The number of people who showed disgust at the mention of Ian truly made me laugh. I really wanted to write Maura slapping him but since ya'll didn't wanna see him appear, I've decided to honor your wishes.

Also, the end of the chapter has smut. :-)

On with the show!


"I have been thinking about something," Maura stated as she slid into her bed with Jane after their bathwater had grown cold. They had put on undergarments but left pajamas in the dresser drawers, preferring skin to skin contact.

"Anything in particular?" Jane inquired, smiling as Maura wiggled her hips, silently encouraging Jane to drape her arm across the blonde's midsection as per usual.

"Yes," Maura confirmed as she placed her hand over Jane's and rubbed soothingly over Jane's scar with her thumb.

"Are you gonna tell me what it is that you've been thinking about?"

"I know that we have only been officially together for about a week," Maura began before Jane quickly interrupted.

"But we've kinda been a little bit together for a while," Jane laughed as she kissed the nape of Maura's neck.

"This is true," Maura laughed. "Which is why I don't feel as though asking you to move in with me is a terribly ludicrous idea."

"You want me to move in with you?" Jane asked, a smile growing on her face.

"Yeah," Maura said as she nodded, her hair tickling Jane's face as she did so. "I don't know if I'll get my sight back," Maura stated simply. "But what I do know is that I want you to live here with me. I want your things mixed with mine in the bathroom and the closet and I want to have days where we never leave this bed and I want to have nights where we laugh on the couch until three in the morning without worrying about you driving home."

"You want my inability to make a bed and my desire for cocoa puffs and instant coffee for breakfast and my horrible singing in the shower?" Jane asked with a chuckle.

"All of it, Jane," Maura replied. "I want you here."

"Can I bring the punching bag dummy Korsak and Frost got me as a get well present after I shot myself?" Jane teased.

"I still cannot believe they got you that," Maura attempted to scold. "You were supposed to be resting. But, yes, you may bring the punching bag. We could even turn the guest bedroom into a work-out room for you. I know you have free weights and I am sure we could make it work for you to have a room to work out in. Since I have my yoga room…"

"You would do that for me?" Jane asked hopefully. Never in any of her past relationships had she been with someone who so willingly offered to do things for her the way Maura offered.

"I would do so many things for you, Jane, if only you would let me."

"I know you would, Maur," Jane admitted as she began to pepper the back of Maura's neck , her shoulders, and anywhere else she could reach with soft kisses.

"So…That's a yes?" Maura asked. "You'll move in with me?"

"I'll start packing tomorrow," Jane murmured in between kisses, grinning when she felt Maura squeeze her hand in excitement.


"So," Jane announced once she shut the door to her apartment and leaned the stack of unfolded boxes against the wall. "Where do we start?"

"We should go room by room," Maura stated. "Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room. Pack the important and large things first and then go back for the small knick-knacks and such."

"I don't have many knick knacks," Jane laughed as she grabbed a few boxes and the packing tape. She nudged Maura with her elbow which prompted the blonde to grasp Jane's elbow and be guided down the hall to Jane's bedroom. Once in Jane's bedroom, Maura sat on the edge of Jane's bed as Jane quickly assembled two of the cardboard boxes.

"Would you like to take the closet and I can take the dresser?" Maura asked. "That way we can tag team the packing?"

"Sounds good to me," Jane smiled as she watched Maura rise and slowly make her way to Jane's dresser. Her steps were timid since she was not as familiar with Jane's bedroom without her sight but when her fingers brushed the dresser, she exhaled softly in relief that she had made it. Jane brought a box over to Maura and placed it next to the medical examiner. "I love you," Jane said as she kissed the dimple that appeared on Maura's cheek.

"I love you, too," Maura smiled as she turned her head to capture Jane's lips in a proper kiss. Maura slipped her hands under Jane's t-shirt, smiling against the detective's lips when she felt that Jane had forgone an undershirt. She slid her hands up Jane's abs slowly, her hands stopping abruptly just below Jane's bra as the brunette moved her mouth from Maura's to her ear, kissing the freckle just behind the lobe she had dubbed her favorite freckle. She loved it because she had soon discovered it made her girlfriend weak in the knees.

