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Maura had been cleared by her doctor to workout weeks ago, yet today was the first time she went running with Jane.
Jane had tried to get Maura out of the funk she has been in lately after the donation of her kidney to her half-sister Cailin. All Maura seemed to want was some kind of "thank you" from Hope since Cailin didn't know that the donation came from Maura. She told Jane that the gift of life was all the thanks she needed but deep down Maura longed for the acknowledgement of her sacrifice by Hope.
Jane was starting to get fed up with the mood Maura was in and let it slip that she thought Maura would feel much better when she got back in shape... "Are you saying that I am fat and out of shape?" asked Maura. Sensing the dangerous territory she was in, Jane deflected and changed the subject by telling Maura that she had to stop hoping for the "thank you" from her mother.
Jane and Maura had been arguing a lot lately. Deciding that this was not the place nor the time to start arguing, Jane distracted Maura with the fact that they were running towards the parade and that Angela and baby TJ would be there waiting for them already. Maura loved baby TJ and could not wait to one day have a baby of her own.
Maura had some bad news though. The reason for her depression was not as trivial as Jane thought. It was not just because Hope hadn't thanked her for her kidney, no, this went much deeper. This hit the nerve right at her core. The reason she breathed, the reason she loved.
Flashback/Background
Ever since Maura was a little girl, she wanted a family of her own. One that she would love and cherish. Children she would not ship off to boarding schools, a partnership with someone who loved as hard and loyally as she did. A yard to play in with her children, a home and not a house where people merely stayed. She wanted everything she didn't have as a child. She felt that she needed to prove that she could love and be loved.
She was well on her way to achieving all of this. As she always does, she excelled and strived to achieve all of her dreams. One of those dreams was the partner of a lifetime. Someone whom she could depend on. Someone who loved her unconditionally. Someone who loved her not for her money or her looks. Someone who loved her for her and not for who she knew. She found that person in the strangest of ways, in a prostitute, or so it seemed.
Jane Rizzoli was undercover in the drug unit when they met. She was a prostitute with no ID, no money and starving. Stanley, the owner of the Division One Cafe, was being his usual pain in the ass self by not giving Jane the "day old donut and bad coffee" which she would pay for at the end of her shift. In popped Maura recommending that due to Jane's "office hours" as a prostitute, Jane should rather opt for a healthier meal.
Maura had been annoying Jane about her eating habits since that day and Jane would not have it any other way. They started off as best friends. The occasional movie night over at Maura's Beacon Hill home turned into a ritual. Every Friday neither could wait until they got off work.
Maura had seen the secret glances Jane gave her. At first she thought that she was mistaken, but after a while, Jane become more confident in her staring. They lasted longer and that is when Maura realised that that was not the way best friends looked at each other.
Maura also became more open with her flirting. She used to be very subtle and hid her obvious attraction to Jane very well. Well, that is what she thought. That is what they both thought.
Everyone knew about the two of them before they knew it themselves. Detective Frost knew Jane better than anyone else and could see that his friend had fallen for the Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Frost too was the only person other than Jane's closest family members, who knew about her condition. Jane was born with male genitalia and was not ready to let Maura know about her condition. They had been friends for over 5 years and this was still a secret. The more Jane fell in love with Maura, the more difficult it became to hide her condition.
She hid it very well, with years of tucking experience. She has found that tucking with a gaff is far better than with tape.
Angela was the one to break the news to the girls. She was never one to mince her words. Everyone had just gotten tired of walking on eggshells around the topic of Maura and Jane being head over heels in love with one another but denying it. She sat them down one Friday evening and let them have it. "Ma, what is going on?" Jane asked seriously. "What was so serious that I had to come over to Maura's place for you to tell me?" Annoyed not because her Ma called her over there to talk to her but because she would definitely have to be using the guest bathroom to take care of the monster that had been woken every time she as little as thought about Maura.
"Ma, come on... What is wrong? Are you dying or something?" Jane questioned the matriarch of the family. It was a bit puzzling that her Ma would tell her something as serious as that when Maura was there but then again, she did think of Maura as her own daughter too.
"Angela, please put your daughter out of her misery. We both know that she is not one for surprises and before she becomes miserable and we both have to suffer." Maura laughed. Secretly Maura felt exactly like Jane. She wanted to know what Angela needed to talk to them about so that the older lady might leave and she can spend the rest of the night with her 'friend'.
But Jane has been very distant lately and Maura didn't know why.
Angela loved being dramatic, so it was no different when she sent Jane a text summoning her to Maura's place around 7pm that evening to discuss something URGENTLY! Angela started talking... For the first time in her life, Jane witnessed Angela stammering. Not knowing exactly how to put it she just blurted it out: "You two need to have sex! You are driving everyone insane and you are wasting each others' time! You could have been together for a long time already but you are both too proud to admit that you are in love with each other."
Both of them shocked, just sat there with their mouths hanging open. How could Angela know about their feelings for one another? How could anyone else know about their feelings? Maura thought about it and figured that Jane must have told Frost about her feelings and he must have told Korsak because she knew that she hadn't told anyone. Meanwhile Jane was trying to work out who Maura had been running to, telling them about her feelings like a little girl. Angela thanked the shocked women for their time, got up and excused herself.
Just before closing the back door leading to the cottage on Maura's property Angela turned to the women, winked and told them to get on with it.
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