Suspension of Disbelief

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Chapter 9

They sat on Jane's sofa, finishing up the last of the croissants and fruit that Korsak had prepared for Maura earlier. They faced each other, the serving tray between them, looking into each other's eyes intently and laughing occasionally at jokes that Jane would make to ease Maura's obvious tension at this new relationship that she now found herself in.

They talked about the things that they had in common, which right now in this stage of their courtship was mostly work and how they were going to explain their sudden closeness and compatibility, since they had just met barely twenty four hours ago. Especially difficult was going to be explaining it to Det. Frost, who would notice right away the change in his partner. He was a detective, after all.

And a good detective at that, even though he still had a lot to learn from Jane.

After having their fill of food, Korsak, as if on cue, came and removed the tray from between them and whisked it into the kitchen. Maura, having had servants her whole life, noticed his efficiency and attentiveness right away. She was having a hard time understanding why he focused so much of his life on taking care of Jane. She understood that Korsak knew of Jane's secret and kept it, even protecting Jane in the process, but she didn't understand why he did the things he did otherwise.

While researching Jane's file, in order to get to know her new coworker, she had also looked through Vincent Korsak's as well. She knew that he and Jane had once been partners, but now only coworkers, at Jane's own request. The reason for the request was vague and immediate after an incident that was not clearly explained in the files or reports that she had found in the Boston P.D.'s database. It worried Maura as to why it was not easily accessible.

But none of the information that she gleaned from any source explained why he was such an attentive coworker and friend. He did not strike her as a particularly subservient personality. Quite the opposite, in fact, except when it came to matters concerning Jane.

She sat and pondered these facts, questions forming in her mind. Jane saw this and smiled, knowing that soon the time would come for Maura to get around to asking all the questions that she needed the answers to, in order for them to move forward as a couple. Because Jane knew also that Maura was not the type to allow herself complete abandonment of all her beliefs until she had new beliefs to replace the old ones.

Jane waited.

Maura stalled.

She wanted desperately to know the answers to the questions that she had for Jane, but she also knew that those answers would shake her to the core. She was still having a difficult time accepting the fact that Jane was, in fact, a vampire, even though she'd seen it with her own eyes. She was struggling with the fact that vampires existed at all, let alone that apparently her new life partner was one of them. She couldn't even approach, in her mind, that Jane had alluded to the fact that werewolves also existed. That subject would have to be broached at a later date. She didn't think that mentally she could handle that just yet.

"What are you thinking about, Maura?" Jane asked quietly, not wanting to startle the doctor from her intense thoughts.

Maura looked at Jane thoughtfully. "You."

"Ask your questions." Jane said, directly. "I'll answer all of them."

"I don't want to spoil this wonderful time that I'm having with you right now." Maura said, uncharacteristically. She normally would launch directly into the questions that she desperately needed the answers for. But, for some reason, she suddenly felt that maybe she wasn't sure that she could handle those answers. At least not right now.

It had been a long past twenty four hours.

Jane laughed. "What makes you think that you could spoil anything, Maura?"

Maura looked at her hands self consciously. "I have that ability, so I've been told. I'm not good with social situations and all the nuances that other people seem to naturally understand when talking with each other. I'm rather direct. In short, I spoil things."

It broke Jane's heart to witness Maura's inner struggle with her description of her own self analysis. Jane innately knew that Maura was different than most human beings. It's also one of the things that made her so attractive and irresistible to Jane. The dark eyed detective had had many, many years to witness the different personalities that humans exhibited. But even in the short time that she had known this particular human, she knew that there was not another one like her. It thrilled and excited her.

To know that they would be spending the rest of their lives together made Jane almost giddy with happiness.

Jane held her hand out to Maura, smiling lovingly. "Come here."

Maura took the offered hand, giggling as Jane pulled her across the sofa and into her waiting arms. Jane kissed her slowly, holding her face tenderly.

Maura broke the kiss, looking deeply into Jane's beautiful dark brown eyes. Briefly she wondered if this was their natural color or if they were the ice blue that she had witnessed earlier and Jane had chosen this particular shade of brown herself in order to hide her true identity.

