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A week had passed since Jane had taken Maura to Six Flags and they had ended their evening with steamy sex. They had seen each other a few times during that week and they talked constantly but one week on, it was time for Maura to start work.
Although Maura had been to the Boston Police Department prior to her start and had already introduced herself to the staff and established how things were run, she was very nervous. She had awoken at 6:00 am, did her morning yoga, showered, dressed, had her expensive coffee and for the next thirty minutes nervously wandered around her house spouting off unimportant facts to calm herself. The wheels in her head turning rapidly, as her anxiety tried to take over the cool professional demeanour of the usually calm doctor. The blonde was brought out of her manic thoughts by the beeping of her phone lying on the kitchen island. It was a text from Jane.
'Good luck today, beautiful. You'll do great and they will love you. My place for dinner tonight?'
Maura relaxed a little, reading the text a few times with a soft smile before replying.
Pulling into the parking lot, she shut off the engine. Taking a few deep breaths and smoothing out invisible creases in her dress, she got out of the car. She walked with determination and authority towards the entrance of the police department, head held high as she walked through the front doors. She needed to look the professional part so her co-workers would take her seriously and not as a babbling fashionista with no authority. Her long purposeful strides brought her to the elevator where she waited for it to arrive. A huge smile crept across her face as the elevator doors parted, there she saw her gorgeous brunette girlfriend grinning widely, her arm outstretched with a coffee. Maura moved into the elevator, taking the offered coffee. The doors closed and Jane pulled her in by her hips, placing lots of little kisses against the blonde's lips before capturing them in a long passionate kiss. 'Have a little confidence in yourself. You are the best there is' Jane placed one more chaste kiss to her lips as the elevator doors opened. 'I'll see you tonight' Maura could only nod as she is given the small push she needs from Jane to get out of the elevator and into the morgue.
Taking another deep breath she made her way into her office. She didn't have long to settle in before she is called to her first crime scene as the Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Maura arrived at the shopping mall precisely thirty minutes later. The nerves of her first case in this new position and meeting her new colleagues for the first time got the better of her. She had to take a few moments to compose herself before stepping out of her car. Saying good morning and showing her newly received badge to the officer standing guard, she duct under the police caution tape. Every head in the mall turned to look at the well-dressed doctor. She looked ready for a catwalk with her designer dress and heels, her golden curls swaying over her shoulders with every bouncing step. Maura spotted Jane on the second floor looking down towards her with a huge grin. She couldn't help but reciprocate said grin and make her way up to her girlfriend…Uh we´re at work now.. Maura reminded herself of this and put on her mask of professionalism. Let's go and see my colleagues.
As Maura reached Jane, she felt a hand on her back. 'Maur, this is sergeant detective Vince Korsak. Korsak this is the new Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and also my girlfriend, Doctor Maura Isles.' Korsak grinned at Jane and outstretched a pudgy hand to shake the dainty one of the doctor.
Maura was slightly taken aback as Jane so casually introduced her as "my girlfriend". Not that she minded being called like that but her professional side told her that it was wrong to just make this public over a dead body. On the other hand she was glad that this was not a secret any more and she could openly ogle Jane without getting suspicious looks from anyone.
'It's nice to finally meet you Doctor Isles.'
'And you too sergeant detective Korsak.' He couldn't help but chuckle at all the formalities.
'You can call me Vince, Doctor Isles.' Maura wasn't used to working with such friendly people. She smiled politely and told Korsak to call her Maura. After the pleasant introductions they got down to work. The body of a twenty two year old woman dangled over the second floor of the shopping mall. Her throat was slit and she was held in place by rope wrapped around her wrists and tied to the railing. She was a petite, fair skinned brunette.
Frankie came bounding up the stairs towards the rest of the team after having had Jane send him on an information run. He had spoken to the security guards who had found the body and come in to open up the mall this morning and the security guards that locked up the night before to see if they had noticed anything unusual. Not one of the guards had seen anything. No alarm had gone off to indicate someone had broken into the building either.
The body of the young woman was brought over the railing to safe ground on the floor. Maura placed on her gloves, set down her medical bag and began a brief examination. Jane and the boys set about their routine questions that helped when catching a killer.
'The killer slit her throat so we must be looking for a knife as the murder weap…'
'Jane, how can you know what the murder weapon is if I haven't determined a cause of death.'
'But her throat has been cut open, Maura.'
'Yes, I can see that, Jane but it does not mean that was how she died. Although the blood loss seen here may indicate it as the cause of death. I will have to run tests to ensure that is the case when we get back to the morgue.' With a small smile, Maura left the shopping mall with the body of the unknown woman.
They found none of her belongings on her person or in the surrounding area so the woman was still a Jane Doe. With no name, Jane's job became that little bit harder. Not only did she have to find the killer, she also had to find out who this woman was. She had been working furiously all morning to solve this murder. She'd made dozens of phone calls, got Jane Doe's picture out onto the news asking for any information, she had been briefed on what the uniformed officers had found which was absolutely nothing and a waste of her time. Around 2 pm, Korsak nudged her from her work focused daze, making her take a break. She trudged down to the morgue intending on continuing her work but to also steal some time with Maura. Her girlfriend, Maura. It had been two weeks since they had officially become girlfriends but every time Jane thought about it, her lips curled up into an uninvited grin. She charged through the morgue doors, seeing nothing she made her way into Maura's office. There was nothing but a desk, a chair and a beautiful blonde doctor in there. Leaning against the door frame, Jane watched Maura work for a while, just smiling at how focused she looked. Jane knew Maura was nervous about this being her first case as she didn't want to mess it up, even though she was always professional and very thorough in her job, she still felt this time it was different. 'You can come in Jane, you don't have to stand at the door.' Jane chuckled and walked over to Maura, coming around to lean on the desk just to the side of where she sat.
'I'm sorry if I came off rude this morning, Jane. I just don't like to assume anything no matter how obvious something may seem. I hope your colleagues didn't think badly of me. Or you. I never want you to think anything like that of me.' Maura started to babble as her nervousness came back. She fidgeted with her fingers. If she had looked up into Jane's eyes she would have seen the absolute love the woman had for her. Jane reached down and took the doctors hands in her own, squeezing gently.
'We all know you were just doing your job, Maura. The boys know that. I know that. How could you ever think that that would make me think badly of you?' She leaned down and captured soft lips between her own. Neither really moved into the kiss, they just enjoyed the feel of the others lips pressed against their own. Jane pulled back first but left their noses touching. Her breath dancing across Maura's lips. 'But I was right. The cut to her throat killed her?'