A/N: I just want to say thank you for all of you who have stuck with me through the process of my first story. I really enjoy getting feedback and reviews so keep 'em coming. Again I have to say thank you to artgrrl1989 for helping me through this process. Check her out if you haven't. I also have to thank everyone who has given me feedback and reviews. You are also helping me through this process. I keep forgetting to put a disclaimer that this is a story that will lead to eventual Rizzles so if you don't like that sort of stuff then check out some other stories that don't have Rizzles. Also none of these characters belong to me. Please enjoy my next installment.
Frost had already started scanning the database for any fingerprints matching the ones the Crime Scene Unit was able to lift off of Julie's vehicle by the time Jane made it in to the bullpen.
"Well look who finally showed up for work today." Frost smiled at Jane walking in the doors.
"Shut up." Jane was not too particularly happy.
"Ooo. Touchy this morning."
"Yeah. Must be her time of the month." Korsak joined in.
"Yeah. Ha ha."
"Sorry Janie. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings."
"You didn't hurt my feelings Korsak. Just not having an okay day."
"You can talk to me Janie. I'm here for you."
"Yeah Janie. I'm here for you too." Frost had to have one last jab at Jane.
Jane picked up a pen from her desk and quickly flung it at Frost's head only missing by a hair.
"Ok. Sorry" were the last words spoken before silence took over the bullpen.
Jane, Frost and Korsak were all deep in thought and going through the case files when a beeping sound caught their attention. Each of their heads popped up from what they were concentrating on, looking like prairie dogs on a plain popping out of their homes.
Frost was the first to speak. "Finally, I was beginning to think we weren't going to get a hit."
Jane stood up from her desk immediately and walked over to the larger screen on the wall. "Make the results bigger Frost." Frost tapped away at the computer making the file larger on the screen. "Jason Freeman."
"1402 Hickory Street apartment 2." Korsak chimed in squinting at the screen.
"Sorry. There isn't a setting for old people." Frost started giggling at his own joke. Jane could just stare at him willing with her eyes for him to calm down to show a little respect for the victim and to concentrate on the possible suspect. Knowing that look all too well Frost could only offer a simple "sorry" hanging his head for a quick second.
"Frost, go let Cavanaugh know where we are headed and I'll put in for a search warrant." Korsak picked up the phone to call the judge on duty who was handling the search warrants. Korsak hung up the phone with a grin on his face. "We got it. Couldn't have been easier, a known felon with fingerprints on our victim's vehicle. Signed, sealed, and delivered."
"Alright, let's go get this scumbag." Jane grabbed her keys off the desk and all three headed out of the bullpen on the way to the suspect's place of residence.
Jane pulled her vehicle in front of the apartment complex. The sign leading into the stark, gray building had Green Gables written on it, so faded now it was barely legible. From the looks of the surrounding area Jane could only guess that Green was meant for marijuana. There were three rows of apartment buildings, each looking as rundown as the next. Jane continued driving down the road until they were in front of 1402 Hickory Street apartment 2.
Korsak and Jane walked up to the front door while Frost went around to the rear to watch to make sure no one was going to make a run for it out the back door. Jane knocked on the door announcing in a loud tone "Police. Open up." Waiting about 20 seconds Korsak was about to have a go at knocking on the door but then the door opened as far as the chain on the door would allow it to open.
Both holding up their badges to the door for the person behind to see, Korsak announcing they were detectives. The door slowly opened to reveal a scrawny man who looked to be 25.
"Are you Jason Freeman?" Jane asked as she was putting her badge back on her belt.
"I am" replied the young man.
"You're under arrest for having been in possession of a stolen vehicle." Korsak read the man his rights while placing the handcuffs on him.
Frost came back from around the back of the apartment building. Seeing Jane and Korsak having the suspect in custody he immediately went to the car and radioed for a patrol officer to come and pick up the suspect to take him downtown to BPD.
"We also have a warrant to search your premises." Jane led Jason over to the couch sitting him down to wait for the patrol officer to arrive.
"Why would you have a warrant to search my house if all I did was steal a vehicle?"
"So you're admitting to stealing a vehicle?" Jane asked while Korsak was in the background searching for any item that may link Jason to the killing of Julie Concord.
Realizing he said too much already Jason sat back on the couch. "I'm not saying another word until I have my lawyer."
"That's fine. It just makes you look more guilty." Korsak jabbed before Jason shut his mouth.
"Hey guys. Did you call for me?"
"Hey Frankie" Jane called out letting him know where they were.
"Frost called for a patrol unit to take a suspect to the station."
"There he is." Korsak pointed to Jason sitting on the couch.
"We searched all the areas the warrant allowed us to search so we're done here." Jane and Korsak followed Frankie and the suspect out the front door. On a small table to the side of the front door there was a small baggy of marijuana.
"Well look what we have here Korsak. Maybe Jason would like to talk about this seeing as how he doesn't want to talk about the stolen vehicle with his prints on." Jane was holding up the baggy pinching it by the corner. Jason looked back trying to see what the detective was talking about. As soon as he saw what she was holding he put his head back down and kept heading to the police car with Frankie.
"Guess not" Korsak chuckled.
"I'll take him down to the station and see you guys later." Frankie put Jason in the back of the police cruiser and was down the road and heading for BPD.
Korsak and Jane joined Frost by Jane's vehicle.
"Did you find anything?"
"Nothing but a little baggy of marijuana." Korsak pointed over at Jane who was putting the small bag inside of the larger evidence bag.
"You think he did it?"
"Don't know. If he did we'll have to ride him pretty hard to confess because right now we have nothing to link him to the murder besides a couple of fingerprints on the suspect's vehicle." Korsak looked a little defeated with no evidence linking Jason Freeman to the murder of Julie Concord.
