After getting the warehouse processed that afternoon they all headed back to the station and tried to gather everything together getting a better idea of what they were dealing with. They got everything and put it on a case board trying to piece it all together. Jane, Frost, and Korsak then spent the next 4 hours sitting on Korsak's desk starring at the board aimlessly. It was now the middle of the night and they still sat…starring.
"We have anymore egg rolls?" Korsak asks as he looks at the empty Chinese containers around them.
"Yeah…3 hours ago." Frost grumbles.
"We are missing something." Jane says getting back to the board.
"But what?" Frost asks rolling his eyes.
"The answer is right in front of our faces, we just have to find it." Jane says.
The three continue to look at the board not saying anything.
"Maybe…" Korsak says.
Jane and Frost look at him waiting for his idea, but Korsak shakes his head and lets out a defeated breath.
"Never mind." Korsak sighs.
The three go back to looking at the board where they stay unmoved as Maura comes walking into the room with 2 cups of coffee. She takes a look at the group before going to sit by Jane at a chair handing her a cup of coffee. "Here you go Sweetie."
"Thanks." Jane says.
"Why don't we get any coffee?" Frost asks.
"Because you are not her wife." Jane says still looking at the board in front of her.
Maura takes a sip of her own coffee grinning at Jane before looking over at Frost and Korsak. "I apologize would you like me to make another run?" Maura asks.
"That's okay Doc, we sent Frankie." Korsak says as he huffs still looking at the board.
"Well we all have consumed way too much caffeine as it is today." Maura informs the group as she runs her hand through her hair. "Too much caffeine can lead to insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, muscle tremors, fast heart rate-"
"Maura." Jane groans wanting her to stop the Google mouth.
"Irritability." Maura finishes while raising an eyebrow up at her wife.
"I am sorry, but we have been working this case all day and nothing. We have been starring this board for the last 4 hours and…nothing. It is now 1:23 at night and we still have nothing! Fuck!"Jane rambles on frustrated.
"Looks like I made it just in time for Janie's meltdown." Frankie says as he walks in with a tray of coffees handing Frost and Korsak there's.
"Shut up Frankie." Jane sighs.
"Sorry, sorry." Frankie apologizes knowing when not to push his older sister. He tosses the empty tray into the garbage by Korsak's desk and looks at the case board. "Anything new?"
"Nothing." Frost sighs.
"Let's go over it again." Jane says wither eyes glued to the board.
"Shit Rizzoli we have been over this board a hundred times tonight, nothing new." Korsak grumbles.
Jane tilts her head starring at the board her eyes darting on the various case notes and pictures. "One more time couldn't hurt."
"Alright…" Korsak breathes as the group looks at the board. "We found our first 6 victims in the basement in a pool of blood. There's Keisha King 16, Ethyl Topplemeyer 67, Phillip Seers 44, Alex Sabre 19, Jeremiah Halp 19, and Blake Fortstep 20." He says pointing to the first 6 license plate photos on the board next to their crime scene photos of their bodies.
"After draining the blood out we discovered with a light, various symbols that we have no idea what they mean and a message." Frost continues through an exhausted breath pointing to the board. "Welcome to opening night. I hope you've enjoyed the show, more to come."
"After analyzing the blood content from the crime scene we discovered that 4 unidentified bodies blood samples." Maura says fighting a yawn. "We ran the blood samples through our system to find DNA matches and came up with two positive ideas."
"Corporal Jake Sells age 23 and Corporal Garrett Darling age 25." Korsak says as he points to the two marines on the board.
"After performing the preliminary autopsy on the unidentified victims I have concluded that the man is approximately 53 years old and the woman is approximately 32 years old." Maura states as she points to the crime scene photos taken at the warehouse. "I will perform a second autopsy tomorrow morning double checking my finding in case I have missed something."
"We found the missing four victims at a warehouse after a call that a painting had been discovered at a park. We went there saw the painting and then discovered a second painting that lead us to the warehouse." Jane says speaking for the first time her eyes darting all across the board. "What about the notes found underneath the victims?"
"Each victim had a note tape to their body. Under the first 6 victims the notes were placed in plastic bags to avoid the blood, and on our last 4 victims taped to each to their feet." Frost says pointing to copies of the notes. "Each note has been brushed for fingertips but we got nothing."
"Each note describes the victim in some sort of poem thingy." Korsak says as he grabs his notes beside him putting on his glasses getting ready to read. "Keisha King's note said; A lovely young girl, With a kindness of spirit, Haunting brown skin give."
"Not just any poem, a haiku." Maura states.
"A what?" Frost says confused.
"It is a type of poetry popular in the Western part of the world." Maura says as she reaches for Korsak's notes. He hand the sheets over and Maura takes a look. "See a haiku consists of three lines. The first line contains 5 syllables, the second line contains 7 syllables, and the final line contains five syllables."
"Shit…sounds dumb to me." Frankie scoffs.
"Every one of the notes is a haiku down to the classic three line format." Maura says.
