For their last two remaining days in New York City, Jane and Maura spent every second together. When they left the hotel they went to Museums, went shopping, took walks through the city parks and gardens. When they were back at the hotel, it was like it was back at home, they cuddled on the couch watching films. Well except that kissing was involved now. They never talked about what Jane had told Maura a few days before. They both knew they didn't need or want to talk about it just yet. Today was the day they were going back home. They had to check out before noon.
It was 6:22 when Maura starting waking up. She snuggled closer to Jane and nuzzled her face in Jane's neck before leaving a kiss. She closed her eyes again hoping to fall back to sleep but somehow knowing sleep wouldn't come again. Instead she kissed Jane's neck again before untangling herself from Jane's hold. She if was correct she still had at least an hour before Jane woke up. Enough time to shower and order us breakfast. She stopped just before entering the bathroom, turning around she saw Jane had moved onto her side her arm draped over where Maura should be laying. She had to force herself not to crawl back into bed next to Jane. Quickly turning around again, Maura walked into the bathroom before she lost the battle with herself.
After showering, combing her hair and brushing her teeth Maura decided to order breakfast. She told room service to bring it up in about thirty minutes. Crawling back into bed next to Jane she snuggled as close as she could get.
Jane sighed as she felt a someone snuggle up next to her. She quickly wrapped her arms around Maura, but suddenly pulled back. "Geez Maura, your freezing. And...and wet?"
Maura laughed. "I've just had a shower. And only my hair is still wet. As for being freezing, I'm not."
"Yea you are." Jane pulled the covers tighter around her and shivered. "Go warm up. Do some yoga or something then come back to bed." Jane snuggled back into her place. She knew Maura was staring at her, she could feel it. Opening one eye she saw Maura pouting. "I mean it, Maura. Only come back to bed once you're warm."
"Well if you let me near you I'd warm up." Maura gave Jane her best smile.
"Not a chance." Jane shook her head.
"You're not really playing fair Detective." Maura whispered moving closer to Jane.
Jane inched back a little. "Well I know if the roles were reversed you wouldn't be letting me anywhere near you."
"I'd want you to be warm." Maura smiled. "I wouldn't push you away from me."
"I didn't push you away, Maura. I pushed myself away." Jane sighed.
"Are you really going to let me be cold?" Maura pouted.
"I thought you said you wasn't." Jane muttered. "You can lie."
"No. I wasn't cold when I said it. But since then you have moved to the other end of the bed and pulled the covers off of me as well, so yes now I'm cold." Maura quickly straddled Jane before she could move again. "So Detective..." Maura trailed off as she leant down to kiss Jane. It was meant to be a quick loving kiss but it soon turn passionate as Jane's tongue traced Maura's lower lip. Maura quickly gave entrance to Jane's tongue.
Jane moaned into the kiss. Her hands finding their way out from under the covers as one went to the back off Maura's neck, her finger's threading into Maura's soft, wet hair. Her other hand rested on Maura's knee slowly moving up her thigh to rest on her hip.
Maura torn her lips away from Jane's and rested her head in the crock of Jane's neck. "So Detective... are you really going to let me be cold?" She squealed as Jane flipped them over.
Jane laughed. "Here. You have the covers...I'm going to grab a shower." Jane placed a quick kiss to Maura's nose.
"I don't want the covers, Jane." Maura shyly looked at Jane, hoping she wasn't pushing the detective.
"Maura..." Jane trailed off as she heard someone knocking on the hotel door. "Who's that this early. We don't have to be checked out till twelve." Jane pushed off of Maura and grabbed Maura's dressing gown.
"It'll be breakfast. I ordered it just after my shower." Maura muttered. "Jane...come back to bed."
Jane leant over the bed and kissed Maura's forehead. "Mmm, coffee is here. Later..."
"You're passing me over for coffee?"
Jane laughed as she walked away. "I'll answer the door."
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After they ate their breakfasts, Jane and Maura spent the next hour packing their bags. Maura was stood next to the large windows overlooking the city. She was too occupied with her thoughts to hear Jane walk up behind her. She jumped slightly when she felt Jane snake her arms around her, both hands came to a stop on Maura's abdomen. Quickly relaxing again, Maura rested her head on Jane's shoulder.
Jane placed her chin on Maura's shoulder. "Are you okay?"
Maura nodded, closing her eyes she took a deep breathe. "I'm okay." She whispered.
"Are you sure, Maura? Something seems to be bothering you." Jane gently kissed Maura's neck.
"I'm scared." Maura whispered. "What if we go home and everything changes? We're in a new city, we don't know anyone here, we aren't working, you're family isn't around. We can be anyone but us here. For the past few days, I haven't once thought of you as Detective Jane Rizzoli." Maura turned her head slightly so she could look at Jane. "Since I haven't been to the conferences, I haven't thought of myself as Doctor Maura Isles. For once in my life Jane I just seen myself as Maura Isles."
"Hey," Jane tightened her grip on Maura.
"We have just been Jane and Maura. Our phones haven't rang with calls for work, we aren't getting woken up in the middle of the night regarding a murder." Maura took a few breathes before continuing. "I used to love that life. Now..."
"Maura, are you trying to say you're thinking about quitting being the ME?" Jane asked, surprised.
"No. No, not at all. I'm just saying," Maura sighed. "I don't know what I'm saying." Maura placed her hands on top off Jane's. "Are you all packed?"
