A collection of unrelated shorts that are less than a thousand words each (short one-shots.) Rating ranges from K-T. Jane/Maura. Mostly soft. Rizzles.

This story explores a world where Maura helps Jane come to the conclusion that she is asexual. And later how Jane and Maura navigate and build a relationship through that focal point. I would categorize this as 'Serious Fluff' – soft, romantic moments with a serious undertone. Not full of drama or angst. COMPLETE.

Sometimes she wished the detective had come into her life another way. Any other way. Now, she has to admit to herself that the terrible thing that linked them together was also the thing that would keep them apart.

The sequel to Tartarus. Jane and Maura-and Frost-set out to discover who and what is behind the catastrophe that changed their world forever. Danger! Conspiracy! Still zombies!

Post series finale. Socks and Seas collaboration. Jane and Maura have landed in Paris. As Maura begins her book, Jane inadvertently begins a journey to self discovery. With a month in France, the true nature of their relationship begins to come into focus and brings answers to questions that both Jane and Maura have eluded over the years.

Dark!Maura AU. Maura Isles is elegant and refined. She throws a spectacular dinner party for the Boston elite. Only the good doctor is not all that she seems. Hidden under the facade is something dark and horrifying and when romance begins to blossom between herself and Jane; Maura finds the security of the walls she surrounds herself with are easily scaled.

Maura gets Jane to relinquish all control to her for just half an hour. What will she do with it? One shot, BDSM theme (no sex).

Maura wants to explore her kinks, and enlists her reluctant best friend to help. Canon compliant through Season 5.

After a long 2 weeks away, Maura knows exactly how to welcome Jane home. (I over-cautiously marked it as "M" but some might find it closer to "T".)

One Shot.

Slight AU. Where Jane can't get over what she did and Maura is at a loss. Will their relationship hold? "Dear Maura...I'm sorry. "Jane. Jane please, put it down." Rated likely to go up for later chapters. WARNING: Character death. Don't jump to conclusions now...

The spirit of Christmas can found in the most unexpected of places and when holiday magic is in play, what you wish for can make all the difference. Winner of Round 5 Best Angst from Rizzles Fanfic Awards. Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted! Now Complete.

Just because something is complicated doesn't mean you should give up. Rizzles. Two-shot. [Based on tumblr prompts.]

A bowl of cereal brings Jane & Maura together. AU. Twenty-something rizzles. [tumblr prompt: last of the cereal]

Jane cried then. Maura rose from her position on the floor, pressed a kiss to two fingers and pressed those fingers to the top of Jane's knee. Waited until Jane rose stiffly, scrubbed her face in the bathroom, changed into pajamas. Sat against the foot of the bed until Jane's breaths rose deep and even. Promised gently. Gently, gently gently to the quiet. Post-Hoyt Pre-1x01 PTSD.

"Do you think about me?" Jane dared. Maura released a troubled breath. "Of course I think about you. You're the mother of my child." TWO SHOT.

Drabbling in ficlets and headcanons...ongoing.

Dr. Isles is brought to BPD while Detective Rizzoli is on leave, mourning the death of her husband. On her return, Jane is barely a shadow of the charismatic, fun-loving person Maura had heard so much about. Everybody assumes they know why this is. Maura becomes the first to learn all the reasons why, and is the first one who truly gets Jane Rizzoli. *TEMPORARILY discontinued :(

The heart and the soul always know where they belong even if it takes the mind longer to recognize the fit.

"No husbands. No dating. Just you and I." Jane and Maura agree to commit to each other. Somehow, they've fallen in love, they tell everyone. And nobody can ever know they're settling for each other just to put an end to loneliness. On this, they agree. Behind closed doors, they'll just be best friends. Together, but just best friends. But what happens when that line begins to blur?

You could say the story began with a pretend prostitute and an over-zealous philanthropist. (In effect, maybe it did.) But the turning point wasn't until much later.

