Picks up right after the last chapter.
Warning for those who don't enjoy it, explicit sex scene ahead... I was just thinking of a few fans that enjoy those scenes a lot ;)
A long day later, the case for Danielle Davis suddenly came to a close.
After wading through a multitude of university students partying while dressed in tin foil, Jane and Frost discovered a bunch of sex toys, condoms, and the like in Danielle's locker.
As they came out of her room, they ran into Lucas Bilton, resident advisor, who was carrying a laptop that didn't look like it belonged to him.
He noticed their observations and dumped the computer, running. Jane caught him easily and cuffed him. It hadn't taken much to get a confession. He had been preying on girls that couldn't afford their tuition and began pimping them out a few years prior.
To top it off, the bullet was traced to one of the three guns that he owned and he was charged for the murder of Danielle Davis. The other charges would follow as other women would come forward to testify against him.
It had been a long but good week for the BPD homicide detectives and the ME.
After the paperwork was completed for Danielle Davis' case and 7pm rolled around, Jane finally put her blazer on to leave.
"Wait Jane, don't leave. We need to go out for celebratory drinks." Frost declared and called out to Korsak. "Did you invite the doc?"
"Yep! She's in."
Jane had no idea her wife had agreed to post-work drinks. It made sense that they would invite her. She was the one responsible for a break in their case. The brunette pulled out her phone and saw the two text messages.
"Jane, you in?"
"Uh, sure. Gimme a minute." She turned her back to the guys to read her messages.
"Oh, do you have to check with the hubby about staying out late?" Korsak asked as he walked up closer to her.
Jane read her texts from Maura, both informing her of the evening's plans.
"Nah, I don't have to check if I can go for a beer." Jane slapped Korsak on the back and grabbed her wallet. "Let's go."
The trio took up residence in their usual booth and nursed their first beers as they waited for the doctor to arrive.
Maura entered the Dirty Robber looking slightly out of place. She ignored the catcalls from a few guys and smiled brightly when she noticed Jane at a booth with Korsak and Frost, the men's backs to her.
"Hello detectives." The honey blonde greeted adorably and scooted in next to Jane. She placed her purse in between them to avoid any temptation to take her wife's hand or touch her in any way.
"Hey doc. What can I get you to drink?" Frost stood up and waited for Maura's answer.
Jane swallowed her smirk and listened intently for a response.
"Oh, well, I'm not sure what there is… I like most reds but nothing chalky. From a bottle please, not house wine!" Maura instructed.
"Sure thing." Frost went to the bar and ordered Maura's drink.
Korsak watched Jane and Maura intently, trying to figure out their dynamic. He knew they had become friends over the last week and a half since the ME had started Jane had confirmed this but they just seemed so familiar with one another.
"Thank you, Detective Frost." Maura gratefully accepted her drink and took a sip.
"Please, it's just Barry." The young man smiled at her as he sat down and drank from his beer again.
"Only if you call me Maura." The doctor offered easily.
"So Maura, what can you tell us about yourself?" Korsak asked the query the doctor had been dreading since she arrived. There was no way they could keep up their charade if she had to answer too many questions.
"Well, I was born in Boston but grew up in France… I have wanted to be a Medical Examiner since I was nine years old. I moved back to Boston to study at Harvard University after I graduated high school and have worked in multiple locations in the United States since then." Maura hoped that was enough to keep the happy for the moment.
"You married?" Barry asked, pointing at the white gold rings on her left hand, one sporting several diamonds surrounding a large emerald stone.
"Yes." That was all she answered and took a another sip of her drink.
"How long have you been together?" Korsak asked, picking up on her discomfort but wanting to try for a tiny bit more information.
"Almost twenty one years." The petite woman smiled and decided to change the subject. "And what about you both?"
Jane internalised another smirk at her wife's diversion. She was the queen of deflection because she couldn't lie. Maura's clever answer of how long she had been with her partner as opposed to answering the inferred question of how long she had been married, would deter the guys from figuring them out too soon. Jane had no doubt that they would but she would deal with that when it happened.
