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Jane had just gotten a call from Lieutenant Cavanaugh saying that Chris Bennett, the man that kidnapped and tortured Maura, wanted to see Jane. Jane has some reservations about going and seeing this man face to face. She didn't trust herself to not kill him with her bare hands. She agrees to go as long as Korsak went with her. If anyone could help the detective keep a cool, cooler, head it would be him. She mulled over the idea of telling Maura but she ultimately decided against it.
The next day Jane told Maura she had to go into work for a case Korsak was working. It wasn't exactly a lie but it wasn't the truth either. But she didn't want the M.E. to worry and if she knew she was going all she would do is worry and most likely tell her not to go at all. But Jane wanted answers. That animal hadn't talked about why to took Maura, they knew it had to do with Hoyt but that information was gathered more out the mounting similarities in evidence.
Jane walks into the bullpen and slumps into her chair. She blows out a long breath and runs her hand through her hair. She was trying to calm herself down. The closer she got to work the more agitated she became.
"Hey partner. What are you doing in today?" Frost says as he looks up from his computer.
"Bennett wants to talk to me." The detective huffs. "Where is Korsak? We should have left already."
"He's using the john." Frost says.
"Not anymore. You ready Jane? I'm driving." Krosak grabs his keys.
"Oh no, you are nearly as bad a driver as Maura." Jane groans and follows the older detective to the elevator. She can hear Frost laughing from his desk.
"Do you know what he wants to talk to you about?" Korsak asks as they get in the car.
"Not a clue, I got a call from Cavanaugh last night saying that asshole wanted to talk to me. Said he wouldn't talk to anyone but me." Jane slumps back against her seat.
They arrive at the prison and get checked in and locked up their weapons and are escorted to a small interrogation room. Korsak stood in the corner leaned up against the wall and Jane sat facing the door. When the door opened two officers brought Bennett in, they shoved him in the chair and chained his legs to the bar on the ground. Bennett looked over at Jane and grinned.
"Jane, so good to see you again." Bennett said sickeningly sweet.
"Cut the crap, why the hell did you want to see me?" The detective leers at the animal before her.
"I want to talk about Dr Isles first." He smiles.
"Don't you even speak her name you sick son of a bitch!" Jane lunges across the table and Korsak and to force her back into her seat.
"Whoa, Jane calm down." He gives her shoulder a gentle squeeze. "Talk, tell Jane whatever it is that you have to tell her so we can leave."
"Did I strike a nerve detective?" Bennett leans back in his chair. "You know I already told this to Dr Isles already but you two are complete idiots and blind. She's a genius and you are from all that I have seen over the past few years of watching you a brilliant detective. But you two can't even see what's in front of your own faces. Dr. Hoyt told me you two didn't see it but you were the ultimate couple, the ultimate test. That your love for one another transcended everything else even if you couldn't see it for yourselves"
"What the hell is the point!" Jane slams her hands down on the table. She is getting tired of all the head games. Hoyt spent years getting into her head and taking things from her. And now even after Jane killed him Hoyt was still playing games with her and is now involving the woman she loves and she has had enough.
"See one, do one, teach one." He says singsongingly.
"You son of a bitch." Jane jumps out of her chair and closes her hands around Bennett's throat. It took Korsak and the two other officers to pull Jane off of him. Bennett's eyes are watering and he is couch and laughing.
"Dr. Hoyt really believed in me, that I could finish his work. But he did want me to make sure if I failed someone would carry on his work. So I did as my teacher instructed and I taught but not just one. Do you think you'll be able to sleep at night not knowing how many people are out there waiting for their chance to kill you, to kill the lovely Dr Isles?" Bennett leans his head down and wipes the spit off of his chin.
"That's enough we're done." Korsak as he motions with his head to the other officers to take the prisoner away.
"No, we can't just let him go. I need names. We need to know what he has planned. What am I supposed to do if we let him walk out of here with no information?" Jane is standing and gesturing with her hands. She cannot believe what Korsak is saying.
"We aren't going to get anything out of him. You know that all he wanted to do was bring you here so he could tell you there are more out there. We will find another way." Korsak give one more head motion and the officers take Bennett away. And with that they unlocked him from the bar on the floor and took him away.
"I seriously cannot believe you let him leave. If you would have given me ten minutes alone with him I could have made him talk. How am I supposed to tell Maura?" Jane pinches the bridge of her nose.
"Come on let's go. We'll talk some more on the way back." He gives her a tight lipped smile and opened the door. He followed out behind the young detective.
The car ride home was spent with Jane yelling and stomping her foot on the floorboard in frustration. She is so furious with Korsak right now for not letting her at least try to get Bennett to talk. She thought of all people Korsak would have backed her up on this one. He found Jane after Hoyt attacked her the first time, he was there when Hoyt taunted her behind bars, he was there when Hoty had attacked Maura and herself. He saw what Bennett did to Maura, he was there when they saved her but now he just wants to walk away. She couldn't accept that.
