Maura woke up a few hour later. She didn't know what was going on, Jane was mumbling something while violently shaking her head. She sat up as best she could with her arm still under Jane's neck. It took her a few seconds to realize Jane was having a nightmare. "Sweetie, you need to wake up." Maura said, shaking her shoulder gently.

Jane screamed as she leaped up, falling to the side to get away from whoever was sat next to her. It was all happening way to fast for Jane to remember where she was. She fell to the floor, "ow, shit." She mumbled, pushing herself backwards until she couldn't move any more, she was backed up against a wall. She bought her knees up to her chest, wrapped her arms around them and placed her head on her knees. "No,no,no,no,no." She kept whispering to herself.

Before Maura could get a word out, Jane had backed herself up against the wall. Maura climbed out of bed and took tentative steps towards her. She had never seen Jane like this before. She was a few steps away from Jane when she started talking to her. "Jane, it's okay. You're safe." When Jane didn't respond to her, she took the last few steps towards her. She managed to push Jane away from the wall, noticing her friend was shivering she went back over the bed and pulled the cover of the bed. She sat behind Jane and pulled her back between her legs. She wrapped the cover around them both and started stroking up and down Jane's forearm. "Hey, Jane. Listen to me okay, you are safe here." Maura reached forward and took both of Jane's hands in hers. "You're safe. It's just you and me here. Sweetie, it's just us."

Slowly Jane got her breathing under control and started to listen to what Maura was telling her. She slowly pulled her head back up from her knees and rested it against Maura's shoulder. She could remember the nightmare but she had no idea how they came to be seated on the floor. "Hoyt," Jane barely whispered.

Maura should have known it was a nightmare about Hoyt. Still with Jane's hands in hers she gently placed them on Jane's stomach, careful not to put them against Jane's wound. "You're safe." She whispered in Jane's ear.

Jane didn't know what to do, she had never been like this in front of anyone before. I'm a mess. She started to pull away but Maura held her firmly in place.

"I'm not going anywhere, Jane. And neither are you." Maura firmly stated.

Jane started to move to the side but stopped when Maura's leg got in the way. She couldn't describe the physical need to be close to Maura, and she didn't want to. She lifted Maura's foot of the floor just enough so she could place her legs under. She placed her head in the crock on Maura's neck while whispering, "He had help. Robert was helping Hoyt." She closed her eyes and started crying. She hated feeling like this.

Maura's right leg was now resting over Jane's hips. Jane had wrapped both her arms around the doctors back. Maura's right hand was holding Jane's waist, holding her in place. Her left hand was brushing Jane's hair away from her face, often catching Jane's hot tears on her fingers. "It's going to be okay." Maura told her.

For the rest of the night they stayed in the same position. Maura holding Jane. Jane's now even breathing had been the first sign to Maura that Jane had fallen asleep. Her only other sign at the minute was that Jane had loosened her grip around her. Maura kissed the top of Jane's head as she closed her eyes, breathing in the scent of Jane.

…

Maura couldn't fall asleep there, and to be honest she really didn't want to. She wanted to be awake if Jane needed her, or if she had another nightmare. She had no clue as to how long they had been sat like that or even what time it was. She didn't want this to end. She was startled when she heard Jane whisper her name. She looked down to find the detective staring up at her. "Hey," Maura smiled. "How are you feeling?"

Jane tightened her grip around the doctors back again as she replaced her head in the crock of Maura's neck. "Exhausted. You?"

"I'm okay, Jane. You should get back in bed and get some more rest." Maura told Jane, trying to stand up. Jane reluctantly let her go. Once Maura was fully stood up, she pulled Jane to her feet and walked them both back towards the bed, once Jane was on laid on the bed, Maura went back for the cover. She got in at the side of Jane, and was shocked when the detective moved closer to her. Jane rested her hand on Maura's stomach as she placed her head on her best friends shoulder. It took a moment for Maura to start to relax, she reached for the cover and covered them both again for the second time.

"Go back to sleep," Maura whispered as she placed her hand over her stomach to rest on top of Jane's.

"You too." Jane told her, as she placed her right leg on top of Maura's legs to get comfy again. She felt Maura tense up, but in a few seconds it was gone again. "Mm, you're comfy." Jane said, sleepily. The sound of Maura telling her to sleep was the last thing Jane heard before sleep overtook again.

