Chapter 7
"I got an idea today and I already set things up with Maura and I wanted to run it by you guys." Jane sat at her desk and watched as both Korsak and Frost gave her their full attention. She turned to Korsak. "When you said three of the girls were from moneyed families and when you described what lengths the parents went through to keep their identities hidden. I thought about it for awhile and then I thought of why Maura would react the way she did to the first crime scene." She saw when the answer came to both men at almost the same time. "What if she was one of the little girls from 30 years ago? Maura is going to meet with Constance tonight and ask her if she was ever involved in a situation like this. She wants me to go with her and I will."
"Wow. That never would have occurred to me." Korsak said as he leaned back in his chair to think about what Jane had said.
"But it makes sense. How's Maura taking it?" Frost asked from behind his desk.
"Out of sorts. How would you feel at the possibility that your parents would withhold something as big as this from you? I'd feel betrayed." Jane sat at her desk pondering how she would really handle it. "I think that Ma would find me very unreasonable and say she had my best interests in mind at the time. But I would have been one of the girls that either rebelled or would spend all my waking minutes trying to find the bastard."
"Maybe that's what happened here. If Maura is one of the kids maybe her mom did have her best interest at heart when she used her money to keep things hush hush. The press was pretty brutal back then. They didn't let up on the cops or the families until long after the investigation came to a standstill. Maybe that's why Doctor Isles felt compelled to become an ME so she could help others who couldn't speak for themselves."
"That could very well be Vince." They all turned as Maura spoke from the doorway.
Jane jumped up and almost ran to her. "We weren't talking about you Maura. Well we were talking about you but not in the way you think. We weren't gossiping we were talking about you in context to the case. It's not like we sit here and talk about you…ok I'm going to shut up."
"Thank you Jane I know that you were not talking about me in a bad way but Vince does have a valid point. I never could understand my compulsion to be a pathologist when I could have been whatever kind of doctor I wanted to be. I could have saved lives instead of dissected people to find out what killed them. Why did I choose this profession?"
"Because you don't need the accolades or the money? You're a private person and as brilliant as you are you would have ended up in the limelight and that would have killed you." Jane smiled at her as if she had just solved all of the problems of the world.
"You may be right about that. Jane can I talk to you for a minute?" She waited for Jane to stand up and follow her out of the bullpen. She turned when they were both in the hallway and Jane almost bumped into her. "I'm scared Jane. I'm scared that you may be right about my parents withholding information as important as this from me. I'm scared that if it's true then my whole life has been a lie."
"No Maura your life has not been a lie. If it had been then you wouldn't be here with me. You wouldn't love me as much as I love you. If it did happen it happened for a reason. Maybe we'll find that out later when we talk to Constance. Who knows maybe this will all be for naught."
"Did you just say naught?" Maura smiled up at Jane.
"See if it weren't for you I never would have used a word like that. Your life has meaning, if it's for nothing more than to increase my vocabulary at least you made a difference." Jane took Maura's chin in her hand and raised her face so she could look in her eyes. "If this happened to you as a child then it made you who you have become and I love that person very much." She leaned in and kissed Maura gently. There were a few catcalls from officers passing by and the surprised look on Maura's face was what Jane had been working for. "See I don't care who see us, I want the world to know that you are mine and that I love you."
Maura's smile grew and she looked at Jane with a devilish delight. "Shouldn't we have told Angela first?"
"Oh shit! Come on." She took Maura's hand and ran to the elevator. "I'm not doing this alone." When the door closed behind them they found themselves alone in the elevator and Jane pinned Maura up against the wall and captured her lips in a torrid kiss. Neither woman noticed when the door opened.
"Jane Rizzoli what are you doing?" Angela yelled when she saw what was going on in the elevator.
"Oh hey Ma Maura and I are dating." Jane gave her mother a silly grin.