Maura makes a deal. Warning: Deals with religious beliefs in an unconventional way. Warning: Does not end happily. No character death

After breaking up with Casey, Jane takes off to Ethiopia to find Maura with nothing but a toothbrush, a book bag and the clothes on her back. Based on a feltknickers headcanon. Complete

A simple story about love. Part and continuation of the S4 finale designed to give another two minutes of what happened next. Rizzles.

At first, they were all things that could be reasoned away. If she squinted and didn't put too much effort into the logic.

Anon and Follower prompts from my blog on Tumblr. These are short one-shots comprised of unfinished situations and general prompts left in my ask pertaining to our lovely Rizzles. Ratings range from K-M.

Maura goes to a conference and meets the man of her dreams. It tears Jane apart, and she leaves to take a position in another city. After being severely injured in an accident, Jane comes back to Boston, and finds out things are not how she left them. Rizzles Fan Awards WINNER! - Best Plot and Best Author! Runner up- Best Angst/Drama!

It starts with a question. Maura takes a sip of her wine, stares ahead and doesn't look anywhere else. Like she'll find whatever she's looking for, whatever reassurance she needs in the coffee table. / One-shot. Originally posted to tumblr. Has sort-of spoilers for the last few episodes of season four but they're tiny, and not really the focus of the story. Rizzles.

There was one little thing that Maura always did. Jane never seemed to notice what that little thing was until today. Rizzles Fluff.

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -Grayson

Jane and Korsak are on a mission...and Murray Goldstein has to sweat it out. A very short, funny little one-shot, with a neat little twist. Silly, but it's fun!

'She is everything your world isn't when she's not in it'. A one shot, giving an insight into Jane's view of what Maura's love really means, and how it can heal even the most broken of spirits. * A companion piece to Breadcrumbs, so please read that as well* Not my usual fluffy nonsense, but it camped out in my head until I wrote it.

There is nothing simple about leaving a baby on a doorstep in Beacon Hill.

Originally posted to Tumblr. Major, major fluff. Established relationship (married Rizzles) so a bit (a lot?) AU in that regard. In second person point of view. One-shot.

Texts From Maura prompt: Proposal fluff to make your heart explode with cuddly Rizzles feels. Jane proposes. Maura proposes. Adorableness all around.

Maura returns from a trip overseas with a traumatic secret that she's terrified of revealing even to Jane, but how can she lie to the one person she knows can save her?

Jane and Maura navigate the complications of their relationship. Slow burn (ish) to Rizzles. Starts 3x15.

Touching Casey was like shocking yourself on a door handle. Touching Maura, even a platonic brush of her fingers, was like grabbing a live electrical wire with both hands. Slightly AU- Jane's married to Casey when she meets Maura.

Life in District 8, like everywhere else, is in service to the Capitol. For former Hunger Games victor, Jane Rizzoli, each day is spent trying to cope with the pain of haunting memories. Can a seamstress give her something worth fighting for?

Ever wondered why despite all the eyesex Jane and Maura don't just admit their feelings and jump into bed together? There's a backstory you'll never get to see on television. Rated M for TGTGF, which is a big step up from TGTGT…

"I have a brain tumour." - The way she says it, with such a lack of emotion, such a lack of information; it makes Jane's heart clench in her chest as her knees buckle beneath her. COMPLETE.

Jane and Maura get a little lost…but what they find is more than worth it.

Songfic - Wintersong by Sarah McLachlan. This is Christmas feels, but the wrong kind. The sad kind. It's Maura's first Christmas alone.

A more realistic approach to 2x10 in the prison infirmary with Hoyt. Deviates from the show in that there is no pony party, but whispered confessions in the comfort of each other instead.

Life is made up of little challenges. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes they weigh about 7 pounds. Post 3x10. A little romance, a little angst and what about that baby? Now includes a sequel - Morphology of Snow.

Yet another fic 'documenting' the events that transpired the night before 'the morning after' first scene in Class Action Satisfaction. Jane and Maura take care of each other *ahem* as well as the baby.

