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A Mother's Loss
Somewhere out of Boston City
1:38 p.m.
"Ma, Oh my God, you're alive!" Jane said while hugging her mother. It was uncomfortable; Angela was in the back and Jane in the driver's seat.
"Janie! Something hit me very hard in the head while I was making some dough for the gnocchi." Angela said after Jane stopped hugging her. "What happened?" She looked around. "Where are we? Where are your brothers?" Angela asked and by every second that seemed to pass slowly she grew more anxious.
Jane didn't know how to tell her mother. She looked at Frost who was looking silently outside for any threats. Then she looked at Maura who was looking at Angela with teary eyes. She knew she couldn't tell her mother a lie. The world was too big of a mess to tell a lie right now. But she wanted to protect her mother from the truth. Right now she wanted to grab all her family and friends and take put the inside a vault and protect them all but she knew that would never happen. Happiness will never comer. At least for now.
She grabbed Maura by the hand. She needed the support. Maura squeezed her hand showing Jane she was there to help.
How she was going to tell her mother that the world she knows has come to an end? That there would be no more gnocchi nights? No more games in their living room? How can one tell a mother her son died in an attempt to save their lives and the other is missing?
The detective didn't know how to tell her. Her mother would be heartbroken for sure but she had to tell her. She couldn't hide it even if she wanted to. And so she did.
"Ma, I need you to keep calm when I explain this to you. It will be hard and a little painful." Jane's voice was cracking everywhere. She was fighting the lump in her throat. "Ma, there's been some problems in our government and now at least the states have been compromised in a… errrmm…!" Jane was struggling with her words. She just couldn't talk.
Maura squeezed Jane's hand and helped her.
"What, Jane is trying to say Angela is that at least the United States has been majorly impacted by a virus. This virus turns its victims into living corpses. It kills all the emotional brain functions, the other functions work fine. The person has to die for the virus to take place. The government couldn't control the spreading of it and now the virus can be spread by physical injuries such as bites or scratches from the infected. The colloquial name for such abomination is, well, zombies." Maura explained.
She had a lump too; she tried not to remember Frankie while she explained to Angela. She explained this part to Angela because she knew she couldn't be the one telling Angela about her son. She saved this part for Jane.
"What?! Come on, girls. Stop messing with me." Angela burst into laughter but the giggles quieted down as soon as she saw the seriousness in her two daughters. "Jane, tell me you are joking. Where are Frankie and Tommy? Angela was starting to panic now.
"Ma, please try to calm down, I'll explain everything later, right now we are exposed here we need to find a place to spend the night and be safe, so tomorrow we can plan on what to do, but right now I need you to keep calm. Please." Jane turned around and started to turn the engine when Angela yelled.
"Jane Clementine Rizzoli, explain me in this instant what happened to you brothers, where are they?" Angela's voice was cracking; tears were falling freely from her face.
"MA!" Jane yelled. "I can't explain this right now, ok? You'll have to trust me ma!" She said calmly now. "Please ma, as soon as we are safe I'll explain everything.
"I trust you, Janie, I'll wait." Angela said.
Jane was surprised. She expected more bickering from her mother. She turned around to look at her mother.
"I love you, ma!" Jane said with all the sentiment she could gather in the moment.
"I love you too, my daughter." Angela said.
"Keep your eyes open for any place you think is safe enough to stay" Jane said but she didn't expect to find a place in this lonely road. She didn't even know where they were.
2:56 p.m.
Nowhere
"Jane, look!" Maura almost jumped in the minivan. She was pointing at a nearby farm. It was the first house they had seen in miles. It looked like there was no one. Just an old house with a farm on the back. No monsters had been seen on the way. Jane thought it was luck but apparently the bombs did a fair job. At least the house was standing. There were no major damages.
"Let's take a look." Jane said. Everyone nodded.
Angela had been informed of the ways the zombies were and how to kill them. She wasn't sure she could kill a thing but at least she wouldn't be a bag they had to carry and protect.
Jane parked the minivan in front of the porch of the house. There was no sign of movement inside. She prayed to not find surprises inside.
"Frost, I only have a few bullets on my pistol and one on the shotgun." The detective informed her partner.
"I only have one more clip left on my rifle and a few round on the Colt." Frost said to his partner.
"Let's hope it doesn't come to shooting but if it does let's use the ammo wisely." Jane looked at Frost. He nodded.
"Babe, stay with ma, please." Jane looked at Maura.
"Ok, be careful, please, come back to me." Maura kissed Jane quickly and hold the brunettes hand a little longer.
"Always, my love." Jane smiled at her fiancé and then at her mother. She moved out of the car and with Frost they entered the house.
They checked every part of the first floor. Both shouted clear as they finished swiping the first floor. Both headed upstairs.
"Clear." Frost shouted.
"Clear." Jane replied and she sighed in relief. At least they had a place to stay for the night and canned food.
They went back down to tell the girls. Jane opened the doors house and motioned the women to join them.
Angela and Maura entered the house and joined both detectives in the living room. I was a cozy home. The living room had two sofas and a fireplace. Simple but cozy.
"Ma, think I owe you an explanation. For me this is not easy" Jane started a tear fell from her face. "Ma, Frankie died helping us escape a horde of zombies and we don't know where Tommy is." Jane tears fell freely now. Maura was on her side in a second putting a comforting hand on her lower back and Jane motioned for her mother to come for a hug. Angela didn't think twice she let her daughter comfort her and hug her while she cried for her lost son.
Frost went to the other room in search for something to start a fire and maybe ammo. Maura moved to the kitchen to prepare something for everyone.
Jane comforted her mother until they were on the sofa and Angela had fallen asleep. "Maur" She whispered.
Maura appeared in a second. "Love?"
"I'll carry her to the master bedroom. Can you help me?" Jane asked.
They moved Angela upstairs. Jane put her mother down on the bed and Maura threw a blanket over her mother in laws body. They closed the door and moved hand in hand to the kitchen.
"Jane." Maura broke the silence. She was now in front of the detective who had her free hand on her face.
"I failed to protect him." Jane whispered.
"No, you didn't. He saved us because he knew you will protect us always. Jane, he died honoring your bravery and your courage, don't you dare put his life in your shoulders. He saved us and I know if it were up to you, you would've done the same." Maura grabbed the obstructing and looked at Jane directly in the eyes.
"I won't think twice if I have to protect any of you. I love him and I will never forget him. Thank you for always being with me." Jane let her forehead fall on Maura's shoulder and the dark blonde hug her lover with all her might.
"Let's go and clean ourselves and then rest." Maura said while dragging Jane by the waist upstairs.
"Ok, I love you, you are my everything." Jane said and stopped on the foot of the stairs to kiss Maura passionately.
"I love you too, with all my heart and soul." Maura said after the broke the kiss.
And so they went hand in hand and tried to rest for the night but with a fail attempt.
TBC
A/N: Sorry for the slow chapter, next one will be better.
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