Korsak and Frost happily shared their stories, answering both women's questions until it was time for Maura to leave.
"I'm so sorry, I better get home. Thank you for the lovely evening everyone." The doctor pulled out a few bills and left them on the table. "See you tomorrow morning."
Korsak's curiosity was piqued when he noticed a faint neat line tainting the honey blonde's throat as she bent over to place the money on the table. The scar was familiar to him for some reason. He shook his head, putting it down to too many beers. "See ya doc." The older man called as she left.
Frost turned around and watched her leave, once again. He felt something hit him on the back of the head.
"Hey!" He turned back around and glared jokingly at Jane, who obviously threw the balled up napkin at him.
"Seriously?" Jane asked, slightly annoyed.
"Aww Jane, c'mon! Her legs and ass are amazing… She's married anyway." He defended his harmless looking.
"Yeah, so you should stop bein' a pervert." The brunette teased him and he laughed.
"Nah. There's no fun in that." He claimed, finishing off his beer. "I'm gettin' another drink. Korsak?"
"Yes please." The older man answered.
"I think I might head home too." Jane stood and put her jacket on. "See you guys tomorrow."
Korsak noted that the tall woman didn't pay any money towards their drinks but quickly realised that Dr Isles had left enough for all of them plus a tip.
The rest of the week and halfway into the following week was quiet for homicide but not so quiet in the morgue. A five car pile up had killed four people and Maura was up to her elbows, literally, in work.
Jane knocked on the doctor's office and entered when Maura called out for her to come in.
"Good afternoon Dr Isles." Jane greeted cheerfully with a bit of mischief in her tone. The tall woman sat down on the ME's couch and waited for the blonde to look up from her work and acknowledge her.
"Sorry, darling. Just give me a moment." Maura requested without looking up.
The detective chuckled at the fact that her wife just knew it was her and also at the slip up of calling her 'darling'. She was lucky she didn't bring Frost or Korsak with her. Maura forgot a lot more than Jane thought she would. She figured after nineteen years of marriage, it was pretty hard to stop saying something that was so engrained in your everyday language.
The tall woman studied the doctor. She had her hair up in a stylish ponytail, her bangs parted. Jane recalled that the blonde was wearing a high waisted black skirt and black peep toe heels. The brunette raked her eyes over the short sleeved, tight, black and blue checkered silk top that was unbuttoned low enough to show a hint of her wife's glorious cleavage.
Jane got up and closed the door. The ME finally glanced up at the sound of the lock being engaged and the blinds being drawn closed.
"What are you doing?" Maura asked suspiciously, placing her pen down and crossing her toned arms. She raised her eyebrows in disbelief when she recognised the look in Jane's darkened eyes. "No Jane." She slid her chair back from her desk and stood up to put a stop to her detective's pursuit.
There was no stopping the brunette.
Jane got within an inch of her wife and wrapped her hands around the small waist and pressed herself against the doctor, claiming her lips.
Maura placed her hands flat against the detective's abdomen and tried to resist her advances but then Jane did that thing with her tongue that made her weak in the knees every time, and she caved. The ME wrapped her hands in dark curls and felt long fingers slide over her backside.
Jane pushed the papers from the smaller woman's desk without breaking their kiss and backed her wife up against it. Her hands reached down to the hem of the black skirt, pushing it up high on Maura's thighs, and stepped in between the toned legs that wrapped around her waist, heels digging into the tall woman's backside.
"Mmm, baby…" Maura moaned into the kiss. "This isn't a good ide…Ohh-" Jane ran her tongue across her bottom lip and then sucked her wife's tongue into into her mouth, effectively quieting her attempt to protest. Their kiss deepened as their tongues tangled and the brunette pressed their bodies tightly together.
