"My parents!"
Blurts Maura once waking up. Jane sits up, confuse and sleepy.
"What?!"
"I still haven't told my parents, they don't even know I was dating someone."
Jane looks at her eyes wide. She opens and closes her mouth.
"Do they know you like women.. I mean do they...Jesus is this going -"
She gets cut off by Maura's lips on hers.
"No Jane it's not, they are going to love you."
Jane relaxes a little but she is still worry. What if they don't like her?
"I am going to call them" says Maura.
Jane nods as she sees Maura slip into her robe and look for her phone. Maura dials the number. It rings 3 times before the conversation begins.
"Hello mother...yes it has...I know, I have been busy."
Jane is going crazy listening to the one side conversation. Maura is pacing while talking.
"Well I called cause I got big news...I'm engage!"
Jane closes her eyes and swallows.
"Actually mother is Jane...yes my best friend...it's a long-...yes...tomorrow night?...perfect!...okay love you too bye."
Maura hangs up. She looks at Jane with a smile.
"They want to meet you tomorrow night at dinner!"
Maura says excitedly. Jane swallows.
"Yay."
She says in fake enthusiasm.
"You'll be fine Jane, but if you're still nervous I know a good way to relax."
Maura drops her robe and walks to the bathroom. Jane watches her bare ass disappear behind the bathroom door.
"Jesus! Woman, wait for me!"
Jane says while getting of the bed to follow Maura. They get to BPD and part at the elevator.
"Okay, I'll see you tonight I just need a few boxes and the rest ma decides what to do with it."
Says Jane kissing her. Maura nods and smiles.
"Okay."
Jane has been moving in box by box with work and everything it takes a little more time. Jane walks into the bullpen. Frost says good morning but she is to distracted.
"Hey partner you alright?"
He asks as Jane rubs her hand. She nods twice then shakes her head.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm having dinner with Maura's parents tomorrow, meeting them for the first time."
Frost looks at her and shrugs.
"And?"
"What if they don't like me...I mean if they're anything like Maura I'm pretty sure they will but-"
She trails off, looking at the ground. Frost looks at her.
"Go on" she sighs.
"Maura is a smart, classy, beautiful woman who can have anybody and everything she wants and me I'm just a poor girl from south Boston and it scares me to hell that one day she'll see that and leave."
"Never."
Jane turns around, eyes wide. Maura looks at her eyes soft and a small smile playing on her lips.
"Come here" she says.
Jane walks to her. They go to the elevator and get off at the basement. Go to her office and Maura closes the door. She turns around to look at Jane.
"I love you, you hear me? I want you to listen to me...all my life I have been with people of 'my own' I was even engage to one, but none of them treated me like you do or love me, look at me, make love to me like you do."
She walks up to Jane. Jane is looking at the ground so she grabs her chin lifting her face so they can look into each other's eyes. She caresses her face.
"You are not just a poor girl from the south, you are the woman I love, the one I am going to marry, have children and grow old with."
Maura stands on her tiptoes and kisses her. She pulls back and rest foreheads.
"Now stop worrying" Jane nods.
She goes to walk out and Maura slaps her in the ass. She looks back and Maura winks. Jane grins.
"I love you."
"I love you too" and then she leaves.
Jane looks at herself in the mirror of the bathroom at BPD. Her clothes are just like her regular clothes but nicer somehow. She is recently at the bathroom at BPD because first she didn't want to be there when Maura's parents arrive and second she didn't have to since her interview with a suspect ran a little longer. She texted Maura and Maura said she understood. Jane breaths out slowly and walk out of BPD into the warm night of Boston. Maura is finishing putting the plates in place when she hears a knock. She takes the apron off and fixes her dress. She stops short of the door and takes a deep breath, releasing it slowly.
She opens the door with a smile.
"Mother it's so good to see you."
They kiss on each cheek and hug.
"Maura darling" she says.
Maura looks pass her to the man standing behind her mother.
"Father."
She says as they hug. Maura can't help but feel as if something is bothering him but she doesn't ask. They look around, this is the first time that have been to Maura's house.
"Maura dear this is a beautiful house."
