Jane POV

I traced my fingers across her skin, so warm and smooth like silk sheets. I run my lips from the swell of her abdomen below her bellybutton, tracing it with my nose, up to the valley between her breast. Her scent intoxicates me, while her pulse increases under my touch. I burry my face between the soft mounds of flesh planting a deep kiss in the center of her chest. A deep hum vibrates my lips as I kiss her alabaster skin. I hear her needy whimper as her fingers wrap around the back of my neck. Her chest arches up, pressing her closer to me, I cannot resist the smile that stretches across my face. I raised my eyes to her face; her wanton needy expression stirred a warmth within my belly. My hands glide up her sides and engulf her breasts. They were so soft and heavy. I groaned out in astonishment, "These are so amazing!"

She let out a soft laugh, "You say that every time."

I punctuated each word with a kiss, "Well" kiss "they" kiss "are" kiss "glorious!" I engulfed her right nipple , tugging with my lips until I released it with a pop. Her fingers had threaded themselves in my hair, and were massaging the back of my head. I moved to her left breast, again kissing her skin between each word, "And" kiss "you" kiss "taste" kiss "sooo"... I hummed as my tongue traced around her areola, I resisted her hands pushing my head down. Her nipple was tightening with every circle of my tongue. After the 5th circle I enclosed the nipple with my lips and begin to gently sucked on it while caressing it with my tongue. A sigh of relief followed by a moan reached my ears. I continued my oral caress enjoying the rolling of her hips and her massaging fingers and the pleased hum coming from her throat.

I was so deeply engrossed into her pleasure that I almost missed her question, "How do I taste?" her voice catching as my tongue flicked across her nipple.

"Hmm?" I hummed, not pausing my menstruations on her body.

Her fingers enclosed around the roots of my hair pulling my head up and off of her nipple. She looked at me with hooded eyes, "You were saying how I taste?" Her voice growled deep with lust.

I smirked, knowing that it was me, my hands and my mouth, to make her like this, "Divine. My love you taste, look, and are divine."

She laughed falling back onto the pillows releasing my hair, moaning, "Oh Jane!"

Then I woke up.

The pain in my side shot through me, making me catch my breath with a hiss. I groaned sitting up on Maura's couch. That dream! That glorious dream! She was such a vision of lust and exquisite beauty. I know I was a little foggy form the meds I had taken earlier but the lingering sounds of Maura moaning was making me dizzy. Then I felt a tightening in my chest, a squeezing twisting pain. Tears filled my eyes and spilled down my face. I wanted that, that dream and so much more. I didn't know if I could do this, how I would be able to keep this up. Pain from having my ass beat I could handle. Being shot and stabbed, all that I could take in my stride. But this? The longing... I've never felt this before. I am a coward and Maura deserves better than that. I was going to find the moment, a perfect one, and tell her. No expectations, just hope and love, and pray it was enough.

I wiped the tears away when Ma came in the living room with a tray of food and my next round of Meds.

"Oh good! You're awake! How was your nap?"

"Good." I tried to hide the sniffling.

"Oh honey are you still hurting?"

"Yeah just a little."

"Well don't you worry, some food and your meds, and you will feel right as rain."

"Thanks Ma!" I looked up with a grateful smile, "Where's Nana?"

"Oh she and Maura are sitting on the terrace enjoying a cup of tea."

I scarfed down my food. I must have been really hungry. I took my meds under Ma's watchful gaze. "You want to check under my tongue?"

"Do I need to?" Ma smirked taking the tray away.

I go up and looked out the French doors leading to Maura's little garden. A little mix between English and Zen she had called it. There were roses and flowers in raised beds, with a Kio fountain, and a ying and yang symbol at the center of a little labyrinth, made of smooth black and white stones. Peaceful, it was peaceful in that garden. Many times I had watched her doing yoga, sipping tea, or meditating. I rarely walked out there. I wasn't a creature at peace, it felt wrong to try and disturb hers. So I watched as she drank tea with my Nana. Smiling, laughing, and listening.

Maura POV

I sat with Jane's Grandmother, listening to her old tales of young Jane, Frankie, and Tommy. They were spirited little hellions it seems. Rosa was finishing up a tale of how Jane had climbed a tree to retrieve Frankie's hat that some bullies had thrown up there. They had been taunting the Rizzoli's calling them chickens. But Jane climbed the tree retrieved the hat then punched the bully in the nose, a kid a head taller than her.

"But that's my Janie! Brave to the core!" Rosa spoke proudly. I nodded proudly and looked at Rosa whose smile soften, "Until now." She finished looking out into my garden.

Confused I asked, "What do you mean?"

"Jane has always strived to give to others. Her spirit has always been a giving one. That child had the strongest sense of right and wrong. She would do what she felt was right, rules be damned! She was a girl of action, never stopping to think of the trouble she could get herself into. She simply asked if it was right, and if she believed it to be just she would do it! When it came to helping others she is selfless and courageous!"

"Oh I am very well aware to the lengths she is willing to go for others. Time and again I have watched her survive the unimaginable just to keep someone safe."

"Until it comes to someone she wants. Then the girl who never thinks before she acts cannot halt the thoughts of doubt in her head."

We sat quiet for a moment listening to the trickle of the fountain, "Did Angela tell you?" I asked quietly.

"My daughter only confirmed what my eyes already see. I could incinerate Rome with the fire in your eyes when you look at her; and the rest of the world with the flame in hers." I couldn't keep the red from my cheeks. "But I wonder why you have not acted on this?"

"You know very well that your Granddaughter cannot be rushed."

"You are already wiser than my daughter. But how long will you wait?"

