Just a quick explanation before you indulged in this amazing chapter. When there are breaks in paragraphs and such like

one of those, its switching view points between Jane and Maura, just a heads up so ya don't get confused. Also with this jumping back and forth some actions may be repeated but given with more explanation because one character knows more then the other. With that,

Read on!

Between Universe 201 and Universe 378

Maura couldn't breathe. It felt like her whole body was being pushed inside of a small tube. She could feel her bones bending and moving trying to make herself smaller, her body trying to fit her into this impossible space. The vision of the entrance way to her home was shrinking as she was being forced through this impossible space with such force. She closed her eyes as lights danced around, flashing at her making her sick. It felt like her skin was being burned off, her bones breaking and her muscle's slowly being pulled apart. She tried to scream, tried to somehow soften the pain that was being forced upon her but her lungs were flat, inverting themselves to give her the air she needed.

She felt like she was flying, the pressure started to let up, her bones moving back, arms and legs tingling. She could tell she was gaining speed but didn't know how or where she was. The lights danced around on her closed eyelids. She was thrown into something with so much force she thought her arm would break. She rolled and rolled, bouncing against hard objects. Her ears were ringing not hearing anything, she tried to stop herself but couldn't gain purchase with whatever she was hitting finally she slammed against something, hitting her head on it, warm blood trickled down and into her hair. Wind brushed her face finally granting her air. She opened her mouth wide like a fish gasping, snapping her eyes open to a scene of chaos.

Universe 378

The explosion was so sudden it knocked people down. Dr. Charles fell on top of Jane. People screaming and crying out for help as pieces of metal flew out hitting them.

"Warning hull breach; engaging in emergency environmental force field," Andi's robotic voice said over head.

Jane pushed the doctor off of herself standing up. A fire was roaring around the explosion point, smoke hung in the air making it hard to see. She coughed, finding it hard to breathe. Solders that where in the room were pulling metal off of people and helping them up, watching over those to hurt to stand. Little Professor Palmer was peeking over an over turned table, his glasses knocked sideways, comb over standing straight. They locked eyes and he nodded his head telling her he was alright. She turned her attention back to the explosion point yelling,

"Someone get that fire out!" Solders rushed to do her bidding. Looking cautiously at a long multicolored tube was connected to the portal that they had open on their side. She looked at the portal itself but it only showed solid white. Someone coughing below her grabbed her attention, anger raced through her veins. She bent down and grabbed Dr. Charles collar pulling him to his feet, her face fierce, and his scared.

"What. Did. You. Do?" she spaced out the words her voice low and raspy.

"I… I… A portal opened in 201… I think th-that woman we saw is coming through." Jane's face went white her eyes growing big. She dropped the Doctor and turned to her Omnicuff. There were two soft blinking blue lights, asking for her attention she clicked both of them. Konif's face popped up along with Shafters they were already in the middle of a conversation,

"-cut out from us?" Konif asked worried about her friends.

"I am fine Olga, our portal is closed however and there seems to be something coming out of the black hole, so I am more concerned with Jane." Jane turned her cuff towards the hole in the side of the ship. It was massive the multicolored tube only took up a small section, but it blew up a good section of the ship with its entrance. Force fields flickered, the only thing protecting them from the vacuum of space.

"We have a couple of hurt people," she started to walk thought the group of people making sure everyone was ok. "But I think we're all fine." Someone had managed to get the fire out, the smoke clearing. Jane leaned against the back wall take a breath rubbing her face.

"Captain Rizzoli…." Dr. White ran up to her, tear tracks running down her face. Jane said a quick goodbye with Konif and Shafter looking back at Dr. White. "This is my entire fault! I figured out that this would happen but I didn't go to you I… I d-d-didn…." Her heavy sobs didn't let her continue. Jane was torn. She wanted to be stern with this girl angry about what had happened due to her choices of not speaking up, but wanting to comfort her at the same time. She placed her hand on her shoulder, squeezing it.

"We'll talk about this later Dr. White." The young woman nodded and walked away, wiping at her tears. Jane sighed just as a high pitched eeeeeing noise rang out, making her drop to her knees clapping her hand over her ears, other's mirroring her. She was thrown forward as the ship suddenly lurched, she could feel it swinging in a wild arc towards something. The noise was getting louder; she sat up looking at the force field grimacing at the noise. Through the massive hole in the side of the ship she saw Charkgin ships zooming out of the way of Hapsha as it started to spin around the space monster. She yelled in shock as the force field went out for a quick second making her fly forward. She grabbed a bar that stretched along the wall.

