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Ch. 3

Who Knew!

"Why can't I find someone like you?" Jane asked, after her failed date with Gabriel Dean.

She asked this while sitting on Maura's couch, as she was getting her feet massaged by her best friend.

"What do you mean?" Maura asked, not sure of the question.

"Well look at us, we're best friends. We get along spectacularly just about all of the time. We actually enjoy each other's company and want to do things together. Hell, we can just sit side by side in the same room and not say a word to each other for hours and be completely happy. It's the way a relationship should be, except we're both female.

"Why should that matter?" Maura asked, not sure why exactly it would.

"I don't know, it just does." She stated matter of factly.

"That logic makes no sense, Jane. Two women have just as healthy relationships as a man and a woman. Maybe even better since females are programmed the same way. Even sexually, we are more compatible. We know what we like and what we don't." She said.

Jane made a face.

"What is that face for?" She asked, puzzled at her reaction. She didn't understand why Jane would have such an abhorrence to the idea of two women. It was perfectly natural. And to be honest, she actually felt kind of affronted by it. She never even considered that her best friend would be homophobic.

After a few moments of complete silence.

"How do women even have sex?" She was serious but her tone wasn't that of repugnance.

It was then, that the blonde realized she had misinterpreted the look. That made her silently breath a sigh of relief.

"What do you mean, how? Haven't you ever seen a pornographic film?" She questioned her best friend.

"I don't watch straight porno, why would I watch lesbian porno?' She couldn't believe Maura actually asked her that.

Maura just laughed and decided to let it go for tonight. She knew Jane had had a bad day and didn't want to aggravate her any further or make her uncomfortable. She knew Jane wasn't the most open minded when it came to sex. She herself however, was very open minded about sex and had no issues whatsoever with lesbian sex.

"Do you care if I stay the night since I don't have a way home?" Jane asked.

"Of course not, you are always welcome and you know that…don't you?" She smiled at her best friend, as she continued massaging her foot.

"Yeah, I do." Returning her own sweet smile, she moaned at the pleasure Maura was providing her arch.

"Are you ready to go to bed now?" The Doctor inquired.

"Yeah, I'm beat. It's been a long ass day." She removed her legs off of her best friend, stood up and stretched. Maura could hear the bones of Jane's spine crackle with each twist and turn she took.

As usual, they made their way to Maura's bedroom as she led the way. They brushed their teeth side by side, Maura couldn't help but look at Jane's reflection in the mirror. She truly looked exhausted and a good night's sleep was exactly what her best friend needed. She always did like it when Jane slept at her house. The brunette always seemed to rest better there, than when she were home alone at her own place. She liked that she could provide the brunette with that security and be a safe haven for her to let down her defenses and completely relax.

She loved her best friend immensely but Jane was without a doubt, one of the most guarded and wound too tight individuals she had ever had the pleasure of knowing. But she also knew that Jane knew, she could just be herself around Maura. There was no having to act tough, no pressures, no worries, no judgements, no stipulations, no demands…just be. That's the Jane, Maura always had the pleasure of.

They changed separately, then crawled into their respective sides of her California King pillow top plush bed. Jane quickly succumb to sleep as Maura laid next to her, thinking about their earlier conversation.

Maura had always thought Jane was absolutely gorgeous. She loved how brave and fearless her best friend was. She adored how caring and loving Jane was with the people she truly cared about. And if truth be known, she really loved how protective Jane always was, when it came to her.

She had never really given any thought to them being anything more than the life long best friends forever that they already were. She would have never even thought about them in that way but then Jane asked that question.

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Angela was used to seeing her daughter at her best friend's house at all hours of the day and night. So it was never a surprise when she popped over early in the morning to find Maura in her nightgown making breakfast for them or Jane in her pajamas rummaging through the refrigerator late in the evening.

And today was no exception.

She loved Maura like another daughter and it pleased her heart immensely to see how much her oldest was at such ease around her best friend.

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The week had progressed and the cases were coming to a close. Everyone was relieved that Friday was finally here so they could relax, provided no one else decided to kill. They had all went out for a few drinks at their usual staple. They all had watched the game, took turns on darts and told the dirtiest jokes they could come up with. Maura corrected several of them that were anatomically or scientifically incorrect.

This made the group laugh harder than the actual jokes themselves.

Jane had a nice buzz, while Maura drank responsibly so she could drive them home safely.

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They got back to the house and both went to change out of their work clothes. Maura came out dressed casually in yoga pants and a tank top, while Jane donned sweats and a t-shirt.

