Still don't really have any desire to live, but onwards and upwards we go with Rizzles!
The flashback in italics takes place the day after Maura asks Angela for her permission to marry Jane, for the record.
"And what else did you two do last night?" Richard asked, elevated slightly in his hospital bed with Constance clasping his hand and Jane and Maura sitting at his other side.
"Don't act like you don't know," Maura smiled, bringing her left hand up to allow her father to see her engagement ring. "Jane and I became engaged after a beautiful night at the top of the Eiffel Tower."
"I did know," Richard chuckled as he turned to Jane expectantly, smiling when the detective showed off her own ring. "Oh, my girls. You two are going to have the happiest of lifetimes together. I can't thank my lucky stars enough I'm going to see such a beautiful marriage."
"And see such beautiful grandchildren."
"Mother!"
"You've been talking to my Ma too much," Jane laughed as she gave Maura's quickly reddening cheek a kiss. "She's right though," Jane whispered before turning back to her soon to be in-laws. "Your daughter beat me to the question, by the way. Shocked the heck outta me."
"I told you I can be sneaky," Maura beamed as she once again laced the hand not holding her father's hand with Jane's.
"But my Ma being so sneaky is what really gets me," Jane noted with a laugh.
"She's quite sneaky, I assure you," Maura replied. "Kept my hopes to ask you to marry me quiet for some time."
"I'm sure Jane has told you of how she blurted out her hopes to ask for your hand, but do tell us how you asked Angela," Constance requested. "I would love to hear of her reaction."
"She actually thought me asking her was a dream," Maura laughed.
"Really?" Jane asked.
"Really," Maura confirmed.
"Maura?"
The doctor's head looked up from where she had been sitting cross legged on the floor with Jo rolling around happily in her lap to see Angela looking at her with both nerves and hope in her eyes.
"Angela, please, come sit," Maura invited. "I've got some tea steeping in my kettle and I think you'll love it."
"Is Janie not here?"
"No," Maura said. "They finally got the man the entire department had been after for weeks and she was offered lead on the interrogation. So I suspect it'll be quite a long night for them."
"Speaking of nights…" Angela trailed off, sitting down on the couch near where Maura sat on the floor and placing her hands in her lap. "I had a dream last night, but if I've learned anything from Jane it's to trust your gut and my gut tells me this wasn't a dream. But I can't really be sure because, well, I am getting old."
"Did I have something to do with this dream?" Maura asked.
"Yes," Angela stated. "In the dream, you came to the guest house and you...You asked if you could marry my Janie."
Jo must have sense Maura's nerves begin to flutter because she jumped off the blonde's lap and scampered to her doggie bed.
"Oh."
"Was that real, Maura? Or was that a dream?"
"It was real," Maura whispered. "I came to the guest house last night to ask for your blessing to propose to Jane and ask for your help picking out a ring for her. You said yes, and I though you truly were okay with me proposing but was that not what you wanted? Do you hope it was a dream? Because-"
"Oh, honey, no!" Angela interrupted, sliding onto the floor not so elegantly to be next to Maura. "Honey, I still would love very few things more than to be your mother in law and help you pick out a ring for my Janie. I just wish I hadn't been wearing my pajamas when you asked!"
"So, you're okay with me asking Jane if she'd like to marry me?" Maura asked, turning to Angela with hopeful eyes. "You're sure you're okay with the fact it wasn't a dream?"
"I promise you that I'm so much more than okay with you proposing to her," Angela promised. "I couldn't be happier than you and Jane are spending your lives together and finally are going to take this step."
"Only if she says yes."
"Only in your nightmares would she ever, ever say no to you!" Angela said with a pat to Maura's knee, laughing as Jo sensed the change in mood and jumped right back into Maura's lap. "She'll say yes. Might swear a little because she's our Jane who likes to swear and because you'll beat her to the proposal, but she'll say yes."
"She's the best thing to have ever happened to me and I can't imagine spending my life any other way than with her by my side."
"And I can't imagine her spending any other way than with you by her-"
"Maur?!" Jane's voice called from the doorway. "Maura!"
"Living room!" called Angela.
"We got the son of a bitch! We got him! He confessed and I barely broke a sweat, all while Lieutenant Cavanaugh was watching me along with two other lieutenants from Major Crimes and from Drugs!"
"Love, that's so wonderful," Maura smiled as she stood up, laughing as Jane scooped up Jo and spun her around before pulling Maura in for a searing kiss.
"I'm sure that will look good should you ever decide to apply for Sergeant or Lieutenant," Angela noted, breaking apart the kiss to reveal to smiling women.
"Or for any sort of pay raise," Jane laughed as she let her dog down. "What're you two doing? Gossipping about me while I'm gone?"
"Oh, of course!"
"So you really were gossipping about me!" Jane laughed.
"Not gossipping," Maura smiled. "Just...talking."
"You're lucky I love you so much," Jane huffed.
"How about a subject change?" Richard asked with a smile. "I'm simply dying to know what kind of cake you'll be having at the wedding!"
"Richard!" Constance laughed, swatting his shoulder gently. "They've been engaged for 12 hours!"
"A lot longer than that, just without the rings if you ask me," the Isles patriarch smirked.
"Well no one did ask you," Constance noted.
"We haven't discussed any wedding plans, but I have a feeling your taste buds will be taken into account, father," Maura smiled.
"Can we please have red velvet?" Jane asked, batting her eyelashes comically.
"We'll talk," Maura laughed.
"And can I please wear a Red Sox jersey?"
"No," all three Isles voices replied, though smiles were on all their faces.
'I thought at least one Isles was on my side!"
"Have I ever told you the best part about having an Isles family jet?" Maura asked once the captain announced they were at cruising altitude and they could roam the large cabin as they pleased.
"Uh, that we can head back home and not have leg cramps afterwards?"
"No," Maura laughed as she unbuckled her seatbelt and held her hand out to Jane, walking with the detective towards the rear of the plane and into a large room with a plush bed inside. "A bed."
"So we can work on those 15.21 days of cuddling, yeah?"
"Not the answer I was expecting, but a good one none the less," Maura smiled as she let go of Jane's hand and began to turn the covers down. Once they were, she looked up to see Jane in her sweater and simple white cotton briefs walking towards the bed and eyeing at Maura to do the same. Once she had shimmied from her own trousers, Maura curled into bed with Jane and laid face to face with her fiance, their legs instantly tangling together.
"Hi."
"Hi," Maura smiled, reaching up to brush the dimple that appeared on Jane's cheek. "Have I told you lately how much I love you?"
"Mmm, I think last night you did," Jane laughed. "But in all seriousness, yes, you have."
"Good," Maura hummed, closing her eyes in contentment after settling closer to Jane.
"And even more than telling me, you show me how loved I am every day," Jane continued, wrapping Maura tightly in her arms. "You show me unconditional love when I work late, when I'm yelling at the TV making a mess with my pretzels, when-"
"When you're passionately working on a job you love, when you're giving and giving and giving to our family and our friends and our city," Maura interrupted. "I love you always and forever. That's what your ring symbolizes."
"Your ring, too," Jane noted. "I can't wait to write a vow for you, and find a wedding venue we both love, and see you in a white dress, and stand in front of everyone we love to promise to love and adore and cherish you forever and ever and ever."
"And ever and ever and ever."
Short updates are all I can seem to do right now. I'm sorry.