"PALMER!" Jane shouted at the little man who was a few feet away from her. He was curled up, crying at the noise that the portal was making. But he heard her and started to crawl towards her. Jane stretched her hand out trying to get to him as the force field flickered again, papers flying out, air rushing and the lights flickering as the magnetic field of the black hole messed with Hapsha's systems. Palmer did an awkward leap, Jane grabbing him and pulling him towards her, making sure he was secured against the railing.

Suddenly the noise stopped and there was another loud explosion. Things were thrown out of the portal, smashing into people and the walls, something brown flew past Jane and out into the hallway where the door was opening, a red light flashing above it. Charles is trying to get out. Jane thought as she saw the man trying to make his way towards the open doors not helping the people he passed, fighting the pull from the flickering force field.

"EVERYONE, GET TO THE DOOR!" Jane yelled at the fear stricken people. She grabbed someone's out stretched hand pulling them towards her and helping them grab onto the railing. Palmer slid along the railing able to get out into the hall, he helped pull people in. Jane warped her arm around Dr. White as the portal flickered out again. Her legs flew out from under her and she gripped the railing holding tighter onto Veronica, her muscles straining. She watched as Dr. Charles slipped and then flew out of the hole, hitting the side of the wall and was flung out into space with four others who weren't able to get a grip. The force field flickered on again and Jane and Veronica were slammed back into the ground.

Suddenly a person flew out of the portal, it closing after they escaped. They crashed into the ground hard, rolling over and over again. Their arms flew out trying to stop themselves from rolling and to slow themselves down.

"Move! Move!" Jane yelled over the sound of electricity popping and wind rushing around as a small section of the force field was off, slowly it was losing the battle with the black hole. She pushed on Veronica as she saw that the person was flying straight at them. Veronica managed to get out of the dangerous room but Jane didn't. She gasped as the person crashed fully into her, one of their knees coming in contact with her chest making her loose all of her breath. She leaned over coughing trying to get air. Another section of the force field stopped working, wind howling louder now and the pull from the vacuum of space getting harder. As long as Hapsha kept pumping air into the room she would be OK until the force field closed all together. The ship groaned underneath her and she felt it shutter; Konif fighting the gravitational pull and losing.

Jane closed her eyes thinking. Konif would do anything in her power to save everyone on this ship and I have to do mine. The hall breach was making the ship lurch, making it all that harder for Konif to straighten the ship out and use the reverse thrusters. She quickly looked at the woman that was lying on the floor, eyes wide and gasping for breath as she stared at Jane.

"JANE!" Palmer yelled over the howling wind, another section of the field failing. She knew in order to save the ship she had to seal this door up. There was no more time for her to get herself and the other person into the hall. It all seemed to happen in slow motion. She jumped up slamming her hand into the panel making the door close just as the finale section of the force field failed. She lost her grip on the railing and she grabbed onto the person that and flown out of the portal as they both were sucked towards space. They slid along the floor. Jane fiddled with her Simitu suit's options on her left hand, her eyes coming in contact with Palmers face through the doors window, utterly crush. Jane closed her eyes as her and the blonde were thrown out. Wires raked her face and her shoulder hit the edge of the hole, making them spin.

And then they were floating in space, Hapsha racing away from them and towards the black hole. Jane gasped; she had time to turn on her Simitu suits emergency environment systems before being plunged into blackness. It looked like everyone else wasn't as lucky as she was. They were still flying pretty fast, she closed her eyes and looked away when she saw a doctor frozen, his face stuck in a look of horror. She shivered; the blue field around her and the blonde barely keeping the cold out. The search lights of Hapsha swept past them as the ship was able to straighten out. She could just picture Konif yelling, fingers rushing over the buttons, maybe even grabbing the manual flying handles, directing the thrusters; it looked like she was losing the battle however.

Jane lifted her arm up glancing at the Simitus menu. Normally it would give you twenty-four hours, but she was sharing it with another person, their time cut in half. She looked down at the person she was holding onto. Their arms were wrapped tightly around her waist, so tightly it was a little hard to breathe. Blonde hair sprouted out of their head and it was long and wavy, she spotted a small cut on the top of their head, it slowly bleeding. They had their face buried into her chest, by the feel of it was indeed a woman like Dr. Charles had said it would be. Jane tried to get the woman to look at her so she could talk to her but she only gripped her harder. She sighed calling Shafter on her Omnicuff, Konif not picking up.

"Jane!" It hummed at her. All three of its eyes were half closed; worry.

