A/N: Hey everyone, I'm back with this week's chapter. I know this may be going slow for some but like I said, stick with me and you'll be rewarded. Always a special thanks to artgrrl1989 for all her help. Don't think this story would have been possible if it weren't for her. Did everyone watch this week's episode? Not much Rizzles but that's okay...last week's episode was enough to cover for the two. Although I do have to say it was a classic moment when they were with Lydia at the birthing class when Jane was giving the eat shit and die look...totally sexy if you ask me. Okay well enough of my rambling. Hope you enjoy this week's chapter and please review and let me know what you think. Thanks everyone =o)
"Dammit!" Jane had a moment of realization when the fingerprints Maura e-mailed Korsak ran through AFIS and found their owner. "I thought she looked familiar. She is the owner of the club Merch, the one we ended up giving a deal to so she would give up her partner that was married to the woman killed outside the club."
"Oh yeah. I remember her. Don't you Korsak?" Frost asked. "You don't remember that was the one Jane made out with so we could get her DNA." Frost looked over at Jane and started wiggling his eyebrows.
"Oh yeah. I remember now." Korsak started giggling.
"What great respect for the dead you two have. She kissed me on the neck by the way" Jane let out a frustrated sigh knowing that it has been a couple years since that happened and they still remember it like it was yesterday. They ever find out about me and Maura making out at Coyote's then they will never let me live it down. The only good thing that came from the Merch undercover assignment was seeing Maura in her outfit and a face full of her…
"Jaaaannneee…" Frost snapped his fingers in front of Jane's face bringing her out of her reverie.
"What? I was just thinking about the case." Jane started blushing realizing where her thoughts were trailing to.
"Now that we have Jane back with us on earth," Korsak quipped, "where does our victim live?"
Frost started tapping away on the keyboard searching for the information Korsak was asking about. Jane and Korsak stood there watching in anticipation for Frost to bring up the victim's information. "It looks like she was residing at 82 Sedgwick Lane."
"We don't have a cause of death yet do we?" Korsak directed this question at Jane wondering why she hadn't made her usual trek down to the morgue to see her best friend yet and get the victim's cause of death.
"Oh yeah." Jane looked a little defeated at the thought of having to face Maura again after their less than warm meeting at the elevator earlier. Jane started to turn on her heels to reluctantly head down to the morgue.
Before Jane could fully turn around to head towards the elevator she heard faint heel clicks that sounded like Maura's heading in their direction. Jane physically stiffened at the sound and her actions were not missed by Frost or Korsak who just looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes.
Just as Jane turned around Maura had reached her destination. Looking at Frost and Korsak Maura said "good morning again Barry and Vince." Without turning in the direction of Jane Maura said "good morning again Detective Rizzoli."
Frost and Korsak both looked over the shoulders of Maura at Jane who was now looking like a five year old who was last to be picked for the neighborhood baseball game. Jane's shoulders sagged in defeat and she headed to her desk and sat in her chair knowing she wasn't going to get any kind of attention from the ME what-so-ever. Korsak could instantly tell something was going on between Jane and Maura but he had no idea what transpired over a couple of days for them going from best friends to acquaintances.
Maura handed over the findings of her autopsy to Korsak. "Here are my findings Vince. It looks like our victim was raped. She was strangled but that was not the cause of her death. Her cause of death was exsanguination. Let me make that a little clearer for Detective Rizzoli back there, she bled to death."
Ouch. "Well thank you Dr. Smartypants."
Maura continued talking like she didn't hear what Jane had said. "However, if we are dealing with the same killer, which I believe we are because the three victims have the same type of injuries but it seems as if our killer is slowly becoming more aggressive; possibly arrogant because he has yet to be caught. Our victim not only has the one stab wound to the heart but she also has two more stab wounds to her uterus."
"Good! I hope he gets too cocky for his own good because the more cocky they get the more likely he will be to leave some evidence behind. Why would he want to stab her uterus though?"
"There are many reasons why our killer would do such a thing. It almost sounds personal. However, I do not believe we have any trace left behind by our killer. But I did run the rape kit and it is being analyzed by the lab. So are the scrapings from under the victim's nails and a blood-tox analysis are being analyzed."
"I sure hope this bastard slips up soon enough. Thank you Dr. Isles." Korsak smiled at Maura and received one back from her.
"I will let you gentlemen know when I have the findings from the lab." Maura turned to head back towards the elevator to head back down to the morgue. As she did she looked over at Jane who was staring at her with an 'I'm sorry' look on her face. I wish you would just talk to me Jane Rizzoli. I would talk to you but you are the one who seems to need to come to terms with what happened. Maura gave a faint smile in Jane's direction and headed for the elevator.
