Well here it is! Finally another chapter! I know it's been quite some time, but finally I got it out. Thank you all of you who have stuck around and all the new faves and follows I've received for this story. Thank you also for all of the reviews from the last chapter. I love getting all of the notifications about new readers and all the reviews in my mailbox each day. Anyway, I'll let ya'll get back to the story. Enjoy!


Jane slowly cracked her eyes open. She could tell it was later in the morning by the amount of sunlight coming in through the curtains that were open just a bit in the room. She took in a deep breath and let it out deciding that soon she would have to get up. She was just so comfortable though she really didn't want to move. Then it occurred to her. She wasn't in her hotel room. This wasn't the bed that she had slept in the past couple of nights. Then it all returned to her.

She'd spent the night here with Maura. Once she had kissed Maura neither of them could seem to get enough of the other. They mutually decided they should wait a bit longer before they were physically intimate, but before they knew it they had been up most of the night. After the last couple of days they were both exhausted and Maura begged her to stay; to sleep in the bed next to her like they used to do at home. How could she say no to that? So here she was in Maura's bed, in her hotel room, following one of the best nights of her life. Maura.

She turned her head to the side and realized that she didn't see any blonde hair splayed out on the pillow next to her. Jane slid her hand over to the other side of the bed. It was cold. Obviously Maura had been up for quite some time now.

Just then she started to wonder if maybe Maura had had second thoughts about everything that had happened over the last couple of days. She whipped back the covers and jumped up out of the bed. She halted in her tracks a few steps from the bed. Her first thought was to check the bathroom, but she couldn't just walk in there could she? What if Maura was in there and in the middle of something? That would definitely make for an awkward situation. She and Maura were dating now though. How did that change things in this kind of situation?

Finally she decided to just deal with it if it came to that point. Jane made her way to the bathroom. She realized quickly that the door was cracked to it, but there were no lights on inside that would indicate anyone was in there. That meant she would need to try the rest of the suite.

The next obvious choice was the living room they had had their discussion in the other night. She walked over to the doors that closed off the bedroom from the living room and hesitantly opened them. Jane peeked her head out from around one of the doors, checking out room. She wasn't quite sure what made her feel it necessary to peek cautiously like that, but she had anyway. She saw that the coffee table in front of the couch had been pushed up against it to allow for some extra space in that area. There was a yoga mat in front of it, on which Maura was posed in one of the intricate poses she had mastered. Jane was sure the pose was something that had been thought up after a few unfortunate spins in a game of twister.

"How did you sleep?" Maura questioned as she started to move into a new pose?

"How did you-"

"You aren't exactly a master of stealth Jane," she answered cutting off Jane's question. "You seemed to hit the floor fairly rapidly a few minutes ago. I was starting to wonder if I needed to go in check and see if you'd had a nightmare."

"No, no nightmares. I just woke up and you weren't there."

"And you started to wonder if I had run away again?"

Jane dropped her head in embarrassment. She wanted Maura to know that she trusted her, but it was what she had been thinking. "Yes," she replied sheepishly while nodding her head as well.

"It's understandable," Maura responded trying to let Jane know she understood her thinking and wasn't upset about it. "Anyone would have doubts, especially considering the way I left the first time. There's nothing wrong with what you thought."

Maura now moved into her last pose. She could keep going; she had only started her yoga routine this morning so she would have something to do until Jane woke up. "I woke up early this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. You looked so peaceful I didn't want to risk waking you up with my movements. I decided it would be best if I got up and didn't disturb you. It gave me a chance to do some meditation and clear my head a little. Would you like to have breakfast together? We could head downstairs to the restaurant or have room service delivered."

"Okay," Jane replied. "Room service sounds nice." As much as she loved going out to places with Maura, right now she wanted nothing more than to just have more one on one time with her. After waking up the way she did, thinking that Maura was gone again, she just wanted some quiet time with the woman. Plus they still had some things they needed to work out.

Before they knew it there was a knock at the door. A cart was wheeled into the room that contained their breakfast order and moments later they were left to enjoy their food. Jane removed the cover resting on the top of her plate to reveal the pancakes she had ordered. They weren't shaped like bunnies, but they looked delicious. Only now did she realize she was nearly ravenous. Maura lifted the cover on her plate to reveal an egg white omelet with various vegetables Jane didn't particularly want to identify. Normally Maura would have a comment to make about her ordering pancakes and she was surprised when nothing came from her the other side of their table.

"What you aren't going to comment about how I should eat healthier?" Jane questioned as she picked up the syrup and started to help herself to a heavy dose of the thick, sweet liquid.

