She felt the surface beneath her move. Was she in a bed, on some type of mattress? Her whole body felt heavy. Her eyelashes were weighing down her eyelids. Her eyebrows didn't allow her forehead to move. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't move her arms.
Then there was something next to her – someone next to her. She felt fingers brush through her hair and a hand on her stomach. Part of her brain wanted to fight off the touch. She didn't know what was going on right now or who that person was. The other part of her brain – part of her heart – recognized the touch. It was soothing but how could it be?
She fought to wake up. She had to know. Could it be her? But if it was her then what did that mean? Where were they?
"It's ok, Jane." A calm and familiar voice said, "Wake up Jane. You can do it."
Wake up? She thought. Wake up from what? What's going on?
"Wake up for me Jane. Please, baby."
It had to be her. But how could it be? The fog began to clear. There was no question who the voice belonged to; who was touching her.
"Maura." She managed to mumble.
"It's me baby. I'm here."
Jane had never struggled against the haze of sleep for so long. She had to see Maura. She had to make sure that she was really there, that this wasn't some kind of dream. She had been searching for her for nearly two weeks. How had this happened? Finally, weighted eyelids opened and brown eyes met green.
"Maura? Are you really here?" She questioned. The brunette brought a heavy hand up to the other woman's cheek. She ran her fingertips over her skin in disbelief.
"Yes, Jane I am." Maura told her with a reassuring smile.
The detective asked again, "Really?"
Rather then answering with words, Maura leaned down and pressed her lips to the other woman's. The kiss was slow and searching. Jane tangled her scarred hand into soft honey blonde locks almost as though to anchor her in place.
"Where are we?" She asked breathlessly as their lips parted, "How did we get here? How did you get here? Are you ok?" She had so many questions running through her head she thought she was going crazy.
"We are at our house. We are in our bed." Said Maura.
Jane was thrown for a loop, "What?"
"What's the last thing you remember?" The doctor asked.
"I was at the station. We were still looking for you." Jane had to search her memory to remember the details, "You'd been missing for almost a week and a half."
Jane had gone down to the morgue late one night almost two weeks prior only to find the place trashed and her girlfriend missing. The detective had thrown herself into her work harder then she ever had before. The team had been in the middle of investigating a case that was tied to the local mob. She knew that Paddy Doyle had to be involved in some way – even if it was as someone from a rival mob trying to get to him.
"I was…I think I was in your office." The brunette said, "I was going through your files one more time trying to figure out if we had missed anything." She began to get frustrated. "What happened to you? How did you get here? Are you ok?"
"I am fine, babe. I promise." Maura tried to reassure her as she stroked her cheek. "They found me and I am back here."
"Who found you?" Jane asked before she could continue.
Maura told her, "Frost and Korask." Before she could tell her what happened, Jane fired off another question.
"Why wasn't I there? How did I get here? What is going on?" The detective was angry that she couldn't remember anything.
"They drugged you." Maura told her, "Frost, Korsak, your brother and your mother they were all in on it."
"Drugged me?!" Jane exclaimed.
"Sweetie apparently you were about to go off the deep end. Tell me – that night you were in the morgue, the last thing you remember, how long had it been since you had slept?"
The brunette had to think again, "I don't know…three maybe four days…?"
"Jane, do you realize how dangerous that is? What damage could've been done if you had gone searching for me somewhere being that exhausted?"
"I didn't think about that, Maura. All I could think about was finding you. That's all I could do." Silent tears began to slip down her cheeks as her fingers wandered the ME's face. "I just didn't know what I would ever do without you. I didn't know how I could…"
"Sssshhhh." Maura said softly as she hugged her girlfriend to her, "It's over and I am here now."
"Tell me everything!" Jane asked a moment later once she had sobered up form her tears.
"Tomorrow, babe, I promise that I will tell you everything tomorrow. Right now, I just want to be here with you. Please?"
The detective in her didn't think that that was acceptable. She needed to know everything – especially since she left lost with not knowing anything at all – but the woman in her own out. The woman in her just wanted to hold her girlfriend and know that she was alive and well.
"Ok." She sighed, "Do you know how long I have been out?"
"Around 48 hours as far as I can tell." Maura told her. "They found me about 12 hours ago. I was so confused when you weren't there but then they told me what happened. I wanted nothing more then to come to you but I knew that you were going to be out for a while longer. I decided to get through all of my witness statements and medical exams so that I wouldn't have to worry about them when I was with you."
"And you're ok right? They didn't do…? You weren't…?"
Maura pressed a finger to her lover's lips, "I am fine. A few bumps and bruises. A couple scrapes but other then that I was given a clean bill of health."
Jane let out a breath, "Thank God. Maura, I am so sorry that I wasn't there. I should've been and I…"
"It's ok." The honey blonde interrupted. "I know that you did everything you could to find me. Frost said that it was some of your hunches that lead them to me in the end but that's all a part of what I will tell you about tomorrow."
"Ok, and when you are done telling me everything then I am going to kill them for drugging me."
Maura chuckled as Jane yawned widely, "How can I have been asleep for two days and still feel so exhausted?"
"The sedative probably hasn't worn off yet. What they gave you was pretty strong." Maura told her. "Come here."
They rearranged their bodies so that Maura was lying on her back with Jane tucked into her side. The taller woman's ear was pressed to the doctor's chest so that she could here the soothing rhythm of her heart beat; reassuring her yet again that it was all real.
"I am sorry that I wasn't there." Jane apologized again.
Maura shushed her and pressed her lips to her forehead, "I know that you never stopped fighting for me."
"I will always fight for you." Jane said as she drifted off to sleep. "Always."
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