"Jane, listen to me. We will figure this out. We already found out that Bennett met Hoyt in prison. And that his medical background is what drew him to Hoyt. We will go over everyone Bennett had in contact on the inside and outside after his release." Korsak says as he takes a seat at his desk.
"It could be too late by then. Look how long it took us to find out where he was when he took Maura. We don't even know how many others he taught. What do we do in the meantime? We can't have a security detail follow us around until we hunt down every person that Bennett taught." Jane runs her hands through her hair.
"I know Jane. And I am sorry we can't do much else right now. But in the meantime you'll just need to be more cautious." Korsak tries to reassure the younger detective. He doesn't like this anymore than Jane does but that's all they can do right now.
"How am I supposed to tell Maura? What am I going to tell her. 'Sorry baby but there are god knows how many people out there still trying to hurt us but we just have to sit and wait'. But it's okay because I am going to be cautious and we can get a security detail? Not going to happen" Jane rants.
"I don't exactly know how we tell Muara but she has the right to know." Korsak frowns.
"Damn it! She just started being able to sleep through the night without having a nightmare. This will set her over the edge again. Things were starting to get back to normal." Jane rubs the back of her neck and sighs.
"I'm sorry Jane, why don't you go home? Let Frost and I start looking. We'll call you if we find anything. But you need to go home and process everything." Korsak says. He hates that Jane is feels like they aren't doing enough.
"Yeah, alright. But the second you find something you need to tell me. How am I going to tell Maura." Jane thinks aloud.
"I know it's going to be hard but you should probably tell her sooner rather than later. She will probably get upset if she finds out later that you didn't tell her when you first found out. It'll be hard but it's for the best. Just keep telling her we are doing everything we can and that you will be there for her. Now go home." He orders.
"Yeah, yeah old man. I'm going." Jane pushes back from her desk and grabs her keys from her drawer.
Jane didn't go right home. Instead she went to the gym. She really needed to hit something right now and she figured the gym would be a safe haven for her. The detective had called Maura on the way to let her know she was going to the gym. Maura asked her what was wrong because Jane's voice gave it away how upset she was. Jane told her she was okay and she would talk to her about it later.
When she gets to the gym she is thankful that her favorite punching bag was unoccupied. She sat on the bench in front of the bag and wrapped her hands. Once her hands are wrapped she gets straight to work. She had been going at the bag from every angle until she was dripping with sweat. She could picture in her mind that the bag was Bennett. Each punch she threw was harder than the last. Her hands hurt but she doesn't stop. She need to make sure she gets all of her anger out she isn't going to stop until she can't go anymore. She doesn't want to let her emotions get to her when she has to tell Maura.
An hour and a half rolled by and the wraps on Jane hands had started to fray. She takes a few more punches before doing a roundhouse kick to the bag sending it flying back into the all just behind it. The bags chains groan from the force of the kick. Jane grabbed her duffle bag from beside the bench and heads to the locker room to shower and change. The shower was quick and she didn't even bother to dry her hair.
Jane took the long way home so she could think up a way of telling Maura. Nothing seemed to be right. They all ended up the same way with the M.E. falling apart. She didn't want to scare Maura but Korsak was right she had the right to know right away. She had stopped off and got a pizza because Maura had a therapy appointment today and she knew the M.E.'s hands would be sore and not want to cook.
Jane pulls into the driveway and grabs the pizza and heads inside. When she walked through door she found Maura curled on the couch with one of her medical journals. She looks so peaceful like that. Almost normal even. And it was killing the detective to know she was about to rip that away from the woman she loves. She puts her gun and keys in the drawer on the table by the door.
"Hey baby, how did your therapy appointment today." The detective walks into the kitchen and puts the pizza on the island and grabs a beer for herself and pours Maura a glass of wine.
"Hello, I didn't hear you come in. My appointment went really well I was able to pick up a scalpel with minimal shaking. It was truly invigorating, I had that seed of doubt in the back of my head that I would never be able to pick up a blade again.* Maura smiles and puts her journal down on the coffee table.
"That's great Maura. I figured your hands might be hurting you so I picked us up a pizza, I hope that's okay?" Jane puts a slice of pizza on each plate and with the skills a waitress would envy, brought over the two plates, wine and beer. She places one plate and the glass of wine on the table before taking a seat.
"What exactly did you need to go in for today? You seemed pretty quiet this morning." Maura picks up her wine and takes a sip.
Jane quickly downs her beer trying to buy at least a few for seconds before she has to bursts the M.E.'s happy bubble. She sets her now empty beer bottle back down on the coffee table. She can already see the concern on Maura's face. She let out a long breath before breaking the news to the smaller woman.
"I got a call from Cavanaugh saying Bennett wanted to talk and he would only talk to me. So Korsak and I went down there." Jane's leg bounces.
"Wow." The M.E. couldn't hide her shock or fear. "What..what did he want?"
Jane pulls Maura closer to her because she had started to cry and was shaking like a leaf. Jane hated the fact that the mere mention of that animal can have such a profound effect on the M.E. She knows the feeling all too well because she too felt like this. And the detective could help but blame herself. Had she not become friends with Maura or fallen in love with her this wouldn't even be an issue.