Chapter Seven
"Jane," Maura gasped. "That's perfect…don't stop…ohhhh..." Maura clung to her fiancée, breath coming quickly now. They were due at the Dirty Robber in 15 minutes, but here they were, naked, Maura lying back on the bed with her legs spread wide and Jane's fingers pumping inside her, each stroke harder and faster than the one before. Jane was leaning over her, kissing her neck, her own breasts hanging down and gently rubbing against Maura's. It was so hot, everything about this was hot, but Maura was mainly focused on the building pleasure between her legs. She knew she was going to explode soon. She could feel it everywhere in her body. She held onto Jane, feeling the heat in her taut muscles, thrusting her hips harder to take her in deeper.
"You like this?" Jane said in a low voice, right in Maura's ear. The sheer sexiness of her voice made Maura shudder.
"Yes, yes you know I do."
"So you want me to keep doing it?" Jane teased her clit with her thumb.
"Yes!"
"Just like this?"
"Just like that! Jane…"
"You know what I want?" Jane's voice dropped to a whisper. "I want to hear you scream my name." One final thrust sent Maura over the edge, and she did exactly that, her scream of ecstasy traveling through the house. Fortunately, Angela was already at the Dirty Robber.
Completely spent, Maura lay there, chest heaving, as Jane stretched out beside her. She watched as Jane languidly licked Maura's wetness off of her fingers. Maura wouldn't have thought it possible, but the action turned her on all over again.
"You taste good," Jane remarked casually.
"Oh Jane," breathed Maura, using what little energy she had left to roll into Jane's arms. "We can't do it again. We're running late as it is."
Jane laughed. "I didn't say anything about doing it again."
"I'm speaking to both of us." She kissed Jane chest. "You've gotten really skilled at bringing me to orgasm."
"I was a motivated learner. Who wouldn't be? You're amazing."
"So are you." Maura turned her head to look down at Jane's naked form, still amazed that this was something she was allowed to see, to stare at. "I love you so much."
"You only love me for my body."
Maura looked up. "Now you know that's not true."
Jane laughed. "Yeah, I know. And I really love you too, and not just for your body. Although you are unbelievably sexy." Jane wrapped her arms tightly around Maura. "I just keep thinking about the fact that I could have been fucking you all this time. All those nights I spent either alone or in bed with a guy I wasn't that into, and I could have been here fucking you instead. What was wrong with me?"
"I don't know, but we're both to blame. I wish I'd kissed you the first time I ever thought about it."
"Which was?"
"When I got in bed with you the first time, and you asked me if we were having a sleepover or if it was my way of saying I was attracted to you."
"Really? What was it about that night? That was when I started thinking about it too."
"I suppose the sense of danger that night made our emotions raw. You were afraid of Hoyt coming after you, and I was afraid of seeing you get hurt. That brought our feelings to the surface."
"So we should have gotten together that night. Imagine where we'd be now. We'd already be married, we—we might have had a baby." Her voice dropped to nearly a whisper on the word 'baby,' and Maura thought of the baby she'd lost, the one they might have raised together. She knew Jane had felt relief as well as sadness – she really hadn't wanted to have Casey's baby – but she had loved the baby, and it was something that continued to haunt them both.
"It's too late to change the past," Maura said gently. "But there's still a lot we can do to change the future. And I meant it when I said you would still be a wonderful mother someday. If you still want that, it's something we can do."
"You were pretty excited about that baby, weren't you?" said Jane, smiling sadly. "I think you were more excited that I was. I was mostly freaked out." She kissed Maura's head. "I think we'd enjoy being moms together, but let's just do one thing at a time, okay? Wedding first. I can already tell that's going to take up a lot of time."
"It's going to be so much fun though!" said Maura, excitement bubbling in her once again. She looked down fondly at her ring. "We'd better get dressed and get to the Dirty Robber."
"I need a shower," said Jane. "I smell like sex. Which I like, personally, but…"
"I guess we both should take one," Maura agreed. "If we got in together…"
"We'd just end up fucking again. I'll use the guest shower."
~R&I~
They arrived at the Dirty Robber half an hour later, rushed and a little bedraggled, to find everyone sitting around a table, talking and laughing as they ate. There were shouts of excitement when people began to spot Jane and Maura, and the two women went around to hug everyone before sitting down and placing their food orders.
"Look who's finally back in the country!" said Korsak. "Jane, how long are you with us for?"
"Um," said Jane. "About that."
"Jane changed her mind!" squealed Angela. "She's not going to the FBI!"
"Ma!" hissed Jane. "Can you let me tell them my own news?"
"Sorry! You can still tell them your really big news!"
Jane and Maura looked at each other, and Jane nodded. Maura broke into a grin, looking around the table as she took Jane's hand.
"Jane proposed to me in Paris," she announced. "We're getting married."
There was silence for a moment, and then the whole table erupted into exclamations of surprise and excitement.
"It's about time you two figured it out!" said Nina, running over and wrapping her arms around both of them.
"I knew you liked her," Frankie told Jane. "I couldn't figure out why you wouldn't admit it."
"I knew it too!" said Tommy. "Can I hug her now, since she's going to be my sister-in-law?"
"Only if you hug her the same way you'd hug me," insisted Jane. Tommy hugged them both chastely, and TJ hugged them too. Maura heard someone say, "She's your Aunt Maura now," and then TJ said, "Hi Aunt Maura!" and her heart melted on the spot. Maura kissed the little boy's head before being wrapped in another hug, this time by Kent.
"I hate to say I told you so," he said to Jane, "but I did tell you so."
"Liar," griped Jane, giving him a look that stopped his incoming hug in its tracks. "You love to say I told you so. It's probably the only reason you wanted us to get together, so you could say it."
"I'm so happy to see you two finally being honest about yourselves," said Kiki. "Now, tell us the truth: how long have you been a couple?"
"A month," said Maura.
"No way, it was longer than that," said Kiki.
"It really wasn't," said Jane. "We got together in Paris"
Kiki gasped. "I thought you were just hiding it!"
"I never believed her!" said Korsak. "You two are really lesbians now?"
"Well, we're in a lesbian relationship," said Jane.
"We love each other. That's all that matters," said Maura, lifting Jane's hand and kissing it.
"Holy crap, look at that ring!" exclaimed Kiki. Suddenly she and Nina were glued to Maura, both of them holding her hand and examining her ring.
"We've got two weddings to plan now!" announced Angela giddily.
"So where are you going to work if you're not going to the FBI?" Korsak asked Jane.
"I don't know yet."
"Your position hasn't been filled at BPD," Frankie pointed out. "They're borrowing someone from the drug unit. You could come back."
"It's tempting," said Jane, "but I don't know."
"I'd love to work with you again," Maura told her. "But I also love the idea of you not being shot at anymore."
Jane ran her fingers over Maura's hair. "I'll give it some thought once I've settled in."
The lively conversation over both upcoming weddings continued for some time, as well as a discussion over when each person at the table first suspected something going on between Jane and Maura. To their surprise, everyone except Korsak suspected something; Kent and Kiki both said they saw it the first time they met them. Maura was enjoying herself so much, she paid little attention when three soldiers came in and sat at the bar. She didn't even think about them until she and Jane got up to leave and one of them made eye contact with her.
It was Casey Jones.