"Is this the way I find out? Not that I didn't already know. Get out of there and come with me." Angela grabbed Jane's hand and led them into the diner. She sat them down at a table and went to get coffee for the three of them. "How many other people knew before you told me?" She gave Jane a hurt look but Jane could see the twinkle in her eyes.
"Well let me see. Frost and Korsak figured it out. And there are a couple of shocked but apparently not surprised cops upstairs and then there's you."
Maura still hadn't said anything, she was too shocked to say a word. She had remembered Jane saying that she wasn't comfortable with public display of affection yet here she sat holding her hand in a very crowded diner filled with cops who knew both of them. A few were giving them angry looks but for the most part there were grins and lots of money changing hands. "Jane I think people have been placing bets on us."
"What are you talking about Maura?" Maura just looked around at the other patrons in the diner. Jane watched as one cops slapped another on the arm then held out his hand as the other cop placed money in it. "Hey Jones how much did you make?"
"Twenty bucks. Thanks Rizzoli." He smiled back at her.
"You only bet twenty? Oh ye of little faith you could have made so much more." Jane turned back to Maura with a huge grin on her face. "You ok Maura?"
"I think she's in shock Jane. You're still holding her hand." Angela looked at Maura and smiled.
"Jane I thought you'd want to keep this a secret?" Maura looked around at the other patrons who seemed to have gone back to what they were doing.
Jane brought Maura's hand to her lips and kissed it. "Maura I never wanted to keep you a secret I just wanted to tell people when I was ready."
"But you had said you didn't like public displays of affection?" Maura was still confused.
"Until I met you I wanted to keep my public and private lives separate. But since we work together and I may want to kiss you during the day the chances of someone seeing us are pretty high." Jane watched as it sunk in with Maura and she smiled brightly. "Thus, kissing here in the diner or in the morgue or…" She looked at her mother with a smile. "the elevator may become common place." She leaned over and gave Maura a quick kiss. "So you're ok with this Ma?"
"Of course I am. How long has this been going on? And why did it take so long for you to tell me?" Angela looked between the two of them.
Jane looked at her watch then at Maura. Maura answered for both of them. "18 hours and 32 minutes with a few seconds here or there."
"Are you kidding me? I thought it's been going on for months. That's why I was upset about not being told. So it's been less than a day huh?" Angela smiled back and forth between the two women. "I guess getting beaten up did accomplish something. So when are you moving in Jane? And you've just doubled my chances of getting lots of grandbabies."
"Ma! Don't you think you're getting ahead of things here?" Jane looked frantically at Maura for support and her grin said that none was forthcoming. "So you're not going to help me?" Maura just smiled at her as if to say you're on your own. "Ma we've been going out for less than a day and you already want me to move in and start having babies? Give us time to get used to the change in our relationship ok? Besides we have a couple of murders to solve."
"Ok I will leave you alone for the time being, but once this case is over you can count on me to start in on both of you again." Angela looked at both of her girls sitting across from her and she couldn't remember ever seeing them as happy as they looked right now. She reached out and placed her hand over the top of their clasped hands and gave them both a serious look. "I'm happy for both of you. Maura welcome to the family for real now. You've always been like one of my own and now you are."
"Ah Ma now ya made her cry. I hate it when she cries, I don't know how to deal with it." Jane looked at her mother for help.
"Well Jane you had better get used to it if your family keeps saying sweet things like that. Angela, you have been like a mother to me ever since I became Jane's friend and I am glad you feel the same way. But as Jane said we need time to explore this new side of our relationship. With this case we haven't had much time to explore as much as we would like so if you can just give us time it would be greatly appreciated."
"Oh I'm sure the two of you have many things you would like to explore if you know what I mean." Angela nudged Maura with her elbow.
"Ma! Are you really sitting here talking about my sex life? I can't believe you." Jane stood up. "I've got work to do." She turned to Maura. "I'll see you at 6:30 if not before." She leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. "Love you."
