The next day Jane is sitting at her desk as any other day without a case, finishing her paperwork from yesterday. As always she's the first one here, except for Sean. She's looking at the screen of her computer and sipping her morning coffee when she catches a movement from the corner of her eye. She looks up and sees Barry Frost coming to his desk.

"Morning." He greets her as he takes a seat and leans back in his chair, closing his eyes.

Jane watches him a minute and when he finally looks up she's waiting with a smirk gracing her lips.

"Long night, Frost?" she says sweetly.

Teasing the young detective is one of her favorite things to do. He chuckles in response and takes a generous sip of his own coffee.

"You have no idea, ma'am."

She glares at him playfully but hard enough for him to know she's serious.

"Frost, how many times do I have to tell you. Don't. Call me. Ma'am."

He gulps nervously.

Detective Barry Frost has been with the homicide unit for nearly six months now and from the start he's been paired with Detective Jane Rizzoli. Six months and he still doesn't understand his partner.

When they were first introduced she didn't say a word. It was quite strange and that's probably the reason he remembers it like it was yesterday. Their meeting lasted about ten seconds. Less, actually.

"Hey, Kid. Let's go. I'm gonna introduce you to your new partner. Don't take it personal if she's rude or something. She's like that with everyone." Detective Sergeant Korsak tells him as they head for the bullpen.

"She?"

"Yeah. You got a problem with that?" his eyes harden causing Frost to quickly shake his head.

"No, sir. I don't, sir. I was just surprised, that's all." He tries to explain.

The other man suppresses a grin, trying to look as though he's angry. This Kid will be fun to tease.

As they enter the bullpen Korsak leads him straight to a desk with a dark haired woman sitting behind it.

"Jane, do you have a moment?" she looks up but doesn't say anything. She stands up with her hands in her pockets just looking suspiciously at the young man. Then she looks expectantly at Korsak waiting for an explanation.

"This is Detective Barry Frost and he's going to be your partner. Kid, this is Detective Jane Rizzoli." Frost smiles and extends his hand for her to take.

He's surprised when she takes a small step back away from him and buries her hands even deeper in the pockets of her slacks. She gives him a curt nod then shifts her gaze to Korsak. She stares at him quietly for a few seconds and when Frost looks at the sergeant he notes he looks guilty. Then he opens his mouth to say something but before he has a chance Detective Rizzoli looks away and walks out of the room without a word.

Both men stare after her.

"What just happened?" Frost asks in confusion.

Korsak just shakes his head.

"Sorry, Kid. I should have warned you." That's all he says. Then he turns around and heads into the Lieutenant's office leaving the young detective standing alone, wondering what he did wrong.

Since then he got used to her strange behavior. With time he noticed the scares on her hands and he started to understand her reaction. He tried to talk to Korsak. Tried to get him to tell him something but he wouldn't. Said not to ask her about it. And he didn't.

Frost respected her wishes. Of course he was curious, he still is, but he figured if Jane wanted him to know she would tell him. The only thing he needed to know is that she has his back.

They start working again, occasionally exchanging a few words. After an hour the squad room is full of people, few other detectives and some officers all minding their own work. No cases for Jane and frost, just the paperwork.

Jane's concentration is broken when she hears someone's heels clicking on the hard floor. She looks up and sees Cavanaugh entering the bullpen with a small beautiful woman with blonde hair and bright smile right behind him.

Her thoughts come back to her conversation with Sean and Korsak yesterday. So this has to be Dr. Isles.

"Good morning, everyone."Cavanaugh announces their presence and the commotion in the room stops immediately as every single eye is fixated on the doctor..

Jane stays sitting in her seat, trying not to get caught checking out the blonde.

"You all know Dr. Williams is retiaring next week. This is Dr. Maura Isles and she's going to be our new Chief Medical Examiner." He turns to Korsak. "Vince, you can do the introductions, I need to get to a meeting and I'm already late."

He says his goodbyes and on his way out he sands a pointed look to Jane who smiles a small smile and nods.

As the Lieutenant leaves Korsak turns to the young doctor and outstretches his big hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Dr. Isles. I'm Detective Sergeant Korsak. These are Detectives Rollins, Nelson, Crow, Frost and Rizzoli."

Dr. Isles smiles pleasantly and shakes hands with each of them. Jane tries to ignore the way Crow is staring at her chest. It's disrespectful and creepy, really. Disgusting.

When the doctor turns to Jane and reaches her hand out for her to take Jane automatically buries her own hands in her pockets.

Fuck, didn't Cavanaugh tell her?

Jane forces a smile and ignores Maura's confused and somewhat hurt expression.

"Nice to meet you Dr. Isles. I'm looking forward to working with you."

Suddenly the room gets quiet as the blonde slowly lowers her hand. Jane dares to look around and her blood starts to boil at the smirk on Crow's face. She shoots him a glare.

"Sorry I gotta be somewhere." She says and leaves the room as calmly as she can manage, leaving the ME standing there with a confused frown.

"Well that was rude." The doctor says. Before Korsak can say anything a harsh voice comes from the other side of the room.

"Get used to it, Doc. Rizzoli was born a bitch."

"Shut up Crow! Don't talk about things you know nothing about." Korsak growls in anger. Crow is a pain in everyone's ass from the moment he started to work here. But especially Jane's. Not wanting to argue in front of Maura he addresses the rest of the room.

"Don't you have a work to do?" he barks out and the other detectives quickly turn away and head to their respective desks.

Korsak then look back to the blonde woman still standing next to him.

"I'm sorry doctor…" he starts but is quickly interrupted.

"What's her problem, Sergeant Korsak? I was simply trying to be nice and she…"

"Hey, Doc, hold your horses ok? I'm sorry. I thought Lieutenant Cavanaugh would explain it to you." He takes a breath and shakes his head. "Jane doesn't shake hands. Don't ask me why, I won't tell you. You need to know that Jane Rizzoli is an excellent detective. One of the best, if not the best I've ever met. She's been through a lot, so just… don't judge the book by the cover, ok? She's trying to do the same."

A/N: Sorry for the late update, guys. I've been kind of busy lately. I hope you'll like this chapter...

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