Maura paused with a bite of food halfway to her mouth. Maura shook her head back and forth indicating that she had no comment about the choice of Jane's breakfast. "Well, I figure there will be plenty of mornings in the future for me to educate you on how important the first meal of the day is to get one's body functioning properly for the day ahead." She stuck the bite of food on her fork in her mouth and proceeded to chew.

Jane's mouth dropped open a little at her statement, but in an instant she was smiling. "Do you mean that?"

Maura looked up from her plate and met Jane's eyes. She tilted her head to the side slightly as if asking what Jane meant by that.

"You just said you'd have plenty of mornings in the future to educate me. Do you mean that?"

"You know I can't lie," Maura supplied as an answer. She knew that this was something they needed to discuss. It had bothered Jane terribly last night when she didn't want to discuss the future. It was part of what woke her up so early this morning. She had stayed up even after Jane had fallen asleep trying to figure out what it was she wanted out of their future. What she wanted with them being together. She had slept fitfully and then woken early still plagued with the thoughts. While it was true that she had gotten up so she didn't disturb Jane, she had also gotten up so that she could think a little more and meditate to try and control the thoughts that were running wild in her mind.

"You just said something about our future," Jane pointed out. "I thought you were just enjoying the present?"

"I still am, but I have had some time to think about our future. I know last night it might have sounded like I didn't know if I wanted us to be together. Please know that that is all I want. I want us to be together and have a life together. I want to spend our remaining time here in New York together and I want to spend the foreseeable future together. Like you had doubts about me being here this morning when you woke up alone, I had doubts last night about us being together as real. I had a wonderful time last night, but I found myself stopping a few times and looking around wondering if it was all really happening. I suppose I spent so much time convincing myself that you would never love the way I loved you that I had those doubts last night that it was real. I just need you to understand it's going to take some time, but I do know that we have a future together."

Jane reached across the table and took Maura's hand in her own. She smiled at her saying, "Thank you."

Maura looked confused when she replied with a thanks. "Like you said to me earlier, it's okay to have doubts. You also let me in just then. You voiced your concerns with me and so long as I have some idea of what you're going through and trying to work out then I will do everything I can to help. I needed to know that you did see a future for us and that it's something you wanted. Now that I know it is, I'm sure things will work out just fine." Jane gave Maura's hand a squeeze for reassurance that it would be alright.

They each let out a breath they didn't realize they had been holding following the serious turn in their conversation and then returned to eating. A few minutes later something else Maura had said dawned on Jane. "Speaking of our time left here in New York. How much longer did you plan on staying?"

"I hadn't actually planned that out now that I'm not leaving with mother. She leaves in a couple of days and when I originally left I had planned to go back to Paris with her for a short stay. Now that certain events have changed things," she said while smiling coyly at Jane, "it's safe to say that I will no longer be going with her. So I guess we can stay for as long as you'd like."

"I don't want to stay," Jane commented while shaking her head. "I want to go home. I want us to go home."

Jane got out of the car and decided to head to the truck to help with some of the luggage. There was certainly going to be more there than what Maura could carry by herself.

She grabbed a couple of the bags while the driver took the others. They proceeded to follow Maura to the front door. Maura stuck her key in the lock and turned it. At the turn of the handle the door swung open. She followed right behind Maura with the luggage. The driver set the bags down just inside the door. They thanked him for his help and Jane closed the door behind him once she had placed the bags she had carried next to the ones just set down. She turned around to face Maura. She stuck her hands in her pockets and let her eyes drift around the room. She knew she should say something, but she had no idea where to start.

Maura was in a similar position. She smoothed out the non-existent wrinkles in her dress as her eyes seemed to find something in the floor that was interesting. She knew it couldn't be easy for Jane being back here like this. The last time Jane was here she had experienced heartbreak. Maura wanted her to know that she would never have to go through something like that again, but she couldn't find the words to phrase it properly.

"I'm sorry," Maura finally muttered after a few moments of silence between them. It wasn't what she wanted to say, but she couldn't think of anything more appropriate.

The words caught Jane's attention and she looked over at Maura meeting her gaze. "For what?" she questioned.

"For everything that has happened; I know it can't be easy to be back here after what you experienced just a few days ago."

"Hey, let's try not to think about that right now," Jane said as she started to slowly walk towards Maura. "Yes, it was the worst moment of my life to walk in and find that letter on the counter. I almost lost it completely, but now it's all in the past. I have just what I wanted. I'm here again with you and that's all that matters to me right now." She took a couple more small steps and leaned over slightly to capture Maura's lips.

