Chapter 14

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Jane put her phone back in its case and decided to start packing Maura's bag. She wanted to go back to the hospital as soon as possible. She had already wasted enough time.

She found the M.E.'s gym's bag next to the enormous walk-in closet and opened it. It was empty, of course. Her bag, on the contrary, was always full of dirty socks and t-shirts.

She started with some pyjamas. She opened the nightwear drawer and took a look inside it. She didn't felt completely at ease going through Maura's things without her permission. But at the same time Jane found the task also extremely intimate. Jane has seen some of Maura's silk pyjamas during the nights she had spent there with the M.E.. Wonderful, elegant and light as a feather silk pyjamas. They were beautiful and she had always found them very seductive on Maura.

Not knowing what she would need, she took a black silk pyjamas and a blue one. She brought them to her nose, intending to smell the sophisticated scent. It was like having Maura in her arms. She inspired deeply, filling her lungs and her soul with that intoxicating essence. She put the nightwear in the bag and opened the sportswear drawer.

She loved a sporty Maura. The doctor could make a simple pair of yoga pants look classy. Everything was classy on her, even a potato sack. She packed two pairs of yoga pants, two tank tops and two t-shirts. A surprise was in store for her in that particular drawer. She finally found one of her favourite t-shirt. It was white and red. It had the writing "Boston Homicide Team" on the front and her surname on the back. Below the surname there was a number. 5. It was her number in the baseball team she used to play in during the academy. She loved that t-shirt but she hadn't been able to find it for years. She blamed her mother for the mysterious vanishing but now she realized it wasn't Angela's fault. Did her t-shirt end up in that drawer by accident? Was Maura aware of that? She chuckled and put the piece of clothing in Maura's bag, too. She also took a few pairs of socks and the slippers.

And then came the delicate part. The embarrassing one. Jane opened Maura's underwear drawer. She'd rarely seen Maura's underwear. She would have never dared to pay attention to it before. Only in her dreams she felt bold enough, brave enough to imagine Maura's lusciuous body clad in beautiful, classy but suggestive undergarments. She looked through the many panties and bras neatly folded. Different colours, different textures but equally tasteful.

She took a deep breath, softly running her fingers through the different pieces of lingerie. It felt fascinating, intimate and strangely arousing. She soon found herself picturing Maura in them. For her. Again, her imagination and desire guided her fingers along the doctor's body, tentatively but sensually caressing it, embedding every line, every curve, every mark and every centimetres in her heart and mind. Her neck, her shoulders, her breasts, her hips, her stomach, her legs. Then something clicked in her brain. She opened her eyes and cleared her throat. A blush was again colouring her cheeks.

What was happening in her head? What kind of person was she? Why was she fantasizing about her best friend while she was in a hospital bed?

It was like she couldn't consciously stop it. She just couldn't fight the feelings that were emerging inside of her. It was like the mere acknowledging of her feelings for Maura had torn down the barriers she had unconsciously built around her heart and mind. Years of denial and restrain had been replaced by a flood of feelings, sensations and emotions that Jane wasn't aware of having kept bottled up inside for so long. This inebriating attraction she felt toward Maura wasn't new but it had became surprising, scary and terribly challenging to control. It was unexpected and yet so powerful. And it was growing every minute. She was certain, now more than ever…she wanted Maura. In every way possible.

She put herself together and took a few pairs of panties and bras. The simplest and the most comfortable she could find. She knew Maura wasn't going to wear a bra anytime soon but she took them anyway.

She closed the closet and walked into the adjoining bathroom. She opened a cupboard next to the big, shining sink and took out a few towels and Maura's bathrobe, in case she needed it.

Then she opened the smaller cabinet on the right and blinked twice at the sight. In that cabined Jane could see every beauty product, cream, lotion, shower gel, shampoo and make up product known to man, and woman in that specific case. No wonder Maura's skin was always so soft, shining and flawless. Nevertheless she was sure Maura didn't need all that products to be exchanting. In her eyes the doctor was beautiful even in that hospital bed. She took a new bottle of shower gel and shampoo, a body lotion, a body cream and put everything in a small beauty she found there. She closed the cabinet and took Maura's toothbrush and toothpaste from the sink. She also packed a hairbrush and Maura's perfume.

She had gathered everything the doctor might possibly need. She was proud of herself.

She then turned around and saw the doctor's big shower. She needed a shower. She didn't want to talk to Maura pleading her case smelling like sweat. The detective decided to hop in really quick. She undressed and opened the water. It was hot in a heart bit. Jane entered the luxurious shower and went directly under the hot spray. She turned her back to it letting the water cascading loosen up her tense and sore muscles. For an instant she thought about Maura being in there a few hours earlier, taking a shower…wet, soapy, naked. She pictured herself in that shower with the M.E., touching her, caressing her and being touched…it lasted only a few magnificent seconds than she came down to Earth. She needed to find a way to control her thoughts and emotions or she was going to be in big troubles later. She cleared her mind and washed herself using Maura's shower gel. She quickly turned off the water, dried herself and got dressed in a pair of yoga pants and a t-shirt she borrowed from Maura.

She closed the bags and went downstairs.

Jane gave one last look to Bass eating his strawberries without a care in the world: "Bye buddy, see you later."

She turned off the light, locked the door and took off for the hospital.

Luckily, in only a few hours, she was going to look at Maura in the eyes again.