Wow, okay so when I started writing this I honestly wasn't quite sure how it would go over. But I am so glad you all are enjoying it so far. I know everything is a little tense at the moment, but have no fear it does lighten up in the end. I love all the review and messages, they help keep me motivated. All I can say is this story is all but writing itself, I sit down at my laptop and my fingers go and the next chapter just appears. Thank you all again for coming this far on the journey with me. Hope you enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter 7
He reaches into the waistband of his pants and pulls the gun out. He points it directly at Maura's chest. He continues to stare at his watch. He then grips the gun with two hands. Just as he pulls the trigger he hears the gun go off and someone screaming.
"No!" Jane throws herself at the man and tackles him to the ground.
Korsak and Frost are right at Jane's heels. The rush over to Jane in time to see her smash the man's face with the butt or her gun. Frost kneels on the man's shoulder and slips cuffs around his wrist.
"Jane go check Maura, we got this." Frost says.
"Looks like you are a minute to late Jane." The man in black says before erupting into a fit of laughter.
"Shut the fuck up or I'll shoot you myself." Korsak spits.
Jane rushes to Maura's side. And quickly cuts the ropes that bind her. Tears sting the brunette's eyes as she gets her first up close look of the M.E. who is slumped in the chair. Jane brushes the hair out of Maura's face as she applies pressure to the gunshot wound in her left shoulder.
"Come on Maura, you gotta wake up now. It's all over, baby please don't do this to me. Please." She pleads with the honey blonde.
Jane takes the in the entire sight before her. Her eyes wander over the deep gash over Maura's breast and her thighs. A guttural scream rips through the air. The sight of Maura's hands being pinned to the chair with a pair of scalpels is just too much. The brunette now knows exactly why this happened. Hoyt, that son of a bitch is still haunting me from the fucking grave.
She keeps pressure on the bullet wound but doesn't know what else to do. Does she try to remove the scalpels? Her heart has literally split in two. Seeing her best friend in this state knowing it is all because of her and the sick bastard who gets his jollies off messing with the things she cares for most. At one time she would have bet the person Hoyt would have taken would have been Frankie. Until this very moment she didn't even realize the person she cared for most and would do anything for was Maura. Yes she loved her best friend but it was more than that she is in love with the honey blonde M.E. And right this second she would do anything to trade places with her.
"Jane?" Maura mumbles before losing consciousness.
Jane cannot hear Frost telling the paramedics where they are. When the paramedics arrive they try to tell Jane to move, but she isn't hearing it. The only she on her mind right now is Maura and everything else is just background noise.
"Jane, you gotta let go. They're here to help her." Korsak says as the physically removes Jane from the M.E.'s side. She fights against him the whole time. "You have to let them do their job."
"Let me go!" She screams as she fights against the older detectives arms.
Frost has already left the room with the man and places him in the squad car. Jane can no longer stop the tears from falling. She watches as the paramedics load Maura onto the stretcher. There is no way in hell she will ever be able to get the image of Maura bloody and bruised with scalps in her hands out of her head. She begins to tremble as Korsak leads her out of the building.
"I'm going with her. I don't care what anyone says." She breaks free from Korsak and runs up to the ambulance and hops right in. The paramedics tell her she can only ride with them if she stays out of the way. She simply nods and sits on the bench next to the stretcher. She watches as they hook her up with an IV and start pumping her full of fluids.
Maura never regains consciousness. The trip to the hospital seems like it's taking days. Jane bows her head and let's the tears fall. The ambulance pulls to a stop and Jane's head snaps up and rushes after paramedics rushing the M.E. into the emergency room. She watches as a team of nurses and doctors swarm the gurnee and disappear behind a set of doors. Jane runs to catch up with them when security office step in her way. The brunette sees red.
"Get the hell out of my way!" She tries to side step the man to the right and then the left. For a split second the thought of pulling out her gun and shooting him flashed through her mind but that wouldn't help anything.
"No, ma'am I am sorry but you will have to go back out to the waiting room. Someone will be with you shortly." He points in the vague direction of the waiting room. But the detective doesn't budge. She reaches for her badge on her hip and waves it in his face.
"Detective Jane Rizzoli, Boston Homicide! Now get out of my way!" Jane's nostrils flare and her jaw clenches when she sees the security officer not even flinch.
"I'm sorry I cannot let you through." He stand firm in front of the door and crosses his arms over his chest.
"Jane!" Korsak shouts as he and Frost come running up to her. "What's going on, where's Maura?"
"I don't know this brute won't let me through to go to her." Tears began to well in her eyes once again as her mind begins to play all the likely scenarios play in her mind. She never got the chance to tell Maura how she really felt. She runs her hand through her unruly curls and kicks the wall next to the security officer.
"I'm sorry fellas you're just going to have to go wait in the waiting room like everybody else." The officer says in the most monotone voice humanly possible.
"Alright Jane, let's go sit down." Frost tries to easy over to the brunette and get her to follow to the waiting area.
"Hell no! Where is a nurse or a doctor!" She shouts as she rounds the other side of the wall where the admitting desk is. A short blonde nurse steps from behind the desk.
"Honey, I'm going to need you to calm down." The nurse takes in the detectives appearance and furrows her brow, with all the blood covering the detective she knows she needs something happened to one of their own. "Why don't you all come with me to a private room just over here. Who is it that you are here with?" She ushers the three detectives into a small 10x10 conference room just off to the right of the main waiting area.
"Dr. Maura Isles, the Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She was.." The brunette cannot make herself say it, she stand before the small nurse like a deer caught in the headlights.
"Okay, I will go check and see if there is any news. Are any of you family or her emergency contact?"
"No we aren't family, I mean well we are all sort of family but not in the legal sense." Jane chokes out.
"Detective Rizzoli is Dr. Isles' emergency contact." Korsak says softly and helps the brunette take a seat.
"What? How do you know that?" Jane looks over to the older detective with confusion on her face.
"She updated some of her personnel file a year or so ago. Cavanaugh wasn't in and as Sergeant I was able to sign off on them." The nurse nods and walks out of the room leaving them in silence.
Why didn't she ever tell me I was her emergency contact? Jane's mind reels. She looks down at her hands for the first time since she has arrived at the hospital and stops dead in her tracks. She isn't one to be squeamish, that's Frost's job, but her stomach flips. This is Maura's blood. She doesn't even notice when Angela enters the room. Frost had called her on their way to the hospital and told her she needed to be there for Jane.
"Janie, sweetheart? Why don't we go get you cleaned up." The Rizzoli matriarch is crouch next to the brunette's chair. When she gets no response she gently places her hand on her daughter's forearm. "Jane, let's go get you cleaned up okay?" Her voice cracks betraying her true feelings. She is supposed to be the strong one, the one to help Jane through this. Knowing how the detective and the M.E. truly feel about one another and seeing her daughter sitting before her in the other woman's blood chips away a piece of her heart.
Jane looks up into her mother's eyes when she places her hand on her forearm. "Oh, Ma." She can't continue she reaches out and pulls her mother into a bone crushing hug. It wasn't until the PA system bluttered out a "Code Blue to the ER." that Jane lets go. She has been around Maura and her Google Mouth long enough to know that is when a patient crashes. She bolts out of her seat and heads for the door.