A/N: Jeez two chapters in two days. we are having tons of fun writing this. I forgot to mention that the last chapter that we posted was a prologue. Sorry. This is the fist official chapter. Remember that this is a crossover between R&I and characters we made up.
Declaimer: Echobeme and I don't own Rizzoli and Isles. WE do own Ami and Catherine.
Enjoy.
Three years later
"It is a beautiful day at Charlestown High." The announcer says. "And I still love the outcome that we got tonight" He said as he scanned the room of the crowded gymnasium. "Where we continue the game against New Mission High. The score is 36 to 32 in New Missions favor. With 1:47 seconds left at half."
Charlestown's team was standing around their side of the court, shooting around. As the clock ran out, one of the balls that the team was playing with went towards the side line, closest to the entrance to the gym. Catherine went to retrieve it. As she bends over to pick up the ball, she looks up and freezes.
To say the girl she saw was beautiful was an understatement. She had dirty blonde hair with a little of bit of orange peeking out. She was wearing a fancy designer dress that Catherine couldn't even place, let alone pronounce even if she tired. Catherine watched as the girl walked up the bleachers and sat a couple feet to the left away from Ami.
"CC!" Jane yelled as she tried to get her attention.
"Huh?" Catherine said turning her head away from the girl.
"Half time is over come on!"
The ball goes to New Mission High as the game begin to start again. They run an inbound play so that they can get the ball onto the count. Once the ball is on the court they go to pass it to one of their star player's number 43, but before it ever got in 43's hands Lily stole it. Running down court she notices that Catherine is near the basket and open so she passes to her, letting Catherine shoot and make the lay-up. Making the score 36 to 34. Only making them down by one shot now.
Ami who is in the stands is clapping and cheering Catherine on. Just like everyone else who goes to Charlestown High.
"Touchdown" The Dirty blonde shouted.
Everyone around her looks at her with a strange look and she doesn't seem to notice. Ami looks over at the girl and slides over so that she is sitting closer to the girl.
"You're new here aren't you?" Ami said talking to the girl.
The girl looks over at Ami. "Yes, I am."
"At basketball games we never say 'touchdown' when they score." Ami laughs nervously. "We normally just clap and shout Woooohoooo" Ami said shouting.
"Oh." The girl looks back at the game just as Charlestown scored again, tying the score. "Woooohoooo" she said barley over a whisper so that no one but Ami could hear her.
"A little louder." Ami said chuckling at the girl. "Think of it like you just got something that you wanted for a long time. Woooohoooo!" Ami said screaming the last part.
The ball is in New Missions possession and they quickly get it down court in a fast break drill, making a lay-up untying the score so that they are up 38 to 36.
"Woooohoooo" The girl next to Ami said shouting and everyone else on their side groaned.
"Not for that team" Ami said looking back over at the girl. "That's not our school."
"Oh."
"You see number 27 and 32 in the black and red colors?" Ami said waiting for the girl to nod and when she did she kept talking. "That's our school. The team with the blue and white are the opposite team we are playing against."
"Oh. So only say Woooohoooo for our team?"
"Yeah."
"Ok. Thanks" The girl said looking back at the game in time to see one of the players on the team score. "Woooohoooo!" She said shouting. She then turned to Ami, "How did I do?"
"Perfect" Ami said chuckling.
"I'm Maura, by the way." Maura said turning to face Ami "Maura Isles."
"I'm Ami. Ami Baye. It's nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too" Maura said
They sat in silence for a few minutes watching the game. They were now tied with 42 with 5 minutes left of the game.
"So how was your first day of school?" Ami said sparking up the conversation.
"It was good."
"That's good." Ami said nodding.
They game end with the score 48 to 47 Charlestown High barely winning the game. Once the final buzzer went off, Ami jumped out of her seat and started to run down the bleachers but stopped when she noticed Maura wasn't following her. She turned back around and walked up the steps.
"C'mon come meet my friends." Ami said grabbing ahold of Maura's arm before running down the bleachers again. As they reached the bottom of the bleachers Ami let go of Maura and ran straight into Jane's embrace. Kissing her hard. Jane is the one that pulls back.
"Good game babe!" Ami said moving out of Jane's embrace.
"Hey! What about me?" Catherine said faking hurt as she was walking up behind Jane.
"Good job CC" Ami said smiling at her.
