Sorry for the delay I haven't been near my computer in a while, been a busy bee! Hopefully I'm keepin on the same tracks and you guys like this next chapter. I don't own TNT or the characters from the novels or the show but I have borrowed a couple of lines that you will hopefully recognise from series 1 episode 1, no infringement intended I just thought it was too cute to miss out on using when it fit so well J remember this is AU. Any comments good or bad message me on here or fb, twitter, tumblr etc.

Jane stood muscles still tensed and fury raging inside of her. The pain from her nose wasn't noticeable until the red veil of anger subsided and suddenly the throbbing of her nose was excruciating. Cavanaugh was bouncing in front of her pleading and begging for it not to be taken any further and even though it hurt like hell Jane couldn't stop herself from screwing her face up in disgust at his pathetic nature. "Relax Cav, no one said the word cop-" she paused herself mid sentence as the haze around her lifted and she saw clearly what was going on. Suddenly her painful nose wasn't the most painful thing. Cavanaugh was bleating at the rich prick and his trophy wife not to take it any further and that he'll do whatever they want to subdue this 'little mess'. Jane saw red again and went to launch herself at her dick of a boss when out of nowhere a gentle hand rested against her cheek and made the rest of the world vanish in the blink of an eye.

"Hairline fracture of the nasal bone above the nasal cartilage. It's not disfiguring."

Jane blinked, stunned for a moment trying to understand the jargon that the trophy wife had just spouted. "What? What are you like a doctor or something?"

Maura pouted a little at the mention of her dream career and her heart sank when she heard Garrett snort in the background. "No, I just...take an interest in science and medicine." She blushed furiously at the peculiar look that the brunette was giving her and wishes she'd kept her mouth shut, no doubt Garrett would lecture her later about how she didn't need a career and how being his wife will be a full time job itself. She turned to walk away from the other woman feeling foolish.

"Can you bump this out for me?"

The low husk of the other woman's voice stopped her in her tracks and she turned to frown at her. "Excuse me?"

Jane shrugged at her and took a step closer "Well looks like my ass of a boss isn't gonna foot my bill if I go to the emergency room, so?" she saw the hesitation in the other woman's eyes and saw her focus flick to her pig of a fiancé. "Hey, you can't do much more damage to it!"

The lopsided grin on the brunette's face melted away any doubts that Maura had. She turned to face her fully and looked her earnestly in the eyes "Might hurt a little."

"Ok." Jane had received fractures before, from roughhousing with her brothers to jerks like Fairfield tonight.

Maura gently lay her hands on Jane and felt a strange fluttering in her stomach, it wasn't that she was nervous as to what she was doing; she knew full well how to treat the injury it was something else that she couldn't put her finger on. As gently as she could she manipulated Jane's nose and heard the satisfying click.

"Ow! A little?!" Jane stared at Maura in disbelief; that hurt more than the actual fracture.

"Put some ice on it for the next 24 hours so you don't look like Mike Tyson." With that Maura turned her attentions back to her fiancé who was beginning to grow rowdy again, no doubt due to his surprising intoxication levels.

Jane watched Maura walk off to her man frowning a little with a smile tugging at her lips. She hadn't imagined the shorter woman to crack a joke like that and it softened her serious exterior. Jane made her way over to the bar to grab a napkin and some ice whilst keeping a careful eye on the troublemakers and the current conversation.

"I want that bitch arrested!"

The voice that rose over all the others was none other than Piggy McPervison and Jane scowled at him whilst also wincing at the pain as she held the ice to her injury. She was about to holler back at him despite Cavanaugh's pleading looks at her when another pair of eyes stilled her outburst. The other woman was looking right at her and strangely enough it felt like she could see inside Jane and everything about her, she felt oddly naked under the gaze. The shorter woman turned to Cavanaugh and pulled him aside as Garrett hollered and cursed at Jane.

Everything within Maura wanted to just turn and walk away from Garrett and his disgusting behaviour, but she couldn't. She knew full well that if she let this scandal out, not only his but her reputation would be tarnished and whilst she didn't care too much her mother would be most unhappy. There are more to think of than yourself Maura. A motto that seemed to be repeated a lot whenever she wanted to follow her heart instead of what an Isles should do. She inwardly cringed as she made a deal with the boss of the club; as long as no authorities were called on either side, no charges, no complaints, she would pay in full for any damages as well as the full cost of the evening with added money for what would have been spent at the bar.

Jane couldn't hear what was being said but she could clearly make out Cavanaugh's happy little face and she knew she had just been sold down the river. She stalked over to the pair in cahoots and went to speak her mind when she was swept off by Cavanaugh to his office and the woman went to collect her fiancé and friends. "No." Whatever Cav was about to offer her, she didn't want to know. "No!" she could see that look in his eyes and she had déjà vu to earlier that night when she knew she was fighting a losing battle.

"Janie, they've agreed to let this go."

If she hadn't been holding the ice to her nose he would have had a matching injury "Let it go?! Let what go! He hit me!"

"After you had manhandled him."

Jane felt sick watching as he weedled his way out of a sticky situation with no regard to what had actually happened. She could see the dollar signs lit up in his eyes "After he broke the rules." He avoided her eye contact and she knew it was over. "Thanks a lot Cav."

"Janie..."

"And don't call me Janie!" as she opened the door to his office she saw the group leaving being ushered out by Miss Isles and she let out a growl of disapproval.

"Janie!"

Maura turned to see the brunette glowering at her as she stormed away from her boss. Maura gulped and felt her guilt gnaw away at her.

"Janie come back here!"

Maura watched as she ignored her boss and slammed her way out of an emergency exit.

"Fine!" Cavanaugh was pissed to say the least "Then don't bother coming back!"

Jane span on her heels to face the coward and jabbed an accusing finger at him "I get assaulted and you're firing me?" she laughed "Classy Cav. Classy."

Cavanaugh took a cleansing breath, he knew all too well that without Rizzoli his income would nearly halve. "I don't wanna see you for a couple of weeks Rizzoli. Let your face heal up then we'll talk."

There were so many things that she wanted to scream at him but at the end of the day the disappointing truth was, this is all she did...she had nothing else. As she turned to walk out defeated she felt eyes on her again and turned to meet those hazel eyes that had shined with kindness at her earlier. She scowled at the woman as they now shined with guilt.