Disclaimer: Yeah...still have nothing to do with the show...bummer.
"Jane Rizzoli. I am here to see Jane Rizzoli. What room is she in?" Maura demanded to the front desk clerk at the local hospital.
"I'm sorry Ma'm but we can only give that information out to family members. Are you related to Detective Rizzoli?"
Maura noted that the receptionist obviously knew who she was talking about since she referred to Jane as 'Detective'. The fact that an injured cop was brought into the ER was probably not a quiet affair.
"I am her emergency contact. I am also her doctor." she stretched. Though she wasn't Jane's general practitioner she was a doctor that cared for the woman multiple times when she had been injured and just last night Jane had said, 'You are all mine,' when the two were snuggling in bed. Maura wasn't lying - not that she could if she wanted to.
The young woman began to dig through the pile of charts at her desk. She could tell that it wouldn't be worth her time to argue with the distraught woman in front of her.
"Detective Rizzoli is in room 5. Down the hall to your left."
Maura mumbled a thank you as she rushed through the double doors to the right of the reception desk. Taking a left down the hall as instructed she found Barry Frost sitting outside the room with a large number five on the door.
"She's ok Maura." Frost said as he rose to his feet.
"I would like to see that for myself if you don't mind Barry." The ME said with a cool tone. She wasn't often rude to Jane's partner but she couldn't help but being a little mad at him for allowing Jane to get injured on the job. When he had called her to tell her of Jane's fall she dropped everything that she was doing and rushed to the ER.
Frost returned to his seat as Maura pushed through the door to Jane's room. Her girlfriend was propped up in bed. The honey blonde couldn't tell if she was fully asleep or just resting her eyes. She began to scan Jane's body for obvious injuries. There was a bandage on her head and left arm probably from minor cuts from the fall. A few bruises were also visible on her arm by the bandage. The largest injury was on Jane's left leg which was wrapped in a light blue cast from her foot to her knee.
The doctor picked up the chart that was hanging at the end of the bed. She was thankful to see that the CT's and x-rays of her back and neck had come back clear. Her chart review was interrupted by Jane's voice.
"It's not as bad as it looks. I promise."
"The hell it is." Maura said surprising Jane. "You broke your leg Jane. What were you doing up on that fire escape?"
"Chasing a perp."
Maura rolled her eyes. 'Of course, she was,' she thought as she sat on the edge of the hospital bed.
"Frost and I went to his apartment to serve a warrant. We could tell that he was avoiding us so we ended up kicking in the door. We almost got him before he went out the window. Frost ran down the stairs to catch him in the alley while I followed him down the fire escape. The perp jumped from the bottom of the ladder to the top of a dumpster near by when I attempted the same thing my foot slipped. Freaking Boston in the winter, the damn rung was still frozen over. I went down to the side of the dumpster. I feel like such a fool. Frost got the guy though. Thank God. I would feel worse if the guy got away."
"I don't care if you got the guy or not. I just want you in one piece." Maura said. She didn't attempt to hid her frustration. "Sometimes I feel like you don't think before you act Jane. You just run off in any direction at a crime scene without thinking about the consequences."
"Hey, hey, hey! Where is this coming from?" Jane asked. She was very confused by her girlfriend's sudden turn in tone.
"This could've been worse Jane. MUCH worse. You could have hit your head and caused serious brain damage! I don't even want to think about the possibility of you breaking your neck and dying but could have happened. And all of this is nothing compared to situations where the people you are pursuing have guns - which this man could've had! I don't like to admit it and I try to ignore it because this is your job and I know you love it and you are good at it but there is a part of me that is terrified when you galavanting off to work everyday."
"Hey! I don't go galavanting off to work everyday." Jane tried to defend herself even though she was snickering a bit at her girlfriend's word choice. "Yes, my job is dangerous and I appreciate you understanding and accepting that because most of the other people I have dated haven't been. But you should know that my first priority - especially since we started dating - is Frost's and my safety. I don't ever want to hurt you and I know that by hurting myself I am hurting you."
Jane took Maura's hand and held it against up to her heart. "You are my life now Maura. I don't even want to think of what either of us would be like without the other. And hey, look on the bright side," she said as she gave Maura a leering look, "I am going to be bedridden for a few weeks."
Maura chuckled at her girlfriend waggling her eyebrows at her despite the tears that had welled up in her eyes, "Just promise me that you will try your hardest to come home to me every night."
"Always." Jane pulled Maura's lips down to meet hers before the honey blonde snuggled into her chest. "Always."
Hope you enjoyed it. I have a few more thoughts kicking around but if there are any storylines you would like to read just let me know when you tell me how much you enjoyed this chapter. ;)