A/N: First of all I want to thank the Beta reader who is a huge help for me through the last chapters. Thank you very much. And second I want to thank those who still read this story. Thank you as well.

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Maura felt someone lie down next to her in the conjugal bed and opened her eyes. She sighed as her alarm said that it was 6.47 a.m. She turned onto her left side and smiled as her wife looked at her.
Jane felt exhausted. She had planned to be home at twelve last night ... latest. But she was so engrossed in these New York files that she didn't realize that that plan had turned into thin air. She returned the smile and frowned. "I didn't want to wake you. I am surprised that your still asleep."
Maura ran her right index finger along Jane's jaw line and smiled again. "Alexis is with your mother. Angela suggested that she take her for one night so we can sleep in since we didn't have to go to work this morning. I was awake till two last night so then I was too sleepy. I'm sorry I didn't wait for you."
Jane closed her eyes and sighed. "Don't be, Maura. You would be still up too if you would have waited. How about we go to sleep?"
Maura snuggled into Jane and wrapped an arm around Jane's middle. "Sounds good to me."
Jane smiled and kissed Maura's head. "I love you."
Maura smiled and buried her nose in Jane's neck. "I love you too, Jane."

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Jane sat in her sweats and t-shirt at the kitchen island and read the newspaper while she sipped her coffee. She smiled as Maura rounded the island and kissed her cheek. "What was that for?"
Maura bit her bottom lip and shrugged. "Do I need a reason to kiss my wife?"
Jane smirked and raised an eyebrow. "I have the feeling that there is a ulterior motive behind this all."
Maura grinned and shrugged. "Not that I would know."
Jane closed the newspaper and pulled her wife to her. "A half day without a child, just the two of us. How long is it ago since we had that opportunity?"
Maura sighed with a smile and put her hands on Jane's shoulders. "Way too long. Since we've been together again."
Jane looked deep into her wife's eyes and took a deep breath. "Let's not talk about this, Maura. I want to keep going without thinking about that little ... incident."
Maura looked into the warm, soft eyes and nodded before she kissed Jane on the lips. "Okay. No objection."
Jane smiled again and sipped her coffee. "I noticed that the decaf is still pretty full. How come ?"
Maura pursed her lips and furrowed her eyebrows.
Jane raised her eyebrows as she saw how her wife's neck started to turn crimson. Then she bursted out laughing. "Jesus, are you thinking about lying to me?"
Now not only had Maura's neck turned red but also her face. "No?"
Jane laughed amused and kissed her wife again. "You are so damn cute. You know that?"
Maura shrugged and smiled. "You mentioned it now and then. But thank you very much."
Jane smirked and sipped her coffee. But then a sudden frown crept onto her face.
Maura raised her eyebrows as she sipped her coffee. "What is it?"
Jane didn't answer right away but then shook her head to dismiss her train of thought. . She took a deep breath and smiled again. "Nothing that can't wait until we're at work. I want to enjoy the half day off."
Maura nodded slowly and sat next to Jane. She took her wife's hand in her own and sighed. "What do you want to do till we have to go to work?"
Jane sipped her coffee and raised her eyebrows. "How about we lie down on the couch and cuddle. I mean we don't often have the opportunity of not being being caught by Ma while we're cuddling."
Maura bit her bottom lip to suppress a wide grin. She stood up and led the way to the living room.

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Jane cracked an eye open and groaned. But she wasn't sure what the reason was. If it was because a pregnant woman laid half on her and caused that her back to ache, or was it the vibrating of her phone. She fished for the device and drew her eyebrows together as she saw Frankie's name on the display. She accepted the call and cleared her throat. "What is it?" She listened to her brother and frowned deeply. "What? When? Where?", Jane sighed and closed her eyes again. "We will be there soon."
Maura opened her eyes and leaned her chin on Jane's shoulder. "What is it?"
Jane rubbed her eyes with her palms and groaned again. "There's a new body, at the harbor, a woman again."
Maura rolled away from her wife and sat up. She looked at Jane and raised her eyebrows. "Aren't you suppose to get up as well?"
Jane raised her left index finger and furrowed her eyebrows. "Just a moment, Maura. I'll be ready in a minute?"
"Jane, are you alright?"
"In a minute."

