Another AU. I know, I know. But what can I say? That's how my mind is working right now… While writing ANB (A New Beginning) I was surprised to find myself thinking of this one.
No prostitutes here.
That's the story of how Jane and Maura met at high school prior to working together.
And that's all I can say without spoiling the whole thing.
Stay with me, this is going to be good, promise!
A/N: If you're new here, I must warn you: English isn't my first language. That said, you must remember you'll probably find mistakes here and I'd love if you could point me them so I can correct it and learn a bit more. If you're not rude about it I'll be really grateful with your help.
Now, if you don't like AUs please, feel free to keep your opinions to yourself. :) You really don't need to come here just to write "I hate AUs, go to hell"! Seriously, I'll not miss your comment, thanks.
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"Jane, for god's sake, child, you'll be late for class again!" Jane could hear her mother screaming from downstairs. Trying to put her jeans while brushing her teeth and shoving her material into her backpack was absolutely not working so she finished with brushing her teeth before closing her jeans and grabbing her backpack running downstairs.
"Jane, stop running, this is not a football field, girl!" Angela shouted from the kitchen. "Ma, stop screaming, I'm here" Jane said entering the kitchen while trying to put her hair into the rubber band to make a ponytail. "Where's Frankie and Tommy? We gotta leave now" she asked her mother biting an apple while she waited for her to finish putting their lunches into the brown bags.
"I'll drive today!" Frankie said when he appeared at the doorway. "No way, brother, you lost HORSE yesterday, eight times, I'll drive!" Frankie snored and pulled at her ponytail. "Frankie, behave. Where is Tommy? TOMMY?" Angela shouted again. "Please, Ma, you're going to make us deaf, woman!" Frankie said walking away from the kitchen with his lunch bag in hand. Tommy appeared with his hair dripping wet and each feet with a different sock color. Before Angela could start screaming, Jane grabbed both their lunch bags and pushed Tommy away toward the front door.
"Jane, your father said he'll need the car at four, he has to install the new pipes at Ms. Thompson house" her mother said from the front door while she watched Jane starting the car. "Ok, Ma. Be here by four" Jane said leaving the driveway. "Love you,
guys. Have a nice first day of class!" Angela waved as Jane drove away.
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After they left Tommy at his school, Frankie and Jane arrived at their school, walking to the entrance, Jane was rummaging her backpack for her class schedule.
"I have calculus with Ms. Coolidge first and then Biology with Mr Menkens." Frankie said just as they reached the hallway inside the building. "Stay away from the first row in calculus, Ms. Coolidge gets excited and spits. Mr Menkens talks a lot, so take notes of everything he says…" she said still looking at her backpack "Shit. I don't remember if I have world history or chemistry first… Where the hell is my schedule?"
She was about to throw everything that was inside her bag on the floor when Jane remembered her mother gave her the schedule when she was on the phone with Frost and she ended up tearing it apart when they start talking about baseball. "Damn, Frankie, you go ahead, I'll have to go ask Ms Perez to print it again for me!" she said before making her way to the stairs, climbing to steps at time she was almost running until she reached the office.
When she reachead the door she saw a girl standing at the balcony already talking to Ms Perez. "But I already took Chemistry 3 and Native Language 4 last year, Ms. Perez" the girl said holding a bunch of papers in her hands. The girl was wearing black Levi's jeans that were tight in all the right places, Jane thought, she had a purple blouse and her hair was blonde reaching her back in soft waves, there was a navy blue backpack resting against her left leg, and she had white ballet flats on her feet.
"Ok, Maura, look, what I can do today is place you in World History and Advanced Chemistry, but you'll have to come back after class to talk to Mr Granson, he's the principal and he can find a way to readjust it to you, ok, honey?" the girl looked at her like she was going to say something. "Hey Jane. Come here. Missed me?" Ms Perez asked smiling when she spot Jane at the door. She was a big woman, around her fifties, with a curly black hair around her round face, her eyes were small but very warm and kind.
"Hi, Ms Perez, yeah did!" she told the woman as she walk to the balcony. "Yes, I did!" the blonde girl who was talking earlier said. "Excuse me?" Jane asked turning to face the girl who was looking at the papers in her hand. The girl seemed to be nervous before she said "You said 'yeah did' while answering to Ms Perez question, I just wanted to correct you, the proper answer would be 'Yes, I did'… I am sorry, forget… I didn't mean to intrude your conversation" the girl said before looking up.
Jesus pinch my ass. Jane thought as she looked at the girl. She is gorgeous. "Oh, Maura! Don't waste your time with Jane, she'll never learn…" Ms Perez said giggling. Jane waved her hand at the woman "I take your name is Maura, right?" Jane asked. "Yes, and you're Jane!" the girl stated. "Yep, the one and only" Jane said smiling causing Maura to look up again. She was half a head taller than Maura, so the girl had to slightly tilt her head back to look at her.
"Well girls, time to go to class." Ms Perez broke off the moment. "Jane. I take you are here because you lost your scheduele… again, right?" she asked handing Jane a yellow paper, which Jane knew had what she wanted. The brunette cleared her throat before grabbing it. "Thanks, Regina. What would I do without?" she blinked to the woman before reaching forward and soundly kissing the woman cheek. Ms Perez blushed "Jane, would you please show Maura around? You both have World History in…" she looked at the watch in the wall behind the two girls "two minutes, so you'd better go" she said waving her hands in a 'shoo' motion.
Jane adjusted her backpack in one shoulder before picking Maura's at the floor. "Let's go, Maur" she said walking away.
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"You don't need to do this, Jane. I'll be okay." Maura said almost running behind Jane. The taller girl had long legs, it was hard to follow her pace. "No big deal, Maur. Keep walking" she said it again, she called her 'Maur' again. "Humm… Jane, is Maura!" she told the other girl. "What?" Jane said looking back without pausing. "My name, is Maura. Not Maur…" she informed the brunette.
Jane laughed, really, she laughed. "I know, sweetheart, Maur is your new nickname!" Maura could feel herself blushing. She never had a nickname, to say the truth, at her last school, no one even bothered to learn her name, they always called her Isles or Nerd.
She was ready to thank Jane when they stopped and taller girl gave back her bag. "Here we are, Maur! Let the games begin" Jane smiled at her before going to the classroom and sitting on a chair next to the window, behind an African American boy with golden eyes. Maura walked and Jane pointed to the chair in front of the boy for her to sit.
Maura was taking her notebook out of her backpack when she heard Jane. "Hey Maur!" Maura turned around in her chair. "That's Barry Frost. You can call him Frost!" she pointed to the boy in front of her who smiled at Maura. "Frost, this is Maura!" Jane said. "Nice to meet you, Maura!" Frost said still smiling. "Nice to meet you too, Frost." Maura said smiling back. The teacher appeared at the classroom at that moment and Maura adjust herself at her chair.
Well, this is a nice start. The morning had barely begun and she already had two potential friends. More than all the friends she had in her life together, which was none.