Title: Circles
Pairing: Jane/Maura
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Notes: Well, I got another idea and decided to go with it. This is my first longer than a long one shot, in this particular fandom. The story just happened to lend itself to more than one chapter.
"Fuck," Jane mumbled under her breath, tongue sticking out the side of her mouth. It was the third time she had tried to make a dog out of balloons and she wasn't planning on giving up. It just wasn't her style.
Ryan's fifth birthday party was in twenty-four hours – she could figure this out or so she hoped as yet another balloon popped. She quickly bent over a new set of balloons, straining her muscles like she was trying to break a weight machine.
Jane paused as she twisted yet another balloon to create the dog legs…how had she come to be here?
Waiting for her wife to get home.
Planning birthday parties.
Making balloon animals.
Jane chuckled a little. She got here despite her resistance, bravado, stubbornness, opaqueness…herself…perhaps.
Jane looked down as she felt Jo settle on top of her feet. She heard the clock ticking on the mantle piece. Minutes passed as she and Jo started to breath in sync.
Jane scratched at the edge of an ear. Those weren't the real reasons she was at this place in her life. No, it was deeper, more serious than that.
Fear. Overcoming fear.
She and Maura both had to overcome a fear they shared for all that their personalities were on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Jane brushed the reflective thoughts aside refocusing on her task. She had to make at least ten balloon dogs, Ryan's orders.
"Jane?" a voice called out accompanied by the jingling of keys. Maura removed her winter coat, shoes, and put her keys on the key rack before moving further into the house.
"Jane?" Maura called out again glad to be home after a long week.
Jane was so intent on her task that she did not hear Maura come up behind her… "Eureka," she shouted jumping up so fast that her chair fell over. Maura jumped back preventing her knee from getting smashed by the back of the chair.
Jo started to bark and Jane whirled around.
"I did it," she exclaimed leaping around the chair before capturing eager lips with her own. The pair stayed like that for a few intense minutes.
"I missed you today," Maura whispered into Jane's neck, her hands buried in long brunette locks.
"Mmm," Jane sighed as she wrapped her arms more tightly around her wife. "I missed you more, but someone had to buy party supplies when rug-rat wasn't around."
"Where is Ryan?" Maura inquired while peering around Jane's body to survey the living room.
" I sent him over to grandma's," Jane breathed on her wife's neck. "He will," a tiny kiss to a pulse point. "Be gone," a gentle lick up to an ear. "All night and tomorrow," a deep kiss that brought out moans from both women.
Maura gently wrapped her hands around Jane's face and tugged it down to her level sighing a little, " Have I told you how much I love you today?"
"Not today," Jane whispered, practically purring at the touch. Jane kept her eyes locked on Maura's as they held one another, foreheads touching. There was nothing but love and trust in them. Thoughts from an earlier time tugged at the recesses of Jane's mind. Flashes of a time when Jane thought the likelihood of Maura admitting those three little words to her seemed more improbable than Bass winning the Boston Marathon.
