Till Death Do Us Part
Chapter 17
Rizzoli and Isles are the property of TNT and Tess Gerritson. I am just borrowing them for some fun.
Sorry this has taken so long. I cam down with Bronchitis and only now have been able to sit up long enough for some writing. I appreciate your patience. I believe there will be 2 more chapters. Please Review as always.
Joey watched covertly from down the hall. He had spotted Rebecca's room door and Jane's. Now he waited for the nurse's station to go silent. It wasn't long before they were all gone. As he slipped past the nurse's station he noticed a syringe sitting on the counter. He quickly reached over and picked it up. Then as silently as he could he slipped into Rebecca's room. He wasn't expecting to see Jane Rizzoli slouched in the recliner chair next to Rebecca's bed. It was too good to be true. He was going to kill two birds with one stone. Slowly he moved around the bed. He quietly laid the flowers on the sliding table pulling out the gun with its silencer attached. He tucked it into his waist band. He took the syringe and filled it with air. Carefully he moved around the detective so as not to disturb her. He inserted the syringe into IV, but before he could press the plunger his legs came out from under him. He hit the floor hard jarring his still healing back and ramming his elbow into the tile.
"If you think for one minute I am going to let you kill my friend you have another thing coming." Joey looked up into the raging eyes of detective Rizzoli. Jane stood blocking the pathway to her friend and the IV. She quickly rang the nurse. Joey jumped up shoving the recliner against the room door and pulling the gun. He watched as she wavered on her feet.
"I'm surrounded by stupid women. I swear to God you all should be barefoot and pregnant! You two have interfered in my family's business and life long enough." Joey heard the nurse trying to gain entry.
"Ms. Anderson? Ms. Anderson are you okay?" The nurse tried the door again. While the nurse was working on the door Joey was trying to figure out how to make his escape once he had killed them both.
"Sorry Detective, you're first." Joey fired the gun and missed. Rebecca was now sitting up having shoved Jane out of the way. Her eyes went wide as she looked at Joey. Her body shuddered for just a moment then she hit the bed as the monitors started screaming their emergency cadence. Joey looked shocked for a moment as he took in the blood dripping into the bed, Detective Rizzoli attempting to rise from the floor, and the nurse pounding on the door. Then the door exploded inward as Edward, Korsak, and the FBI came barreling into the room. The nurse followed behind with Maura. Edward took one look toward the bed, roared in outrage, and grabbed Joey off the floor. He began to beat the man even as Korsak and the FBI tried to stop him.
"JANE!" Maura yelled as Doctors poured into the room. Maura pulled Jane out of the way and off to the side while she assessed her condition. Korsak and the FBI agent had managed to remove Edwards's hands from around Joey's neck. Other agents removed Joey quickly even as Korsak attempted to calm Edward down.
"Stop, you have to stop. Rebecca needs you now. EDWARD!" Korsak seemed to have reached Edward in his rage filled haze. "Rebecca, she needs you now." The Doctors quickly undid the monitors and began rolling Rebecca out of the room.
"BP is dropping. We have to hurry. Notify surgery, get Dr. McKlusky. He is on today." Edward ran next to the bed as they wheeled Rebecca to the elevators gently grasping her fingers even as he felt them loose there tension.
"Rebecca, you listen. Fight, fight hard. I am waiting! I am here. Don't let the Gonzalez's win. Please don't leave me and Jane! We both need you." Edward was held back as the doctors and nurses rushed her onto the elevator. As the doors closed Korsak came up behind him. "Don't die on me. I can't live without you." Korsak heard Edward whisper. It shook the detective hard. He had heard that same plaintive plea from Maura's lips the day they had loaded Jane into the ambulance after she shot herself. The look of devastation was exactly the same. God, how he hated this part of his job. Suddenly laughter filled the hallway. Korsak and Edward looked toward the nurse's station where Joey Gonzalez laughed.
"Tarry a little, there is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are "a pound of flesh."
Joey laughed harder after his quote from Shakespeare. Then his voice hardened as he growled, "Blood Debt paid in full. I have my pound of flesh." The FBI pulled him to the elevators where Rebecca and the doctors had disappeared. Soon his presence was just an awful memory. Korsak seated Edward in a chair as he rushed into the room to check on Jane. Maura and the nurse were trying to get her to relax as the doctor was injecting her with a muscle relaxer. An orderly brought a gurney and she was loaded on to it. They headed to her room as Korsak pulled Maura to his side.
"How is she?" Maura took a shaky breath and clasp her hands together.
"Okay, lucky to be alive." She turned to look at Korsak. "Is it over? Is it finally over?" Korsak nodded.
"I believe so, other than the fat lady singing." He cracked a smile at Maura. She looked at him for a long moment, and then chuckled.
"What about Rebecca?" Korsak looked back at Edward. He shook his head as he gazed on the remnants of the man that loved Rebecca.
"I don't know." Korsak's words held a deep emptiness of the unknown.