Sorry for the delay. Working 60+ hrs the past 3 weeks has kept me away. Hopefully the Her Father's Daughter is coming too. Again thanks for the reviews, alerts and messages.

Also thank you to y0ungalska for reading over my craziness.

Chapter 7

Maura woke up to an unbelievable pounding in her head that wasn't helped by the sunlight that peek in through the window. With squinted eyes, Maura raised her hand to block the light. "Ugh." She tried to get the retched taste out of her mouth and decided that the only thing that would make it better was something to drink.

She threw the blanket back and realized that she was only wearing a pair of black lacy panties and a matching bra. For a brief second she tried to remember how that happened. As she grabbed her robe and held her pounding head, that increased with every step as she walked toward the kitchen. Once there, she took a glass from the cabinet and filled it with water. As she walked toward the living room, while taken something for her headache, she noticed something out of place. Something major out of place to be exact. She ran over to the window, headache be damned and looked outside. "What the hell?"

Jane was woke way too early by the ringing of her phone. She never raised her head off the pilling before saying, "Ma, it's too early." She still had her eyes closed tight. "I don't know, Ma." Jane sat up in the bed quickly "I'm on my way."

Jane pulled into Maura's driveway to find three patrol cars already there. Jane jumped out of the car and quickly went to Maura. "What happened?" Jane felt awful. She shouldn't have left Maura there alone, drunk.

"I don't know." Maura answered obviously upset. "I woke up this morning and my car is gone. Someone stole it."

Jane smiled. "What?"

"My car. Someone stole my car."

The smile on Jane's face quickly fell as the one thing she realized was that if Maura didn't remember that Jane had her car, she didn't remember the kiss or anything else. "Someone stole your car?"

"Yes." Maura answered annoyed that she kept having to tell Jane.

"The black one? The one you drive every day?"

Maura huffed, "Yes, Jane. My only car."

"So it would also be same one that is sitting in my driveway?""What?" Maura looked around confused.

"The one that you drove us in to the bar? The one that when you were too drunk to drive, I drove you home in? The one that was the only vehicle I had to get home and check on Joe Friday? The one that I told you I would return today?"

Maura was suddenly very embarrassed. She didn't remember any of it. She smiled and answered in a question. "Yes?"

Jane lowered her head laughing. "You called the cops out here to find a car that is in my driveway? You tryin to send me to jail?" Jane looked up at Maura who had an apologetic smile on her face. Suddenly Jane's heart melted. It was her. She was the one that Maura loved hit her all over again. She had spent most of the night dreaming about what had happened and how she would handle it, but now, everything escaped her.

"Sorry?"

Jane looked around at the officers. "Sorry guys. No mystery here. Crime solved." She turned to look at Maura. "So…you don't remember anything from last night?"

"No. Please just tell me that I was in more than my bra and panties before you brought me home?"

Jane couldn't help the mischievous smile that was on her face. "You were." Jane looked her up and down. "That was me."

Suddenly Maura lost all color in her face. "You?" She said swallowing hard. "You….you."

Now that Jane knew her secret she couldn't help but love the panic that was all over Maura's face. "Yes, me." Jane decided that it was time to let Maura off the hook. "I couldn't let you sleep in clothes that cost more than my apartment building. And those heels? Those things could put a hole in the bed I'm sure."

The more Jane talked, the more Maura internally panicked. Maura couldn't believe that Jane had undressed her and she didn't even remember it. She was suddenly confident that it was for the best. She couldn't take that moment playing over and over in her head. It was a good thing she was now convinced. "Well, thank you then."

Jane was loving this way too much. "Oh, you are very welcome." Jane watched the questions all over Maura's face. "It was my pleasure." Jane tried not to laugh at Maura. She thought it was only fair that if Maura had kept this from her, that she could play with the woman a little.

"I…um….I need…"

Jane smiled again. "Go get dressed and I will take you to your car."

After a long moment of staring into dark eyes, searching for an answer, Maura spoke. "Alright. You can…come in and I'll be ready in a moment."

The corner of Jane's mouth twitched holding back the smile. "Alright. You need any help."

"Um…." Suddenly Maura couldn't breathe. "No…no I will be fine. I shouldn't be long." Maura turned quickly and walked into the house. Leaving Jane to shake her head, laughing and following the doctor inside.

Maura quickly rummaged through her purse until she found her phone. She dialed the only number she could think of. Due to the time of morning, Maura heard a very groggy "Hello?"

"Mandy? It's Maura. I need your help."

Mandy chuckled. "Is this about the hot detective?"

"Yes….I mean it's about Jane, yes?" Maura rolled her eyes at her admission that her friend was named 'the hot detective'.

Suddenly very interested and awake Mandy spoke. "I'm listening." There was silence. "Ok Maura let me tell you how this works. If you need my advise or help, you have to tell me what's wrong. Which usually means that words have to be used and not the heavy breathing, which is extremely sexy for future reference, but it isn't what I need now."

Maura knew she had to just spit it out. She quickly said, "I don't know if I slept with Jane."

"EXCUSE ME?" Mandy couldn't help the fit of laughter that took over her.

"It's not funny!"

"Like hell it isn't. Maura Isles, THE Maura Isles, may or maybe have slept with her female best friend and that isn't funny? Like hell it isn't. How do you not know?"

"I don't know."

"Ok, there is obviously part of this story that I am missing. How do you not know if you slept with...THAT?"

"I got drunk, really drunk last night and when I woke up…." Maura closed her eyes and couldn't even say it.

"Go on." Mandy had stopped laughing and was now intrigued and a little turned on.