A small smile. Maybe I'm not in too much deep shit. After watching Maura step on the elevator and out of sight Jane immediately picked up the phone and called the uniformed division's Captain and told him to get a few uniformed units out to the victim's house and start a three block radius sweep of the neighborhood because of the possibility of the victim's car being located.
As Jane was hanging up with the Captain, Frost was coming out of Cavanaugh's office. "Just told the Lieutenant we are headed out to the victim's house to notify any next-of-kin about what happened."
"Well lets head out then." Jane downed the last sip of her coffee that Frost had brought earlier and grabbed her blazer off the back of her seat and headed with Frost and Korsak down to her car to head out to the victim's house.
By the time Jane, Korsak, and Frost pulled up to the victim's house the uniformed units had already been in the neighborhood for 45 minutes searching for any abandoned vehicle that could possibly be the victim's.
As Jane got out of her car Frankie came up and gave her the bad news. "Hey sis, we've been searching all over the place for the past 45 minutes and we have not come across an abandoned vehicle on the side of the road."
"Shit." Jane slammed her fist on top of her car. As she did Frankie jumped a little at the loud thud.
"It's okay Janie, we'll just give Johnnie a call over at the yard and ask him to look out for a gold '96 Honda Accord registered to our victim."
"If her body was found quicker we might have had a chance of finding her vehicle with evidence on it. Now we're going to be back where we started, with shit."
"I know this is not the Detective Jane Rizzoli that I know." Korsak came around the car to talk to Jane. " This case is grinding on all three of us but this asshole will slip up sooner or later and as soon as he does we'll be there to handcuff his ass and throw him in jail."
"I know. It's just frustrating that after all this time we still have absolutely no lead on who this asshole might be."
Korsak put his arm around her shoulders giving her a pat on the back letting her know everything will be okay. "Let's go see if there is anyone one home who we can notify and get some information from." With that said all three detectives headed over to the victim's house hoping for a lead.
After unsuccessfully finding someone at the home of the victim, the detective's decided it was best to head over to Merch to see if they might be able to get any information from the employees.
The three detectives walked up to the front door and knocked loudly so if anyone was inside getting the business ready they would come to the door. They saw a man, presumably to be one of the bouncers, come to the front door. All three detectives held up their badges so the man could see who they were. After the faint click of the door the man swung the door open and allowed the detectives to come in.
"My name is Dave and I'm actually glad you came."
All three detectives looked quizzically at Dave wondering why he might possibly be so happy to see them.
"I came in this morning and the boss is always here getting things ready before I get here. When I arrived she was nowhere to be seen. That is not like her. She is always punctual and if she is late she always lets me know and I have heard nothing from here. I have been here about two hours waiting on her to come in and call and she has done neither and I am very worried." The bouncer almost looked like he was about to start crying.
Jane was the first to speak, "well Dave, that is why we are actually here. Unfortunately your boss was found this morning, she was murdered."
"Oh no. She can't be. She just got out of jail and she was doing everything she could to get her life back to normal."
"When was the last time you saw her?" Frost asked.
"It was late Saturday night, well early Sunday morning about 3 am."
"Why didn't you notify us yesterday that she was missing?" Korsak asked.
"Well Sunday is our only day off so we don't hear or see anything of each other that day so it's not unusual for me to not know what she is doing that day."
"Did you notice anything suspicious when she left early Sunday morning?" Jane asked.
"No. I let her out the door like I normally do after she is done cleaning the bar. We both said goodnight and that was it. I watched her walk to her car and as soon as I saw her start to drive off I turned around and came back in to grab my stuff and head out the back where my car is parked like I always do."
"Do you have any security footage proving what you are saying?" Korsak asked.
"Actually, we have cameras outside and inside so yes we do. Come this way and I will get you a copy of the security footage from Saturday." Dave led the detectives back to the security office and proceeded to make them a copy of the security footage from Saturday. After making the copy Dave walked the detectives back up to the front door.
Jane handed him a business card, "if you think of anything that you need to tell us then give this number a call and it will come to one of us three."
"Thank you detectives. If there is anything else I can think of I will definitely let you know." Dave opened the door for the detectives walk out.
The detectives walked back to Jane's car in silence, thousands of thoughts going through each of their minds. Still in silence they headed back to BPD to get a start on the hours of security footage they just received.
I hope you all enjoyed this week's chapter. Like I have said before if you stick with me through this journey you will be rewarded, I promise. If you can't stick this out with me then I totally understand if you wanna stop reading. Please review and let me know what you think. I really appreciate the reviews, they keep my creative juices flowing. Thanks everyone for reading I really do appreciate it =o)