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Maura chuckled and emerged from her self handed tomb behind her hands. Together the two walked back into the bar and Jane immediately sought out Maura's eyes to see if she was ok and was taken back by the easing fire she saw there. Her eyes hardened and she turned to look at Erica. Erica having seen that look in Jane's eyes before smiled. She held up her hands and walked over to her wife and hid behind her. Jessica chuckled and swatted her on the behind. Erica growled in her ear. Jane made her way over to Maura and put her hand softly on her shoulder.
"You ok?"
Maura chuckled.
'Yeah was just having a serious conversation with Erica about her cheating."
Jane chuckled her eyes dancing with mirth.
"Did the great Doctor Maura Isles just make a sarcastic remark? I must be rubbing off on you."
Maura rolled her eyes.
"Pahlease I'm rubbing off on you get it right."
Jane chuckled and watched as Maura went to take her shot. Maura's skin tight jeans had been reaking havoc on her heart and body all night long. Ever since Jane had caught Maura dancing in her living room she found herself entranced by the smaller woman. God she was gorgeous. Excusing herself and heading to the restroom Jane doused her face in some cold water. Damn she needed a good fight. She was glad it was a 24 hour establishment. She took a deep breath her thoughts running a million miles an hour. She quickly joined the others and offered a few strained smiles, desperatly attempting to keep her eyes away from Maura's beautiful figure. As the evening winded down Jane found herself smiling. She quickly paid the bill and begged off Maura's offer for a ride and said she would walk. It was a nice night it wasn't too unreasonable. Maura seemed to nod but studied her friend carefully. Something was bothering Jane. She could sense it. She watched Jane walk into the dark night and slumped into her seat. Seeing her tennis shoes in the back she had an idea and turning on the car began to drive away.
Jane walked into the slightly crisp night, and waited until she saw Maura to her car and the little prius mewed to life. She waved as Maura pulled out of the parking lot and then took off at a dead run towards the club.
Maura hiding behind a patch of bushes saw Jane take off in the opposite direction of her apartment. Maura had gotten out of her car in her running shoes and at a great distance followed her friend. Jane had pulled up her hoodie and seemed entirely engrossed in herself, seeming not to notice Maura there. She was really seriously worried. After about two block Jane seemed to take not eof her surroundings, Maura quickly ducked behind a wall and Jane seeming satisfied walked down a dark alleyway. Maura followed at a great distance and saw her duck into what appeared to be a sleezy club. Maura waited outside the door, her heart pounding in her chest. After a few minutes Maura headed down the darkened stairwell and came to a doorway. A large muscular black woman smiled at her as she walked in.
"Darlin you look a little outta your element. You wanting to fight or just bet?"
Maura started at her softly.
"Excuse me?"
The black woman chuckled.
"Come with me."
Maura followed her through several darkened coordiors a male bouncer taking over the door. They seemed to be going up stairs and Maura emerged hearing loud music, and her eyes about popped out of her head when she heard cheering and saw two fighters beating the shit out of each other. The black woman chuckled again and reaching out closed Maura's jaw.
"My name is Teshana. My partner and I own this joint. It's perfectly legal so if you are a cop I can show you the papers, if you're not then I suggest you take a bet and have some fun, if you're into fighting."
Maura smiled at the woman's politness.
"Who would you suggest?"
"First time?"
"Yes, and I know nothing about this sport. What are the rules?"
Teshana laughed a deep bellied laughter.
"Hon, its cage fighting. The only rules are that you cant touch someone after they are down, no biting, not scratching and no hair pulling. Tonight is our ladies night. Other than that there are no rules. Whoever makes it out without getting knocked out."
Maura nodded thankful she had thrown some money in her pocket.
"Who do you think is your best?"
"Easily the sexy italien, most of the time I am the one in the ring against her after several fighters. Tonight she seems to have a mean streak though, she's switched to men, not to many of our female fighters do that. Only fohawk has thus far."
"Minimium bet?"
" On Italien? A thousand."
"Take credit?"
"Yes maam."
"Then a thousand on the sexy italien."
Teshana smiled and took the piece of plastic from Maura.
"Great, if you lose the money will be deducted, if you win, well in that case, we'll deposit the winnings accordingly."
