I will always be your broken hearted savior

(Lol, a perfect illustration of Millennial (Frost) vs GenX/Boomer (Jane/Korsak) workplace culture.)

"Because we're studs!"

*roar*

Is just fucking adorable. Korsak being besties with Jane is the best.

Love Jane/Korsak ganging up on Frost, Korsak/Frost ganging up on Jane, and Jane/Frost ganging up on Korsak. It's all amazing.

"Yeah, of me I hope!"

Protective Jane is sooooooooo much.

"Don't get too attached. He's not gonna live with us."

"Us? I like the sound of that."

Jane comes out wearing an oversized men's dress shirt that a) is too big for Casey? And b) we have never seen Casey wear a dress shirt since he was in uniform in the first ep of season 2. And also those frilly little booty shorts??? Like wow, let's try to pretend she is Straight Straight Straight, right guys?

Also, why are all of Jane's relationships so juvenile? Casey is her "boyfriend" and she is all giggly and weird. Martinez is very high school, pigtails pulling.

"a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"

“We always said that we need to do something outside of a crime scene. This is a crime scene.”

Maura was a little surprised that the restaurant had agreed to allow them on the patio with the way Jane looked after her ordeal, but she realized that was likely a product of her tendency to patronize restaurants with a stricter dress code. The only condition the hostess presented them was she had insisted, understandable, that the dog be leashed. Luckily, there was a pet store on the same block, and Jane had left Maura to secure a table while she ducked over to the shop. 

From her seat on the patio, Maura watched as Jane crossed the street, a flurry of curly hair and multi-tasking. Jo Friday was tucked under one arm, while a brand new leash was gripped in her free hand. Jane was simultaneously checking traffic in both directions while using her teeth to rip off the cardboard packaging that the leash was attached to, and by the time she made it all the way across the four lanes of the road, she had the lead clipped to Jo Friday’s collar and the dog back on the ground. She quickly spotted Maura on the patio and headed towards her. 

There was a Bloody Mary ready and waiting for Jane at their table, and she eyed it gratefully as she flopped down gracelessly in the seat across from Maura. 

“Phew. Thanks.” Jane shifted around the seat in an attempt to get comfortable. While she was tall for a woman, it’s not like her height was unusual for humanity at large, yet she somehow managed to look like there was way too much of her for the space. She stuck one leg straight out into Maura’s side of the table and stretched her arm across the back of the chair next to her. For a brief moment, Jane’s leg was pressed against Maura’s, but then it flopped outward as Jane relaxed her whole body. 

“Well this is nice,” Jane said. Her tone was a little sardonic but her intent, at least in Maura’s estimation, was sincere. She glanced down at Jo Friday, who had settled quite quickly beneath their table, then reached for her drink. Jane held it in the air after lifting it and it took Maura a second longer than it should have to figure out she was waiting for Maura to cheers. 

Maura clinked their glasses together. “To another solve?” 

“To the FBI leaving,” Jane suggested instead. 

Maura arched one brow as both women took a sip of their drinks. 

“You’re not disappointed to see Agent Dean leave?” Maura asked. She placed her drink back down and dragged a finger along the rim of her drink before bringing some of the celery salt she’d collected to her mouth. 

“Why, are you?” Jane retorted. 

Maura sucked her finger clean and rolled her eyes. “I wasn’t interested in Agent Dean. He just seemed like the kind of man someone ought to be interested in.” 

“Right now I’m only interested in this Bloody Mary,” Jane said.

Maura did her best not to look disappointed. She’d hoped the remark might cause Jane to open up about her personal life, but she’d deflected as usual. They spent so much time together at work but Maura felt like she hardly knew the first thing about her. Maura gave her a long look. 

“You called me your best friend earlier this week.”

“Did I?” Jane said mildly. 

“Yes. Well. You implied it. You asked me if I’ve ever liked the same guy as my best friend.”

“Maybe I was just making conversation.” Jane took a sip of her drink, her expression inscrutable. Maura suddenly felt unsure. 

“Were you?”

“No.”

“You consider me your best friend?”

“Yes.”

Maura eyed her distrustfully. That felt too easy. “This is the first time we’ve spent time together outside of work.”

“We had a sleepover just this week,” Jane said. 

Maura screwed her lips up to keep a smirk off her face. “Fine, the first time we’ve spent time together outside of work, apart from that time a serial killer was after you and your mother drove you out of your own apartment.”

“What’s your point?”

“Don’t you think it’s unusual that we’re best friends who have never hung out away from work?”

“So I’m your best friend too?”

She was her only friend, Maura thought. But she wasn’t going to say that out loud.  

“You are.”

RIP Glen Hansard

We're writing a collaborative Rizzles fic, set in an AU where Maura works for a phone sex agency. And Jane? Jane is starting to realise that she's got homosexual confusing thoughts and feelings and wants to ask someone all the questions she's been suppressing for years.

will you talk to me (will you talk dirty back)

Chapter 1: "call me any day or night"

Xena and Gabrielle - First half of season 6 pt. 1

Well the thing that is so stupid about this stupid fucking show is that there are a dozen episodes that could conceivably and believably end with them kissing. The format of this show and their relationship is precisely the same as that of a show with a male and female protagonist who are eventually going to get together. Besides the fact that one of them isn’t a man, what distinguishes their relationship from the one in Bones? Castle? The Mentalist? The X-Files? Nothing! If anything they’re even more intertwined than some of those pairings.

But to actually answer your question, the most narratively correct and impactful moment for them to realize their feelings for each other is after the infirmary. All the parts are there. It’s a conclusion to the story arc we are introduced to in the very first episode, the same villain that brings Jane to Maura’s doorstep for the first time, and who we have been told now for one and a half seasons likes to rape the wife before he kills the husband, and then he tells Jane he’s going to finish what he started but oh, not before he assaults Maura. GOD WHAT COULD THAT POSSIBLY MEAN. You can of course read my take on what would happen in The Other Side of This Wide Night.