„Oh, come on Maur." Jane smirked when the blonde mentioned that she wanted one of the boxes out of the car to check if she had packed a certain book. The brunette glanced into the trunk which was fully crammed. "Seriously?" she whined, "Can't you check in your bookshelf?"
"No, I can't. Because I don't know if it was there in the first place." Maura stated. "I have my books in several places. With all the moving over the last months I kind of lost track." The blonde looked apologetically to Jane who stood sweating next to her.
It was hot although almost evening and Jane had spent the entire afternoon hauling the boxes from the house to her car while Maura had been packing up her stuff. Initially the blonde had wanted to instruct a company, but when Jane had found out, that she hadn't much to move she had offered to help her. Besides being already in Boston to help Tommy seemed a good opportunity to start moving Maura's stuff. The things Maura had fit easily into her SUV.
They glanced at each other for a while until Jane finally said "Okay. Which one do you want to have?"
The blonde looked clueless while the brunette hoped that it wasn't one from the bottom. The boxes were piled three layers high and three layers deep. Jane stretched her arms and tugged on her ponytail and wet cotton shirt when a familiar figure called their names.
Her mother's presence was just what she needed right now. Jane felt the anger grow. She grabbed for the water bottle because she was thirsty and slowly walked over to the elder woman.
"Ma, if you want to fight or make accusations stop because I'm really not in the mood for it."
Angela's glance passed her daughter and went to Maura who was reading the label on the boxes.
"I heard she accepted a job in NY. So, its serious? You're moving in together." Angela stated with a strange tone.
Jane sighed. "We're not moving in together yet. But if everything turns out to be fine, we most likely will one day." She saw that Angela was kind of sad and had no idea what this was all about.
"You really like her ha?" Angela silently asked looking at Jane as if realizing for the first time, that Jane was a grown woman now. The brunette still didn't know where this was heading, but she stayed cautious after the last encounters.
"Yeah, I like her a lot." She said with a soft tone in her voice looking over to Maura, who by now had opened a box. The sun was slowly going down behind her. Jane smiled when she saw how the doctor managed to drop a handful of books to the ground while searching. Yeah, she loved her.
"I can see that you are happy, Jane." Angela interrupted her thoughts, her voice soft too now. "You might know yourself how you only want to see your kid happy, when you hold her for the first time. And you want to protect her. Its easy to do so, when children are small. But when they start to walk or ride a bike its harder to protect them and you are not always able to be around them. As a parent you somehow develop your own idea of what would make your kid happy. But truth is, no matter how hard you try to do everything right, its impossible. I had a long talk with Frankie and Korsak the other day and they made me see that my version of happiness for you doesn't match yours. It took me a long time to realize it. And I was really angry at them. But now I'm glad for their straight words. I just wanted you to know that I see it now. And I see that this is your live and your path, which only you can walk. I was stupid to the point to tell Maura where you are in hope that she could talk some sense into you. I hope that one day you can forgive me for it, and for everything else. I always loved you Janie. You know that right?"
Angela stopped her monologue whipping away some crocodile tears which were rolling down her cheek. Jane glanced at her, her look softened when she realized that her mother really meant what she said, and she pulled her into a hug, sighing.
"Thank you, ma. You don't know how much this means to me. I love you too." Jane was crying now too.
"Its not going to be easy to not meddle with your live, but I will try hard. I swear." Angela managed to say in between two sniffs. "I'm proud of you Jane. I should have told you sooner. I'm really proud." She said and patted her daughters' shoulder before turning to leave.
Jane sighed. They had wanted to leave Boston two hours ago, but somehow, she wanted to spend a little bit more time with her mother. "Wait ma!" she shouted and jogged after her. "Why don't you let us invite you for dinner?"
Angela looked at Maura who was now putting back the books into the box. "Maur, how about dinner with ma before we leave Boston?" she shouted over the lawn.
"Sure, I'd love to." Maura shouted back. Jane turned around to see her mothers face light up. "Well, I would love to too."
"Perfect!" Jane linked arms with her as they walked back towards Maura. The blonde certainly noticed that both Rizzoli's had been crying but didn't mention it. She smiled as she shook Angela's hand.
Angela had to drive with Maura, because Janes car was fully packed. They agreed on going to Korsaks for burgers and fries.
"I'll call Amelia and tell her that we will be late, okay?" Jane asked before they got into their car. Maura agreed. Jane silently thanked god that they had spent so much time with the kids lately, otherwise they would start believing that Amelia was their mother.
During dinner Maura told Angela how they had pretended to be a couple for Giovanni because they had seen no other way to get away from him. The matriarch chuckled, knowing from her own experience how persistent Giovanni could be. The three of them laughed together at the story.
"So, when did it happen then?" Angela asked grabbing for her greasy burger.
Maura and Jane looked at each other. "Well, basically it's a long story. We had feelings for each other for a long time."
