Author's Note:: This fic will be a Tommy Rizzoli/Maura fic. Originally, I had intended for it to be an OC, but I don't really like OC. That, and Maura makes much more sense for this one than any random character.
Set waaaaay before Maura begins working with Boston P.D, so she doesn't know the Rizzoli's already.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Rights belong to Tess Gerritsen, Janet Tamaro and TNT.
"Wait, what?" Jane blinked, looking from Tommy to Maura and back again, as she digested the announcement that had just been made over cannoli.
"Yes, we're engaged!" Maura beamed and looked to Angela, who happened to mirror her oversized smile before she continued looking around the table, over to Frank first, who was nodding. To Frankie Jr., who was smiling and looking to Tommy, wondering how he'd bagged this beauty, and finally to Jane, who was obviously shellshocked, she wasn't moving or speaking. It was the first time Maura had heard her quiet since the unruly Italian had entered the house.
"Frankie, go get the good champagne I keep in the pantry!" Angela told her son, "And bring the crystal glasses!"
Angela waited for Frankie to leave the room before she stood from her place at the table, leaning to give her son a kiss on the forehead and pull him into a hug, "Oh, Tommy! This is wonderful, Maura's lovely..." she smiled and pulled away from Tommy, turning to Maura now. Angela pulled her soon-to-be daughter-in-law into an embrace to match the one she'd given to Tommy, "Oh, Maura, congratulations!" she kissed both of Maura's cheeks then.
"Thank you, Mrs. Rizzoli. Thank you!" Maura smiled and glanced around the table, seeing Jane with a glare across her face as she watched the scene unfolding.
"Oh, call me Angela, sweetie."
"Thank you, Angela." Maura smiled and nodded to her.
"Janey, aren't you going to congratulate your brother?" Angela asked her daughter.
"You mean my brother, the felon, Ma?" Jane looked to Tommy.
"Jane!" Angela glared at Jane with a warning tone.
"What? He is." Jane stood then, gulping down her drink, "Did you know that Maura? That Tommy's been in prison?" she raised a brow and watched the expressions change across Maura's face.
Maura looked to Tommy and bit her lip a little before she smiled and nodded, turning back to face Jane, "Tommy told me everything. He told me that Father Crowley forgave him, and so did his family." Maura told Jane, her voice soft and inviting, "I knew what had happened, Jane...before Tommy proposed to me, and I was cautious at first, but, I love Tommy."
Tommy nodded, "I told her Jane, I told Maura everythin'."
"Well, you know what Maura? More fool you..." Jane scoffed, "He'll do it again, and go to prison again. You'll defend him and welcome him home, but then he'll do something worse, and he's off to prison again. But this time, you're pregnant. You have your baby, while he's behind bars. He'll miss first words, first steps, first teeth, first day of school..." Jane told Maura, she wasn't one to hold back and she kept going, "What's going to happen when your kids are ready to graduate high school and their dad's still behind bars?"
"We haven't discussed children yet..." Maura furrowed her brows slightly.
"Jane, come on! Leave 'er alone." Tommy pleaded with his sister, "What's goin' on here?"
"Do you know what it is, Tommy?" Jane glared to Tommy now, shifting her attention onto him, "You. You're the problem, Tommy."
"Jane, leave your brother alone, this is supposed to be a celebration." Frank spoke up from his place at the other end of the table, head rested in his hands slightly.
"No, daddy. Tommy needs this. It's always about him, he gets everything!" Jane sighed harshly, "Tommy runs down a priest and is sent to prison, gets out and Ma throws him a Welcome Home party! Tommy gets out of prison but has a fight in the yard before he's released, goes back in and Ma posts his bail, then sends him off backpacking!" Jane looked around, "What is even with that?"
"It seems to me, Jane, you're suffering from acute forms of the Oedipus complex, an extension which most scientists believe is a common cause of anamosity between siblings, causing the rivalry." Maura stated.
Jane just looked at her with a raised brow, her glare still etched on her face, "What?"
"You're jealous of your brother's attention given from your mother. A lot of older siblings sometimes try to distract their parents' responsiveness to younger siblings, which I believe is what you are doing."
"No, I'm not!" Jane scoffed and frowned at Maura, even though, deep down, she was agreeing with what Maura was saying.
"Jane, come on. Can't we just sit down and celebrate this?" Frankie said as he entered with the glasses and bottle, looking to the obvious rift happening between his brother and sister, "Just for one night, even?"
Jane sighed harshly and turned, rounding the table to head back to her seat, "Thank you." said Angela, but she watched as Jane grabbed her jacket and took off from the house, leaving the Rizzoli's; Tommy, Frankie, Angela and Frank with Maura to celebrate this happy occasion alone.