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Jane was quickly walking to the crime scene, her thoughts mostly focused on Maura and on what they had been doing until she got the call from Korsak. It had been one weeks since that dinner with her family, and although it did make things become 'official' between the two of them, Jane still had to poke herself when she realized that Maura was with her. Things at Headquarters had been tough too. The day after the dinner they had found the bodies of the young couple, who were ritualistically set up in their living room. What was strange about this scene was that there was no sign of the presence of a werewolf in the living room or on the victims.

"Maybe because the apprentice went against his plans, Mephisto decided to work this one solo?" Frost said while looking away from the couple.

"Against IT, let's not forget that." Jane said angrily. "And I don't think it's that simple. Mephisto is smart and cunning, that I'm completely sure off."

"You know Jane, it's not uncommon for creatures to finish partnerships." Korsak said wistfully. "They are less faithful than humans and not too concerned about normal social patterns. It's not a matter of companionship. but of survival."

Jane just refused. "No Korsak, I don't believe that. I do know that the creature is a sociopath, but I feel like he is playing with us, like he is purposely letting the case cool down."

"Perhaps, but without much evidence from previous murders, we have to admit that we are running out of leads." Frost said quietly.

Jane just looked up, shocked. "So because of that we are just going to give up and stop looking for him?!" she added angrily.

Korsak stepped up. "From what Dr. Isles and you told us about it, it would not be the first time that the creature managed to escape the law. And although it sucks to admit it, without evidence we can't just keep pursue this."

"But it threatened Maura!" Jane screamed. "You were there when the creature spoke at her, mocked her and challenged her."

"It wouldn't be the first time that this has occurred to us, Jane." Frost said while looking at her. "And our work is a little more difficult than the one of normal homicide because our killers are way smarter and careful into hiding their identity."

Jane just huffed. "This is unbelievable." she said while grabbing her keys. "Call me when we actually have some work to do."

It had been one week exactly, and during that whole time Jane started to think that maybe she had been fired, her worry being obvious to Maura, who had been very willing to help and calm her down.

"I just felt so angry. Not at them, but at the creature. It's just not fair, to its victims or to us." Jane said while sinking down on the bed, looking to the ceiling.

She felt Maura lay down next to her. "If life were fair, all 7 Billion of us would have one shoe and a piece of cardboard to call home."

Jane smiled softly at this remark, glad to know Maura was not trying to patronize her. "I kinda love when you do that."

Maura smiled brightly. "Do what?"

"That, throwing some interesting fact or explaining a word."

"Etymology?"

Jane laughed. "You just can't stop, can you?"

Maura smiled while pushing herself up to face Jane. "What is really troubling you Jane?"

Jane looked deeply at Maura. "That the creature seems to be playing us. And that, to some sick extent, this is all just a game to it."

Maura took a deep breath. "Korsak and Frost mentioned their discussion with you. And I'm not upset." she added while watching how Jane started to react. "But remember what I told you earlier, when we saw my memory of Adam's murder?"

Jane nodded softly.

"Well, that's how it usually works in Special Homicides. It sadly takes longer for us to catch the killers, mostly because they are very difficult to identify in a world when sometimes crimes of humans are very similar in terms of crudeness and evilness."

"I do understand that Maura, but I just can't lay still and pretend that nothing is wrong when I know that a sick and dangerous creature is out there planning his next murder." Jane breathed deeply. " It's just not me."

Maura nodded. "No, it's not. And that's what makes you be such a wonderful human being."

As Jane started to make her way to the crime scene, she saw that the M.E in charge of it was no other than Dr. Pike, who from what she saw was torturing the detective that was analyzing the scene with him. They turned around when they saw her shadow, and immediately the detective smiled brightly, noting that this was his cue to leave. Jane jut exhaled, preparing herself for what she knew was going to be a very tedious and boring case.

"Hello Detective, you look rather stunning today." Dr. Pike said while greeting her coldly.

Yeah, he still wasn't over that fight in Maura's office, Jane realized while smiling. "Why thank you, you don't look so bad yourself." Jane said sarcastically. "Now tell me, what do we have here?"

