A/N Writing is by no means my specialty so I apologize for the imperfection. I'm having fun being on the authors side of fan fic for the first time so as long as you guys are enjoying it I keep writing it. Thanks for taking the time to read and review.

As summer approached life started getting back to routine for the girls. Thank goodness for routine it was the only way Maura knew how to cope. With so many things changing in her life, finding out who her birth father was, then losing him with still so many unanswered questions, Maura found the need to keep the rest of her life controlled by routine. She was so grateful that Jane was back as part of her routine. The two weeks they had been apart had been hell. But things were getting back to normal, well as normal as they can for a BPD homicide Detective and Medical Examiner.

The pair were out on their usual saturday morning run. Jane's whining about not wanting to go another mile was interrupted by the dual ringing of cell phones. Jane and Maura both reached for their phones answering by last name.

"Rizzoli"

"Isles"

"Okay I'm on my way".

If there were a medal for synchronized phone answering these two would have just won gold.

They had been called in. There was a body found floating in the river by a duck tours tourist boat. Details of the death were still unknown but what was known is that they would spend the rest of the weekend as Detective Rizzoli and Dr. Isles instead of simply Jane and Maura like they had both been looking forward to.

Jane walked into the morgue where Maura was hunched over the bloated gray body.

"God he doen't even look human. Drowning victims are always so creepy. Good thing Frost isn't down here, or we'd have to find you a mop."

Maura gave a light chuckle at Jane's attempt to lighten the mood before declaring. "He's not a drowning victim."

"Maura, of course he is." "Look at him, paint him yellow and he'd be King Kong's rubber ducky."

"You are assuming Jane. Cause of death occurred before this man ever hit the water."

Jane replied with a drawn out "And the cause of death would be...?"

"Cerebral death by way of Ocular Enucleation"

"Occupy inception, what now?" A confused Jane Replied.

"Brain death from a screwdriver through the eye socket." Maura stated matter of factly.

"so you're tellin me either this guy did something to really piss someone off. Or we have a psychopath lose in Boston."

"I'm afraid so Jane."

Great this is just the kind of news I wanted today." Came Jane's sarcastic reply.

After taking a second to calm down a bit Jane placed a appreciative hand on Maura's forearm.

"Alright thanks Maur, I'll go fill in Frost, see what we can find. Let me know if you came across anything else."

Maura replied with an understanding head nod.

This was not going to be a good day. Jane hated that they had no other clues as to what might have happened to the poor guy laying on Maura's autopsy table. Her only comfort was the fact that Maura was the best Medical Examiner out there and she was bound to find more evidence by the time she finished the autopsy.

Jane, Frost and Korsak worked every angle they could think of but had no luck. They interviewed ever tourist that had been on the boat that found the body. No one knew anything. After spending the weekend with dead end after dead end there was nothing more Jane could do other then go home and wait for some kind of new evidence to surface. She was at her wits end so stressed that she couldn't catch a break on this case. This type of situation always put Jane in a awful mood that only a good Red Sox game could fix. She sat down with her cure all pizza and beer to watch the Sox kick the crap out of the Orioles. She felt her phone vibrate it was a text from Maura.

"I finished with the autopsy. No news yet but I'm still waiting for some lab tests. They should be in by the morning."

A deflated Jane answered "Well I guess all we can do is wait. Why don't you come over. I have plenty of pizza."

"I don't know, are you gonna make me watch a baseball game?"

"Oh come on Maur, you love watching me watch baseball ;)"

"Alright, Alright I'll come, but only if you have wine."

"I do have wine, only because you left it here, but none the less there is wine."

"Okay then, I'll be right over"

Jane put down the phone and noticed she had a smile from ear to ear on her face. She began to realize maybe the Red sox weren't the only way to cure her mood. In fact the Sox came in second place to the best mood cure ever, that cure was Maura.

It wan't long before Jane was opening the door to the grinning face of Maura. Both girls had been unusually excited to spend a night in together. Oddly enough Jane had been a little nervous waiting for Maura to arive. She couldn't explain why, but she had butterflies in her stomach. Jane and Maura had eaten pizza and watched hundreds of baseball games together before but Jane had never been nervous about it. This was a new feeling and she wondered if Maura felt it also.

As the game crept into the eighth the girls found themselves sitting right next to each other. Legs touching from hip to knee and Maura's head leaning on Jane's shoulder. Jane could not explain how they ended up like this, when the game started they had been a whole couch cushion apart. But she could not have been happier about their current position. She couldn't describe how good it felt to be this close to Maura. What was this new feeling? She had never longed to share this close of contact with her BFF before. But she knew after this they were going to need to have pizza and baseball night a lot more often.

The game had long sense ended and Jane had turned off the TV. But neither Maura or Jane had been able to pull them selves apart. They just sat there enjoying the moment until Maura tilted her head to look up at Jane. Jane returned the gaze and they locked eyes when Maura breathed a soft "Thank you Jane."

"Thank me for what?"

"You promised me you would be here for me and you have. So thank you. I really needed this tonight. I needed to get my mind off the case and off the bad parts of my life. Thanks to you tonight was perfect."

"Awe Maur, of course. You know, tonight wasn't all about me being here for you, I needed this too. You know how stressed I get when a case is cold. With you here by my side I can relax and be sure it's gonna all work out. I know you are going to find evidence to crack this whole thing open. So I should be the one saying thank you to you."

Maura returned a soft smile. "Its us together Jane, we are going to solve this case together. Because you are the best detective in Boston. But for now let's just get some rest."

Jane leaned her forehead against Maura's "Yeah, I am extremely tired. Why don't you spend the night. You can sleep in my room i'll sleep here on the couch."

"Oh come on Jane, your bed is plenty big enough for two. We can share the bed. I don't snore."

With that they retired for the night. Hoping the mornings test results would bring good news.