Maura finished sewing up the body, glad that the day had finally come to an end. She pulled off her purple latex gloves, leaving the body on the table for one of her assistants to return to its proper storing place. She took a seat at her desk, wanting to check to see if she had any late emails before she finally decided to go home. Spending nearly 15 minutes responding to emails, she exited Internet Explorer. She looked at her desktop nostalgically staring at her wallpaper, a picture of Jane, William and she at his first birthday.

"Why, Maura? Why would you ruin your marriage?"

The blonde sighed, "I don't know why I ruined our lives, Jane. I really don't know." She closed her eyes as her mind went back to the night she ruined everything.

"Maura, can I please have just one?" Kayleen begged trying her best to persuade her sister.

"No, Kayleen, you're not old enough to drink and I can't allow you to have alcohol. Besides, Hope would kill me."

"Alright, then I guess I'll have an iced tea." The younger girl said to the bartender. Turning back to her sister, she decided to question her about her upcoming wedding.

"Are you nervous?"

"About what, tomorrow?" Maura thanked the bartender as he brought over their drinks. Kayleen nodded waiting as Maura took a sip of her cocktail.

"A little, but Jane has told me several times not to be. She's been so calm this entire week. I wish I could be."

"Well, you love Jane, right?"

Maura nodded.

"Well then what is there to be nervous about? You both love each other and now you get to celebrate your love and make it official." Maura took another sip of her drink.

Kayleen watched as Maura began to process what she had said and smiled once she finished.

"You know you give great advice."

"I know." She gloated, taking a sip of her iced tea. They chatted for a few more minutes before Maura felt the alcohol stressing her bladder. She stood up, grabbing her purse.

"Can you watch my drink? I need to use the bathroom." Kayleen nodded, finishing off her iced tea.

When Maura returned to the bar Jane's brother, Tommy, was their talking with Kayleen.

"Hey, Tommy, what are you doing here?" she asked taking her seat at the bar once again.

"I was just here with some friends. I saw your sister sitting here and I thought I would come over and say hi and congratulate you on the big day tomorrow."

"Yeah, it's just that I'm so nervous." She said her hand twisting her wedding ring out of nervous habit.

"Don't worry; I'm sure everything will be fine. Hey, how about a toast to the big events to come?" He signaled for the bartender to bring him a beer and refill Kayleen glass. When he returned with their drinks everyone grabbed their drinks. He twisted the cap off the Heineken and lifted it,

"To not letting fear stop us from being with the person we want." Maura didn't quite understand what the younger Rizzoli meant, but she lifted her drink anyway. The three brought their drinks together and Maura gulped down the rest of the alcohol in the glass.

They chatted idly for some time going through several drinks before Maura's vision began to get blurry and opaque. She tried to blink her eyes to clear her vision but it glazed and blurred once again. She looked down at her the bar and saw that there were three empty glasses. Although confused at the fact that she was feeling this way after only three cocktails, she figured she had enough alcohol and it was time to go home. She turned towards her sister,

"I'm not feeling too well, Kay," she said softly. "Maybe you should drive me home."

Kayleen turned towards Tommy,

"Can you help me get her to the car?" He nodded, jumping up off the stool. He took out his wallet dropping a few bills on the counter before returning it to his back pocket. He put Maura's arm around his shoulders and started to guide her to the door.

"How much did you have to drink Maura?" he asked with a bit of amusement in his voice.

"I—I don't r-r-r-member." She felt as if she was trying to talk with a mouth full of peanut butter. Neither of them spoke as he helped her stagger to the car. After securing her in the passenger seat, he offered to drive and Kayleen sat in the backseat with her sister. The entire ride, Maura was zoning in and out, but she failed to lose complete consciousness. Luckily they weren't far from the hotel and arrived with a few minutes. He helped Kayleen carry Maura to her room before heading back out to his car. He explained to them that he was going to return to his friends at the bar but to call him if anything was wrong. Kayleen stayed with Maura for a few minutes, helping her take off her clothes. Maura was feeling very warm and opted to only wear a t shirt and her underwear.

"Kay, go b-back to your rrrroom and get some sleep. I'll be ffffine."

"Maura will you be okay? I can stay here if you need me to. I wouldn't want you to get hurt stumbling around the room." Maura put her robe on, suddenly feeling cold and waved her hand at her sister.

"No, I-I'll be fffffine. I guess I can't handle my liquor as well as I thought."

Kayleen looked at her skeptically, not wanting to leave.

"I'll be alright, Kay. Look, how about this, if I need you I'll call you, okay. You're just down the hall." Kayleen still reluctant, agreed reminding Maura to call her if she needed her. Maura closed the door, locking it and returned to her bed, nearly tripping over one of her discarded heels on the way. Her vision had become tunneled and she was extremely fatigued. Just as she was prepared to let herself give in and lose consciousness, someone knocked on the door.

She slowly got out of bed, feeling around the room trying not to fall. Finally reaching the door she felt even more tired at the thought of turning the door knob. She slowly unlocked the door.

"Tommy?"

Maura jumped at the ding of the elevator. She looked up to see her one and a half-year-old son slowly walk over to her. Ever since he took his first steps everyone has had a very hard time getting him to stop walking. Tommy followed close behind the toddler. Once the little boy reached her he collapsed in her arms, giggling at how far he had walked. "Hey, honey." She beamed, picking the toddler up and placing him in her lap. She gave him a kiss on his forehead as she ran a hand softly through his cap of blonde curls.

"Hey, babe." Tommy walked over, leaning down to kiss Maura.

