Ok I screwed up and now I am fixing the problem. To those I totally confused by skipping the right chapter 3 I'm sorry. This is the correct chapter 3. Enjoy!

Chapter 3

Jane had keys to Maura's place but was only supposed to use them in a time of emergency. Was the fact that Maura was not answering her door an emergency? Jane was seriously worried about her, she sounded strange on the phone and she almost hung up on her. What should she do? "Ah the hell with it, I'm going in." She took out her key and unlocked the door and immediately heard the music coming from upstairs. She looked around the house and didn't see anything out of place. Of course the house was spotless as per usual with Maura. Jane walked toward the music and was surprised to hear it coming from the other side of the closed bathroom door. Jane opened the door and was caught unaware by the sight before her. "Ah shit!"

"Jane!" Without thinking Maura stood up and faced Jane.

"Ah shit Maura." Jane turned and walked back downstairs. She was pacing the living room when Maura came down the stairs. Jane turned towards her and knew she was lost. The sight of Maura in a bathrobe, her hair hanging wet around her shoulder and no makeup was even better than her dressed to the nines. Jane continued pacing.

"Jane why are you here?"

Jane continued pacing as she spoke. "I was worried about you." She turned and walked right up and invaded Maura's personal space. "You hung up on me, you've never hung up on me! Why did you hang up on me?" Jane looked into the frightened eyes of her friend and realized she was out of control. The reason she was out of control wasn't because she was mad at Maura it was because she'd seen her naked in the bathroom and she liked what she saw but didn't know how to deal with it.

Maura put her hands on Jane's shoulders and pushed her back toward the couch and when her knees hit the cushions Jane fell back. "Sit down you are making me dizzy. Would you like a beer?" Maura walked out of the room without waiting for an answer and came back from the kitchen with a beer. She watched as Jane wrenched the cap off and took a long swallow of her beer. "I did not hang up on you. I thought we had agreed on a time and our conversation was over so I hung up."

Jane knew she was being irrational but she couldn't help it. "You didn't give me a chance to even say goodbye."

Maura sat down next to Jane but didn't take her hand as she usually would. She wasn't sure what would happen if she touched her. "I'm sorry if you feel that I slighted you, that was not my intention. I just wanted to get to work on this so that I would have something to show you in the morning."

"Well when I walked in you didn't appear to be working on much of anything." Jane couldn't help but remember what Maura had been doing when she walked in.

"Speaking of walking in, why did you come in without waiting for me to answer the door?" Maura turned to look at Jane.

"I got worried when you didn't answer the door. I rang the bell and I knocked. Apparently you couldn't hear it over the music. I was really worried Maura." Jane turned her big brown eyes toward Maura.

Maura could see that Jane was truly upset and she couldn't stop her hand from reaching out and taking Jane's hand in hers. "I am truly sorry if I worried you Jane, that was not my intent. Now that you're here why don't we just do what we had originally planned and work out a plan for tomorrow." She let go a Jane's hand, immediately missing the comfort it gave her, and reached forward for her glass of wine. "If you need another beer you know where they are. Are we ok?"

Jane took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a second. She missed Maura's hand holding hers but she better find a way to get over it because nothing was ever going to happen between the two of them. She opened her eyes and smiled at Maura. "Yeah we're good." She stood up and headed to the kitchen for another beer. She needed a minute away from Maura to regroup. She took a deep breath and headed back into the living room.

They worked together for about 3 hours coming up with a plan of attack and when it was time to retire for the evening both women became lost in their own thoughts. Come on Maura this is just like any of the many sleepovers the two of you have had. "Jane why don't you go take a shower while I change into my pajamas. You know where everything is. Of course you do we've done this many times and this is no different right? So I'll leave you to whatever you need to do." Maura turned and almost ran from the room. She made it to the safety of her own room and wondered what she should do next. "Come on Maura this is no different than before. Just ignore your feelings and treat her like you always have." She heard the shower turn on and her imagination went into overdrive. She imagined Jane beneath the hot water and wishing she was that water cascading down Jane's oh so supply body. She could feel her body next to hers and she wished she could pull her tight to her chest and hold her there forever.

Jane couldn't decide if she wanted to hurry through her shower to get back to Maura or take her time to avoid her. She could imagine Maura joining her in the shower and pulling her body against her wet chest and kissing her back as her hands explored the front of her body. "Damn I have to stop this, maybe coming over here was not such a good idea." She rinsed off and walked out of the shower but couldn't find a towel. She cracked the door open and yelled. "Hey Maura there aren't any towels in here. Could you bring me one please?"

Maura was lying on the bed when she heard the shower stop then shortly thereafter heard Jane asking for a towel. Damn I forgot to bring them up from the laundry. She hurried out of the bedroom and stopped at the closed bathroom door. "I have to run downstairs to the laundry room and get one I'll be right back."

"Hurry up I'm getting goose bumps." Jane yelled through the door.

Maura shook her head. "Oh I did not need to hear that, now all I can imagine is that body covered in goose bumps. Lord I hope I make it through this evening." She grabbed the pile of towels and headed back up stairs. She knocked on the bathroom door and Jane stuck her hand out. "I have a whole stack of them Jane could you grab them and put them in the closet in there?"

