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Chapter 3!
Several hours later, with the directions that Maura gave Jane, Jane would pull up to a very large house with a double garage off to the side. The doctor lived on the East side...the nicer part of Boston's downtown area. Maura had dressed herself in a pair of brown leggings, knee high black leather boots and a burgundy short sleeved top with a scooped neck. She pulled her curls back into a ponytail and made sure Bass was fed right before Jane would arrive. She hoped she found the place ok.
Jane parked her car in front of one of the garages. Fancy. The house looked really impressive and Jane felt envious in a way. Did she really live by herself in such a big house? The Detective got out of the car, grabbing the sixpack and headed to the front door; ringing the doorbell. Unlike Maura, Jane wore some pair of jeans that were ripped on the knees, and a plain white tanktop. Her long dark hair up into a ponytail.
Maura's heart slipped a beat as she heard the doorbell. She smiled and plopped a piece of cheese into her mouth and then hurried to the front door. She opened it a moment later all smiles. "Evening detective," she said, "come in," she offered and stepped aside so that Jane could enter. Maura could care less what Jane wore. She didn't really look at that as much as people thought. She was just glad to have the company.
The place was pristine. Clean floors, perfectly looking furniture, clean warm smell...it was as if she had stepped into a hotel room. Maura smiled still and shut the door behind Jane. She reached for the beer and took it from the woman and headed into the kitchen. "Make yourself comfortable," she said, placing the beer into the glass door fridge.
Jane followed Maura into the kitchen and looked around in the house. The house was just as impressive in the inside as it had looked like from the outside. The brunette eyed the wardrobe of the shorter woman. "Why do you always look like you are about to do a photoshoot?" Jane asked and raised an eyebrow.
"Is that what you think?" she asked amused as she headed back into the living area where Jane stood. "Sit...I ordered the pizza and it should be here soon," she said and ushered Jane further into the living room. She laughed softly as she sat down, watching Jane still looking around her space. "It's not that great...I bet your place is very cozy," she said, smiling up at the other woman.
"Yeah for...rats." Jane joked while she kept looking around and nodding approving. "It's very clean here..." The brunette noticed and sat down on the couch next to Maura, keeping her distance though. "So you are living all by yourself in that big house of yours?"
Maura looked around and shruggled lightly. "Yes, I am the only human living here. For now," she said with a cute smile toward Jane. She noted Jane's slightly nervous behavior and she nodded. "Is everything ok," she asked, clearing her throat lightly and looking toward Jane. Maura reached out and gently patted Jane's knee.
Jane glanced down at the hand patting her knee and then looked over into Maura's face. "'Course it is..." The brunette said and then looked passed Maura, screwing up her face. "What is THIS!" She asked, looking at Bass. "A huge turtle! Is IT alive?"
Maura pulled her hand away from Jane's knee and looked over her shoulder at the large tortoise moving slowly toward the dinning room. She chuckled and turned back to Jane. "That is the non human living with me. His name is Bass. Yes he is alive," she smiled and shrugged one shoulder. "So, I am not entirely alone..."
"Wow...what a GREAT choice of a pet..." Jane said sarcastic and kept looking at the tortoise. "Very active and all that..." That woman had surprised her yet again. A turtle as pet? Really! "I bet his company his very...valuable."
"Oh it is. He is very interactive...sometimes it takes him a bit longer to follow me, but he does," she smiled and looked at Jane. "So, where do you live," she asked her and adjusted in the couch to face Jane a bit more. At this close distant between them, Maura smelled wonderful. The whole package was wonderful,
"Well not in the fancy area, so much I can tell you." She chuckled. "Some crappy apartment downtown. It's cheap and good for me - I'm not complaining." She looked back into Maura's eyes; metting her hazel ones with her own dark brown ones. "Oh if my Ma asks you the next time she sees you why we didn't come for dinner - just tell her we got called in. Just lie." She simply said and shrugged with her shoulders.