"Our guy is artistically sound, how wonderful." Jane scoffs before taking another sip of her coffee. "A painter and a poet class act."
"Too bad he's a serial killer." Frost sighs.
Maura glances over at Frost. "We can't conclude that we are dealing with a serial killer as of now."
"What?" Jane asks trying to keep her annoyance in check looking down at her wife confused.
"A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with an amount of time of at least 30 days between the murders."
"That's what we have here Doc, haven't you been paying attention." Korsak says.
"What we have gathered all 10 of the bodies were killed at an unidentified location and then brought to both the basement and the warehouse. The times of death with all of the victims are within 3 days of each other." Maura states as the other four people listen intently to her trying to decipher her Google mouth. "At this time we could be dealing with a mass murder which is when a group of more than 4 people are killed at the same location at around the same time."
"Wow…that is a lot to take in." Frost says as he gulps down more of his coffee trying to sharpen his brain."
"Mass murder it is…for now." Jane says as she goes back to starring at the board. "I got a bad feeling though that our artist friend is going to go for an encore."
"He's not going to get the chance for an encore Rizzoli because this department is going to catch him before he does." Cavanaugh says as he walks into the bull pen from his office.
Korsak, Frost, and Jane hearing their now Captain hop off the desk to meet him.
"Yes Sir." Jane says confidently.
"Now…we have 8 identified victims who all have families that want answers and this son of a bitch to rot in hell." Cavanaugh says sternly to the group as well as the other cops in the bull pen now getting his attention. "We have two unidentified victims and are no closer to finding out who they are then we were this afternoon."
"We're on missing persons Sir." Frost states.
"And now our good friends at the media have discovered that our guy like to paint deeming him the name Da Vinci." Cavanaugh says angrily.
"Of course." Jane groans rolling her eyes. "Why do those morons feel the name to glorify and name our perps?"
"I don't care but the hell they call this fucking guy, I want him stopped now." Cavanaugh says sternly.
"We are on it Sir." Jane says.
"You will be on it…tomorrow morning." Cavanaugh says.
"What?" Jane says confused. "Captain you just said that we need to catch this guy and now you want us to go home."
"You three have been starring at his board for hours. And all five of you haven't really left this station since this whole mess started." Cavanaugh says.
"We're on the case sir." Frost says.
"You all need to go home get some sleep and come after this tomorrow with fresh eyes, there will be plenty of more late nights coming our way." Cavanaugh says looking at Jane who is shaking her head.
"Rizzoli." Cavanaugh says stepping closer to the woman. "Go home with your wife, get some sleep, have breakfast with that little girl of yours and then I will see you bright and early tomorrow morning."
Jane looks at Cavanaugh and then nods her head agreeing with him, she hasn't seen her daughter in two days and defiantly could use a Kory fix. "Okay."
The ride from the station to their house was pretty quiet between Jane and Maura. Each really not knowing what to say, knowing that the case is the only thing on either of their minds. Jane then parks in the driveway and the two women get out of the jeep and head up to their door.
"Where are my keys, they have got to be here." Maura groans as she rummages through her purse for her missing keys.
Jane watches Maura look for her keys and bites back a smile
"Ah-Ha! Here they are." Maura cheers as she looks up from her purse to meet a kiss from Jane sweetly on her mouth. As Jane pulls away Maura looks stunned for a minute. "What was that for?"
"I just wanted to kiss my wife." Jane says sweetly as she wraps her arms around Maura's waist pulling her closer. "Is that alright with you."
"That is more than alright." Maura smiles as she lets out a relieved breath, finally getting the comfort she has needed all day in her wife's arms.
"Cases like this get to me…you know, and you by my side." Jane says as she looks away trying to find the right words before turning back to her wife reaching over to put a piece of Maura's hair behind her ear. "It's…everything."
"Ditto." Maura says with a smile.
"Ditto." Jane laughs in disbelief. "Did my amazingly intelligent wife just say ditto?" she teases.
"Yes I did." Maura nods her head confidently before pointing to her own lips with her pointer finger. "Kiss me."
Jane smiles and leans in to kiss Maura once again relishing the feeling of her lips taking over her own. Maura then pulls away from Jane's lips and wraps her arms tighter around Jane's neck hugging her tightly.
Jane smiles and then feels her wife try to hold on even tighter. "Babe are you okay?
"Yes…" Maura says sadly as she sniffs back her emotions pulling away to face her wife. "It's just I've cut open ten people in the last several days."
"I know." Jane says solemnly placing her hand on Maura's cheek.
Maura leans in to Jane's hand and lets out a sigh. "I'm just…happy to be home."
"Me too." Jane smiles back before nodding her head to the door. "Don't ya think we should go in then?"
"Yes I suppose that would be a good idea." Maura jokes back as she takes her key and reaches over to open the door.
Jane and Maura walk in thought the door and Maura almost trips on something but Jane grabs a hold of her before she has a chance.