The detective's hand slid up the inside of the doctor's thigh. She pushed the smaller woman's panties aside and before Maura knew it, her wife's fingers were inside of her, expertly moving in and out and building her up to the point of no return.
Jane disconnected their lips to kiss her way down the delicate neck and sucked on her wife's pulse point, making the smaller woman thrust her hips forward and moan like she had forgotten where she was. She had. "Shhh baby." The brunette reminded as she smiled into the skin just below the blonde's ear then placed open mouthed kisses around the area, still pumping her fingers into her wife's soaked center. She reverently kissed the scar on Maura's throat and moved back up to suck on an earlobe.
"Ohh, oh Jane. Oh god." The doctor whimpered and gripped Jane's hair tightly, trying to stay quiet as she breathed more erratically and felt like she was going to lose her mind if she didn't come soon.
Knowing her wife was ready, Jane moved her thumb to stroke the sensitive side of Maura's clit. She whispered against the open mouth. "Come for me, baby." The detective's lips came back up to swallow the ME's moans as she came. The brunette kept kissing the soft lips as Maura's breathing evened out again.
"Oh god." The doctor's head dropped forward onto a strong shoulder. "That- that was sooo not professional."
"I thought after twenty one years I would be very professional." Jane joked and kissed the blonde head.
Maura gave a short laugh then groaned as her wife removed her fingers and moved her body away to clean up. She slid off her desk and straightened up her skirt, unable to fully get the wrinkles out.
Jane came out of the small private bathroom and Maura ran her hands over the brunette's collar, smoothing it out. She stepped back and checked her outfit again. The detective gave the ME an amused smirk.
"What?" Maura frowned and looked down at herself, worried that she had something on her clothing.
"You look well-fucked, babe." Jane laughed smugly and dodged her wife's hand.
"Jane!" The doctor swatted at the taller woman's shoulder. "God, you're so crude." She smiled affectionately at her anyway.
"You gotta admit, that was pretty hot."
Maura caressed the tanned cheek softly and placed a chaste kiss on her wife's lips. "I am very satisfied and my underwear is ruined… I'll get you back later." The blonde winked as she moved away and opened her blinds.
"Looking forward to it, gorgeous." Jane replied as she unlocked the door.
"Wait, did you need anything?" The ME asked.
"Yep. I got it." The detective smirked again and exited her wife's office, feeling very proud of herself.
Whilst Maura was busy the rest of the week, Jane spent some extra time with her daughters in the evenings while their Mom worked long hours. Thankfully they were used to it and had plenty of holiday activities to keep them occupied during the day.
Their Nonna had been spoiling them and they enjoyed the time with her. They had gotten to see their uncle Tommy and his wife, Lydia, and their cousin, TJ. They also got to visit their uncle Frankie who had just moved to Boston with his wife, Nina.
Frankie had followed Jane to New York once he graduated from the academy several years after her. He did his first two years there and then had followed his sister to Chicago but stayed in the city when he and Nina became a couple and Jane and Maura had moved on to San Francisco. Frankie and Nina had both applied for a job at BPD and were successful. They would be starting the following week and Jane was really excited about it.
Angela was overjoyed. All three of her children and grandchildren living in the same city as her.
Friday night, Maura finally let herself inside of her house before 9pm for the first time that week. She was exhausted. Dropping her purse and keys on the entryway table, she clicked into the dining room and across to the living room where her three girls were huddled up watching a movie.
Jane turned at the sound of high heels on the tiled floor. "Hey beautiful."
"Hi darling." Maura gave a tired smile and kicked off her heels before entering the carpeted area.
"Hi Mom." Lexi greeted. Franky was too engrossed in the movie to realise her mother had gotten home.
"Hello sweetie" She kissed their youngest on her head. "Hi Francesca!" Maura called a little more loudly and the dark head snapped over to look at her. Those light brown eyes twinkled behind the glasses at the sight of her mother.
