AN: Okay, honestly I wasn't planning on continuing this story, but with all the positive feed back I reconsidered.
"Frankie?" The young man spun around at the sound of Maura's voice, his eyes wide. He had hoped in vain that they could just ignore the conversation that they had earlier, but alas that wish had not been granted. When it was evident Frankie wasn't going to respond, Maura continued. "What were you talking about earlier?" Always best to be blunt and to the point. Frankie just sighed, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.
"Maura it's okay. You can just be straight with me. We all know. We've known for a long time." When the confused expression didn't fade from Maura's eyes Frankie allowed himself to keep pressing. "I know it must be hard, but seriously, you can tell us. Me Frost and Ma already have a pot going on when you two are going to come out of the closet. But if you want, you could just promise me that you'll love and take car of her and we can just drop this now." Now, Maura Isles was by no means a dumb woman. She was one of the smartest people she knew and scientifically proven to be a genus. But as the meaning of Frankie's words sunk in, Maura couldn't help but feel that she was in someway misunderstanding him.
"Frankie..." Maura paused, trying to wrap her mind around all of this. "What are you implying?"
"Maura, I know about you and Jane." He stated as if this cleared everything up. Realization dawned on Maura and she could feel he cheeks heating up.
"Me and... me Jane? Wha... we... What?" She stuttered, dumbstruck with her inability to form a full thought and sudden loss of the English language. Honestly, at this point her was a little angry with herself. Maura Isles did not under any circumstances get flustered or flabbergasted. It just wasn't in her nature. But then again this situation wasn't exactly in her comfort zone.
"Ya know. How you and Jane are... Together?" Frankie managed as he tried to gauge Maura's reaction. He really should have listened to his gut this morning and not bothered her about it. He was only trying to be a good brother to Jane like she has always been there for him.
"Oh... Oh! No. Umm... Frankie, we not together like that." Maura chuckled softly at the thought, running her fingers through her hair. Her and Jane together? What a silly thought. Sure, they had pretended a couple times but only to protect something or another. Or if they were working a case. Still, they would never actually be together. But Frankie only gave her a knowing smile before ducking out of his office and leaving a rather confused Maura Isles in his wake.
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Maura entered the bar and headed to her and Jane's usual booth, her thoughts running ramped through her mind. Was it weird that they had a usual booth? Did they spend too much time together? Was it weird the she liked it when they pretended to be together? As expected, Jane was waiting for her there, her usual beer in hand.
"Aye Maura, you got those test results back yet?" Her heart was not supposed to jump when Jane said her name, was it? Had it always jumped like this and she never noticed before? Did she always feel so light headed and jittery when she was around Jane? She needed to sit down. "Hello? Earth so Maura?" Jane said, waving her hand in front of the doctors face.
"S-Sorry." Maura sputtered, falling into the seat opposite of Jane. The detective eyed her warily, looking over her friend.
"You okay?" She asked. As Maura nodded her head, Jane couldn't help but raise her eye brow. There was no way that she was okay.
"Maura. Look at me." Maura hadn't even noticed that she had been avoiding Jane's eyes. Glancing up at her she found that she couldn't look at her brown orbs for longer then a couple seconds before her eyes drifted down to her lips, causing her then to look away once more. What was this? What had Frankie done to her?
"I uh... have to go." Maura stood up, noting how weird she must appear to Jane as she practically ran out of the pub. It was now her turn to leave a confused colleague behind her.