"How long will it take?" I spoke as a statement and less as a question.

Rosa smiled at my answer, "My Granddaughter is a very lucky woman indeed. Just don't let her make you wait too long! You are in your prime! And it is not to be wasted, that is the real sin!"

"Oh I do my best! But it's difficult to be seductive when you look like a beached whale."

"Nonsense! My Janie doesn't have a good poker face, and that girl sees something; and it isn't a whale!"

We laugh. It felt so good to talk about my feelings, so freeing. "What does she see I wonder?"

"Oh she sees her heart beating."

"What do you mean?"

"My husband, God rest his soul, said that when he saw me for the first time it was like seeing his heart beat. His entire world both literal and spiritual was tied up in someone else. He was a good husband and an even better Father."

"You must miss him very much."

"Only every day. I have had many lovers, but none can come close to him. He loved my soul. And that kind of love is impossible to have twice." A warmth spread across my chest at hearing Rosa's story. She tilted her head, "No one has ever looked at me that way, like my Toni did. I haven't seen a look like that until today, in the eyes of my only Granddaughter." I was blushing again. "Come Maura, enjoy it! Bask in it! I promise you this, that once you get her into your bed... you will never leave it dissatisfied!"

We both laugh and I notice Jane looking out the window at us. We lock eyes and she smiles softly. I return her warm smile. I see the fire in Jane's eyes that Rosa had been talking about before. A possessive hunger filled my head, "I hope you're right Rosa."

The old Italian woman smiled at both of us, "It's a guarantee my dear! A guarantee!"

Jane POV

I was sitting in bed reading over a report while Maura was going through her nightly routine. Since the guest house didn't have much space, my Nana was staying in the guest room in the main house. But baby Kate would be here any day now, so I was staying over to help Maura when it was time. This past week we both had taken medical leave so we would be ready when the moment came, and when Kate opens her eyes I will be there looking into them. I look at Maura's reflection as she is washing her face and applying one of her night creams. She is a Goddess. I read in one of her million articles about pregnancy and the hormones her body was giving off, that this reaction was a natural way to protect the expecting mother from predators. Hormones or not, she was radiant. Even if she was wearing a huge t-shirt that hung down to her knees. She walked in the room and sat down on her side of the bed with a huge sigh.

"Maur? Hey how are you doing?" I asked as I put the file down.

She sniffled, "I'm so tired of being pregnant."

"Awww I know, and I am sure Kate is feeling the same way."

"You better believe it! She keeps kicking and moving around. I swear she is going to play soccer."

I hold in a chuckle, "What hurts?"

"All of it!" she gestures to who whole body, "My feet, my back, my internal organs!... my boobs..." She inhaled a shaky sob.

My throat went dry, her boobs where huge! I remember the morning after her milk came in... WOW! They were so big, I just wanted to touch them... I wondered if they felt as heavy as they looked. I cleared my throat and asked gently, "Would you like for me to rub your feet or you back first?"

"Feet please." She whispered.

"Okay love, just turn and lean back against the pillows." I helped her center herself on her pillows to support her back. Once she was adjusted I pulled her feet into my lap and gently massaged them to help with her circulation in her feet and ankles. I was about to ask if it was helping when a deep moan came from Maura's throat. I smirked, liking that it was my hands that instigated such a heavenly erotic sound. I kept up my menstruations as long as she kept making such wonderful moans.

"Jane." She moaned and I almost stuttered.

"Yeah?" I rasped.

"You are a heaven send, I don't know what I would have done without you. This whole time you have been so very supportive and loving. Thank you." She opened her eyes and her green eyes were dark.

I nodded, "My pleasure." I helped her to scoot down the bed and arranged her pillows for the night: one for her head, one long body pillow under her chest, stomach, and between her knees. Then there was one more behind her back, that I would lay between her body and mine to help support her back. After I helped her snuggle into her bed, I would turn off the light and snuggle up behind her. Soon I could hear her steady breathing. Maura was so very lovely in the moonlight, so I stayed awake just to watch her and follow the rise and fall of her ribs with each breath. "It really is my pleasure to be here with you Maura. I'm glad that Kate's other DNA donor isn't here, because I don't think I could bear knowing that he was here holding you while you slept, that he was the one watching you so intimately. I want so much to make you mine. Maybe someday I will find the courage to look you in the eye and tell you how much I really love you. I can only hope in that moment that you too feel something for me or are at least willing to try." I stayed awake a little longer and then I too fell asleep.

We hadn't been asleep for very long when suddenly pillow lands in my face. I bolt straight up in the bed and gasp. "Jane?!" Maura gasps. The pain evident in her voice. "My water broke!" I realized then that the bed was wet and I flew out of the bed propelled into action but I collapsed as my feet were tangled into the sheets. "Jane? Are you okay?"

I jumped up only slightly winded, "Yeah I'm fine! How far apart are you contractions? Are you breathing?"

"Yes Jane I am brea... OH WOW THERE IT IS AGAIN!" She leaned forward groaning loudly. I was pulling some jeans on hopping up and down on one foot. "7 minutes. They are 7 minutes apart."

I buttoned up my jeans and pushed my feet into my loafers, "Okay the go bags are in the car.

"Jane! I'm... Oh! I don't know if I can do this!" Maura groaned out.

"Oh yes you can! I know you can!" I kneel down in front of her, "You use that brilliant brain of yours and you know everything about how to have this baby! You are strong! She is strong! You both are very healthy! Everything is going to be fine, I know it!"

"You promise?" Maura's tears pulled at the strings on my heart.

"I promise! Now let's go and meet our girl!"