Gone(rizzoli And Isles)

chapter 11

Jane and Maura jumped away from each other at the sound of Angela's voice, just like a pair of teenagers caught kissing by their parents. Jane's face was flush as she said, "Uh, thanks again Maura." Maura, whose face was equally as flushed, simply said, "anytime, Jane, anytime."

Jane had to admit she had really missed her mom's cooking. The food was great and the company of Maura and her mother was wonderful. It felt great to be back with the people who were her life and made her feel so at peace.

"So, Detective Rizzoli is out of rehab and about to get to go back to work. Well, well, she is a lot tougher than I gave her credit," the big man said. "I am going to have to make her recovery harder than she thought it would be. Send J to follow the detective. I need to know where she goes and who is with her at all times. I plan to send a visitor to her when I can catch her alone."

Jane went to her meeting with Cavenaugh. He advised her that she could be reinstated after she has two months clean, and continues to attend counseling and meetings. Jane knew she was lucky to even be getting this chance. She had drugs on her, beat up a cop and cursed a judge; she was surprised they even let her walk back in the door.

As Jane was walking back to see Frost and Korsak and let them know her status, Crowe and few other cops started making comments. "Watch out boys, Rizzoli may break your nose to get her next fix," Crowe said. "High, Rizzoli," another cop named Stevens said while using his thumb and index figure to make it look like he was taking a drag on a joint.

"You guys shut the fuck up," Korsak yelled. "I will report your ass to Cavenaugh on this. You fuckheads know what happened and it is nothing to joke about. Could have happened to you for that matter. You should be trying to help her out instead of acting like fucking teenagers."

"Whoa, calm down Korsak," Crowe said, "just having a little fun. Rizzoli is tough aren't you Rizzoli. She can take a joke, huh?"

Jane knew she would get ribbed. She just hated it, but she had dealt with shit from other officers for so long just because she was damn good at her job and she was a woman. "Crowe, I learned a long time ago to ignore everything that rolls out of your fucking mouth and that hasn't changed." Jane said in true Rizzoli form.

"What are you guys working on?" Jane asked.

"You're not back yet. Go home and rest and when you get back you can go head first into the first case you get." Korsak said.

"Korsak, you know me, I know I am not back, but that does not mean I can't listen and help brain storm. I gotta do something to feel useful and not like a useless slug."

"Well, alright. We got a murder of a twenty-five year old grad student from BCU. No motive as of yet. Dr. Isles is working on the autopsy. She came in off her vacation to do this autopsy."

Jane nodded. "Yeah, she drove me here for my meeting with Cavenaugh. What was his degree in?"

"Chemistry," Frost replied. "Looks like a 9mm shot. Once to the heart. All of his friends said he was a good guy, never been in any trouble, not involved in anything that they are aware of. It is starting to look random."

"Could be, but I hope not. A random kill means that you might have a serial killer if he just kills for fun." Jane said.

"Yeah, we're heading over to his apartment to see what we could find."

"Good luck guys, hopefully I will be back before too long," Jane said just as Maura appeared in the door.

"Here are the autopsy results, Sergeant Korsak. I will not have tox back until tomorrow or the next day, but his cause of death is a gunshot wound to the chest which struck his heart and he bled out. The bullet was a 9mm. I did not see anything else that would help with your investigation at this time. I took some scrapings from his body, but they are still in analysis."

"Thanks, Dr. Isles." Korsak said.

"You ready to go, Jane?" Maura asked.

"Yeah, let's just stop and say hi to Ma."

"Ok."

"See ya later guys," Jane said as she walked out of the room.