I LOVE writing domestic Jane/Lisbon so much!
"Teresa, come here!" Jane yelled excitedly through the apartment "Ella just said her first word!"
He heard a loud clatter from the kitchen and then a couple of swear words, and then Lisbon appeared in the living room still drying her hands on the cloth.
"She said 'da-da'" Jane announced proudly, grinning up at his wife.
"She so did not" Lisbon argued, looking with disbelief at her daughter who was sat in the middle of the floor chewing on one of her toys.
"She did!"
"How do you know she didn't make a noise that sounded like 'da-da'?"
"Because I was pulling faces at her and she pointed at me and said it" he rolled his eyes at her.
"Prove it" Lisbon narrowed her eyes at him, coming to sit on the couch.
Jane contorted his face into a bizarre expression and blew a raspberry at Ella, who erupted into laughter and threw her toy at him.
"You didn't say 'da-da' did you sweetie?" Lisbon said to her, picking up the toy and putting it next to her "you're going to say 'ma-ma' first anyway. Ma-ma"
"You can't try and manipulate your daughter into saying something" Jane pretended to look shocked "besides, she already said her first word"
He picked up another of her toys from the floor and waved it in front of her.
"Da-da!" Ella shrieked, throwing herself forward to grab it from him.
"See?"
"Oh my god she did" Lisbon gushed, sliding onto the floor to sit beside him "she said her first word!"
Lisbon reached out and picked Ella up, who was now babbling away happily.
"You're a clever little monkey aren't you?" Lisbon cooed "come on Ella, say 'ma-ma'"
"Da-da!" Ella shouted again.
"No, ma-ma" Lisbon repeated slowly "maaa-maa"
"Og!"
"I guess that's near enough" Lisbon sighed, letting her daughter crawl off her lap and back to her favourite toy.
"Just because she prefers me" Jane said, pulling Lisbon towards him so her back was against his chest with his arms around her torso.
"I literally grew her inside me for 9 months. No way does she prefer you"
"If you say so" Jane murmured, nuzzling the crook of her neck.
"Oh god" Lisbon moaned.
"What?"
"I want another one"
"Another baby?"
"Yes" Lisbon said, turning her head into his sweater.
"We could have another one" Jane said quietly "I know I'd like one"
"You would?" Lisbon looked at him carefully "Am I not a bit…old?"
"Teresa, you're 37" Jane pointed out "women older than you have babies every day"
"I guess" Lisbon sounded less than convinced.
"We don't have to if you're not sure" Jane reassured her "but…I would love another one. Or five"
"You better get your expectations down Mr. I'll go through labour one or twice more, not five times"
"I'm just saying" Jane shrugged "plus, we get all the fun of putting them in there"
"That's easy for you to say" Lisbon snorted "you don't have to get them out again"
"Hmmmm"
Jane nestled his nose into Lisbon's hair, and pulled her even closer to him.
"I wonder what she'll be like when she's older" Lisbon mused, watching her daughter happily waving her favourite toy at them.
"I think she'll be just like you, in both looks and personality"
"Really? She's got blond hair" Lisbon pointed out.
"It'll darken in a few months. Then she'll go all feisty and scary"
"Scary? I'm not scary am I?"
"A little" Jane held up his hand to indicate how much.
"Oh"
Lisbon was secretly quite pleased by that.
"But stop worrying about what she'll be like in a few years. Enjoy her as she is now"
"Yeah" Lisbon nodded.
They remained like that for a while, listening to Ella's happy babbles and thinking about what the future might hold for them.
"Oh no Ella sweetie, don't eat that" Lisbon leant forward to take the toy from her "I'll get you some proper food in a minute"
"I'll do it. You did the washing up"
"Half the washing up" Lisbon corrected him, suddenly remembering what she had been doing when he called her through.
"Don't worry about that" Jane said, releasing his hold on Lisbon to stand up and stretch "Let's see how much of a mess you can make today, my little monkey"
"Hopefully not as much as she made this morning" Lisbon sighed, also getting to her feet "I'm sure there's still some of that carrot mash on the ceiling"
oooooooooooooooooooo
One Saturday, a few months after Ella's first word, Rigsby and Van Pelt invited the team over for dinner. Jane and Lisbon arrived 10 minutes later than intended, after having to feed and dress their particularly uncooperative daughter.