Maura nodded and watched in fascination as the fighters finished the fight and were announced. She glanced around the ring looking for Jane, wondering what she was doing in a place like this. Teshana handed her her ticket anda drink winking and walking away. Five minutes later a hip hop song came on and she listened as the sexy italien was annonced and the crwod roared. A larger marine stood in the ring waiting for the door to open to reveal the fighter he was facing. To Maura's utter and complete suprise Jane Rizzoli walked through the double doors and the crowd roared louder.
Jane stood back in the locker room and pulled out her worn pair of blue jeans. She carefully taped her hands and feet, she chose to fight without boots tonight, she wanted to pain. She pulled back her hair in a tight ponytail and out of the way. Hearing her music she smiled and headed up to the cage. If you had asked her that night why she had chosen to fight both men and that women she would have told you she was just out for blood, but in reality she just wanted a good fight. She finished tying off her sweat band and stepped into the ring. She walked out hands in the air, the crowd roaring as she stepped into the cage. Dalia laughed and shook her head. Their sexy italien (Yes intentionally spelled the wrong wa) was back and Dalia had forgotten how much of a showman she was. Dalia chuckled and waited until the music died down. Shaking her head she remembered what she had originally seen in the scrawny girl, who was now a beautiful woman.
"Allright I want a clean fight, winner takes the next fighter."
Both seemed to nod and Jane closed her eyes. The smell of the cage filled her nostrils, the sweat already beginning to form in anticipation of the fight ahead. Her heartbeat settled as she began to listen to the sound of the breath coming in and out of her lungs. Opening her eyes she was surprised when the marine stuck out a friendly hand, he was charming and smiled. Jane took the preffered hand and nodded at his sign of respect. He stepped back into a classical marine pose and waited. He attacked In her upper shoulder area. Jane ducked under the punch and planted an elbow hard into his ribs. He growled and backed off, circling her, seeming to look for her weakness. Jane knew that once punch that landed had potential to take her out of the fight. He approached again and as he did Jane took a breath and kicked high in the air catching him hard across the jaw. He seemed to scramble to grab her foot and missed it due to her speed. His head snapped back and he stumbled but maintained his stance. He wiped blood off his lips and nodded in respec to her. Getting back in a fighting stance he once more began to circle Jane. Jane chuckled and deciding to throw him for a loop executed a punch towards his face, he predictably ducked in which Jane disengaged and her foot came through instead of her fist and connected hard with his ribs once again, same spot as her elbow had connected. He grunted again and felt a rib crack. He took a labored breath and this time he caught Jane's foot. Jane bounced backwards, hoping he would catch it and kicked up with her other foot, causing his ungaurded chin to snap backwards and he fell back in to the mat. Standing before the ten second limit he shook his head clearing his now slightly foggy eyes. HE hated getting kicked in the chin, this woman was a good fighter, she seemed to be one step ahead of him at all times. He debated internally how much he wanted this fight. He moved in once again weaving and bobbing, trying to ascertain her weaknesses. He couldn't seem to get a handle on it. He disengaged a mid section punch and went towards her face, she seemed to instictually feel his moves and moved her chin back and landed two swift kicks, one to his ribs causing his ribs to break in a second spot and one to trip him. He took a deep labored breath, one more kick and he would have internal bleeding. He stood and held his hands up in surrender, the annoucner nodding and calling the fight Jane's. He nodded in respect to him and Jane smiled and nodded in return. A young fighter about twenty years old and cocky stepped into the ring. Jane knocked her out in three moves and moved through several other fighters easily, careful never to seriously injure them but just to get their attention.
Maura watched her fight the marine, the moves she made like a dance as she ducked and weaved out of his way, landing several hard hits to his rubs, Maura slightly cringing as she knew Jane had probably broken at least four of the mans ribs. He seemed to have weakness on his left side. He stood after the last two kicks and resigned the fight giving it to Jane. Maura watched as Jane never serioulsy injured the fighters but moved thorugh them quickly and carefully. After three fighters Maura was with the rest of the crowd cheering. Jessica seeing her through the crowd and having been warned by Teshana grabbed Erica.
"Rica, Maura is here."
"What? How did she get here?"
Jessica shrugged as erica groaned.
"You havea team fight with Jane yes?"
"Yeah taping up for it now."
"Allright I'll go find Maura."
"Ask Tesh she seated her."
