Rizzoli & Isles - 97

Were as yesterday was fairly quiet, today had had the team run ragged. Jane was looking forward to a quiet evening to unwind ready to tackle the case with fresh eyes in the morning. Just as she was closing her computer down, Casey walked up to her desk leaning over to kiss her. Never one for PDA's Jane turned at the last minute so the kiss landed on her cheek. You'd think he would have learnt by now Jane thinks to herself while Casey looks on with a quizical expression but soon gets over himself.

"Great, your still here, I'm gonna take you out and show you good time. I've got reservations for dinner, then we'll go on to a club." Casey states his plans for the evening. Jane sits at her desk trying to figure out how she can get out of this without hurting Casey's feelings, I really don't need this right now, he didn't even ask, just assumed. I hate surprises.

What they hadn't noticed was Maura had also come up to see the detective before heading out. From the look on Janes face and knowing what sort of day she'd had Maura was 99% certain that Jane did not want a night out and came to her best friends rescue, "Are you ready Jane?" Casey turns at the Maura's question and Janes head shoots up with a relieved smile for her LLBFF. "Yeah, sorry Casey I already had plans with Maura for tonight. A quiet night some food, a drink and a movie I really need to relax after the day we've had but another night I promise Casey." Jane grabs her jacket, pecks Casey on the cheek then heads to the lift with Maura by her side. As they go to step into the lift Maura glances back at Casey the side of her mouth twitching up.

Once they were in the lift and out of earshot of the others Jane lets out a tired breath, "Thanks Maur."

"For what?"

"For being you, for knowing me."

Smiling fondly at her friend, "Yeah well I know how busy you've been today, then I heard what Casey had planned, " Maura shrugs, "I figured you'd just want a quiet night and you looked like you didn't know what to do so I just..." Maura trails off as if she suddenly realised she'd interfered, what if Jane hadn't wanted an excuse. Jane was watching her friend and could see her emotions running across her face but at that moment there was a ding as the doors opened into theparking garage.

Neither said anything untill they got into Maura's car and for once Jane didn't argue about driving. As they were setting off Maura spoke up, "I'm sorry if I interferred, you don't have to come over tonight."

"Maur it's ok I needed that, I needed you. I really didn't want to be out tonight and I couldn't think of anything better than takeout and a movie with my best friend."

A warmth spread though Maura as Jane said she needed her so she smiled and nodded, giving the road her full concentration. Jane smiled and turned to look out of the window getting lost in her thoughts:- Maura gets me, knows what I need and when, you would have thought Casey would know that as well by now.
Did I just ditch a night out with my...what...boyfriend? for a night curled up on the couch watching a movie with my...what...best friend?
I'm too tired I'll think about this more tomorrow.

A/N well I am really enjoying this and have a vague idea where I want this to go.
A quick heads up, weekend is family time (hubby works away so only get to see each other at weekends) plus it's Santa Parade this weekend so I may have to make up days on Monday xx

Rach