Jane went to the fridge and got herself a beer and poured her best friend a glass of red wine, as Maura went and sat on the couch.

They continued talking about the week and everything that's happen during it, when Jane casually commented that Martinez had asked her out again. She wanted to wait until they were alone, she didn't want to mention it in front of the guys and have to listen to them rag on her, about him.

"Are you going to go out with him? He is very handsome." She grinned, as she sipped her wine.

"Ugh…God no." She rolled her eyes and groaned.

"Why not?" She questioned.

"Cause it's just gonna end bad…I mean like really bad...like really really bad." She turned up her beer and killed it.

Maura laughed at her best friend. "Badly."

"Seriously Maur!" She stood up to get another one, taking Maura's glass as well to freshen it up.

Maura watched her walk away. All week long, she couldn't stop thinking about Jane's question last Friday. She had wondered if she could ever get Jane to potentially explore some of the possibilities of her statement.

"I think I'm going to take a break from trying to date for a while." She yelled from the kitchen.

"You just haven't met the right one yet." Maura told her best friend.

"Well clearly I've chosen well, so far." Sarcasm had always been a good friend of hers.

Again Maura could only laugh.

When Jane turned the corner, the Doctor continued to watch her, as her alcohol induced brain suggested an idea.

Handing her the wine glass, the brunette resumed her seat next to her best friend.

Maura took a healthy swallow of the Crimson deliciousness. She need some quick liquid courage and she knew Jane wasn't drunk but definitely in a feel no pain state of mind. Maybe her guard would be low enough to explore some of those options.

"Jane?"

"Yeah."

"What would you say, if I asked you to straddle me?" She asked. It was a sultry tenderly tone.

Jane looked at the blonde. "Why would I do that?" Her eyebrows bowed together.

"Because I'm asking you too." She stated matter of factly.

The brunette looked at her best friend for what seemed like an eternity. Her drunken brain finally flickered and she internally said 'fuck it'.

"Okay." She shrugged her shoulders. She rolled over and threw her left thigh over the slender hips of her best friend. She placed her free hand on Maura's shoulder for support as she settled on her lap. She finished the motion with a hefty swig of her beer.

Maura placed her wine glass on the coaster that was resting atop the end table with one hand, as the other rested on a toned thigh.

"You know, I've been thinking about your comment ever since last weekend." She softly commented.

"You referring to the 'why can't I find someone like you' comment?"

"The one in the same."

"What about it?" Jane asked her, taking another swig.

Maura just watched, as the bottle kissed her lips and the amber wetness crossed the barrier of her mouth. Her throat jumped up and down with every swallow.

She waited until Jane stopped drinking. She didn't particularly want to wear the hoppy lager, when she asked her next question.

"What would you do right now, if I were a guy?" She licked her bottom lip.

"But you don't have a dick." She smirked. Her eyes landed on the blonde's tongue, as she moistened said lip.

She took Jane's Blue moon and drank from it. It was now the brunette's turn to watch the show.

She pulled back on the long neck ale but just a little bit. She let the glass rim caress her own lip before moving down her chin, sliding along the length of her throat to her sternum, over the swell of her breasts and down her rib cage. Pressing her own thighs against Jane's calves, she parted her legs as wide as she could securing the bottle at the apex of her legs. She mimicked having the male form.

She watched Jane's eyes, watch her every move.

"But what if I did?" She seductively asked. "What would you do?"

"I think I might be too drunk for this conversation." Jane said, honestly.

Maura gripped her hips firmly and pulled her slightly to her own body. "If I did have a penis, would you take control of the situation Jane and ride me…long and hard?" Her tone was one that the brunette had never heard from her best friend before and it made Jane really look at Maura.

"Okay, this just got weird. I'm gonna go to bed." She used Maura's shoulders to help push herself off the blonde. Grabbing her bottle from in between her best friends thighs, she killed what little was left of it, then handed it back to the blonde. "Night Maur."

"Goodnight Jane." She was officially aroused.

Jane rounded the couch heading for the hallway. Before she got out of view, Maura called out.

"Jane?"

"Yeah."

"I noticed, you didn't say no." She smiled.

"No…I didn't say no."

Hope you are liking my random thoughts, let me know.

Update...a guest just left me a review stating Jane is 40. There is no way she wouldn't know the answer to her question and I just lost her as a reader...I speak from personal experience that her statement of asking HOW is completely plausible. I'm sorry if you find that statement to be far fetched but it DOES happen when women in their 40's do NOT know how!