Jane came back to the bullpen with a huge smile. Frankie looked at her and frowned. "Is this a smile of joy or is this a smile of gloating?" Jane rolled her eyes and sighed. "Definitely a smile of joy. I am not as mean as you pretend I am.", she paused and stared at the empty desk of Masterson. "That was fast." "He was in a hurry to get out of here.", Korsak said and nodded at Jane. "Want to tell us why you are so happy?" Jane sighed and sat down at her desk. "Not now. Let us focus back on the case. Did you find anything good on Samantha's laptop, Frankie?" Frankie raised his eyebrows while he looked at the monitor. "I am going through it right now. It took me a little longer to break through the security." Korsak stared at him and grinned. "You know, if we had known that you were fully joining the Homicide department today ... we would have thrown a welcome party for you." Frankie looked up slowly and smiled sarcastically. "I'm sure of that. Anyway, I am happy that my time as a stand-by man is finally over." Jane finally chuckled again and raised her eyebrows. "It would have been a nice party." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Frankie mumbled. "Hello!" "What?", Jane wanted to know. Frankie turned the laptop toward her. "Look what I found." Jane stared at the screen and frowned. "That's a dating website. I thought Samantha had an boyfriend. What the hell did she do on a website like this?" Frankie tapped on the edge of the monitor and looked at his sister. "Take a closer look, Jane." Jane stood up and walked to his desk before she took a closer look. "What the fucking hell? SM and Bondage? Did Chad mentioned unusual sex practices?" Frankie thought for a moment and shook his head. "No. But when Masterson interviewed him we didn't really know what we were looking for. " Jane straightened up and looked at Korsak. "Well, then let's have a little talk with him again."
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Jane sat in the interrogation room and eyed the nervous light blonde haired young man who was in front of her. "Why are you so nervous?" Chad Perlman looked at her, then Korsak and then at Frankie. "I've never been in a room like this." "If you've done nothing wrong, you have no reason to be nervous." Korsak stated seriously as he looked over his glasses. Chad swallowed hard and exhaled loudly. "I already told you everything I know." Jane raised her eyebrows as she slowly opened the case file. "It happens that some more questions have popped up." Chad slowly nodded. "Okay, I'll try my best to help." Jane cleared her throat and sighed. "Did you know that Samantha was a member of an online dating website?" Chad looked at her in disbelief. "Why would she be a member of a site like that? We had a good relationship." "We hoped that you would be able to answer that question." Jane replied and pushed a print of the dubious website across the table to Chad. "She joined this side. Do you recognize it?" Chad stared at the print and drew his eyebrows together. "Is this a sick joke? Sam would never have joined a site like this." "But this is what we found on her laptop." Frankie said as he leaned against the wall. "And we also found several emails in which she arranged dates for sex. Detective." Jane frowned as she pushed the printed emails to the shocked Chad. "She also described in those emails what she would like to do." Chad read through the emails and shook his head slowly while he went pale. Korsak studied his reaction and frowned. "Did Samantha mention that she liked to have unusual sex?" Chad looked at him and shook his head. "No. No, not once. We had pretty normal sex and Sam never complained about it. ", he paused and clenched his teeth." I can't believe that Sam cheated on me and wrote this shit to complete stranger. I feel like I didn't know her for real." Jane sighed. "Maybe she had an acquaintance she slept with that you also know. Did any of your friends say anything unreasonable about Samantha's death? Maybe that she deserved being killed?" Chad thought for a moment and shook his head. "No, not one of our friends has said something like that. And I am sure that I would have recognized it if one of our friends had changed because they had sex with Sam." Jane looked at him and then at her brother.