"Have I ever told you that this is my favorite freckle of yours?" Jane murmured into Maura's ear.

"You may have mentioned that once or twice," Maura managed to reply, regaining use of her hands and sliding them up the few inches needed to cover Jane's breasts. She squeezed the bra covered breasts gently, both women unable to hold back moans.

"Is it bad that I don't wanna stop?" Jane asked, her hands traveling to Maura's jean clad ass and pulling their pelvises closer together.

"I don't either," Maura breathed as Jane bit the skin surrounding her freckle gently, soothing it with her tongue after Maura gasped.

"But we should," Jane groaned as Maura's hands tightened over her breasts.

"Saturday," Maura said as she took a step back and pulled her hands reluctantly from Jane's chest. "Saturday at 10:17pm, there will be no stopping."

Jane groaned at the thought, never having felt this level of excitement for sex for any of her former partners. She gave Maura's ass one final squeeze before letting go and turning to the closet, her heart racing.

"Mind if I put on some music?" Jane asked, already pulling a set of iPod speakers from her closet and plugging them into her wall.

"Not at all," Maura said, still attempting to calm her racing heart as she began to pull clothing from Jane's drawers and fold the items before placing them in the box. Music filled the room, though it was music Maura was not familiar with. "I like this," she stated after a song had finished and another began.

"Thanks," Jane smiled as she pulled shirts and pants from hangers, folding them not nearly as neatly as Maura was folding the clothes from the dresser. "That college girl we interviewed a few weeks ago about her friend's death wouldn't stop talking about this band called We The Kings. She had one of their t-shirts on and anytime there was a few minutes where we weren't talking to her, she'd put her headphones in and listen to the band. When we closed the case, she came to the station and gave me copies of their CDs. Said it was her way of thanking me."

"I didn't know that," Maura said, remembering the way Jane and the young woman were so eerily similar with their sarcasm and dedication to friends.

"Yeah," Jane replied. "She told me that she and Lisa always made each other CDs and that, since she figured Lisa would have liked me, she wanted to make me some."

"She reminded me of you."

"Really?"

"Mmhmm," Maura confirmed. "She was sarcastic but underneath that I think she was in quite a bit of pain from the loss of her best friend and every other thing that she'd been through. She seemed to be so dedicated to helping her friend's family find some closure and when she spoke of her after graduation plans her eyes lit up like yours do when you're passionate."

"I guess she and I were kinda similar," Jane thought. "She was a great kid. I feel like if I ever had a kid, I'd want them to turn out like her."

"Do you want children?" Maura asked tentatively, keeping her back to Jane. She and Jane had barely spoken about having children before becoming a couple and she was uncertain as to whether talking about having children now that they were a couple was acceptable.

"I think so, yeah," Jane admitted.

"Really?" Maura asked, unable to mask the surprise in her voice. Angela had always told Maura that Jane insisted she would never have children and Jane herself had made comments about being more than happy just being Auntie Jane to little TJ.

"Yup," Jane said. "I know that I tell ma I'm never gonna have kids and that bein' Auntie Jane is more than okay but I'd really like to be a mom. I guess I just tell people that I don't wanna be a mom as one of those defense mechanisms you're always telling me I'm so good at. So that way if I ended up without kids then I wouldn't be disappointed."

"That makes sense," Maura said, her heart fluttering with the thought of one day having children with Jane.

"What about you?" Jane asked as she continued to pull clothes from her closet to be folded. "Do you wanna be a mama?"

"Yes," Maura replied with a soft smile. "I've always liked the idea of having a child biologically as well as adopting one. Raising them as siblings."

"You'd be a great mama," Jane told Maura.

"So would you," Maura replied.

"Maybe one day we could both be mamas," Jane suggested. "Together."

Maura spun around to look in the direction of Jane's closet, desperately wishing she could see her girlfriend's face to detect emotions.

"Are you serious?" Maura asked, both scared and excited to hear Jane's answer.

