Maura held her hand up and watched the shadow it created dance across Jane's bare skin. The doctor was lying on her back and Jane was snuggled in at her side, her nose buried deep into Maura's golden locks. It was a clear night outside; not a cloud out there to block the stars. Maura could see a patch of sky from her bed as the curtains weren't fully closed and so she imagined how free she would feel to be lying on a tropical beach in the dead of night with Jane at her side and the stars above them.
Just like in the picture that Jane drew on her back. They could sail all day and Jane could teach her to fish and then at night they could lie on the beach before heading back to their beach hut to fall asleep in each other's arms listening to the gentle lapping of waves on the shore. She sighed heavily at the thought, knowing that one day it would happen.
Jane rolled off Maura and arched her back as she groaned. "Maura," she grumbled. "You awake?"
"Yes."
"You're not in any pain, are you?" Jane asked, propping herself up onto her elbow to look at Maura.
"No, I'm fine. I was just thinking."
"About what?"
"Lying on a tropical beach with you."
"Sounds nice."
"Yeah," Maura whispered, her eyes still closed imagining.
"Can we play a game of football on the beach?"
"It's just us Jane; no one else."
"So, that way we can play naked and then go skinny dipping."
"I like that," Maura said as she rolled over to snuggle into Jane. Jane raised up one arm and waited for Maura to be pressed against her before wrapping it around the blonde's shoulders. "If we're lucky, we can do other things in the nude as well."
"I'm sure we could," Jane agreed. "What time is it?" she asked to herself as she tilted her head to look at Maura's bedside clock. It was almost half past four, meaning that the sun would soon rise over the skyscrapers of Boston and discover a newly murdered body. "I'd better stay awake otherwise I'll just get back into a deep sleep."
"And you won't want to get up to go to work."
"Mmhmm," Jane hummed. She closed her eyes as she felt Maura hold onto her tighter, wanting to relish the moments they had left in each other's embrace.
"Do you know who will replace me until I get back?"
"Probably Pike."
"Ugh," Maura sighed. "Poor Susie."
"Poor Susie? What about poor me? I'll have to solve a murder with him in the way."
"I see your point, detective," Maura said, nuzzling back into Jane's neck. She pressed a kiss there and then grazed her fingertips down Jane's side. Jane lifted her knee up as Maura's hand neared her ass and rolled it over to her. She then rolled the rest of her body until she and Maura were entwined. This felt good, she thought. It felt right.
"I love you, Maura."
"I love you, Jane."
The next thing Jane heard was Maura's alarm going off and the birds outside. She groaned as quietly as she could as she slipped out of Maura's hold and slammed the alarm off. She picked up her clothes and crept into the bathroom to have a quick shower and get dressed before sneaking back into the bedroom. She knelt over and kissed Maura's still bruised cheek and pulled the sheet over her legs and torso lest her mother come into wake up the blonde, and made her way downstairs.
She ran into Jo on the way and gave her a good morning cuddle before placing down some food for her and going over to the guest house. She only knocked once before Angela swung the door open. "Hi, Ma," Jane whispered.
"Hi. Okay, so what time do you want me to wake Maura up if she doesn't get up by herself?"
"Well, we went to bed fairly early last night, so she should get up herself within the next hour or so, so if you could make some breakfast for her around then, please?"
"Please? Where did that come from?"
"I always say please," to which Angela gave her daughter a very disbelieving expression. "Okay, I don't always, but can you make her breakfast?"
"Yes, sweetheart. Have a good day," Angela bid before giving Jane a kiss on the cheek and moving back inside.
When Jane got home to her apartment she noticed everything seemed to have a layer of dust on it, so she decided to clean that afternoon, only if work allowed her, of course. She changed into today's clothes and ran her fingers through her hair until her wild mane sat somewhat well. She grabbed her car keys and made sure her gun, badge and phone were on her hips and then marched out the door to work.
Korsak and Frankie were drinking their morning coffee when Jane walked in. Frankie followed his sister to her desk to ask about Maura and Korsak answered his ringing phone. "So, how's she feeling today?"
"She's better. She still hurts, but she can sit up by herself and walk a little faster without her ankles killing her. Ma's taking care of her today."
"We have a murder, you two," Korsak called from his desk before making his way to the elevator. Jane and Frankie followed and jumped into the elevator before Jane's phone rang.
"Ma, what's wrong?"
"Nothing," Angela said on the other end of the line. "Did you feed Jo Friday?"
"Yes, I did, Ma."
"Also, do you want me to go by your place to clean it?"
"No, I can do that. I just don't want Maura to be alone today."
"I know. Have a good day, Janie."
"Okay, love you."
"Love you, too." The elevator doors dinged open and immediately the three detectives were caught in a swarm of other cops and members of the BPD headquarters.
"Whoa, what's going on?"
"That murder we're going to," Korsak started, getting the two Rizzolis attention. "Is right outside."
"Someone murdered someone outside BPD?" Frankie asked with suspicion lacing his words.
"Someone dumped a dead body outside BPD," the senior detective explained.
"Okay, go back to what you were doing. It's not like you haven't seen a murdered person before," Frankie ushered as Jane and Korsak made their way outside.
"Hi, officer; what happened?" Jane asked as a petite young cop stood over the body.
"I'd just arrived and this white van pulled up. They screeched to a stop, so I watched them. They just opened the door and pushed him out," she said, pointing to the body. "Then they were gone."
"Did you catch a plate number?"
"There were plates, but they'd spray-painted over them."
"Okay, thanks, officer." Jane stepped down to Korsak who was crouched near the body. Dr. Pike and Susie soon arrived and Korsak stood back up as the bumbling doctor got to work.
"How's Dr Isles this morning, detective?" Susie asked.
"She's doing a lot better, thank you, Susie." After what seemed like an hour, Pike was able to give them a preliminary cause of death and was also able to state that the body was, in fact, not killed here. "Thank you, Dr Pike," Jane said sarcastically and then moved back into the precinct as CSU moved in. Korsak followed her and pulled her to the side.
"Maura better get well really quickly, do you hear me?" Jane laughed it off, but she knew that she too would lose it if Dr Pike was any more of an imbecile. After lunch, Jane sat down and called Maura.
"Hello, Jane," sung the blonde's perfect voice.
"Hey, babe. How are you feeling?"
"Much better. Angela has been feeding me all day and I think I may pop, although it is physically impossible to actually pop, but-"
"Maura!"
"Sorry. How are you?"
"Someone dumped a body outside BPD this morning."
"Oh, dear."
"And Pike is doing a marvellous job of wasting time. I swear to god if he takes any more time, I will kill him."
"You need to get in line for that, I'm afraid."
"Oh, Dr Isles, I had no idea you had such homicidal tendencies."
"Well, now you do."
"At least he finished the autopsy, but now we're waiting to see if he can get some evidence and stuff to Susie by one o'clock so that she can maybe figure out where this guy was actually killed."
"Well, it sounds like you're having a lot of fun, but Angela has just made me some more food, so, alas, I must go."
"I wanna come home," Jane whined.
"For the food or me?"
"Well, I'm sure we could somehow combine the two. Love you."
"Love you, too," Maura chuckled before hanging up to have her ninth meal of the day.