Maura smiled up at her. "I love you too. See you later." Maura watched as Jane left the diner. When she turned back towards Angela she was smiling brightly. "What?" Maura asked Angela
"I've always thought the two of you were good for each other but now that you are together I can see that you will be good for Jane. She's happy and I can see that she makes you happy too. And I have twice the chance if getting grandbabies now."
Maura threw her head back and laughed but then sobered almost immediately. She wondered if Jane wanted kids and if she wanted them with her. "Angela I think I need to go."
Angela grabbed her hand before she had a chance t stand up. "Maura Jane has loved you for a very long time. She may not have even admitted it to herself but she has. She wants kids, she told me that in one of her weak moments but she didn't think she'd ever find anyone to put up with her and her job. Now that she has found you I'm sure that hasn't changed. Give it time."
"How did you know what I was thinking? I didn't know until just now."
"You have such an open face. For a minute there you looked scared and I figured it had something to do with the fact that we were talking about children. Don't worry about it, I'll give you two plenty of time to talk about it before I really start bothering you." Angela stood and kissed Maura on the top of the head. "I need to go in the back and make some sandwiches if you guys insist on working on a Sunday. Don't worry it will all work out fine."
"I hope so." Maura said as she stood up and walked back to the morgue. For the rest of the day she had problems concentrating on anything but having children. They identified the woman and Frost made the notification while Jane was at the hospital talking to the child.
Jane came into the morgue after she finished talking to the little girl. "She was in shock Maura, we couldn't even get her to say her name let alone give us any information about her abductor. She did whisper to her mother that he was always in the dark so she didn't see his face. Maybe that's been the case all along, he's kept himself in the dark so no one could identify him." Jane looked up at Maura and she looked like she was in a trance. "Maura are you ok?" Jane walked around her desk and took Maura in her arms. "Sweetie what's wrong? Another one of those feelings?" Maura could only nod her head. "Let's go home and have a quiet dinner before we have to go see your mother." Maura nodded her head again. Jane grabbed her phone and called Korsak. "Hey Korsak Maura's having problems again, I'm going to take her home. I'll talk to you tomorrow." She hung up the phone then grabbed Maura's jacket and helped her into it. "Let's go sweetie. Let me make you a quick dinner and we can relax for an hour or so." She wrapped her arms around Maura and helped her to the car.
After Jane had started the car and took off she turned to Maura. "Thank you Jane."
"Want to talk about it?" Jane asked gently.
"It happened when you started talking about him being in the dark. I saw a man in shadows and a bare light bulb swinging behind his head. This isn't déjà vu Jane, these are flashbacks. Now more than ever I need to talk to my mother to find out what is going on."
"I'm here for you, you know that right?" Jane asked tentatively and reached for Maura's hand. She felt relieved when Maura squeezed it tight.
"Yes Jane I know you are here for me, that's been the one constant in my life since we met. Have I ever told you what I thought of you the first day I met you?" Maura asked as she leaned her head on the headrest and turned her head to look at Jane.
"Other than being a bossy bitch you mean?" Jane turned her head towards Maura and smiled.
"Oh contraire my friend I thought you were the sexiest woman I had ever seen." Jane gave her a look of surprise. "Yes sexy. You walked up with those sexy long legs and you were wearing a torn sweatshirt and jeans with holes in the knees and I wonder how anyone could make those clothes look so damn sexy."
"It was my day off and Korsak called me and told me I didn't have time to change so I left right then and there. You thought I was sexy huh? How could someone who showed up at the crime scene in Gucci and three inch heels think torn jeans were sexy?"
"Oh you were oozing sex. I never thought I would ever think anyone in anything other than designer clothes would be sexy but you could have knocked me over when you walked up. You took command of the crime scene with nothing more than your presence. Up until that point Korsak had been the senior officer so everyone seemed to defer to his seniority but when you walked up the atmosphere changed drastically. It was palpable, I didn't even have to look up from the body to feel the change but when I looked up I almost fell over right there. I looked into your eyes and saw the laughter you were trying to hide as everyone made jokes about your attire. And when you squatted down next to me and asked me what I thought had happened, that voice sent shivers up my spine and it still does to this day." Maura squirmed in her seat as the memories came back. She looked over and watched as Jane squirmed a little too.
