”Hey Maur.” Jane held her hand up to silence Rondo but the daft grin that had adorned her face for the past 20 minutes remained. ”Oh, they put you on call for our anniversary?” the faux sympathy in her voice went unnoticed by the M.E. ”What?” For a week, Jane had practised sounding angry at the news she would know she would hear from her girlfriend. ”I’m on nights?” She slapped her hand over her mouth as giggles rose. ”OK Maur.” Jane bit her lip hard enough to leave an impression. ”I gotta go.” She clicked the phone off and set it down, her eyes suddenly hard as they met Rondo’s. ”Now.” she smiled up at him but there was no warmth in the action. ”Are you going to let her down or not?”

June 5th. Jane and Maura’s 1 year anniversary.

Maura sat at her kitchen table and poked at her Chinese take out with her chopsticks. Jane had been called out to follow up a lead on a suspect and she was bored. This wasn’t how she’d hoped their one year anniversary would go.

Summertime in Boston was one of her favourites. They’d taken many a walk along the Charles, hand in hand as they watched the sunset after spending the day picnicking in the park. Lost in the reverie, she almost didn’t hear her cell phone buzzing on the counter. Maura glanced at the clock as she made her way to the phone. 8pm. It was going to be a long night.

”Isles?”

”Hey Maura.” Detective Frost’s voice replied, ”We need you at West 57th and Vine.”

”I’ll be there in fifteen minutes detective.” Maura sighed as she cancelled the call. She collected together the containers of food and hid them carefully in the microwave. Since Jane had moved in almost 5 months ago, Maura had become a lot more aware of putting food away to cool rather than leaving it on the side. An incident with Jo Friday and Jane’s birthday cake had been the catalyst to her caution.

Looking around quickly, she picked up her bag an scratched Jo’s head before leaving the house.

”OK Jane, you have fifteen minutes.” Frost looked around the rooftop and felt his heart contract. Jane had worked hard to make this evening perfect. From having him construct a fake email to Maura telling her they’d both have to work so she wouldn’t plan something to this…