"Totally," Jane smiled as she looked over her shoulder to see Maura's face light up with a smile. "Could you imagine what our kids would be like? They'd have my crazy hair but hopefully your eyebrows because I only had one eyebrow for, like, the first 5 years of my life and they'd be able to make a science fair project about the effect wind speed has on softball games."

"They would have your gorgeous olive skin," Maura said as she imagined their child standing in front of a science fair poster. "And maybe only a fraction of your sass."

"Your eyes," Jane thought.

"Your smile," Maura added.

"Your heart," Jane said.

"Your heart," Maura retorted with a smile.

"Dance with me," Jane said as a slower song came on her iPod speakers.

"Jane, we won't get anything packed if-"

"Just this one song. Please?" Jane said, putting as much whine into her voice as she could muster.

"Fine," Maura laughed as she set the shorts she was folding into the box and followed the sound of Jane's voice, laughing as Jane quickly grasped her hands and pulled them together. The two began to sway to the music and Maura smiled when she heard some of the lyrics.

You're the perfect melody

The only harmony I wanna hear

You're my favorite part of me

With you standing next to me

I've got nothing to fear

"Is it scientifically possible to have a mixture of both of us in this dream child that we will not be telling my mother we've dreamt of?" Jane asked, breaking Maura's concentration on the lyrics.

"Very much so, yes," Maura smiled as she rested her head against Jane's chest. "One of us would donate our eggs to be mixed with donor sperm and then that would be implanted into the other of us. For example, you could donate your eggs and I could carry or I could donate my eggs and you could carry."

"You'd look really cute with a little us growing inside of you," Jane said as she imagined what Maura would look like with a growing belly and eating pickles at midnight.

"Breasts can grow up to a full cup size during pregnancy," Maura stated, smiling when she felt the vibrations in Jane's chest from a groan.

"I'm not scared," Jane admitted as the song ended but neither woman made a move to separate.

"Neither am I," Maura said with a smile.

"The minute any other relationship I've had started talking about kids or marriage or anything beyond our next date, I always got scared. Scared that they would get too close or try to change me or use what I'd told them against me one day. But…I'm not scared with you."

"I'm glad," Maura responded as she pulled her head from Jane's chest to kiss her girlfriend softly. "I love you," she murmured against the detective's lips.

"Love you more," Jane smiled.

"Love you most," Maura said triumphantly as she stepped back from Jane's arms to resume packing.

Shaking her head, Jane turned back to her closet to finish emptying it of its contents.


"Since I'm only planning on staying at the station for half a day, did you want me to pick up something for lunch on my way home?" Jane asked the next morning as she finished butting up her shirt and turned to face Maura who was sitting at the island drinking her morning coffee.

"That would be nice," Maura smiled. "Let me give you my credit card so I can pay," she added as she slid from the barstool and walked to the closet where her purse was.

"You don't have to do that, Maura," Jane said as she pulled her boots on and zipped them up.

"And you didn't have to take over a week off of work to keep me company," Maura stated as she slid her card into the back pocket of Jane's jeans, squeezing Jane's ass playfully as she did so. "Let me treat you, Jane. Take care of you."

"Okay," Jane nodded. "I should be back around 1 this afternoon," she added as she kissed Maura's lips. "You promise to call me if you need anything?"

"I think I can manage 5 hours alone, Jane," Maura smiled.

"Maura," Jane said as she placed her hand on the doorknob to the front door.

"I promise I will call you if I need anything," Maura said with a soft laugh as she heard Jane call "love you!" over her shoulder before closing the door and heading to the station.

Jane arrived at the station just before 8am, receiving warm welcome backs from officers as she walked into the building and headed to the squadroom. She greeted Korsak and Frost with a grin as she plopped into her chair and looked around the room.

"Feel good to be back," she announced as she kicked her feet up onto her desk.

"Good to have ya back, partner," Frost said as he flicked a paper football in her direction.

"Yeah, we've missed you around here," Korsak added. "Your instinct could really come in handy with this new case we've got."

"New case," Jane stated as she pulled her feet from her desk and turned to the board they had set up in the squadroom. "I read the files you sent me yesterday but catch me up on what I gotta know."

