"Sometimes the love of your life is already on your side and you just don't recognize it.
Maybe because you'd never think about the person in that way. And maybe it is your best friend. She is on your side, day by day. She gives you strength, she believes in you, she knows you, she loves you. But would you ever think that she is the one, just because of that?
No. Instead you are digging in the mens world for a fitting shoe, just because you are thinking that this is the right way.
And you wonder why this shoes are always worn out quickly whereas your best friend is always staying."
Jane was deeply into her work as she realized that something was knocking kindly on the frame of her office door.
"Jane." said Maura.
Jane lifted up her hand to stop Maura for a second. She was intensively reading something with her eyebrows down.
As she finished, she pushed herself with her arms from the desk and looked at Maura.
"I knew it! I Knew it!"
"Wha...what did you know, Jane?" Maura questioned warm, but confused.
"Never mind..." Jane shook her head and her long, waved hair was dancing around her shoulders.
"Just talking to myself."
She betook herself to her computer screen to close the document she just read.
Maura was taking a short breath and lifted up her finger like a teacher.
"You know - selftalk is a sign of..."
"Okay Maura, what did you want to tell me? Something?"
"Never mind Jane, if you have a lot of work, we could meet later...for a glass of wine..."
Maura pretended that she doesnt care if Jane is not paying attention to her, but it always drives her crazy. She is used to be an important person for which everyone would die to hear her saying something. And after all that she is a doctor!
But Jane doesnt care. She treats her like her sister, not like a doctor. And actually thats good. Maura tries to calm herself down with this thoughts.
"Maura, I'm sorry."
"No I didnt want to accuse you of that! I wanted to say that I'd understand!"
Jane supports herself with her hand on her legs and got outta her chair, lurched slowly in front of Maura, looked at her with the sweetest look ever on a half bevelled head.
"Just tell me" she said and raised her dark eyebrows up, "Please?"
Maura scanned her dark brown eyes and finally begun to lift up her hands with a little box on them.
Janes eyes fell down on this little box.
"What is that?" she asked like a courious little boy.
"Its for you." Maura almost whispered with a grin on her lips.
Maybe she was more excited than Jane was now.
Jane opened the box gently without taking it from Mauras hands.
"Ha!" yelled Jane " You are too much, Maura!" she laughed.
"LLBFF!" Jane took a necklace outta the box and held it up in the air.
The little pendant with the letters LLBFF dangled above her head.
"Have you ever noticed that we know each other excactly 1 Year now? I mean like best friends."
"Oohh, its our anniversary today, you are goooood, Maura. Can you put it on me?"
"Turn around!"
Maura grabbed her hair and put it over Janes shoulder.
She closed the necklace and waited for Jane to turn around.
"Beautiful!" she diagnosed and clapped her hands together.
"LLBFF..." Jane just answered, still laughing.
"Is it rediculous?" Maura asked carefully and tipped the pendant softly with her fingers.
Well, okay, maybe its a little funny to wear a necklace with the letters LLBFF, but...
"No, its perfect, Maura, just perfect!"
Jane smiled brightly at her friend.
"Give me a hug, your are so sweet."
Jane wrapped her arms as close as possible around Maura.
After a few seconds of that big, tight hug, Jane checked her watch.
"I gotta go - work."
Maura let Jane free and looked after her, smiling.
"It's Perfect" she whispered to herself.
In the afternoon Jane was speaking with Korsak and Frost about their latest case.
" His real name is John Ross, but he demands to be called Indiana Jones. This nickname developed as he begun to create basements with a lot of entrapments and underground ways in which he haunted several vistims to dead." Korsak explained.
"Sounds...rediculous."
"...but tricky..." added Frost to Janes comment.
"Okay, how big is his basement?" Jane questioned seriously using her hands to demonstrate the basement.
" Its an old factory building...so it has a lot of ways and floors."
Jane and Frost looked with their mouths open at Korsak.
"And how the heck did they find out that there was something going on there?"
"Little boys, Jane. They were playing too far away from home."
Frost was breathing out: "Thank God nothing happened to them..."
Korsak looked at him like he acclaimed, before he was going ahead:
"I want us to enter in every door and watching out for signs and noises. Everyone will get a little GPS in case you will get lost. And of course a specialist for entrapments which will analyze the ways before you'll walk them."
It was 9 in the evening, when Jane and Maura sitting around the island in Mauras house, having a glass of wine. Jane told Maura about this new mission tomorrow.
" I'm gonna come with you," Maura set up.
"You're not - too dangerous."
Jane drunk her whole glass of wine in one gulp.
"Jane, you need to enjoy the wine!"
"I did."
Maura moaned reproachful.
Then she tried to light up the mood, which is obviously down this evening.
"So, lets be happy and drink on us - one year!"
She liftet up her glass in the air, while Jane hasty grabbed the bottle of wine to refill her glass.
"On us!" she smiled and watched Maura drinking her wine.
Maura noticed that Jane was not drinking but watching her. Daydreaming.
"Jane? Everythings okay?"
Mauras voice catched her back to reality.
"Yeah, yeah, I was just thinking about us."
She gave Maura a warm look, with a beginning smile on her face.
Now Maura was totally catched into that beautiful look and tried to read her eyes.
Jane glanced at Mauras hands laying on the Island to check if she could cover them with her hands.
So she layed her hands on Mauras and looked in her eyes again.
"Maura, even if I am not always showing it - you are more important to me than you think you are. I am..." she digressed from her eyes to their hands.
" I am incredibly glad, that I met you."
"Agh, Jane..." Maura smiled emberassed.
"No I am not kidding, Maura. Thank you for being my friend."
"Your best friend!" added Maura.
Jane answered with a happy smile. Yeah, obviously Jane was just happy.
Its just so easy being best friends. When she is thinking about all the bad relationships and the problems she had with men she loved. Its better to have a best friend all your live.
You don't need to get married. But kids...okay you can adopt them. Maybe with your best friend!
Jane jerked as she found herself thinking about adopting a child with Maura.
Why the hell was she thinking about such a crap. She was laughing about herself and Maura looked strangely at her but didnt ask what was going on.
"Maura, do you want to adopt kids with me?" Jane finally asked, but wasnt really honest about it.
Maura, of course, took it seriously:
"With you? Why?" she asked confused.
"I mean...okay, adopting a child is a really good thing and I appreciate you for this thought, Jane. You would be one of a million, who is saving a childs live somewhere out there..."
"Okay, never mind, Maura, I'm gonna ask Frost!" interruped Jane laughing.