"I was in my underwear in the bed. Not just any underwear. The sexiest pair of lacy, almost non existent, pair I own." Maura was now mentally beating herself up for her choice of clothing yesterday.

"Weeeellllll. Maura the Bora no mora."

"This isn't funny, Mandy. This is very serious. What if…..you know….what if…..I did things with….to….her." Mandy then heard a distraught "Oh god. What if I did things with Jane?"

Mandy couldn't help the laughter again. "I don't know for sure, but I am pretty sure, had I EVER gotta a piece of Detective Rizzoli, I'd know it. Now that's just me….."

"Are you almost done! I am serious, Mandy. What do I do?"

"Ok, how sure are we?"

"Well, I don't know. I woke up almost completely naked and Jane seems pretty proud of the fact that she left me that way."

"Reeeeally?"

"And she is different. It's like…it's as if..." Maura whispered, "she knows."

"Different like what?"

"Like this look in her eyes. It's like…."

"Like what! You're killing me." Mandy became excited again.

"It's like…..she could do things to me standing there."

"Like what things?"

"Mandy!"

"Sorry, I got distracted. I'm back."

"Like things...sexual things. She looked at me as if I was her next meal."

"What a problem to have, Maura." Mandy mocked.

"What do I do?"

"Well if you tell her that you don't remember the, I am assuming, earth shattering sex that you had with her, then her feeling could be hurt."

"I understand that, so now what?"

"You do the only thing you can. You go along with it."

"I can't just go along with it!" Maura said shocked. "What if…..oh god I can't even face her."

Mandy's tone became very serious. "Ok, Maura just stop panicking and think about for a minute. What do you remember about last night?"

"Nothing. I already told you that."

"And why?"

"Mandy, this isn't helping."

Mandy asked again. "And why do you not remember?"

Maura huffed. "Because I was drunk."

Mandy was glad that Maura couldn't see the smile on her face. "Yes you were drunk. Now Jane seems to me to be the type that takes her job very serious. Having said that, I doubt that Jane drove you home drunk."

"No, Jane was sober."

"My point exactly. If something happened Maura, Jane was sober. You wanted it to happen, but Jane, Jane made a decision while her mind was clear. If you did have sex it was because she wanted to. You were just drunk being felt up by the hot woman you have the hots for. She did it because she wanted it."

"Oh god." Maura said hanging up the phone.

Mandy looked at the phone chuckling. "Well ok, bye then." She placed the phone back on the night stand. "Yeah have with that brain child."

Maura was sitting on the bed for how long, she wasn't sure. There was a soft knock at the door. She looked at the door as she heard Jane softly ask. "Hey, you ok?" Maura continued to stare at the door. "Maura?" She had to face Jane at some point. She had to tell her. "Hey Maura I was just kidding befo….." Jane was interrupted before she could finish her sentence as the door was opened.

Maura squared her shoulders, took a deep breath and looked Jane in the eyes. "I need to ask you something."

Jane noticed the seriousness of Maura tone and the look that was now on her face. "Anything."

"Last night….I was really drunk, Jane…..and…..and I need to know what happened...last night...between us. I need you to tell me...did we...you know..."

Jane knew the game was over. As bad as she wanted to torture Maura and say 'aw, you don't remember?' Jane knew now wasn't the time. "You had a little too much to drink, we got in your car, drove Korsak home, then came here. I helped you to your room and out of your clothes so that you wouldn't wake up all 'I slept in this and now it's wrinkled'." Jane rubbed Maura's arm. "I was kidding earlier. We didn't…." Jane threw her hands around in the air. "You know."

"No?"

Jane smiled. "No we didn't….you know." She said mocking Maura.

"We didn't?" The question came out a little more relieved than Maura actually was. She just knew that the first time with Jane, if there was a first time, she wanted to remember that moment. "I mean I'm glad that we….." Maura stopped as she noticed the almost hurt look on Jane's face. "I just try to remember people that I sleep with."

"I understand." Jane weakly smiled.

"So that's all that happened?"

Jane didn't know how to answer that question. So she did the only thing she could. "Yes, that's all."

A relieved Maura smiled and went back into the room and picked her purse up off the bed. "So we can go and get…

Jane had yet to move from the door. She wasn't sure she wanted to say it. Hell yes she did. "There is something else."

Maura stopped and looked at Jane. "What?" Panic set in again.

"There's this one thing." Jane took a deep breathe and looked at Maura. "You may have kissed me."

"I WHAT?" Now Maura was in full panic mode. "No I didn't!" She pled.

"Um, yeah you did."

"I am so sorry, Jane. I had to much….I was drunk, Jane." Maura tried not to just break down right there.

"You were drunk? That's the only reason you kissed me?"

"Yes…I mean, I guess."

"So I shouldn't pay any attention to the 'I love you' either, cause I thought that sounded pretty real."

Maura was sure that the entire room could not be spinning like it was in her head. "Jane…..I …."

"It's ok Maura. Lets go get your car." Jane turned to walk off.

Maura wasn't sure, but she had her self convinced that Jane was upset. She had been so excited ever since she arrived and now, now she just seemed hurt. "Jane!" Jane stopped and didn't turn around. "I told you that I love you?"

"Yes." Jane said without turning around.

"That is the only thing that I really wanted to be less true than sleeping with you."

"Wow, Maura. You are just a confidence buster today."

Maura walked toward Jane and stood in front of her. "No that isn't it. I just, I would rather have remembered that moment the most."

"What?"

"The moment you heard it is you. You are the one that I am in love with. It's you and I got drunk and …."

Maura was stopped by the lips that were now on hers. Jane whispered into the kiss. "Shut up, Maura." Maura couldn't help but smile into the kiss as she felt Jane's hands on her cheeks.