The three detectives began to work, falling back into a comfortable rhythm even though Jane had been gone for over a week. They tossed ideas around and enjoying the occasional joke as they dug though the crime scene photos and any other evidence they could gather.

The three were laughing at something that had happened just before noon, tears in Jane's eyes when the tell-tale funeral march began to play from Jane's phone.

"That's Maura," Jane said, taking a deep breath to calm herself but launching into laughter again when she looked at Frost. "Hey, Maur," she laughed as she picked up the phone and wiped tears of laughter from her eyes.

"Jane," Maura said and Jane immediately held her hand up to shush the other detectives and took a few steps away from the noise of the squadroom.

"Maura, what's wrong?" she asked, noticing the tears she could hear in Maura's voice and the sniffling that Maura made no attempt to hide. "You're crying, Maura. Why are you crying?" she asked nervously.

"The photo frame you gave me on our date on Saturday," Maura said, her voice shaking as she cradled the frame to her chest.

"Did Joe jump onto the counter and knock it off and break it?" Jane asked, praying that was what had Maura in tears. "Cause if she did I can totally withhold treats from her for the next month and then buy you a new frame. Really, nothing to cry about."

"She didn't break the frame, Jane," Maura laughed as she looked down at the frame in her hands.

"Then why are you crying?" Jane asked, confused as to why Maura was laughing in the midst of tears.

"These are happy tears, Jane," Maura informed Jane. "The photo frame you bought me…" Maura trailed off, running her fingers over the frame. "I can see it."


Jane made it back to Maura's home in record time, barely remembering to pull the keys from the ignition before bolting up the stairs and flinging the front door open.

"Maura?" she called as she slammed the door and scanned the entryway for her girlfriend. Maura suddenly appeared in front of Jane, her eyes clearly able to focus on Jane for the first time in over a week. "Maura," Jane repeated as the medical examiner threw her arms around Jane and hugged her tightly.

"I can see, Jane," Maura said into Jane's neck, giggling with the sheer joy of being able to say she could see. "I can see," she said again as she pulled her head away from Jane's neck to look at the detective's face. She couldn't stop her hands from reaching up to cup Jane's face as she studied the face of the woman she thought she might never see again.

Jane couldn't help the tears that welled in her eyes as she saw the way Maura looked at her with such pure love and excitement.

"How many fingers am I holding up?" Jane asked, pulling away from Maura slightly and holding her hand up.

"Four," Maura laughed as she looked at Jane's hands in front of her face. "Seven," she stated as Jane added more fingers. "I love you, too," she laughed as Jane held up the sign language symbol for 'I love you.'

"You can see," Jane smiled as she felt a moment of incredibly ridiculous energy fill her bones, encouraging her to lift Maura off her feet and spin her around. Maura laughed as Jane spun her and when the spinning stopped she wrapped her legs around Jane's waist rather than allow Jane to set her down on her feet.

"We should call Dr. Gao," Maura said as she continued her studying of Jane's face, smiling widely. "Let him know that I've got my sight back."

"Or," Jane said as she extended her neck to kiss the freckle behind Maura's ear lobe that she loved. "We could celebrate," she whispered in Maura's ear.

"I like that plan better," Maura smiled as she crashed her lips to Jane's, smiling against Jane's lips when she felt Jane begin to walk to the stairs that would lead them to the bedroom. They made it to the bedroom safely, surprising both women since their lips only parted for quick breaths and their bodies were radiating with excitement.

Jane gently laid Maura on the bed once they reached the bedroom and grinned as she saw Maura's eyes open and focused on her. She quickly crawled on top of Maura and captured her lips again. Their kisses continued to grow heated until Maura was the first to pull away.

"I want to see you," she breathed as she began to unbutton Jane's blouse with fingers trembling with excitement. "Naked," she clarified as she managed to finish unbuttoning the blouse and pushed it of Jane's shoulders. Jane quickly shrugged out of it, tugging her tank top up and over her head immediately after.

