Once we were in the living room Maura handed me a box of contacts "I got your prescription refilled the other day and they called this morning to say they were ready"
"Thanks Maur." I said and ran to put them in, and when I came back I went to my nice convenient spot where I would be able to hear everything in the kitchen and still see the game.
"So... are you in school?"
"Yes"
"What are you studying?"
"Medicine"
"What type?"
"I want to be a Doctor"
"What kind of doctor?"
"A surgeon"
"What kind of surgeon?"
"A pediatric surgeon"
"Why a children's surgeon?'
"I want to help little kids they're cuter and peds is a more hardcore specialty"
"What made you want to do that? Experience as a child?"
"No I've never been operated on ever, there's this doctor that I look up to she's done amazing things she's one of my role models"
"Hmm, how did you meet Serena?"
"When Alex broke her arm after it was cast they came to the coffee shop in the hospital where I work."
"Oh, is that how long you've been dating because that was a few months ago"
"No we only began dating the day before last, we became friends and then started dating"
"What kind of friends? Not like that movie buddies with fucking or benefit friends or whatever it is?"
"No we weren't fuck buddies or friends with benefits, we were just close friends we would hang out at my house and watch TV and cuddle a little or if we fell asleep watching TV one of us would wake up and drag the other to my bedroom and we would fall back asleep and wake up in the middle of the bed snuggling"
"Hmm, where are you going to school?"
"Boston Cambridge University"
"Hmm Maura went there"
"I know she's a legend in my department of learning and we use one of her text books"
"Hmm is that so? How do I know that you aren't just using Serena to get to my Daughter-in law?"
"Well I'm not I wouldn't do that, I didn't know that Maura was her boss until a few weeks ago, and also because I am quite convinced that if that were the case your daughter would murder me and make it look like an accident or between Jane and Maura they could make my body disappear"
"I suppose they could, tell three good reasons why I should approve of you for Serena?"
"Umm okay well umm let's see I make her laugh, I make her smile, and I love her. I would never hurt her, I would and will take care of her if she is ever sick, I would drive to where ever to get her anything she wants even if it is on a whim."
"Okay okay I only said three, where did you grow up?"
"A very large estate just outside of town"
"Ah where did you go to school?"
"My parents sent me to a boarding school in Connecticut"
"How do I know you aren't going to use Serena or my family for their very generous attitudes?"
"Are you asking how do you know I'm not going to use them for their money?"
"Yes"
"Because I don't need to, I have my own large trust fund I don't need their money, even though Maura's fortune when her parents pass on is a bit more than mine will be I don't need their money, I have my own."
"Do you have roommates?"
"Yes I have three of them they all pay me rent and the money I get from that goes into my personal account along with the money I make and the coffee shop for me to use on whatever I want my parents own the house I live in, they pay my bills, they bought my car when I had it before it was stolen, and subsequently smashed, I now opt to walk, but I do have a Jetta that's a couple years old that I quite honestly prefer to my shiny Audi that they bought me for graduation. You know from the way Serena talks about you this is not what I've expected and I'm a little offended that your first thoughts are that I'm using your family or am out for their money. All I've ever hear about you from Serena are oh just wait until you meet Nonna she's going to love you! Oh and her food you will just die it's that amazing. Or Nonna's so awesome she's always helping out with this and that. Etc."
"Well she's right about that, I do like you I don't think that you're out to use my family in any way, and I am always helping out and my food is to die for."
"well now how do I know that you like me because I'm a nice person and not because like Maura I went to boarding school am going to become a doctor and have a huge mountain of money they call a trust fund?"
"Because you don't let people talk to you like that, you choose to hide your money, you work for a living at a coffee shop while going to med school that can't be easy and you are choosing to work"
"YES I KNEW IT JANE YOU OWE ME 5 BUCKS PAY UP!"
"UGH FINE HERE"
"WOHOO"
Okay so Jane and I were listening at the door some of the stuff Dylan said was complete news to me, but I knew that she wouldn't let Nonna talk to her like that would end up winning her over because of it.
"Dylan have you thought about when are you going to ask Serena to marry you? Oh have you thought about children yet?"
"Whoa hold it lady! I'm 22 not getting married until I'm done school at the very least, and as the rhyme goes first comes love THEN comes marriage THEN comes the baby carriage"
"Well now who do you think you are?"
"No Mrs. Rizzoli rings and babies is something you should be pushing down your 30 year old son's throats not the 22 year old girl dating your daughters autism specializing nanny who is amazing and smart and gorgeous"
"Okay okay I'll push them not you, so Have you guys had sex yet?"
