Jane and Maura were sitting on the couch in Maura's living room. They had just finished a big case, closing it after seventeen years of it being a cold case. Earlier they had celebrated at the Dirty Robber, and decided to go home early. It had been a long two weeks.
Maura laughed at Jane. "What do you mean? I helped!"
Jane scoffed, looking incredulously at the ME.
"How do you figure? I freakin' tackled the guy into the side of a garbage can! You were standing there yelling 'Get him, Jane!'" As Jane was talking, Maura had covered her mouth to hide her grin, shifting a little underneath the blanket they were sharing, her dimple peeking out from behind her hand.
"Well, I was the one that did the autopsy. Without the evidence found on him, you wouldn't even have known that there was another apprentice out there!" Jane tilted her head slightly to acknowledge that Maura had helped, in her own way. Taking a swig of her beer, Jane slid a little further down, her long legs stretching towards Maura.
"Yeah, yeah. I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for being amazing. I honestly don't know how you do it. Cutting people up all day." Maura frowned.
"I don't like that description, but I appreciate the praise. I don't actually 'cut people up' all day, only while doing an autopsy. The majority of what I do is written work." As she used the phrasing Jane had used, her hands and head bobbed signifying that she was mimicking Jane's tone, making Jane laugh at the expression on her face.
"Ugh, I know what you mean. You know, every single time a bullet is discharged from our guns we have to write a huge report on it, even if it doesn't hit anything! I mean, I understand why we have to do it, but I hate it! So… boring." Maura, sipping at her wine, covered her mouth as Jane complained about reports.
"Jane, the bullet always hits something. The reports aren't that long, you just like to complain about it." Jane stuck her tongue out at Maura, eliciting a giggle from her. Jane got up to get another beer from the fridge, grabbing the wine bottle for Maura just in case she wanted more, bringing it back into the living room. She slid back underneath the blanket, her feet accidently pressed against Maura's bare leg. Immediately, Maura shot up and away from Jane, breaking the contact.
"Jane! Goodness gracious, your feet are freezing! You know, you wouldn't have that problem if you attended yoga with me more often, Adho Mukha Svanasana is a great enhancer of circulation." Rolling her eyes, Jane pulled her feet back, allowing Maura to sit back down; her eyes narrowed and trained in the general direction of where Jane's feet were earlier.
"Maura, I don't even know what you just said, and maybe I'd do yoga more often if you went to the gym with me, or did boxing or something." Laughing, Maura adjusted herself, her head resting on the back of the couch and watching Jane.
"Adho Mukha Svanasana is downward facing dog, Jane, and I ask you when it is that you go, but you have no set schedule, so it isn't like I can plan around your invisible timeline." Jane's mouth dropped open, and she stared at Maura.
"You know I go every Saturday morning! Unless we have a case, of course. But you," She points an accusing finger at Maura. "You don't ever want to go to the gym! Oh hey, have you talked to Hope lately?" About to defend herself, Maura was caught off guard by the mention of her biological mother. She looked down into her wine glass, held neatly in her lap, shaking her head.
"I haven't heard anything since the building collapse. I think I'm going to go through with it though. The kidney donation, I mean. If I don't, her daughter will die. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least try." Jane reached over a placed a hand on her knee.
"No one is going to blame you for wanting to help your half-sister. I told you before that I'd give you one of my kidneys. In a heartbeat. But, I thought that she rejected your kidney? Who does that? Nevermind… not very many people even have the opportunity to reject one." Jane was staring at the carpet, lost in thought. "I mean, it's not like she'd throw it back at ya if you tried to donate it. What's she gonna do, disown you?" Maura stared at Jane, trying to figure out where she pulled scenarios from.
"You know, you have an extraordinarily active imagination. I wonder if it's from too many videos. I'd like to do a study on you, if you don't mind? You… intrigue me, scientifically." Jane's eyes snapped up from the carpet, eyebrows raised.
"Uh… how the hell are you gonna do that? Don't look at me like that! I'm not a guinea pig. Besides, we may hang out a lot, but I don't think it'd be enough to perform any sort of experiment on me… I don't think. You didn't answer my question!"
"Oh yes, I was preoccupied. I'm donating anonymously. I don't want her knowing, and I made Hope promise that she wouldn't 'let the cat out of the sack', as you say." Jane suddenly started coughing, a smile on her face.
"Whoa, that is not what I say! It's 'cat out of the bag', Maur. Anonymously? But… Okay? You're a good sister. Hell, you're a good friend. Sometimes." Winking, Jane nudged Maura with her toe, smiling softly. Maura smiled a 'thank you', holding her hand out so that Jane could help her up, deciding that she wanted to take a bath, but not wanting to leave Jane alone.
"Hey Jane? Would you like to change into a swimsuit and relax in the Jacuzzi? I feel like a bath, but want to continue talking. No alcohol though, you know the rules about high water temperatures and alcohol." Pursing her lips for a moment, Jane finally pushed off of the couch, sliding the blanket onto the back of it for possible future use, nodding her head.
"Sounds good, you still have one of my swimsuits here? After tackling that guy, I think my muscles deserve it! Let me finish what's left of my beer real quick and I'll be up." Clasping her hands in a mild show of enthusiasm, Maura grabbed the wine bottle from the table and, after replacing the lid, put it into the fridge.
"How much is remaining? From your beer? I have to clean a tiny bit, but then I'll head upstairs as well. Bass is finished eating, and I don't want the strawberries he didn't touch to perish overnight."
"Not too much, probably about another drink." Nodding her head absently, Maura cleaned up Bass' mess, replacing what was worth saving in the fridge.
"I'm finished."
"Finished." Their eyes met, a grin on both of their faces.
"Jinx!" Maura hooted, lightly bouncing on the balls of her feet, a fist in the air.
"Jinx!" Jane's mouth fell open in protest.
"I said it first Jane! You owwwweee me a soooodaaaa!" Maura sang, doing a little dance, spinning 360with her index fingers poking the air.
"You did not! I do not! I said it first! Cheater! Is that your victory dance?!" Jane's face held defeat, with a hint of surprise, teasing Maura. Maura beamed, her eyes sparkling.
"I won, fair and equilateral! Don't you try to change the rules on me, Jane Rizzoli! Frankie told me the rules!" Jane's jaw dropped, and she threw the towel down that she had been wiping her hand on, getting ready for her dramatic response.
"WHAT?! Frankie told you?! That traitor! I'm… Wait… 'fair and equilateral'? Um… Maur?" The doctors' eyes had become large as Jane had begun her rant, but as soon as Jane asked about her phrasing, her face morphed into – as Jane described it – her 'Wikipedia-face'.
"What's wrong with that phrasing? Equilateral triangles have equal angles, as well as lines of the same length." Maura's eyes were largely innocent, as thought the wording had been obvious, but Jane just smiled, shaking her head.
"It's 'fair and square' Maur… If we don't head up to the Jacuzzi soon though, my thoughts of potential physical activities in the future will turn to mush, considering I could barely unfold from the couch. C'mon, lets get ready! Mush, mush, and all that jazz." Jane smirked as she ushered Maura up the stairs, laughing a little at the weird gurgled noise she made when she almost tripped up the stairs. Jane could not wait for that Jacuzzi! Maur didn't know it, but Jane had been keeping something from her, and the little activities that they both participated in were what kept Jane's attraction at bay.
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