Frankie came back into the bullpen and sighed loudly. "I made sure that Maura really went home and to get some rest. Well, she protested but in the end I won."
Cavanaugh nodded slowly and looked at the board. "Well, thanks to Detective Masterson we've lost the opportunity to ask were Jane can be."
Masterson looked long at him. "How many times do I have to say that I am sorry?"
Cavanaugh glared at him. "That won't bring Foley back to life. I told you that we weren't going to shot unless it was necessary. And you didn't followed my order. He was our chance to find Rizzoli alive."
Masterson inhaled sharply and pressed his lips together.
Frankie looked at the two older man. "What do we do now?"
Korsak shrugged and raised his eyebrows. "How about we go and check the second address? I can't go home and sleep now anyway."
"Me neither.", Cavanaugh sighed and Frankie nodded slowly. Cavanaugh nodded. "Okay, it's settled then.", he looked at Masterson. "You're still with us?"
Masterson answered the question by standing up.
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After having given the same order that no shot got fired unless they had no other choice, the four Detectives walked with drawn guns toward the second house which looked worse than the first one.
Frankie opened the unlocked door carefully and gasped as the scent of mold hit him hard. "Jesus.", he whispered.
Korsak looked warningly before they entered the house. He wrinkled his nose and drew his eyebrows together. He would never admit it but he felt like he could vomit.
Cavanaugh stopped at a dilapidated stairway that led to the upper floor and looked with a frown. There was no way that Jane, if she was in this house, was upstairs.
The four checked the floor they were on and Masterson pointed to a metal door. After they make sure that there was no threat, he opened the door and frowned as an intact stairway appeared. The four carefully walked down and stopped as they entered a vaulted cellar in which a single metal table stood in the middle of the room. On that table lay an unconscious Jane.
The only problem was that Donna was leaning over the woman.
"Hands up where I can see them, Donna." Korsak barked.
Donna turned around and at first looked confused at them, but suddenly had an evil smile on her face.
Frankie's facial muscles twitched as he saw a object in her hands. "Drop that fucking scalpel. Now!"
Donna started to laugh and held it up. "That little thing? Okay.", she said and suddenly turned around. She raised her hand and was about to slam it right into Jane's body. But before she had the chance Donna a gunshot filled the room and Donna dropped the scalpel. She looked down at herself and saw the wound that was in her chest before she slumped to the floor.
Masterson slowly lowered his gun and looked at the three man. "Well, I think that was necessary.", he said out of breath.
Frankie put his gun back into his holster and walked to the table. He untied Jane's hands and checked her vital signs. "Hey, Janie. We got you. You're safe again. Do you here me? You're going back home, sis."
Korsak walked to Donna and checked her vital signs. He looked up at Cavanaugh and shook his head.
Cavanaugh released the breath he was holding and closed his eyes.
Masterson looked guilty at him. "If I hadn't shot her she would have killed Jane. I had no choice."
Cavanaugh nodded slowly and clapped his shoulder.
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Maura sat thoughtfully at the dining table and stared into nothing.
Angela eyed her critically and sighed. "Maura, you should go and get some sleep."
Maura blinked a few times as she came out of her thoughts and smiled looking at her mother in law. "I'm fine, Angela."
Angela pressed her lips together and sighed. "No, you are not. You look as white as a ghost and you didn't eat very much. Get some rest, honey."
Maura was about to protest as her phone started to ring. She looked at the display and frowned deeply. "That's Frankie.", she said and took the call. "Hello?", she listened carefully and suddenly began to sob hard. "Oh God. Oh God."
Angela quickly walked to her as Maura started to cry and began rubbing soothing circles on her back.
Maura ended the call and looked with teary eyes at Angela. "They found her. They ... they found Jane in the second house of Sybil Foley. She is ... she is unconscious and dehydrated but at least she's alive. The paramedics took her to Mass Gen."
Angela released her breath in relief and smiled broadly before she embraced Maura. "See. I told you everything would be fine."
Maura sobbed loud and nodded.
Yes, Angela had told her everything was going to be fine again and she was right. Everything was fine again. Not completely, but it was just a matter of time.