"You okay there?" Jane asks with a tiny laugh.
"Yeah." Maura breaths nodding her head, as she looks down to Kory's basketball and sneakers.
"Of course." Jane chuckles slightly as she kicks the basketball and sneakers away. "God forbid the kid takes her stuff up to her room."
Maura laughs at her wife gently touching her stomach before the two walk further into the house and peak into the living room to see a disaster area. Maura's eyes dart from a pair of Kory's sweats draped over a chair to the school books scattered on the floor by the couch to the empty water bottles on the corner table. Meanwhile Jane's eyes dart from the letterman's jacket on the floor to a plate of half eaten lasagna on the coffee table with a bowl of half eaten apple pie on it.
"I don't think she was expecting us home tonight." Maura says slowly as she looks around at the messy living ro.
"Yeah." Jane laughs as she looks around before pointing to the coffee table "Looks like my mother dropped off some dinner for her."
"And it looks like Jo Friday fell asleep trying to get to the half eaten meal." Maura laughs as she looks down at Jo Friday asleep on a curled up pillow made from Kory's track and field sweatshirt.
Jane looks down at their beloved dog and lets out a chuckle before looking at her wife. "God knows what our child's place is going to look like when she is out on her own."
"Bite your tongue Jane Rizzoli." Maura half warns holding her hand up at Jane. "Kory will never leave us."
"Does she know this?" Jane laughs.
"If she wants included in the wills she will stay here." Maura says.
Jane and Maura both break out in their own laughs as they think about the young girl that has totally taken over their lives. Once they are done laughing they look at each other in their own thoughts as silence takes over a bit.
Maura tilts her head as she looks over at the stairs in the foyer. "She's probably upstairs asleep right now."
"Yeah…we should let her sleep." Jane agrees.
"Yes."Maura nods her head.
Jane shakes her own head back at Maura before tapping a foot thinking things over. "I mean she's okay and happy and…safe."
"Yes." Maura says hesitantly.
Jane thinks about it before looking over at the stairs. "Yeah…so there would be no reason to wake her up tonight."
"No there would not be, we should let her sleep." Maura agrees.
"Yeah." Jane says hesitantly before glancing over at her wife.
"I thought we were going to let her sleep." Maura whispers as she follows Jane into Kory's room in the dark, the only light coming from the hallway and the moon outside the window.
"Yeah right." Jane whispers back as they head over to the bed before looking around at the clean room. "At least her room is clean."
"Jane." Maura says in a hushed voice smiling back at her wife as they both take a moment to look down at their fast asleep daughter safe her bed. "Are we-"
"Oh yeah." Jane says as she walks over to one side of the bed pulling back the covers sliding in next to Kory while Maura goes over to the other side of Kory sliding in next to her.
Jane scoots closer to her daughter and looks down at Kory and smiles as she gently pushes aside some hair from her face. She smiles at her daughter and then watches as Maura scoots closer to the back of Kory and wraps her arms around her, placing a soft kiss on the back of her head. She then propped herself up slightly by her elbow and looked across her daughter to Jane who smiles back at her wife.
"Bad case?" Kory mumbles with sleep thick in her voice.
Jane looks down at her daughter who still has her eyes closed before over to Maura.
"What gave you that idea?" Maura asks looking down at Kory.
"You always do this when you are working on a bad case." Kory mumbles before trying to drift off to sleep again.
"You could say that." Jane whispers back to Kory.
Kory nods her head and lets out a yawn before tapping Jane on the arm and reaching behind her to tap Maura's hip. "It's okay, shhh."
"Jane are you seeing this?" Maura asks looking down at Kory.
Jane nods her head at Maura. "Yes…she's pity tapping us." She says as she starts to tickle Kory's side.
"Are you nuts! It is 2:00 in the morning." Kory snaps as she struggles to open her eyes at her mothers.
"Sorry." Jane mutters as she places a kiss on Kory's forehead.
"Yes, we're sorry." Maura agrees as she wraps her arms around Kory tighter and places a kiss on the side of Kory's head. "You want us to leave you alone?"
"I didn't say that." Kory says with a yawn before she snuggles closer into Jane's arms and tucks her head in the crook of Jane's neck. "I don't like when you guys work all the time, I mean I get it…I just don't like it."
Maura bites down on her lip before she affectionately kisses Kory once more, looking at Jane who looks like she has been punched in the gut.
"We don't like not seeing you everyday either Baby." Jane says holding back her tears as she hugs Kory closer in her arms.
Maura nods her head and drapes her arm over Kory so the girl is sandwiched in between her mother's feeling their love for her. Maura then looks over her daughter's head at Jane who lets a tear slide down her face. "Hey."
Jane looks down at her now asleep daughter before over at her wife.
"I love you." Maura whispers.
"I love you too." Jane whispers back as the two women lean over Kory and share a soft kiss before looking down at Kory and each placing a final kill on her head. The two women then snuggle back into bed hugging their daughter and each drift off into their own slumbers.