"No, I cannot do that," she said almost in a whine. Maura sighed and shook her head. "I just can't lie...not to your mother. Not even to you," she said a bit more soft. She smiled and shrugged her shoulder. "Anyways, I am sure your place is nice. I can just imagine it," she and let out a deep breath just as the doorbell rang. Maura's eyes widened and she jumped up, going into the foyer and grabbing her wallet. She opened the door, paid for the pizza and then carried it into the kitchen and to the island. "It's here," she said to Jane.
"How do you mean you can't lie?" Jane asked as she walked into the kitchen; smelling the pizza immediatly. Oh, she couldn't wait to eat. "If you tell my Ma the truth, she is gonna hold it against me for the rest of my life." Jane pointed out and got next to Maura, opening the pizza carton. "God, that smells delicious."
"I just can't," she repeated and opened the box as she offered Jane a plate. It did smell good and Maura knew she had made the right choice. Her stomach growled and she sighed blissfully. She usually ate this wonderful meal alone, but now she had a friend. Maura looked fondly over at Jane. "Help yourself," she offered, "and I will simply tell your mother that I had invited you over for dinner and you felt obligated to come..." she smiled sweetly.
Jane gave Maura a look. "Not helpful. She'll still hold it against me. You don't know my mother." She grabbed a slice of pizza and bit into it immedatily. "Mmm hooooot!" She said with her mouth full. The hot cheese was burning her mouth. She grabbed a tissue and spit the pizza out. "Shit it's hot!"
Maura laughed and shook her head. "Well no one said you should bite right into it, now. It did just get here," she laughed again and took two slices for her plate. She walked back toward the living room. As she passed Jane, she lightly patted her back. "Your beer is in the glass door fridge," she called after her and settled back to the couch, putting her plate on the coffee table. She already had her wine sitting on the coffee table and she poured herself a glass.
The Detective grabbed a plate and put two slices on it as well. On her way back to the living room, she grabbed a bottle of beer and eventually joined Maura on the couch. "The game is starting in 5. Turn on the tv." Jane said to Maura and drunk a sip of her cool beer; which cooled off her burned roof of the mouth. "Are you a red sox fan too?" The brunette asked and placed her beer on the table.
"I- I really can't say that I am. But I do enjoy the game from time to time," she said and reached for the controls to turn the TV on. She turned it to the station that Jane told her. She leaned forward and picked up her plate, taking a not so delicate bit of her pizza. "Oh Mmmmmm," she moaned softly and sighed in bliss.
Jane laughed slightly. "Are ya practicing your voice over for your next porn?" She joked and glanced over to the blonde, before she placed her own plate on her lap and took another bite of her pizza.
Maura was still chewing her bite at Jane's words and she looked at her with wider, adorably cute eyes. She furrowed her brow and swallowed. "Pardon me, did you just say porn? That is really only good for the bedroom. Not eating," she sighed and took another bit, making the same blissful sounds as before. She swallowed and took a long drink of her wine. "So, how do you like it?"
Jane looked at Maura confused - obviously she didn't get her joke. Was Maura a prude? She didn't know; that Doctor clearly gave her mixed signals. "It's a good pizza. What's the pizza place called?" She asked and took another bite of the delicious pizza. She wiped her hand on her jeans, before she reached for her beer again and drunk a sip.
Maura shifted in the couch, getting comfortable and smiled at Jane as she drank more of her wine. "Tazo's," she said with a cute smile and finished her glass of wine and reached for the bottle and poured herself another glass and took to that one as well. She moved closer to Jane as the game continued to play. Jane felt the blonde's warmth as she moved closer.
Jane was watching the game and ate her pizza while she occasionelly sipped from her cool beer. As she was done eating, she put the empty plate on the table in front of her. The brunette noticed that Maura had moved closer. She could smell her sweet perfume and felt her body heat - she could even smell her hair; it smelled like peach shampoo. Jane had a hard time concentrating on the game with Maura so close. She glanced at the blonde every now and then. "Oh come on. GO GO GO!" Jane yelled at the TV and huffed as he didn't make it.