…

Maura woke up to the sound of her door bell ringing. She quickly untangled herself from under Jane quickly grabbing one of her dressing gowns from the back of her bedroom door. Quickly throwing it on, she headed for the front door. Grateful that she managed to get there before whoever was at the door rang the bell again. She opened it and was surprised to see a very angry looking Angela Rizzoli stood there.

"Angela?"

"You didn't answer my calls." Angela hissed out.

"I'm sorry, but we were asleep. We didn't get much last night. Please, come in. But please keep it down, I don't want to wake Jane."

Angela nodded, walking in and headed straight for the guest room. She had to stop in her tracks when Maura jumped in front of her. She knew Angela wouldn't find Jane in her guest room, but she still didn't want her looking.

"I want to see my daughter." Angela demanded in a low voice.

"I have just told you, she is sleeping. And I would very much like it if you didn't wake her up." Maura replied calmly.

"I have no intention of waking her up." Angela told Maura hotly, trying to get past her.

"Stop," Maura shouted. It was very rare that she showed anyone that she was angry, but she knew if Angela kept pushing, she would get to see it. She had a temper on her, one what she hated letting surface. Her voice a little lower this time, she continued, "you can walk into my house and have a go at me whenever you want. But if you do it while I have my best friend sleeping in my bed, trying to recover from a gunshot wound, from her own husband trying to kill her, from successfully killing her step son, from beating her for I don't know how long," she stopped as she took a deep breath, not realizing she had tears streaming down her face, she continued, "That I can't allow, and I sure as hell won't." She took in a few more gulps of breath.

"But she's my..." Angela started.

Maura sighed, "you're daughter, I know. I also know that you all love her. But Jane chose to stay with me and while she is here, I have to keep her health as my priority, and right now as her...as a doctor I am telling you she needs to rest." Maura paused for a second and looked back at her bedroom door, she was sure she closed it on her way out, but it was now open. "I offered to let her stay her and she accepted. If Jane wants to go home with you I will not stand in her way. But can we please wait until she wakes up before you ask her anything?" She watched as Angela nodded her head then asked, "can I get you a drink? Some breakfast maybe?"

Angela shook her head. "I'm fine thank you."

Both headed for the lounge where Angela sat on the couch. "I'll be back in a few minutes, I'm just going to put some clothes on." Angela nodded, looking at Maura and realising she was still in her pyjamas.

Maura walked back into her bedroom and noticed Jane was still in the same place she had been when Maura left her except she had her eyes open. "You're mother is here." Maura said, sitting on the bed next to Jane.

"I heard." Jane mumbled. "I'm not going home." She looked at Maura, eyes pleading with her.

"If you don't want to go, Jane. No one can make you. But I want you to know that I wont make you stay here either. You have to do what you..."

"I want to be here, Maura. I need to be here. I can't go anywhere else." She pleaded.

Maura took Jane's hand in hers, "then you aren't going anywhere." Maura stood up and went back to the door, she pulled another one of her dressing gowns of the hock and gave it to Jane, "put this on." She pulled Jane to her feet and waited until she had it fastened loosely around her stomach, then added, "you still need to talk to her. This has to stop." She stopped when she got to the door, turned around to face Jane again, "I want you to be here as well."

Jane nodded. "Are we still going to..."

"Once you have sorted everything out with you're mother, and you have had something to eat. We can do which ever you want first, okay?" Maura looked away, she didn't want Jane to know how much today was going to hurt her.

"You don't have to come to the house if you don't..." Jane started.

"I told you yesterday I would go. I don't say something if I don't mean it. I'm going with you." With that Maura left the bedroom and went back to Angela in the lounge, not realizing she still hadn't changed.

"Hey Ma." Jane said, walking into the lounge.

"Janie, you're awake. Did you sleep okay?"

Jane tensed up, remembering her nightmare, remembering every single detail about last night. She looked at Maura who had a concern wrote all over her face. She gave the best smile she could before answering her Ma's question. "Not very well, no." She waved off her mothers concern with a shake of her head.

"Janie, I came to take you home." Angela said, getting straight to the point.

"I told you yesterday, I'm not coming home. I'm staying here." She sat down, feeling like she was going to fall if she didn't. "I need you to trust me on this. I haven't got the strength to keep arguing with you about where I am staying. I chose to stay here for a reason." She saw both, Maura's and Angela's questioning look, but didn't say anything else.