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Jane frowned slightly and groaned a little. She felt the surface of a soft mattress underneath her instead of the hard, cool metal of the table in the basement. Maybe nothing had really happened and everything she thought happened was just an awful nightmare. Maybe, if she opened her eyes, she would wake up in her bedroom beside Maura. She frowned at the name and the odd feeling of soft lips on her hand. "Maura.", she whispered.
Maura looked up and recognized immediately that Jane was coming to. "I'm here, baby."
Jane rolled her head back and forth without opening her eyes. "I had an awful dream.", she whispered with a hoarse voice.
Maura put a strand of hair behind Jane's ear. "I know, honey."
Jane recognized the annoying sound of a heart monitor and opened her eyes a little bit to be welcomed by the white walls of a hospital room. She groaned again and turned her head to her wife. "Why am I in a hospital?"
Maura sighed in relief as she looked into those familiar dark brown eyes. "You went alone to Mandy's dorm and got attacked there. And you got abducted."
Jane closed her eyes for a moment. "So it wasn't a nightmare."
Maura licked her lips. "I'm afraid it wasn't."
Jane frowned slightly and looked back at her wife. "How did I got here?"
Maura ran a thumb over Jane's scarred hand. A hand she thought she would never feel again. "We figured out that Sybil Foley, Tim Foley's dead wife, owned two houses in West Cambridge. Frankie, Lieutenant Cavanaugh, Sergeant Korsak and Ryan went to those properties and found you at the second. Sadly Foley and Donna got killed during the operation."
Jane's eyes shot open and she sat up. She immediately hated herself for her actions but it didn't change her mind. "I have to get out of here."
Maura frowned and stood up as Jane disconnected the monitor, then she pushed her wife back onto the bed. "What you have to is rest, Jane. You got pretty drugged with GHB and you are very dehydrated.", she said with a rough shove as Jane tried to sat up again. "And stop fighting me, Jane."
Jane collected all her strength and sat up even Maura tried to shove her back. "Listen, Maura. Get those freaking discharge papers or I'll jump out of this damn window."
Maura saw the determination in Jane's eyes and sighed yieldingly. "Okay. Okay, I'll get the papers." she said and turned to leave the room.
Jane sighed relieved and laid back. "Maura?"
Maura turned around again and frowned. "Yes, Jane?"
Jane turned her head towards her wife. "Before you leave. Could I ... could I have a kiss?"
Maura walked back to the hospital bed, leaned over and kissed Jane gently.
Jane suddenly wrinkled her nose. "I have bad breath."
Maura chuckled and kissed her once more. "I know. But I don't mind."
Jane smiled broadly but sobered immediately. "Please tell me that I am really here and that it is not a dream."
Maura kissed Jane once more and smiled reassuringly. "You are really here in this hospital bed and not in this awful basement anymore ... God, I thought I'd lost you, Jane."
Jane put a hand on Maura's cheek and sighed. "It takes more than two sickos to get rid of me."
Maura kissed Jane's palm. "And I am grateful for that.", she said before she left the room.
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Masterson sat down at Jane's desk and sipped his coffee.
Korsak entered the bullpen and frowned at the sight. "You know ... Jane is going to kill you when she finds out that you sat in her chair."
Masterson grinned and shrugged. "I don't see her, do you? And what she doesn't know won't kill her, right?"
He was prepared for everything but not for the impact as the chair got slammed against the wall behind him. He gasped surprised and frowned.
"Right!", Jane growled as she leaned on both armrests and stared into Masterson's eyes. "But what I do know will bring you the death penalty."
Korsak drew his eyebrows together confused, and he opened his mouth.
"Jane!" Maura yelled as the bullpen went quiet and Cavanaugh entered with Frankie. Both men stopped dead immediately.
Masterson squirmed uncomfortably in the chair. "I don't know what you mean."
Jane pierced him with her gaze. "I know everything. Foley told me as I was cuffed to the fucking chair. Maybe he knew that he wouldn't make it alive."
Masterson got as white as a ghost and licked his lips.
Jane narrowed her eyes. "Tell them. Tell Maura."
Maura make a step toward her wife. "Tell me what?", she asked with a too high pitched voice.
