Jane was nervous about her proposal. She wanted to do it the next day on Monday anyway, but she was afraid it would look like she did it only because Maura asked her first.

Angela came over in the afternoon to stay over for a while and then taking Dylan.

"Janie, stop being nervous, she's gonna say yes!"

"I am not afraid of that, Ma! I just want it to be perfect. For her." Jane said as she was trying to disentangle the string lying in her lap.

"It will be perfect, you've spent so much time planning it," Angela said with emphasis and motioned to the coffee table overflowing with everything Jane needed for her proposal. "Just calm down."

Jane nodded and took a deep breath. "Thanks for taking Dylan. She was kinda… unhelpful, messing up with the stuff around here… ya know."

"I can imagine." Angela laughed. "Do you want a hand with this?"
"No, I just need to have my space and time… You're doing enough by taking Dylan."

Angela smiled at her and kissed her cheek. "Good luck, Janie."
"Thank you." Jane nodded with a smile. Then she reached out with her hands towards Dylan. "Dylan, come say bye to Ma!"

Dylan ran into her arms and hugged her, Jane kissed her head. "Be nice to Grandma, okay? Ma and Mommy will pick you up when you wake up."

"Okay," Dylan nodded and kissed Jane. "Bye!"
"Bye pumpkin. Bye Ma." Jane smiled and waved at them.

"Bye." Angela gave her last encouraging smile and then they left.

Jane looked at the clock. She had three hours before Maura came home. She had to get going.

Maura turned the key and opened the door. She walked in and looked around for any sign of her family.

"Jane?" she called into the house and put her purse on the kitchen counter. "JANE?"

"Maura come here, quickly, it's important!" Jane shouted in response from the outside.

Maura ran to the door leading to the small garden in the back of their house.

"Jane?" she opened the door and crashed into Jane. "Jane, are you okay?!" she asked, her eyes furiously searching her body for any sign of injury.

"I'm okay, Maura, nothing's wrong." Jane gently held Maura's upper arms, caressing them soothingly.

"What is it then?" Maura was confused, but relieved.

Jane smiled and pulled away, slipping her hand in Maura's, interlacing their fingers together. Then she motioned towards the garden, which Maura hadn't noticed yet.

A soft gasp escaped Maura's lips at the sight of her trees being garnished with Christmas lights and there being strings tied from one tree to another. Each string was decorated with photos pinned with clothes-pegs. There were flowers around, laying along the path.

Jane led Maura through the way, looking at the photos together.

There were all of their photos together. In chronological order.

They walked slowly, commenting each picture, and adding little pieces of information now and there. Jane was smiling, watching Maura's reaction to every picture and listening to every commentary she had and how she remembered every moment of taking those pictures with fascinating precision.

"This is our intirely first picture together." – "We had quite a chemistry even then, right?" Maura mused with a smile.

"This was the evening when you first hugged me."

"Yeah. The moment just screamed HUG THE GIRL!" Jane sang to the melody of Kiss the Girl from the Little Mermaid, which she watched with Maura on one of their movie nights.

"Remember this case? Even your fancy clothes ended up dirty, that was satisfying." Jane chuckled and nudged Maura's shoulder teasingly.

"I like this one, I think Detective Frost took it, after we went undercover to the lesbian bar. That was quite an experience."

"Yeah," Jane smiled dreamily.

"And you spent inappropriate amount of time watching my chest."

"Uh, yeaaah." Jane laughed it off and continued to another picture.

"That was when Ma forced me to a date and I ended up drinking wine with you in morgue, because you were working late again… And you told me I'm gorgeous and I blushed after years."

"This is when we got home from a yoga class and Angela took a picture of us because she heard you complaining before. And then she said that you didn't look as disapproving afterwards as you had expected."

"Of course it went fine afterall, you were there with me."

"That was the time we went as each other on Halloween! You really rocked my clothes." Jane grinned.

"And people assumed we are a couple."

"Yeah I remember Frost saying 'You messed up your clothes after night together AGAIN?' And we were still blind." Jane smirked and shook her head. The teasing remarks from her colleagues were never ending.

"On this party, you bumped me into my shoulder for the first time and then had to explain to me that it's actually gesture of affection." Maura smiled sentimentally and Jane bumped into her shoulder gently.

"This was the time when I knew I loved you."

"Me too, I think."

"Aw, and this one was when you invited me over for Christmas and Angela borrowed me a Christmas sweater to feel more included. I am still grateful for that gesture."

"She basically forced it on you Maur'!"

"This is the first one with you pregnant…" Maura smiled at the picture of her caressing Jane's abdomen.
"And this is the one Ma snapped right after she walked to the hospital room, where you waited with me and Dylan."

There were many more pictures, there could be over one hundred captured moments of their lunch dates, and drinking nights, and shopping afternoons Maura dragged Jane to, and their trips, and their Christmases and Halloween parties together, and other holidays, and their actual dates. And many family-like pictures with Dylan. So many pictures ending with the one photo from the day before, after Maura proposed.

"Maura, I love you so much. I don't know how I could ever doubt it, because you're everything to me. And you have always been, as you can see there," Jane pointed to the path they have just finished. "Since you walked into my life, you have been making it better. You're the most beautiful woman with the most captivating mind I know. Every moment with you is an adventure and I am lucky enough to have the chance to call you my girlfriend." Jane dropped to one knee and pulled out a box with a ring. "Will you do me the honor and be my wife?"

Maura had tears streaming down her face. "Yes," she nodded and let Jane slip the ring on. Then she clutched onto her in a tight hug, wanting to never let go.

"I actually planned the proposal for a week and then you surprised me, just so you don't think I'm doing this only because you asked yesterday." Jane whispered to Maura's ear, while the blonde was cuddled into Jane as close as possible.

"I believe you."

"Thanks, fiancée." Jane said and felt Maura's lips against her neck curling into a smile.

"I love you fiancée."
"I love you too."