Dr. Pike just nodded, desperate to make the woman leave. "Woman, late twenties, no entry or exit wounds, no sign of discoloration on any parts of her body, no visible signs of sexual assault. And." he added while taking the cover out of the body. "We found her like this."

Jane looked at the face of the woman, stopping herself from yelping. Strangely, and creepily, the woman was smiling deeply, which actually made her stomach turn. "Can't you put her mouth back to normal?"

"I tried, but the body is in rigor mortis, so unless you want me to comprise forensic evidence then you will have to wait until I have this body at the morgue, Detective Rizzoli." he added with an air of superiority.

Jane thought about what he heard from Dr. Pike, and specially about the way the woman died. She quickly followed Pike and stood in front of him, not allowing him to enter the coroners van.

"Move, Detective Rizzoli." he said impatiently. "The longer I wait to start this autopsy, the more forensic evidence is going to be lost."

"Too bad because you won't be doing this autopsy." Jane told him while getting on the badge. "I deem this murder as suspicious, and since I am a member of the Special Homicide Unit, I release the homicide department from the responsibility of this crime and its investigation, which will now be conducted by our department."

Dr. Pike just looked speechless at her. "You cannot do that!"

Jane just smiled. "Actually, I can. One just gotta love bureaucracy. Besides, we have a more capable M.E working in our department." Jane couldn't stop herself from saying.

She saw Dr. Pike's expression suddenly freeze, the surprise of Jane's statement unbalancing him from his line of thought. This gave Jane enough time to close the door of the van and telling the driver to take them to the Special Homicide Headquarters.

When Jane finally got there she went directly to talk to Korsak, who was on the phone. He looked at her arrive and smiled softly, amusement on his face.

"Yes, I will tell her that Lieutenant." he added while hanging up. "Would you look at that, it's Miss Congeniality." he added sarcastically.

Jane just smiled softly. "Hey, hope I didn't get you in a lot of problems."

"Not so much. As I told you, bureaucracy is great for us." he smiled. "But Cavanaugh did tell me that they had to calm down a very upset Dr. Pike."

Jane smiled at the memory. "He deserved it."

"Which is why I'm not taking you out of this case." he said while standing up.

They quickly made their way to the morgue, Frost deciding to just stay upstairs and run some information on the belongings that were discovered with the victim. They both just laughed and left him there, on purpose leaving behind a lot of paperwork to be filled. When Jane and Korsak finally made it to the morgue they saw that Maura was already making the Y incision while telling herself notes about irregularities that she noticed. When she felt the intrusion she turned around, smiling brightly at Jane, who felt herself return eagerly the smile.

"Detectives, what can I do for you?" Maura asked while leaving her tools on the table.

"You could tell us if this woman was killed by a creature." Jane said sweetly.

Maura smiled. "I can't tell you which creature yet. But what I can say is that this woman was indeed killed by a creature with abilities. There were no entry or exit wounds, no signs of natural death and yet here she is. Rather interesting." she added to herself, earning a weird stare from both detectives.

"And what about her... smile?" Korsak added shyly.

"I'm not sure yet. This is actually the first time I ever see something like this." Maura said quietly. "But I swabbed the inside of the mouth to see if there is some kind of chemical involved."

"What, like a laugh gas?" Jane said sarcastically. "Have you been watching too much Batman?"

Korsak smiled at the remark, Maura on the other hand not understanding it at all. "The comic? I think what you meant is reading."

"Seriously, you haven't watched a Batman movie?"

Maura shook her face.

"We will fix that as soon as possible." Jane said while smiling. "With some nice beer and pizza."

Maura nodded, suddenly distracted by a smell that came from the body. She saw that she wasn't the only one who noticed it.

"Maur, what the hell is that smell?" Jane said while putting her fingers on her nose.

Maura looked as perplexed as the detectives. She then turned the skin around the incision open and yelped at what she saw. Both detectives made their way to the body and also screamed.

"Is that even possible?" Korsak asked while taking his hands away from the body.

Maura nodded. "There are some creatures that can have the ability to leave acid inside a victim's body."

"But in what way could they leave it..." Jane started to ask, suddenly realizing the answer. "So the creature was male?"

