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Frankie sat up, rubbing his head. He looked around him, squinting, a throbbing headache starting to form at the base of his skull. Where was he again? Oh right, the precinct. He was about to deliver the news that they finally had a case, but instead fell to the ground, dragging someone else with him. What a way to humiliate himself in front of the whole squad, and the analysts.

'There goes my chance to ask the hot girl out.' He thought, face palming. Nina was really hot, and sweet, and in all, perfect. He screwed it up big time.

He looked up at his colleagues, waiting for them to explode in laughter, but was surprised when he was met by silent stares.

He looked beside him to the ground, finally remembering that someone else had fallen with him, and saw a young woman, maybe a year or two younger than he was. She was on her side, holding her wrist, and trembling slightly.

'Shit, well done Frankie.' He immediately stumbled to his feet, and cleared his throat, extending a hand to help out the young woman.

"Hey… Um, I'm so sorry… Do you- Um, need any h-help?" He stuttered, as he saw the whole precinct glare at him, along with Nina.

The woman sat up painfully, still holding her wrist.

Korsak and Frost immediately helped her up, everybody else rushing to them.

"Are you okay, doctor?"

"Is everything alright, doc?"

And, "we should get this wrist checked out," echoed in the room.

Frankie raised an eyebrow, waiting for someone to explain to him what the hell just happened.

Jane, his older sister, helped him up (well, she dragged him up by his ear would be a more exact description), and took him far from the others.

"What the freaking hell were you thinking?!" She slapped him on the back of the head.

"OUCH! What was that for?!"

"For nearly killing the new chief medical examiner!"

"Shit."

"You said it." Jane sighed, and punched him in the shoulder. Hard. "What a way for her to start her first day. You better go apologize before I drag you there by your underwear. Or worse, I'll tell Ma. She already has her under her wing."

Frankie gulped. Everything, and I mean everything, but his Ma.

He looked back where the others were standing. The new M.E had a tight smile on her face, still massaging her wrist, and was talking with Frost and Korsak. The others were already back at their posts, but they still managed to sneak glares at him. Apparently, bumping into new female coworkers was badly seen in the homicide dept.

Frankie looked at his sister, who was looking back at him with a certain (very high) degree of annoyance.

He chuckled, embarrassed, trying to lighten up the mood. "I didn't nearly kill her. I merely bumped into her."

"Bumped?! For all we know, she may have a brain condition! Like an aneurysm! Maybe it burst! Maybe she's bleeding into her brain right now!"

"Now you're just being dramatic. You watch way too much Grey's Anatomy."

"Okay maybe. Go apologize now."

"Okay! Fine! Geez…"

He went back towards the two detectives and the doctor, who were still discussing quietly among themselves.

He gulped when he arrived in front of her. What should he do now?! To be honest, the woman scared him shitless. She was glaring at him coldly, and even though she was more than a head shorter than he was, she still towered over him somehow. The way she held herself proudly, chin high up, her presence was just… Majestic.

Jane noticed too, and chuckled under her breath. The French effect, they call it.

"Hi… Um… Ahem… I'm… I-"

He saw the M.E's glare change into confusion. "Are you suffering from Aphasia?" It was Frankie's turn to look at her in confusion, along with the three detectives.

"Or maybe some sort of stroke? Seizure?"

Frankie was about to speak up, because he didn't understand a word of what the woman just said.

"Or a transient ischemic attack? TIA manifests itself in numbness and paralysis, which would have caused our fall, but also slurred speech, disorientation-"

"Doc." Jane interrupted her gently, smiling. This one certainly wasn't gifted in social interactions. That was probably why she wasn't able to hold a proper conversation with her earlier this morning.

Maura looked at the ground, embarrassed, a light blush coating her cheeks. It made her look almost… Adorable. She was holding her wrist, which was a deep shade of red.

"He isn't able to speak properly because he's intimidated by you."

Maura looked at Frankie, who nodded his head, ashamed.

"Oh…" She cleared her throat. "I should get going now, my office is-"

"Maura." Jane held her back with her good wrist, and dragged her back towards the group gently. "Frankie wants to apologize."

The young M.E nodded and gulped. What happened in the morning was enough socializing for her today. She really couldn't handle more. She didn't even notice that the detective called her by her first name.

"Yeah… Um… I'm really sorry doc, I didn't see you. I was way too excited. I'm Frankie Rizzoli, by the way, Jane's bro." He grinned at her, more at ease. She didn't seem scary anymore. She just looked… A bit frightened.

"It's alright. I'm Dr. Maura Isles." She smiled a pained smile at him, and almost ran to the elevator. Before Jane could catch up with her, she was already on her way to the morgue.

The female detective sighed. "What were you excited about?" She asked her brother, who was confusedly trying to figure out what he said wrong. "She's just shy, I guess." She tried to reassure him.

"We…" He suddenly remembered the important news. "We have a case! Shit! We wasted ten minutes because of me!" He face palmed again, while the whole department glared at him for the second time that day.

"I'll go get Maura. Maybe she wants to go with us to the scene." The two detectives distractedly nodded, while they were gathering their stuff, and rushed outside the doors. Jane turned and looked at her brother.

"You are definitely not coming."

"But-"

Jane didn't hear the end of his sentence, as she was already on her way to get Maura.

She arrived to the morgue, and took the sight in. It had changed so much since Dr. Ramsey was gone, and Maura had only been here for two hours. It wasn't disorganized and dirty anymore.

Ramsey was the kind of M.E who didn't care about his employees and the sanitary state of his working place. He only wanted to get it over with, so he could go home and stuff his face with booze. His office always had empty beer bottles lying on the ground, with papers everywhere and his boots on the table.

Maura obviously did a good job fixing his mistakes. The scientists' liberty of planning what to do on their own wasn't how Maura liked to work, it seemed. For the past five years, they have been disorganized, messy and overwhelmed, without a proper boss to guide them. Right now, the employees were all bustling by in the lab as if they were given specific orders. It was clear that Maura was much more organized.

Five years they have been putting up with the guy's messy habits. Finally someone who knew what they were doing.

She passed by the autopsy room. Pristine clean, like she expected it to be. But it was still a very disturbing sight. Ramsey never cleaned up the autopsy room, and the cleaning people never set foot in there because the doctor always criticized their work.

She finally arrived in front of a dark, wooden door, with the name "Dr. Maura Isles" written in beautiful golden cursives on it.

She knocked, and a soft "come in" was heard almost immediately. She didn't hear Ramsey's usual shuffling to hide his beer bottles. She sighed in deep satisfaction and stepped in.

And boy, what a sight it was.


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