Coming back from his memory AJ still saw Jane waiting for him to come to her. The woman who had just come into the house was also waiting patiently for him to move, she didn't just go to him, but waited for him to decide. Slowly a smile again appeared on his face and he reached out his hands, the sign for the adults that he wanted to be picked up.
Maura had waited not wanting to interfere with the situation. She wanted AJ to be able to trust other people and not inhabit the social awkwardness she had as a child and young adult. She was happy that he already seemed so taken with Jane and trusted her. Maura kept on looking at the scene that was playing out in front of her. Jane picked AJ up, gave him a reassuring squeeze and then turned so they could say hello to Angela.
"AJ, this is my mom Angela. You want to say hello to her?" Jane asked holding the toddler on her hip.
Like with Jane AJ took a long look at the woman before he smiled. He reach out his hand and with a smile said. "Hi I am AJ Bryson, that stands for Alexander James!"
"That is a really nice name you got there AJ, I am Angela, I am Jane's Ma." Angela said shaking the offered hand and smiling at his good behavior.
Maura took that moment to make herself known. She had picked up Sophia from her play ben and now walked to the two Rizzoli women.
"Angela." Maura said, stopping to stand besides Jane and taking a short look at AJ who seemed happy in Jane's arms.
"Oh, how sweet. Who is this little princess in your arms?" Angela asked, already letting her hands pet over the small girls strawberry blonde hair.
"That's Soph. She is my baby sister." AJ explained. Turning to face Maura and reaching out his hands, wanting to be held by his auntie.
Jane was about to tell him that Maura was already holding Sophia, but she saw Maura already changing Sophia's position to make room for AJ.
"Hi there little monkey." Maura said kissing the small boy's forehead, smiling when she felt the boy lean into her burrowing his head in her neck and taking a calming breath.
Jane was comfortable and funny AJ thought, but Maura was home. Since his mom had gone to heaven Maura was the safest place for him. She was like his mom had been to him and Sophia, always there and always protecting them.
Jane looked at her friend and knew that smile on Maura's face, content and at peace with herself. She could watch these three together for hours. She turned to say something to her mother, when she noticed that her mother had turned pale.
Maura had also turned and seen the state Angela was in. She quickly brought to the two children to the playing part of the living-room and told AJ to play nice with his sister, before turning back and going to the kitchen, where Jane had brought her mother.
"Angela, how are you doing?" Maura asked, worried because she had never seen the matriarch of the Rizzoli family so quiet. Maura looked and Jane questionably, wanting to know if she knew what to do. Jane just shook her head, only having seen her mother like this once before, when Tommy was arrested.
Standing there, they waited for Angela to speak, thinking that that was the best solution. They didn't have to wait long. Angela looked up from the floor, her eyes looking at the two woman in front of her. "These kids Maura... these kids are yours aren't they?" Angela asked.
Jane had to give her mother some credit. She had found that out rather quick, but when you saw all three of them together it wasn't that hard. Sophia looked like a mini Maura and even though AJ had brown hair and green eyes, his face had Maura's aesthetic bone structure and you could already see that he was going to be a heart breaker. "Yes mom, those are Maura's kids. Have a seat and Maura will explain what you need to know."
So for the next half and hour Angela, Jane and Maura stood in the kitchen, explaining most of all, leaving out some details, which were of no importance for Angela in Maura's opinion.
"And what about your parents? Do they know that they now are grandparents?" Angela wanted to know. She had wanted to be a grandmother for ages and 4 month ago, Tommy had made it possible, not the way she had wanted, but little TJ was her pride and joy.
"They know Angela and have already met AJ and Sophia when they came to London to help me." Maura explained remembering the interaction between the four. She had not known how her children should call her parents and was about to introduce them as Richard and Constance when both Richard and Constance knelt down and had introduced themselves as their grandparents. AJ had looked shocked and turned to look at Maura for guidance. She had explained to AJ that these were her parents and that since AJ and Sophia hadn't had grandparents before, that from now on her mother and father would be their grandparents. AJ had a huge smile on his face and Sophia even though she did only understand bits of what Maura had explained squealed happily feeling that the mood had relaxed. AJ had taken some time to warm up, but now couldn#t be happier when seeing his grandparents.
"How do they call them?" Angela wanted to know, somehow having a strange sensation in her stomach.
"AJ calls them grandma and grandpa, which seems to make mother and father very happy and Sophia sound for my mother and father is both "gra", she is only one so has some difficulties." Maura said smiling fondly at her daughter in the living-room.
Angela was relieved. She knew that Maura was not her real daughter, but Maura could not mean more to her if she were her own flesh and blood. She ha been a savior for the whole family, never asking for anything in return. She would have to ask Maura later, about what was on her mind, for now there was a dinner to plan.