little shorter than i would like but i've planned out the next few chapters again so hopefully i'm back on a roll. thanks for all the continuing support x find me on tumblr, twitter, fb etc
They pulled up the crime scene and Jane went to leap out of the car when she was held back. A quiet clearing of a throat grabbed her attention and she turned to meet an unimpressed medical examiner holding up her cuffed wrist. "Right...sorry!" Jane chuckled and ducked back inside the car to separate them. She went to leave the car again and once again changed her mind, she ducked back in, pulling the ME, who was climbing out of the car, back in abruptly for a brief kiss.
Once she was allowed to exit the car she looked across at the detective who was beaming at her and she felt her heart soar, she was so sweet and affectionate. Maura made her way over to the body laying face down in the shallow stream. She stopped nearby and began delicately removing her heeled shoes and exchanging them for a pair of wellington boots.
Jane got the low down from Frost who was first on the scene and turned toward the body stopping to chuckle at the medical examiner precariously balancing on one foot as she attempted to put her wellies on. "This is why practical shoes beat your loobootans!"
Maura giggled at the brunette's butchery of the designer name and dashed after her as she clomped through the water in her standard clunky boots. "Well I'm sorry for wanting to bring some class and decorum to our workplace."
Jane playfully scowled at the medical examiner and decided to wind her up "Frost, we don't need to be here!" Maura looked up frowning at the detective. "This dude tripped, fell and drowned." Jane got up from her crouching position and began to make her way back to her partner.
"Jane!" The brunette turned and looked at her questioningly. "You cannot possibly make assumptions like that! I haven't even had chance to look at the body!"
Jane shrugged and fought back a grin "Well I'm sorry Doc but I had to make a rash decision; you took too long!"
Maura caught on to the detective's teasing tone and she shot her a filthy look before turning her attentions solely to the body in front of her.
Jane made her way back and crouched down opposite Maura and tried to listen to the mutterings she was uttering as she examined the body but Jane kept getting distracted by the way her lips moved, or the cute way her brow wrinkled up as she thought about something.
"Jane?" Maura smirked as the woman opposite her appeared to be mesmerised by her lips.
"Huh?" Jane managed to drag her eyes upward and blushed as she realised she had been caught. "What? Yeah..."
Maura laughed softly as she pointed out the exit wound in the back of the skull "I will get ballistics to check this out, the bullet appears to have gone straight through."
Jane grew serious and looked around them "Frost? We're missing a bullet, looks like a .22." She received another dirty look from the medical examiner "Possibly..."
Once Maura had done all she could at the crime scene she made arrangements for the transportation of the body and then went to find Jane and Frost. "I've done all I can here, I need to head back to the morgue and do a thorough autopsy."
Jane turned and couldn't help but smile "No worries, we're gonna go talk to friends, family and see if we can rustle up some witnesses." She thought back to how they arrived "You wanna take my car?"
Maura shrugged and chewed on her bottom lip "Won't you need it?"
"Nah, Frost can drive, just drop my car back later." Jane slyly winked at the ME who blushed and then grinned at her.
"Ok thank you Jane." Maura scolded herself inwardly for reacting like a teenager whenever Jane suggested they would spend the night together but she simply couldn't help it.
Maura made her way back to the BPD and completed the initial steps of the autopsy before she frowned at the time; it was odd for Jane not to appear at some point during the autopsy and bug her with inane comments and sarcasm. It was late so she left the rest of the autopsy for the next day and drove Jane's car back to her apartment and let herself in with the key Jane had previously given her. She sat for a moment in the silent apartment before she picked up the phone and dialled the familiar number.
"Hey Maur."
The voice on the end of the phone was not a happy one and Maura couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, she doubted they would have the evening that had both wanted. "Hello Jane, where are you?"
Jane sighed as she looked over at Frost who was slurping his coffee loudly "We got a tip off about the spouse so we're staking out the residence to see if anyone makes a move tonight to get outta town."
"Oh...that's a shame."
"Why?"
"Oh no reason...I'm just all alone in your apartment and I forgot to bring my overnight bag." Maura smirked.
Jane was so tired she didn't catch on to the medical examiner's tone "Well I probably won't make it back there tonight anyway, you have plenty of time to head home and pick up your stuff." Frost burped loudly and she threw him a filthy look as she sighed and noted the late hour. She heard Maura chuckle softly down the phone "What?"
Maura tilted her head to the side the way she always did when she was teasing Jane "I was just hinting that I was all alone in your apartment...with nothing to wear..." she left a pause and was rewarded by a quiet gulp.
Jane glanced over at Frost praying he couldn't see how red she had just gone nor could hear Maura on the end of the phone "Oh fuck..."
Frost heard his partner curse and looked at her curiously "You ok there?"
Jane snapped sarcastically at him "Just peachy!" As she turned her attentions back to the beautiful woman on the end of the phone she noticed movement at the victim's home and hissed quietly down the phone "Maur I gotta go...don't move."
