A/N: Dear readers. My apologies for the delay in updates. Please accept this steamy final chapter as a 'thank you' for hanging in there! Any thoughts/comments are always welcome!
A few days had passed and Sarah had left town. Jane still couldn't shake the images she'd had of Maura naked let alone that dream but she still hadn't made a move. As much as she wanted to, she was terrified.
She'd gone for a run before work to clear her mind and almost tripped over her feet when she caught Riley and Kate making out in Riley's car. Fortunately for Jane, neither woman saw her as she turned and quickly ran the other way. 'Crap! Now I have have that to deal with? What the hell am I gonna do? I can't not tell Maura...'
Jane had gotten back to her place sooner than planned since she'd had to turn back. She took Jo out to go to the bathroom.
"Hey Jane," an older Vietnamese man with thinning hair and a crooked smile called out.
"Hey, Mr. Montoya. How's the shop going?" She asked, making polite conversation.
He kept smiling. "It's going well, thank you. Remember? You need some apples? They're on the house."
"Let me know if it's free beer and I'm there," she said with a smile as she kept walking with Jo, leaving the man to chuckle.
When Jo was finished, Jane headed back home with her. She looked at the clock. Just enough time to get a shower before heading to work. In fact, if she didn't wash her hair, she'd have time to run to Boston Joe's for coffee which sounded like a good plan to her.
She'd made sure to grab a cup for Maura as well. As Jane got closer to the precinct, the whole Riley/Kate situation gnawed at her again. She knew she'd have to tell Maura, just when? Maybe Maura already knew? No, no. That isn't likely.
When she got in, her first stop was to Maura's office. She knocked on the door that was ajar. "Hey, I've got something for you," she smiled, holding the cup out.
"Oh," Maura looked up, a surprised smile on her face. "Good morning, Jane. Thank you," she took the coffee from her friend. "How was your night?"
Jane thought of what to say. "My night was okay. Quiet. Watched the game and had a few beers. My morning was pretty interesting. You?"
Maura knew Jane mentioning the morning meant there was a story but work wasn't the place. "My evening was fine," she nodded. "There were several documentaries piled up on my DVR."
"Anything any good?" Jane asked after she took a sip of her coffee.
"Good in terms of informatively in depth or good in terms of entertainment value?" Maura asked.
Jane couldn't help but chuckle and shake her head. "Did you have a nice evening in general, Maur?"
"It was fine. Caitlin dropped by with the girls. Ryan is into birds as of late. Max discussed her favorite movie, Frozen? We've got a movie date to watch it soon," she smiled.
Jane looked at her friend, jaw dropping. "You've not seen Frozen? Seriously? Maura, it's been the biggest movie these past few years."
Maura furrowed her brow. "I've been very busy, Jane. And any time I've dropped by Caitlin's, it wasn't on. Or they'd turn it off and we'd all talk."
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry. I'm glad you get to see it with the girls though. I better go check in with Korsak and Riley. Uh, speaking of Riley, any new developments in your friendship?" She asked trying to gain more information.
"She's been out with Caitlin a lot recently. She asked if I wanted to do drinks Friday. In fact, I'm sure she wouldn't mind you being there?" Maura suggested.
Jane thought for a moment. "Dirty Robber?"
"Yes," Maura nodded before taking a sip of coffee. "A foursome is more balanced."
A jolt ran through Jane at the naughtier implications of what her friend had just said. "Uh, okay. Sure. We'll talk later?"
Maura nodded and smiled as her friend headed up to see Korsak and Riley.
"Still no new cases?" Jane asked Korsak as she got to her desk.
The older Sergeant shook his head. "Nope. Still combing cold cases for now. As antsy as being at your desk makes you, it does mean less bodies are turning up which is good, Jane." He pointed out.
"I know, I know. I just really hate desk work. You know that," Jane said with an exasperated sigh. "I'll get on it." She sat at her desk and opened a file box.
Just as she'd gotten into a new file, Riley finally came in, an extra coffee in her extended hand. "Sorry I'm late. I ran into someone unexpectedly. Thought an Olive Branch would help?" She offered the coffee to Jane.
Grudgingly the raven-haired detective took the coffee. As her mind fully processed what Riley just said, the scene with Kate flashed in her mind and she felt slightly ill. "Uh, smart move. We're looking over Hartman case."
"Wasn't that thought to be a gang turf war deal gone bad? Shot the wrong person?" She asked before taking a sip of her own beverage.
Jane nodded. "It was. Pike was the M.E. Maura wasn't working here yet. I just don't fully trust his findings, ever."
"Smart move," Riley nodded. "Okay, two heads deal on it or do you want to work that alone and I'll take another box?"
"Have a seat, Cooper," Jane pointed to the other chair at her desk.