"Hey, did you have fun today." Maura asked.

"Yeah, I took him to the park and that new kid's museum downtown with the huge ball pit."

"Please tell me you didn't jump into the pit, too!" Maura couldn't contain her laughter at the memory of the younger Rizzoli starting a war with Jane at Chuck E. Cheese in the ball pit.

"I did, but I behaved, I promise." He swore, raising his right hand. They both broke out into laughter, with William clapping his hands and laughing, too. Placing William's diaper bag on the desk, he took a seat on the chair in front of Maura's desk watching the blonde laugh with her son.

"We're is everyone? I didn't see Jane or Frankie on my way here."

Maura continued to clap with William, only allowing her smile to falter a little bit.

"They aren't ready yet." Maura whispered. Tommy frowned a little, wondering when they would ever be ready to forgive him. At times he felt truly guilty for what he did but at moments like this when he, Maura and William were happy and laughing and being a true family he has no regrets and considers everything he's gone though to be worth it.

Tommy stood up looking at his watch. "Hey, it's almost 7 how about you wrap up early and we go get dinner." He stepped closer to her, his voice dropping an octave, "And then we can go back to your place and have some fun of our own since Jane has Will tonight."

"Um… I can't" when she saw his smile fall she scrambled for an excuse.

"I really want to, but I have to finish this autopsy for a cold case." She explained pointing to the body in the window, grateful she hadn't put it away yet.

"Oh, alright. Well tomorrow then." Maura nodded, smiling as his smile returned. He picked up William, grabbing the diaper bag off the desk and leaned in to kiss Maura goodnight. She watched them step onto the elevator and as the door closed she sat down into her chair sighing heavily. She didn't want to lie to Tommy, but she just wasn't up for sex with him tonight and his suggestive tone told her that he definitely was looking forward to doing just that at the end of the night. She turned back on her computer since she now had to waste time in the morgue to cover up her lie.

Tommy stepped off the elevator, fishing for his keys in his jacket pocket. William surveyed the bullpen, a room he was beginning to become familiar with. When he looked over and saw Jane sitting at his desk, he called out to her,

"Ma-ma!" Jane looked up from the case she was reviewing and smiled. She stood up waving to the toddler.

"Hey, baby boy."

"Hey Jane." Tommy smiled walking over to his sister, hoping that William could get Jane talk to him. Jane walked over to her son taking him from Tommy, ignoring his greeting.

"Did you have fun today?" the toddler clapped his hands, grinning showing off where a tooth had begun to sprout.

Although she still hadn't spoken more than two words to him since her divorce, Tommy was glad she opened up to the idea of him being around William even if she only did it after Maura talked her into it.

"Well, thank for letting me spend the day with him. We had a lot of fun."

Jane nodded, not making eye contact with him as she continued to play peek-a-book with her son. Tommy placed the diaper bag on Jane's desk, kissing William on the forehead and walking out the bullpen. After a few minutes of playing with William, she realized that Maura was still down in the morgue. Seeing that there was nothing being accomplished on the case, Jane decided to call it a night. Jane draped the diaper bag over her shoulder and closed the folder on her desk. Carrying William into to the elevator she pressed the button for the bottom floor.

"Do you think mommy's hungry?" William nodded. When they reached the morgue Jane placed a finger at her mouth signaling William to be as quiet as possible. He imitated his mother placing a finger on his mouth as he giggled. They walked into the doctor's office to see her sitting at her desk with her head in her hands.

"It's highly unprofessional to sleep at work." Jane joked. Maura looked up smiling as this warm comfort enveloped her at seeing what felt like her "real family" standing in the doorway. At the thought Maura couldn't help the few tears falling from her eyes. At seeing the blonde upset, Jane's protective instinct kicked in.

"Did Tommy upset you?" Jane walked with William in her arms over to where Maura sat. "If he did I won't hesitate to kick his ass—oops, I meant his butt." She blushed, correcting herself as she looked down at William who seemed unfazed by Jane's choice in words.

Maura couldn't help the smile that forms at Jane's slip up. She wiped at her eyes, shaking her head,

"No I'm okay."

"Alright," Jane said, not believing the doctor but chose to let it go. "Well, Will and I came to see if you wanted to accompany us to dinner."

"Um, no I have to finish an autopsy."

"Maur, one, I can see from here that the body is already sewn up and two, I know you haven't eaten all day, so come eat with us. Plus families with a kid eat cheaper after 7." Jane smiled at the doctor and Maura smiled once again as Jane extended her hand to the blonde. Maura reached out taking the detective's hand and as she stood she instinctively laced her with Jane's. Her heart fluttered at the contact confirming what Maura was afraid of

'I still am deeply in love with you, Jane.'

So there you go another chapter. I'll slowly reveal what happened that night Maura cheated through flashbacks. I hope you guys like this installment and I should be back with another one soon. I realized through some of the reviews that some people are upset with me for not updating my other stories and are afraid I'll abandon this one too, but I I'll try my hardest to finish this. I never plan on leaving stories unfinished but when my inspiration leaves me, my stories tend to come out sounding forced and I don't' want to give the readers anything but my best work. My inspiration to write this story is still strong and hopefully I'll be able to complete it within the next month. As always review. Also during the story Maura looks at her computer and becomes nostalgic when she sees the computer wallpaper, so I created a picture of what I envisioned Maura's desktop wallpaper to be and if you want an actual visual it can be found at:

www . darkwriterxx94 .deviantart (dot com)/art / Family-Photo-2-321042638

(just remove the spaces)