The evening was passing by, it became night and the two friends were sitting on Mauras couch watching TV. Well, actually the TV was just turned on for two sleeping people.
Jane was sitting on the couch like a wet sack of potatoes, her mouth a little opened, in her left hand an almost emptyed bottle of beer.
Mauras beautiful head was lying on her right leg, the rest of her body huddled on the couch.
She was holding the remote control close to her breast.
It moved with every slow beat of her heart and every calm breath of her lungs.
The bottle in Janes hand began to move because her hand was loosing the strength to hold the bottle anymore. It finally fell on the carpet with a hollow noise.
Jane winced and awoke. Her left hand immediatly found the way to her eyes rubbing them awake.
With a few very bad groanings she turned her head to the right, where Maura was laying, still sleeping very relaxed.
Her thin lips were closed and you can even see her cute little dimples when she was sleeping.
Jane began to smile like Maura was the sweetest baby ever and whiped a strand of her curled hair out of her face.
"Maura!" she whispered.
"Maaaauuuuuraaaa - wake up, honey, my right leg is asleep."
Mauras eyebrows shrugged an Jane was rollling her eyes.
"Maura c'mon!" she whispered a little more intensive now.
No reaction.
"Gosh, are you kidding me."
She moved her arms under Mauras body and tried to push her in a sitting postion.
"Jane...Jane...what are you doing..." Maura moaned.
"Going in my bed now. Its 2 in the morning and we've got that big mission tomorrow, you know?"
She was stretching her body while talking to that drowsy woman sitting with wild hair in the couch.
"You can stay here - what's the problem?"
"I dont want to sleep here every night I feel like I pay the rent for nothing."
Maura tried to find enough energy to stand up and walking in front of Jane.
She was wrapping her hand around the wrist of the clueless brown-haired and pulling her into her bedroom.
"I love it so much to have someone here overnight."
"Just someone or "me" ?" Jane joked.
"My best friend" Maura corrected herself and pointed with her hand on the bed to encourage Jane to crawl inside.
"I gotta clean up my kitchen and then we can start our sleepover." she says while she was leaving her bedroom and added screaming:
"On our anniversary-day!"
Jane helped herself by picking out some pajamas outta Mauras closet and put them on.
She turned off the lights and left the door open for Maura who was loading her dishwasher and throwing the beer-bottles in the trash.
Then she was going into her dressing room and slipped in her silk pajamas which Jane called a "going-out-dress for old, rich and oh, so sniffy people".
As she entered in her bedroom Jane looked like she was sleeping so she closed the door gently and layed down carefully next to her.
"Maura..."
Surprised that Jane is yet awake Maura was turning her head and looked at her. She was staring at the ceiling.
"Whats up?"
" I need your advice..."
"Sure."
"Its about Dean." she paused.
"He is...you know...at first I never thought that I would ever feel something for him."
"And now you do?"
"I thought he would be just a friend to me because I really liked him and I didn't want to mess it all up by getting together with him."
"So what are yu going to do?"
"Thats what I wanted to ask you."
Maura turned back on her bag and stared at the ceiling aswell.
"Well, when you really , really, absolutely love someone and you think that he might be the one who can make you happy every morning when he wakes up next to you, every evening that he is holding you, every day that he is on your side, even though he is just in your head...
Then you should prefer that insteadt of friendship."
"But I always prefer friendship..."
"But this is not gonna be a friendship anymore since you ever discovered feelings for him. Its gonna be very difficult to stay friends then."
Jane silenced for a few minuites thinking about Mauras words. She was playing with her fingers on her stomach like something was really catching her thoughts.
"Let me come with you tomorrow, Jane."
"I don't wanna get you in any danger. When something happens to you I could never forgive myself."
"Jane I am not your daughter, I am a grown up person... aaaand I used to practice some asian types of martial art. In addition to that - I can be a great help to vet in case there is someone stuck in an entrapment."
"Okay listen Maura - you can stay with one of the entrapment-specialists to observe the floor."
The crew was collecting in front of an old quadratic building in the middle of a closed factory area. Korsak was standing in front of the group and gave them directions how to get through the mission.
The entrapment-specialists were already inside and checked the first floors.
"Okay guys! Group A on entrance A, grup B entrance B and so on - you know what to do.
Jane you are going with group C and Frost is coming with you."
Jane nodded her head and turned to Maura.
" You are staying with him - "
She pulled one of the specialists out of the crowd.
"His name is...?"
"Ash..." he answered unsecure.
"Maura is staying with Ash." she sxplained.
"You two are getting friends now and doing nothing but standing in the floor, observing."
Jane was pushing them together and left with Frost.
Faltering Maura was looking at the man with the khaki colored uniform and his fitting cap.
The building was old and dark inside. The electricy was not working, the color of the steel-walls was chipping off, there were wet puddles and lots of damaged doors along the floors.
Jane and Frost were turning in a left floor now while Maura, the specialist and an officer stayed to observe if someone would going to follow them.
After a while, Maura let her look swiping around the area until her eyes stopped at a little bone laying on the doorsill.
"There is a bone. I am not sure but it looks quite human. I would say its a Zygomatic bone."
The two men were looking at the doorsill Maura pointed her finger on.
"Okay..." commented the specialist and looked at the officer to see if he has any idea of what Maura is talking about.
"Its a medium small bone in the human skull right next to the nose and the eye. Its also called the cheekbone."
"Right. Right."
The Officer was pretending to know excactly what she was talking about.
"Now you should put that in am evidence bag, officer."
Maura was getting closer to the door and carefully pushed it open with her fingertips.
The boys were standing behind her looking interested in the room which was hiding behind the door.
"Okay we've got a body."
Maura set up while her eyes were falling down in a corner of the dark room.
There was a half rotten body of a woman.
Maura grabbed the walkie talkie of the officer.
"Jane? Can you hear me?" she whispered.
"Maura? what are you doing!" Jane frizzed.
"Got a body here. How far are you from us?"
"Not that. Its so slowly when these specialist are checking...whatever, will be there in 2 minuites."
