Chapter Fifteen;

By now, Garret had sat up and was sitting with his legs over the side of the bed as he contemplated his fiancee sleeping with another woman. He sighed and shook his head when he felt Maura's hand touch the bare skin at the point where his neck met his shoulder and he looked to her fingers there, but not to her. He saw the sparkling diamond of her engagement ring and swallowed, looking down to his knees.

"Garrett, talk to me. Please." she muttered softly, nervously in fact as she waited on her lover to say something, anything he was thinking.

"How long?"

"How long what?" she asked, moving up close to him now and pressing against his back.

"Maura don't." he said and moved forwards, reaching for his boxer shorts before putting them on and standing, leaving her tangled in the sheets and looking bemused, "How long were you with...JAne, was it?" Garrett asked her, his hands on his hips as he looked to her.

"Well, I wouldn't define the relationship...it wasn't a relationship." Maura answered, "I went to summer camp, the girls in my bunk teased me about my intelligence. Jane stepped in and stuck up for me, you could say she was my first friend."

"So, you didn't sleep together?"

"We did." Maura nodded, "And it wasn't exactly sleeping. We were in the shower block..."

"And?"

"And Jane just...appeared." Maura answered.

"She just appeared..." Garrett repeated, watching as Maura spoke.

"Yes, I was in the shower, rinsing out my hair when she appeared and started to kiss me, and touch me..." she looked down, "I liked it, so I let her continue." Maura admitted before she looked up at Garrett, "Jane made love to me. Once. After camp, I've never saw her again...and she lives in Boston." she sighed and held the covers tightly around herself.

"And, you're still attracted to her." Garrett finished the sentence off for Maura.

She looked up at him and frowned, "I..." she bowed her head a little, "I still think about her. About that time."

"And you've thought about her, about her doing the things I do to you?" he looked at Maura, watching her facial expressions for clues.

She sighed and nodded, "Sometimes, yes."

Maura couldn't lie.

Garrett had told her it was one of her most endearing traits and he always hoped she'd never be able to lie to someone. Especially him. To him, Maura was pure, a real woman. Not like some women he'd been around or conversed with. Though now, Garrett had no idea what to do, so he did what he thought was best, "Maura, we need a break away from one another." he sighed and looked to the floor.

"What? No..." she frowned and watching him, "Garrett, no."

"Maura, we both know it's for the best."

"But what about afterward? What about after the break?" she questioned him, "How long, Garrett? Just answer me that." she caught his gaze and held it.

It was Garrett who turned away first this time, "I don't know." he told her, "But, I'll be at my parents house, you can come and see me if you need to...call first." he told her, grabbing up his clothes from the floor and quickly slipping into his slacks before grabbing at his button down and putting it on, "Maura, goodbye..." he murmured and gently pressed his lips to the crown on her head as he slipped out of the room.

Maura sighed and flopped back into the bed, huddling the covers around her now chilled, naked body. She tried to process and analyse what had just happened between she and her fiance and couldn't. For the first time, she didn't understand what she'd done wrong; she'd been truthful with him, she'd explained, she had told him what he'd wanted to know. And yet, Garrett had still left her alone.

Garrett was outside, looking back on the closed door as he made his way toward the student parking lot. He sighed harshly and shook his head before turning back to look at the door he'd left from, expecting to see Maura but she wasn't standing there, instead just as he was turning back to look ahead, he felt someone charge into him.

"Watch where you're goin'!" she hissed and glared at him.

"I'm sorry." he muttered and continued walking.

"You will be. Especially if I have to arrest you in the future for fraud allegations!" she shouted after Garrett. She'd taken one look at his clothing and decided that she didn't like him. Yes, it was prejudice but, Jane knew from the clothing that this man was well off. And Jane, couldn't stand people who were well off, all except for one of them.

She was sure had been accepted to the college of her choice. This college; BCU. Maura had spoken about wanting to go to Boston Cambridge University and it had been her dream to be accepted there to study Sciences. Jane had also wanted to attend there, to study Criminal Science and Psychology, but had not wanted to put her father through the stress of having to work the extra hours up to pay for her tuition there. So, Jane had settled for the second best; Boston Police Academy.

Jane still wondered about Maura, if she was actually studying at BCU or if she'd stayed in Paris, or if she was living somewhere else now. It was only natural, even after those years of waiting to hear from her more-than friend, Jane wanted to know that the then blonde was alright and well. She'd taken so much flack at school for once admitting she liked girls and had actually been with one or two.

The girls, during her high school year had taunted her for wanting to be a Detective. They taunted Jane for a lot of things, but being a Detective was the main one. They had told her that the job wasn't nearly as feminine as she could be if she tried at least. But Jane didn't want to be like those plastic, fake Barbie dolls. She's told them that she would probably end up making arrests or bailing out their spouses for petty crimes and more serious stuff as she worked her way through the ranks at the Boston Police Department and none of the listened. In fact, they all laughed at her, but she had vowed to each and everyone of them, she'd see them again when she was successful and they were not.

Anybody who crossed her path who Jane didn't like, she made sure she'd make some kind of arrest on them at some point in her career, and she was most probably right. Garrett Fairfield, was now included on this hit list of Jane's.