"I do." Jane and Maura exclaimed together. Blushes crossed both of their faces.

Before they could manifest their love physically, Maura interjected as doubt began to ebb her euphoric state. "We've been dating less than two months…"

"We've been dating for years." Jane replied. "We only just made it official and sexual a little under two months ago." Jane beamed.

A thoughtful expression crossed Maura's face at that statement.

"Well, I suppose when you pose it in that scenario, you do make a valid point." Maura conceded.

"Okay. I'm glad we're agreed. Now, Can we please finish what we were talking about?" Jane attempted to continue the dialogue about creating a family.

"Umm, well, I'm not sure I can, Jane. There are just so many variables to consider. All I've wanted, for so long, is to be with you. Now I have you, I don't want to jeopardize that." Was Maura's response.

"Listen up, Maura. I'm not going anywhere. I will tie myself to you in anyway you want. Marriage, I'll do it. Rings, you got it. Tattoos…eww, but I'll do it." Jane said with mock disgust and her patented smirk. "I just need you to believe nothing you say will scare me away."

"Oh, Jane…" Maura reached for Jane's offered hands. "How could I have ever deserved you?" She asked. Though, it may have been the first rhetorical question she ever posited. For, she hoped, with all her might, that she could be worthy of such an honorable woman.

Jane's reply, "I'm the one that doesn't deserve you. But, as long as you'll have me, I'll be here."

"If our baby comes out half as caring or generous or intelligent as you, they could do anything they want." Maura finally brought attention to the elephant in the room. Inadvertently, of course.

"Is that what you've been dreaming about? The child that could've been?" Jane pondered out loud.

"Physiologically, that possibility would not be available. However, I do fantasize about a child version of you." Maura offered.

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't have similar thoughts and dreams during and after my failed pregnancy. They're just not as frequent anymore." Jane said.

"But you still think about it? You could imagine going through the process again?" Maura queried.

"I don't know Maur. I'd love to have a chance at fulfilling that loss, I just don't know if I could handle the same result." The detective confessed.

"I have thought of an alternative. Would you like to hear it?" Maura supplied.

"Is it you getting pregnant? Because the idea of a mini you, is the greatest alternative I could think of." Jane responded. "I've pictured it, ya know? You being pregnant. I can hardly imagine what kind of weird cravings you would get. But I would run out at get it, even if it were the middle of the night. During a blizzard…" Jane's lip curled up on the right side of her face.

"I like the sound of that." Maura smoldered.

Jane took the flirtation as an invitation to envelop the doctor. "Did I guess right? Was that your alternative to me getting pregnant again?" Jane asked.

"You're really close." Maura responded as their bodies began to sway as if they had choreographed their movements a million times.

Jane's arousal was somewhat stilted by Maura's cryptic answer. The wheels were churning but she couldn't quite grasp what she meant.

"I'm not sure how I could be close. Either you would get pregnant or you wouldn't."

Maura gave a slight grin to Jane's confused expression. "Well, I was thinking. Since we know you were able to conceive once before, theoretically, your eggs are a viable option for conception again. However, I wouldn't want you to go through something so drastic again. My thought is, I could be the one to carry your fertilized egg. We would just have to find a sperm donor that we liked. We could go for someone with features or characteristics similar to my own, if that's something you'd be interested in. Or not, the baby wouldn't have to be anything like me…I know I'm not the most socially aware being around…"

Jane cut Maura with a kiss to the lips.

"Maur." Jane called out to get Maura's attention again, for she had her eyes shut tight. "There's nothing I would want more than to have a child that represented me and, especially, you." She gave the doctor a quick peck.

"You've really put some thought into this, haven't you?" Jane posited.

"I have. Like I said, I made plans." Maura was more than happy to be able to share her hopes and dreams about a family with Jane.

"Tell me some of them. These grand plans of yours." Jane mused.

"You won't laugh." Maura qualified. Though it was more of a command.

Jane nodded in agreement.

"Of course there are tons of studies that promote the importance of developing fine motor skills as well as gross motor skills. Though, the gross motor skills come a few months after birth. I found a fair few that that have been published and made into how-to books. They even provide materials to enhance the exercises." Maura spouted off with such enthusiasm.

Jane loved when Maura would get lost in a project. Her energy and attention all but unshakable.

"Not to squash on your plans or anything but, Ma didn't have any of these studies to work from when I was a baby and I seemed to have done pretty well with eye-hand coordination as well as dexterity… Wouldn't you agree, doctor?" Jane burned, as she tickled her sides with her alluded to dexterous fingers.

Maura just gave Jane a patronizing glare and smacked her shoulder.

"Jane. Jane, please…don't…" Maura began to laugh and writhe uncontrollably under the stress of Jane's torture.

"Okay, okay. I'll stop." Jane released Maura from her grips once they landed on the floor. Finding that they were still in the hallway.

"Maybe we should move this to the bedroom." Jane suggested.

It had been one of the most sensual acts of love making the couple had engaged in. Whispered 'I love yous,' moans, and expressive eyes filled the room. During breaks the women would discuss baby names and physical traits to look for in a donor. Jane definitely wanted the donor to have a degree in the science field. Internal medicine, pathology, genetics, astronomy, she wasn't picky. She just wanted the baby to share in Maura's abilities.

"So, how would it work exactly? You carrying my egg." Jane wondered aloud.

"It would be a gestational pregnancy. The logistics are fairly easy to follow. Though, in practice, it's not always as simple and in cases where the surrogate mother is a person outside of the couple, the legalities get to be quite extensive. We wouldn't have that problem because I would be the carrier." Maura beamed.

"So, you're okay with carrying a child? Physically, I mean." Jane asked.

"I have been tested for fertility and physically, I've been green lighted by my OBGYN to get pregnant." Maura responded.

"And emotionally?" Jane questioned, solemnly while turning on her side as they were still in bed.

"I've never been more prepared for anything in my life." Maura spouted without hesitation and mirroring Jane's position.

Jane was struck with the most awed sensation. The doctor, with her Googlemouth, attention to detail, and generosity had always impressed her but, her willingness to offer up her body so selflessly went beyond Jane's imagination.

"I love you!" Jane enthused, overcome with gratitude and awe. "You're amazing!" She had begun peppering the doctor with kisses in between effusions. "You're beautiful!" Kiss. "Smart…no, genius!" Kiss. "I can't believe you chose me and I get to spend the rest of my life you…" Kiss. "…and have a baby with you!" That put an end to the pecks, turning them in to a full on attack of lips, tongues and caresses.

"Jane." Maura tried to still Jane's attack.

"Mmmmhm" Jane hummed.

"This isn't all on me. There will be a procedure for you. With this procedure, many women have report some discomfort and some have even claimed severe pain. You should know." Maura confessed.

"Maur, I'm a cop. I've been through my fair share of painful experiences. You've been there through some of the worst of them." Jane reminded her perpetual caretaker before she continued. "I kinda figured they would have to remove parts of me to put into you in order for this event to occur. I'm ready."

Maura gave an amused little smile and enjoyed the closeness of her detective.

"I just wanted to be up front with you. No holding back. Never, will I want to do that with you again." Maura said.

"Good. Me either." Was Jane's simple agreement.

A/N

I've never been through a pregnancy of my own much less, a gestational pregnancy. Any information I have was researched on the inter-webs. Forgive me any misinformation. I have the highest respect for the process women go through. Pregnancy is beautiful but, I do not fool myself into thinking it is not without it's difficulties. Also, the tattoo comment is not a personal reflection. I felt it line with something Jane would say.