'If I Had It To Do All Over Again

Chapter 2

Jane loved to watch Maura when she was in "work mode". She was always sure of herself but at a crime scene she was in charge. And to be honest watching Maura give orders was definitely a turn on. I wonder what it would be like to…"Jane!" Jane shook her head as she came back to reality. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah sure, why do you ask?" She looked at Maura.

"Because Korsak already left the room and you were staring at me and you went somewhere in your head. Care to tell me where you were?" Maura looked up from her position beside the father.

"Ah, no. Are you ready to head upstairs?" Jane turned and left without waiting for a response.

Maura shrugged and stood up. At least they were talking and not ignoring each other. It's a start. She wondered if anyone else saw the likeness between Jane and the mother. She headed up the stairs and stopped at the first child's bedroom. The room appeared to belong to a toddler. The bed was a fairy princess bed and the room was painted in pastels. Maura found it hard to enter the room but she knew she had to. She walked over to the bed and looked down at the dark haired child lying there. If it weren't for the gunshot wound to her temple she looked as if she could have still been sleeping. "Damn." Maura whispered under her breath. "Single GSW to right temple. I think it would be safe to say that is the cause of death." Maura said as she knelt beside the bed to get a closer look.

"Ya think?" Jane said under her breath but apparently it was loud enough for Maura to hear her.

"No need for sarcasm Jane." Maura knew this was what cops did to get through tough scenes, they made jokes.

"I'm sorry. The other room is this way." She once again turned and left the room but not before Maura saw the walls go up again.

"Damn Maura why can't you keep your mouth shut." Maura said to herself.

"Because she needs someone to stand up to her and call her on her shit sometimes." Maura turned to see Korsak standing at the door smiling. He walked over and offered his hand to help Maura up.

She reached up and accepted the help. "Thank you Vincent, it's good to know that chivalry isn't dead. Did you notice how much the woman looks like Jane?"

"Yes I did and when I mentioned it to her she said she didn't see it and told me to shut up. I don't think she wants to admit it. Shall we adjourn to the other room? That one is pretty much the same as this one except it's a little boy. So care to give me your opinion as to what might have happened here?" He smiled at Maura knowing what her answer would be.

"Well Vince you know how I feel about that." She turned to him just as they entered the second room. "But if I had to I would say that he killed the children first because he didn't want them to wake up and see what he was going to do to their parents. He wanted to take his time with the woman with no interruptions."

Both Jane and Korsak looked at Maura with shocked expressions on their faces. Jane was surprised for two different reasons. One being the fact that Maura never guesses and the other being that Maura +she had come to the same conclusion that Jane did as to the sequence of events that led to this whole family being slaughtered. "I thought you didn't guess?"

"I didn't guess, Vince asked my opinion as to what I thought happened. He didn't ask me to guess." She hid her smile as she walked towards the second child.

"What's the difference? Hazarding a guess and offering an opinion are one and the same. Or is it who asked the question?"

"Jane don't be childish. He asked my opinion so I gave it." She walked over to the bed and looked down at the little boy lying there. He had the same dark unruly hair that his sister had and that's when she saw how much the children looked like Jane too. "Jane you can't tell me you don't see how much the mother and these two kids look like you. She could be your double."

"No Maura I don't see it." Once again she turned and left the room before anyone could say anything else.

Korsak shrugged and followed Jane out of the room leaving Maura by herself. "Why did this happen to you sweetie? I will do my best to help them find who did this to you. I promise. Jane's the best and she won't quit until she finds who did this to you. Be at peace baby."

Maura couldn't see Jane leaning against the wall outside the room or the tear that slowly slid down her cheek as she heard Maura's words. Jane angrily wiped the tear away and headed back downstairs. "Korsak and I are going to head back to the office and start doing background checks on the parents and see who wanted them dead."

"Since when do you leave the scene before CSU starts?" Frost asked because he couldn't remember the last time Jane left a crime scene before Maura did.

Jane looked up and gave Frost her best glare. "Since I'm going to delegate that responsibility to you. You will stay here until CSU is done and bring back anything that will help us in our investigation. Remember I have to meet Maura at 7:00 and if I hang out here and wait for CSU I'll never make it." She turned and walked away without seeing the smile on Frost's face.

"Maybe now the two of them will deal with what's been bugging them." He stood there watching Jane walk to her car.

"Talking to yourself Barry?" Maura smiled down from the top of the stairs.

Frost turned and looked up at her and smiled. "Jane just left saying she knew if she didn't get started on this case right away she'd never make it to your house by 7:00. I can't tell if she's looking forward to it or dreading it."

Maura walked down the stairs so she was standing next to him. "Good because I'm tired of the way she's been treating me and those around her this past week and a half and I intend to get to the bottom of it."

"About time." Frost turned to see a shocked look on Maura's face. "Oops did I say that out loud?" Maura nodded but smiled at him. "Korsak and I have been worried about the two of you and Jane has been a bitch to work with."

"I don't suppose I've been that easy to be around either." Maura frowned at the thought of how she had been acting all week.

"Not as bad as Jane has. You've at least been approachable. She's done nothing but mope all week and if we even tried to ask how she was she would give us the Rizzoli glare and tell us to stay out of it. Please figure out what the hell is wrong with her and try to make it right." He held his hands together as if her was begging, which I guess he was.