Maura got into the moment as Jane was in one and yelling at the TV. She sat more up right and grabbed at Jane's thigh. "Yes go!" She yelled at the TV not entirely sure why she was yelling. She understood the logistics of the game, but really was only watching it because Jane had wanted to do so. She smiled at the woman and realized where her hand had ended up. She removed it quickly and swallowed, hoping that Jane had not really noticed.
There was a break on TV and Jane got up from the couch. She walked into the kitchen and got herself another beer. As she returned she looked down to Maura. "What's the deal with you?" She then asked her straight forward and sat down on the couch again. Jane NEEDED to know after all the mixed signals Maura was sending her.
Maura's lips parted at Jane's question she was taken aback by them. She stared up into the woman's face as she pondered what exactly to say. "Deal with me me?" She said, looking a litte confused. "I don't understand," she finally said and smiled nervously.
She had another sip of her beer. "Yeah...sexual preferences..." Jane re-worded it and felt kind of stupid herself for asking this. But she really had to know. Jane could tell that the Doctor was getting nervous. Hopefully she hadn't crossed an invisible line with this question...
"Oh," Maura's face changed to one of understanding and she nodded, licking her lips softly. "I really don't have one. I usually just got for what I am attracted to," she said simply with a shrug. She smiled up at Jane, not showing any fear at this point. "You?"
So that statement clearly meant that the Doctor was bisexual. By the way she acted and dressed and all, Jane would have never guessed it; but as more time she had spent with the M.E. as more clear it got. Jane took another sip of her beer and waited a few moments before she answered the Doctor. "What do you think?" She asked interested and raised a brow.
Maura blinked and sat more upright as Jane countered with a question back at her. She looked at Jane for a long time and shrugged lightly. "I don't know. You really are quite guarded," she said softly and smiled gently at Jane. She sipped at her wine and then licked her lips, setting it down and standing up so that she was face to face with Jane.
Jane held her breathe for a moment as she looked at the shorter woman in front of her. Her heart was beating faster and insicde she was freaking out but she didn't show it on her face. Instead she grabbed the beer bottle even harder, that her knuckles turned white; just to calm herself down. She manged to flash a relaxed smile at Maura. "If I tell you, I have to kill you... The guys at work are guessing since years already..."
"Right, they are guess that you are a lesbian, correct? I mean...isn't that what anyone would think of a strong, confident, very skilled detective of the Boston PD?" She sighed and rolled her eyes. "It's not fair...I don't think that you would be...but I would still be your friend if you were or weren't," she said with a tender smile. Maura stepped closer to Jane and continued to study her face.
Jane looked directly into Maura's hazel eyes. It was hard doing that but she didn't wanna show to Maura how nervous she was in this very moment. Jane had never been good with stuff like that. "Well, yes that's what many cops think of me." She confirmed with her raspy voice. "I was wrong as I said yesterday that we don't have anything in common...we do. I go for what I am attracted to, too." She told the Doctor. "If you share it with anyone, I seriously have to kill you." Jane quickly said; trying to regain control of the situation by making a joke.
Maura licked her lips and nodded slowly. She smiled soflty at Jane and her face was also very soft to look at. "Oh, I am not surprised. You have a strong personality...it makes sense," she said and placec a hand over her chest. "I promise I won't say a word," she said, nodding with a smile and still stood close to Jane. Unlike Jane, she was hardly nervous...she was more alluring than Jane could have imagined.
"You better don't or I'm gonna tell everyone you got a giant turtle..." Jane said and glanced at Maura's lips as she was licking them. Jane could feel her heart beating fast in her chest and she feared that it was so loud that the blonde could hear it. She tried her best to regain control and to relax but it was harder than she thought. Maura was so close and she couldn't help but wondering how her lips felt on hers.
"If you want to try, detective...I won't tell," she taunted and the corners of her lips drew into an almost seductive like grin. Maura kept her distance the same between them and narrowed her eyes as she studied the detective's face for her reaction. Maura decided to challenged Jane just a bit more. She stepped slightly closer. It Jane backed off, she would let the moment go.