Jane smiled, seeing Maura still forming questions even as she was being kissed. She lay back on the couch, pulling Maura back with her. They spooned, Jane's leg thrown over Maura's thigh, her open palm on the doctor's stomach.

"You could never spoil things for me Maura. We've bonded and consummated that bond. It can't be broken." Jane whispered into Maura's ear, her breath tickling, sending goose bumps shooting down the doctor's neck, across her chest and onto her stomach, stopping only when they reached Jane's open palm, which rested there.

Maura smiled, ever the pragmatic. "Well, technically, you've consummated the bond with me. But I didn't with you."

Jane laughed into Maura's hair. She drew in a breath, pulling that special scent that only she could smell into her lungs. She made a mental note to ask Maura to give her an article of clothing that she had slept in for a few days, maybe a t-shirt, even though she was sure that the doctor didn't even own such a garment. She decided that she would buy her one, a Mickey Mouse t-shirt perhaps, after all, she was fond of Disney, and have her wear it to bed, allowing the fabric to absorb that 'Maura' smell. Then Jane could sleep with it close to her face at night, and smell her life mate on it when she couldn't smell her directly. She smiled at the thought of Maura sleeping in the shirt, so uncharacteristically casual, even in bed.

She'd only known Maura for a day, but she had seen the doctor's wardrobe thus far and had determined that she was somewhat of a clotheshorse. Instead of turning Jane off, which in anyone else besides Maura, that trait would seem indulgent and self serving, it only made the honey blonde more endearing.

Maura pushed her bottom back into Jane's stomach, breaking her from her thoughts.

"Did you hear me, Jane?" Maura asked, her hand covering Jane's as it rested on her stomach.

Jane leaned forward and kissed the back of Maura's head. "I did." She answered, the arousal that she suddenly began to feel sounding in her already husky voice.

"Well then, is the bond complete if I haven't consummated it with you?" she asked innocently, yet knowingly. She was beginning to feel her own arousal and something else as well. She wasn't quite sure what it was. She felt her physical arousal, obviously in her groin and belly, but she also felt an arousal in her mind. It was an added layer of pleasure that she had never before experienced and couldn't explain.

Jane, having felt this before with other partners, though never this intensely, knew what Maura was feeling. She wanted to help her understand and learn to use this new level of pleasure for her own gain.

"Maura." She whispered into her ear again. "What are you feeling?" she asked, moving her hand up to the doctor's breast, kneading it firmly yet tenderly.

Maura gasped at the sensations that flooded her body and mind. "I don't know." She breathed out heavily.

Jane took Maura's hand and moved it behind her to graze the detective's center lightly. Jane closed her eyes at Maura's soft touch, the pleasure shooting from between her legs up into her stomach.

Maura gasped. "I felt that!" she said, amazed.

"Do it again." Jane said, releasing Maura's hand as the doctor moved it over Jane's center again, her fingers dancing over Jane's labia. The brunette held her breath as the sensations of Maura's fingers on her most sensitive area began to fill her body.

Maura gasped again as, she too, felt the same sensations in her own center.

"That's impossible, Jane." She said. "How is that possible?"

Jane laughed at her doctor's inability to let herself be open to all the new experiences that she was about to embark upon. Maura was ever the realist. Her mind never waived from her facts and tangibles, something that Jane knew, at least in their dealings with each other, Maura was going to have to learn to do. Because Jane's very existence threw all of Maura's previous knowledge of the known universe out the window.

Jane pushed her hips into Maura's hand, again eliciting a gasp from the blonde as she, once again, felt what Jane was feeling.

"Maura, you have to open your mind to this. I know it will be hard for you, but you have to do it." Jane said huskily into Maura's delicate ear. "Otherwise, you're gonna go crazy trying to reason this out." Jane finished, kissing Maura's neck, nipping at it softly. She was beginning to feel the urge to turn and she wasn't sure if Maura was ready to let her do that just yet. She could feel the warm blood pulsing just under the skin of Maura's neck and it was beginning to fuel her natural instincts to change into the vampire that she truly was, deep down.