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Jane stood in front of the board and stared at it with a frown. It seemed like Samantha McKenna had led a double life. For her friends and family, she had this conservative and almost prudish life. And for strangers, she was this sexy object of desire who liked unusual and rough sex. Jane sighed. "I'm almost starting to believe that Masterson was right. That her death was an accident and it happened when she practiced her bondage thing and she got strangled." "A lot of autoerotic fatalities end up on my table.", Maura said as she entered the bullpen and three pairs of eyes settled on her. "Autoerotic fatalities are deaths that occur during sexual activity when an action, chemical, device or prop that is being employed to enhance physical or psychological stimulation causes the death. These deaths may be accidental, natural or homicidal and occur in connection with consensual acts, criminal sexual assaults, or autoerotic acts. The term is often applied to only those deaths related to solitary sexual practices such as self-bondage and autoerotic asphyxia.",
she looked at the two men who stared with open mouths at her and smiled. "Male victims are much more likely to use a variety of devices during autoerotic behavior than are female victims. The most common causes of death in autoerotic fatalities are asphyxia by strangulation, suffocation, chemical or postural asphyxia. These causes dominate autoerotic deaths to such an extent that other forms of autoerotic death are termed atypical. Atypical deaths are through causes such as electrocution, sepsis after bowel perforation, crushing, and accidental self-impalement." Jane also stared at her and blinked a few times. "Thank you ... Maura. That was very helpful." Frankie cleared his throat. "Well ... uh ... but why the cut out her eyes?" Korsak shrugged but still had his eyes still on Maura who looked and sounded a lot like her old self again. "Maybe to distract us from them. I mean, it is easy to arrange a body so that it looks like some kind of sicko walks on Boston's street, we we're on the lookout for someone like that instead of a professor of a university or some other normal looking person." Jane looked at him and wrinkled her nose. "Yeah, maybe. But something feels odd. I doubt that it is that easy because as Maura had said the eyes were removed by a professional.", she paused and looked at her wife. "Speaking of the devil ... Maura, what are you doing here?" Maura looked at Korsak and Frankie, wholooked curiously at her, as she leaned into Jane's personal space. "I missed you.", she whispered. Jane had to smile and raised her eyebrows. "I missed you too." Maura licked her lips. "I thought we could drive home together and have a nice dinner after we put Alexis to bed." Jane's smile grew wider. "I would love to ...", she looked at her watch and made a face. "Oh, shoot. I didn't realized that it was already that late. Maura, I am sorry but I still have a lot to do." Maura smiled and waved it off. "It's okay, Jane. I'll wait for you at home." "I am welcome at the main house again?" Maura answered that question with a seductive smile and walked away. Jane grinned from ear to ear and turned serious as she saw the goofy smiles of Korsak and Frankie. "What?" Korsak chuckled and waved as he walked back to his desk. But Frankie had a hard time as he tried to stifle his laugh. Jane rolled her eyes and snorted annoyed.
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It was late at night as Jane came home and she tiptoed through the house. She walked up the stairs and the first thought that came to her was her daughter. Jane opened the door of the nursery carefully and walked to Alexis' bed. She sighed as she sat down at the edge and moved a strand of hair out of Alexis' face. She smiled as her daughter stirred a little. Jane kissed her cheek and inhaled her scent. "I love you, baby girl.", she whispered. "Go back to sleep." Alexis sighed deeply in her sleep. " Love you, Mama." Jane grinned like an idiot and watched her daughter. "I love you too, sweet baby.", she whispered and sneaked out of the room. Jane sighed deeply as she closed the door. She pulled her gun from her belt while she walked to the bedroom and opened the door. She was welcomed by total darkness and the heavy breathing of her wife. Jane knew the way to the gun safe by heart and locked the item away. She had pulled her shirt half the way over her head. "Jane?", Maura asked with a sleepy voice. Jane frowned and threw the shirt in the next corner. "Yeah?" Maura sighed and buried her head into her pillow. "What time is it." Jane looked at the red display of her alarm and took a deep breath. "Uh ... a little after two." Maura groaned and turned onto her back. "Why are you so late?" Jane prepared herself for the next fight and hesitated before she pulled her pants down. "I told you that I still had to work." Maura sighed and turned her head to the closet where she thought her wife was standing. "What are you doing?" "I'm getting ready for bed." "Why don't you stop changing your clothes, strip down completely and come to bed. I always appreciated good make up sex." Jane growled and almost flew to the bed. But then she hesitated again and frowned. "But we have to get up early." Maura sighed and leaned over her wife. "That's the reason we have coffee in the kitchen." "But you are pregnant. ", Jane replied. Maura rolled her eyes. "That's the reason I have green tea in the kitchen." Jane chuckled but turned serious before she kissed Maura slowly and sensually. She moaned deeply as her wife kissed her back.