Jane breathed the air in audible and her grip around her beer bottle hardened again. She stared at the beauty in front of her; her mind was spinning. There was no right or wrong thing to do. It was like that she couldn't think straight anymore in this very moment. The brunette gave in her urges and now leaned forward; touching Maura's lips with her own very slightly and staying still like this for a moment; to see if Maura was still okay with it. Then the detective pressed her lips harder on the blonde ones and kissed her.
Maura's fingers curled into the fabric of her shirt at her sides as Jane's lips softly at first touched her own, then pressed harder into them. Her stomach turned itself inside out and Jane heard the soft moan that came from deep in the blonde's throat. Maura stepped closer and let the full of her body fit up against Jane's and then slowly, she eased her arms around the woman's slender waist and kissed her back.
The Detective closed her eyes and carefully placed a hand on the back of Maura's head; letting her fingers entwine in the blonde hair. It felt good to kiss again and the Doctor was definiatly a good kisser. In this moment Jane didn't think; she couldn't think. It felt so surreal in a way but was yet so real.
Maura pulled Jane's body closer to her own and held her firmly as they continued to kiss. She felt Jane's hand at the back of head, holding her within the embrace. In the back of Maura's mind she could believe that she was kissing the detective...she just didn't believe that is could feel this good, but it did. Her entire body fluttered with excitement. She would break the kiss, but leave her lips close to Jane's. She breathed deeply. "That was...really good," she trembled out.
"Mhm..." Jane only said. She opened her eyes again and looked at the woman so close to her. She slowly started to relax and the grip around her beer bottle loosened. Slowly she removed her other hand from the back of Maura's hair and stroke a strand of blonde hair behind the Doctors ear. "Really good indeed." She whispered in her raspy voice and held eye contact for another moment, before she turned and looked at the tv. "Break's over." She simply said and sat back on the couch, drinking a BIG gulp of beer now.
Maura swallowed as Jane brushed a light strand from her face to behind her ear. She smiled gently and stepped back as Jane said that the break was over and simply sat back down on the couch. Maura blinked and made a slightly mused face and then leaned over to grab her wine once again and then she too sat back down. Maura nestled into the couch and crossed her legs, staring at the screen. She didn't watch the game...all she thought about was what just happened between them.
Jane couldn't concentrate that well on the game either. But she was thankful for the game because she wouldn't know what to say to Maura right now. Maybe she shouldnt have kissed her! After all they were working together. Thousand thoughts rushed through Jane's mind. She sat there in quiet, her eyes on the screen; but deep in thoughts. As the game ended at some point, she was forced to talk to Maura again. She cleared her voice. "That was a good game..."
"I think I liked half time," she said looking at the screen and smiling, folding her arms across her chest. She looked at Jane after a moment. "They won...so why aren't you celebrating," she taunted the detective again. The several glasses of wine, by this point, were making Maura feel warm and very aroused. The only human close to her was Jane Rizzoli and it only made things worse that she had just tasted her lips not so long ago.
"I'm cheering...inside." Jane answered and gulped down the rest of her beer and placed it on the table in front of her. "I'm very happy." The brunette said again and leaned back in the couch. "I guess...I should get going, you probably need your beauty sleep." Jane said and looked at her.
Maura got the hint and she was ok with it, a little disappointed, but she wasn't going to push the woman. She took one last swallow her her wine and stood, gathering the plates and starting to clean things up as she headed toward the kitchen. "Oh I am not tired," she said absently as she set the plates in the sink and grabbed a baggie to put the left over pizza in that she planned on giving to Jane. She smiled at her. "Would you like the pizza to take home as well as your beer?"
This whole situation just felt awkward to the detective. She stood there in the kitchen; not knowing where to put her arms; so she crossed them in front of her chest. "Um keep the beer and enjoy but I'd take some pizza." She said with a nod and looked down at Maura's turtle.
Maura blew out a small sigh and smiled at the detective. She wasn't feeling awkward at all, but she was feeling a bit frustrated. What more did she have to do to? She walked over to Jane and handed her the pizza. "I don't really drink beer, but I will keep it here for you," she said and leveled her eyes with Jane's. "You can stay if you want to..."
TBC
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