**Disclaimer I do not own R&I, or Hercules, or Disney, or Greek Mythology sooo...**

Jane came back from a long day. It was nice being able to come home to the family she loved. Mia Bella Rizzoli-Isles was doing fine and so was their son Dash, their son. Sometimes it hit her, like tonight, when she came home to find her beautiful wife and kids at home making S'mores. Since the kids she took a desk job. She did not need to put her life in danger to feel fulfilled. Her family and wife did that for her. All it took was chocolate, graham crackers, and a little extra marshmallow on her wife's lip to make her as soft and sweet as the dessert itself. Maura had since retired and they moved in together. They married and had children. Mia had Jane's long black hair and dark eyes and Maura's intelligence. Dash looked like the doctor colored eyes and short curly blond hair freckles but carried Jane's fearlessness and heart. They were both inquisitive and wonderful. At first it was difficult but both women soon got parenting down to as Maura would put it, a science.

"So what's this about?" She asked as she walked through her front door and could smell something sweet hitting her nose.

"Well they wanted a snack."

"THE Maura Rizzoli-Isles letting the kids eat sugar at" She checks her watch "8:45?"

Jane hardly worked late hours since the kids.

"Well…it is almost bed time."

"Aww ma. Do we have to go to bed?" Cried Dash.

"Listen to your mother." Jane said with a goofy face to her wife. She really had not changed much Maura decided.

"Well it is no wonder they don't. You don't seem to!"

"Mama! Bed time story?"

"Alright Baby." Jane said. "First you need to get into your pajamas."

"Okay!"

"She likes your stories only. She says mine are boring." Maura said with an eye roll.

"Aw ma. Not another!" Dash said with a whine.

Dash was 8, Mia was 4. They still had a lot of growing to do, and it would be done.

"Now Dash, you know your sister loves her stories."

"Fine but don't keep me up."

Jane could not believe her little ones were growing up so fast. Mia was going to school soon and that thought troubled her. It troubled her when Dash went off.

They shared a room but separate beds. One side decked out with boy stuff the other completely girly. Dash had complained enough about wanting his own space. Jane felt it was about time, but would not tell him until summer, as giving him her old weight room would be done during summer as a surprise, her telling him would come in due time.

"Get upstairs and get ready for bed! You have school tomorrow!"

"Yeah Yeah."

"Yeah Yeah mom. Yeah Yeah. I wonder where you get that from? Oh, right, me!" She messes up her son's hair.

"You are so good with them." Maura exclaims with full contentment.

"I have the easy job. We do a good job with them, together."

"So what is the story tonight?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Jane kissed Maura.

Mara moaned into it. "Hurry it up."

"I'll try, by the way, it's not the stories they don't like, just the facts."

"I do talk too much don't I?"

"I would not love you if you didn't."

"So what do you suggest detective?"

"Next time you are telling a story, just go with it. You don't have to have everything planned out, know every detail. Flub some stuff up, change things around, make it interesting."

"Flub?"

"Yeah what's the big whoop?" Jane laughed while poking Maura's rib gently with her elbow.

She got upstairs quickly. Jane was happy to see both her children ready and under the covers.

"So what tonight little one?" Jane asked Mia.

"Tell me about you and mommy, Love!"

"Okay slow down there. Well if you want to know…your mother and I met…"

"No I heard that one!"

"She's right you know." Dash interjected.

"Alright so what do you suggest smarty?" She asked her son. "I thought you were not even interested!"

"Well I might be. You know I love action. I'm not one for mushy gushy you know that. Maybe I don't know… we are learning about mythology in school."

"Oh I loved hearing about that growing up." Jane said lying on the floor between the two beds. She suddenly got a bright idea.

"So I assume they have told you all about the gods and goddesses isn't that right little man?"

"Gods?" Questioned Mia.

"Yeah! Well you see baby, they are strong and powerful beings. A lot of people believed they were truer than true. They ruled, they were brave."

"Like you." She said.

"Shhh! Ma is talking Mi."

Jane could not help but laugh. He was obviously quite taken as she had been when she first learned of the monsters that were of Greek mythology. She had her own geek that knew Greek but that was beside the point.

"Anyway you've heard of Hera, Zeus, Poseidon, Hercules? Medusa?"

"Poseidon was the king of the sea, Zeus's brother and Zeus was married to Hera. They were king and queen of all Olympus. The Minotaur too, he is my favorite!" Added Dash.

"Very good I see you have been studying."

"I try." Dash said nonchalantly.

Jane understood Dash. He would never excel in school and Jane did not pressure him about it. She decided that kids work at their personal pace. It was not her place to reprimand him. He always tried his best and that is all she ever asked for, as it was all that was asked of her. Jane never did like to scold her children, and did so only when it was needed. She would threaten them by intimidation through her police work saying that if she could take down grown men before, she could easily keep them in line when needed. She never acted however, and they felt the love of both parents. It warmed Jane to see him take an interest in something.

"Anyways. I bet you have not heard of Athena."

Mia looked on with amazement.

"Goddess of war and wisdom." Dash Scoffed. It screamed to say, give me something harder to think about with that childish sigh.

"Very good. I bet you did not know though that Hercules was a fake, he was not who the story was originally about."

"What?" Dash seemed confused.

Jane just winked at him as to say, just go with it. It told him that she would explain later and not to worry about the minor details, that she would get them there.

He did, he smiled and listened intently.

Jane turned her face to Mia's bed.

"Well once upon a time…"

Mia clapped her hands in excitement and she could hardly contain herself. Jane was going to give a story to knock her socks off if it killed her. It was time for an adventure. She could have taken them anywhere she wanted, space, underwater, any world, any time, but her son wanted Greece and she was not about to disappoint.

"Hey you tricked me!" Dash exclaimed.

"Well…this is where the fun begins!" Jane bellowed jokingly.