Maura nodded. "For the acid to work on the victim it had to probably be inserted on the victim for at least four hours."

"So she died right after having sex with the creature." Jane said horrified. "What kind of creature could do that?"

"It's not that uncommon for a couple to its significant half." Maura said excitedly. "Take for example the Praying Mantis: the female, after mating with the male eats it and gives birth to the offspring. Or even spiders can engage in this kind of behavior, which is called sexual cannibalism."

"Thank you Dr. Doolittle." Jane said sarcastically.

"It takes longer when you make jokes." Maura said calmly.

"I would poke my eyes if I didn't."

Maura smiled. "As soon as the results of the DNA come back I will let you both know."

Jane smiled back and headed out of the morgue, smiling lightly at their conversation: One just has to love Maura and her weird fun facts.

Jane was moving swiftly across the police department, too absorbed on what she had come to do. After Korsak and her made it back to headquarters Frost was waiting for them with some requests from the upper office of affairs.

"They want you to apologize to Pike." Frost said quietly.

Jane just opened her mouth. "Me, apologize?! What the hell? He should be the one apologizing to me and especially to Maura."

Korsak just signed. "I know the guy is an idiot, but if we want to make things run smoothly here, you will have to through your pride away for a while and go to apologize."

Jane just guiltily looked at them, knowing that she was partly responsible for all of this and still the two detectives were being very nice and understanding. She signed.

She quickly went inside the office where they had told her Dr. Pike was. In there she saw him, and when she made her presence known she saw his angry and resentful gaze change in a matter of seconds to one of wonder?

"Detective Rizzoli." he said while quickly getting next to her. "You came to see me?" he added hopefully.

Jane was just confused. "Well, I came to apologize for the way I treated you early."

"There is nothing you need to apologize, I deserved all of the things you said to me."

Jane was even more surprised than before. "Well, I'm glad you took things this nicely." she finished while standing up, being suddenly stopped by Dr. Pike.

"You are not thinking about leaving already, are you? You just got here." Dr. Pike said sadly. "I want you to stay."

Jane almost threw up, carefully looking up at the man and the way he was looking at her. Ohhh, she now realized.

"Listen Dr. Pike, I'm in the middle of a homicide investigation and Dr. Isles is waiting for me." she added.

Dr. Pike's gaze became agitated. "Dr. Isles." he said angrily. "Always taking things that belong to me. First my job, then my reputation and now the attention and time of the woman I love so deeply."

When Jane again stood up to leave she felt Dr. Pike press his body against her, and when it became obvious that he was aroused Jane pushed him off.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" she screamed while leaving the office and a very sad Dr. Pike following her.

"Don't leave me Jane, please don't."

Jane just kept walking. "This is ridiculous." she whispered while jogging when she felt Dr. Pike get closer to her.

It took her a few minutes to finally leave the department without Dr. Pike watching her and trying to kiss her. Now that she was all by herself she started to realize how unnatural his behavior had been. She would have never thought that the man had feelings for her, his ego probably being too overbearing. Still, it didn't feel right, and wanting to just tell Korsak and Frost that there wouldn't be any problems for the department, she quickly made her way back to the Special Homicide Unit.

When she finally got there she saw Frost staring boringly at his computer. She smiled and approached him.

"Hey Frost." she said while punching him softly.

He quickly bolted up and smiled brightly at her, too brightly. "You are back."

Jane just nodded. "Yes, I believe so."

"I missed you." he said while going forward. "Unit is not the same without you."

Jane smiled nervously. "Well, it was only for a couple of hours."

"Yeah, next time don't leave, in fact don't ever leave me." Frost said while getting Jane's hand and kissing it quickly.

Jane went back, hitting the wall. "Frost, what are you doing?!" she whispered.

Frost just smiled. "You are too intoxicating, did you know that? I have had a crush on you since the day you got here, and now I am acting on it."

Jane quickly avoided being hugged by Frost, who surprised by the action fell to the floor. Instead of helping him up Jane quickly made her way to the morgue, to her safe haven, which was indeed ironic. She now knew that there was something wrong: First Pike and now Frost falling head over heels for her. She knew that it had to be a coincidence, especially since they had never shown any interest in her. She ran to Maura's office, and not caring about knocking she quickly went in.