Jane slid her arms around Maura's waist to pull her in a little closer. Maura wrapped her arms around Jane's neck, but their kiss remained light. It ended just a few moments later and rested her forehead against Maura's, wanting to keep close contact between them. Their eyes remained closed.

"I meant in in New York when I said that I wanted us to go home," Jane whispered to Maura. "Home could really be anywhere so long as I was with you, but I want this to be our home. I want you to feel like you belong here too, because you do. This isn't just my city, it's ours and I want us to share it."

"I love you, Maura Dorothea Isles," she stated as she leaned back slightly to get Maura to open her eyes so she could look at them.

Maura's eyes remained close for a few seconds longer. When she did open them Jane could see tears starting to form in them. "I love you too, Jane Clementine Rizzoli," she whispered as she looked into the dark chocolate eyes of the woman she loved. "Nothing is going to change that, and I am so glad you wanted to come home with me."

They stood there with each other for a few more minutes letting everything sink in between them. They didn't need any more words. They knew that everything was right and they were finally home, together, forever. They could both have this city and they would make the life they wanted in it.

"Oh," Jane asked after some time of silence between them, "I almost forgot. What happened to your Red Sox jersey that I gave you? I looked in your closet for it before I left and I couldn't find it anywhere."

Maura's mouth turned into a sheepish grin. She stepped back from Jane and made her way over to the bags near the door. She tilted one of them over, laying it flat on the floor and unzipped it. After taking out a couple of articles of her own clothing, Maura pulled out a couple more. When she turned to face Jane again there rested the jersey, perfectly folded, in Maura's hands. "I couldn't leave without it," she said.

She took a few steps over to Jane and stopped a few feet from her. She gently took the jersey and lifted it off of another article. She passed the jersey to Jane and then looked down at the other article. Jane followed her gaze. Underneath the jersey was one of Jane's old BPD t-shirts. She had a few of them that she kept here in a drawer Maura had designated for her clothes in case of an emergency.

"I couldn't leave without this either," she spoke as she ran the fingers of one hand gently over the top, feeling its softness. "It smells like you. I couldn't bear to go without having at least one thing of yours and the best gift anyone has ever given me."

Jane took the jersey and unfolded it. First she studied the back before turning it around so Maura could see the backside. "There's a reason this reads Rizzoli. It's not because I saw you as an adopted member of the Rizzoli clan. Well, I guess part of it is that, but it's also because when I had Rizzoli put on there I loved you more than anything and I wished that I could make you a part of our family. I didn't think I'd ever have a chance to make that happen, but I still wanted you to know that you were so important to me."

"I came looking for it before I left because I wanted to bring it to you and tell you just what I've told you now. I was so upset that I couldn't find it. It flashed through my mind for a moment that you might have it, but I could tell you were so hurt in your letter that I wasn't entirely sure. I got so caught up with everything else I forgot about it until we got back here." She lowered the jersey and draped it over her arm. She knew Maura would most likely hang it back up or fold it the way she wanted it later, so she wasn't too concerned at how it looked right now.

Maura looked into Jane's eyes. "I took the shirt because it smells like you. Like I said I needed to keep a piece of you with me and something that would smell like you. I slid this," she looked back down at the shirt; once more running her hand over it, "over one of the extra pillows on the bed and held on to it the first couple of nights as a slept. It was on the pillow the night you showed up at my door in the hotel."

"Then why wasn't in on there when I spent the night in your room?"

"Well once you showed up I didn't need it anymore." The pitch of her voice dropped just a little lower. She was now looking directly into Jane's eyes and she was sure she could see them starting to dilate just a little. "Why would I need this silly little thing when I had the real one that was so much better?"

The question would go unanswered; even if Jane had had a response. Before she had a chance to even think about it Maura had captured her lips with her own. Just a quickly there was a battle for dominance of the kiss. It didn't matter who would win because they had each other and from here on out that would never change.


Well, now that y'all have read the chapter I'm hoping you could tell that that was the end of this story. Because this is most certainly the end of this one. I'm a little sad to have to say that because now I have to tell you all that I am going to be taking a break from writing Rizzoli & Isles fanfics. I have had a hard time with inspiration for this series and some of that comes from watching this current season; it has really drained me this time rather than inspire like it usually does. I have already written a couple of stories for South of Nowhere and I will most likely continue writing for that series for a while. For all of you who have been following me and reading all of the stories I can't thank you enough for all of your support and encouragement. I don't even have the words to tell you how much it has meant to me as a writer to have that support and encouragement, so again thank you from the bottom of my heart. When inspiration does strike again to write an R&I story I'll get it out to you, but until then keep reading and I'll see y'all around in the future. As always I'd love to hear what you have to say on this chapter or any of my writings! Thanks!