Maura turned herself over in Jane's arms, facing the raven haired woman lying next to her. She looked into Jane's eyes deeply, waiting for any sign of Jane's impending transformation. There were none as Jane kept control of her natural instincts. She had honed this ability over hundreds of years, even though, just a few hours earlier, Maura had allowed her to experience something she herself had never experienced before, an orgasm in her natural state. She wanted desperately to do it again. But she remained in control, for Maura.

Maura sensed this inner struggle that Jane was fighting against and kissed her softly. She, too, was fighting her own inner struggle. She wanted Jane badly, but had never been intimate with a woman before and her fears were beginning to overtake her passion. After minutes of a dialogue in her own head she spoke.

"Jane, I've never done this before." She said, her breathing increasing with the emotions she was fighting with inside her head.

Jane laughed. "What? Made love to a vampire?"

Maura didn't laugh with Jane. She shook her head instead. "No. Made love to a woman." She said, her eyes leaving Jane's, focusing instead on her dimpled chin.

Jane, seeing the sudden fear and seriousness on Maura's face, put her finger under the blonde's chin, bringing her beautiful amber green eyes up to meet her own dark brown ones.

"There's nothing to be scared of, Maura." Jane said, seriously, then playfully added, "I won't bite."

Maura smiled at this attempt at humor on Jane's part. "I can't help it. I'm not used to doing things I'm not very good at."

"Who says you're not going to be good at it?" Jane asked, smiling.

Maura shook her head again. "How can I be? I've never done it."

Jane kissed Maura slowly, passionately, yet tenderly. She pushed her tongue softly into Maura's mouth and she accepted it, massaging it with her own. As they kissed, Jane felt Maura's passion rising again, allowing her to put those doubts a little farther out of her mind. Jane kissed her this way on purpose, knowing that if Maura would just allow herself to feel her own passion, as well as Jane's, she would stop worrying so much and just let her natural instincts take over.

Jane broke the kiss, her hand resting on Maura's cheek. They were both breathing heavily now. Jane looked deeply into Maura's eyes.

"Don't worry, Maura. You'll know what to do. I'll show you, okay?" Jane said, smiling at Maura, her fingers stroking the doctor's cheekbones.

Maura nodded, wide eyed. "Okay." She answered. "Show me."

With that, they untangled themselves from one another and rose from the couch. The sun was making its way to midday, slowly creeping across the floor of Jane's living room. Jane was suddenly very glad that neither of them had to work today. It would have been hard to go in and try and act normal, knowing what they were about to do together.

Maura took Jane's hand as Jane led them both from the living room and into the kitchen, past Korsak, who had been busying himself with mundane chores while Jane and Maura talked on the couch. He smiled at Jane as she passed, nodding to Maura.

Maura looked down, feeling embarrassed that surely Korsak had heard the entire conversation and knew what she and Jane were about to do in the detective's bedroom.

Sensing her embarrassment, Korsak said to them as they passed, "I'm going to stock up on a few things that you need, Jane. I'll be gone awhile."

Jane stopped and turned back to Korsak, smiling at her old friend. "Thank you, Korsak. Take your time. We'll be fine. Won't we, Maura?" she finished addressing her new life mate.

Maura smiled at Korsak genuinely. "Yes, Vince. I think we will. We'll be just fine."

Korsak nodded and made his way out of the kitchen and into the living room and out the front door, locking it behind him as he left.

Jane, hearing what Maura couldn't, namely Korsak making his way down the hall to the foyer and stopping just inside the door, waiting and watching, turned to Maura and leaned down to kiss her again. She pulled Maura's petite body next to her tall strong one, as they kissed passionately, their arousal immediate and insistent.

Jane broke the kiss reluctantly, smiling at Maura. She pulled Maura's hand to her mouth and kissed the back of it briefly, making sure that Maura was ready.

Maura smiled back and led Jane towards her bedroom.

The questions that she had would have to wait.

Sorry it has taken me so long to post. Life sometimes creeps in on my little fanfic universe, upsetting the balance. So thanks to all of you who have hung in there with me thus far! And to all who have reviewed, it means the world to me! Truly, it does. I promise not to let so much time pass in between postings again. And once more, thanks.