"Mauraaaa." she said while going next to her and grab her hands. "Please help me. There is something going on."

Maura, instead of reacting just stayed there smiling, and when Jane started to grow nervous she felt Maura move a flock of her hair. "I have always liked your curly hair Jane, and how it feels against my fingers."

"Not you too." she cried. "What is wrong with all of you?"

Maura's smile froze. "Who else has been talking to you?"

Jane was surprised by Maura's ferocity. "Dr. Pike and Frost." she quickly grabbed Maura when she saw her making her way out of the office. "And where are you going?"

"To tell Pike and Detective Frost to stay away from my woman." Maura said angrily. "You are only mine Jane." she added while angrily kissing Jane, making her moan.

As much as Jane was enjoying this side of Maura she knew that something really wrong was going on. "Maur, darling, please come here." she said sweetly. "I don't care about them, only you."

This made Maura turn around and head back to where Jane was. "Only me?"

"Yes, only you." Jane said while kissing her neck. "Now tell me darling, what have you discovered on the body of the woman."

Maura smiled, and eager to please Jane started to tell her everything. "And there was this chemical that acted like a pheromone, which led me to believe that the creature uses it to attract its preys."

Jane stopped kissing Maura's neck, making her focus. "What would it take for the pheromone to wear off?"

"Not sure, just a couple of minutes. Why?" she added while smiling. "Let's go to my office." she said flirtingly. "I have something that I really really want to show you."

Jane was very tempted to say yes, but instead made Maura look at her. "Darling, for some strange reason I replicated the ability of this creature. Please get out of it."

Maura refocused, and suddenly she felt herself breathe normally. In front of her was Jane, who was pleadingly looking at her for answers.

"Jane?" she asked curiously. "What are you doing here?"

Jane just smiled and kissed her deeply. "Thank God it's you Maura."

"Who else would it be?" Maura asked amusedly.

"Well, I ran into Maura the sex machine a few minutes ago." Jane said while smirking. "I replicated the abilities of the creature that attacked the young woman and suddenly everyone was head over heels over me."

Maura looked up, surprised. "How did you know that the creature produced pheromones that attracted its preys?"

"Let's say I convinced you to share this information with me." Jane smiled sweetly.

"I see." Maura said, suddenly realizing something. "Wait, so you replicated the ability? But you didn't even see the creature."

"I know Maur, which makes me worry."

"Perhaps it was when we all smelled the acid of the body, and your sense of smell replicated the pheromone that was present on the body."

"I don't know how to control it Maura. How do I learn to control my ability?"

Maura just smiled. "With practice and a little bit of patience my darling."

"Which are things that I don't have." Jane said quietly.

"Well, you have me." Maura said sarcastically, alluding to Jane's comments from the other night.

Jane smiled. "Was that sarcasm Dr. Isles?"

"I believe it was." Maura smiled back.

"And you are right, I do have you." Jane said while kissing Maura softly. "I have you all to myself."

Maura allowed Jane to kiss her, but then she went to the office and gathered her stuff.

"Now where are you going?" Jane said disappointed.

Maura smiled. "You mean where are we going."

"Where are WE going?"

"We are going to start your training."

P.d: Some things that I thought I could address here.

1. Don't think that I have forgotten about Mephisto or the main case, but as Maura explained to Jane, creatures are more cunning than humans and hence they are more difficult to catch, along with the fact that Mephisto has been getting away with his crimes for many centuries. Instead, I wanted to make the story as real as possible and have our team also solve other crimes because that is the way the police usually works.

2. Time wise, it has been one week since Mephisto contacted the Special Homicide Unit, and almost three since Jane and Maura met. Although Jane family knows about the relationship, because Jane is still getting to know Korsak and Frost they are still not informed of the fact that they are dating.

3. That's right! Jane is going to start her training so she can learn how to control her ability, which will be taught by no other than Maura Isles, mostly because they still want to keep Jane's abilities a secret from the rest of the unit.