"I couldn't believe you were the new ME. At first I was happy that there was going to be another woman on the team. And the fact that you were really easy on the eyes didn't hurt either. Then when you called blood a brownish substance I couldn't believe you were for real. Then when I came down to the morgue later and saw you in those black scrubs all I could think about was what you would look like out of them. Now that I know I kick myself for all of the time I have deprived myself of your luscious body. Think of all the years we've lost."
"No Jane think of all the years we have ahead of us. We can always make up for lost time but we can't regret losing it. It gave us the time to really get to know each other better than most couples do in the course of their relationship. We didn't need to impress each other like couples feel the need to do. "
"You mean all those skin tight dresses weren't for my benefit?" She turned to Maura and pouted. "Here I thought all this time I watched that tight little behind sashay down the hall you were doing it for me." Jane was happy when she watched Maura throw back her head and laugh.
"I didn't say I didn't want to impress you I just didn't feel like I had to. There's a big difference. I never thought you would ever love me like I loved you so there were quite a few days when I dressed to please myself but with you in mind." She turned her head back towards Jane and watched a smile widen on Jane's face.
"Oh baby you have no idea what those dresses did to me and still do. There were quite few nights I went home and took cold showers, and I even used the showers at the precinct a few times in the middle of the day. It was more often than not that a shower didn't do the trick and I had to take care of myself." Maura watched as she blushed.
"I took care of myself while I was in the shower. Maybe you should let me show you how many different ways my shower heads can please you." Maura smiled as she watched Jane blush and even deeper shade of red and squirm in her seat. "Maybe I can even show you what I do to please myself when you aren't there. I pretend my hands are your hands and I scream your name as I come."
"Ok Maura stop…were not going to make it home if you keep talking like that. Can you imagine the talk around the office tomorrow when we have to explain how one of our fellow officers caught us naked in the backseat of your car?"
"What makes you think you'd make it to the backseat?" Maura reached over and ran her finger around Jane's ear, knowing it was one of her sensitive spots. She smiled when Jane's head leaned towards her hand. "We could move the seats back and do it right here. " She moved her hand down and unbuttoned one of the top buttons on Jane's shirt and her hand slid in to cup one of her breasts and she tweaked one of the swollen nipples.
"God Maura you can't do that! We're going to have an accident." Maura started to move her hand but Jane grabbed it to hold it there. "Just hold it there, we're almost home." Maura leaned over and ran her tongue in and around Jane's ear and was pleased with the moan that escaped Jane's lips. "Oh man you are going to kill both of us."
"Oh but what a way to go." Maura heard the tires screech as Jane pulled into the driveway and the garage door was just barely up far enough for the car to enter when Jane hit the gas again. She turned off the car then hit the button to close the door and ran around to Maura's side of the car and opened the door and grabbed her hand and almost pulled her out of the car. All Maura could do was laugh and follow her.
Jane could not believe how turned on she was. She could not remember ever feeling like this. They just barely got inside the house before Jan pushed Maura up against the wall and attacked her neck with her mouth. "I can't believe you did that to me while I was trying to drive." She ripped the front of Maura's blouse open. "You have no idea how turned on I am right now."
Maura groaned as she felt Jane cover her nipple with her mouth and bite down. "If it's…half as turned...oh god…as I am…damn…then I'm in…oh my god Jane…trouble." Maura felt Jane's knee push up against her oh so wet center and she couldn't stop herself from rubbing against it.
Jane removed Maura's shirt off and threw it on the floor somewhere behind them then went to work on her skirt. "God you are so beautiful. I could just stand here all day and look at you." She moved her knee back and forth to let Maura know that she was going to follow through on her actions. "Tell me what you would do to yourself to relieve the tension of the day Maura."