Jane stared Masterson down. "Everything he told us about his past was a lie ... beside the fact that he is a Detective. He was never married and never had a child. Max and Victoria got killed but not by the Illustrated Man. Right, Ryan.", she answered the question on her own. "You stalked them after you had a one night stand with Victoria. Like you stalked Maura. And Victoria rejected you after she went back together with her husband. And that big ego of yours couldn't handle it. That's why you killed them. That's where it started. And that's why you had to leave Baltimore. Because your colleagues came to close to knowing it was you. And that's when you started to teach Tim and Donna who to kill. You encouraged them to start their own vendetta but all they were for you were sacrifices ... scapegoats."
Maura opened her mouth to protest but looked horrified as Masterson started to laugh evilly.
He stared at Jane and grinned. "You weren't supposed to get out of that fucking basement alive. But who would have thought that you were really a woman that is so hard to kill. Maura was supposed to marry me and not some dyke like you."
"What?", Maura gasped.
Masterson stared into Jane's eyes. "I didn't want to kill Victoria but she said she'd go to the police if I didn't stop visiting her. She loved me. And Max loved me."
Jane clenched her teeth. "Victoria had to obtain a restraining order because of you, you sick motherfucker."
"She shouldn't have done that.", Masterson whispered.
Jane growled and slammed the against the wall before she looked at Frankie. "Almost four years of friendship were just a pack of lies. You are a shame to every single cop in America.", she growled into his face and he closed his eyes. Jane clenched her teeth as she stared him mercilessly down. "Frankie, arrest him before I do something stupid."
Frankie didn't need to be ask twice and grabbed Masterson at the collar. "Get up, fucker."
Jane closed her eyes as Masterson got led out and swayed a little as she braced herself on her desk.
Maura walked immediately to her and looked at her wife worried. "Jane?"
Jane composed herself again and took a deep breath. "I think I should go back to hospital."
Maura wrapped an arm around Jane's waist and balanced her and her wife's weight.
Korsak helped her and smiled at his former partner. "That's why you are Boston's finest."
Jane grinned and didn't say anything as she got led out of the bullpen. But one thing she couldn't resist and looked with a frown at Maura. "You have a really bad taste in men, Maura."
Maura just rolled her eyes but had to smile a little.
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Alexis sat on the floor in the living room a few days later and practiced her skills in drawing. As the front door opened and the girl lifted her eyes. They grew huge as she spotted her beloved Mama and she jumped to her feet.
Jane grinned broadly and gasped as she caught her daughter who flew toward her.
Maura laughed and sighed with relief.
Jane pressed Alexis tightly against herself and kissed her daughter's cheek. "Hey, baby girl. I've missed you."
Alexis beamed and scrutinized Jane. "I missed you too, Mama. Where were you?"
Jane kissed her once more and looked at Alexis. "I had to work, Al. But now I am back home and have all time in the world just for you and your Mommy."
Alexis grinned broadly and nodded.
Angela laughed as she walked to Jane and hugged her tightly. "Hey, Janie.", she whispered before she kissed her daughter's cheek. "We were so worried."
Jane looked apologetically at her mother and sighed. "I know, Ma. I'm sorry."
"All that matters is that you're safely back home."
Jane put Alexis back in her and clapped her hands. "So ... what did you do while I was ... busy, Al?"
Alexis shrugged in a Rizzoli manner. "T.J. and I had a cool water fight with Uncle Tommy. And we won."
Jane grinned as Tommy entered the living room and rolled his eyes at those words. "I bet you did. Listen, how does it sound if we have a rematch. Maybe if I am on Uncle Tommy's team he has a chance of winning."
Alexis squeaked and started to run towards the porch door.
A few hours later Tommy came back into the house soaking wet and huffed. "I want a rematch of the rematch. You were supposed to be on my team, Jane."
Jane came chuckling into the house with Alexis in tow. "I was on your side. But you know that I would rather on the winning team."
Tommy huffed again.
Maura chuckled amused. "How was it?"
Jane shrugged proudly. "We won. Well, Alexis, T.J. and I won."
Maura raised her eyebrows. "Congratulations."
"Thanks.", Jane whispered as she leaned to her wife and kissed her.
Maura drew her eyebrows together as she realized that her wife was soaking wet as well. She tried to push Jane away from her. But Jane started to chuckle and pressed her body closer into Maura's without breaking the kiss.
Tommy rolled his eyes while he covered Alexis' with a hand.
"You are impossible.", Maura said out of breath as she broke away from her wife.
"I know.", Jane laughed as she saw Maura's skeptical gaze at her clothes. But then her wife joined the laughter.