37Maura was already assessing the body, having arrived just before the detective. Jane had gotten a call from her mother on the way to the scene. Her youngest brother, Tommy, was supposed to be getting out of jail, and her parents were throwing him a party. Jane wouldn't be attending, much to her parent's dismay, but Jane was angry. She didn't understand why he could mess up so badly and her parents still made every excuse for him.
Walking in with Vince once he showed up, the two made their way to the body. The female detective felt immediately for Danny Clark's family, especially the two kids he left behind. It was hard for her to see a colleague end up dead, killed for wanting to protect the city. She fought back tears, rubbing Korsak's shoulder as they went over the scene, her voice warbling.
Finding out that the drug control unit cop had been working for homicide didn't make Jane feel any better. She could tell that this case was already more involved than it would initially seem, and a pit formed in her stomach.
Back at headquarters, Jane found herself back in the Division One cafe making another cup of coffee for herself, as well as one for Bobby Marino, Clark's partner. He was a wreck, and Jane felt for him. She couldn't imagine losing Vince or Barry.
"I've tried everything: British strawberries, Bok Choy..." Next to the detective, the doctor was also making another cup of coffee for herself.
"Are we having the same conversation, Maur?" Jane turned to her friend.
"I'm...I'm sorry, I was talking about Bass."
"Oh, yeah. Bring your turtle to work day."
"Tortoise."
"Yeah, yeah..."
"Marino likes salt in his coffee?" Jane looked down, noticing the salt shaker she held in her hand instead of the sugar which she had meant to use.
"Fuck."
"Is something bothering you, Jane?"
"Besides the cop shot?" The taller woman raised her eyebrow as she looked at the honey blonde."It's my brother, Tommy." She explained his situation, and her anger at her parents, who refused to believe that her brother needed help.
Jane appreciated having Maura to lean on. It was so different than Casey, who has so frequently matched Jane's energy. Maura just wanted to listen, and let Jane come to her where Casey would push. The detective tried to avoid comparing her late wife and the doctor, but it was difficult to not compare, or at least point out their differences. The more Jane fell for Maura, the more Jane realized that their differences were just what she seemed to need, and she was beginning to understand that loving Maura didn't mean she had to forget Casey.
The two women parted ways at the elevator, Rizzoli giving the pathologist a soft smile.
Jane Rizzoli was no stranger to danger, in fact, it fueled her. She had been in dangerous situations all throughout her career on the force. Until Charli had been born, she welcomed the adrenaline associated with precarious pursuits of suspects. It wasn't that she had a death wish, the detective was just impulsive and emotionally motivated to bring justice to those who had been hurt by others. She and Casey were very alike in that way, they both found danger and ran toward it, not away. Some people saw dangerous situations and would break down, where she would be energized.
Charli's birth, as well as the Hoyt case, provided the detective with perspective. Having a child who relied on her, needed her to come home, had made Jane less reckless. She still chose to run toward danger, but she tended to think more of her child first. While the brunette would deny it, motherhood had changed her. Still, she let her emotions fuel her actions. Seeing the young woman dead in the stairwell saddened her, she had promised that girl that she would keep her safe, and she hadn't been able to keep her promise. She appreciated Bobby's quick thinking and timing, she would have been shot if it weren't for him. The thought of making her daughter an orphan almost made her sick.
"I gotta find Maura and get her out of here." Jane stood.
"Jane?" She heard a groan and looked down the stairwell to see her brother.
"Frankie?!" Jane ran down the stairs as quickly as she could.
"Maura! He will die if you don't help him!"
"I'm not a surgeon, Jane! I don't work on living patients!"
"I could be wrong." Jane was flipping through one of Maura's medical anthologies.
"You're the only one who can save him, Maura, please." The detective begged. She felt bad for yelling at the doctor, but she was frantic. She couldn't lose her brother. She was supposed to protect him, and she couldn't fail twice in one day. Maura gave in instructed her to grab supplies, providing the emergency care that he needed, though he would still need immediate medical care.
Outside BPD, SWAT had descended on the building, assessing the siege. Korsak grabbed Barry's walkie, switching it to channel 12, and mentally begging that the detective chose this day to carry the device.
"Jane? Jane? Come in Jane?"
Inside the morgue, Jane hastily grabbed her walkie, briefing her sergeant on the situation. A man holding a rifle appeared in the doorway just as Jane went to reach for her jacket under Frankie's head.
Jane was angry and tried to calm her outward appearance to not show how scared she was. She needed to get out of this, she needed to get Frankie out of this, she needed to get Maura out of this.
She went to pass the cigarette pack to the man, surprised when he instructed her to give them to Bobby as realization passed through her. She tossed the pack to Bobby.
"Smile, you're on Danny's camera." Marino pulled out the fake cigarette that the team had been searching for all day.
"He knew you were dirty, part of the drug ring. That's why he was wearing a wire, had a hidden camera."
"He just couldn't leave it alone. That's why he's dead." He approached the two women and Frankie lying on the autopsy table. He raised his gun and shot his accomplice and grabbed his gun, not noticing as Maura placed her toe on the button of the walkie-talkie that Jane had dropped earlier. "Now I'm just going to sit tight and wait to be rescued, that is after I shoot the three of you."
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Bobby." Korsak's voice chimed over the device. Jane looked to Maura, relieved and thankful for her sharp thinking. Marino thought for a few seconds, then decided to grab Jane, dragging her to the entrance of headquarters.
"Shoot him! Just shoot him!" She yelled at the SWAT team and her partners as she struggled with Marino, who was trying to drag her to her car. "Frankie's bleeding! There's no time!"
"He's probably already dead." The man growled in her ear. Jane made a split decision. She grabbed the man's wrist that held the gun and using her body to provide the momentum, twisted the gun to her hip. She pressed it into her side, then pulled the trigger. She hoped nothing major stood in the way. She didn't want to die, but she needed to save Frankie. Tears pricked her eyes as she thought of her young daughter. The bullet shot through her and into Marino's body. She felt a searing pain, and then nothing as she fell unconscious, just as she heard someone scream "Jane!".
Maura ran to the pair, shoving Marino's limp body off of the female detective. She frantically felt for the other woman's pulse, relieved when she felt one, soft as it was. Frost and Korsak ran to meet the pathologist, as Cavanaugh pulled out his cell phone to request medical backup to the site.
"What do you need doc?" Frost tried to keep his calm, while also trying to not look at the bleeding wound in his partner's stomach.
"Your jacket. Put pressure on the wound." The doctor tried to calm herself down to provide immediate care, but found herself unable to.
"He's dead," Korsak said, checking Bobby's pulse and finding none. Maura couldn't find any compassion in herself for the man who had held her at gunpoint, the reason that Jane was bleeding out underneath her fingers. She felt someone prying Jane away from her grip.
"No! No!" Maura tried grabbing the woman back to her,
"Shhhh, Maura. You have to let the EMTs help her. She'll be okay." Barry tried to pull the doctor to himself. She broke free of his hold, launching herself back towards Jane's limp form.
"Jane, Jane. No, don't leave me. Jane, I love you." She sobbed. This time, when Frost pulled her away from Jane, she let her. He chose not to acknowledge her admission.
"C'mon doc. We'll follow the ambulance on the way there." The paramedics loaded the injured detective into the ambulance and Maura watched as they sped away.
A/N: This chapter was short, but we all know this episode. I didn't have much to add to it, but I felt that it was necessary to include. We'll see more of the aftermath in the next chapter, as well as Charli, who I'm sure you are all missing :)