"Yeah, they drove us all mad with their dancing around. But we all decided that they needed to figure it out for themselves." Korsak chimed in bringing more iced tea for the brunette. He chuckled and rolled his eyes when leaving the table again.
Jane rolled her eyes too. "Obviously, everybody knew. But it really started when we met at the airport on Christmas." Jane said, taking a sip.
"I'm glad you are uhm dating now. You make such a perfect couple." Angela said with a wide smile.
Jane looked to Maura who was sitting next to her and they smiled at each other warmly. "Yeah, us too." She said beaming.
On the way home, Jane put in some good rock music. She spent some time singing along some of her most favorite songs. Then her mind started to kick off a wheel.
She was happy with Maura. Everybody was happy for them. So far, everything was smooth. But what did it really mean? She would start a family with Maura, maybe one day they would get married. At least she hoped so. They already shared the responsibility for their kids somehow. And it was really incredible how fast they had adjusted to the new situation. Sex and work were great, she smiled. But the question was how they would manage when the everyday life kicked in.
She didn't want to become one of the couples who started to fall apart because of it. Maybe this had been one of her fears all along. That one day they wouldn't even bother to talk to each other anymore. But on the other hand, their life had never been boring while being with each other. Moreover, could one really prevent it if it should be that way?
Jane drove to the side of the road, when she to see what was going on at the backseat. "Ae you okay?" Maura asked when coming to a halt.
"Yeah, its just that one of the boxes is moving around and I want to fix it." Jane nodded and Maura held the door while the brunette worked on solving the problem.
When her head reappeared from the car, the blonde pulled her into a tight hug. "I love you Jane." She whispered. Jane instantly replied the hug and said that she loved Maura too. They stood next to the road in the middle of nowhere and gazed at the stars. "There's the milky way" Jane said smiling and pointed to a group of stars.
"Yes. This is so beautiful. Just like you Jane." She whispered in awe. The brunette was silent. She had to get used to the compliments and Maura knew by the way Jane pulled her close again, to kiss her that Jane appreciated it.
"So, was this a proposal when you said Rizzoli-Isles?" Maura asked teasingly before they got back into the SUV.
Jane furrowed her eyebrows. "I said probably it will be a Rizzoli-and Isles. That states a possibility." she said mysteriously. Maura chuckled once more at Janes behavior. Jane thought about it, while driving on. It was far to soon to ask Maura, right? Even though it felt so right of thinking about them that way. She scratched her head, glancing at the blonde who was glancing out of the window.
"Would you say yes? I mean, only hypothetically spoken." She asked Maura after a while.
The blonde seemed to think about it for a while. "Hypothetically spoken I would say yes, yes." She stated after a while. Janes heart made a leap and she smiled.
Jane told Maura quickly what her mother had said when laying in bed. "That's really nice of her." Maura stated. Jane nodded, yes it was.
"Did you find your book?" the brunette asked rubbing her eyes. The blonde yawned and nodded. "I need it for work. That's why I wanted to check."
It felt good to have Maura so close and to know that she was loved. The brunette sighed stroking over the blonde's arm resting on her upper body. Maura moved a little closer as if she felt that both needed a bit more loving tonight.
They had always been great as a team, Jane thought. And she felt relieved that she hadn't always to be the strong one. That she could let her guard down around the blonde and be sure that she caught and protected her. Some might ask her if she hadn't forgiven Maura too fast, but she didn't think so. It would have been self-punishment to wait for more excuses. Besides Jane felt that life was too short to be endlessly mad at her. Life itself was complicated enough. And with her job she needed just that. To have a home and people to whom she could come home every night and feel safe and like herself.
If somebody asked her were her strength was coming from, she would say from being loved.
Of course, there would be fights, in which relationship weren't? but despite Maura dropping her in Paris she had no doubts that the blond would be there for her. They cared for each other and yeah, they were both complex persons, so it literally boarded to madness how easy they got along most of the time. But the secret to their success probably lay in the fact that they knew about each other's strengths and weaknesses and had learned not to temper but rely on each other and to let the other be who he was.
Jane was the organizing talent and physical strong. The protector on the outside. She had a temper which sometimes made her fly off, but Maura always knew how to sooth her. Her strength was to stay calm and reasonable and with that she had the power in her to bring Jane down from her wild emotions. Sometimes it was just enough for Jane if Maura's hand touched hers lightly to know that it was time to get down or cheer up. It was the same for work. Neither one told the other what or how to do the work. They trusted each other to do their jobs right.
Jane trusted Maura like Maura trusted her to fight for her or the kids when needed, because she was not so good at it herself.
And by trusting each other and being able to let everybody do what he could do best, they formed the perfect team and couple. And this is also why they would never fight about work and never had.
She bent down to give the blonde a kiss on her temple and Maura propped up to kiss Jane on the mouth. Right now, she felt as if Maura was healing her wounds with her love.