Erica nodded kissed her lover luck and walked out to find Maura. Jessica had just finished taping and gelling her hair up and walked up to the ring. Jane was covered in sweatin having gotten through several fighters that night. A group of navy boys had come in and each dropped around Two grand to fight the two lovely ladies. Delia knowing they could probably handle it had agreed to letting four, then the remaining ten in at a time. Jessica and Jane had never fought together, but with their combined experience should be fine. They both knew they were taking a risk, but that was apart of the job. Jessica nodded to her and Jane smiled ferally. An Eminem song started up and the four naval boys were released into the cage. Jane smiled and launched herself at one of them. They traded three blows, her mind going into overdrive.
"Right shoulder closed fist, push aside, block second blow, go for upper cut, back up wait for a secon, wait for attack."
With each breath she caught and rebuttled the blows thrown at her, finally catching an opening Jane swung around and with a roundhouse kick dropped the first one, the second charged her and jane immedialty ducked the blow, coming up with an elbow to the ribs she waited until she could swirl awy from his body opening the contact. The navy boy kept her close and as she swung away he landed a blow to her nose. Jane wiped blood and growled, her eyes flashing ferally at the man. He smirked.
"Come on bitch, let a man show you how to fucking do it."
Jane sneered.
"I very much doubt you could fuck anythign except yourself well, and come on little boy, come show me how its done."
Maura hearing the conversation over loudspeakers shivered at the seductive note to Jane's tone. She winced as the man charged her. Jane getting down low and waited unti lthe last moment she moved to the left and dropped an elbow hard to the back of his head, effectively knocking him so hard on the mat that he bounced a bit.
Glancing over at Jessica Jane nodded in respect to see the two other naval officers down. Dalia nodded glad her fighters were ok, three of her clean up staff pulled the four boys out of the cage. Eminem's song "seduction" came on as Jane and Jessica once more took their places and the remaining ten boys were released into the ring. Jane swore softly under her breath and Jessica nodded to her, it was going to take a team effort.
Maura's heart was pounding as the remaining ten boys were released into the ring. She stood in her seat and growled loudly over the noise.
"What the fuck, thats an unfair fight!"
Erica chuckled when she heard it and found Maura. Making eye contact she sat down.
"This is an easy fight. Watch."
Maura started when she saw Erica.
"What are you doing here?"
Erica chuckled.
"Watch the fight, this is where they excel, they are one hell of a force seperate but I've always wanted to see them fight together."
Maura watched the fight as one by one the men went down under the force that was Jessica and Jane. She watched as each of the female fighters took several blows hard to their bodies and Maura winced, wondering how Jane had hid the injuries for so long. Hell this was a whole new side of Jane she had never seen before and Maura watched in complete and utter amazment as Jane took it, blow for blow, took each blow to herself and dished it out just as badly. By the end of the fight Maura saw she had a pretty badly split lip and probably had bruises covering her torso and a few to her legs.
The ten men had closed in on Jane and Jessica. Jane's heart was pounding, her adrenaline rushing. Two of them were within striking range. Jane bought her time, Jessica seemed to sense her hesitation and grinned ferally.
"Come on Italien this is what we live for."
Jane chuckled at her feral grin and taking a deep breath moved in next to Jessica, always keeping her at her back. Two of the men were already down when the other formed a circle and began to move in. Jane looked at Jessica.
"Arm?"
"Oh hell yes."
Jessica interlinked her arm with Jane and Jane used the force of Jessica's body weight and felt Jessica's chin lock into her shoulder and lifted spinning. Catching only two of the me off guard Jessica's feet came in contact with their chins. They fell hard. One of the men seeing an opportunity moved in and swiped Jane's feet out from underneath her. Jane growled and looked at Jessica. Jessica rolled as they hit the mat and watched in fascination as Jane came up off the floor and using her body force plowed into the 180 lb muscle and using her momentum moved behind him one arm around his neck pulling his head back against her shoulder like he was a hostage. Using him as a body shield she pulled him back. The other three men zeroed in on her and Maura and Erica watched in awe as Jane using the man's body weight against him, jumped pushed off his shoulders landing a elbow hard to the side of his head and flipped over the man and landed a kick to one of the other mens jaws. Jessica heard a 'duck" and immediately doing so watched as the man dropped. Now only two men stood on their feet and both backed off at the display of raw muscle that Jane had just shown. Jane grinned saucily at Jessica.
"Come on Fo, I'm kicking your ass here."
Jessica shook her head and laughed and in three moves knocked out the other men. The crowd roared as the two women finished off the fight. The ten men laying around them. Dalia chuckled, what a loot these two could pull in together, but they preffered solo fights. They had won the crowd over and she just shook her head and chuckled. Pulling her mouth away from the microphone she looked at the girls.
