A/N: This story is a sequel to Miami Transfer. I suggest reading that first if you haven't. Enjoy!
Jane had only been home a week and she swore she'd gained 15 pounds. "Ma, please no more food." She said as she pushed away from the dining room table.
"You've lost a lot of weight, you have to eat." Angela told her as went to spoon another helping of lasagna onto her plate.
"I didn't lose that much weight." Jane said to her as she picked up her plate and passed it to her brother who was shoveling salad into his mouth.
"Angela, I can assure you she's gaining weight." Maura said as she poured herself a glass of wine.
"Hey!" Jane said giving Maura a look, "It's not like I'm a cow or something." She said patting her full stomach.
"Of course not." Maura said to her with a smile.
"I just worry about you." Angela told Jane.
Jane rolled her eyes, "I know Ma."
"Frankie, slow down or you're going to choke." Angela said to him and he looked up from his plate and smiled.
After dinner Frankie helped Jane wash the dishes. "Okay Ma, thanks for dinner but I'm going to take off now." Frankie said as he dried his hands off on the dish towel. "See ya sis." He said and socked Jane playfully in the arm.
"Thanks for the invite, Maura." Frankie said to her as he grabbed his jacket.
"You're welcome here any time." Maura told him.
"No, not anytime." Jane said to him, "You call first." She said and Frankie gave her a smile as he slipped out the front door.
"Jane be nice to your brother." Angela told her as she put away the last of the dishes. "Okay good night." Angela said to them both then she retreated to the guest house.
"God I thought they'd never leave." Jane said to Maura as she went and sat down on the couch. "I mean do they really need to be over here every night?"
"They've missed you." Maura said as she handed Jane a beer and sat down on the couch next to her.
"And I missed them too but damn, I'd like a little bit of privacy." Jane said as she slyly put an arm around Maura and pulled her close.
Maura turned her head and kissed Jane's jaw then her neck.
"Don't start something you're not going to finish." Jane warned her.
Maura stopped kissing Jane and stood up. Jane frowned and looked up at her, "Where you going?" Jane whined, she reaching up for her. "Come back."
"Upstairs." Maura said then turned around and walked away. Jane jumped up off the couch and practically ran after Maura and chased her upstairs.
They fell into bed together. Jane started pulling up on the hem of Maura's shirt, her hand slid up underneath Maura's shirt and Jane grabbed a handful of boob.
Just as Jane leaned down to kiss Maura her cellphone rang. Jane groaned, "No go away." She said at its persistent ring.
Jane rolled away from Maura and grabbed her cellphone from off the nightstand.
"Rizzoli." She said irritated.
Maura sat up on the bed as she pulled her shirt down.
"Rizzoli, it's Detective Denning." Denning said on the phone.
"Oh hey." Jane said on the phone then mouthed Denning to Maura. "How's it going?" Jane asked.
"It depends on who you ask." Denning said to her. "Um there's no real easy way to tell you this but Kelly McKay was killed last night."
Jane sat down on the bed, "What?" she said quietly.
Maura put a hand on Jane's back and Jane looked over at her as she listened to Denning.
"We think some of Stanton's people got to her." Denning told her.
"How is that possible? I thought she was in protective custody till her trial." Jane said to her. "I mean yeah she was dirty but she was still a cop and you always put a cop into protective custody."
"Prisoners were being moved to different sections of the jail and she was killed during the transfer." Denning told her. "When everything died down and we went in to investigate, there was no weapon found."
"And of course no one saw anything." Jane said to her.
"Of course." Denning said.
Jane sighed on the phone, "I'm real sorry for your loss." Jane said to her, "I know she was dirty in the end but she was still a member of your team."
"Thanks." Denning said quietly on the phone. "If you want I can keep you updated on the case."
"Sure." Jane said to her and then they hung up.
Jane turned and looked at Maura, "Kelly McKay was killed in jail."
"Oh." Maura said as Jane stood up and walked out of the bedroom.
Maura came downstairs and went into the kitchen where Jane was leaning against the counter drinking a beer.
"Are you okay?" Maura asked her putting a hand on Jane's forearm.
"I'm fine." Jane said to her as she pushed off the counter and went into the living room and sat down on the couch.
"We can talk about it if you like." Maura said to Jane as she stood in the kitchen.
"There's nothing to talk about Maura." Jane told her then turned her head and looked over her shoulder at Maura, "Honest."
Jane turned back around and turned on the TV and absentmindedly watched whatever ball game was on.
When they went to bed Jane had a hard time falling asleep and was thankful when a call from dispatch at 2am came in.
Jane was happy to have a case to work. It took her mind off of Kelly McKay. She didn't understand why she was thinking about her in the first place. Jane didn't want anything bad to happen to Kelly but she wasn't exactly an innocent person either.
Jane shook the thought from her head and went back to the case.
She half listened to Maura as she relayed her autopsy findings to her and Frost. "Jane?" Frost said to her snapping out of her thoughts.
"Huh?" She asked looked at him.
"Are you coming with me?" Frost asked her.
Jane looked at him with confusion, "Uh sure." She said and Maura looked at her funny as she followed Frost out the door.
