Author's note: New chapter people! Hope you enjoy it and keep commenting and giving me suggestions! I read all of your reviews and they have made me want to research and write more interesting stuff for this story. Because of time I will update later with p.d notes.

Jane and Maura made their way to the graveyard hand in hand. They were still a little shaken up, but both knew that if they didn't reach the place then they wouldn't be at peace. It had taken them one hour to get all the bodies ready and have Korsak and Frost go ahead and start taking fingerprints from the cadavers. Carla Florenci had disappeared from that crappy apartment after she sent them to that trap, which again left them at square zero. It made Jane be frustrated and feel stupid for not trusting her gut instinct when they saw the woman. Maura also felt guilty and responsible for not realizing that they were being set-up. She had always been proud about her capacity to analyze a person's expressions and realize if they were lying or not. It was not a nice environment, both thought when watching what remained of what one could assume was a service. Maura saw many chairs splattered with brownish stains that she suspected were blood. Jane on the other hand was looking at the scene thinking how the killers were able to fool members of the Doyle family who were used to being careful. The graveyard was surrounded by many buildings, which made it easy for snipers to watch the whole scene and have a clear sight for shooting, which probably elevated the number of people involved in the heist.

"They never expected it." Jane whispered. "Probably thinking about saying goodbye to a member of their family and then they get shot at."

Maura nodded. "I don't understand how Jane. I mean, they were all members of one of Boston oldest mob families! Wouldn't they be ready for some sort of heist or attack?"

Jane knew Maura was right. It didn't make sense that they were caught unprepared, which meant that the deception went way deeper than mere luck. "They had an accomplice inside the family."

"Who would sell their own family?" Maura asked shocked.

"You have no idea what people are capable of doing for money." Jane said sadly. "This wouldn't be the first time I hear of something like that."

Maura flinched. "Maybe it's because of my upbringing, or the fact that I had certain economical advantages because of the Isles last name, but I still fail to see how someone could be capable of breaking a bond made by blood. Unless, it was more about nurture than nature." Maura said suddenly.

Jane looked at her surprised. "So then the person that betrayed the family was not a blood relative?"

Maura nodded. "Perhaps the accomplice was a member of the family for some other reason. Maybe he joined the family by marrying into it, or even adopted." she whispered the last part.

Jane saw what Maura was trying to convey. "But you loved Constance, and you would have never betrayed her."

"I love Constance, but I certainly don't feel anything for the Doyle's." Maura said coldly. "Of course, I fee sadness at realizing how their life ended, but I don't feel any bond or loyalty that would allow me to die in order to protect the family."

Jane nodded. "No judgment from me Maura. I mean, I used to think that I belonged to a family but maybe I really do not." she said frustrated.

Maura wrapped her arms around Jane. "And I understand how that feels. I'm sorry you had to find out that way darling."

Jane felt herself be immediately calm by Maura's touch and sweet words. She smiled softly. "Thank you Maur, and sorry for being a douche."

"Well, even Mother Teresa would say something if she discovered the things you did."

Jane smiled. "Was that a joke?"

Maura smiled back. "Only if it's funny."

Jane turned to face Maura seriously. "What should I do?"

Maura looked sadly at Jane. "I wish I knew." she grabbed her hand. "But what I do know is that I'll be with you every step of the way."

Jane smiled and kissed Maura softly on the lips. "The best you can do for me now is help me solve this. Help me find the truth."

Maura nodded and immediately went to one of the several crime scenes that were set by the forensic lab. "This one is the bloodiest." Maura said. "And based on the reports that I have on my hand, the EM'S took 10 people from here to the hospital. Only 2 survived." she whispered the last part.

Jane looked around the place, trying to find some kind of pattern that could explain how they were ambushed. She saw a weird substance on the floor. "Maur, what's this?"

Maura approached Jane and quickly swabbed the floor where the yellowish substance was. She smelled it and immediately set it on a bag. "It's Trichloromethane."