"Maura I don't have any clothes on!" Jane said with a note of fear in her voice.

"Well Jane that's obvious considering you just took a shower." Maura said somewhat airily.

"Stop and think Maura, if I don't have any clothes on and I open the door to reach for the pile of towels you will see me naked."

Before she could stop herself Maura spoke. "Turnabout is fair play Jane. Oh Jane I'm sorry I didn't mean that." She started to walk away until she saw the door starting to open and she stopped in her tracks. Before her stood a totally naked goddess.

"Now may I have the towels?" She reached out both hands and smiled innocently at Maura. "Close your mouth Maura, it's not polite to stare." She grabbed the towels and shut the door and smiled. She heard Maura's feet quickly take her back in the direction of the spare room.

Maura was having problems controlling her breathing and her thoughts. "My god she is gorgeous. What the hell am I going to do now?"

"Do about what Maura?" Maura swung around and looked at Jane as she stood in the doorway drying her hair. The look on Maura's face was almost comical, too bad Jane had no idea what Maura was thinking. "Did you swear Maura? I don't think I've ever heard you swear. What is it that has you swearing?" Jane walked into the room and plopped down on the bed and spread her long legs out.

Maura could only stare at the luscious body before her. What would Jane do if she lay down beside her and kissed her? Would she welcome it or would it ruin their friendship? She wasn't willing to take that chance so she tamped down her emotions and lay down next to Jane as she always had. As if nothing had changed. She rested her hands on her stomach and turned her head away from Jane. "I was just talking to myself, when I was downstairs I realized I was out of laundry detergent and I don't know when I'll be able to get to the store. That means I won't be able to do laundry for awhile." Great Maura, for a genius that sure was a sorry excuse.

Jane turned her head and made eye contact with Maura. She knew that was a lie, Maura couldn't lie and she knew it but she was going to let it slide. She didn't want to put Maura on the defensive. "We can make sure we make some time tomorrow to stop by the store for more detergent. Nothing to worry your pretty little head about." Jane reached up and messed up Maura's hair. "It's no big deal, not worth swearing about."

"Thank you Jane that would be nice. I guess it's time to go to sleep so I will head to my room so you can stretch out to sleep." Maura started to get out of the bed when Jane grabbed the back of her pajama top and pulled her back down to the bed.

"The only time I got to see you today was at the bar with the guys, we haven't had the chance to talk about our day like we usually do." The two of them have gotten into a routine of either getting together like this or talking on the phone every night so that one or the other could blow off steam about their day or just talk quietly. If Jane was to admit it this time was her favorite part of the day. She loved to listen to Maura talk about her day and it was nice to know she would listen to her even though most of the time she had no idea what Jane was talking about. "So what happened at work today?" Jane turned on her side and rested her head on her hand.

Maura turned on her side and mirrored Jane's position. This was how they always talked but somehow tonight it seemed more intimate but Mura couldn't move away. "There was a body that came in today that they had found in an alley. He appeared to be homeless, very dirty and he smelled to high heaven. But in his possessions was a picture of a family so I took a chance and looked through missing persons reports and it turned out he wasn't homeless, he was a very rich man that walked away from his family in what he thought was shame. He had had a brief fling with his secretary and when his wife found out, even though it had been over for a long time, he couldn't face her and he left for work one day and never returned home. The wife had been searching for him for months to tell him it didn't matter and that she loved him anyway. I cried with her when she and her son came down to identify the body. It's so sad what happens when people don't talk to each other." Maura all of the sudden wondered if she was missing out by not saying anything to Jane but she was also scared of losing her best friend so she kept quiet. She lay back down on the bed.

"Wow, that's sad. How long ago did he take off?"

She turned to Jane as she spoke. "She said she had been searching for him for 8 months." Maura sniffled..

Jane reached out without thinking and wiped a tear from Maura's cheek. "You're such a softy Maura Isles. To think if he had just taken the time to talk to his wife and face the consequences he would have been happy for the last 8 months and this never would have happened. What was the cause of death?"

"A seemingly healthy man dies of a heart attack. The heart appeared to be healthy up until the minute it stopped beating. Maybe you can die of a broken heart."

"Oh a softy and a romantic too." She smiled down at Maura. "Anything in his tox reports?"

Maura felt a little more comfortable now that they were talking generalities again. "They won't be back for a couple of day but there weren't any apparent needle marks on the arms or anywhere that I could see."

"Was there any history of heart problems in his family?"

"The wife said no but that she would contact his siblings to find out. I told her I would let her know if there was anything strange in the tox report." Maura covered her mouth as she yawned. "How was your day?"

Jane reached across Maura's body and turned off the light on Maura's side of the bed. Maura was holding her breath as Jane's body lay across hers as she was reaching for the light. God this woman is going to kill me. "Go to sleep Maura, we'll talk in the morning." Jane leaned over and kissed Maura on the cheek as she usually did then turned off the light on her side of the bed. "Good night Maura."

Maura had to clear her throat before she could speak and when she finally did it was barely above a whisper. "Good night Jane." I love you.She thought to herself and turned her back to Jane. She woke in the middle of the night to find herself wrapped in Jane's arms, she snuggled in to enjoy it while she could. She didn't see the smile on Jane's face as they both fell back to sleep.