Riley nodded and took a seat. She reached in and pulled out a file and began reading through. "Looks like pretty standard stuff, Jane. Financials were normal. He was CPA."
"He lived on the Gold Coast yet he stops in Roxbury to get tampons for his wife?" Jane made her 'I don't think so' face.
"Maybe his wife had asked and on his way home, he remembered and just happened to pick the closest pharmacy to run into," Riley offered.
"I'd have thought that too except if you look at his calls, the last call he made out was to his wife. She knew the route he'd take in and out of the city. Knew he'd be driving through Roxbury on the way home. I think you and I should head over and check it out. If it was spill over from gang activity, other people would have been hit. We can drop the file off with Maura on the way out to have her take look at the autopsy report." Jane stated as she stood, grabbing her blazer off the back of her chair.
Riley nodded as she followed Jane's lead and got up. "You're really thinking it was a setup? Nevermind, don't answer that. Even I heard how silling that sounded after it came out," she waved her hand.
They got to the morgue and Jane knocked on Maura's door which was a bit out of character for her. "Come in," Maura said, her voice chipper and unassuming.
"Hey Maura? We're still riding cold cases for now. Caught one before you came on board. Pike was the M.E. on it? I would feel much more confident if I could have you go over the findings?" Jane asked.
After the shock wore off that the person to knock was her friend, Maura's eyes narrowed for a moment as she thought over the request. "Generally it's very unprofessional to reasses another doctor's work. However, given the examiner, I can look over the autopsy," she nodded and took the file from Jane.
"Great, thanks Maura. We've gotta head out to the Gold Coast, track down the wife. We'll drop in when we're back."
Maura smiled. "No problem, Jane. Oh! Riley? I invited Jane to our drinks this Friday. Was that alright?"
As much as Riley wanted to say it wasn't, she forced herself to lie. "Hey, that's cool. We're all friends, right? No problem at all, Maura."
With that the medical examiner smiled and nodded. "I'll get on this report immediately."
The detectives headed out after verifying their victim's wife still lived on Hurst street and was available to speak.
"I'm unsure why you're here, Detectives," stated the shorter blonde woman as she answered the door.
"We're looking through cold cases at the moment and came on your former husband's case," Jane responded for the two. "I'm Detective Rizzoli. This is Detective Cooper. We just need to go over some information with you? We realize it's been a few years so some memories might be a little fuzzy."
Amanda nodded and let the women in and motioned to the couch.
Jane pulled out her notepad with questions she'd already written. "On the day your husband was shot, he'd stopped at Fleishman's to grab tampons for you?"
"Yes. I'd called him because I knew he'd be heading home. I was in the middle of fixing dinner. My period came earlier than expected and I only had one on hand."
As the woman replied, Jane made note of everything. The body language didn't display loss. Any photographs of him had long been taken down. "Was it typical for him to stop in that part of town?"
"I-I don't recall it being so, detective. I'm sure it's in the file? I must have been asked at the time." She pointed out.
Jane nodded. "It was. At the time you'd said it wasn't a typical stop for him. At the time, our crime log shows there was actually a decrease in gun violence."
"I don't know what that has to do with anything," the woman slightly flinched as Jane relayed the information.
"Just suggesting the months leading up to and subsequently following that one shooting, were actually quiet. Was there anyone you could think of that had any motive to hurt your husband? Anyone who stood to gain by his death? Apart from yourself, that is."
The woman's demeanor became more agitated as Jane was making the case against her. "Unless I'm under suspicion for something, I really think you need to leave, detectives. Unless you're able to arrest me, which obviously you're not," she noted as she stood and headed towards the door.
Jane nodded and got up to leave. "That's fine, Mrs - Ms. Reynolds. I'm sure we'll see you again soon."
When they got back to the car Riley looked at Jane. "Did you totally just lay out our case to her on purpose?"
"Of course. I had a gut feeling she'd set something up. Her reactions in there proved the case to me. Now we just have to get enough actual evidence, not just circumstantial. Unfortunately the idiots that handled the case initially wrote it off as a gang shooting. We'll need to track down - gah," Jane winced. "Crowe," she rolled her eyes.
"The epitome of genius detectives," Riley noted. "He really seems like he has an issue with you. Care to share?"
Jane shrugged. "I figure it must be because I was the youngest officer to make Homicide Detective as well as being a female."
"I can see that," Riley nodded as Jane drove. "He's such a chauvinistic asshole."
Part of Jane wanted to let what she'd seen earlier go and not bring it up, but the moral side of her wouldn't let it be. "Uh, I saw who you ran into earlier. I was on my jog…"
If it was possible, the latin detective seemed to turn seven shades of white. "I-I…" she sputtered.
"I haven't told Maura anything. She's a married woman, Riley. And you're friends with her sister now! What the hell are you thinking?" Jane shot a death-glare to her partner.
