Author Notes: This one is a moment picked up from the end of the seventh episode of the fourth season "All for One". I have evidently skipped my re-watch sequence just this time because this one scene just wanted itself to be written. I hope you all enjoy reading it.
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"It is beautiful though…" Jane's voice reverberated in a familiar comfort as she and Maura stood by the window, watching the four girls holding on to each other's heartbeat as their own life line.
"What is?" Maura found herself asking as her eyes automatically turned to study Jane's melancholy. She was as much questioning the mighty questions of destiny and life in all its rights and wrongs as Jane was. If it were any other time, Maura wouldn't have let her heart open to the overwhelming woe that the recent case had brought on with it. But with Jane, somehow, she felt safe to open up to the melancholy throbbing of her heart and let it overwhelm her waking consciousness. Evidently, Jane felt the same security with Maura as she found herself vulnerable to wonder.
"That kinda friendship…" Jane was still wondering how life will turn out for the girl lying hooked to the tubes on the hospital bed. Maura could see sorrow and grief swelling in Jane's eyes, but somehow amidst the sadness and darkness, she could see swirls of expectation and hope; finding their way from the darkness of the abyss and guiding Jane's voice towards shore like a lighthouse. It was contagious, the prospect of love of that kind, as Maura found her own spirits somehow finding their way out of the ache that had taken rest in her chest.
Jane smiled as she took a moment to turn back to her best friend, and see a shine in her friend's eyes. Maura always made it so easy for Jane to be whatever she wished to be in a moment to her heart's content; and deep in her heart, Jane had admitted long time back that Maura was her refuge, her sanctuary. The thought as it surfaced back to recognition, brought a swell of appreciation deep in her chest. As she smiled at Maura, in a silent communication for admiration, Maura somehow took it gently in her eyes, hugging it in a familiar, warm embrace and sent it ten times back towards Jane with a single returning caress of her affectionately gleaming hazel eyes that was the breath of pure and unadulterated affection.
Jane realizing, that they had just communicated delightfully and skillfully through their eyes, each one understanding what the other had wanted to say but didn't feel like words would be enough, she almost chuckled into the comprehension. Jane then took a step towards the right of the entrance to continue their way back to their car, given the case was going to be stuck where it was; but she somehow fumbled with the turn, her crutches almost slipping from her grip. Immediately Maura's hands found the purchase of Jane's torso and she held Jane steady to prevent a fall. Jane smiled back at Maura, a thanking nod finding its way. As Maura decided to let Jane move forward again, still completely agile to gear up into action if Jane accidentally staggered or stumbled any moment, Jane wholeheartedly believed in her own heart that the beautiful friendship that she was just marveling about, she had it with her, without any reservations and in the most sincere yet unspoken acknowledgment, right at her side.
*To beautiful friendships…*