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Frankie pinned the newest crime scene photos at the board and looked at his sister. "That was a short cool off phase."
Jane sighed and sipped her coffee. "Which makes me more worried."
"Why?", Frankie wanted to know and leaned with the back of his legs against her desk.
Korsak looked at Jane and stood up to inspect the pictures closely. "Because everytime Simon and Anna finished their 'project' they left their current location. And as far as we know we entered the 'speak no evil' stage. Which means we do not have much time anymore."
Frankie sighed and closed his eyes. "Damn."
"That's right.", agreed Jane with a sigh. "Okay, Abbey Dale was young, successful and worked as a meter maid, again an officer."
"What does a meter maid hear or see that's so awful that someone would kill her and pierce her ears through.."
Korsak sat down at his chair again and leaned back. "As much as a patrol officer, Frankie, and sometimes even much worse."
Frankie raised his eyebrows and shrugged. "But what exactly made those four potential victims for Anna and Simon?"
Jane stood up, walked to the board and pointed at Samantha. "Samantha was a nice girl with a second life in the bondage scene. She saw a lot of things that people like you and me call ... uh ... unusual. Our friend Paolo had friends who were criminals and decided to look away and tried to move another city instead of going to the police. Kate was a parole officer who helped petty crooks reintegrate into their social lives. She had seen a lot of things as she read through the files of her clients and heard a lot as they described their misdemeanors. Abbey was a meter maid, and she had also seen and heard a lot of things. But all four have one thing in common."
"They are dead?", Frankie asked with a shrug.
Korsak rolled his eyes and hit the back of Frankie's head.
Frankie rubbed the hit area and looked confused at the older man. "Ow, hey!"
Jane pressed her lips together to suppress a grin. "No, none of them reported what they had seen or heard."
Frankie frowned. "See no evil and hear no evil."
Jane nodded slowly. "Exactly."
Korsak walked to the board and tapped at the composite sketches. "And the other thing all four have in common is that all four befriended those two."
Jane chewed on her bottom lip and drew her eyebrows together.
Frankie cleared his throat as he looked at the sketches. "I wonder why no one called us because of the composite sketches. I mean normally the hell breaks loose as soon as the media is sent anything that has to do with an open case, and the Bostonians give us a hell lot of false leads."
And with that Frankie had spoken out loud what Jane was thinking. Something felt wrong in this current case. But she couldn't tell what. She sighed and shrugged. She hadn't had an answer to his question and they didn't have much time anymore before Anna and Simon would disappear again. And they would be the idiots who had let them escape again, like Foley and the NYPD. Just the thought of that possibility made her sick.
They needed a break through ... and they needed it as fast as possible.
"Jane, what are you thinking?", Frankie's voice brought her out ofher train of thought. Jane looked at him and shook her head. "Just ... just that I want to catch those bastards."
Frankie nodded slowly and exhaled loudly.
Korsak scrutinized her former partner and sighed heavily. He knew how Jane worked and he knew that this case had brought her to her breaking point.
Jane saw how he looked at her and forced herself to smile. But she could see that it didn't convinced a Vince Korsak. She sighed and turned her head to her brother who had the same expression. She rolled her eyes and slumped her shoulders. "What?"
Frankie shook his head and stood up.
Korsak decided to look back at his notes.
A patrol officer entered the bullpen and cleared his throat. " Detective Rizzoli?", he paused as the heads of Frankie and Jane turned to him and blushed. "Um ... I mean Detective Rizzoli Senior. Sorry, Frankie."
Frankie grunted as he stifled a laugh and Korsak put an hand in his mouth to hide his smile.
Jane rolled her eyes again and raised her eyebrow. "Yes?"
He scratched his chin and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder. "There is a woman in the conference room. She said that she recognized the man from the composite sketch that was shown on the news."
Jane's eyebrows shot up and she looked at Korsak before she looked at the man. "Thank you."
He nodded and left the bullpen again.
Jane stood up and took her jacket. "Well, I think God just heard my prayer."
Korsak raised his eyebrows and followed her.

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Jane sat across from a young red-haired woman and smiled a little. "Thank you for coming here, Miss Henson."
Kelly Henson smiled and nodded. "As long as I can help you."
Jane nodded and pushed the composite sketch of Simon Lassiter towards her. "You told the Officer in the foyer that you recognize this man."
Kelly looked at the sketch and nodded again. "Yes, he talked to me a few days ago when I was in a pub. I went to meet with some friends there. He was really nice and charming, He was also very educated and handsome."
Jane looked long at her and frowned. "What did the two of you talk about?"
Kelly shrugged and took a deep breath. "About everything and nothing; what my hobbies are, were I went to school, if I have a boyfriend, what I do for a living."
Korsak looked over his glasses. "And what do you do for a living?"
Kelly stared at him and drew her eyebrows together. "I am still at the college."
"What is your major?", Jane wanted to know.
Kelly frowned now. "Law. Why? Is it important? Why is he in the news? Did he kill someone?"
Jane licked her lips and exchanged gazes with Korsak.
Kelly sat up straight and had big eyes. "Oh my God, he did, didn't he?"
Jane cleared her throat and licked her lips again. "Did he mentioned what he does for a living?"
Kelly swallowed hard and thought for a moment. "Yes ... yes, he did. He was pretty interested because he was in law enforcement too."
Jane stared at her and felt her hands become sweaty. "What exactly does he do in the law enforcement?"
Kelly stared at her hands and frowned. "Uh ... I guess ... I guess he said that he is a cop."
Jane sank back into her chair and a sigh escaped her lips without her permission.
Korsak slowly closed his eyes, but then looked back at Kelly. "With what name did he introduced himself to you?"
"Simon. Simon Lassiter.", she answered and looked at the two.

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Korsak stood with Jane in the hallway as the two watched Kelly enter the elevator. "What do you think?"
Jane stared at the closed elevator and sighed. "I think now we have the answer to question why no evidence could be found at the crime scene."
"So ... you think he could be a cop?"
Jane started to walk toward the bullpen. "I think that we have been pranked pretty bad if Simon Lassiter is a cop."