"Your turn," Jane smiled as she slid her hands under Maura's sleeveless blouse and began to push it up, helping Maura into a sitting position so she could pull the shirt from her torso. Noticing Jane's distraction by her breasts, Maura seized an opportunity to roll them over so she was the one straddling Jane.

"I like the view from up here better," Maura laughed when she saw Jane's eyes widen at her stunt. She pressed a kiss to Jane's lips as her hands slipped underneath Jane and deftly unhooked her bra, pulling it from the detective's body and tossing it over her shoulder. She bit her lip as she then reached behind her own back to unhook her bra and throw it to join Jane's on the floor.

"Good God," Jane breathed as she saw Maura's breasts free from constraint.

Maura smirked as she leaned down to press her torso to Jane's, loving the gasp that escaped Jane as their breasts pressed together. Maura had thought Jane would be hesitant to make love or need guidance but when Jane slid her hands between their breasts to firmly grasp Maura's, those thoughts left the blonde's mind.

Maura's hands didn't stay still for long as she raised her hips for easier access to Jane's belt buckle, which she quickly undid and then moved on to the button and zipper of Jane's slacks. She hooked her fingers into the waist band of both the pants and Jane's panties and tugged, pushing them down as far as she could with her hands before using her toes to push them down the rest of the way, ginning at the plop sound they made as they hit the floor.

Maura allowed herself a moment of pleasure as Jane's hands continued to firmly massage her breasts, a grin on the detective's face as she watched nipples harden with every swipe of her thumb. Maura watched Jane stare at her chest, blushing when Jane's eyes flicked up to meet hers.

"You've got too many clothes on," Jane smiled as she reluctantly let go of Maura's breasts and moved to the button of Maura's jeans, unbuttoning it and pushing the zipper down. "Take them off," she commanded.

With a smile, Maura moved to stand next to the bed, keeping her eyes locked on Jane's who had propped herself up on her elbows to watch Maura slowly push her jeans down and kick them off to the side.

"Get up here," Jane nearly growled after she allowed her eyes to take in all of Maura's body and found herself unable to wait a moment longer to feel their bodies together.

Maura quickly moved back to her position straddling Jane, smiling as she felt Jane's hands come to rest on her hips. They locked eyes and held each other's gaze before Jane laughed softly and shook her head.

"What?" Maura asked with a smile as she looked at Jane's smiling face.

"Nothing," Jane replied as she ran her hands up and down Maura's sides. "I've just never been this excited to have sex with anyone before."

With those words, Maura once again leaned down to press she and Jane's breasts together, kissing the brunette fiercely. She used one hand to prop her up and slipped her free hand between their bodies, letting it trail down Jane's abs before reaching the wetness that was already waiting for her.

"May I?" Maura asked coyly, batting her eyelashes as she allowed her fingers to dance around Jane's inner thighs.

"You certainly may," Jane breathed, trying to keep her eyes open to maintain her eye contact with Maura but failing when she felt the blonde slowly slide a single finger inside of her. After a few strokes Jane forced her eyes open, only to have them flutter closed as Maura pushed a second finger into her.

"You are so beautiful," Maura said, honesty filling her voice. "So beautiful and all mine," she added as she continued her leisurely pace sliding in and out of Jane's warmth.

"Maura," Jane sighed, sending shockwaves right to Maura's own clit as she heard Jane moan her name. "More," she asked. "I need more."

Maura smiled at the way Jane was already on her way to begging for more after only a few minutes. The blonde continued her relaxed pace, slowly adding a third finger to the others, letting out a sigh as she felt the tightness around her fingers. Maintaining her pace, she began to curl her fingers upwards as she pulled out, a cocky grin on her face as Jane let out a low moan as she did so.

"What's the magic word?" Maura whispered in Jane's ear, taking the lobe between her teeth and biting it softly.

"Oh, God," Jane gasped as she felt Maura's thumb brush her sensitive clit as Maura curled her fingers upwards.

"That's not it," Maura smiled as she stopped all movement expect for her kisses down Jane's neck.

"Please," Jane begged, feeling as though she was going to explode if she didn't achieve release soon. Never had she felt this aroused and certainly none of her previous partners had her begging for more after less than 10 minutes. "Please give more."

