I was woken up by what sounded like smashing glass. I crept down into the kitchen, to find my sister Dr. Maura Isles cleaning up a smashed tumbler she'd dropped on the floor. Sat at the island was her best friend, Det. Jane Rizzoli. Maura turned to me, but I spoke before she had the chance to.
"Before you complain, you woke me up." I said, taking a stool and sitting next to Jane at the island.
Jane had just had a miscarriage, so everyone was being really nice to her and was creeping around the subject of babies when they were around Jane.
"What's it like, you know, being pregnant..." I asked, naively. Maura shot a look at me, telling me to shut up.
"No, it's alright." Jane said to Maura, then turning to me.
"Well, you know when you see someone you really like, and you get butterflies in your tummy? It's like that, but all the time?"
"So... it was like you seeing Casey all the time?" I asked.
"Kind of, that's a different feeling somewhere else..." Jane smirked.
"I get you." I winked.
Maura raised her eyebrows at us, but didn't say anything.
"You'll know what I mean when you're older..." Jane said winking back at me.
I smiled.
"Why are you sat around the island at 2 am?" I asked, yawning.
"Work stuff." Maura replied.
"At 2am..." I said raising my eyebrows.
"Must be important." I added.
"It is. Very." Maura replied.
I grumbled and got myself a glass of orange juice.
"Are you staying with us then?" I asked Jane, sitting back down on my stool at the island. She'd slept on the sofa for the last couple of days.
"As long as your sister will have me, yes." Jane smiled. I liked Jane a lot. She was normal, unlike my sister.
"You should be in bed." Maura said to me.
"But Maur...." I whined.
"Yeah Maur, don't be such a spoil sport." Jane laughed, taking my side.
"Seriously?" Maura frowned to Jane.
"It's alright, let her stay until we go to bed." Jane smiled.
"I don't mind having her in here with us, It gives us something else to think about." Jane smiled to Maura reassuringly.
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Cat & Mouse [Rizzoli & Isles]
FanfictionMaura Isles's younger sister comes to live with her, and after a suspicious letter arrives in the post, an investigation is launched into a murder witnessed by the teen.