"Trichelo what?" Jane said while starting to feel her eyes close against her will.

"Chloroform." Maura said while gesturing for Jane to hold her breath. "If we stay here we will start to feel dizzy and probably fall unconscious." she continued while pushing Jane out from the graveyard and into the side of the street.

"Wouldn't chloroform be caught by the machines that the forensic team uses to analyze crime scenes?" Jane said angry. "I mean, what the hell."

Maura understood Jane's frustration and anger. "I took a sample for testing, but this type of chloroform is not the usual one Jane."

"So you are telling me that creatures can have the ability of using chloroform against their victims and it being untraceable for human machines?" she said sarcastically.

Maura just nodded. "It's not common, but there have been cases of some creatures excreting what we would consider chloroform after engaging in some kind of sexual activity."

Jane looked at the scene and flinched. "In a graveyard?!"

Maura also felt a little spooked out. "I would need to look for this component inside our victims and confirm this hypothesis of course."

Jane relaxed a little. "So you could be wrong."

"No. Once I state something, and if I state something, it's because I'm pretty certain of being correct." Maura said sadly. "We will need to wear special equipment and gear for these autopsies."

"What about the second crime scene?" Jane asked.

Maura looked at the report. "There were 12 people taken to the hospital. None survived." she quickly said.

"So 10 plus 12 equals 22, which means that we are missing one." Jane said.

"They killed the priest that was presiding the mass." Maura said quietly, her catholic upbringing making this statement feel evil and obscure. She could see Jane felt the same.

"This case Maura just keeps getting darker and darker. The number of victims keep pilling and the connections disappearing. It is almost as if they are hunting our leads down." Jane said while looking down to where the body of the priest had been. "Maur, I see some traces of blood." she said while getting her UV light. "And they lead away from here."

Maura immediately followed Jane. "It's like they were dragging someone. Look at the direction and pressure of the grass. It clearly goes against its normal growing pattern."

Jane looked at Maura quizzically, who just shrugged. "I may know one or two things about gardening."

Jane smiled. "Only one or two?" she gestured to a path that led to one of the big family mausoleums. "The blood stops here."

Maura took a sample before moving along the house, carefully looking at the floor to see if she could find the source of the blood. Nevertheless, what she found instead was a car, and after telling Jane, both took their guns out, which made Jane look at Maura and smile softly.

"I'm still not used to seeing you with a gun."

"Well, in case you didn't notice, you don't have back-up, which calls for my expertise and support." Maura said sarcastically.

Jane rolled her eyes. "And even sarcastic. I tell you, you are hanging too much with me."

Maura pointed her gun to the car and motioned for Jane to step first, Jane doing so while being shadowed by Maura.

"Clear." Jane said after going to the left of the house.

"Clear." Maura said after checking the right side.

Both women lowered their guns and headed for the car while putting their gloves on, not wanting to contaminate any kind of evidence.

"There are traces of broken glass here, Jane." Maura said while grabbing a couple and putting them in a bag.

"From the window?" Jane asked.

"No, they are smaller, probably from glasses."

"I found the owner of the car." Jane said while putting a wallet out and looking at the license. "John McCallister." she read.

"That was the name of the priest." Maura said while looking at Jane surprised. She quickly took the keys and opened the back of the car, finding some robes and what seemed to be books that seemed to cover something bigger. Maura moved the stuff and froze.

"Why would he leave his wallet on the car?" Jane asked without noticing Maura's reaction.

"He didn't just leave his wallet." Maura said while motioning for Jane to come and look.

Jane flinched, the sight of the body of a man curled and with his face almost destroyed facing them.

"Male, late fifties, apparent blow to the head that led to him to bleed out. Would probably need to take his prints and dentals for identification because of the transfiguration of the face." Maura said while taking a sample of hair and prints.

Jane took her cellphone out and called dispatch. "I need a team to come to my location and prepare the processing of a crime scene." she hung up and then looked at Maura who had also made a phone call to her team. "I guess this makes our body count be 24."

