Everything and Nothing.

A/N: I have been wanting to get back to this story for a while now but real life and various other stories got in the way ...anyway. I know that the Jane here is not very popular as she is a bit damaged and acts like an idiot occasionally but I like that about her. Hooray for AU!

Jane made her way in slow motion toward the house, cringing against the sunlight and trying to step gently so as not to upset the very unstable condition of her head and her stomach. She had spent all night in a seedy bar and an even seedier club speaking to the new friends of a clients young daughter and before she knew it she had drunk almost her body weight in beer. Well, maybe not her body weight, more like Maura's body weight and right now all she wanted to do was crawl into the Doctors bed and pull that heavenly body in beside her. It was one of Maura's rare days off and Jane intended for them to spend it in bed...starting with some sleep and then moving on to more recreational pursuits.

Jane had almost reached the front door, when from the side of the house she noticed a familiar figure come strolling down the drive way to deposit a black sack in the trash.

"Oh hey, morning Jane!" Her mother called as she disappeared around the building again.

Jane pushed her dark sunglasses up onto her head and wondered if she had just hallucinated. She paced around the outer wall to Maura's guest house and looked through the window to see her mother making herself comfortable with a mug of hot tea and the morning paper. Jane turned too quickly and had to wait for her stomach to settle before making her way back to Maura's place.

"Do you want to tell me why my mother is living in your guest house?" Jane blurted as she burst into the house to find Maura in her robe in the kitchen.

"She needed somewhere to stay. Angela has been kind to me..." Maura trailed off as she noticed Jane's obvious dismay.

"So you give her a home? With you? Is it really that rare that someone gives you the time of day?" Jane snapped, immediately regretting the wounded look she had caused to appear on Maura's face.

"I have the space and she needs somewhere to live, I don't see the problem. It is separate from the house and we shall each have our own privacy." Maura reasoned calmly.

"Huh, that's what you think now." Jane scoffed at the idea, her hands planted firmly on her hips.

"It's just that...I never had a guest before." Maura admitted timidly. "I decorated the house in the style of the Villa's of Marrakesh from the Moroccan theme issue of Interiors Magazine and no one has ever so much as been in there to see it. Once I even spent the night in my own guest house just to appreciate the original Mohammed Hamri artwork."

Jane was beginning to soften, and in record time, as she heard the loneliness behind Maura's words. The hands slipped from Jane's own hips and she flung out an arm searching for her hastily departing determination.

"So this wasn't some...ploy?" Jane asked only slightly grumpy now.

Maura looked confused. "A ploy?"

"You know...to have more of a hold on me...?" Jane mumbled.

Maura looked shocked. "You thought that?"

Jane pouted and gave a defeated shrug. It sounded pretty conceited when she heard it out loud.

"I think I already have quite a hold on you, don't you agree?" Maura risked mischievously.

Jane couldn't deny the statement, but she wouldn't confirm it yet either.

"Well I guess it would be a good security measure to have someone use the place if you have all that fancy art work in there." Jane conceded.

Maura took Jane's hand in hers as she closed the gap between them and smiled sweetly.

"But I better not come in here and find the two of you pouring over the family albums together or anything alright?" Jane warned, going for stern, even as she wrapped an arm around Maura and pulled her in close.

Maura hid her guilty look against Jane's chest, yet the taller woman did not miss the slight stiffening of her body.

"You already did that didn't you?" She said resigned to the reply she was certain of.

Maura nodded. "When I helped her unpack." She confirmed, holding onto Jane a little tighter around the waist to prevent withdrawal, be it physical or emotional.

Jane groaned but didn't pull away, perhaps her exhaustion was the reason she had surrendered so easily to Maura this morning and it wasn't that she had become completely house broken already.

Following the Weis case and the discovery that the death of Daniel Carlton may not have been Jane's fault, Jane had been as honest as she could with Maura and told her that no matter how much Jane wanted to be with her, and she did, she could say it now, but her priority at the moment had to be clearing her name and bringing down the Carlton family. The family that cost her her job and her life, she had only just begun to properly recover, with Maura's unsolicited help, from all that that night had destroyed. Not until that was accomplished could she allow herself to get involved in a serious relationship. Maura had said that she understood and hadn't pushed Jane since then.

It had happened quite naturally and without Jane's full consent then, that they had begun to spend more and more time together, but every now and again Jane made a show of pulling away, trying not to lose sight of what she needed to do.

"Oh Jane, don't be mad at Angela, I thought you were adorable as a child. All grazed knees and scowling at the camera." Maura purred. "You still pull that same grumpy expression!" Maura pushed herself up on her toes and caught Jane's pout in her lips, giving it a playful little suck and grinning at the slight smacking sound as they pulled apart.

Maura snaked a hand beneath the black spandex of Jane's tank top to stroke her fingers against the taught abs she found there.

"You need a shower." She said flatly, crinkling her nose in distaste at the smell of stale alcohol and cigarette smoke that hung around Jane.

Jane pulled her face dramatically. "Oh no, no I need bed, I am so tired baby, I need your bed and you and sleep." Jane pleaded, kissing Maura again.

Maura slipped the leather jacket from Jane's shoulders and let it slip to the floor as she began to walk Jane backwards, whilst responding to her kisses with equal fervor. Maura had just gotten Jane across the room and had her top pulled up over her head, dipping to kiss her abs as the door swung open and Angela strode into the room, stopping abruptly at the scene before her.

Jane and Maura were frozen, Maura abruptly taking her hands away from Jane's top and leaving the taller brunette standing with her arms in the air, her tank top pulled up over her head, obscuring her view. Fortunately Jane didn't need to see to be able to understand exactly what was happening.

"Oh Maura, Sorry, I thought that you would have left for work by now. I thought Jane might want to come and see my new place." Angela said awkwardly.

"It's my day off." Maura offered. "Jane and I were just going to ..."

"We are a little busy!" Jane yelled as she struggled to push her top back into position. "I'll come by later Ma." She offered. "A lot later." She added as she looked at her smirking girlfriend.

Angela blushed as she backed out of the room. "Okay, you girls have fun." She called, for want of something more appropriate to say.

As the door closed behind the older woman, Maura broke down into a fit of girlish giggles, the sight of which more than made up for Jane's slight embarrassment, though she wouldn't readily admit it. Jane looked at Maura dangerously and the M.E pulled herself together enough to dash past Jane as she turned and chased her into the bathroom.

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A/N- Chapter 2 very soon folks. x