"Why thank you" Catherine said dramatically as she laughed. She stopped laughing when she noticed the dirty blonde standing behind Ami. Everyone stopped and looked behind Ami, and as if on cue she starts introducing them.
"Maura Isles" she said looking over at Maura. "This is my girlfriend Jane Rizzoli and her friend Catherine Crush. Guys this is Maura Isles. She is the new girl at our school."
"Nice to meet you." Jane said sticking out her hand to shake Maura's.
"Nice to meet you too Jane." Maura said returning Jane's hand shake. Looking over Catherine starting with her hair that was in a ponytail and then wondering down to look at her jersey that is no longer tucked into her shorts. All the way down to her basketball shoes, back up to her blue eyes.
"Hi." Was all Catherine could say at first. She cleared her throat and started again. Reaching out her hand. She went to shake Maura's, "Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too Catherine." Maura said looking into Catherine eyes. Returning her handshake.
Catherine swallowed hard, trying to hide the hurt that was washing over her. She looked down and over at Jane, who was looking at her strangely. Clearing her throat again she looked back at Maura and released her hand.
"So." Jane said trying to help Catherine get out of her awkward situation. "Maura." She looked at Maura. "What grade are you in?"
"I'm a junior" Maura said still looking at Catherine, who was looking at the ground.
"So are we." Jane said talking for the group.
"So." Catherine said looking up at the group. "We are going to order pizza later tonight at my place. These two." She said pointing a finger at Jane and Ami, "Are coming over and spending the night at my place. Would you want to join us?" Catherine said trying to not look to hopeful.
"That would be lovely." Maura said smiling.
"Awesome!" Catherine said, "You want to call your parents and ask if it's alright? I can give you a ride to your place to get a pack of clothes if you want? Then drive you over to my place."
"Sure. That's a wonderful idea. I will call my parents and ask." Maura said looking away from the group for a second. Not moving to pull out her cell phone to call. The girls stood in silence for a few minutes waiting, Jane, Ami, and Catherine looked at each other before looking back at Maura.
"So you going to call… or?" Ami said breaking the silence.
"Oh. Yes. Of course." Maura pulled out her cell phone and scrolled threw her contacts coming to the one she wanted she pressed call. It rang a couple times before the person on the other side answered. "Mother? ... I was wondering if I could go over to a friend's house tonight to spend the night… alright… yes… of course…bye mother" Maura said putting her phone away.
"She said it was alright." Maura said as she put her phone back into her pocket.
"Alright cool." Catherine said moving from looking at Maura to Jane and Ami. "So I'm going to drive Maura to her house to get her clothes for tonight, you still have the key I gave you right?" She said directing the question to Jane who nodded her head. "Ok you guy go to my place and make yourself feel at home."
"Alright sounds good." Both Ami and Jane said at the same time.
Catherine smiled at them. "Thanks Jamie."
Jane and Ami laughed as they left to leave. Catherine looked over at Maura.
"Jamie?" Maura asked as she started to walk with Catherine towards her car.
"It's their name put together. Jane and Ami. Jamie."
"Oh. I get it now."
Catherine nodded as they got to her car. She unlocked the car and got in driving to Maura to her house. They sat in silence for a while listening to the radio the only reason someone was speaking was when Maura gave her a direction to turn. Catherine reached to the volume control to the radio and turned it all the way down. Taking a glace over at Maura she breaks the silence.
"So you're new to our school?"
"Yeah… Turn left at the light." Maura said.
"Cool. How do you like our school?"
"It's a nice school."
Catherine nods and turns at the light. Coming up to a gated community. Maura fishes thorough her purse and pulled out a gate opener, opening the gate.
As they got closer Maura's house, Maura swallowed nervous about how Catherine was going to react to her house.
"My house is the house up two more on the right." Maura said pointing to the house.
Catherine pulled up the drive way and looked at the house in front of her. "Wow." Was all she could say, as she turned off her car looking over at Maura.
"Yeah… so you stay in the car and I will run into the house and get my clothes… ok?"
"Alright. That's fine with me."
Maura got out of the car and took her keys out of her purse. Putting the key into the door, she walked into the house. "Duffy! I'm home" She threw her purse on the couch as she ran up the stair to her room to pack her bag.
"Maur?" Duffy said walking out of her room, and walking towards Maura's room.
"Yes?"
"What was that call about?" Duffy asked Maura as she got her clothes for the night.