"God Jane… you can't expect me to talk…when you're doing this to me do you?" Maura moaned as Jane's leg moved faster and she rubbed harder against it.
"Do you want me to stop?" Jane knew she wouldn't but Maura didn't.
"Hell no don't stop Jane." Jane reached behind Maura and unzipped the skirt then lowered it down her legs. Maura stepped out of it and kicked it aside. "Jane I need to feel you…please." Maura was not beneath begging if that's what it took for Jane to keep doing what she was doing. Jane reached down between their bodies and soon Maura heard a ripping sound then felt Jane slowly pulling her lace panties up through her wet folds. When it slid over her overly sensitive clit she almost came right then and there. "God Jane I'm so close. I want you inside me please." She gasped when Jane's hand snaked between them again and she entered her none too gently with three finger and used her knee to push them in as far as she could. "Ahhh. Don't move for a minute. I want this to last a little longer."
"Oh I can promise you this will go on longer than you think. We have the whole night ahead of us and we have so much exploring to do." Jane pulled back slightly then pulled her fingers almost all of the way out then plunged them back in again before Maura even had a chance to realize what she was going to do. "God I love you Maura." Jane said as she kissed her neck then licked where she had just kissed.
"Oh Jane! That feels so good. I am sooo close…JANE!" Maura felt her whole body start to convulse and Jane held on for the ride. "I Love You Jane." She almost screamed her declaration of love. Jane pumped her fingers as fast as she could wanting to make sure the orgasm lasted as long as she could make it. She slowed her fingers and held Maura against her lovingly.
She felt Maura go slack and she realized Maura had passed out. She carefully picked her up and walked back to the bedroom and gently laid her down on the bed. She removed Maura's bra, the only piece of clothing left on her then stepped back and admired her body unashamedly. She finally removed her own clothing and lay down next to her and pulled the blanket up to cover the two of them. She rested her head in her hand as she stared down at the woman next to her. She reached forward and moved a stray strand of hair from her face and leaned down and kissed her forehead. She gently ran her finger through Maura's hair and waited. Maura began to stir a minute before Jane started to get worried.
Maura slowly opened her eyes and looked up into the charcoal brown eyes of the most beautiful woman in the world. She finally realized she was in her bed and no longer in the living room. "I passed out didn't I?" Jane smiled and nodded her head. "I've heard about that happening but it has never happened to me before." She reached up and caressed Jane's cheek. Jane turned her head and kissed her palm.
"Are you ok?" Jane asked worriedly. "You were out for about 5 minutes and I was starting to get worried." Jane leaned down and kissed her gently.
"Oh I am more than ok. I am excellent." The smile on her face was radiant and Jane felt her chest puff out knowing she was the cause of it. "I swear if you were standing up you'd be strutting like a peacock, proud of yourself aren't you? As well you should be. I've always thought of myself sexually experienced but I have never felt what you made me feel." She rose up and pulled Jane down for a toe curling kiss then pushed Jane over so she was on top of her. "I wonder what it would take for you to feel the same as I felt."
"I don't think so." Jane's smile was like a challenge to Maura. She felt Maura's tongue on her neck and she knew she was lost. "Damn Maura has anyone ever told you that tongue should be registered as a lethal weapon?" Her hands were fisted in the sheets and her hips moved of their own accord.
"Are you going to arrest me for carrying a concealed weapon?" Maura looked up at Jane with a devilish grin.
"Only if you want me to." Jane said in her sexy gravelly voice.
"Maybe we'll save that for another time. Tonight it's all about being able to touch and be touched. I want to touch you everywhere and you can feel free to do the same thing. But for right now it's my turn to make you feel good." Maura slowly kissed her way down Jane's body paying special attention to her numerous scars and bruises. Kissing them and licking them to show Jane that they not only did not disgust her but she thought of them as a part of Jane.
