Hi ladies. It's been a while. Sorry. Well you can thank my cat for this update. Not that she wrote it (which would be awesome), more that she woke me at 5AM. Anywho, hope you like it. As ever I own nothing.

"Maura!"

Oh god, here we go...

"Roger, hi."

Jane felt Maura's curves being taken into an almost vice like grip as Maura's head was crushed against the perfectly sculpted pectorals. Ones she was certain Maura had enjoyed the feel of while the two of them had sex.

"God I've missed you."

Evidently.

"Here, let me look at you."

She felt again as Maura's petite frame was moved by Roger's strong hands. This time at arms' length.

"Fabulous. But you look different.."

"New face cream."

Jane felt the prickle of Maura's skin as her lie flushed the soft bosom on display.

"Hm. Here, sit, sit. I ordered wine and I went ahead and ordered for you."

Thank god they weren't in a French restaurant otherwise it would have been snails and frogs' legs.

"So, how have you been?"

"Good. Busy."

Neither were a lie so she felt Maura's beautiful chest return to normal, although she considered placing a hand there just to check. Quit it Rizzoli!

"I can imagine darling."

Jane observed Roger as he filled their wine glasses. There was something about him that she couldn't place. Something that Jane felt was important.

"Being the Chief Medical Examiner at such a young age is an achievement. They are lucky to have you. Speaking of which..."

"Good afternoon madam, your starter."

Jane watched as a plate with three tiny mouthfuls of food were placed in front of them both. She raised Maura's head towards the waiter and willed Maura's soft lips into a smile.

"Thank you."

She would have to call into the Robber and have a burger, she could tell this meal was not going to be big on sustenance.

"You're welcome. Sir. I hope you have everything you need. If you don't please let me know."

Jane watched as the young waiter winked at Roger before walking away, with Roger's eyes trained to his behind.

"Exquisite!"

Jane felt as if she had been hit by a ton of bricks and failed to stop the words as Maura's think it, say it, just came right out before she could stop it.

"You're you're gay."

Roger barked a laugh at her.

"Oh darling, you are saying that like it is a surprise and not something you have known since you caught Professor Smith and I going at it bareback in the lab."

"No, I.. I..."

Jane grabbed the wine glass and proceeded to drain the entire contents of the glass before laughing.

"What are you laughing at?"

"No, nothing, I... Oh god, I was so worried about this but... You're gay. That's awesome."

"You are being very odd today Maura. Does this have something to do with Jane?"

Jane widened the look of Maura's eyes as she picked up the wine bottle topping up her glass before again drinking and re-filling the contents.

"Nnnoooo... Why would it have something to do with Jane?"

Roger regarded his oldest friend closely. She was behaving very oddly, even for Maura.

"Purlease! Everything is to do with Jane. I don't know why you don't just come out and tell her."

"And tell her what?"

"God, for a genius sometimes you are really slow. That you are now and always have been head over heels in love with her."

"What?!"

"Woah, Maura, careful, you know what you get like when you drink white wine."

Jane's mind was reeling. Well Maura's was. This was brand new information! Very welcome but very very new. Maura was in love with her. She reciprocated her feelings. All this time. All of those looks, the touches, the one-nightstands that were evidently just to ward off the common cold. She wanted Jane. She felt the same way. She had to check she wasn't dreaming.

"Roger, I need you to explain to me what you mean. Clearly."

"Is this some kind of test? You my darling are in love with your best friend, one clueless Detective."

On any other day Jane would have punched Roger for that comment, but as the gravity and implications of his words soaked in she knew he was right. She was clueless. Completely clueless. She wondered then if Maura had always been flirting with her and of course, she had been. All of the tine she tilted her head and fluttered her eyelashes. Oh god, how could she have been so stupid! She was a Detective for christssake! One of Boston's finest and yet she missed this! Might as well start calling her Inspector Clouseau.

"Why didn't she say something?"

The words were to herself but could have been for either of them.

Roger placed his hands on top of Maura's smaller delicate, skilled hands and spoke softly.

"The same reason as you my darling. She was scarred of losing you. Yet if you both woke up and smelled the coffee you two would be married with ten kids by now. Or at least having some decent sex for a change."

Oh god, sex with Maura. There is a very strong possibility that they would. You know. More wine.

"She loves me."

The realisation set it.

"Yes Maur, she does."

"Roger, I've got to go."

"Oh, ok. Is it work?"

"It's something that can't wait, well not any longer anyway."

"Ok, well here, let me call you a cab, you can't drive, you've had too much wine."

Jane nodded, still trying to process everything. Figuring out what she was going to do when she got to Maura's.

She stood and hugged Roger.

"Thank you."

"What for?"

"For being a friend."

"Of course darling. I'll see you again before I leave anyway. Now where is that waiter? One of us at least needs to get some."

Jane walked out into the fresh air, towards her cab. She loved her. Maura loved her. They felt the same way. The cab ride to Maura's seemed to take forever. Jane grabbed a twenty and gave it to the driver. She walked up the path and held the door handle. The earlier buzz from the wine had gone as the clarity set in and she felt suddenly clear. She knew what she had to do. She turned the handle and stepped into Maura's home. It was time to make Maura hers.

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