It was cases like these that always made things seem so clear to Jane. The cases that were so hard and the ones were won literally through blood, sweat, and tears. She sighed heavily as she flopped herself down on Maura's plush couch, too exhausted to even attempt to reach for the remote. Her ebon locks flopped wildly over her eyes causing her to groan in frustration.
Jane jumped and let out a small yelp of surprise when she felt something cold and wet press up against her arm. Pushing her wild mane out of her face she glanced over to the coldness that was still pressed into her arm. She let out a small sigh at the beer bottle that was pressed into her arm. She allowed her eyes to focus on the fingers that were wrapped around the neck of the bottle, the slender fingers and the well-manicured nails. Her eyes traveled up the arm slowly, taking in every little freckle and beauty mark before settling on the amazingly beautiful hazel eyes of Maura Isles.
It had been a little while since either of them had said anything; Maura didn't even ask Jane if she wanted a beer, she simply knew her best friend well enough to get one for her. Jane felt her gut clench tightly. She had nearly lost her best friend yet again, had she shown up even a moment later…she shuddered at the thought of what might have happened.
Silently she grabbed the offered beer and simply looked at it. Maura was the only person in the world that knew her the way she did, knew all her little character flaws and still seemed to enjoy being in her company. Maura could make her laugh and smile in a way that no other person ever had, or ever could.
She wasn't a complete idiot; she had realized her feelings for the other woman long ago. She knew Maura was her everything, that she was so desperately in love with her best friend, that it scared her. It made her make one stupid decision after another, pretending she had ever been in love with Casey was one of those decisions. She knew she had hurt Maura then. She could see it in the doctors eyes each time she looked at her, she could see the hurt and the pain she had caused. Her biggest reason for breaking things off with Casey was because of the hurt and pain it had caused her friend.
She was a coward and she knew she was. Hundreds of times over the years she wished she could just swallow her fear and admit to the other woman that she loved her, but something always stopped her. Mostly it was the idea that if she confessed how she felt that Maura would no longer wish to even be around her. She knew instantly that was the dumbest excuse she could come up with, but it was the best one she had and she clung to it like a life line, but she was getting tired of it. Tired of it all.
"Jane?" Maura's voice cut through her thoughts and made her realize she had been staring at unopened beer bottle for quite some time.
"I can't do this anymore." Jane mumbled to herself as she set the beer down on the coffee table, knowing she would catch grief later for not using a coaster.
"Jane?" Maura questioned again, cocking her head slightly to one side confusion playing on her face.
"I can't do this anymore." Jane stated more firmly, standing from where she had settled on the couch. "I can't do this. I'm a good person aren't I Maura?"
"Of course you are Jane." Maura rushed to say, not entirely sure where the detective was going with her thought.
"I'm a good person and I deserve to be happy right?"
"You deserve the world Jane."
That was everything she needed to hear. Without wasting a breath or giving her thoughts even the slightest chance to make her think twice about things and chicken out like she always did, she leaned forward and slanted her mouth over the doctors.
Maura froze for a moment, unsure what was going on, and slightly afraid to allow her body to respond. It was a battle she could only keep up for a moment before she wrapped her arms around Jane's neck and allowed herself to sink more deeply into the kiss. Parting her lips she allowed Jane's tongue entrance into the hot cavern of her mouth, which Jane did without even missing a beat.
After a few moments, and when air became too much of a necessity both women pulled back gasping. "I love you Maura, I love you so much."
Maura felt her heart thunder in her chest at Jane's words, words she honestly thought she would never hear. "You're not just saying that because I almost died earlier are you?" Maura questioned and mentally kicked herself for doing so.
Jane couldn't keep back the tears that flooded her eyes, the tears she fought and kept back earlier in the evening when she had once again managed to save Maura's life. "No, baby, no." Jane sobbed. "For so long, I have loved you for so very very long."
Softly Maura reached up and using her thumb wiped away the tears that had escaped from Jane's chocolate brown eyes. "I love you too Jane." Maura whispered a slow smile spreading over her face as she leaned up and took Jane's mouth with her own again, before leading the detective up to her room.
It should have come as no surprise to them that everyone so willingly accepted their relationship when they decided to tell everyone a few weeks later. The words it's about time actually tumbled out of Angela's mouth when news of her daughter's happy relationship reached her ears. Her daughter was happy and in love and that is really the only thing a mother wishes for.
Within a few weeks of "coming out" to everyone Jane moved in with Maura, and a several months later the happy couple was married. It was all perfect, life was perfect.
"Hey Maur come look at this." Jane called out holding up one of Maura's medical magazines that she had been absently flipping through while waiting for her wife to finish with dinner.
"What is it Jane?" Maura asked as she took the magazine from the other woman's hand and glanced at the article she was pointing two. Maura allowed her eyes to glance over the article, refreshing her memory on the article she had already read earlier.
"Oh yeah I read about this actually a few months ago, this is an old issue I should probably throw it out."
"Wait, don't say that, I mean is this even real, can they do this?" Jane asked her eyes glancing over the article again. There were several big words in the article that she didn't understand but she understood the majority of the article.
"From what I have read in more recent articles, they have been successful yes. It's still really early and the success rate is still pretty low, but it has been done." Maura said over her shoulder as she made her way back to the kitchen.
"Why didn't you say anything? You know what this could mean for us?" Jane said clinging onto the magazine.
"We've only been married for 3 months Jane; I simply figured that bringing up the idea of having kids now would be a bit too soon." Maura said as nonchalantly as possible.
"Yeah but this is totally different. A baby from two mom's with zero DNA from the sperm donor. I mean…." Jane broke off and glanced down at the article again. "How is that possible?"
"Science is very advanced Jane; they have been able to verify exactly which enzyme in sperm is needed to create life. They are able to isolate the enzyme and use it to fertilize a woman's egg, using the DNA from an egg from the second woman to make up for the missing DNA to create a child." Maura said simply, giving the article a few sentence summary like it was the most natural thing out there.
Maura went turned her back to Jane to finish making dinner before she turned back around and stared at her wife. "Jane are you saying you wish to have a baby with me?" Maura questioned.
Jane could feel her cheeks flare with heat. "Of course I want to have a baby with you Maur, you are my world."
Maura giggled before once again turning back to the dinner she was making. "We will discuss this more while we eat." She said simply, although her heart was racing. She and Jane were going to discuss having a baby!
A/N: Totally un-beated so all mistakes are mine. I realize that what the article says will never happen but this is my own little world I am living in. If people like this I shall continue with it. Let me know what you think. I will go more AU from his this is just the start.