The three of them were standing in front of the board, looking at the photos of the victims and trying to see a connection between all of them. After finding that other body, Jane and Maura quickly went to headquarters and met with Korsak and Frost, who were worried about the possible involvement of another old creature in this set-up.

"We got a confirmation that Carlota Florenci's place was empty. Since you told us that the place normally looked like a mess, we are not sure if she just left or was taken." Korsak said while giving Jane the pictures that the team took.

"I checked cameras from airports and bus stations, the activity on her credit and debit cards, and put a bulletin out so she can't leave Boston." Frost said.

Jane nodded and faced the two men. "What about our two surviving witnesses?"

"They were the responsible ones for identifying the bodies. I'm afraid they don't remember anything about the actual ambush, but merely waking up to the sound of police sirens." Korsak said clearly upset.

"You think they are not telling us what they saw?" Jane asked.

Korsak nodded. "No one can stay unconscious during such a violent crime."

"Maura and I found on both crime scenes some kind of substance that had a high level of chloroform, which could explain why our two witnesses fell asleep." Jane said. "I told Maura to get a sample from them and analyze it for chloroform. She said she was going to call us as soon as she had the results." she finished while hearing her phone buzz. "I guess we summoned her."

"Rizzoli."

'Jane.' she heard Maura say with fear.

"Maura, are you ok?" she instantly asked while moving towards the elevators, Korsak and Frost following.

'The body, the body.' Maura stuttered.

"Maura, calm down, I'm on my way right now." she told her calmly.

'Jane, I don't understand, I can't...' she continued frantically.

The three detectives finally made it to the morgue, looking at the scientist move frantically around the place with fear on their eyes. They immediately took their guns out, Jane rushing to the autopsy room where they found Maura with the phone in her hand and shaking. Jane lowered her gun and stood in front of Maura, who seemed frozen by fear.

"Maura, darling look at me." she told her quietly. When this didn't make her react she grabbed her shoulders and shook her. "Maura!"

Maura looked at Jane and started to shake again. "Oh my God Jane." she whispered while hugging her. "The body, it left."

Jane looked at Korsak and Frost, who were speechless. "What do you mean by left? And what body?"

"The body of the priest that was recovered from the crime scene. I was preparing to the autopsy, and just before I started the Y incision it looked at me and moved." Maura said clearly scared. "It looked at me and smiled before getting up and leaving." she continued after feeling the bile go to her throat. "Excuse me." she managed to choke before running to the sink and throwing up.

Jane was speechless. "Maura, are you sure that what you saw really happened?" she asked quietly.

Maura nodded. "I saw the vitals that were taken at the crime scene and it was dead. Then I did the preliminary autopsy and it was dead. I want to refute and question what my eyes saw, but I cannot. The body, although it was medically dead, rose up from my autopsy table and left the morgue by itself."

Frost took his tablet out and accessed the cameras of the building. "I can look through the security cameras and see which way it headed." he said trying to be considerate, himself not actually believing what Dr. Isles said.

The four of them saw on the monitor Maura moving around the morgue and looking through folders, probably reading the vitals and results obtained by the field EM'S. She then touched the body, looked everywhere for signs of any external injury, and after quickly writing on the folder, she left to get her tools. What they saw next made the three detectives hold their breath: The body of the man, which until this point had been lifeless, started to move its fingers and toes. Maura made her way back to the table, and just before placing the knife on the skin, she yelled from the surprise and quickly stepped back. The man sat down, and after testing itself, stood up and left the morgue, Maura frozen and shaking visibly.

"You cannot say that what we just saw was normal." Jane choked after a while. "Even for you."

Korsak nodded. "It's not. Dr. Isles, did you get samples from it?"

Maura nodded and took her cellphone out. "In fact I just got the results." she said while reading. "This is odd. The blood of this man does not match with the one we have on file of Father McCallister."

"Why would we have on file the blood of a priest?" Jane asked surprised.

