"Jane, please? It would just be for a couple of hours!" Maura said hopelessly to her best friend. "I'm sorry Maur. I have my hands tied!" Jane said with just a sliver of happiness. "I'll just have fun without you." Maura said trying to make her jealous. But it absolutely was not working under any circumstance.

"So I won't be able to attend an event where doctors talk about blood clots and other medical stuff I don't understand? Oh Maura that's not fair!" Jane says sarcastically. She couldn't be more happier.

But Maura just stares at her in resentment and rolls her eyes. "Fine. But I can't go alone. I already RSVP'ed for two! It's too late to change it." She says and let's out a sigh of defeat. "I was really looking forward to your company."

"Not that I don't want to go, actually why lie? I really don't want to go. But look, if you keep inviting me to these things, soon enough people are going to think we're lovers or a couple or something. Do you really want that?" Jane said trying to give Maura another reason why she shouldn't go. She stepped back and replied, "Oh goodness no... No I wouldn't want that. I like men just as much as I like my job."

"Why don't you ask someone else? Someone of the opposite sex. You know, with a penis." Jane said more bluntly than ever. "How am I going to find a guy that would be interested in going?"

Jane struck her a look and Maura suddenly knew who she was thinking about. "Oh no Jane. No that is not happening."

Doctor Kent Drake.

"Beggars cannot be choosers Maura. Besides, the man can clean up. Have you seen him in a suite? Hot damn!" Jane began to get hot just thinking about him. "But he's... He's not my type." She said trying to be nice about why she didn't want to go with him. "He is totally your type. He works in the medical field. You can talk his ear off with endless medical babble! And before you go correcting me, "talk his ear off" is a figure of speech. I am well aware that the thought is actually not possible."

Maura gave a smile because her best friend knew her down to the last detail. "Kent is off limits. Okay?"

"Well okay but what other guy would be free willing to go with you?" She said not realizing how rude she sounded. But she didn't regret it because it was the truth! What guy, who wasn't working in the medical field at all, would want to go to an event like this? "I didn't know you felt that way..." Maura replied in a very hurtful tone. "I just won't take you to events anymore."

"Fine by me..." Jane said, attempting in a whisper. Sadly, it wasn't at all the volume of a whisper. It was clearly audible to everyone in the room. Disregarding Jane's attitude, Maura turned around and walked away from the detective's floor and headed straight to the elevators.

"Find someone else. I can't find someone else on short notice." She said to herself as she pressed the down button for the elevator.

"Find someone for what?" Said a familiar voice behind her. But she couldn't tell who it was. Please don't be Kent... Please don't be Kent... Was all Maura was thinking about before she turned to look to see who the voice came from.

"Oh! Frankie, it's you." She said sounding more than relieved for it to be him. "It's just this ball for medical examiner's tomorrow night. I did ask to Jane to join me but she has her hands tied with Angela. Also, she just really doesn't want to go. I don't understand why, the topic of cardiovascular-"

"No offense, not that I'd love to hear the end of that sentence, but I think I already know why she doesn't want to go." Maura knew as well. Jane just wasn't interested. But she wish she could find someone who was.

"Yes, I know. She's more interested in guns and I'm more interested in knives. Nothing I haven't heard before. I just wish we had the same interests! It's hard being friends with someone who doesn't want to hear anything medical. Even when it revolves around a case." She said in a sigh of defeat as she got into the elevator.

Following her into the elevator, he tried giving her another suggestion, "What about Susie? She's a medical examiner too. It'd be hard to believe that she wouldn't-"

"Wouldn't want to go? Yeah believe me I tried. We were supposed to go together but something came up and now she can't go. Family crisis." Now Frankie felt even more bad for her. It reminded him of middle school when no one wanted to sit with the geeky girl. Except this was an event and no one wanted to go with her. Kind of like prom.

"I really don't want to go... But Maura clearly does not want to go alone." He thought to himself. "I need to start doing things for other people. Why not start now?"

"I guess I could-" But he was interrupted by the sound of the elevator doors opening to his floor. "I could go with you if you really can't find anyone." He regretted saying it as soon as it came out. Hours of endless medical babble that he didn't really understand.

He stepped out, hoping that that would be the end of the conversation. But he felt a hand rest on his back. "You would really do that for me?" He turned around to face Maura and saw that she let the elevator go down without her. Looking at him in a hopeful way.

"Uh... Yeah! Yeah I'll go."

In that moment, he saw her face light up in pure joy. He knew he was doing a good deed even though he really did not want to attend. "Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me Frankie." She said as she gave him a hug. "You won't regret it." She whispered into his ear. He just laughed as he thought, 'We'll see about that.'

"What time should I pick you up?" He asked trying to hide his true emotions about the event. "Well it starts at 8 o'clock so maybe 7:30."

"And I'm assuming it's black-tie?" His assumption made Maura smile. He already knew. She nodded her head and said, "Yes it is. You'll look great." She said trying to motivate her as she pressed the elevator button to go down, yet again.

"Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow at 7:30." Just then, the elevator doors opened and Maura stepped in. "See you then." She said right before the doors closed, parting their ways.