Jane turns over and groans; "Whyyyyy."
Her head aches, and her mouth tastes like a bar mat. She can smell bacon and coffee and it doesn't matter because she wants to die when she feels the bed move; "Drink this." Jane rolls over and Callie is holding out a bloody mary. She is squinting as she brings her own drink to her lips; "I want to die."
Callie snorts; "Me too."
Placing her drink down she falls face down haphazardly on the bed, her forehead resting on the back of Jane's calf; "Make the room stop spinning." she mumbles into the bed.
"Stop rocking my boat."
"Breakfast is ready." Arizona chimes from the doorway; "Get up."
"No" comes the answer simultaneously; "Yes, then we are walking around town." Callie grabs the pillow off the back of Jane's head and throws it at Arizona and hits her as she turns to walk back downstairs. Pausing for a moment, she gingerly bends down and picks up the pillow and walks back into the room; "Calliope Torres, get your ass up." she says, smacking Callie with the pillow; "You and your buddy are not ruining today because you two felt the need to keep up with twenty-one year olds last night. Now get up."
Callie pulls herself up and swats away the pillow Arizona throws as she leaves the room; "She's bossy." Jane mumbles, rolling over.
xxxx
Showering was a chore for Jane, just like breathing and living was right now. Maura and Arizona chat and sip their coffee, and are rays of fucking sunshine while she and Callie hover over their food in an attempt not to throw up.
But she forces herself to eat, and a full stomach and three bloody mary's later, both women are ready to go. As they walk out the door, Callie falls back and pulls Jane with her; "For the road." she says under her breath, showing her the top of the flask in her pocket.
Jane pulls her friend into a hug; "Oh thank god. I can't shop with Maura."
xxxxJane and Callie are wandering around some hippy place that has entirely too much tie dye happening in it. It smells like incense and pot and Jane is taking a heavy drink from the flask they have been sharing between them for the last ten minutes. Maura and Arizona are enthralled with the sash and scarf collection and as they head towards the back of the store, Jane notices it has a second floor. Handing the flask back to Callie, she motions her head and heads up the stairs.
And; "Holy shit. What is this place." Jane and Callie stand at the top of the steps and look around. The walls are lined with sex toys. And not the discret kind, the big, colorful double ended kind, and Callie can't help the laughter escaping her mouth and plastering her hand in front of it hasn't helped one bit, because Callie and Jane are tipsy and there are huge dildos right in their faces.
Jane walks over to the wall, and removes one of the packages; "Please tell me this is real life." she says, wiggling the thing back and forth, then smacking Callie in the arm with the toy, laughing.
"DO NOT touch me with that thing."
"Oh, come on." Jane smacks her again and again. Callie's face grows serious as she looks Jane dead on and take her own toy off the wall; "You wanna go?" Jane bends her knees and lowers herself, nodding her head as they take part in the most epic sword battle this side of the Cape.
Jane swings, and Callie ducks, and brings her arm around connecting with Jane square in the ribs. Jane stumbles, holding her side, and raises her arm to strike, only she is freezes when she see Arizona and Maura standing in the doorway, and they are judging them hard, Jane can feel it; "Stop. Stop." Jane says, looking straight ahead as Callie comes at her. She slows and turns, standing next to Jane, their arms falling limply to their sides; "Are you done?" Callie asks and Arizona only rolls her eyes, and turns to head back down the stairs leaving a giggling Maura with Jane and Callie; "She started it." Callie says cocking her head towards Jane; and Jane stays straight faced, flicking her wrist and smacking Callie in the stomach with the toy; "We're done." Jane says matter-of-factly, and hanging up the toy and walking towards Maura; "You're drunk." Maura says as she walks ahead of Jane down the stairs; "No. I'm buzzed, and you're pretty." Jane responds; reaching out and brushing her fingers through Maura's hair.
"There is an art gallery up the street Arizona and I are going to go to, why don't you and Callie go to PePe's and get us a table. We will meet you there in twenty minutes." Maura says turning on her heels at the bottom of the steps. Jane nods and smiles and she leans down to kiss Maura; "Yes ma'am." xxxx
Callie and Jane are sitting outside. The breeze off the water is light as they sip their drinks; "When are you gonna ask her?" Callie says, her eyes giving Jane a pointed look over her sunglasses.
Jane picks at the label of her beer bottle; "I dunno. Soon'ish." Callie scoffs a laugh; "Soon'ish." she repeats, mimicking Jane; "Shut up. I work at my own pace." They are silent for a moment, until the waiter appears; "The lady over there has bought you a drink." he says motioning the the table behind him. Jane cranes her neck around him and looks; the woman waves. Her hair is short, and cropped to her head. She wears an army green tank top with plaid green and white shorts and Jane guesses she has to be freshly twenty-one.