"Where are we going?" Jane asked him as they went to the elevators.
"We're going to talk to the victim's family." Frost told her.
Since getting the call Jane hadn't slowed down, she was running on nothing but 5 cups of coffee and half a stale donut.
"You really should eat something." Maura said to Jane as Jane was slumped down on Maura's couch in her office.
"I just want to go home and crawl into bed." Jane said to her.
"Are you coming over tonight then?" Maura asked.
"Um, no not tonight." Jane said as she sat up. "I should probably go finish my paperwork." She stood up and stretched out her back.
"Okay." Maura said to her as Jane walked out of her office.
Jane went home to her apartment and Jo greeted her with a loud yip and a tail wag that could have propelled her across the room.
"Hey there girl." Jane said giving Jo a scratch behind the ear. "Let me just get your leash and we'll go for a walk."
Jane grabbed Jo's leash and was almost out the door when her cellphone rang. "Rizzoli." She said as Jo tugged on her leash. Jane shut the door and walked with Jo down the hall to the stairs.
"Rizzoli, I got an update on the McKay case." Denning said to Jane.
"Oh okay." Jane said as she walked Jo down the stairs.
"It was one of Stanton's people. Well actually it was the sister of one of Stanton's men." Denning told her. "She's already in prison for murder so what's 20 more years."
"Is that going to screw up your case against Stanton?" Jane asked as she waited for Jo to stop circling the nearest tree and go to the bathroom.
"No, see what Stanton didn't know was that Kelly already testified to a Grand Jury so her testimony will be used in Stanton's case." Denning explained.
"So Stanton had her killed for nothing." Jane said to her as she looked down at Jo.
"Kelly betrayed Stanton, got him caught. Stanton had his reasons." Denning told her. "Anyways, I just thought I'd keep you up to date."
"Yeah thanks." Jane said and hung up. "Come on Jo, let's go in."
Jane got up to her apartment and let Jo free from her leash. She ran over to her bed spun around 3 times and lied down.
"Good idea." Jane said to Jo and went to her room, shed her clothes, got into her pajamas then crawled into bed.
Jane was woken up by the sound of pots and pans clanging around in her kitchen. She groaned as she sat up in bed. She threw her covers back and got out of bed. She went out into her living room and saw her mother in the kitchen. "Ma, what the hell are you doing here?" Jane asked.
Angela turned around and looked over at Jane, "I didn't raise you to speak to me that way."
Jane groaned, she pushed the hair away from her face, "Why are you here so early?" Jane asked.
"I came to check on Jo." Angela said as she snuck Jo a piece of bacon. "And to cook you breakfast."
"Ma, I don't want breakfast. I want to sleep." Jane whined.
"Fine, don't eat breakfast." Angela said to her, "I can always give it to your brother at least he'd appreciate it."
"No." Jane said, "I'll eat."
Angela smiled as she made Jane a plate of eggs, bacon and some fruit salad. She poured Jane some coffee then happily watched Jane eat.
"Shouldn't you be at work?" Jane asked with her mouth full.
"Oh yeah." Angela said as she looked at her watch. "Will you be over at Maura's tonight?"
Jane nodded her head yes as she finished chewing the mouthful of food she had.
Angela kissed her on the cheek then left.
Jane finished her breakfast then went to take a shower. After she walked Jo she went to work.
Instead of going upstairs to start on her paperwork she went down to the morgue. Maura was sitting in her office working through an autopsy file. Jane knocked lightly on the door and Maura looked up and smiled.
"Hey." Jane said to her as she stepped into the office then shut the door behind her.
"Hi." Maura said to her.
"So listen, I know you're busy but can we talk for a minute?" Jane asked as she sat down on Maura's couch.
Maura got up and went to sit on the couch with Jane. "What do you want to talk about?" Maura asked.
"Kelly McKay." Jane said to her.
"Okay." Maura said and waited patiently for Jane to continue.
"I know she was a bad cop. The shit she did was just horrible I know that." Jane said, "But she was still a cop."
"She tortured you Jane." Maura said to her quietly. "She would have killed you."
"I know, I know." Jane said to her. She put her head down and cradled it in her hands. "I just feel, I don't know. I just feel bad."
Maura put a hand on her Jane's back rubbing small circles. "Jane, it's not your fault what happened to Detective McKay."
Jane looked up at her, "Rationally, I know that. I know that Kelly brought this on herself but, I mean I worked with her for over a month and I just feel like maybe the outcome would have been different."
"Nothing you could have done would have changed the fact that Detective McKay was a dirty cop who did unspeakable things and in the end her crimes caught up with her." Maura told her.
Jane sighed, "I guess you're right."
Jane got up from the couch, "I better get upstairs I promised Frost I'd do most of the paperwork." She said giving Maura a half smile.
"Jane, maybe you should talk to someone." Maura suggested.
"I thought I just did." Jane said to her.
"No, I mean a professional." Maura told her.
Jane snorted, "I'm fine Maura. As long as I can talk to you I'm fine."
"You can always talk to me." Maura said standing up and going over to her.
Jane looked around and gave Maura a brief kiss on the lips. "I'll see you tonight." She said and took off for the elevators.