AU Maura and Jane meet in high school, but get separated. Follows them when they meet and then as they reconnect after years apart. Ch. 1-20 are T, 21 onward is M. (this story has adult themes, sexual content, and of course, rizzles)

Because when you try to move into a different kind of relationship with your best friend things become a little complicated, especially if neither of you know that's what you want. Mild language. Spoilers up to 3x03. COMPLETE.

"I'll burn down the house we built from the ground up." Maura is used to being alone. She is. [Post 3x01.]

Jane mentioned getting a new vibrator in episode 3x03. This is how I think that particular item came into her life. M for sexually explicit situations.

12 easy steps to your one true love.

Jane pulls Maura back from the edge, saves her life in more ways than one. It's a college party gone bad. I'm putting a self-harm warning on here, just in case. One-shot. AU.

Before Jane can answer, Maura helpfully pipes up. "Jane has been having a recurring dream of an explicit sexual nature involving me and it's making her uncomfortable, so I was just trying to get to the bottom of why." Jane/Maura.

Deals with what happened between the rescue at the reservoir and Maura's coming home. Episode 3x2. Rizzles

When their relationship falls into a bit of a holding pattern, Maura concocts a challenge to heat things up.

AU Prompt fic. 10 years on. Jane loves the Red Sox and enjoys a game with her family.

AU Prompt Fic. And it's CHOOPER! Snr. Criminologist Susie Chang and Detective Riley Cooper ladies and gentlemen. In a tatto parlour. After a bet that's been lost.

AU Prompt fic "Hang Gliding" Some serious fluff inside.

Feeling like their friendship isn't as strong as it once was, Maura realizes she not only wants to close that distance but she wants even more. She devises a plan she thinks will bring her and Jane even closer together.

It's just precious, you guys. Domesticated, adorable, with instances of crazy hot smut. Totally unrelated to established plot, instead taking place in a universe where everything is Rizzles and nothing hurts. It's primarily T, except chapters 1, 2, 8, and 9, which are *probably* best suited to audiences who feel mature.

AU. In post-apocalyptic Boston, Dr. Maura Isles finds herself defending a group of women and children in the bombed-out remains of an urban hospital while Jane Rizzoli patrols the shattered city, searching for survivors, supplies, and something worth saving. Eventual Rizzles. A zombie story for people who don't even like zombies, that's the word on the street!

Optional epilogue to "Confessions of a Perfectionist" and a first time story. It won't make much sense as a stand alone so please read Confessions first.

FINAL PART UP! After the shooting of the S1 finale Maura holds everything and everyone together, while simultaneously struggling with her own unvoiced feelings for Jane. But even Maura has her limits... Therapy fic with lots of Rizzles.

An AU set in the Old West. Why? Because I want to know how a proper, aspiring female doctor would react to a driven, hard-as-nails woman on the range. They don't know it yet, but Maura's fiancee just met his match.

Sometimes the name that slips out unintended is that which we truly desire.

Jane finds a way to get what she wants from Maura after a long day at work... with the help of a well-known game show and some healthy competition.

While investigating two deaths in Boston's Symphony Hall, Jane unwittingly becomes the center of unwanted attention . . . .

The five times Jane and Maura had "awkward" physical encounters with each other, and the one time they didn't.

Starts off T and moves to Mature rating. It has everything smut, laughs, angst and a good plot. Jane and Maura have come to a crossroads concerning their relationship. Maura decides to push things along her own way. Check out my other stories.

Jane rushes to Maura's house after receiving a text stating there's an emergency. But Maura's and Jane's ideas of what constitutes an "emergency" are a little different. One-shot.

Jane's complicated life becomes even more confusing when she asks Maura and her mother to help her solve a murder during her stay at the hospital. But will anyone believe her? Denial v. 2.0, steals a few plot points from Hitchcock's Rear Window. Rizzles

Sunday dinner at Ma's new house usually has a few constants: family, food, and football. And Jane finally acting on those coulda, shoulda, woulda moments.

Typical Rizzles fluff. EXTREMELY short.

How Maura Isles comes to have a best friend, and then falls in love with her.