Jane raises the beer in thanks and takes a drink, looking back over at Callie, she widens her eyes in awkward surprise; "You tell me if she is coming over here." Callie smiles, then smacks Jane's leg under the table, her face becoming serious; "She's coming, she's coming." Callie quickly brings her hand up to her ear, and pushes some hair aside and looks out over the water as the woman joins them at the table; "Hey." she extends her hand to Jane; "I'm Candace."
Jane takes her hand awkwardly and smiles; "Jane."
There is an awkward pause, and Callie bites her lip in an attempt to hold back her laughter; Jane is awkward and fidgeting with the beer cap on the table. Candace leans forwards and to Jane's surprise, pushes a piece of hair back behind her ear; "You just have this in the way." then rests her hand her knee; "Any plans for tonight? The Boat Slip is having a white party." her thumb brushes over the side of her kneecap and Callie is watching in stunned silence at the move; "Oh fuck" she mumbles just loud enough for Jane to hear, because Maura and Arizona are coming around the corner and Callie can already see the questioning look on Maura's face. And if she can see it, she sure as shit Jane can too.
Jane can feel the hairs on the back of her neck stand up and her face go flush; "I, uh, actually do. And here she comes now." Jane says, brushing the woman's hand off her knee and standing up as Maura and Arizona come towards the table. Jane leans in to kiss Maura, but she puts her hand up, stopping her advance, and if Maura Isles look could kill right now, this girl would be dead; "And who is this?"
Jane straightens up and glances at Callie who is being the absolute worst wingman at the moment, because all she is doing is opening and closing her mouth and shaking her head looking back and forth between Maura and Arizona; "I'm Candace. Who are you?" she says standing, becoming level with Maura, who straightens up and hands her purse off to Arizona; "I am Doctor Maura Isles. Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
Candace cocks an eyebrow behind her aviators and looks over at Jane; "These are your plans tonight" she says, sticking her finger in Maura's direction; "This toolbox?"
"Hey!" it comes out in unison between Jane, Arizona and Callie; "Whoa." Jane says, taking a defensive step in front off Maura; "I think you better go."
Candace takes a hard step forward and sends her shoulder into Jane's as she walks by, and before Jane can turn to respond, Maura is grabbing the young woman's arm and pulling her back.
Then Jane hears it; it's knuckles and bone and aviators all colliding at once, and when she turns, Maura is finishing her follow through with a vicious right hook across Candace's face. Candace stumbles back, clutching her face and half of her broken glasses, then takes off in a run down the sidewalk and until she is out of sight.
Everyone's jaw drop. Maura fucking Isles just punched some bitch out. Maura takes her purse back from a stunned Arizona and walks down the sidewalk, back towards Commercial street and to God knows where. Jane looks between Callie and Arizona; "Get her before she goes to kick her ass more." Callie is standing and pushing on Jane's back andshe takes off in a sprint to catch up with her girlfriend.
"Maura! Hey hey hey!" Jane catches up and is keeping pace with a stern faced Maura Isles; her flats clicking hard on the pavement; "Hey. Slow down." Jane says. Maura doesn't respond, she is walking with purpose. Finally Jane grabs her forearm and pulls her into a small alley between houses; "Can we jus-" but she is cut off when Maura's lips collide hard with her. It is possessive and hungry, and Jane can't think because Maura has her pinned against the wall and when Maura pulls away her eyes are hooded, and a mischievous smile is playing on the corner of her lips. Her lips stay close to Jane's as her eyes search her face; "I defended your honor, Jane. I punched that woman, and it was exhilarating." she says, her hand ghosting up Jane's shirt and running her fingernails down her stomach, eliciting a sharp breath from Jane. She bites gently at her bottom lip and Jane really could care less about anything else, or being in public because possessive punching bitches out Maura is hot and she is really ready to just let Maura take whatever she wants from her in this alleyway against the wall of this house.
But Maura turns sharply on her heels instead and walks out of the alley and back onto Commercial street, and Jane follows suite. Possessive punching bitches out Maura sex is going to be amazing.
xxxxCallie and Arizona are walking hand and hand back to the condo. Callie profusely apologized for any inconvenience and left the waiter a tip for the trouble that he will probably end up writing home about.
"Maura straight up punched a bitch." Callie says, still dumbfounded. Arizona squeezes her hand; "Yeah she did." then pauses; "We didn't go to an art gallery." Callie looks at her wife; "Huh?"
"We didn't go to the art gallery. We went to a bar up the street and had a few quick drinks. Maura wanted to tell me something." Callie's eyes search her wifes face, then widen; "Ok. And-"
"Maura is going to propose to Jane." Arizona says it fast and the words tumble out before she can stop them, and well, there it is. Callie stops dead in her tracks; "Oh fuck." her face is blank and Arizona hasn't noticed that she stopped walking, until she feels a tug on her hand and comes stumbling back beside her wife; "Jane is going to propose to Maura." Arizona looks at Callie blankly, then back down the road; "Oh fuck."