"Why?" Angela questioned.

"I feel safe here. I always have." Jane said, looking down at her hands, the thumb of her right hand rubbing over the scar of her left. She didn't dare look at either of them so she just kept her head down.

Angela knew with the confession Jane had just made that she had to get used to Jane being her. There was no way she could make her go home with her know. She realized then she just needed to hear that Jane was going to be safe. "Okay," she said, placing her hand on top of Jane's.

Maura stood up and left them to it, she figured they might want some time alone. She wanted a shower. Grabbing some clothes from her wardrobe she locked the bathroom door behind her.

"You need to apologize to Maura, she didn't deserve to be talked to like that. You hurt her. I understand you are hurt Ma, but you have to understand so is she. You didn't have to tell her she wasn't capable to look after me because she isn't a doctor." Jane told her mother, finally tearing her eyes away from her hands.

"I didn't say..."

"You was going to. Maura can read people like a book, she knew what you wanted to say. You really hurt her with that."

Angela nodded, "I'll say sorry when she comes back."

Jane nodded, "She is a doctor, and she is a damn good one as well. Don't ever make her feel like she isn't, okay?"

"I know she is. I was just worried about you. You know I love her as much as you, but I just wasn't thinking. I'm sorry." Angela said. It was her turn to pull her daughter in for a hug. "You okay?" She asked, concerned when she heard Jane's sharp intake of breath.

"I'm fine, just moved wrong."

…

Maura walked out of the bathroom to find Jane sat on the end of her bed. "Have..." When Jane looked at her, Maura knew she had just stopped crying. "Are you okay?" Maura said kneeling in front of her.

"I..." Jane didn't know what to say. She wanted to say that she was fine, but she also wanted to tell her friend exactly how she was feeling. She settled on neither. "I need a shower." She stood up and walked to the bathroom. "Ma wants to talk to you." She threw over her shoulder, before closing the door behind her.

A few minute later Maura heard the water running. She didn't know what was wrong with Jane but she hoped she would talk to her when she was ready. She headed to the lounge to see Angela. When she walked in she saw Angela stood up next to the fireplace, holding a picture frame. Maura knew which one she had in her hands.

"When was this taken?" Angela asked, placing the frame where she found it. Still looking at the picture she couldn't help but smile.

"The day Jane met Robert. Me, Jane, Frankie, Korsak and Frost were in the park. Jane wanted to know who was a faster runner, so I suggested we have race." She saw Angela's smile grow a bit more, encouraging her to continue. "We were a few feet away from the finish line, we were side to side, when I tripped over, I grabbed the closest thing to me..."

"Jane?" Angela asked, smiling.

Maura nodded, "Jane," she said through a chuckle. "I dragged her down with me. For the next twenty minutes we stayed on the grass, not being able to do anything but laugh. I didn't know Korsak had picked up my camera until I saw the picture." She walked over and picked up the frame, "I loved it from the second I saw it."

"I'm sorry, Maura. For everything I said yesterday and for everything I have said to you since I found out Jane would be staying with you. You don't deserve to be spoken to like that. I am truly sorry." Angela breathed out, placing her hand on Maura's arm.

"It's okay, I understand why you said it all. But thank you. Apology accepted."

Angela pulled her in for a hug. "Thank you, for everything you are doing for Janie." Angela pulled back so she could look at blonde. "You know I love you, don't you?" She finished with wiping the single tear of off Maura's cheek. All Maura could do was nod.

Once breakfast was eaten and plans were made to go to the Rizzoli family home in the next few days and after more apologises, goodbyes were said and Angela left.

…

"So," Maura started. She had been dreading today since last night when Jane had asked her to help. A lot of fears were going to be faced today, and she was pretty sure a lot of tears were going to be shed as well.

"You really don't have to do today. I shouldn't have aske..."

"Jane," Maura placed her hands on Jane's knee. "I'm not letting you today on you're own. You asked me for help. I'm going to help. You should get ready." She pointed to her bedroom, "wear whatever you want. You should be able to find something comfortable." She watched as Jane headed back towards the bedroom. Once Jane was gone she placed her head in her hands and wondered how she was going to get through today.