Chapter 11-Awakening

Jane was wakened by beating on her chest, as her eyes opened, she was punched in the jaw, her whole being snapped into self defence mode. She grabbed the offending arms and slung them over the perpetrators head, while pinning the assaulters body with her own to the other end of the couch. Jane's conscious state started to kick in, she looked around at her surroundings, then down at the body beneath hers. She looked down in time to see a pair of teeth heading for her left arm. It's Maura and she is not awake, even though her eyes are wild, they have no focus. "Maura," Jane yells, trying to wake her friend, "wake up , its Jane!" She gently headbutts Maura to deflect the bite. Maura's eyes spring to life and all Jane sees is pure fear. Jane's heart breaks and she gently reassures, "Maura, it's Jane, I'm here , it's okay sweetie, really it's okay."

Maura's body starts to relax as she wakes "Jane ", she whispers. Her face relaxes then her brow furrows as her head turns slightly. "Jane why are you on top of me with my arms above my head? As Jane goes to speak , she is cut off, "And why is your lip bleeding?"

Jane couldn't help but smile as she relaxed her grip on the ME's arms. She lets out a deep breath as she backs off Maura and wipes her lip.

"I should of never taught you to punch properly," she says while looking at the blood on her hand from her split lip, smiles up at Maura as she was passed a tissue.

Then realization hits Maura, "Oh God Jane, did I do that to you, I'm so,so sorry," she grabs Janes hands. "In the dream, she looked just like you, I thought she was you." Maura runs off leaving Jane dumbfounded alone on the couch. I have to write this down on the serviettes!" Maura exclaims as she disappears into the bedroom.

"Maura just use paper,"Jane answers as she puts the tissue back on her lip.

"Oh good, you didn't throw them out," Maura says as she returns with the handful of napkins.

Jane looks at her incredulously, " What, why would I throw out something that important to you? Really Maur?"Jane is sitting up on her knees on the couch watching Maura scurry around. "Slow down before you pop a vessel!" Jane says as she jumps to her feet and approaches the table where Maura is clearing the candles and left overs from the previous night.

Maura starts to lay out the napkins in order, Jane yawns and looks down at her watch, rubs her eyes and looks again."Maur its 6AM, are you nuts,"

"No, Jane come see, you aren't the bad person and I didn't kill her, I remember everything now! "She says excitedly as she grabs Janes arm and brings her to the side of the table, "see!."

"I'm so happy I'm not that bad person," Jane replies while rolling her eyes and making air quotes with her fingers. She winces slightly as her tongue goes over her split lip.

Maura playfully slaps Janes hands and gives she a sassy smile, "look silly, it's all here," as she rearranges the napkins, Maura studies all the details she had written down. As she ponders, Jane retrieves her phone to take a picture of Maura's musings splayed out on the table. Jane decides to look at her texts from Korsak as Maura mutters to herself and rearranges the napkins once again. As she reads, her blood goes cold, she looks at Maura and then again at the phone.

Jane, the third victim is Jason Floyd, son of Pretty Boy Floyd. Things have heated up here. We are going to see Doyle. Something is going down here, bad things, keep Maura there where she is safe.

She looks up to see Maura silent , looking at her with a furrowed brow. "Jane, what's wrong?"

"Nothing", she says sheepishly as she puts her phone on the couch arm and rubs her hands together as she approaches Maura, "what's ya got?""

"Well, here is is. I have to call the Inspector this morning, I have it all figured out." She smiles as she takes Jane's chin in her hand and examines the lip she split. "I'm sorry about that ,"Maura purred as she looked into Jane's eyes and her lips slightly touch the brunette's lips. Jane can't believe her body's reaction to Mauras touch. Its almost intoxicating.

"Its okay, ya know, I'm ok," she replied, trying to find the words as Maura pulls away and ponders the table once more. Jane sighs at the loss of contact, she draws close to the honey blonde, she could not resist reaching out and put her arm around Maura. She kisses Maura's head. Maura looks up to see Jane grin down at her with that affectionate goofy grin. "Well, what do we have."

Maura puts her arms around the Detectives waist and gives her a tight hug, eliciting a chuckle from the brunette as the ME starts to recount what happened.

" Lets start here," Maura states as she lets go of Jane to point out her logic in the mosaic on the table. Jane looks on in awe from Maura to the napkins on the table to Maura again, never letting go of the ME or leaving her side. " I was at the Chalet, I went with some friends from the Conference. The day was perfect and so was the snow, we skied all afternoon and well into the evening."Maura reminisced as she touched the first napkin in the series. "The next day we met for breakfast and went to the hill, That,s where everything gets hazy, but I think I remember now." She looks at Jane." I remember , we heard a bang while we were skiing," Maura's eyes go wide as she looks at Jane, "Oh God, Jane , I need to find out about Wanda and Jack, they were with me when the snow hit us."

"Maur, I have a contact on the ski patrol, I have to call him later today anyway and I'll ask about your friends, just give me the info, Ok, I'm sure they are Ok."She gave Maura a reassuring hug. "Continue, "Jane prompts her friend.

"Thats when I saw you, well not you , her, I saw her. At first I thought it was you, but when she turned, she was fair with blue eyes .We were in the Chalet and she kept looking at me. I saw her again on the hill, wait, thats it on the hill ."Maura looks up at Jane again. Jane looks perplexed, trying to figure what is going through her Doctor's mind. Looking down at the napkins. "There was a shot, a gun shot, I'm sure of it now. She skied very quickly toward me, pushing me into the trees."

Maura spun from Jane , her hands on her head. She went to the couch and sat down, Jane followed cautiously behind her."Maura, Maur, its alright now, she's dead,"Jane assures as she carefully sits beside her friend.

"No Jane, you don't understand," Maura looks at her with sad eyes, "I think she saved my life, those shots I heard were meant for me," Jane saw the pain in Maura's eyes as she opened her arms to receive a shaky sobbing ME. Her own nerves on edge thinking about what's going on in Boston. Could the connection be Maura? She tried to block the horrible gut feeling she had.

As Maura calmed, wiping her eyes, she continued her recollection. "There was so much blood, I tried to stop it , but I watched her slip away, It hurt to know I couldn't save her, I was full of blood, my mittens were soaked in her blood Then all I see is black." Maura ponders a moment before continuing, "I have a recurring dream."as she touched the bump on her head." I'm in a closet and she is on top of me and I'm trying to push her off, but I can get free."She looks up at Jane, who hasn't let go of her since they landed on the couch. " What do you think that means?"

"Damned if I know, "Jane answers.

A knock comes to the door, startling both ladies. Maura jumps up from the couch and looks through the peep hole. She opens the door to the suite and welcomes Amy in. "Amy, I wasn't expecting you so early."

"Dr Horton wanted me to check on you this morning, I hope I didn't wake you?" looking to see Jane watching her from the couch.

"We've been up for a while, I was just about to make some coffee. Amy, I think I remembered some of what happened to me and in the process I managed to bust Jane's bottom lip," Maura says with a quick shy smile, as she looks back at her detective, who returns her smile.

"How about you sit with your friend and I'll make coffee for us and you can fill me in'" Amy says as she pats the vial in her pocket.