"I was thinking at first it was just harmless fun. She looks exactly like Maura so yes, I'm a snake, I know that. At first it was just sex. But...it became so much more. I love Kate for Kate. I told her the truth about only being with her at first because of the resemblance. She...said she kind of did the same thing so we were even. She's going to leave her husband."
Jane felt like she couldn't fully process every detail of Riley's confession. From lusting after Maura, well, admitting to something Jane already knew, to Kate doing the same? Whatever that meant. "I know I shouldn't judge and I do hope everyone's happy. I'm sure her husband won't be. I just can't help thinking that there are kids involved. Your friend is involved. It's like you two have made this big mess without concern for the fallout."
Riley looked out the window. "I know. I'll talk to Kate about telling Maura? It shouldn't have happened, we get that. But I won't lie and say I regret it. For the first time in my life I truly love someone else. I thought I did before, but that wasn't love. I've told Kate if she wanted me to leave I'd do that. I'd lay down my life for her. I know how it came about was so incredibly wrong. But what's coming from it? That will be more than right."
The remainder of the ride both women were silent. For Jane's part, the silence was more surprised mixed with an undercurrent of jealousy. Here were two women she knew, or thought she knew, being happy together when clearly they shouldn't be. But Maura? Herself? They were both single. Crossing lines wouldn't be as taboo. Yet, she was so scared to. Scared to say the words, cross the lines.
"Should we head to find Maura before talking to Crowe? I think we'd both be happier putting that off as long as possible," Riley added as Jane finished parking.
"Yeah, that sounds best." She replied as they got out and headed inside.
When Friday rolled around, Jane and Riley had wrapped the Gold Coast case along with a fresh homicide that had come in. At lunch Maura had asked Jane if she could head over to the Dirty Robber in her car, which she'd agreed.
"Can we wait a moment, Jane? There's something I have to tell you." Maura stated gently when Jane had gotten to her office that evening.
The detective looked slightly concerned. "Sure, Maur. What's up?" She asked as she took a seat.
Maura bit her lip nervously. "I feel like I shouldn't be speaking on Caitlin's life, but you're my best friend." She started.
Jane nodded. "It's okay, Maura. What's wrong?" She gently encouraged.
"Remember how I'd told you she'd expressed feelings for a woman lately?" Jane's nod was all Maura needed to continue. "Well, it seems she's acted on her desires, though not with the original object of her affections."
Jane thought for a moment. This was now the second time some mystery woman was coming up in so many days. "Okay. So you're sister is cheating on her husband? How does that make you feel?"
"I don't know. Morally I understand I should some sort of righteous indignation about the 'sanctity of marriage' and so on. But, I've seen what she's going through. Yes, there are other routes to rectify a broken marriage and I'm not trying to defend her. I just understand there are a myriad of reasons partners cheat. It's not a black and white area to me," Maura explained. "And well, the woman she's seeing? It's Riley. And on some level? Part of me feels strange a friend is sleeping with my sister and I don't know why. I have analyzed it for hours and still don't have a reason."
'Because she started out screwing her because she wanted you?' Jane thought to herself. "There could be a lot of reasons. I know it's dumb to ask but could you be jealous because you wish Riley was sleeping with you?" A slightly sick feeling ran through Jane as the last word trickled out.
"No!" Maura shook her head. "I mean, she's an attractive, intelligent woman. I just don't see her like that. That's what's not making sense, I think."
"Are you jealous because while Caitlin isn't supposed to go after anyone else because she's married, she did? And in doing so, she's now happy? Meanwhile, you're able to go for anyone you want but you've not?" Jane looked at Maura gently.
Instead of rushing to answer, Maura really thought over what Jane was saying. "Perhaps," she nodded. "I hadn't honestly gotten to that. That is a very good point," she added as she stood.
As Maura began passing by Jane, Jane reached out her hand for her friend's. "Who do you want, Maura?" Her brown eyes showing a tenderness and a fear she couldn't hide.
Maura's hazel eyes seemed to go more green as she looked at Jane. "You, Jane." Her heart felt like it was pounding in her chest as her truth came out.
Jane stood, still holding Maura's hand. She dipped her head down, capturing Maura's lips with her own.
The collision of soft to soft was an electrifying jolt. It had been years since Maura had been with a woman but the fact it was also Jane made it all the more delicious.
"I-I don't think we're gonna make it to the Robber," Jane said raggedly as the heated kiss broke.
Maura smiled as she grabbed her purse. "I think we'd better get to my place. It's closer than yours," she noted.
"Perfect idea, Dr. Isles," Jane grinned as she grabbed her keys.
Seeing Angela's car not in the driveway, both women rushed inside, practically ripping off each other's clothes as they went. Passionate kisses and caresses kept fueling an already combustible fire as they climbed the stairs to Maura's bedroom. "I've wanted you for so long," Maura moaned. "I-I didn't think you'd think of me like this."
