So! Here's the second part of A Kiss to Fix a Broken Heart. I hope you enjoy it! Just a fair warning, there will be mentions of rape throughout this story, happening after this part. I figured that I'd warn you because I know it's a sensitive topic. It is for me a bit as well, so I promise that it won't be anything explicit at all.
Also, I do NOT know about hangover remedies from experience. I needed to Google it.
But anyway, I hope you all enjoy this part!
Disclaimer: Les caracters de Rizzoli & Isles ne sont pas les miennes.
Jane cried for a solid ten minutes, holding on to Maura as if for dear life, and Maura was trying hard not to cry as well. Seeing her best friend like this, so cut up emotionally, sent her into a frenzy of her own emotions. And the first way that she reacted usually was to cry as well. But she knew that she had to be strong for Jane in this moment, because Jane was letting herself become vulnerable for a rare amount of time.
But soon, Jane's sobs turned to laughter and she pulled away. She wiped her tears and looked at Maura, "I did it, I did it Maura. I'm finally rid of Casey, for good. God, I feel so good, so much lighter, like a huge weight off my shoulders."
"I'm proud of you Jane, it's about time you got him out of your life. He was abusing you emotionally and it wasn't good for you," Maura said.
"Thanks for helping me realize my stupid mistake of keeping him around. You're the best," She laughed and wiped her cheeks once more, "C'mon Maur, let's go finish that movie. I'll get us some more drinks."
The two women finished the movie, laughing and celebrating when they beat the computer. Jane and Maura were both slightly inebriated, and that meant that their self-control was a little iffy at best.
Maura stood up, stretched, then wobbled slightly, and fell back down on the couch. She let out a giggle, "I think that I should stay here tonight, Jane. I can feel that I'm drunk."
"Alright Maur," Jane said, looking up at her friend lazily, "Let's go to bed. I'm tired. And we need to get up early tomorrow I think. I'm not sure though," She pulled her hair in front of her face and sniffed, "I need to shower tomorrow. I think that's why I need to get up early. Feel free to join me," She grinned, "Alright, okay, let's go to bed cause I'm falling asleep right now."
Jane stood up and offered her hand to Maura, who took it and stood up. They walked to Jane's room, where they both took their clothes off without any embarrassment.
"Jane, can I have a t-shirt and sweatpants?" Maura asked.
"Sure thing Maur," And seconds later, Maura felt clothes hit the back of her head. It was dark in the room, and they hadn't bothered to turn on any lights.
"Thanks," She said, pulling the pants and shirt on.
They climbed into bed, almost asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow. Maura curled up against Jane's back, and placed a kiss to the detective's shoulder. Then she moved her lips to Jane's ear and whispered, "Maybe I will join you."
Jane's breath hitched and she blushed. Maura then placed a kiss to Jae's neck and whispered, "Goodnight Jane."
"Night Maur," Jane rasped out.
They both fell asleep with smiles on their faces.
At seven in the morning, Jane and Maura's cellphones went off simultaneously. They both groaned and reached for their phones.
"Rizzoli."
"Isles."
"Damn it Korsak, this is bad timing. I need to take a shower, gimme an extra fifteen minutes to get there. Ok, ok great. I'll be there soon."
"I'll be there as soon as I can. I need to get myself together. I'll need to be given an extra fifteen to twenty minutes. Alright, thank you Suzie."
Jane turned to Maura, "What do you need to do to get ready?"
"Well, I do need to bathe. The smell of alcohol as rubbed off of you and onto me. And unless I get lucky and left some clothes here for situations like this, I need to get home and get dressed."
"Okay, since I take shorter showers than you do, I'll go first. You make some coffee and put together something that we can eat on the go. How does that sound?"
"Sounds perfectly fine to me."
"And Maura?" Jane asked, "Make it something that'll help with a slight hangover."
Maura smiled and nodded.
They rolled out of bed and to their designated destinations within the house. Maura started to prepare the coffee, instant to her chagrin but it would do in a pinch, and then started to look around Jane's fridge and cupboards to find foods that would be suitable to eat in the car. She set out two glasses of water, occasionally drinking from her own. Maura made a mental note to tell Jane to drink the water first. She looked again around Jane's house for food.
