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Jane and Maura walk into Maura's home, brushing the snow that stuck to their coats. Jane deposits her badge and gun in a drawer that Maura has dedicated to her. Jane turns to Maura with an excited light in her eyes and pulls her into a hug.
"It is now official, Maur! The roads are closed and we are home and snowed in!"
Jane excitement is contagious and Maura smiles back. She is also smiling because she heard Jane say, 'we are home.'
"What would you like to do while we are 'snowed in', Jane?"
"That's the best part, Maura. We can do everything, anything or nothing!"
Maura laughs. "Shall we begin with dinner? I took out some of your mom's spaghetti sauce and I bought some bread if you would like to make it garlic bread."
"Mmmm, sounds delicious. Let's start cooking."
The next hour is spent in the kitchen, warming the sauce, cooking the pasta and making garlic bread. Jane is sharing stories of her youth and snowdays from school. Now, she understands Jane's excitement of the snow, it brings her back to her childhood.
"It depends on what kind of snow you have, Maura. If it's mashed potato snow, you can make awesome snowmen, snowforts and have great snowball fights. If it's light and fluffy, you find a flat bottom sled and go sledding. Didn't you ever have a snow day, Maura?"
"I may have had them when I was very young, but then we started to travel and I was in boarding schools that didn't have snowdays."
Jane nodded as she dunked her bread in the sauce. "We'll have fun and make up for your lack of snowday experience."
After they finish eating, Jane helps Maura clear the table. "Jane, I'll load the dish washer, can you start a fire in the fireplace?"
"Will do!" Jane goes over to the fireplace and grabs and starter log to place in first. As soon as that is going, she adds a couple more small logs until a nice flame is going. She goes into the bathroom to wash her hands and settles onto the couch to wait for Maura.
A short time later, Maura joins Jane. "What would you like to do, Jane?"
Jane smiles softly. "Oh, there's plenty I want to do, but we have all night." She clears her throat and gets a little nervous. She has a plan for Valentine's Day, but feels the need to talk to Maura because she doesn't want to disappoint her."
"Maura? What do you want to do on Valentine's Day?"
Maura remembers what Angela had texted a couple of weeks ago. She is still trying to decide what to get Jane. "What do you mean, Jane?"
"I mean, do you want to try to make reservations and go out to dinner and stuff?"
"Oh, Jane. I feel that the American celebration of Valentine's Day is overly commercialized. Shall we agree not to buy into the commercialized aspect? No flowers or reservations at expensive restaurants. We'll have a romantic dinner here. What do you say?"
"Really, Maur? You're not just saying that?"
"Really, Jane."
Maura leans in and tucks a lock of curly hair behind Jane's ear. "We celebrate our love every day. Don't you agree?"
Jane gets lost in Maura's hazel eyes. "Yes. Yes, we do." She leans in and gently brushes her lips across Maura's soft lips.
Maura shifts closer and presses her lips more firmly into Jane's. Her tongue flicks out and licks Jane's lower lip. Jane pulls away slightly to stare again into Maura's eyes. She runs her hand through Maura's honey blonde hair. "You are so beautiful, Maura." She leans in for a slow, exploring kiss. They continue with kissing and sweet whispers until Maura pulls back. Her eyes are slightly unfocused.
"Jane, I am thoroughly enjoying what we are doing, but I also have something I would like to add to our, our..."
"Make out session, Maura?" Jane smirks.
"Yes, our make out session, Jane. Could you follow me to the kitchen?"
Jane and Maura get up and go into the kitchen. Maura reaches into the refrigerator and pulls out a bottle of champagne and container of strawberries.
"Are those the turtle's strawberries?"
Maura shakes her head at Jane's teasing. "Tortoise, Jane. I bought these strawberries for us. Can you open the bottle?" Maura washes the berries and puts them in a bowl as Jane pops the champagne and pours two glasses. They go back into the living room.
"Now Jane, you take a sip of the champagne and I'll have a strawberry. Jane takes her sip and feels the bubbles tickle in her mouth. She watches as Maura takes a bite of the strawberry. She chews the first bite slowly and rubs the bitten strawberry on her then eats the rest of the berry. Jane's heart is beating faster.
"Kiss me now."
Jane pulls Maura into her arms and slowly kisses her. She moans as the tastes of the champagne from her mouth mingles with the strawberry of Maura's mouth. They take turns with the strawberries and champagne. I could kiss Maura forever and die a happy woman.
Jane and Maura are so involved in kissing, they do not hear Angela walk in the back door.
"Hello girls! Oh! I'm sorry!"
"Ma! What are you doing? Ever hear of knocking?" Jane has jumped away from Maura.
"I'm sorry, but do you really expect me to stand outside in a blizzard knocking when any other time I just walk in? I got lonely over there."
Jane rolls her eyes and opens her mouth, but Maura puts her hand on Jane's arm. "That's quite all right, Angela. Please join us. Would you like a glass of champagne?"
"Thank you, Angela for your kind offer. Yes, please."
Maura goes into the kitchen to get another glass and Jane follows her. Jane's voice is a low, growly whisper. "What are you doing?"
"Jane, we have all night. Let her stay a few hours."
Maura hears Jane grumble something about... crotch blocking?
"Ok, Ma. Here's your glass. What do you want to do?"
Angela gets excited that she is staying. "Oh, I was hoping that we could turn on Netflix and watch this show I've heard about. Lost Girl?"
"Sure, Ma. Whatever you want." Jane pulls a smiling Maura close to her and turns on the TV.
As of 2:00 am - 2 Feet of snow and it's still falling!
Hope everyone is safe and warm in my part of the world - well, of course everywhere, but special thoughts are with the blizzard people! Thank you for you kind reviews and PMs. Please tell me when you have had enough of this! Love to Belgium!