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Jane ran her fingers along a beautiful toned arm sighing deeply.

"What are you thinking about Jane?" said a soft sexy voice.

"Hmmm…oh sorry hon, I was just thinking about how I've always hated this pink canopy bed," shifting to look at her, "until today that is." The smile in Jane Rizzoli's voice was unmistakable as she turned wondrous eyes on the woman lying next to her. She shook her head trying to understand what had happened between them, not that she would change it, but needing to know when their feelings had changed.

Maura shivered as Jane turned those eyes on her. Tough as Jane was, those eyes told a different story. Jane felt, and those eyes showed it. They could be like liquid chocolate or hard as ice, but right now what was focused on her were eyes of molten chocolate, Maura realized she loved it.

Jane raised an eyebrow as she could practically see all the different thoughts flitting around in Maura's head at once. Leaning down, Jane kissed her slowly and sensuously until she could almost feel the thoughts leave Maura's body. She smiled as she pulled back to look at Maura again.

Lying in her old canopy bed in what was now her house, Jane couldn't believe how lucky she was. She was laying there with her best friend who it turned out she loved and who it seemed loved her as well, enough to buy her house for her. She felt Maura snuggling in to her "no more thinking." They snuggled into each other and drifted off to sleep.

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Frankie pulled up to the house to pick up Jane and saw Maura's car. "I thought she said Maura left?"

Scratching his head, he went in to check anyway, since Jane had seemed a bit put out by Maura's leaving her. "Hey Janie? Maura?"

Walking around the living room, he saw the open envelope and papers. Curious he picked them up and read them as he continued to walk around his old home and stopped short when he got to the important pages. "Holy crap" he muttered. He looked around his old home again with newfound wonder. "Wow, this is Janie's house now"

Putting the papers on the dining room table, he looked around for Jane and Maura. "Guys? Where are you?" Hearing a noise upstairs he realized where they had to be. Taking the steps two at a time he felt like a kid again realizing the house would still be in the family and burst into Jane's room.

"FRANKIE! Godammit!"

"Oh my goodness…"

"HOLY SHIT, Jane, Maura?"

Scrambling to cover themselves Jane and Maura pulled the bed sheets up while Frankie just stood there with his mouth hanging open. After his own outburst, he didn't know what else to say.

"Frankie get the hell out of here!" Jane was pissed, she forgot Frankie was coming and here he was gawking at Maura. "Frank Rizzoli! Stop looking at Maura and GET THE HELL OUT!"

Mumbling apology after apology, Frankie scrambled out and shut the door behind him.

Jane sat there pissed off and thinking, "It was just like when they were kids dammit, Frankie always burst in on her without permission". Trying desperately to lower her blood pressure, the giggles coming from Maura filtered in through her anger.

"Maura are you laughing?" Incredulous, Jane could not believe that Maura would find this funny.

"It could…it could…have ...been…your mother…"she trailed off as laughter assaulted her. Jane looked at Maura and startled to chuckle, "I guess we are lucky at that." She said joining Maura in laughter.

"Did you see the look on his face?" Jane asked once they had both laughed themselves out.

"Poor Frankie, I don't think he ever expected that" Maura said

"Why not? We're both consenting adults, right?" Looking at Maura, she waited for her to say what she herself was thinking.

Sobering up, "Jane, I don't think he ever expected to see us, you and I, together this way" sadly, Maura pushed Jane away as she sat up and started to get dressed.

Grabbing her arm, "Maur wait, where are you going?"

"Jane I won't come between you and your family"

"Maura Isles!" Jane jumped out of bed in all her beautiful nakedness and stood there, grabbing Maura by the shoulders.

"Maura," she said more softly, "you are my family don't you know that?" Pulling Maura into her arms, Maura buried her face in Jane's hair realizing what Jane was doing. Jane, her Jane who was normally very shy about her body and didn't like to leave herself exposed to anyone was standing there comforting her, naked.

Jane couldn't believe she was standing in her old bedroom, next to her pink canopy bed, naked holding Maura, her Maura, and the person she trusted more than anyone.

They stood their, one naked and one partly naked, supporting each other and the choice and commitment they had just made to one another.

Frankie was pacing, he never paced. What did he just see, did he see what he thought he did "I mean holy shit!" He always knew Jane and Maura were close but he so did not see this coming.

"His sister, and Dr Isles, wow…"

He couldn't leave, he knew Jane would want to talk to him; he needed to stop pacing though before he wore a hole in the carpet. He sat down and waited for Jane and Maura to come down a read him the riot act. "Shit"

Maura and Jane sat on the bed both fully dressed holding hands. Maura's thumb circled the scar on the back of Jane's hand as she realized just how lucky she was.

Casey was right, hard on the outside, soft on the inside, that's her Jane, but not a soft-shelled crab, more like a chocolate covered strawberry, with a hard candy coating on the outside, soft juicy and sweet on the inside.

"Are you sure Jane?"

"Maur, yeah I'm sure" "I don't know why we didn't do this sooner."

"I think we didn't do it sooner because even though we know how quickly we can be gone from this world, neither one of us thought it could happen to us, at least not consciously," she said the last quietly and Jane knew she was thinking about the shooting four months ago. She had almost died, for Frankie and Maura and she hated herself for putting Maura through that. But like the house, it had almost been a gift of sorts because it had prompted both of them to explore their feelings for each other.

Her earlier anger at Maura had been misdirected she knew now because she couldn't recognize what she was truly feeling. And Maura, who gave without a second thought, had given her the most thoughtful and meaningful gift with no strings attached.

Jane raised Maura's hand to her lips and looking into her eyes "Maura I…I don't do feelings well and" Maura covered her lips with her mouth, seeking confirmation of Jane's feelings for her, knowing that Jane couldn't say it yet, but she could wait. She probed softly with her tongue, teasing as she pulled in and out, causing Jane to gasp with pleasure and anticipation. As they broke apart, Jane's flushed face was all the evidence Maura needed to know how Jane felt about her. Breathing heavily they leaned into each other fully realizing that they had taken a very important step together.

"Well, I guess we should go talk with Frankie before he comes up here again or worse, calls my Ma" with a grin, Jane took Maura by the hand and they headed downstairs.

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