"Hi Mom." Her seventeen year old got up, gave her mother a big hug and sat back down. "Wait, Mama rewind that please?!" Franky begged, not wanting to miss any of the film.
The honey blonde walked around in front of her wife and curled up sideways on her lap, arms wrapped around Jane's neck. The couple kissed softly a few times, not needing any words to communicate, but had to stop when Lexi began throwing popcorn at them.
"Hey you brat!" Jane picked a piece of popcorn out of Maura's hair and threw it back at the fifteen year old.
"Shh guys!" Franky pleaded with all seriousness.
"Shh." Maura whispered jokingly against Jane's lips and planted one more kiss on her mouth before standing back up and dodging her wife's hands that grabbed for her. "Goodnight my sweethearts. I need a shower and bed." She declared and left the room to go upstairs.
"Uh. I'm gonna go to bed too, girls. Don't stay up too late!" Jane called over her shoulder and followed the smaller woman up the stairs.
"Behave!" Franky yelled out, chuckling.
"Never!" Was yelled back by her Mama.
"I hope I love someone that much after being married for so long." Lexi professed to her sister.
Franky gave her a smile and nodded. "Yeah, me too."
Both girls knew their parents had something special. Their family had always been very close and very loving. They had been through so much, especially over the last few years. Jane and Maura had done everything they could to keep their girls safe and make sure they were loved more than anything or anyone else. Francesca and Alexis knew that and had no doubt that they were their parents' number one priority.
After Maura's third week at work, Jane decided it was safe enough for them to arrive together as long as they were more careful about who saw them. She was beginning to grow tired of the whole thing and was almost at the point of not caring about who found out.
They had been reading the reports sent to them from their old boss at SFPD regarding the finalising of the Hoyt case and were anxious for it all to be over.
They entered the quiet BPD cafe together and were surprised to see Angela Rizzoli behind the counter.
"Ma! What are you doin' here?" Jane asked, handing her enough cash for two coffees.
"I got a job! Surprise!" The Italian woman excitedly exclaimed.
"Angela, that's wonderful!" Maura congratulated her and gave her a hug.
"Yeah Ma, uh, it's great but listen…" She pulled her mother aside. "Remember that no one knows about me and Maura yet, ok?" Jane reminded her mother and the older woman nodded seriously.
"Of course, Janie. My lips are sealed." Angela went back to work and the couple sat at a far booth in the corner of the shop.
Angela brought their drinks over and watched as her daughter yawned. "Starting the day off tired? That's not good."
"Nooo." Jane denied.
"You're yawning because you skipped breakfast, love." Maura stated and sipped her coffee.
"You didn't eat breakfast?" Angela asked, horrified.
"No, I'm yawning because you're boring." Jane teased her wife and drank her coffee with a sigh of happiness. "Ma, can you get me another coffee?"
"Sure Janie."
"You know, studies show that yawning actually increases boredom." Maura informed the brunette with a smirk. "And you're only saying I'm boring because I said no to sex this morning." She whispered the last part of her sentence out.
Jane glanced around paranoid. "We had time!" She argued, still annoyed at the rejection.
"We did not." Maura asserted.
"Did so."
"Did not."
"We did!" Jane won the argument, only because the ME didn't respond again knowing her wife was too stubborn to let it go.
Angela came back with Jane's second coffee and heard the bickering. She rolled her eyes affectionately at the couple.
Both of their phones rang at the same time and Angela almost dropped the drink as she was placing it on the table.
"Rizzoli." Jane barked into her cell.
"This is Dr Isles." Maura's polite tone heavily contrasted the two greetings.
"On my way."
"I'll be there soon."
They both ended their calls.
"Ma, can I get that to go? We got a suspicious death." Jane asked her mother and watched her wife stand up and straighten her grey skirt and dark blue button up shirt. Her doctor looked especially sexy today. Jane was convinced it was the blue on her but in reality, it was mostly due to her unsuccessful seduction that morning and the dull ache that existed between her legs.