"SERENA YOU OWE ME TEN BUCKS CALLED THAT HA!"
"CRAP UGH OK HERE"
"Umm well I'm not going to lie to you; yes we had sex for the first time last night after we had our first real date"
"MAKE THAT 20 KID"
"Well how was it? Was it everything you expected? I mean I've seen her play her bass guitar and her flute and her fingers move very precisely and deftly"
"Okay wow umm alright why are we talking about how the sex was?"
"Are you embarrassed or was it just not that good?"
"What wow no it was good no it was fuck it, it was mind blowing, we made love for 3 hours last night and it was probably the best sex I've ever had, you're right about her fingers though they are talented to say the least, but she does also have a way with words."
Once they started talking about how the sex was Jane and I both decided to quit eavesdropping, we both wanted to continue but at the same time we both wanted to stop. We went back to the game and a little while later Dylan came out with the bottle of White wine that Maura had opened the night before and 2 glasses and 2 beers, as well as 2 juice boxes. She handed Maura the wine and the glasses, who poured herself and I a glass, while Dylan handed the juice to the girls and passed one beer to Jane and keeping the other for herself. She took the glass that Maura had poured for me and came to sit with me in my chair. I stood up taking the wine and kissed her on the cheek, she sat down and I sat on her lap nestled into her, and sipped my wine.
"You and Jane were eavesdropping weren't you and betting too?" she asked out loud as Angela came into the room.
"Yes" I said "No we weren't" Jane objected
Angela and Dylan looked at Maura and then repeated the question to the woman who could not lie. When Maura had affirmed her suspicions Dylan looked to Angela "You owe me 20 bucks Angela"
"Jane Clementine Rizzoli" she began while Maura, Alex, Dylan, and I began giggling at the middle name "why were you eavesdropping and why were you betting on it?"
Pointing instantly at me "It was her idea ma honest"
"Jane you are how old and you're blaming an innocent 22 year old girl you really need to grow up and stop acting like a child. But honey, I'm glad you won"
Jane just looked at me and stuck out her tongue, to which earned her a slap upside the head from Angela, and a snort of laughter from me.
A little while later Frankie and Tommy showed up, and during that time Lia was a little tense so I recommended that she wear her vest while we ate and that we go for a swim after dinner. So we did that and we almost had an incident when Tommy was being insensitive to Lia, but was avoided by Dylan who distracted her instead thankfully.
After waiting exactly 30 minutes Lia, Alex, Dylan and I went for a swim and after a little while as it was getting late Maura called the girls in to say goodbye and get ready for bed. Dylan and I stayed in the pool for a bit then moved to the hot tub. While Dylan was in the hot tub I dried off and went inside to say goodnight to the girls and when I came back I brought my wine and a beer for her and descended the steps back into the hot water. I straddled her and leaned back so I was sitting on her lap while holding both drinks in my hand and took a sip of wine. Her hands had decided to rest on my waist, I gave her a sip of her beer before putting both on the ledge, winding both hands into her hair and kissing her deeply when I pulled back I said "I'm sorry about today, Nonna can be a little crazy" it's fine she assured me and kissed me sweetly, our foreheads rested against each others just enjoying the moment until Jane came out and interrupted us.
"Hey young love? Is it okay if the tale as old as time comes and sits in there with you?"
"What is she talking about?"
"Yeah that's cool but can you ask Belle if she's going to be opening another bottle there was hardly half a glass left in the other one"
Jane returned to the house and I moved so that I was sitting beside Dylan and I finished my wine when Maura came out. "The beast tells me that you need some more wine?"
"Mmm yes please, thank you Maur"
Shortly after she filled my glass her and Jane had joined us and we were talking about the day's events when Dylan interrupted to ask "Can someone please explain what Jane meant when she referred to her and Maura as the tale as old as time?"
"Haven't you ever seen Beauty and the Beast?" Jane asked
"A couple times when I was little why?"
"The song? Tale as old as time song as old as rhyme beauty and the beast?" Jane continued
"Anyways ignore her over there, Lia and I were watching it a while back and she made a very accurate account of which character reminded her of whomever in her family Belle or Beauty" pointing over to Maura "and the beast" pointing over to Jane.
"She did not!"
"She did Lia related Belle to Maura because she's always pretty and blah blah blah. And Jane to the Beast, but not when he's all scary but you know after the wolf attacks him? And Belle takes care of him? And when he starts to fall in love? Well then that version of beast. I wrote it all down somewhere; it was too funny not to write down. And as far as her reference we are clearly young love we're young our love is young, and though Maura never looks it Jane certainly does now and then but tale as old as time clearly them cause Jane is definitely old as time."
