Chapter Two

"What the hell…" Jane said, looking around her as she reached for her gun. It wasn't there. "Maura? Maura? You here?"

"Jane!" The detective turned to find her best friend standing just a few feet away. Her outfit had changed. She had been wearing a red dress; now it was blue. The same blue dress that had quickly risen to the top of Jane's favourites list. When Jane looked down, she realised she too was wearing something new: peach quarter length trousers and a matching camisole.

"What the…"

"Jane? Why are you wearing that?" Her eyes narrowed at the detective as they swept up and down her body before finally settling back on her face.

"I don't know…why? What's wrong with it?"

"Nothing; in fact, it's a very nice outfit, suits you…perfectly!" The doctor's eyes wandered up and down once more, more slowly this time. If she could have picked an outfit for Jane, this would have been it. Casual and relaxed, yet sexy and sophisticated. "I don't understand what's happening?"

"Me either. Where is everyone?" Jane looked around once more. "And where the hell are we?"

"Jane? Was that door there a moment ago?" Maura asked, her forefinger pointing towards the large oak door. There appeared to be a kind of fog that hung low around the floor and was sweeping towards them.

"I don't think so, Maura." Jane reached out and took her friend's hand. "Come on, let's find out what on Earth is happening."

Reaching the door, Jane looked at it, confusion written all over her face. There was no wall. She peered around the door and all she could see was the back of the door. She walked around it and came back to where she had stood. "This is ridiculous."

Maura took a step forwards. The number 1 appeared right in front of her eyes. She knocked. The door was solid. Jane rolled her eyes at her, but she shrugged it off and knocked again.

"Well, I guess nobody's there," Jane smirked. She reached out and twisted the knob. The door opened and revealed a room. They both stared through. A couch and a table, all in white. Jane walked back around the door and came back to the same place she began with no sign of a couch or a table on the other side. She peeked inside. "This is weird, Maura. We must be in one of your dreams."

"My dream? Why my dream?"

"Because Maura, if this was my dream it would be a hell of a lot more simple than magic rooms," Jane scoffed. "What I don't understand is how, two minutes ago I was standing in the middle of Albany Street with a potential body in a car trunk and now we are here, wherever here is!"

Maura considered the evidence. She looked around the door just as Jane had done. She noted the foggy mist that engulfed their feet and the fact that actually, now that she thought about it, she couldn't feel anything beneath her feet. Everything was white, except for the door. Her last cognitive thought had been a click sound that she had heard just as Josh had popped the trunk.

"Jane? I have a theory, and I'm not sure even I can believe it, but I think…we're in Heaven."

Jane turned her head towards her, giving her her most serious 'Don't fuck with me now' glare. "Maura." She breathed deeply, or did she? She made the movement of sucking up air through her nostrils, but she couldn't be sure anything actually happened. "Maura, you of all people? You're a scientist Maura, you don't even believe in heaven!"

"Well, no…yes, you're right, I am a scientist, and actually what I have always said is that I don't believe in something I can't prove…" She held a finger up to stop Jane from interrupting her. "See, it's not possible for there to be a door that we can see through and walk through into a room, and yet there is nothing behind it." Jane tried to interrupt again, and again she held her palm up and stopped her. "Jane, what are we standing on?" The detective looked confused, but she glanced downwards. She lifted her left foot and then her right, then her left again, and over and over until she finally looked back up and into hazel eyes that were sparkling with an 'I told you so.'

"Maura, it's a frigging cloud." Jane's eye's widened at the obviousness of it all.

"I know, at least that's the conclusion I have come to, but without a lab to scientifically test…"

"Maura, you just told me we're in Heaven, I think we're way past labs and tests, don't you?"