A/N: Thank you to everyone who has reviewed and followed this story (and all my other stories).
Their first kiss started off gentle and exploratory, lips getting to know one another. Warm breaths mingled as almost kisses, caressing the skin the lay millimetres before them. Soft kisses were just enough as both women built up enough courage to take the kiss to the next level. As Maura's fingertips found their way under Jane's top, caressing soft skin with delicate circles, Jane pulled back.
"Wait," Jane whispered, her eyes still closed as she tried to regain her composure.
"What's wrong?" Maura asked, worried that Jane was going to pull away from her, physically and emotionally.
Jane opened her eyes and saw the fear in Maura's eyes. She smiled, attempting to squash the fear she saw, before pulling her hand back from around Maura; her hand that still held a coffee cup.
"Coffee… need to…" Jane replied, gesturing towards the table in front of the sofa.
Maura glanced between the cup and the table before returning Jane's smile. She took the cup from Jane, placed in on the table, and turned back to straddle Jane's lap.
"Was that all, detective?" Maura purred.
The moan that escaped Jane at Maura's seductive tone quelled any apprehensive thoughts Maura might have had about Jane pulling away from her. Without articulating a response, Jane wrapped her arms around Maura's waist, pulling her closer, and captured Maura's lips again.
This kiss was frenzied. There was a sense of urgency; a desire they wanted to explore, a dream they wanted to live out. Bodies moulding together perfectly, like they were meant to fit together; just as in Jane's dream. The determination in Maura's thrusting caused a flood of arousal through Jane's entire body, eliciting a groan that was almost primal. Surprised and alarmed by her body's reaction, Jane halted their ministrations to regather.
"Jane?" Maura questioned, chest heaving in front of Jane as she attempted to regain her breath.
"Sorry, it's just…" Jane replied, her eyes closed as she struggled to formulate a sentence. "I think we… Maybe we should slow it down a little… Don't you?"
Jane opened her eyes and looked at Maura for a response and almost let her body take control again. Maura was flushed, her hair was a sexy messy, her eyes were dark and slightly closed with arousal, and her lips were partially open as she took deep breaths in an attempt to regulate her heart rate.
"I guess," Maura replied hesitantly.
"You guess?" Jane asked teasingly.
"If you think we need to slow things down, we can, Jane," Maura elaborated.
They shared a look of understanding; a tender look that turned into great, big smiles, each allowing the other to show just how happy this new development made them feel.
"We don't need to rush this," Jane whispered before giving Maura a chaste kiss.
"Okay," Maura replied with a grin, grabbing the collar of Jane's shirt. "But that doesn't mean we can't make out a little."
Maura lowered her lips and captured Jane's, pulling Jane up by the collar to bring her closer. She shifted on Jane's lap and fell to her side, pulling Jane with her as she moved to lay across the couch.
"You can set the pace," Maura purred pulling Jane on top of her before letting Jane capture her lips once again.
"I'm not sure that's the best idea," Jane groaned against Maura's lips, as a flush of wetness flooded between her legs.
"You know," Maura replied, breaking from Jane's lips and attaching her own to Jane's neck, "Looking back… We've really already had years of foreplay…"
Jane moaned in pleasure when Maura's hands made their way to her backside, pulling her closer, effectively grinding their hips against each other. As a slow, steady rhythm was created, Jane finally caved to her body's desires.
"Well, when you put it like that," Jane almost growled as she sat up and removed her top before her lips came crashing back down onto Maura's. Spurred on by Jane's boldness, Maura rolled Jane off the couch and landed on top of her on the floor, straddling her hips.
"Oh my God," Jane sighed, adjusting to their sudden change of positions, "You are insatiable."
Maura removed her own top seductively. "And you are gorgeous," she replied, moving down to lay the length of her body upon Jane's.
"That just happened," Jane sighed between deep breaths as she lay naked on her back next to an equally naked Maura on the floor of her living area.
"It did," Maura replied, also out of breath. She glanced across at Jane, who glanced back at her, and they both began to laugh.
Jane rolled so that she was positioned half on top of Maura. "Tell me again why we never did this before?"
"Hmm," Maura replied, running her hands through Jane's hair as it fell around her face, "Because we only recently realised how attracted we were to each other?"
Jane smiled in response. "It seems so obvious now," she whispered, running her hands down Maura's body.
"And because we didn't want to ruin our friendship," Maura added.
"Yes, there was that," Jane sighed, letting her eyes roam across the body beneath her before bringing her eyes back to meet Maura's. "There still is that."
"We'll be ok, Jane," Maura said reassuringly.
"How do you know?"
"Because, I fell in love with my best friend, and I will, just this once, make an assumption and go out on an appendage
and say that she fell in love with me too," Maura replied.
Jane giggled slightly at Maura's inaccurate use of yet another idiom, however sensed the importance of the confession and let it pass without correction. "You would be absolutely correct in your assumption, Maura. See, guessing isn't so hard!"
"I said 'just this once', Jane. And only because after what we just did, it was kind of hard not to believe it to be true," Maura replied, brushing the hair away from Jane's face.
"I'd be happy to provide you with some more evidence, if you like?" Jane responded huskily as she rolled over to lay completely on top of Maura.
"Well, one can never have too much evidence," Maura whispered in response before lifting her head to capture Jane's lips.
So began a day, and a lifetime, of showing each other just how much they loved each other.