"Hey now cut it out. You remember how the other day Maura and I wanted to talk to you?"
"Yeah is everything alright?"
"Yeah we just wanted to run something by you."
"Okay go ahead"
"Well you know how you had said that if there were something to happen to use we should put in place precautions to look out for Amelia?" Maura began
"Yeah?"
"Well we were wondering in the unlikely event something should happen to us we want to leave the girls to the partial custody of Angela, and we would like to know if we could be able to retain you for partial custody. I know that's a lot to ask of someone who's only 22, and you can think about it for a couple days and if something happens in which you no longer work for us we can alter it at anytime, but we would like to stay on to help Amelia, you will never have to worry about money for them as you know, nor for yourself, but if they were both typical we would leave them to Angela but because they love you so much and you're amazing with Amelia we would really like it if you could stay with them both if that happened, the house would be left to you and the girls, as well as access to our finances, and accountants, however larger purchases of a certain amount or higher would require yours and Angela's signature, and you already know how to fill out and how to handle all the funding forms and other stuff with the school, her OT, etc. We love Angela but she's too old to figure all that out, she wouldn't know how to deal with it. But you already know the inner workings of our family, and you know how heavily we already rely on you but in the event that we are both gone we don't want Lia to lose you as well as I think that would really confuse her about death, but we don't want you to be out of a job."
"Okay umm wow that's a lot"
"Yeah I know, you can take a couple days and think about it"
"I think that you should those are all valid reasons and if in the event something does happen it procures your employment, and your new family as you refuse to tell me about your real family. And besides you adore those girls, I can tell because you wake up at 5 in the morning to take care of them"
"I agree, and I would be honored to do that for you guys. You guys mean so much to me, and have done more for me in the time I've known you than my parents ever did for me."
"You will?"
"Yes"
"See that wasn't so hard I don't know what you were so worried about Maur."
The four of us stayed in the hot tub for a while longer talking and Maura and I finished another bottle of wine, and Jane and Dylan had a few more beers. We all went inside and it was obvious to me that Jane and Maura were going to Boom-Boom. Dylan and I went back to my room showered and crawled into bed she was leaning against the headboard reading when I came in and turned on the TV mounted on my wall, snuggled into her after she put the book on the night stand and turned off the light. It was honestly as if we'd been doing this forever. We were watching some weird movie when I fell asleep.
I was woken up in the middle of the night by this weird moaning noise and I looked around and Dylan wasn't in bed anymore and I saw the light on in the bathroom. I went over to the door and asked if she was alright or if she needed anything she kept mumbling something like appendix and when I realized what she was saying I ran for Maura's room and pulled her thankfully not naked body out of bed and down to my room while trying not to wake the house. She went into the bathroom and then sent me to get Jane up and dressed and in the car, then to get Angela from the guest house, who was a little unhappy about being woken up but ultimately was okay when she realized this was serious.
The four of us were in the car me in the backseat with her head on my lap holding a cold compress to her forehead and rubbing her arm, trying to console her, while Jane raced across town siren and lights blaring.
At the hospital there were nurses and doctors waiting to take Dylan into surgery, guessing Maura must have called ahead I was probably too panicked to notice. The two of us were in the waiting room I was lying with my head in Maura's lap crying while she told me everything would be alright. Jane came back shortly after with more appropriate clothes and my glasses. Maura rolled my head to look up at her and took out my contacts and placed my glasses on my face so gently, I rolled over buried my face into her stomach and wrapped my arms around her waist. My quiet sobs began to slow and Jane sat beside Maura and placed my legs in the lap. I eventually fell asleep again exhausted from the worry and adrenaline rush and all the sobbing.
Maura shook my shoulder gently to wake me up "Hey there sweetie the doctors have finished operating we can go see her now okay? She's going to be hooked up to an iv and maybe a heart monitor but she should be coming out of sedation pretty soon, I'd bet she'd love to see you. Come on lets go get you cleaned up okay?" I shook my head and followed behind her. In the bathroom she wiped at my face with a cold paper towel to try and get rid of the puffiness, then handed me some more appropriate pajamas, as I was wearing boxers and sweater with just a bra underneath.
When I got to Dylan's room all I wanted to do was crawl into bed with her, but Maura wouldn't let me, so I stood beside her my face pressed against hers and kissed her temple and ran my fingers through her soft hair whispering things into her ear and holding one of her hands.