"Did either of you get a scratch on you?"
"Not that the crowd needs to see." Jane muttered. Dalia chuckled away from the microphone and held up their joined hands.
"Lets hear it!"
The crowrd roared as the two fighters made their way off the stage. Jane winced as she walked off stage. Jessica put an arm around her waist as soon as they were out of sight.
"Damn Italien you took a few good blows out there. You ok?"
Jane nodded.
"How I am going to explain my face at work tommorow will be fun."
Jessica chuckled. Together the two women made their way back to the locker rooms, each holding the other up until the were behind clsoed doors. Teshana met them and winced when she helped them.
Maura watched the woman she loved walked off the stage on her own power, walking as if she wasn't injured. She looked over at Erica.
"Is she going to be ok?"
"Well, I wouldn't mind you to look over my wife, besides it's only fair to Jane that she knows you are here. So come on."
Maura followed the amourous woman she was beginning to call friend to the back locker rooms. It was close to three o clock in the morning.
Jane had just gotten back the locker room and pulled off her shirt, a hiss escaped her lips as she pulled it off. Jessica hearing the hiss turned and softly helped her. There was a deep purpleish colored bruise where Jane had been kicked several weeks before. There were three other black and bluish marks around Jane's ribcage.
"Fuck."
Jessica chuckled.
"How many of those hits did you get at the beginning of the night and they got worse because you got hit there a couple times?"
Jane grinned ferally.
"Two. The other I got hit by the big navy guy I flipped over and took two more hits there."
"Damn girl."
The door opened and Erica walked in. Jane turned her head and she heard the gasp and turned around and grabbed for a shirt when she saw who it was.
"Maur! What the hell?"
Erica held up her hands in mock surrender.
"I did nothing, we found her here."
Jane sighed and ran her hands through her hair.
"Well there's no point in asking how you got here. HI Maur."
Maura grinned soflty.
"Hi." Steppin near Jane she smirked. "Well looks like yo ugot the shit beat out of you."
Jane snorted.
"You should see the other guy."
Maura smirked.
"I did , all 15 of them. Sucked to be them. May I?"
Jane nodded, watchign as Maura, Erica and Jessica all seemed to relax. Maura walked over and all the energy she had come to fight out tonight came back in a rush. She sucked in a deep breath thankful that the pain could cover it easily. Maura decidedly close to her and having much the same reaction to being able to touch the half naked Jane looked up at her.
"Does that hurt?"
Jane nodded not trusting her voice, Maura's gentle fingers probe gently but accuratly over her ribs, making sure none of them were broken. As soon as she checked she allowed herself the indulgence of running her hands over the beautiful body. After hearing Jane's deep breath she sighed and turned her attention to Jane's face.
"You need a stitch in that lip, but no broken ribs and the bruising will slowly fade. They are pretty bruised Jane. You rebruised this area tonight and it will take a bit to heal. I would guess this wound is
almost three weeks old. Jane how many times has it been rebruised?"
Jane shrugged and attempted to avoid the scolding eyes of her best friend. Maura grabbed her chin and redirected her eyes.
"How many?"
"At least twice."
Maura sighed.
"Well give it two weeks or you'll break ribs and have permanent damage. No more fighting until then ok?"
Jane raised an eyebrow as her chin was released and Maura moved over to check Jessica. Her eyes met Erica's for a moment and Erica shrugged. Maura finished checking over Jessica carrying on a conversation with her. Jane studied her gently and then went and changed. As they emerged all four of them were handed beers and Teshana came and took Maura's betting card.
Ten minutes later she came back with two wads of money and Maura's card.
"You ladies cleaned up tonight. Dr. Isles you won twice what you bet."
"How much did you pull in tonight Tesh?"
"With you two and a full house, we dealt out a one hundred thou in winnings and banked almost three hundred. Full house tonight, almost a thousand people walked through those door and bet on you two ladies. Thats not counting the other three big fights we had tonight."
Jane chuckled and handed the wad back to Tesh.
"I don't need it."
Teshana held her hands back.
"Use it to take your beautiful girlfriend on a fancy date."
Jane chuckled.
"I think I'll do that Tesh."
Maura's stomach fluttered Jane had not corrected Teshana about them being together. Raising an eyebrow she smiled softly to herself and across at Jane.