Maura sighed as she sat at the edge of her bed, looking up at Duffy. "The friends I am spending the nights at?" She watched as Duffy walked further into her room and sat next to her nodding. "They wanted me to call my parents and ask if it was alright to spend the night." She looked down at her hands.
"And because you parents aren't here…?" Duffy said encouraging her to continue.
"I called you." Maura said standing up to finish packing.
"Ok. You have fun tonight ok?" Duffy said standing up giving her a half hug.
"Thanks." Maura said finishing packing her bag and going down the stairs and getting back into Catherine's car.
"Ready?" Catherine asked as she turned her car back on.
"Ready."
Catherine opened the door for Maura when they arrived at her house. They both look around and notice that Ami was sitting on the couch, with Jane no were in sight.
"She is in the shower" Ami said noticing them looking around the house.
"Alright. I am going to go up go take one myself" Catherine said turning to Maura. "Just make yourself at home." She touched Maura's arm lightly before heading down the hall to get into the shower.
Maura sat down sitting in the armchair next to Ami, and watched as Jane sat down next to Ami and gave her a peck on her lips. When Jane pulled back she looked at Maura and said, "I'm going to guess that CC is in the shower?"
"Yeah, she just went down the hallway to shower" Ami replied. Laying back against the couch. With Jane's arm across her shoulders.
"So how was the ride?" Jane asked Maura
"It was good." Maura said nodding.
Ten minutes pass before Catherine walks out of the shower, and down the hallway towards her friends. She is wearing a baggy shirt along with some pajama shorts with her hair up down. Catherine hears part of the conversation that the three of them were having.
"You don't believe in gays!?" Jane said leaning forward in her seat, looking from Ami to Maura.
"No." Maura said looking over at Jane. "My parents raised me to believe…" Maura glances over Jane's shoulder and spots Catherine walking towards them. She stutters on her words. "Raised me to believe…even if they weren't…" she swallowed and stopped that line of sentencing as she looked back at Jane. "My parents raised me to believe that it is a sin!"
Jane nods and looks at her not fully believing her but taking it as an answer anyway. "So are you going to be bothered that we kiss and hug and all that lovely stuff?"
"Oh no. I don't mind. If I want to be your guys' friends, I need to learn to deal with it." Maura said as Catherine came and sat next to Jane.
"What we talking about?" Catherine asked as she sat down.
"About Maura here not believing in gays." Both Ami and Jane said at the same time.
"Thanks Jamie." Catherine said.
"It was the way I was raised." Maura said defending herself.
"I know I overheard that part."
They all sat in silence for a couple of minutes. Before Maura spoke up.
"So Catherine? How long have you been playing basketball?"
Catherine looked down at the ground closing her eyes, trying to control her emotions, "About 6 years." She said looking back up and looking at Maura.
"Oh, that is a long time."
"Yeah." She said.
The group falls into silence once again. Ami looks around at the group before suggesting, "How we play spin the bottle?"
Everyone looked at her as though she just grew a third head.
"You did here what Maur just said right?" Jane said looking over at her girlfriend.
"We don't have to play it like it is normally played." Ami said
"Then how would we play it?" Maura said smiling a little at her nickname that only Duffy called her.
"Ok" Ami sits more forward. "So when the bottle lands on someone, instead of the person who spun it kiss the person, they ask a question instead."
"What if the person that the bottle lands on does not want to answer the question? Maura asked.
"The person who spun the bottle gets to kiss the person it lands on." Ami said smiling at everyone.
"Oh. What if the person that spun the bottle does not want to kiss the person the bottle landed on?" Maura asked again.
"Then the two other get to make up a question that both of the players, the person that spun it and the person that the bottle landed on. That both of them must answer." Ami said.
"What if…?" Maura started to say but was interrupted by Jane.
"I'm in."
"Me too" Catherine said. Everyone turned to Maura, who was biting her lip thinking.
It took her a couple minutes before she finally gave a tiny nod. "Ok. I'll play."
Catherine stood up and went to go get a bottle for the game. While she was gone Maura looked at Jane and Ami and ask, "Can I ask you guys something?"
"Sure?" Jamie said.
"Why does Catherine get upset when I call her Catherine?"
The two girls look at one another before looking back at Maura.
"It's not something we should be the ones to tell you." Ami said.
"Yeah, it's something she will tell you when she is ready. So for now on call her CC, or Detective, or Cathy" Jane said.
Maura nodded and was about to say something but was interrupted.
"Let's get this party started." Catherine said as she walking in with the bottle.
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