Author's Note:: this fic is a dark one. It is intended to be a oneshot, however, since it ends on a downer, if I get some reviews I will possibly write another chapter. I've written this oneshot as part of a Sexual Assault Awareness month series of things, which I am hoping get up soon. Thank you for reading and please review.

"Why are you just standing there, Frankie? Call an ambulance! DO SOMETHING!" she bellowed at her younger brother, feeling her throat tighten as she looked over Maura. Jane sighed and looked around the lot for some evidence or something that would suffice as a clue to catching this monster who did this to Maura. Why Maura? Why did this person have to target Maura? She had done nothing wrong, she was the Medical Examiner, her job was a safe one, apart from the time they'd been held hostage in the autopsy lab.

Jane walked away from Maura's body, shaking her head as she looked to Frankie. Both he and Frost were looking around for evidence they could bag to use in this case. Jane got about four steps away from Maura when she heard, "Jane...?" a weak, broken voice coming from behind her.

Maura was alive?

The Detective wheeled around on her heel and looked to Maura, her eyes were open and she had a tear streaking down her cheek, "Oh my God, Maura!" Jane once again rushed to the Doctor's side and she kneeled down beside her, not caring about the evidence at this point as she pulled Maura's dress down to cover her. She just wanted to tell her friend everything would be alright, "Frankie is the ambulance here yet?" she somewhat barked at her little brother.

"It's on its way Jane." he reported back to her after hearing the babble over his walkie talkie.

"Jane..." Maura tried to move a little and cried out with the pain she felt, it wasn't just from one place, it was everywhere, like he had been.

"No, no Maura...stay still. You should know not to move in case anything's broken. The EMT's will be here in a couple of minutes, they'll check you over and I'm coming with you to the hospital." Jane murmured softly as she looked down at Maura laying there.

"He...he tried to kill me." she told Jane, her voice was broken. She was broken.

"Maura, do you know who it was?" Jane asked her wearily, she wanted justice for her best friend for this ordeal, but she was scared it would be someone who was already in a database and was a renowned serial rapist.

Maura was slipping in and out of consciousness as Jane kept talking to her, "I...huh?" she swallowed, wincing with the pain, since he'd tried strangling her to her death.

"Maura, you have to stay awake. Which purse did you bring with you to work today?"

"I...uhm...th-" she cut off, her eyes rolled back in the sockets and she passed out.

"Where the hell is this damn ambulance?" Jane hissed, turning away from Maura before looking back to her, "Maura, come on. Wake up."

The EMT touched her shoulder, "Miss...we got it."

Jane moved back a little but stayed close so she could see what was happening with Maura and what the EMT's suggested they could do to help her. She heard them speaking as they examined her friend, "BP is low, she's got multiple lacerations and some head trauma. Looks like she's been strangled too, she needs oxygen."

"She was..." Jane tried to bring herself to say the word, but she couldn't, "Someone assaulted her." she told the EMT crew.

"Okay, we need to get her to the hospital, like now. Come on, get in the back, we're takin' her in."

Jane rushed to get into the ambulance with Maura as they lifted her onto the gurney and wheeled her over to the ambulance to put her inside. When the EMT crew member joined them in the back to monitor Maura's progress on the way over to the hospital, Jane took the Doctor's hand, seeing it was covered in blood and had bruising.

"I'm gonna get him, Maura. I promise you, I'll get him." she whispered with resentment for whoever had done this to her best friend.