"Do you want to ride with me?" Maura asked innocently.
Jane raised an eyebrow dubiously at the ME. "Oh, I wanna ride you alright." She mumbled for only Maura to hear and grinned at the full bellied laugh that erupted from her wife.
They got into the doctor's Mercedes and were at the crime scene shortly after Korsak and Frost had arrived. They walked over to Jane and Maura when they saw them pull up. Frost was intrigued as to why they had arrived together so early in the morning.
"What do we got?" Jane asked, as she opened Maura's door for her.
The ME bit her lip from reminding her wife that it wasn't necessary to be chivalrous in front of their colleagues.
Korsak made a mental note of the behaviour and stored it away for later.
"You know, I remember when Copley Square was just a couple of hotels. Now it's food truck central." The older detective pointed at the body next to a food truck.
As they approached Maura sped up her pace. "Oh my goodness! Is that Chef Holden?!" She asked and Barry caught up to her, knowing the name.
"Who's Chef Holden?" Korsak asked, not having a clue.
"He's last season's 'America's Best Chef' winner." Maura informed them as she pulled her latex gloves out from her bag.
"The reality show?" Jane asked her wife and received a nod.
"He made the most inventive deconstructed pheasant Normandy from hearts of palm." Maura stated and Frost agreed.
"How do you know that?" Korsak asked the African American.
"Uh, I saw every episode." He defended.
"Me too!" The ME smiled at him and he grinned back.
"What did you think of his sous-vide duck?" He asked, interested in what the doctor had to say.
"Oh, that technique was controversial." They both chuckled.
"You know, I-I've made the grilled watermelon with the charred beef and fennel." Frost confessed and blushed at Maura's impressed look.
"You're making me hungry." Korsak declared.
Jane rolled her eyes. "Can you two foodies stop salivating, please?" The detective approached the two uniforms that had arrived at the scene first and secured the area. "What happened?"
"It's not clear, Detective." The uniformed officer answered her. "Those two were with him when he suddenly collapsed."
"Is that Reed Bennet and Dalia Reilly?" Frost asked Maura and she nodded.
"What did the paramedics say?" Jane questioned further.
"He was in full cardiac arrest when they got here. Couldn't resuscitate him." The uniformed officers left after they had given Jane all of their information.
"What a shame." Frost shook his head sadly, looking down at the dead man a few feet away.
"You know, his name, Holden, actually means 'kind.' He donated to every food-activist group". The ME stated as she knelt herself down to examine the body.
Jane walked over and stood next to Frost, respecting the space around the body that Maura required in order to preserve possible evidence.
"He was perspiring heavily. Posterior nose bleed." Maura spoke out loud to help the detectives understand her process in working out whether the death was a homicide or not.
Jane frowned when her wife leaned close to the dead man and started sniffing the body close up. "Maura, are you smelling him?" She asked incredulously with mild disgust. Frost gagged a little and Korsak chuckled, completely amused with the ME's methods.
"Get everyone back!" Maura uncharacteristically yelled and held her hand up to stop anyone from coming closer. The uniformed officers present started to move the crowd back further.
Jane's froze in surprise and then her eyes widened in fear when she noticed her wife's nose. "Maur, your nose is bleeding." The brunette stated, trying to keep the worry out of her voice. She moved towards Maura, determined to help her.
The doctor yelled again. "No, Jane! Get back! Call the HAZMAT team now!" Maura demanded. She stood up and took a step away from the body and pressed the back of her wrist to her nose, dabbing at the blood.
"Maura." Jane locked eyes with the honey blonde. "What can I do?" She begged. They all stood and waited anxiously for the HAZMAT team to arrive
"I'm fine." The doctor tried to reassure Jane. The couple didn't take their eyes off one another and the guys definitely noticed the intimate behaviour.
"They're here, Jane!" Frost called out at the sight of the truck and ran over.
Once they had been cleared as non-hazardous, Jane grabbed Maura and practically dragged her over to the ambulance to have her nose cleaned up and to be checked.