"Come in, come in" Van Pelt welcomed Lisbon and Jane to their apartment.
"Is Cho here yet?" Lisbon asked, whilst Van Pelt greeted Jane with a hug behind her.
"Not yet. He's bringing Alice"
"They're getting serious" Lisbon commented as Van Pelt quickly hugged her, careful not to knock Ella.
"Who knows? Maybe we'll have another wedding this year"
"Cho will take it slow" Jane put in "but in a year or two maybe"
"I don't know" Van Pelt mused "they've been together nearly a year already"
"So what's the occasion?" Lisbon asked as she followed Van Pelt through to the living room.
"No occasion" Van Pelt shrugged "we just thought it would be nice. Do you want a drink?"
"Oh, ok" Lisbon nodded "a glass of wine, if there's some open"
"Jane?"
"Water will do. I'm driving"
Van Pelt left to go and get their drinks, and Jane amused himself by wandering around the edge of the room to see if there were any new additions to their photo collection.
"Would you mind holding Ella for a minute whilst I go and put my jacket down?" Lisbon asked.
"Oh yeah, sure" Jane nodded, coming to take his daughter "are you sleepy little one? We'll put you down for a nap soon"
"God knows she'll need it after that tantrum earlier" Lisbon said dryly, shrugging her jacket off.
"Oh uh, Grace lied"
"About what?" Lisbon frowned at him.
"Tonight. It is an occasion; she and Rigsby have some news to share"
"What kind of news?"
"The fact that she's pregnant"
"Grace is pregnant?!"
"Shhhhh" Jane hushed her quickly "act surprised. She'd gone to a lot of effort to try and hide it the past few weeks"
"Here you go" Van Pelt announced as she came back into the room "one wine, and one water"
"Thanks" Jane said, trying to distract Van Pelt from Lisbon's very obvious glances towards her stomach.
"That must be Cho" Van Pelt said as the doorbell sounded, rushing off to open it.
"Are you sure?" Lisbon hissed to Jane the moment Van Pelt left.
"Completely" he nodded.
"Hey Boss, Jane" Rigsby appeared at the living room door "Sorry, I've only just got Ben off to sleep"
Half an hour later, they were all seated round the table as Rigsby brought out all the food when a wail sounded from the adjacent room.
"I'll get her" Lisbon said, getting up quickly before Jane did "Don't wait for me to start; she's not been sleeping so well since she started teething"
"So Alice, how's life?" Jane asked as Rigsby served up the food.
"It's good" she shrugged "Ella has grown a lot since I last saw her"
"She's growing fast" he agreed "she looks more and more like Teresa every day"
"Lisbon can't see it, she told me the other day" Van Pelt joined in "I can though"
"She's such a cute baby though" Alice sighed.
Lisbon returned to the table just as the others were about to start.
"Sorry" she muttered, taking her seat next to Jane.
Jane squeezed her hand under the table and smiled at her. The past few weeks had been harder for both of them with Ella waking up every few hours and crying a lot more in the day.
"So uh, Wayne and I actually do have something to tell you all" Van Pelt began nervously, as the others took the first few bites of their food "we're having a baby"
A sea of congratulations greeted them, in the midst of which Lisbon caught Jane's eye and grinned at his 'I told you so' face.
"Thanks" Van Pelt grinned at them all, as Rigsby slid his arm around her shoulder and hugged her into his side.
"How far are you?" Lisbon asked.
"Nearly 14 weeks"
"I'm so happy for you both"
"Thanks" Rigsby said "we couldn't be happier"
There was a lull in conversation, as Van Pelt surveyed the faces of her close friends.
"You knew, didn't you?" she looked towards Jane.
"For the past month, yes" he nodded.
"And you?" she looked at Lisbon.
"Jane told me" Lisbon looked at her lap.
"And Cho?"
"I guessed" he shrugged "something was off with both of you; it was only a matter of time before I worked it out"
"I had no idea" Alice put in "well…until we were talking about you and I asked Kimball; he's not the best of liars actually"
"So much for it being a surprise" Rigsby muttered good-heartedly.