"Oh god, Maura. How can I not? You're gorgeous, smart, wonderful. I-I didn't think you liked women. But? We are so making up for all of that," she grinned as she gently pushed Maura back on her bed. She slid her arms underneath Maura's back to unhook her bra. "Fuck," she breathily said as Maura's breasts came into view.
Maura blushed deeply. "It's much more enjoyable for us both if you do more than look, Jane," she teasingly pointed out.
Jane grinned. "Oh trust me, Dr. Isles. I'll do far more than look," she winked as she kissed her now-lover once again before trailing kisses down Maura's neck and across her breasts.
Maura moaned and writhed with Jane's kisses. "Oooooh, you're incredible."
She continued kissing over Maura's breasts as she reached, undoing her own bra. She went from tenderly sucking Maura's right nipple to excitedly biting when she felt Maura's hands cup her breasts.
"Mmm how'd you know I liked a little pain? Are you just that good of a detective?" Maura purred as she let her fingers tug and tweak Jane's nipples.
Instead of releasing the clamped bud, Jane nodded, tugging Maura's breast by the nipple as she did so. Sensing the need, she moved her head doing the same to Maura's left nipple.
"Oooh fucccck, Jane. You've got me so wet. Please? Please? I haven't had a good lover in years! I need you," Maura begged.
Knowing her friend couldn't lie, Jane quickly made her way down, slipping Maura's skirt and pantie's down. She hungrily buried her face between Maura's folds and let her tongue go to work. Skillfully she licked and swirled before easing two slender fingers deeply inside, She felt Maura's inner walls contract on her fingers so she knew Maura was close.
"Ooooh there! Fuck please! Jane? Please fuck me," Maura begged.
With that Jane added a third finger, working them in and out as she latched her mouth around Maura's stiff, throbbing clit. In no time Maura was screaming Jane's name and thrashing on the bed. Just as it seemed to subside, Jane started again. She would not stop at just one orgasm.
After her fifth orgasm in a row, Maura whimpered and gently begged Jane to stop. She needed to give what she'd gotten and then some.
Jane laid on her side next to Maura and kissed her softly. "I think this kind of crosses just a 'friends' line," she pointed out.
Maura smiled, kissing back and drawing her index finger up Jane's arm. "I think you're right," she nodded. "And this?" She said before gently flipping Jane onto her back and pinning her on the bed, "Is going to go farther," she said with a grin before leaning down and kissing Jane deeply.
Jane moaned, returning the kiss. "So you're a top?" She teased. "I could like that. I love the view," she said before trying to move her hands to cup Maura's breasts again.
"Mmm I am on top at the moment but," she gripped Jane's wrists gently. "These? Stay under your head. No moving them or I stop," Maura stated, a slight sternness to her voice.
Jane couldn't help but get an excited chill. She couldn't remember the last woman she'd ever let be dominant with her except Sarah and even then she was seeing her as Maura. "I understand," she replied as she laced her fingers together behind her head.
"Good. I would really hate to stop," Maura said before she began kissing over Jane's naked body. She spent time licking and teasing Jane's nipples, nipping over taught abs and swirling her tongue around Jane's naval before pushing her pants and panties down. "Mmm you're incredibly wet, Jane. Is there any reason for that?" She teased.
"Mmm well? I made love to my dream girl who tasted like Heaven and couldn't help but get around," she pointed out. "Now as you see? I'm very in need myself if you don't mind."
Maura smiled, noting Jane's hands were still behind her head before she kissed up Jane's right inner thigh. Not wanting to ruin the mood to ask if Jane liked toys and not really wanting accesories their first time, Maura leaned her head into Jane's wetness. She hummed against Jane's clit and felt Jane's thighs tense at the pleasure.
"Oooooh god, Maura," Jane panted as Maura made love to her. The woman was doing things to her body Jane had never felt before.
Maura smiled to herself before dipping her tongue deep inside Jane. She loved the way her friend felt and tasted. Again Maura moved her mouth before Jane could get too used to one sensation and seemed to hungrily attack her clit.
"Fucccckkkkkk Maur! There! Don't stop!" Jane pleaded as Maura continued. Her own orgasm had been building as she'd made love to Maura. Now, she was going to explode.
Within second Maura felt and heard Jane orgasm. However, unlike what Jane had done, she didn't give the woman any time to relax. Instead, she inserted three fingers and kept going.
Hours later they laid sweaty and spent in each other's arms. Happy, drunken smiles on their faces. "I love you, Jane. I want this with you. All the time." Maura said softly.
Jane was tracing circles over Maura's back with her index finger as Maura spoke. "I think that'd be perfect," she smiled. "Guess you really are my LLBFF now," she grinned and pulled her lover in for another kiss.