Maura wasn't having much luck so she went back into Jane's room with the intention of going into the bathroom to ask Jane a question. She had figured that her friend was still in the shower, but she was surprised to find that she wasn't. The ME was met with a sight that she had seen before, but this time, for the first time, affected her in a way that it hadn't before. Jane was standing by her dresser, only wearing her underwear. She had a towel wrapped around her hair.
"Uh, Jane…" Maura started, trying not to get distracted by the lanky, muscular figure of the other woman.
Jane jumped, "Jeez Maur I didn't see you there. What's up?"
"I was wondering if you had any bananas. They're supposed to combat hangover symptoms," She willed herself to focus on Jane's face.
"I do, actually."
"I couldn't find them," C'mon Isles, keep your eyes up. Up focused on Jane's face. Her eyes, lips. Oh god they're so soft. No, no eyes. Come on Maura, focus on the eyes. Don't let them drift down-EYES for God's sake.
"They're in the fruit drawer in my fridge."
"Oh, ok I'll go look there. Oh, and Jane?" Maura said, turning back to look at her friend, "There's a glass of water on the counter. Drink that first before you drink the coffee."
Jane smiled, "Ok. Thanks Maur. You know what, I can get the bananas out. You go ahead and get started on taking a shower. If you don't have any clothes here you can just borrow some of mine."
"People will ask questions Jane," Maura said, "I don't generally wear the same clothes that you do,"
"Don't worry Maur, I actually have nice clothes in there. Like that black dress. You could wear that if you want."
"Oh-okay," Maura said, moving to the bathroom, "Thank you Jane."
"Any time," She flashed a grin at Maura and continued to get dressed.
Ten minutes later, Jane and Maura were on the road to the crime scene. It had turned out that Maura did have clothes at Jane's house, so she was dressed in a business skirt with a teal colored blouse tucked in as well as some particularly daunting stilettos. Jane was slightly disappointed, she had wanted to see what Maura would look like in her black dress. It would probably fit her very very snugly. More than her normal dresses. Jane shook her head and told herself to focus on the road.
"Jane were you told any particulars about the body that we're going to investigate?" Maura inquired, "Because I was only told that there was a body that I needed to do a preliminary on."
"Korsak told me that it looked like an overdose. The body is in the park that we go running in. They still want you to do a preliminary though. That's why you were called."
"That's why I'm always called, Jane," Maura pointed out, "It's because even if the death wasn't a homicide I can still provide information and insight as to how the person died."
Jane pulled her car into a space and turned off the car. The two women stepped out and headed towards the scene. Jane stopped to talk to Korsak, and Maura headed over to the body. Jane joined her friend soon at the body, where they were both crouched down on the ground.
Maura had put her gloves on and had her tweezers and evidence bags out.
"What did Korsak say?" Maura asked.
"He said that, like I told you, it appeared to be an OD. And as you can probably tell, the vic's a female, late twenties early thirties. Shame really, that people get into drugs and then get so dependent that they end up like this. What've you found so far?" Jane responded, taking a pair of gloves and putting it on as well to search the victim.
"Well, all evidence so far does point to a drug overdose, but of course before we do the autopsy and tox report, we won't know which drugs. However, there do seem to be slight bruises around the neck and her neck is at an angle that suggests either dislocation or break," Maura said.
"Okay," Jane frowned, "Wait, Maur, there are bruises on this woman's arms and on her chest…" The detective moved to lift up the woman's shirt.
"Jane what are you doing?" Maura asked, "It's inappropriate to disrobe a victim in public."
"Relax Maur I'm only trying to show you her stomach," Jane rolled her eyes, "But look. She has bruising on her stomach and by her hips. It's just a hunch, but, when you're doing the autopsy just do a rape kit, okay?"
Maura nodded, "Ok. I can do that."
Korsak had moved over to the two women and looked incredulously at Jane.
"Rizzoli, are you saying that this woman was raped?"
Jane looked at the victim again, and then back at Korsak, "I'm not saying definitely that she was, but I'm saying that yeah, I think she was raped."
Dun dun dun! What do you think of this part? Constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged, as always :)
I hope the Rizzles was satisfactory in this chapter. I'm trying to do one of those slow developments into the relationships type thing.
Until next update!
-RMarie