"Maura don't." She tried to push Maura away from her gunshot scar. She was still self conscious about it.
"Jane it's a part of you, it shows me how brave you are and how much you care. So never be ashamed of one scar on this magnificent body." She smiled as she watched Jane blush. "You have at least four that are directly connected to me so those are mine to do whatever I want to with them."
Jane gave her a confused look. "How can they be yours and where do you count four of them?"
Maura was lying on top of Jane so she had access to all of them. She scooted up just enough to touch then kiss the slight scar on her forehead from where she had head butted the guard. "Bet you forgot about this one. It's so faint you can hardly see it anymore but I know it's there and I know why it's there. Then there is this one." She repeated her actions on the scar on her neck. "We have almost matching scars, yours is a little worse because it seems he cut on the same spot all three times he cut you. You have no idea how scared I was when you didn't show up at your apartment that night. I thought I'd lost you to him." She showed extra attention to her neck and soon felt Jane's excitement building again. "Let's move on shall we?"
"Maura are you trying to kill me. I love all the things that you said but the things you are doing are driving me crazy." Jane's hips nudged Maura to give her a hint.
"Good things come to those who wait Jane. And good things will definitely come." There was that evil grin again and Jane smiled back. "Now where was I?" Jane pointed to her neck. "Ah yes. Thank you." Her lips made a slow descent down her neck to just above her breasts and stopped then looked up at Jane and Jane gave her a don't you dare look and Maura just laughed. "Making love with you is so different than any other experience I have ever had. I have never been playful during love making but with you it feels like I can be."
"Maura you can be as playful as you want to be as long as you get on with it." Jane gave her a playful but slightly frustrated look.
"Are you getting frustrated Jane." Maura asked innocently but her eyes said she knew exactly what she was doing to her. "Now you know how I've felt for the last 6 years." She lowered her head and took a very hard nipple into her mouth and listened as Jane moaned and knew she found her new favorite sound. She continued to lick and kiss her way over every inch of Jane's abdomen. "I love that you keep yourself in such good shape. Your Transversus abdominis are perfect for a woman of your size and stature." She licked around her belly button and could feel the muscles quivering beneath her hand. She decided it was time to stop the teasing, besides she wanted to hear those moans again. She moved her fingers to Jane's oh so wet opening and plunged them in with no warning.
"Aw shit Maura! That feels sooo good. More I need more." Maura added another finger to the two that were already pumping in and out at a furious pace. "God Maura…sooo…" Jane couldn't say anything more before her world turned upside down with the strongest orgasm she has ever had. She reached down and stopped Maura's hand because she couldn't take anymore. "Stop. I can't take anymore." She pulled her hand back and it just flopped on the bed. "I have no strength left in my body."
"Does that mean if I wanted to keep going you couldn't stop me?" Maura moved up and lay down beside Jane and rested her head on Jane's shoulder.
"I probably couldn't stop you but I'm begging you to let me rest." She wrapped her arm around Maura and pulled her close and sighed when Maura snuggled closer. "I've never liked to snuggle but with you I can't get enough of it. I've always liked to touch you because you respond so well to my touches but now I want you here all the time."
"I feel the same way." Maura raised her head and gave Jane a very gentle kiss then laid her head back down.
"Love you." Jane said very quietly and when Maura looked up she had fallen asleep.
"I love you too." Maura pulled the sheets up over both of them and lay there until sleep consumed her.
Maura woke about an hour later and looked at the clock and shook Jane awake. "Don't wanna get up it feels too good to just lay here with you."
"I agree with you but we need to leave for my mother's house in about ½ an hour so get up." Maura kissed Jane's cheek and headed for the bathroom to get ready.
Jane was ready in 20 minutes and was sitting on the couch waiting for Maura when she came down the hallway. "Damn woman you are gorgeous. I feel frumpy next to you."
Maura looked over what Jane was wearing and thought she looked great in the dark jeans and dark jacket. "You don't look half bad yourself." Maura walked over and took Jane's hand then led her out the door.
