The Fire (or Every Girl Like Me)

Chapter 2

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Jane and Maura made their way to the bedroom and resumed making out before actually making it to the bed. When Maura's hands made it to the top of Jane's jeans and started to unbuckle them, Jane grabbed Maura's wrists. "Maura, wait. I can't. I'm not ready for this."

"Are you worried that you won't be able to satisfy me because you're not a man or you won't know how to satisfy me?"

"I was not worried about that but now I will be, so thanks for that. But no, that's not the point. I can't just jump right in to having sex with someone like this. And I definitely can't do that with you. You made it sound all very logical and stuff but this is too fast for me. I don't want one of us to regret it tomorrow because then everything will just be weird. You're too important to me to risk that."

"Oh, Jane. I should expected known. I should go now."

"Maura, I'm not rejecting you. I do want you. I just want to take things a little slower. Is that okay with you?"

"You would like us to engage in more traditional courting rituals before having sex?"

"Yeah, I think that's what I'm trying to say."

"I can do that. But I am going to go home now and I'll talk to you tomorrow." Maura leaned in for one last kiss on the lips and then she was gone.


Jane still had a week left before she could return to work. She woke up the next morning slightly wondering if everything that had happened with Maura last night had actually just been a dream. Jane took Jo out for a walk and when she returned she found flowers outside her door. The note with the flowers said,

Dear Jane,
I hope you will do me the honor of going out with me tonight. I'll come pick you up after work.
xo Maura

Maura arrived at Jane's house a little after 6 surprisingly dressed in jeans and a sweater.

"Where are we going?" Jane asked.

"You'll see."

Maura called a cab and ten minutes later they were dropped off at the corner of Beacon and Charles. Maura grabbed Jane's hand and led her into Boston Common. "It's the first night of skating at the frog pond. I made a guess that you would know how to ice skate."

"You guessed? Of course I can skate. I grew up playing hockey during the winter."

"That's good, because I don't know how," Maura confessed with a huge smile.

"Wait, how can you not know how to skate?"

"It just wasn't something I did as a kid. And I've wanted to try it but it seems like something you should only try with someone you know will hold you up."

"Ah, very clever, Dr. Isles."

"I thought so."

Jane and Maura rented skates and Jane taught Maura how to stay upright reasonably well. But mostly skating was a good excuse for them to hold on to each other. After about an hour Maura suggested they head up the hill to her house for dinner.

When they arrived at Maura's house there was a candlelight dinner waiting for them in the dining room. "Don't ask how it happened. I'll never reveal my secrets," Maura said in response to Jane's dropped jaw.

"I can't believe you did all this. The flowers, the skating was perfect, and candlelight dinner when we got home."

"You didn't think I could be romantic?"

"No, that's not it. Honestly, I just figured I'd be the one sending flowers and trying to impress you with perfect dates and candlelight dinners."

"Why? Because you think you would be 'the guy'? Get used to it Jane Rizzoli because I am courting you."

"Don't worry, I can get used to it."

After dinner Jane helped Maura clean up, despite Maura's protests. "You know, you planned the perfect date tonight. When you theorized about the type of date I would take you on you thought I would try to do something fancy, but I think you'd prefer something more like this."

Maura turned around from the sink and leaned against the counter. "You're right. People often think I'd want to go somewhere fancy and expensive, but I care much more about the company. Anything with you would be perfect." Jane stepped up close to Maura and kissed her on the lips. Maura's lips parts and Jane took advantage of the opening to push her tongue in to meet Maura's. Jane let her hands graze under Maura's shirt, touching the soft skin on Maura's back and then lightly grazing her stomach.

Eventually Maura pulled back Jane and asked, "Will you stay tonight?"

"I can't," Jane responded and backed away. "I have to get home to Jo."

Maura crossed her arms over her chest and almost whispering said, "You are so terribly confusing."

"What do you mean?" Jane asked.

"You kiss me and hold me and start touching me, and I know you like it and you want to do it and it feels like you want more, but then you stop and it's over."

"I'm sorry. I'm really not trying to send mixed signals. I want to kiss you...and more...but I told you I need to go a little slow. But you know...I go back to work on Monday and I don't know how busy I'll be after that, so I was thinking...maybe we could spend this whole weekend together?"

"Oh, oh!" Maura said after understanding, or at least hoping she was appropriately understanding, what Jane was saying. "That's sound lovely. Do you want to bring Jo over here Friday night and then we can do whatever we want for the weekend?"

"That's what I was hoping for. Is that really okay with you?"

"That sounds perfect. Go home to Jo now so I can think about you in peace," Maura said with a devilish grin.