"Yea. But don't change the subject. We've got plenty of time before we have to leave the room. Come on Maura. Talk to me."
"What we have built these past few days, I don't want to loose. I can't loose it, Jane."
"We won't loose anything, Maura. Yea, going back home might change a few things, Maura, but I'm hoping things will change for the better." Jane loosened her grip on Maura and walked around, so she was standing in front of Maura, her hands resting on Maura's lower back. "I don't wanna hide what we have, Maura. I want to be able to walk up to you in the morgue...well okay, maybe you're office and kiss you. Same as I want you to walk up to me in the bullpen and kiss me. Whatever we happen to come across, we will get through it together."
Maura's smile was small. "But here, it has just been the two of us. Going back home..."
"I get it. Going back home adds my family to the picture, adds everyone we work with to the picture. But it's still going to be the two of us. Once everyone gets used to the idea they will back off, but at first, yes they will probably be in our faces, but they will only be doing that because they care for us. They care about both off us."
"Jane..." Maura started, but was cut off by a soft kiss.
When Jane pulled away she rested her forehead against Maura's. "Or..." Jane sighed, pulling back so she could look at Maura properly. "Or we can just go home and keep it quiet for a little longer, if you're not ready for us to tell people."
"Jane, we are not hiding from this. I don't want for us to have to hide what we are. I just don't know how to deal with it all." Maura looked out of the window again. "We're not hiding from this, but I think it would be best to keep it between us until you go back to work. Or if you have Korsak and Frost over to visit, or you're family, we'll tell them then. But I think we do need to tell them first."
Jane nodded. "Okay, we'll keep it between us until they come over, if they don't we tell them the day before I go back to work, at the latest. Is that okay with you?" Jane asked.
"Yes. That's okay. You sure your okay with hiding this for a while? I just need at least a few days to be able to adjust to being back home and being with you."
Jane smiled. "We aren't hiding. Just taking our time."
Maura nodded, she turned back around so she could stand in the same position they were in a minute before. She felt Jane's arms snake around her again and smiled. Maura rested her head back on Jane's shoulder, her left hand coming up to rest on top of Jane's which were back on her abdomen, she entwined her fingers with Jane's. "I'm going to miss this." Maura smiled.
Jane placed a soft kiss to Maura's neck. "Mmm, so am I." A thought occurred to Jane and she couldn't help but smile. "You know...I've not been cleared for active duty yet...So if you phone work and tell them you're ill, we don't have to leave New York just yet."
Maura turned her head and kissed Jane's cheek. "We can't, Jane. As much as I want nothing else at this second, we can't. You have another appointment with the doctor on Tuesday and you can't cancel, Jane. And I can't phone in sick as I can't lie..."
"Then let me phone for you." Jane whispered.
"And what are you planning on saying?" Maura asked.
"I don't know. I'll tell them you came over to see me once you got back from New York, but you've got the flu and just collapsed on my settee once you came in. Then I'll tell them I'm worried about you so I'm phoning in sick for you to save you from having to do it once you woke up."
"You've forgot one thing...You're in New York with me."
"And?" Jane questioned.
"And you left Bass and Joe with Frankie. Frankie won't have kept it quiet that you came to New York. He would have at least told Korsak and Frost when they asked about you." Maura sighed.
"Korsak and Frost won't say anything. Neither will Frankie."
Maura smiled. "True. But, Jane, you know as well as I do that people gossip. It only takes one to overhear Frankie telling Korsak and Frost that you came to new York. Everyone we work with will already know that you're here." Maura sighed. "By the time I get back to work everyone will be wondering what you came to New York for, in the middle of the night."
Jane tensed up. "Are you bothered what the people we work with think?"
"Oh, Jane. Not at all. Only Korsak and Frost. It's got nothing to do wit anyone else." Maura whispered.
"Then you shouldn't care what they are wondering I came to New York for." Jane sighed. Then added, "and it wasn't the middle of the night when I drove here." Resting her forehead on Maura's shoulder Jane took a deep breath. "So...I take it you don't want me to phone in sick for you?"
"As much as I want too, Jane, I'm afraid the answer is no." Maura felt Jane nod. "Jane..."
Jane lifted her head and placed her chin back on Maura's shoulder. "Mmm?"
Maura leaned to the side so she could see Jane better, bringing her hand up she rested it on the back of Jane's neck. Maura smiled before leaning closer, bringing Jane closer to her with the hand behind her neck. When their lips met, Maura felt Jane tighten her grip a little. Maura deepened the kiss before pulling her lips away. "God, Jane. I love you." Maura rushed out in a whisper.
Jane smiled. "Love you."
Maura rested her forehead against Jane's and closed her eyes.
"I have an idea." Jane said, pulling back a little so she could look at Maura. "You know New York right?"
Maura nodded.
"So you know the best places to go shopping?" Jane couldn't believe she was going to ask her next question.
"Of course I do." Maura smiled.
"Well...I need some new clothes...I definitely need a new outfit to wear tonight. So, what do you say Maura Isles...do you want to take me shopping?" Jane quickly placed a finger on Maura's lips before she could say anything. She laughed at Maura's wide eyed look. "Don't speak. Just nod or shake your head."
Maura nodded enthusiastically.
"Okay." Jane smiled.