They arrived at her parent's mansion right on time and they were escorted to the sitting room where Constance sat drinking coffee. She looked between the two women and sensed that this was not friendly visit. "Why do I have the feeling this is not a cordial visit."
"Because it's not mother I have a few questions that I need the answers to and I need them now." Maura was not beating around the bush and Jane saw that for once Maura was not afraid of her mother. "Jane and I are involved in a case that seems to bringing back memories that I know I would never have forgotten had it really happened to me. Was I kidnapped when I was younger and forced to watch a woman be tortured and killed. Did this happen to me?"
Jane watched Constance closely and she saw a slight twitch in her right eye but if it was a reaction to Maura's statement she was able to hide it very well. "Maura dear I would surely have told you if anything like that had happened to you. And as you said that isn't something you would have forgotten easily. I'm sorry forgive my manners. Would either of you like some coffee?"
"No mother we're not staying. Are you sure this never happened?" Jane stepped forward as if to intervene but held herself back to give Constance a chance to answer. "Where's father?"
"Your father is in Geneva for the week." Constance finally stood up and walked towards Maura and stopped directly in front of her. "This is not something a mother keeps from her only child. Nothing like this ever happened to you." She raised her hand and gently caressed Maura's cheek. "I would have told you."
Jane knew something wasn't right but she couldn't put her finger on it. One thing she did know was that Constance, even if she knew something, was not going to tell them anything tonight. "Come on Maura let's go. She's not going to help us."
"But Jane…" Maura looked back and forth between Jane and her mother.
"Come on Maura." Jane took her hand and almost dragged her out of the house. Once they had left the house Maura stopped in her tracks and Jane was swung around and almost crashed into Maura. "Damn Maura you trying to break my already bruised ribs?" For the first time in the last 24 hours she grabbed her ribs in pain. "I almost forgot they were hurt, thanks for the reminder."
"I'm sorry Jane I didn't want to hurt you, are you ok?" Jane just nodded. "Good now maybe you can explain why you just pulled me out of my parents house as if there was a plague or something in the house."
"She wasn't going to tell us anything. She knows something but for some reason she isn't going to say anything. Let's just give her time to think about it and approach her again tomorrow. Let's go home and get comfortable.
"But Jane if she knows something I want to know it too. Why can't we go back in and get her to tell us?" Maura was even more confused than when they first got here.
"Remember when you say I'm one of the best interrogators you've ever seen? Well that's because I can read people. Your mother is afraid of something but she's not in this alone so I think if we give her time to talk to whoever she needs to talk to she'll talk to us when she's ready. It won't be long. Be patient." Jane leaned forward and kissed Maura. "Let's go home ok?"
"Ok, you're the people person so if you say we can't do anything then I guess we wait." When they got home Maura turned on the Sox game and Jane settled in on the couch why Maura went out to the kitchen and prepared a plate of things then poured a glass of wine and grabbed a beer for Jane then joined her on the couch. They watched the Sox win and then went to bed. "Jane can we just snuggle tonight?"
"As long as you're beside me then it's just fine." They both went through their nightly routine then Jane walked through the house checked all the doors and joined Maura in the bedroom. She lay down on her side of the bed and when Maura moved closer she wrapped her arm around her. "Stop worrying about it Maura Constance will come through for you but on her time schedule."
"How did you know what I was thinking?" Maura rested both of her hands on Jane's chest then rose up to look at Jane.
Jane reached up and stopped Maura from chewing a hole through her lip. "Because you're chewing your lip as if someone had lathered it with your favorite chocolate ice cream." Jane leaned up to kiss that very same lip. "Now relax I have a feeling we have a long day ahead of us."
"Ok I will try. I'm not saying I will sleep but I will try." She lay her head back down and Jane pulled her close and just rubber her fingers up and down her arm until Maura fell asleep. Jane finally closed her eyes and fell asleep too.