"Good night, baby. I love you." She whispered and Maura smiled in her half sleep.
"Good night, honey. Love you too." The blonde mumbled and her breath became even. Jane also fell asleep quickly.
After sleeping in and having some great breakfast – by now the sugar free stuff had also moved in at Janes – the four of them drove of with the boxes to the house. Some rooms needed a fresh paint. Maura started while Jane unloaded the boxes and stashed them in the future living room to the walls. Unlike the house in beacon hill this mansion, as the brunette secretly called it, was not furnished at all.
It would probably take the whole summer and a lot of work until Maura could live there. But Jane noticed that she didn't mind having them in her apartment for a little longer.
The only thing which bugged her was that there was no possibility to sit down to have a rest after carrying what appeared to be tons of books or stones into the house. She would talk to Maura later about it. This house needed at least some chairs. Especially when Frankie, Tommy and Korsak would come over in a few weeks to help them with their work.
The brunette was hot, even though only wearing shorts and a tank top. Maura's glances at her body didn't escape her though and she chuckled when the blonde popped her head into the living room, when she was done with emptying the cars.
"Uh oh." Maura mumbled when Jane took off her tank top, asking Maura if they could pleaaaase put on the ac. The kids were playing in the backyard and Jane chuckled when she heard a lot of laughter floating in from outside.
"I put on the sprinkler for them." Maura smiled. "Looks like they like it."
Jane liked it too. Hearing that there was cold water she decided to join Julia and Sophie to freshen up. The shorts were shed as quick as the tank top and soon she walked into the water only dressed in her black underwear.
When she glanced to the deck after a while, she found Maura sitting on the steps leading into the garden, clearly checking her out. The brunette walked over and held out her hand. Maura laughed and tilted her head saying no. So, Jane decided to take matters into her own hand and swiftly lifted the blonde from the steps and carried her to the water.
Maura was laughing and screaming, and the kids paused to enjoy the scene. The brunette let Maura down softly when she was wet like the rest of them.
"Gracious god." Maura mumbled under her breath and it appeared as she couldn't stop laughing. "I never thought that this could be so much fun."
Jane by now had totally other thoughts when seeing the blonde's nipples harden under a soxx t-shirt Maura had 'borrowed' a few month ago. She got wet in other places and hoped that they would get the opportunity to make love later.
The kids were still playing in the garden when Maura and she continued painting the kid's bedrooms. There would be one for each. And everyone had gotten to choose their favorite color last week. To Janes surprise Julia had gone for a light pink while Sophie had chosen a light blue because they usually wanted to have the same things.
When they returned to her apartment that evening, they were all pink and blue. The kids who had been tired from running around all day fell asleep early.
"Didn't you once mention a bubbly bath with a glass of wine?" Maura asked rubbing her nose which was all pink, a hopeful glance in her eye.
Jane grinned. "I can recall saying something like it."
Maura nudged her slightly. "All right." She laughed. "I'll have the bath ready and you bring the wine. Deal?" It somehow sounded like a date Jane thought.
The blonde agreed and walked towards the fridge while Jane hurried to prepare the bath. Whilst letting in the water she put up candles to the room and lit them. By the time Maura arrived she was already lying naked in the tub.
The blonde gasped and Jane could see that she loved it. Both sucked in the smell of lavender which was filling the room and creating with the candlelight a very romantic setting.
"What happened to the wonderful invention of electric light?" the blonde teased her, letting her body glide into the water taking a spot in between Janes legs.
Hell, the brunette thought and felt her body becoming alive again. She silently wrapped her arms around Maura's body and the blonde put her arms around Janes.
"Uh, somebody taught me, that candles are a wonderful invention too." She smirked loving the feeling of being skin on skin with the blonde.
She could already feel Maura's nipple harden and softly moaned. Her left hand left the embrace and gently wandered down towards Maura's midst to find a hardened clit. Maura gasped at the touch of it by Janes long fingers.
"Oh my god Jane. Please don't stop." She groaned when the brunette moved her fingers around the bundle of nerves. When Jane felt that Maura was getting close to the edge, she slightly moved her fingers a little further down and pushed two of them deep into the blonde who almost immediately came with a deep and satisfied moan making Jane feel even hotter.
When in bed, they continued, kissing passionately, mating with their tongues. Maura shifted so that she sat on top of Jane who felt the wet folds on her belly. She held her breath when the blonde played with one of her nipples. She was already so wet and aroused and enjoyed the sensations Maura's touches sent through her system. She had a hard time holding back load moans and bit her lip when a hand finally dipped in her wetness.
Closing her eyes, she felt how fingers pushed into her, pushing and pulling until she came.
The blonde slipped to her side and gently kissed her. Both were sweaty and panting, but incredibly happy. Jane wrapped an arm around her, and they snuggled. Her hand was playing with a strand of Maura's hair. Only one more week she thought and then they would have a week off.