"We can at least hold him for a little bit seeing as how we have a known felon in the possession of drugs" was the only good news Jane could offer on the subject. All three got into Jane's vehicle and headed back to the BPD devising an interrogation plot to get Jason to confess.
Jason Freeman soon found himself sitting inside an interrogation room waiting for whoever was going to come inside. He looked to his right as saw the all too obvious one-way mirror. What is the point of having those things anymore? Everyone knows what they are and who's behind them.
On the other side of the mirror looking in was Jane, Frost, and Korsak. "He doesn't look like a killer Janie."
"I know Vince but you know as well as me that just because someone doesn't look like one doesn't mean that they aren't."
"I know Janie but he just looks so young."
"I know Vince." With that said Jane was headed out the door and into the interrogation room readying herself to question Jason.
Jane walked into the interrogation room and introduced herself to Jason. "My name is Detective Rizzoli."
"My lawyer isn't here yet."
"I see that. But you are here because you are under investigation."
"For what?"
"Where were you the early morning hours of April 5th?"
"I was home."
"Can you prove that?"
"Yeah. You can go talk to my dog."
"Well seeing as how you want to be a smartass…You are here because you are under the investigation of the murder of Julie Concord."
Jason's eyes became as large as saucers and did his best to keep his jaw from hitting the ground. "What?"
"Yeah, but seeing as how you want to wait till your lawyer gets here, we'll just talk about it then." Jane got up and started heading for the door to leave smiling to herself knowing what was coming next.
"Wait."
Jane turned back around with a fake irritated look on her face. "You wanna talk now?"
"I didn't kill nobody."
"Then why were you in possession of a stolen vehicle? One that was owned by the victim?"
"Look. I didn't know it belonged to some dead girl."
"Sure."
As Jane was interrogating Jason she had no idea that Maura had joined the boys on the other side of the one-way mirror.
"Hey Dr. Isles."
"Hi Vince. Please call me Maura. We have known each other long enough now to be past formalities." Before Frost could say hello Maura was ahead of him "Hello Barry. So who is that Jane is interrogating?" I never realized how Jane looks so sexy when interrogating a suspect. Maura had to pause her thoughts for a minute wondering where they came from.
Frost moved over next to Maura pointing to the suspect. "That is Jason Freeman. He is 25 years-old and he is our suspect in the killing of Julie Concord." Before Frost could offer any more on the suspect Maura was already interjecting.
"He didn't do it."
"Huh?" Frost and Korsak were looking at her dumbfounded.
"He didn't do it."
"How do you know Maura?" Korsak was now interested.
"He is too small. Look at his fingers. They are not a match for the size of the fingers that strangled the victim. But I would like to take a closer look to make sure."
"By all means. Go ahead." Frost opened the door to let Maura go on in to the interrogation room.
"What are you doing in here?" Jane was shocked wondering why Maura was in her interrogation room.
"He didn't do it and I was coming in to be sure."
Before Maura knew it Jane was leading her out of the interrogation room into the hallway. "What are you doing Maur?"
"He didn't do it."
"And how do you know that for sure?"
"Because. Look at his fingers. They are too small to have made the marks around Julie Concord's neck."
"Are you sure?"
"That is what I was coming in for. I was going to get a closer look at his hands and fingers to be sure."
"Ok. But you can't just come barging in saying he didn't do it. It messes everything up."
"How?"
Jane could only pinch the bridge of her nose. "Maur…you're killing me?"
"No I'm not. I would never murder anyone."
Jane looked into the innocence of Maura's eyes and thought she is so cute I could kiss her. Jane started to feel her nervousness come back but all she could offer was"Nevermind."
Jane opened the door for Maura to walk in and she followed behind. Jane could not help but look at the figure in front of her. That dress accentuates every wonderful thing about her body, especially her rear. Jane cleared her thoughts quickly before Maura or the suspect caught her starting at the ME's rear.
"Jason, this is Dr. Maura Isles. She is the Medical Examiner in charge of the victim. She is here to look at your hands."
"What do my hands have to do with anything?"
"If you ever want to see the possibility of getting out of here then you may want to show her your hands."
Maura sat next to Jason. "I'm not going to hurt you. All is need to do is look at your hands."
"Ok." Jason gave Maura his hands.
Maura was holding the suspect's hands in hers and Jane thought she felt a twinge of jealousy. Get a grip Rizzoli. Maura would be with a suspect about as quickly as she would with you.
"Just as I thought. His hands are not the correct dimensions to be the ones that strangled Julie Concord."
Jason felt a wave of relief wash over him. Although he knew he was not out of the weeds yet.
"You aren't completely cleared Mr. Freeman. You are still under arrest for being in possession of stolen property and drugs." Jane knocked on the door and two officers came in. "Take Mr. Freeman back to his holding cell."
The two officers grabbed Jason on either side and led him out the door.
"Well that clears one person but that means the killer is still out there."
"I have confidence in you and the boys. You'll get the killer. You always do." Maura smiled and walked out the door. Jane still had her back turned to the door becoming lost in her thoughts when honey blonde startled her. "Dinner tonight at my place."
"Shit Maur. You scared me."
"Sorry."
"I thought it was going to be at my place."
"More room at mine."
"Why can't you come to my place Maur?"
"I will. You just need a chance to clean up first, that's all."
"Fine."
"You're still cooking though."
"Yes dear." Jane accidentally let it slip out.
Playing along Maura countered "see you tonight sweetie."
Jane could not be happier when Maura was walking out the door. She did not want the ME seeing the blush that was about to overtake her whole body. I swear. The boys better not give me shit about this.
Hey everyone, thanks for reading. I hope I am giving enough of the crime aspect and interaction with the girls. If you think there isn't I promise I have more coming up. Let me know what you think. Reviews are fuel and my car is almost on E. Thanks.