"I'm alright, well, not really. I think I'm bleeding." She could feel the sting from a cut on her neck.

"I'm taking it you're not in Hapsha any longer?"

"No… and Shafter," she pointed her Omnicuff down lower so her friend could see the oddly dressed woman that still clung to Jane. Shafter closed all of its eyes in confusion. "She came through the portal Shafter." It opened its two bottom eyes leaving the third closed; disbelief.

"What has she said?" it asked her, its voice a little higher than normal.

"She hasn't said anything and she won't look at me, she's just holding me."

"She could be in shock Jane." The captain saw a Charkgin ship approaching her, Shafter saving her. Hapsha seemed to have slowed down its impending doom, escape pods being were being shot out of it, their smaller mass making it easier for them to get out of the pull from the black hole. The long Charkgin ship pulled alongside Jane careful not to bump her. She gripped the outer railings as the door to the airlock opened. She pulled herself and the blonde into the small square room.

"Hey…" Jane said softly to the person refusing to let go of her. Jane needed to warn her that the gravity is going to turn on and her ears are going to pop with the pressurization. "Hey… come on." She rubbed her hands along the woman's back trying to get her to let go. Already air was being pumped into the room, her Simitu suit's E.E.O. turning off with a swipe of her hand. The blonde seemed to realize that Jane was in fact speaking to her.

Maura has no idea what is going on. When she was shot out of that portal, her head hitting the wall she felt her legs come in contact with something soft followed by someone coughing. When she opened her eyes finally, the room was destroyed but that's not what had shocked her the most, it was the brunette woman that had quickly glanced at her.

It was Jane that had quickly glanced at her.

And the next thing she knew Jane's strong arms were around her, holding her protecting her as they slid along the floor. When they passed through the thresh hold of where space met ship she felt the cold attack her, she was so confused. Was this just another escape her mind had made up for her to help her accept reality? But why would this help her? Why would being thrown around, bruised and bleeding and then being pulled out into the vacuum of space help her? She could hear Jane speaking, her voice booming from her chest but she couldn't make out the words, her ears still ringing. She felt strong hands try to get her to look up at her, but Maura knew that if she did then this whole fabrication would break, she would be thrown back into her own world were the gun rested in her hand and bass looked worried at her. But now the ringing had subsisted and she could hear Jane perfectly fine now.

"Hallo…" Her raspy voice was soft. Maura knew that world; it was a greeting in German. Why was Jane speaking German? Maura's mind raced her heart rate picking up as her confusion and fear started to take over.

"Hallo… shivft narchten." Maura had no idea what Jane was saying now. Jane was speaking something that she didn't know. Maura knew twenty different languages, but she didn't know this one. She felt Jane rub her hand along her back. Maura could hear air hiss into the small room they were in and her ears started to pop. She slowly looked up staring at Jane's neck before finally looking into warm brown eyes.

"Artnto lorn?" Maura could tell it was a question by the way Jane raised her voice at the end of it and tilted her head a little bit. Maura just kept staring at Jane's face, missing those sharp cheek bones, the dimple in her chin. She brought her hand up slowly touching Jane's face. The brunette's eyes darted towards Maura's hand but she didn't move as Maura cupped her cheek, running her fingers through her hair. Jane's hair was shorter then when the last time her mind conjured up Jane.

This is so odd, Maura thought to herself. This feels so real.

The brunettes' eyebrows knitted together as she watched Maura's face, confused as to why she was touching her. The room started to hum as the gravity started to turn on, pressurization being complete. Maura looked down between their bodies as they slowly became weighted again. Her feet touched the ground first and then Jane was standing next to her, stepping out of her hold, giving Maura a confused look. Finally, finally Maura found her voice.

"Jane?" The brunette snapped her head up staring at Maura.

"Shavrts yigerzen larch mifpt?!" Jane's voice was hard and she was staring at Maura. The door whooshed open and Maura slowly tilted her head up and up mouth open as someone, no something stood there. Jane gave Maura a look before turning towards the thing. Its skin was a soft pigment of green and Maura could see blue veins just underneath its skin. It had three massive eyes on its face, holes in its neck that vibrated as the thing breathed. Her eyes were drawn to his? Hers? Maura didn't know if it was a male or female, two of its eyes were open and were the brightest blue and its third eye was completely black. Maura took a step back as the thing lifted its hand to her. Its hand had three fingers and were webbed, its arm looking like it had two elbows. Both Jane and this thing started at her. Maura had no idea what to do, did it want her to shake its hand?