"Thank you mother."
They hear a throat clear. Maura look at her dad.
"where is this Jane anyways?" asks her father.
Maura walks to the kitchen taking out a bottle of wine. She starts to open it.
"She is stuck at work she'll be here soon...wine?"
She looks up at her parents and they nod. They're sipping their wine in silence when her father speaks again.
"It is extremely rude to keep your guests waiting."
"I'm sorry father I didn't know-"
She gets cut off.
"Not you, Jane"
"She is at work-"
She didn't get to finish because she hears a car door close. In a matter of seconds her, 'their' door opens and Jane's face appears.
"Hey sorry I'm late."
Says Jane in a medium voice. Maura instantly starts to smile and glow and her mother notices smiling too. Maura walks to Jane giving her a peck.
"Hey honey" she whispers.
"Hey back" whispers Jane.
Maura and Jane walk into the kitchen area. Jane holds Maura's hands a little tighter and Maura squeezes it in reassurance.
"Jane this is my mother Constance."
Jane grabs her hand and kisses it.
"Nice to meet you."
"Oh the pleasure is all mine."
Says Constance smiling at Jane's actions.
"Such a gentlemen too."
She winks and Jane blushes. Maura grins and turns to her father.
"And my father Edmond."
Jane grabs his hand and gives it a firm shake. One of the few good things her job taught her.
"It's nice to meet you."
"Likewise."
He says not smiling, not really meaning it either and Jane can tell he didn't 'well I defiantly like Maura's mom better.'
"Shall we eat? I am starving!" says Constance.
They all settle down in the table and the first half of the meal is quiet. That is of course until Edmond speaks.
"So Jane what do you do for a living?"
Jane puts down her fork and finishes chewing first before speaking. She's pretty sure talking with her mouth full doesn't need to be added to the '110 reason on why to hate Jane' list he probably already has. She looks at Maura across the table then at him.
"I am a homicide Detective"
"A cop? That doesn't pay much."
Maura sends him a warning glare but he is to focus on Jane to notice. Jane looks at Maura and then at him again.
"No, not a cop, I am a homicide detective there is a difference and no it doesn't pay much but I love what I do. It's not about the money although it's a plus but I do it because I like to protect people, let them have a safe place to call home" she shrugs.
Jane looks at both Constance and Maura seeing them smiling and she knows she said something right. Edmond on the other hand wasn't impressed.
"It's not about the money?"
He says incredulously.
"It's not about the money yet here you are a 'beat up cop' I believe is the term, marrying my daughter after what? 4 months of dating? Sure it's not about the money" he says sharply.
Maura and Constance say at the same time.
"Father!"
"Edmond!"
In warning, disbelief. Jane clenches her jaw.
"I understand you're um-"
Jane furrows her brows.
"Worried but I assure you I am not marrying your daughter for money, it may look that way because we just started dating but I have been in love with your daughter long before that."
Jane reaches across the table for Maura's hand. She holds it and looks back at Mr. Isles.
"I am going to tell you Mr. Isles...The first time I met your daughter I was working in the drug unit undercover working to become a detective. I was dressed as a hooker trying to get coffee at the BPD café, I was having trouble with the employee who didn't want to give me my coffee because we just don't get along."
Jane smiles remembering the story. The table is quiet, just listening.
"Your daughter walked up to us, with a latex glove I may add to give me money. She though I need it to buy the coffee. I'll admit I wasn't very nice to her."
She chuckles and so does Maura.
"But I remember going home that night with my thoughts running around the blonde I had met wondering if somehow I'll see her again, I didn't know at the time that all those feelings I was feeling was love and before that I didn't believe in love at first sight, my prayers got answered because two weeks later I got promoted to homicide and went to the morgue to introduce myself to our new Chief M.E and there she was again looking more beautiful than the first time I laid eyes on her."
Maura has a beaming smile with tears and so does Constance, wiping away her own. Jane sucks in a breath.
"So I assure you Mr. Isles I am not marrying your daughter for money" its silence. Then he speaks.
"Edmond...you can call me Edmond."
He smiles for the first time and Jane returns it, looking across the table to Maura.