"Hi." The pretty, dark haired paramedic greeted the ME with a warm smile. "I'm just going to wrap this around your arm. Check your vitals." The woman stated and put the blood pressure cuff on Maura's arm.
"Thank you." Maura lifted her arm to make it easier.
"I need to check your eyes." The paramedic moved in front of Jane, up close to the doctor and shone her light into the hazel eyes. "I think they look fine."
Jane thought that the check up was a little too slow and the EMT was being overly friendly with her wife. She had no idea where the jealousy came from but it had been happening more frequently lately. She would have to analyse it later.
Frost and Korsak came over to check on the doctor and waited patiently as she was being seen by the paramedic. They would all have to take a decontamination shower soon.
Jane hovered, unaware that the guys were behind her. "She should go to the hospital, right?"
Maura answered for herself. "It's not necessary." She uncuffed her arm and handed it back to the paramedic.
Jane huffed at the dismissal. "Really? Everybody that ate from the food truck didn't get sick. Even the paramedics that were treating him are fine. You touched him with gloves, why did your nose bleed, baby?" Jane asked, desperate for answers, voice full of emotion.
"I likely became symptomatic because I inhaled the toxin that was on his skin." Maura tried to reason gently, not knowing if this would be enough for her wife to hear. She noticed the two detectives standing behind Jane, curious looks on their faces.
"Do you know what the toxin is?" Jane asked, hoping it wasn't serious. She reached for the ME's hands but the smaller woman retracted from her touch.
"I wont know until the lab does the necessary tests." Maura motioned behind the brunette to Korsak and Frost.
Jane turned around and took a deep breath. "Uh hey guys. Do we have to do the shower thing now?"
"Yep."
"Damn."
Once they had finished showering and were wearing disposable white jumpsuits, they asked the lead for the HAZMAT team about the toxin.
"We haven't identified it yet." He stated unhelpfully.
"I'll do the autopsy." Maura asserted, determined to find out what killed the chef.
"No, Maura. You can't!" Jane exclaimed unprofessionally and then shut up at her wife's glare.
"I'll wear a HAZMAT suit and let my staff know to prepare for a biohazard." The doctor stated and left with the coroner's van.
"Hey Jane." Frost called out at his distracted partner as she watched the blonde leave.
"Yeah?"
"Are you and Maura ok?" He asked, concerned about what he had seen between them.
"We're- fine. She just gets frustrated when I'm overprotective." Jane explained. In her concern for her wife, she forgot to filter her response. The brunette stalked off to Maura's car. "See you guys back at the station."
Both men looked at each other with wrinkled foreheads. They were very becoming less confused but more disturbed at what they assumed was going on.
"Are they ok?" Frost asked Korsak this time.
"I think so." The older detective affirmed. "But, I think- I think there's uh, something goin' on between them."
Frost's eyebrows raised. "Like?" He had his own suspicions but didn't want to voice them.
Not willing to say what his first idea was, he shook his head. "I'm not sure just yet but they definitely know each other more than they're letting on." Korsak pronounced, determined to corner Jane about it later and interrogate it out of her.
Korsak didn't get a chance to interrogate Jane over the next few days due to Maura deeming the death of Chef Holden, as suspicious.
The thirty two year old male had been killed with insecticide which contradicted the chef's organic, non-GMO food stance. After further investigation from Maura, who was not satisfied that someone with a refined palette like Chef Holden, wouldn't be able to taste insecticide in his meal.
After tracing the toxin to the chef's hot sauce, they discovered that the man who came second place in last year's competition against Chef Holden, had actually been the one to poison him.
Finally with another win under their belts, Frost and Korsak dragged Jane out for a quick beer at The Robber. They had just gotten her seated when Maura entered and joined them.
Korsak warred with himself, not sure whether he should just confront the both of them but decided that he didn't know the ME well enough to say anything to her.
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