Jane looked at the blonde seeing what she would do next, hurt her friend or take its hand. Shafter glanced at her, its hand slowly lowering obviously seeing the other woman so was so freaked out.

"Jane?" Shafter hummed making the blonde gasp a little, her hazel eyes trained on the holes in its neck and then looking at Jane.

"She knows my name Shafter." Jane rasped. Shafter looked at her closing all three eyes; questioning and then it re-opened its eyes the bottom two filling up with blue and the top with black; interest.

"Maybe she read it on your uniform some…" it trailed off seeing that nowhere Jane's name was placed on the clothes she was wearing beside her Simitu suit but that was covered up. Jane sighed looking over at the blonde again. She really needed to go inside and talk with Jacobs so she nodded her head at Shafter who stepped aside allowing the other human to walk by it. She was skittish and her eyes danced all over the place, taking in the other Charkgins that walked around the ship they all greeted Jane warmly as she made her way to the communications room.

The stepped inside the room, the smell of electronics strong, the smaller woman stepped closer to Jane, grabbing her hand, scared. The captain looked down and then glanced at Shafter shrugging.

"Captain Rizz- zz – zzoli," Jacobs voice broke in and out, her image flickering. Her hair was floating all around her face and it looked like she was being lighted from below.

"Jacobs, status report." Jane's voice rang out with authority. There came a shout and a scuffle on the Commanders side of the call. Palmers face popped up,

"JANE!" he yelled, relief flooding his features.

"Professor, I'm alright but I need you to put the Commander back on," her voice was slightly softer to him. She felt the blonde squeeze her hand. Palmer nodded his head saying, 'yes, yes.'

"Actually Captain… the Professor has come to me with an Idea." Jane needed to figure out a way to save the Hapsha; she knew that no matter what, Konif would go down with the ship. Her stomach lurched at the thought. Jacobs leaned down so both her and Palmer could be seen in the call.

"Ah right! I was trying to pitch the idea to your pilot here," there came a cry from the background.

"He's fucking crazy Jane." Palmer continued talking as if Konif hadn't spoken.

"I feel we can do it, it's just a matter of how much we have faith-" Jane pinched the bridge of her nose. The woman brought her other hand up and placed it on Jane's upper arm, somehow Jane's anger seemed to slowly simmer, the Captain shuttered.

"Alex…" she dragged out, telling him to get on with it. The professor went a little pink at the use of his first name form Jane.

"We willingly go into the black hole." Jane looked up at him shocked.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, in 2100 a scientist came up with a theory; that if something has enough momentum it can whip around inside of the black hole and back out again, like rolling a marble in a bowl." Jane moved to let go of the blonde's hand, uncomfortable with so much contact but she held on tighter. When Jane looked at her; her hazel eyes were pleading. The Captain sighed again.

"Shafter…"

"It's their best shot Jane," Shafter hummed softly. But it couldn't stop the worry that showed through its eyes.

"That's not all, tell her everything Professor." Konif's voice had anger underneath it.

"Ah yes… It seems the only way of achieving the speed we need in order to do this; we have to convert all of the ships energy to the thrusters… also the shields so the gravity doesn't smash us." Finally Konif's face joined in on the call, her face was red and there was a sheen of sweat, her arms never stop moving as she multitasked.

"Jane, he's batshit cray but…. It does beat dying without a fight." The redhead deadpanned. Both Shafter and Jane stiffened at Konif's choice of words and the smaller woman softened. "I'm sorry…" Her eyes finally landed on the blonde who was looking at the Holoscreen that showed Konif, Palmer, and Jacobs. She looked confused and scared, her hand gripping Jane's upper arm. "Who's your friend?"

"I have no idea what her name is. She's from 201 Konif." The red head stilled her movements causing the ship to jerk, making her get thrown forward into the restraints around her body. "We'll talk about it when I see you again and I will see you again." Jane stressed her words, not wanting to say goodbye to her best friend, refusing that she might never come back from this. Konif didn't say anything just smiled a grim smile and went back to work.

"Alright Jacobs update me."

"All non military personal have been successfully evacuated and the last of the escape pods are being launched now Konif, the Professor and I are staying behind to make sure this idea works. We are turning on our Simitu E.E.O's and putting all the power to the ships shields and thrusters, the only power will be Konif's dash. That's pretty much all there is too it."

"There is… one last thing." Konif looked up into the Holoscreen turning her attention to the Professor. "Due to the gravity in the black hole it is said that time itself slows down. Sadly we have no way of knowing how long it will take. To you, Jane, it will seem to take, however long it does, and to us it will pass in a matter of minutes." Jacobs face paled, knowing they only had twenty-four hours of air.