"Because he donated blood." Frost said while looking at the file. "Boston Hospital keeps records of all of its donators."

"Wait, Maura. Remember that man we found on the back of the car? What if that was the real John McCallister? I know you said his face was destroyed and unmatchable unless we took samples, but what if it was done on purpose?"

"So that they could pretend to be dead and have access to the morgue?" Frost asked surprised. "Why would someone want to come here? No offense doc."

"To get something?" Korsak asked. "Did you have anything here Doc that could deem primordial to the investigation?"

"Well, everything that has to do with forensic evidence would be here detective. Blood samples, recovered items, bodies. We do inventory every day, so I will make Senior Criminalist Chang check if anything is missing." Maura said while taking her phone and doing that.

"I don't like this." Jane said angrily. "Someone murdered Father McCallister before the ambush and pretended to be him on purpose. In order to blend in with the victims and make its way here." Jane gasped. "Maura, in Van Helsing's diary, what creature, besides from a Banshee, is capable of seeing death?"

Maura looked up to Jane. "I'm not sure Jane." she said while going to her office to get the book, quickly going over it.

"Why would a creature like that appear here? What would it gain?" Frost asked.

"Don't you see guys? It's all a game! An invitation to play against Mephistopheles and, literally, die by trying to stop him." Jane said exasperated.

"Jane, there is one creature here that can possess the ability of seeing who will die and not being alive at the same time." Maura said quietly. "It's the Erkling."

Korsak and Frost looked at each other with fear. Jane noticed this. "Is it bad?"

"Jane, no one has heard about the Erkling appearing in our world for thousands of years." Korsak said clearly scared. "It is considered a mythological creature of unparallel proportions."

"You mean to tell me this creature is considered a deity?" Jane asked exasperated.

Korsak and Maura nodded, her speaking. "The Erkling came from Germany, being a spirit that specifically hunts and takes away the people that are going to die. If you see its face and it's in pain, then your death will be painful. But, if its expression is calm, then you will die peacefully." Maura said.

"Ok, and it didn't take anyone." Jane said more to herself than to Jane. "Or maybe, he took Father McCallister?"

"Why would the Erkling come to take a simple priest? And that's if he took the priest instead of him dying because of something else." Frost said.

Jane turned to face Maura. "What can you tell me about the body that we found of the trunk of the car?"

Maura felt all eyes on her. "He was male, mid 50's, and no clear cause of death. I couldn't find any external injuries. I was going to start his autopsy after I finished with the body we thought belonged to Father McCallister." Maura said quietly.

"Can you please take a look at the heart?" Jane asked.

"Why?" Korsak asked instead.

Maura instantly went and did a Y incision on the victim, being taken aback with what she saw. Or didn't see. The three detectives approached, and after looking at Maura, she pointed to where the heart was supposed to be, instead being met by a dark hole.

"What the hell?!" Frost said taken aback. "There's no heart!"

"Maybe they took it out and closed him again." Korsak said.

"No, because I would find signs left by the surgery or the removal of the organ. Scientifically speaking, I can't explain how this man's heart was removed from his body." Maura said quietly.

"Well I can." Jane said while pointing Van Helsing's diary. "It says here that the Erkling takes the heart of its victims because it is believed that the soul, the essence of a person, is in its heart. Could the Erkling be responsible for the chloroform found on our crime scenes?"

"It's a possibility. It says here that the Erkling usually traps its victims in some sort of dream, which he uses to easily take the heart out." Maura said after snapping the book from Jane and reading it herself.

"So now you are telling me that we have a creature that may be the ruler of the underworld. A creature capable of attracting humans and killing them by merely having sex with them. And to add to the list, an ancient creature that can suck the hearts out of people and rise from the dead?" Frost almost screamed.

"This is bigger than us." Korsak said quietly. "We may be fighting for something bigger than just the murder of all this victims."

Jane wanted to laugh, but the fear didn't allow her. "So you are saying that we are basically fighting against evil?"

Korsak nodded. "We are fighting for the future of our world."