"I can't believe you finally got out of Boston! What are you doing here?" Beckett said as soon as Jane released her from the hug.

"Actually, I came for some vacations but in this job you don't have any, do you?" Jane replied laughing. Beckett laughed too without letting go the powerful arms of Jane. It had been a long time since she had seen her Academy partner. Long years when she missed the comfort and support from the dark haired detective. Of course Castle had been there, but he didn't understand what the job was. In fact, no one understood the job better than Jane.

Castle watched the scene attentive. He was still processing the new information. He was still wondering who that woman was. He let his eyes wander around the scene. The detectives holding each other. The dead body lying on the floor. The woman knelt beside him. Castle looked at her. She seemed really interested in the body. The body. Castle was suddenly drawn to reality by the lifeless body.

"Ladies, we have a dead body here," he announced with the softest voice he could but still he get some dangerous looks from both detectives.

Beckett turned to look at him, then she gave a quick look to the dead body and finally her eyes were placed in the M.E. who was still in the ground.

"Is she with you?" Beckett asked, turning to Jane. The detective suddenly react and nodded.

"Yeah. Kate, this is Dr. Maura Isles. Maura, detective Kate Beckett." Jane said the introductions helping Maura to stand up.

"Very nice to meet you. I wish I could say that Jane'd told me a lot about you, but she hasn't," Maura said as she was shaking Beckett's hand.

"Nice to meet you, too. Wow! My feelings are hurt, Rizzoli." Beckett responded, returning the handshake. "Castle, this is my old friend detective Jane Rizzoli and her doctor Maura Isles. Ladies, this is my partner Richard Castle." Beckett said, introducing them.

Both Maura and Jane shook Castle's hand, but Maura was the only one who spoke. "You're Nikki Heat's writer. I was amused by the way you described crime scenes."

Castle felt a rush of pride run through his veins to settle on his smile. He had the hottest doctor right before his eyes and she was amused by his work. This was the right opportunity, he knew it.

"Oh! I'm flattered," he said with a playful smile.

Ryan and Esposito came to interrupt the introductions with new information. Or at least they thought it was new.

"No one saw nothing. The body suddenly appeared here." Esposito said.

"The same with me." Ryan declared in not a very optimistic tone.

"I'm not amused. This is very touristic place. No one pays attention to something else than the buildings and stuff like that." Jane said returning her eyes to the lifeless body.

Ryan and Esposito looked at her wondering who she was. When Beckett saw their looks she decided it was better to introduce everybody.

"Ryan, Esposito, this is detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles from Boston PD," she said, watching how they shook hands.

"So, what's an exceptional good-looking woman searching in a dead man's body?" Castle asked, finding the right time to make his move not caring if Jane and Kate shot him looks of anger.

Maura realized that the writer was talking to her and turned around to meet his ocean blue eyes.

"Oh! I was searching for a cause of dead and there seems to be a gunshot in the chest. This man bled to dead," she said more to Jane and Kate than to Castle and the other detectives and trying to hide the flush to Castle's compliment.

"That sounds like murder to me. And for you Kate?" Jane asked.

"Yep, the same to me," Beckett replied with something in mind. "I could use more hands for this one," she began, playing with her eyebrows. "Are you interested?"

Jane's eyes were filled with excitement and joy when she turned to look at Maura. "Can we?" she asked like a six year old boy asking for some candy.

Maura melted a little bit inside, being incapable of saying no to a very excited Jane. She hadn't seen her that excited for a long time. She nodded in affirmation and she saw how a big smile took place in Jane's face as she turned to reply to Beckett.

"It would be a pleasure for me to go back to the old days, mighty Beckett." Jane said, bursting in and out of joy.

Beckett laughed hard and took Jane by her arm to lead her out of the crime scene and into the car to return to the precinct.