Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles were on their lunch break and since they still had some time left before they had to get back to work, the detective suggested going to the park for a little stroll.
Part of her just wanted to spend some more alone time with the ME. She had met Maura at the beginning of the year and even though they were complete opposites, they quickly became the best of friends. Still, these past few months had been a bit hard on the detective since she had fallen in love with her best friend without realizing it. And who could blame her? Maura was beyond beautiful: light brown wavy hair that reached a little bit past her shoulders, hazel eyes that always pulled the detective in, and a smile that could always brighten up any day. Add to that the fact that she was the smartest and most caring person Jane knew and though she was a bit awkward in certain social situations, those were the times the detective found her to be absolutely adorable.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of loud laughter. She searched for the source and smiled when she saw that it was a group of kids having a snowball fight. With that she remembered the other reason she had wanted to go to the park. Jane had always loved going to the park during Christmas time ever since she was a kid, she liked playing in the snow with her brothers. She smirked when she remembered that she usually won every time she got into snowball fights with Tommy and Frankie.
That thought brought another to her head and her dark brown eyes were glinting with mischief. She noticed the ME was admiring the trees and everything else around her, and wasn't really paying any attention to what Jane was doing, so the detective lowered her hand to the ground and grabbed a handful of snow. After she molded the snow in her hand into a ball, she took aim and threw it at the ME. She laughed a bit when she saw how Maura flinched when she felt the snowball hit her back. As soon as Maura turned around and realized that it was Jane who threw it, the detective started shaking with more laughter seeing the ME's attempt at a glare.
Jane was clutching her stomach because she was laughing so hard that she didn't notice that the ME was making a snowball of her own. So when Maura finally threw it at Jane, the detective was so caught off guard that she lost her balance at the impact of the snowball at her side that she fell to the snow-covered ground. Maura seeing this thought she had thrown it a little too hard and had injured her friend. She went quickly to Jane's side.
"Jane! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to throw it so hard," Maura said to her friend.
Jane realized what had happened, but was too busy looking at Maura's face above her and didn't know how to respond. Her friend was really concerned; you could tell that from her eyes, eyes that were quickly starting to tear up. That shook Jane out of her trance; she hated to see her friend cry.
"Hey, hey, I'm ok. You really surprised me, but you didn't hurt me," Jane told her friend. She took off her glove and started to wipe the tears that were spilling from the ME's eyes. Maura leaned into her touch and smiled. Maura had been really concerned that she had hurt or angered her friend.
Jane seeing that started to smile, until she realized just how close their faces were. She couldn't stop herself so she leaned in and placed her lips on top of Maura's. She enjoyed the softness of her friend's lips against hers, but she pulled back after a couple of seconds to see her friend's reaction. Maura was a bit surprised by the kiss, but she slowly started to smile. Then Jane was surprised when her friend started to giggle. Seeing Jane's confused face, Maura told her why she was giggling.
"Sorry, I'm not laughing at you, it's just that I was thinking of how easily you kissed me without any provocation," Maura explained. Still seeing Jane's confused look she continued, "I sort of planned to kiss you later on when you dropped me off at home…I hung a mistletoe on top of the door," Maura started to blush a deep red and looked down, after she said that.
Jane seeing this smiled a genuine smile and with her ungloved hand touched Maura's face, trying to get her to look up. "You really planned to do that? I would've enjoyed it just as much as I enjoyed this kiss," she confessed to her friend.
Maura hearing this asked, "Really?" "Well," Jane started, "I would enjoy any kiss with you…" She felt the blood rush to her face after that little confession.
Maura took off one of her gloves and brought her hand to Jane's cheek and smiled when she felt Jane lean into her touch. She moved her hand to the back of Jane's neck and pulled her closer. Jane leaned in the rest of the way, and soon they were kissing again, a bit more passionately this time. Jane ran her tongue across Maura's lips and was happy when her friend allowed her entrance into her mouth. Jane moaned at the wonderful tastes that came to her when kissing Maura, she could taste the hot chocolate the ME had drunk at the café where they had had lunch, while Maura could taste the wonderful sweet taste of ginger from the gingerbread man the detective had eaten for dessert. After a while they pulled their lips apart but kept their foreheads pressed together. They both had smiles on their faces and their eyes expressed nothing but happiness.
Jane was about to lean in again for another kiss, when Maura pulled away. At the detective's pout, she laughed and said "As much as I am enjoying this, we have to get back to work." Jane reluctantly stood from the ground and held her hand out to help her friend up. "Fine," Jane started to say, "but after work we're going over to your place. Wouldn't want to let that mistletoe go to waste." She winked at her friend and put her arm around her. Maura put her arms around Jane's waist and as they started walking back towards the station, she whispered a bit seductively, "Can we also try out the one I placed on top of my bedroom door?" She started giggling again when she saw the detective blush so hard she looked like a tomato.