„Ma, mommy? You must wake up. You promised us a cat." Jane grunted softly from underneath her covers. The sunlight was blinding her merciless. The mommy thing was new she thought, letting Julia slip into her arms. She could see that Maura had one eye open, looking gorgeous but clueless.

"What time is it?" she yawned, wrapping her arm around Sophie.

"I don't know, baby. But its probably still early." The brunette mused, trying to kiss her wife over the two children who were lying between them. "The girls just reminded us that we promised them a cat." She smirked and winked with a grin on her face.

"Did we promise them to get it today?" Maura asked rubbing her face.

"I don't think so."

"Oh good, in this case I'm going to close my eyes again and continue sleeping." Maura stated matter of factly to tease the girls. Sophie poked Maura, protesting loudly and Jane laughed. After enjoying a few more minutes with them, she told the girls to check if the weather was nice, promising to get up soon. "I just want to have a few more minutes with Maura, okay?"

"kay. But then we look for a cat. Promise!" Julia said firmly.

"All right, honey. After breakfast we will drive to the pet store first, to get what we need to make the cat a real home. Then we go look for a cat."

Julia smiled as she hopped of the bed, dragging Sophie along. "What do they need time for?" the blonde kid asked. Jane could hear them talking as they walked down the hall. "What do I know? To wake up?"

Maura silently moved into her arms, rolling her eyes. "We're in trouble. I'm scared of when they become teenagers. Will they make us buy them a car or something?" Jane laughed out loud. "Huh? Don't freak me out here. We'll have to work on saying no for sure." She closed her eyes and reveled to the feeling of Maura's warm body pressed to her, their skins touching.

"I love you, Jane." Maura mumbled as she entwined fingers with the brunette.

"I love you too, Maur."

The blonde lifted their entwined fingers to kiss the back of Janes hand before looking down onto their rings. "Jane Isles Rizzoli. Still can't believe that you are my wife now."

"Well, Maura Rizzoli Isles, me neither." Jane said and left a tender kiss on Maura's shoulder.

They stayed a few more minutes before getting ready to go to the kitchen where Julia and Sophie were preparing breakfast. At least they were setting the table while chatting excitedly about appropriate cats' names.

Jane let her hand brush through Julia's dark curls when passing by her on the way to the fridge. Maura squeezed her hand softly, and they watched how the girls now discussed their future cats fur color over their sirup soaked pancakes. Jane smiled at her softly. "Mommy, I want to have a black cat!" Sophie addressed Jane. So, this was it, the brunette thought: I'm adopted as a mother now. She blinked back a tear and cleared her throat. "We'll see what we get okay? It says that the cat finds you, not the other way round."

"Oh." Sophie said, returning to her pancake to mull over the thing she had just learned.

"Where do we get a cat from?" Maura asked Jane later as they were dressing up to go to the pet store. "I'd say we try a shelter. I hate the thought of all the poor animals there waiting for a forever home were they get the love they deserve."

"What?" she asked when Maura stopped in her tracks.

"You are very wise this morning. Not that I'm surprised that you're right, but what you just said, warmed my heart. We should help one of those poor animals."

The brunette slipped into her jeans, smiling. "You know, you can call me Yoda if you like."

Maura looked puzzled. "Who is Yoda?"

"Yoda is a little green man, with long ears in the Star Wars movies. He always gives good advice. I might show you a picture later, if you remind me."

"Yoda isn't very modest though, right?"

Jane paused and looked at Maura who was grinning at her. "He doesn't need to be modest, because he is all wise." She tried to bite bake the laughter in her voice and pretended to be serious.

"All right Yoda, then let us leave our humble shack to adopt a cat and make our daughters happy."

"Yes ma'am." Jane saluted.

"By the way, did you notice that Sophie called me Mommy?" she whispered, still mesmerized.

"Yes. I like it." The blonde hugged Jane, leaving a small promising trail of kisses along her neck. "You absolutely earned this title." She whispered into Janes ear, before taking a step out of the hug.

R&I

The pet shop was like a wonderland to the kids who kept filling up the shopping cart with cats' toys, cat snacks and all kind of other stuff from which Jane didn't know what it could be used for. Maura and she kept loading stuff like a cat toilet, a scratch tree and food into the same cart which soon became to small.

When one of Julia's favorite songs started playing on the radio, Jane turned the volume up and started to sing along. Julia joined in, followed by Sophie and then Maura. It was fun. Maura and she had decided not to go on a honeymoon but use the time for themselves and the kids instead. So far, the plan made everybody happy.

At the shelter, they took their time and walked along an Aisle with cages to their left and to their right. Jane stopped when Sophie halted at one of the cages. A huge brown cat, with long fur sat inside and seemingly stared them down with its big yellow eyes.

"Strange." The young girl which worked as a volunteer at the shelter said. "This is Brownie. He usually hisses and scratches people."

Jane and Maura crouched to glance at the cat in disbelief. Brownie didn't look dangerous, and he wore what Jane thought was a typical: I'm a cat, human worship me attitude.

"How old is he?" Maura asked.

"He's approximately 4 or five years old. Somebody found him hungry and freezing under a bridge. He's been with us, for a few months now. As I've said: he did his best to scare away people so far."

"Can I pet him?" Sophie asked with her pleading eyes.

The woman looked at Maura and Jane questioningly. Maura was the first to nod. "According to Yoda, the cat choses his people. So, it looks like Brownie has chosen."

The employee shot them an amused look, as Jane silently nudged Maura.

They returned their focus to the cat, who didn't move when the door was opened. Sophie gingerly reached inside to touch him. he still sat still and let it happen. A faint purr was coming out of the cage and Jane sighed. "I think we found our cat then or do you want to look around a bit more?"

Sophie tilted her head, saying no, while a small teardrop of happiness made its way down her cheek.

"What do you say, Julia?" Maura asked the little girl who stood mesmerized, staring at the cat. "This is our cat." She said firmly, looking up at the adults, beaming in joy.

"All right. Then let's take him home, shall we?" Jane asked resting her hand on Sophie who had come to hug her leg. "Yes. It's time for him to go home." She said smartly, surveilling the process of putting Brownie into a small cage for the drive, ready to protect him if she felt that they weren't nice enough with him.

Jane just found her and Julia adorable. They insisted that Brownie should travel on the seat between them. And so, he did in his cage. Julia and Sophie kept talking to him in a calming tone, sensing that he was a bit scared.

Jane was sure, that they would treat him good and be responsible.

"You really are Yoda." Maura said as she undressed Jane later when the kids were asleep with Brownie lying on the same bed.

"Yoda is sexy." The blonde smiled.

Jane chuckled. "Not if you hear his grammar."

Maura didn't seem to care, as she continued to strip Jane naked.

After having made love to each other, Jane reached for her phone to play a clip from Yoda to Maura. The blonde smirked. Got his grammar is really not sexy she giggled. Good that you didn't play me that clip earlier.

"Heeeeyyy." Jane looked offended and Maura pulled her into a hug. "I was just joking, honey."

Jane smiled, letting Maura cuddle into her arms. "I know, baby."