A sequel or part 2, whichever you prefer. People like it so I write more. Thank you.
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Jane absentmindedly ran her fingers over her chapped lips. The moisture was really low in here. An image of a soft and moist pair of a different lips popped up in her head. She could still recall that taste and sense of cherry when their lips pressed together.
A woman named Maura Isles. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Chief Medical Examiner.
What a, uh mess..?
Jane was inside the elevator heading for the morgue. And Maura, the very same Chief Medical Examiner, resided there. She was the Queen of Death. She ruled the underworld of BPD. Jane had never met her in person. She just transferred from narcotics a week ago but Maura had quite a reputation from what she had heard. She was excited to meet her.
That Maura, the woman whom called her name, twice and fainted on her at Dirty Robbers a week ago. That name didn't ring a bell. Why was it?
They even had a kiss or two. Not that they were really kissing. Jane had never kissed a woman before. The woman fainted and Jane, the detective jumped to save the damsel in distress. This kind of scene reminded Jane to that kind of scenario. Jane tried her best not to shout when she asked for someone, anyone to call for ambulance as she was performing CPR on the blonde.
What a soft pair of lips..
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A week had passed and while her traitorous fingers were always wandering to her lips over and over again unconsciously, to be honest, it wasn't really a big of a deal. Not to Jane. She was used to saving life and she saved the woman's life. Jane was back to her peaceful detective life in no time.
The elevator dinged and Jane stopped her fingers with a wince. I might have grown a habit. Horray!
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Only it wasn't like that for Maura Isles, the Queen that hid behind the morgue's black curtains at the moment. She saw Jane Rizzoli stepped out from the elevator and automatically went into hiding. For what reason, she wasn't really sure herself.
A week had passed and Maura's life just couldn't fall back to its usual pace and peace. There was magic, magic, blink blink everywhere!
They stressed her out so much that not even yoga could done a thing to calm her down. Her head was as chaotic as how hard her interns and assistants worked as if nothing ever happened. Maura could never be more grateful for that.
That Jane Rizzoli, gulp, she was the main and sole culprit for this. No doubt. That Jane Rizzoli, Maura's first love.
Maura was going all googly eyes when she awoke from her vasovagal incident at Dirty Robbers, in front her interns and lab assistants, just from the strong gaze from Jane's deep brown eyes. They looked as fierce as she remembered they were. They sucked her in.
She cursed herself for losing her composure. It crumbled like a wet biscuit dipped in hot milk. Oh, how she craved one right now.
It simply took them being in the same space, with Jane didn't even know who she was, and Maura melt like ice cream under the scorching hot sun. She was so ashamed with herself that she ran away from the arriving EMT and hid in her office until the very next day. It helped that she fell asleep in the back room.
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15 years had passed.
15 years were a very long time.
Maura thought she did a great job in living her life, forgetting about her school crush. It would never be reciprocated. It was just a silly crush that a freckled science nerd Maura had back then. Jane was the captain for school baseball team. The same old cliché setting but nothing she can do about it.
Hey, she was famous herself for being a genius.
That 15 years old of crush should just remain as a crush in her history. But based on the irrevocable evidences recently, her crush still ran deep. Very deeply in deed.
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"Dr Isles, this is Detective Rizzoli." Jane knocked on the closed door. Susie Chang, the jumpy senior criminalist told her the ME was inside. She ignored all the questioning stares. "May I come in?" She knocked again.
"Come in." Ah, that soft feminine voice. It was somehow nostalgic to Jane, she didn't know why.
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Strong knocks on her office door made her heart skipped a beat. Hazel eyes widened and watered. Maura sniffed so hard that she might wake up the dead.
She pressed her palms over her heart and chanted, please, please don't fail me again. Please..
"Dr Isles, this is Detective Jane Rizzoli."
I knew who you are. Don't say your name with that voice!
Another confident knocking. "May I come in?"
"Come in." Maura watched the door opened from outside and the tall lean figure that she missed so much slipped inside her office. Her knees buckled.
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"Whoa! Hey, are you alright?" Jane, the savior flew across the room in a second when she noticed the doctor's knees gave out.
Maura's heartbeats started the weird and intense rhythm once again. "Yes, yes. I'm not sick." She pulled herself away from Jane's arms wrapped around her body. At least she really wasn't. Her heart can't stand the overheat, if that was possible. Maura couldn't think straight. And she wasn't even that straight, the irony.
"You sure?" Jane reluctantly stepped a step back, intentionally creating a space between them. She wasn't really a person that liked to invade others' personal space.
Maura nodded. A few deep breaths later, and she was glad Jane let it go. She can't lie and she wasn't going to faint on her for the second time. Her interns and assistants, all looked like they were busy working but their attention were on them.
You can do it, Maura. You are a strong independent woman. Yes, yes you are! Now, lift up your head and ask that crush of yours, what she wants?
Maura lifted up her head determinedly and made sure her eyes stayed put on the bridge of Jane's sharp nose. Never to. stray to those wet lips. She managed to look fine, or so she hoped.
Jane was looking around the room, appreciating the weird face masks on the wall, yes she really did, while giving the doctor some time to calm herself. She wasn't sure it was her or not, but she really hoped it wasn't the cause of the doctor's distress. She jumped a bit when she heard the soft feminine voice once again.
"I'm sorry, those are some fantastic masks. I'm not listening, so what is it again?" She ran her long fingers through her hairs awkwardly. They were in silence for a second there. "This is awkward." she chuckled with her deep voice.
"You think." Maura scoffed a little.
They looked at each others. Eyes widened in surprise.
"My apology." Maura quickly averted her gaze back to the floor, only this time with a small smile on her face.
Jane tilted her head to the right, thinking about something. Something that happened a long long time ago.
Someone..
"Dr Isles, Maura, would you like to join me for lunch?" A very formal invitation indeed, very unlike Jane but she didn't care.
"Yes!"
"Yes..?"
"Um, yes. I would love to. Alright, uh, let me get my coat and bag first. And um, you can wait there. Please have a seat. I need to use the washroom first." Despite all her rambling, Maura's smile was so bright that it was contagious.
"No need to rush. We got time. After all, I've wait 15 years for this lunch."
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