Maura was lost with the conversation, but by Jane's posture it wasn't an easy one. She caught words that she knew every now and again but most of it was gibberish. The green thing stood closer to Jane now, grabbing her other hand as the brunette spoke into an odd orange screen that showed a sad looking red head. Maura could feel Jane glancing at her every now and again, her hand a little slack in Maura's.

She's so different from all of the other Jane's I have conjured up.

Something in the way Jane's voice got raspier and the red head whipped at her eyes and the thing started to hum made Maura think something bad was going to happen, she felt like this was a very personal moment. Trying not to draw attention to herself, she let go of Jane's hand and stepped away giving them some space. Jane looked at her, worried that she suddenly stepped away, but turned back to face the red head speaking again while Maura turned and looking out the massive window, her eyes going wide. White matter and other things were circling around one point and off in the distance Maura assumed what to be a ship was stuck in the massive swirl. Maura knew what she was looking at, her brain pointed out the facts, but her stomach still clenched at the thought.

"Uzarch lunth scheouzomp Olga, stay safe my little firefly." Maura spun facing Jane, finally understanding something she said, she finally spoke in English. But if was odd the way she said it. The word little seemed to get stuck in her throat and she held the R in firefly for too long, her accent thick and odd. It wasn't quite what Maura would describe as a German accent but that was the closest description she could come up with.

Jane looked over at the blonde who suddenly let go of her hand in the middle of her conversation with Konif; she looked back at the red head finishing what she was saying.

"I love you Olga, stay safe my little firefly." Jane used the phrase Konifs late father always used towards Konif whenever he was shipped off. Her father being a lover of old things had searched the libraries in his youth and came across a very very old English dictionary it was marked as "Unknown literature." He had spent weeks trying to translate the words only succeeding in a handful, but he was able to get two phrases out of it. Konif had told Jane and Shafter about it so long ago and they had adopted it whenever something terrible might happen to one of them, hoping to lift their spirits.

Jane felt the blonde spin looking at her hard, but she ignored her, focusing on her best friend who finally allowed a tear to slide down her cheek. Konif responded how she always did,

"My light will always be on." The redhead quickly turned off her screen, ending the call with Shafter and Jane. Jane stared at the ground for a few seconds before finally wishing Jacobs and Palmer luck and that she will keep an eye out for them. The Holoscreen's turned off, making the room a little darker. Shafter's hum was deep and low, pain seeping out of it. It let go of her hand, gripping her shoulder before leaving Jane with the other human.

Maura stared at Jane who continued looking at the ground. Tentatively Maura reached out and placed her hand slowly on Jane's shoulder who stiffened saying,

"Hark." Turning towards Maura; making it so Maura had to drop her hand. Maura stared at Jane; panic was still eating at her mind, but the presence of the brunette calming her down.

"Shavrts yigerzen larch mifpt?" The brunette asked softly. Maura just continued staring at Jane who tilted her head waiting for a response, her eye brows were knitted together and she crossed her arms. "Kiplonz tousch zesimf?" Maura just blinked at her. Jane dropped her arms, her eyes going big, understanding finally dawning on her features.

Finally understanding that Maura had no idea what she was saying.

Maura couldn't help but smile as Jane smacked herself in the chest saying her name and then gesturing towards Maura, quickly understanding what Jane was trying to get at.

"Maura." Jane stood there looking a little stumped. Maura pointed at herself saying her name again.

"Maorrrra?" Jane's mouth had trouble forming the letters that went together. The blonde looked out the window again, nodding. Maura couldn't help but have her mind wonder in those few seconds it wasn't preoccupied.

A little bit ago, she was ready to end the pain, end the numbness.

And now she was in some sort of weird fantasy where Jane was alive and didn't even speak the same language as her. Maura looked down at the ground hugging her, tears pooling in her eyes.

Jane watched as, who she now knew was called Maura, crumble in front of her.

What she must be going through right now. She must be so confused and scared.

Jane was shocked to find out that Maura didn't speak her language, wondering what she did speak; the blonde not saying anything beside names. The smaller woman covered her face with soft hands, her shoulders shaking. Jane did the only thing that she knew; she pulled her into a tight hug, offering comfort to her. She knew Maura had no idea what she was saying but Jane whispered reassuring words knowing Maura would understand the meaning behind her tone.

The woman wrapped her arms around Jane's waist pulling her closer to her, sprawling her hands out along her back. Jane squeezed her around her shoulders as the small woman rested her head against Jane's chest still shaking.

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