her hands and sighs heavily. "What the hell?" she mumbles.
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Maura's running straight to the ER after she got paged and has an deep frown on her forehead. "Carl!" she's calling out.
Emma, who's already at the gurney of the teenager, looks sternly at the blonde. "He's got serious pain in his ingninol area, down his legs and lower back. He's hot a temp of 101. Mrs. Griffin says he's throwing up since he was released."
Mrs. Griffin is staring worriedly at Maura and wraps her arms around her middle. "Please don't tell me this is growing pains, Dr. Isles."
Maura's holding her breath and looks at the baffled Emma.
Oh God, the blonde's thinking and licks her lips.
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Maura's sitting thoughtfully in the observation room of the MRI and tugs in her bottom lip while she watches Emma and Carl through the window.
She knows that there must be a explanation for his symptoms.
Dr. Walter Brighton enters the room and glares at her. "Dr. Isles."
Maura jumps a little and gets up to her feet. "Sir ..."
"Did you order an emergent 3-D MRI for this patient?"
Maura licks her lips and nods once. "Okay, I can see that you're mad. But the patient's mother's insurance it could weeks to get an MRI and a specialty pain referral ..."
"So you expect the hospital to pay with whose money?" he cuts her rudely off.
Maura's smile vanishes immediately. "Uh ... Sir, I only thought ..."
"I don't want to hear it, Dr. Isles." Brighton says louder. "Now discharge the patient, refer him to his physician, and do it now!"

Maura's staring blankly after her boss as he leaves the room again, and pushes the call button of the mic after a thought crushes her mind. "Dr. Marsden, change of plans."
Emma looks confused at her friend behind the window and frowns deeply.
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Jane's chewing dumbfounded on her sandwich and frowns as the blonde on the bench next to her is again deadly quiet. "You're still thinking about this boy?"
Maura blinks a few times and turns her head to the Italian. "Mhm, he got brought in with even worse pain and my boss is hating me."
Jane furls her eyebrows and swallows her food. "Why is he hating you? Because you're doing your job?"
"Because I'm running very expensive tests on my patient." Maura replies and furls her eyebrows as Jane makes a face. "Why are you making a face, Jane?"
Jane eyes her sandwich and frowns. "Uh ... because you forced me yo buy a tuna sandwich and you're sitting next to me on the bench and don't touch your salad."
Maura closes the lid of the container and licks her lips. "I'm sorry, I just ... I try to figure out what's wrong with my patient and I have to make those tests, but ..."
"Your boss is driving you nuts." Jane finishes the sentence and takes a bite of her sandwich.
Maura takes a deep breath. "Yes. Once the well-being of our patient was my boss's first priority and he supported all of our pro bono."
Jane furls her eyebrows and places an arm on the back of the bench. "But ... what happened?"
"The financial crisis happened, Jane." Maura sighs. "The hospital has to make budget cuts, and the Medicare of the family doesn't cover any of the test that my patient necessarily needs."
"That really sucks." Jane mumbles with her mouth full.
Maura scoffs and she opens the lid of her container again, taking a bite of her salad. "That, that really sucks. Are you going to finish Melanie's interview after lunch?"
Jane wipes her mouth with a paper napkin and takes a sip of her water. "Mhm, yeah. I'm meeting with my partner Frost at the hospital. I hope she will be able to complete her statement. I'm not expecting too much, though. She's hone through a horrible time."
"I really don't know how you can do such a job." Maura states.
Jane briefly raises her eyebrows. "Well, I always wanted to be a cop. I don't know, I always was a very protective person. As soon as my brothers got into trouble I was there to kick the other kids' asses. It didn't matter to me if they were taller than me, I still kicked their asses."
"I bet you did." Maura chuckles amused. "And I'm not surprised that you always won."
Jane shrugs with a smile. "Not always, but most of the time."
"Of course." the blonde laughs and looks long at the Italian. "You didn't go to college?"
Jane takes a deep breath. "No." she simply says.
Maura frowns slightly. "Why not?"
"I already mentioned it, I always wanted to become a cop. For that I didn't need a college degree."
Maura realizes that this isn't the whole story, but she decides to drop the topic for now. There is still enough time to talk about it. Or at least she hopes so.
"Are you gonna join us for the interview?" Jane's asking and looks at the blonde.
Maura takes a deep breath and chews on her salad. "I'm afraid not. I really would like to, but I have to treat my other patients as well. But I can assign a really nice nurse to join you."
Jane raises an skeptical eyebrow. "What's her name and is she as nice as you?"
Maura's smirking at the Italian. "What makes you think that I'm talking about a female nurse?"
Jane just shrugs and frowns slightly.
Maura takes a deep breath. "His name is Enrico Navarrete, he's really nice."
Jane lowers her eyebrows. "How well do you know him."
Maura scrutinizes Jane's unreadable expression for a moment and a smile plays around her lips. She grabs Jane at her chin as something flickers in her eyes and pulls the Italian towards her. "Do I really see a hint of jealousy, Jane Rizzoli?"
Jane's holding the blonde's gaze. "Do I have a reason to be jealous?"
Maura just shrugs. "Maybe."
Jane really does feel jealousy bubbling up in the pit of her stomach and she has suppress a deep growl, "Seriously, how do you know him?"
Maura now can see the jealousy blazing in brown eyes. "Well, we obviously work together."
The Italian narrows her eyes. "And you obviously dated a couple of times in the past."
Maura's heart skips a beat and she's asking herself what else the brunette can see.
"You slept with him, didn't you?" Jane asks and Maura drop her eyes to the ground.
Jane tries to catch the blonde's eyes again. "Hey, Maura. It's okay. It's okay to have a life. I am aware if the fact that you have had sex before I came into your life. I mean, I don't expect you to be a virgin. Hell, I had sex before this re ... before you waltzed into my own life. But here's the thing, I never met women or men who were with the person I ... I like very much. It doesn't mean that I do like it, but I can act grown up, and I am at the hospital as a professional. So, I promise you that I won't shoot Enrico."
Maura looks back into the Italian's eyes and smiles. "Okay." she whispers and kisses Jane gently.
Jane groans as soon as her phone starts to buzz on her belt and breaks the kiss. She's reading the new text message and furls her eyebrows. "Crap, that's Frost, my partner. He's waiting for me at the entrance of Mass Gen."
Maura risks a look at her watch and sighs heavily. "My lunch break is over already. I am surprised that I had an whole hour."
"Yes, me too." Jane agrees and frowns. "I mean that I had a whole lunch hour."
Maura sighs heavily. "We really do owe our friends something."
Jane pulls the blonde closer and smiles a little. "Yeah." she whispers and kisses Maura again.
Maura's smiling and wraps her arms with a happy sigh around Jane's neck.
"Come on," Jane says after she broke the kiss again. "let's go back before our friends send out a search party."
Maura chuckles amused and nods agreeing.