Teensy lil ficlet from a Tumblr AU prompt challenge! The Prompt was 'miscarriage' please don't read if that and rape/assault are triggers.
Jane lay awake in their bed, her back ramrod straight as she listened to Maura sobbing in the bathroom, something that was only done when her wife thought she was fast asleep, not wanting to put Jane through seeing the shadow of her former self any longer.
Her former self, Maura thought as she curled in on herself against the radiator, the one before the attack, before the horrific repurcussions of one man's sick acts, when they were happy, when she hadn't been pregnant.
Maura stood and faced herself in the mirror wiping away any evidence of upset that she could and made her way back into their marital bed, pretending again, not to notice that her wife was awake and allowed Jane to slip an arm around her waist, with a touch that had never changed, had always been full of love throughout it all, and whisper 'I love you' in her ear.