“How on earth do you lose a cruise ship?” Jane complained as she trundled along behind her partner, Maura.

“Well if you had bothered taking the day off of work and making sure you had everything then we wouldn’t be late and lost now!” Maura snapped as she struggled with a huge suitcase.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles had been together for nine and a half years. Like most relationships, they’d had their ups and downs, although for the past 18 months, neither one could recall an ‘up’.
Jane had been promoted to Lieutenant at Boston police department, and while the money meant that she could stop the self-conscious worrying about bills, she was very rarely at home, in fact, she and Maura hadn’t spent more than a half hour in the same bed, at the same time for a year.

Maura had organised this trip, a cruise around some of the lesser known islands in the Indian ocean, as a last ditch attempt to save their relationship. So far, it was the perfect reflection of the past 18 months.
Maura had done everything, all of the planning, organising a dog sitter for Jo Friday, sending Bass off his guardian, booking flights and even booking holiday time from work for both of them. She’d done all the washing, everything she could possibly imagine either herself, or Jane wanting for their trip. All Jane had to do was to pack her own case, a task that should have been completed two days ago.

Jane on the other hand had decided to ‘pop into work’ instead of packing and organising her belongings, a decision that had meant her packing had been left to Maura. Although she complained heartily about this, Maura went ahead and packed her partners case for her.
When Jane eventually got home from work, she erupted in a fit of anger. Maura knew it was just the stresses of work, but she couldn’t help but to retaliate.

In the end, all the packing had been undone as Maura, in her anger threw clothes, both hers and Jane’s out of windows.
By the time both women had calmed down enough to see their mistakes, they had less than an hour until their flight, a flight they obviously missed.