A/N: Sorry it's a little short but here it finally is. I hope you like it. Please read and review, I would really appreciate the feedback, it only take 30 seconds, while as writing a chapter takes hours.
Disclaimer: Only own the baby. (C) Sasha. Rizzoli
Two days past and Jane still hadn't heard from Gabriel Dean, it was scaring her. Rizzoli didn't know if she was supposed to interpret it as a good thing or a bad thing. Was Gabriel going to leave them alone? Or was he planning something sinister.
The front door to the apartment opened, and Maura walked in with the mail, that she had collected from the letterbox downstairs, to see Jane sitting on the couch with a blanket bundled Justice in her arms. The new mommy was gently rocking her daughter to sleep after being fed.
"There's a very thick letter here for you, babe. It was barely fitting in the letterbox," Maura informed Jane softly as to not disturb the newborn, closing the door behind her.
Jane tilted her head slightly in curiosity as her lover sat down on the couch beside her. "I don't wanna disturb my little princess, could you please open it and read it out, baby?"
Opening the large yellow envelope, Maura replied, "sure... Okay, I'll just simple this out for you, Janie, it's been written by a lawyer."
"It's obviously from Dean's lawyer. What is it about?" she asked as she caressed the now sleeping baby's cheek.
Maura sighed as she carefully read through the important legal document. She knew that this was going to upset Jane, it was even upsetting her obviously.
"What? What is it?" Jane was now officially worried about what was written.
"He is suing you for joint custody. He wants to have Justice on weekends and half of the public holidays including Christmas Day."
Jane sniffled as tears began to well up in her eyes, she then pulled Justice closer to her. "No, no, no no No... No way!" Her scream woke the baby in her arms. "She's my baby! He didn't wanna know about her until just hours after she was born!"
"Pass Justice to me, Janie," Maura whispered to her, reaching out.
Reluctantly, Jane exhaled a deep breath and passed her pride and joy to one of the only few people that she trusted to take Justice.
Maura took still crying baby into the bedroom to calm her down and put down her to sleep in her bassinet.
During the time alone, Jane took slow deep breaths to calm herself before reaching over and picking up her cell phone. She pressed speed dial four and waited for an answer on the other end of the line.
"Agent Dean," the familiar, formal voice answered.
"How dare you! You sick son of a bitch!" Jane yelled into the phone straight away. "You have absolutely no right to do this! It's not right!"
"That's where you're wrong, Rizzoli," Gabriel answered calmly. A little too calmly for Jane's liking. "I have every right. She is my daughter after all. My lawyer said that I should not let you manipulate me just so you can get what you want, without acknowledging my feelings or rights."
"You didn't want to know about Justice until after she was born!" Jane rubbed a shaking hand over her tired face. "I will not let you do this, Dean. You won't get away with it."
Dean snickered. "Yes, I will. They will just look at your crazy hours and deem you an unfit mother to have full custody of my child."
"You work worse hours then me, plus I'm her mother! I gave birth to her. I will win. You mark my words! I will see you in court!" Jane insisted and hung up before Gabriel could speak again, she was through with that conversation.
Jane was still trying to calm herself down when she felt Maura sit down on the couch beside her again.
"Calm down, baby. I know some of the best lawyers that deal with this kind of thing," Maura whispered to reassure her lover, wrapping her arms around Jane in an effort to comfort her. "He won't get what he doesn't deserve. But baby..."
Jane sighed. She knew that there had to be a but, there was always a but. "But what, Maur?"
"To ensure you can win, you should cut down your hours when you finish your maternity leave," the doctor suggested. "To show the judge that you're fully committed to Justice. Knowing Agent Dean, he won't cut down his own hours, so it should definitely give you an advantage there, sweetie."
Looking downright devastated at the suggestion, Jane still nodded but somewhat slowly. "Yeah, I will cut down my hours. It's only fair on Justice that I'm here for her more often then I would be if I worked my normal hours. And it's not like I'll never see you. I'll see you when I am at work and when you come home from work. So it's not so bad, I guess."
"There's right, Jane. It will be okay." Maura grabbed her cell phone off of the coffee table and scrolled through her contacts but before pressing the call button, she looked up at Jane to how stressed and exhausted she was, not just from taking care of a four day old infant but from the dilemma that the father of her child was causing. "Why don't you go have a nap while the baby is sleeping, you it's the best time for Mommy to sleep too," suggested Maura.
"No, uh... Think I might go for a walk actually. Do we need anything from the store?" Jane as she stood up and grabbed her purse from the kitchen counter. "Only some milk and cheese, baby... Also if you don't feel like cooking tonight you could grab some take out, if you would like. You know what I like."
"Okay," whispered Jane with a soft kiss on Maura's lips before she headed toward the bedroom. She gave her baby girl a kiss before leaving the apartment. She needed some time to herself to think before she completely lost her mind.
Watching her best friend walk out of the apartment, locking the door behind her, Maura sighed. She wanted to make this right. Jane didn't deserve this. Gabriel Dean was at fault, not Jane. He had absolutely no right to do this to Jane and Maura found that it was her job to make sure that he didn't.
The Medical Examiner finally pressed the call button and began to arrange some of the best lawyers in Massachusetts to take Jane's case.
They were going to make Agent Gabriel Dean pay in court.
Next chapter we will find out what Agent Dean does next and what happens in court. We may even find out why he is doing this to Jane.
