Please see Ch 1 for disclaimers… lots and lots of disclaimers…
Jane switched off her phone as the alarm droned. She stroked the warm back under her fingertips, enjoying the gentle kiss to her collarbone. She reached to put the phone back on the nightstand and felt an unfamiliar pull along her thighs. Someday she was going to have to work up the courage to ask Maura how in the hell she ever learned that little move. The memory caused a pleasant shiver to run down her back.
"Maura, why don't we just call it in for the day?"
"We have barely left this room for 24 hrs. It will do us some good. Furthermore I have autopsies pending. "She felt Jane's hand stroke the thigh across her stomach and groaned as every hormone in her body woke up. "Stop that." The thigh moved with the gentle chuckling.
"I will if you shower with me" Jane concentrated the stroking to the back of Maura's knee, feeling the effects in the flexing foot against her calf, knowing the answer even before Maura slid over her body with exaggerated slowness and walked towards the bathroom. She paused in the doorway, eyebrow raised in question, feeling Jane's stare and letting her look before disappearing.
Jimmy Brown turned the plain white envelope over in his hands. He'd walked in and it was propped in his computer keyboard.
He ripped it open, examined it and scanned the inside. He waived the card with the multi-colored THANK YOU on the front around.
"Anybody know why Rizzoli would drop a six pack and a thank you card off on my desk?"