Thank you to everyone for the reviews! I will definitely be continuing the story now. I am new at this and I have corrected some of the mistakes in the previous chapter. Again, I do not own anything and this is a G!P story, don't like don't read. I also forgot to mention that it was sort of canon'ish Season 4. How they met and fell in love was basically one giant flashback, flashbacks from now on will be in Italics and thank you to my girlfriend for being my Beta.
The days leading up to the surgery had Maura in a frenzy. She was nervous all the time, no one has ever needed her in this way. "What if she screwed up and her kidney wasn't good enough?" She thought. Not even work could distract her from her foolish thoughts. As foolish as she knew they were, they had still caused such a distraction that the people around her noticed. Susie Chang, the senior criminalist in the lab, brought this distraction to the attention of Lt. Cavanaugh. She did this not to be a snitch, but because she felt that it would be in the best interest of Maura and the current investigation if she just stayed home and relaxed. Cavanaugh agreed and requested that the medical examiner take off the rest of the days preceding her surgery.
This "benching" is what lead to her current depression. Maura thought as she ran with Jane. If Susie had not tattled on her she would not be in this predicament. Jane could tell that Maura wanted to tell her something. She just did not know what it was. She was also too afraid to ask the medical examiner what was on her mind fearing a tearful outburst. As they drew closer to where Angela and baby TJ were, Jane started to slow down giving Maura the opportunity to maybe say what was on her mind before they joined the rest of the family at the parade. Maura passed her and went to stop just beside Angela. She was ready to burst into tears and Angela saw this. As Jane approached, Angela smacked her on her shoulder! "Janie! Look what you have done to Maura! I told you that running all the way over here would not be a good idea after the surgery she has had!" Jane was so confused until she turned and looked at Maura who had now already shed a few tears. Concerned, Jane questioned "Maura baby... What's the matter? Are you in pain? Where does it hurt?"
Jane got another smack from her mother and yelled out "Ma! Stop hitting me. I didn't know that the run would not be good for Maura. Her doctor cleared her weeks ago?"
"Angela, it is alright. I am not in pain from running." Maura said in between sobs. Facing Jane who was completely lost at the moment, "all the way over here I have been trying to think about how I am going to tell you..." Maura said, now crying.
"Tell me what?" Jane asked moving over to Maura and taking small hands into her own scarred hands. "I was going to wait until we were alone, but this is eating me up. Slowly from the inside, it is killing me.", said Maura.
"Jane, I am pregnant!"
Angela was seeing stars! Another grandchild! She could barely keep her excitement contained. "Well then dear, why is that such a bad thing? I am so happy that I will be getting another grandbaby!"
"Of course you are Ma!" Jane directed at her mother still also confused as to why this is such a bad thing that it would be 'eating her up from the inside' as Maura put it. Jane knew that she had always wanted children. Why would she be this sad about it? Maybe the reality of it was not as Maura expected. Maybe she in fact didn't want to have a family with Jane. So many insecurities started flooding Jane's mind and Maura could see this on her face.
"How far along are you Mau...? Wait, didn't you just have surgery? Did you guys do this after the surgery? Jane, didn't the doctor say no 'hanky panky' so soon after Maura's surgery... No wonder she is in pain!" Angela could not help but question.
"Ma! Seriously?!" Jane spat. "I think that we should go home Maura." Just as Jane finished her sentence, Frankie joined the ladies. "Why do you look like you've won the lottery Ma?" Frankie asked. As she was about to answer, Jane looked over at her mother and mouthed for her to zip it. She then asked her brother if he could give them a lift home as Maura was not feeling well. This is when they noticed that he had a motorbike with him.
Just then, they all heard a loud bang! There had been a single gunshot. Making sure that her family was safe Jane looked around searching the crowd and the surrounding buildings for any sight of the shooter. Looking up she saw an open window with a curtain blowing. She then instructed her mother to get to safety with TJ while her and Frankie raced off in the direction of the building. Maura rushed over to the scene and realised that the victim was the State Senator Erica Humphrey-Miller. Jane and Frankie had rushed up the stairs trying to locate the apartment the shot had been fired from.
They searched the apartment for any evidence and only found what looked like vomit on the floor. Making their way back down to the street after clearing the apartment and being satisfied that there was nothing they would be able to find without the help of CSU, they saw Maura next to the body of the senator with her father beside himself having witnessed his daughter's death.
She suffered from what looked like a very professional assassination. One clean shot to the forehead. Jane called it in and also arranged for an extra squad car to take her and Maura home. The department will have to get Dr. Pike to continue with this investigation, because she needed to go home and be with Maura.
When the rest of Jane's team arrived she made sure that her mother and TJ were safe and on their way home, handed over what she knew about the shooting to Korsak and collected Maura to head home.
The ride was quiet. Both Maura and Jane deep in thought. Jane was thinking about why Maura would not want this baby. Why it was hurting her this much to start a family with Jane. Did she not love Jane enough to carry her baby? Was it someone else's baby? All these thoughts driving her insane and when she was about to say something the cop pulled up to their home.
Jane thanked the man and followed Maura to the front door. Once inside Maura began to cry. As if a tap had been opened, the tears just flowed from her eyes. Jane could not stand seeing Maura this way and just held her. Her need to know what was going on with Maura just subsided and she just held her in her arms. Trying to make whatever is making Maura feel this way disappear. They stood in the foyer for what felt like hours but was only minutes when Maura pulled away from Jane. She looked into those chocolate eyes and pulled herself together. She started talking...
The minute Jane walked through the front door Maura jumped into her arms. She started kissing her all over her face. Shocked, Jane laughed, "If I had known that this is what I will be coming home to I would've been here sooner! Work was a bust today. No new cases and Frost was all over the ONE we did have and it was pretty straight forward. Wife killed husband because she found raunchy pictures on his phone."
Maura did not care for how Jane's day went, all she cared about was that Jane was home and she was sooooo in the mood. She put a finger to Jane's lips to quiet the detective. Sometimes she was pretty bad at detecting, Maura thought as she leaned in to kiss Jane on the lips. The lips she had been dreaming about since Jane left for work that morning. It had been the third day home after Cavanaugh suggested she stay at home before her surgery and doing nothing all day was starting to drive her insane. Tonight she was going to take out all of that frustration. She was going to make love to Jane so many times that she would forget about having been bored all day and about being nervous for the surgery.
Jane dropped her bag and kicked the door closed. She moved towards the stairs with Maura in her arms, legs around Jane's waist. Deciding against stopping to grab a beer as was her plan before Maura 'ambushed' her at the door, she made her way up the stairs all the while kissing her very, very hot girlfriend.
At the top of the stairs Jane saw that the bedroom door was ajar and a dim light was shining through the crack. Breaking the kiss, Jane realised that she hadn't checked the back door and Angela could waltz right in at anytime. Maura sensed the dark haired woman's fear and reassured her that she had indeed locked the door a while ago. Maura had this all planned out and was not going to let anything get in the way of their evening together.
"I'm pregnant Jane." Maura said quietly between sobs.
"Yes, I got that part." Jane said sarcastically.
