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Author's Note: I cleaned up the previous chapter and replaced the file. I may do so with the previous 11 chapters as well if I have the time. Thank you for pointing out the glaring problems. How I miss them, I have no idea. -DKC
Slow and Steady – Chapter 13
"Hey," Jane said out her rolled down window as she pulled her car behind Maura's in the BPD parking garage.
"I thought you were out interviewing the suspect's father?" Maura asked.
The doctor was trying, but failing to hide her delight at seeing Jane after the hellish case they'd been working on. She had assumed she'd be going home, alone. She closed the door to her own car and walked toward Jane's cruiser.
"Finished it. We're calling it a night," Jane answered as Maura put one hand on the roof of Jane's car.
"It is only midnight," Maura chuckled, looking at her watch.
"Get in," Jane demanded.
"What?"
"Get in, I have an idea," Jane motioned for Maura to walk around the car and get in.
The doctor did as she was told. She pressed the button on the key fob to lock her car and then climbed in the passenger side of Jane's car.
"Where are we going?" the ever-curious Maura asked.
"You'll see."
As Jane and Maura drove across town, the space between them was electric. They stole glances at one another, but drove mostly in silence.
"Quincy?" Maura questioned Jane as they pulled alongside a park and Jane shut off the car.
"There are much better places to look at stars near Boston. The distance to Brant Rock or Veasey Memorial Park was just too far at midnight," Jane replied.
A smile broke out on Maura's face at Jane's thoughtfulness. Stars? What a beautiful, thoughtful woman her best friend was. She didn't give her nearly enough credit for that. They both stepped out of the car and Jane walked back to the trunk where she grabbed a flannel blanket. She took Maura's hand and led her toward an open space.
"It's gorgeous out here," Maura spoke.
"Lie with me?" Jane asked, shaking out the blanket so the two could lie down.
They settled on the blanket, Jane's arm wrapped around Maura and Maura's head near Jane's shoulder on her chest. They both looked up at the vast sky, disappearing in their own separate thoughts.
"It's so beautiful," Maura whispered.
There was something about being like this, in the dark, staring up at the sky that made it seem it was only appropriate to whisper. That Maura understood this made Jane smile. She leaned toward the doctor and kissed the side of her head.
"I hate how out of control life gets some times," Jane mused.
"Hmm?" Maura was trying to not read into Jane's words, trying not to assume Jane meant with the way they'd been behaving toward one another of late.
"We are both so invested in our jobs that our jobs become our entire lives and they tend to force us to sacrifice other things," Jane was more contemplative than Maura had remembered seeing her in some time.
"You mean personal sacrifices, having to sacrifice personal lives?" the doctor queried.
"The more meaningful aspects of personal lives, yes."
"I know you don't mean sex because sex doesn't require much devoted commitment or time," Maura hadn't even finished this thought before Jane was shaking her head. "What?"
"Leave it to you to go right to the logistics of having sex when we have the schedules we do," Jane chuckled and pulled the doctor in tighter.
"The most meaningful relationship in my life is the one I have with you," Maura softly said.
Jane turned her head toward Maura who had titled her chin up so she could look at Jane. There was gentility in Jane's eyes that made Maura swoon. She had never been looked at the way Jane looked at her. It wasn't until recently that she began to understand exactly what that meant. A person that can look at you like that is the person you should be with. The doctor wasn't sure how to make that happen or, still, even sure that's what Jane wanted.
"Did you know that when Copernicus died he had never married, he had no children and was plagued with paralysis?" Maura attempted to fill the silence left after she had revealed more to Jane than she realized with her previous statement.
"Copernicus? The astronomer?" Jane wondered, somewhat stunned by the fact that she, too, thought of Maura as the most meaningful relationship in her life.
"Yes. Late in life he developed paralysis and apoplexy," Maura stated in her wonderfully geeky way.
"Apoplexy?" Jane raised an eyebrow. She was out of her league with this woman in so many ways, intelligence being the most obvious.
"Bleeding of the internal organs," came the quick response as if the doctor was anticipating the question.
"That's gross. Thank you, Maura."
"Sorry, his afflictions are not important. What I am trying to say is, I am at a time in my life that I am beginning to realize what I want and don't want when I am older and no longer have my work to lean on or, in my case, hide behind."
"What is it you want?" Jane ventured, looking directly in Maura's eyes as the doctor had turned her body more into Jane's so they could gaze at one another instead of the stars.
"I don't want to spend my life alone, Jane," Maura whispered, her emotions on her sleeve. "I'd rather not have to deal with paralysis and apoplexy, too, but that's minor."
They both laughed heartily. When their laughter commenced and the silence settled over them, they had been looking into one another's eyes for what felt like a very a long time. Not wanting the moment to pass, Jane's leaned into Maura and their lips met softly. What began as a soft, tepid kiss rapidly exploded into wild, passionate kisses.
Without much notice, Maura had rolled onto Jane and their kisses turned into a heated make out session. The doctor was straddling Jane when strong hands gripped her ass, forcing her hips into an angle against Jane's hips that caused them both immense pleasure.
"Jane…" Maura moaned.
"We shouldn't do this here," Jane panted against Maura's cheek as they began grinding against one another.
The detective did her best to scan the perimeter out the corner of her eye, never letting go of Maura's ass and never stilling her hips or her mouth when their lips crashed back together.
"Jesus," Jane was responding to the guttural sound escaping Maura as she continued rolling her hips against Jane.
"I just need…" Maura breathed against Jane's mouth.
Before the honey-haired woman finished her thought, Jane's hand reached into the incredibly small space between them. She turned her hand so that her thumb was close to Maura, giving the doctor just the feel she was looking for. Using the bone of Jane's thumb, Maura rocked her clit back and forth until she came. She collapsed on top of Jane and practically purred in Jane's ear as she rested her face against Jane's cheek.
"God, you are something else," Jane whispered.
"Something good, I hope," came the breathy answer.
"Good and very, very hot," Jane rasped. "When you're ready, let's go home."
Maura stayed on top of Jane for a few more minutes while she caught her breath and allowed her legs to regain some strength for standing. Jane wrapped her arm around Maura once they were standing and she had gathered the blanket.
Ever attentive to obeying all of the laws she was sworn to defend, Jane was not the least bit sorry for what had transpired in a public place. She helped Maura into the car and couldn't help but smile. Looking at Maura she knew that there wasn't a thing in the world she wouldn't do if it had the potential of making her best friend happy.