Maura smiled and began to piston her fingers in and out of Jane quickly, placing her lips over Jane's to capture the moan that the detective couldn't hold in. The only sounds in the room were wet and breathy as Jane's wetness nearly dripped from her and her breathing became labored.

A nanosecond before it happened, Maura felt Jane's inner walls clench around her fingers before Jane cried out Maura's name. Jane's hips lifted off the bed of their own accord and, since Maura was still poised above Jane, the heel of Maura's hand that was still inside Jane brushed Maura's clit and the blonde realized just how close she was to her own orgasm.

Despite being close to her own release, Maura continued to move her fingers in and out of Jane, slowing her fingers down to ease Jane down from her climax. The brunette couldn't help but shudder as last jolts of pleasure shot through her under her body went limp.

"I think I've died and gone to Heaven," Jane managed to say, groaning softly as Maura pulled her fingers from Jane. When Jane was able to open her eyes, she was greeted with the sight of Maura bringing wet fingers to her mouth and sucking them, sighing in delight as she did so. "Yep," Jane confirmed as she watched Maura taste Jane's juice. "I've died. You better call it," she said as she turned to face the alarm clock. "Time of death is 1:07pm and cause of death is Maura Isles."

"I'd feel like a horrible doctor if I didn't try to revive you," Maura smiled as she pressed her lips to Jane's, sliding her tongue into Jane's mouth. Jane groaned as she tasted the tart flavor of her arousal on Maura's tongue and felt a surge of energy flow through her body. She flipped the pair over so Maura was on her back and Jane was the one on top.

"You've revived me," Jane grinned as she bent her neck down and took one of Maura's nipples into her mouth, eagerly swirling her tongue around it. She catalogued every movement and the corresponding sound it caused Maura to make into her mind, eager to find out every weak spot the doctor had.

After paying equal attention to the other nipple, Jane looked up to Maura and winked before placing kisses down the doctor's stomach until she reached a bare yet glistening apex. Like Maura, Jane had been nervous that she would need guidance to make love to a woman but when she ran her tongue from the base of Maura's slit up to her clit and Maura's hands immediately tangled in Jane's hair, Jane's self-doubt flew from her mind.

Maura couldn't stop herself from threading her fingers through Jane's hair and holding her girlfriend to her body, desperate for release. She forced herself to keep her eyes open and, with the help of the pillow her head rested on, angle her gaze down her body to watch Jane eagerly lick, suck, and occasionally nibble at her most sensitive area.

"Inside," Maura gasped as she felt Jane's mouth attach itself to her clit and suck gently. "Please, Jane. I need you inside me," she managed to say in between gasps.

Jane looked up from her position between Maura's legs, never stopping her sucking. When Maura's gazed latched onto hers, she swiftly entered the blonde with two fingers and mimicked the actions Maura had done to Jane—rapid stokes while curling upwards as she pulled them out. And that was all it took.

Maura's entire body tensed up momentarily before her thighs began to shake and Jane's name was cried out from somewhere deep in Maura's throat. Jane continued to stroke Maura through her orgasm until Maura reached down to swat Jane's hand away, gasping that it was too much to handle.

Jane quickly scrambled up to encircle Maura in a fierce embrace, kissing her neck and shoulder gently as Maura caught her breath.

"Give me 5 minutes," Maura gasped as she attempted to catch her breath. "And then we can celebrate with round two."


Yay! Maura can see again!

I honestly wasn't sure if she was going to until I wrote this chapter. I planned from the beginning for her to get it back but then I got angry and was like "If my father didn't get his eyesight back, why should this fictional character get her eyesight back? Answer me that, universe." But, alas, I'm a sucker for happy endings.

Sorry if the smut isn't all that great. Hah. I've got an epilogue planned out for this story which I will start typing tomorrow but that will probably be it. But if you have story ideas you'd like to see, please PM me with them! I'd love to keep writing for this fandom!

Also, the song they dance to is Sad Song by We The Kings featuring Elena Coats. The title is Sad Song but it's actually one of the sweetest love songs I've ever heard. Give it a listen.