Author Notes: This one is dedicated to that one best friend in your life that makes you do the craziest things because (a) You wouldn't have done it in the first place all by yourself and (b) You would never know that you would love it if you didn't do it!

This piece was rather random. I happen to just come across a stage performance of this song, and well Jane immediately pulled Maura to the beats in my mind and there was me, unable to wipe off that big goofy smile. The song is "Shut up and Dance" by Walk the Moon.

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It was a long day after work, a difficult case had kept both Maura and Jane on the edge and they were finally going to spend the evening back at Maura's home to finish up some paper work. They didn't really wish to take back more work home, especially when they had to be up early the next morning to track down a lead a few miles away from the city but it couldn't be delayed.

Maura unlocked the front door and let Jane in who was holding a bunch of case files that they needed. As she followed Jane in, she found herself ease in the quite of her home. They were exhausted and Maura knew that the calm of her house would ease both their nerves.

Jane plopped on the couch, dropping off the files on the table sitting next to it.

A sigh from Jane brought life back to the quiet of the living room.

"Freshen up Jane. I will get us something to eat." Maura addressed to the back of Jane as she picked up the files and put them properly on her window table.

"Yes boss!" Jane perked bringing in a wide smile on Maura's face.

About forty minutes into the routine, having had the dinner together, Jane went back on the couch and turned the television on. She waited for Maura to join her, but Maura didn't come.

"Maura, where are you?" Jane filled the quiet of the room with her voice, just a tint of impatience in it.

"I am right here Jane, doing the paper work."

"No, no, no, no not right now, we just came back and you just cooked, let your mind rest before we get back to it." Jane adamantly stated, beckoning her to come to the couch with her hand.

"Jane… you know it is a lot of work, the sooner we start, the sooner it will be over and the sooner we can sleep."

Jane wasn't ready to take a no for an answer. And as a matter of chance, a song started to play on the channel she had halted on; it was a band performance of a song Jane hadn't heard. Jane smirked as a figurative light bulb lit up in her brain and she suddenly had an idea to cajole Maura to come to her. "O come on Maur! See what a fun a song it is! Don't you like it! Ooo I think I wanna sing this one!" and she instantly stood up with an adorable smug plastered on her face, walked briskly towards Maura, took away her pen and files, and dragged her all the way to the front of the television screen.

"O no Jane, don't…" Maura tried to resist being pulled away from the work but then resigned as soon as she saw Jane eagerly smiling at her. She found herself smiling into it the next moment. "Ah well, you are just impossible!" She laughed at the silliness of the situation.

"Am I Now?" Jane grinned, and Maura instantly knew that Jane wasn't going to end at that. Jane turned the volume of the song up and then took both of Maura's hands into hers and started to dance to the song, trying to sync in to the lyrics of the song at the top of her voice, laughing every other time she faltered with the words. Maura giggled as she saw herself complying with whatever Jane was pulling her into.

"She took my arm; I don't know how it happened.

We took the floor and she said

Oh don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me.

I said you are holding back,

She said shut up and dance with me!"

"Ah O Jane… what are you doing!" Maura managed to shout above the song and Jane's wild singing while Jane dragged her into crazy steps matching to the beats.

"What do you think? It is dancing time." And Jane picked up the track once again, this time confident with the chorus lyrics.

Maura finally gave in and started singing along her best buddy. This was good, she thought. I can get used to being dragged to random songs just for the fun of it. She had tried Karaoke at several points in her life, but it was never that fun alone. This was crazy sweet. She hadn't laughed that heartily in quite a while. She could feel the room brighten up with Jane's and her smiles and wild words flowing in and out with the rhythm and the beat. This was pure unadulterated fun with Jane. And Maura actually loved it; absolutely, irrefutably, undeniably loved all of it.

"This woman is my destiny,

She said oh oh oh

Shut up and dance with me

Oh oh oh shut up and dance with me…"