A couple of months later ….

It has been a long and exhausting day as Jane comes home and throws her keys into the bowl.

She groans as soon as the smell of lasagna and garlic bread hits her nostrils, and drops her briefcase next to the small desk behind the couch. She throws her jacket on its back and rolls the sleeves of her dress shirt up. "I smell something good." She calls out loud and earns a laughter.

She smirks and rounds the corner that leads to the kitchen and smiles broadly as she sees Frankie and Korsak sitting on the dining table, both have a open bottle of beer in front of them. "What the hell are you doing here?"

Korsak just shrugs and smiles.

"We got invited." Frankie says and looks at their mother.

Jane rolls her eyes but something tells her that Angela isn't the culprit this time. She turns around and arches an eyebrow as a very pregnant Maura comes out of the bathroom on the first floor. She is sure that she will never get enough of this sight.

Since Owen McGowan has killed people and abducted Maura just to be with her, Jane hasn't taken the opportunity for granted that she can with the blonde. She knew from the beginning that she can count herself to the lucky ones who got the chance to call Maura her girlfriend, soul mate, partner for life. And she will never forget what their friends had done for them.

Maura wasn't the same person anymore after the incident with McGowan and had withdrawn herself from the others, and it drove Jane crazy. But the Italian created an ability that surprised everyone. Patience.

It hurt Jane in the beginning that Maura refused to kiss her or winced when she placed an hand on her thigh, but she understood it after Maura finally told her what had happened shortly before they come into the house.

That's why she let Maura control the pace and only hugged her while they watched TV or held her tight when Maura cried in sleep, whispering nothings into Maura's ears until she calmed down, and putting aside her own needs.

She had hesitated when Maura's lips accidentally brushed her own and stared at the blonde.

She has frozen, to be exact, and stopped to breath. She had turned her head and was about to ask what her wife had told her and turned her head as Maura was about to kiss her cheek.

She still can remember that her lips has tickled and that they had stared at each other before Maura finally closed the gap of their lips

Jane hummed but she didn't dare to move until Maura straddled her hips and moaned as she slipped her tongue into Jane's mouth.

Being completely in control.

It has surprised all of the detectives how thoroughly McGowan had planned Maura's kidnapping. They had found an mile-long list that entailed things what he had to do to engage the Chief Medical Examiner in a investigation, what kind of food to buy, what kind of beverages, shower utensils, clothes, and so on and so on.

It terrified Jane and Maura how much McGowan actually knew about them.

Did they learned from it? They sure did!

Jane blinks a couple of times as she feels an hand on her chest and frowns as she comes out of her train of thoughts. She isn't really sure when she had pulled Maura into her arms and hold her tight. She sighs and smiles reassuringly when she sees Maura's worried eyes. "Hey, you." She puts an hand on the swollen belly of her wife and smiles as their child decides to give her mother a kick. "I mean the two of you."

"That one is on you." Maura says and chuckles as the detective presses her lips to hers.

Jane smirks broadly and shrugs before she kisses Maura again. "I take the blame."

"Get a room," Frankie groans.

"Get a girlfriend," Jane bites back and Angela chuckles.

"Ma!" He whines.

Angela is laughing again and sits down at the head of the dining table. "She's right, Frankie."

Frankie rolls his eyes and Korsak is patting his back sympathetically.

Maura smiles broadly and rolls and takes her wife's hand in her own. "Let's sit and eat."

"Lead the way." Jane agrees and follows Maura with a grin.

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Later in the year …

Jane walks up and down in the room and stares at the bundle with dark hair on top of the head in her arms in awe, rocking it gently. "Jesus, you are such a sweetheart. You're gonna break a lot of hearts … when your eighteen," she proclaim loudly and looks amused at the others groan in unison. An idiotic smile is adoring her face.

Maura rolls her eyes but smirks. She still can feel the six hour birth and all she wants to do is sleep for a couple of hours.

"Can I look at her again," Coleen, Frost's wife asks and stands next to the lean Italian.

"Of course." Jane answers without hesitance and smiles at the woman next to her.

"Do planning on having a child?" Maura asks with a tired voice and looks directly at Frost.

His eyebrows shoot up high and he clears his throat. "Uh, yes."

"Are you working on it?"

Jane chokes on her own saliva and she glance with huge eyes at the blonde. "Maura!"

The doctor shrugs innocently. "What?"

"It is really none of our business if they are working on it."

Maura realizes her mistake and looks apologetically at the married couple. "I am sorry."

"Don't be." Colleen really replies and looks lovingly at her husband. "We blame the exhaustion for it. We … don't work on it anymore."

"Why?" Angela pipes up.

"Ma!" Jane admonish her mother and Frost chuckles amused with his friend as he gets up to his feet.

He wraps an arm around the waist of his wife and takes a deep breath. "Because -"

"I am pregnant already." Colleen finishes as he trails off and Angela shrieks in delight.

Jane's grin grows even bigger and she looks at her friends. "Congratulations!"

Maura smiles broadly and waves Frost and Colleen to her bed. "Congratulations." She says as both of them hugs her. "I am happy for you."

"Where is the new member of the Rizzoli family," Tommy asks loud as he comes with his own son into the room and pauses as everyone stares at him. "What?"

"You can call yourself lucky that the baby isn't sleeping" Jane hisses and smiles again as her youngest brother starts to smirk.

Frost is chuckles and points at the baby. "There is your niece."

Tommy takes a look at the newborn and raises his eyebrows. "Look at that. She just looks like you, Janie."

"No, she don't." The detective says and looks at her wife.

Frankie comes into the room followed by Korsak. "Sorry for being late. I was chasing a bad guy as I got the message."

"I couldn't cut paperwork." The older man says. "Is that my godchild?"

Jane nods vehemently and the two men steps closer.

"My God," Korsak breathes in amazement.

"She looks like you, Jane." Frankie states and rubs carefully the belly of the girl.

Jane shakes her head and walks to Maura's bed. She places their daughter ln the blonde's chest and kisses the girl's head gently, the she kisses Maura's forehead and looks lovingly into hazel eyes. "You did very good, Maura."

Angela enjoys the sight and takes a deep breath. "Do you have a name for your daughter?"

Maura turns her attention to her mother-in-law and nods with a smile. "We do."

Jane nods and furrows her eyebrows. "We decided to name our daughter after Maura's paternal grandmother Elizabeth." She frowns a little. "Well, you know … her adoptive father's mother."

"We got it, Jane." Tommy says with a laugh and the other join him.

"That's a beautiful name." Angela says and walks to the bed.

Maura smiles proudly and kisses the small head. Her heart melts as a smile flashes briefly over her daughter's face.

Jane still can't believe that this isn't just a dream and shakes her head.

Maura looks questioningly up into brown eyes. "What?"

Jane bends her head and smiles like a Cheshire cat. "I love you so much." She whispers before she kisses the blonde gently.

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SO, this is it. We reached the end of the story! I hope you liked it as much as I enjoined writing it.

I was asked if I could think of it to write another sequel. I actually would have an idea of one last sequel. If you are interested in -

Anyway, I hope you liked this last chapter of The List. And thank you for reading it.

T73.