- AH, forgive me! It's been a long time. I apologize, but I haven't been inspired to write lately. Here's a chapter for you now though.
"Jane? Jane? What do you think?" Maura asked, interrupting Jane's daydreaming. They were standing at the top of a small hill looking out over a field on the property of a bed and breakfast about an hour outside of Boston. They had come out to visit the space to see if they wanted to get married there.
"John was just saying that the whole field will be wildflowers in July." Maura continued gesturing at the white haired man who had been showing them around the property.
"It's great." Jane replied, turning back to Maura and John. "I think it's perfect. What about you?"
Maura broke into a wide smile and grasped Jane's left hand in her right. "I think its gorgeous."
"So it's settled." Jane remarked, turning to John. "We'll book it for the last weekend in July."
"Wonderful." The older man smiled, the weather skin around eyes crinkling. "Well lets head back to the house I've some more details to go over with you."
Jane squeezed Maura's hand and grinned at the blonde. "I can't believe we're really doing this." She murmured as they followed John back up to the house.
"I know." Maura replied. "It's starting to feel more real isn't it? I mean I've ordered my dress, you've got your outfit, we've chosen a cake and now we have the place."
"You're gonna be out of luck soon Maur. Better run while you still can." Jane teased lightly, wrapping her arm around the smaller woman.
"Nice try." Maura replied, playfully jabbing Jane in the ribs. "You can't get rid of me now."
They walked up the steps to the expansive wrap around porch on the bed and breakfast's main house and settled on the chairs to discuss tent rentals, chairs and tables.
Jane zoned in and out, leaving Maura to make most of the decisions. Jane had made it clear that the most important part for her was that they were together with their friends and family and that she would leave the smaller details to Maura.
"Okay, so we're going to do the tent for the reception afterwards, we've got the tables and chairs settled and we've already hired the DJ." Maura confirmed, signing a few pieces of paper confirming their choices.
"Sounds good." Jane replied, taking a sip of her lemonade as she gazed out over the slight hills around the house. "Oh and of course we'll want to book a room for the night afterward." Jane added. "Then we'll leave for the honeymoon."
Maura nodded her agreement and they said their goodbyes to John and his wife before making their way back to the car.
"Well there's a few more things to cross off my list." Maura said, pulling out a lavender planner that was stuffed full of papers, swatches and photos.
Jane rolled her eyes but turned to smile at Maura, sitting in the passenger seat flipping through the giant planner.
"There's not much left now." Jane said, reaching for Maura's hand and bringing it to her lips.
"I know, I just want to make sure that I don't forget anything."
"You're not going to. I mean, you've got my mother too. There's no way she'll let us forget anything important." Jane reassured the blonde.
"Two more months." Maura sighed wistfully, closing the planner.
"Far too long in my opinion." Jane responded with a grin.
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Jane went to her final fitting alone, having assured her mother that there was nothing else to change, that she just needed to make sure all of the alterations fit her.
As she stepped out of the dressing room she stepped towards the full length mirror in the main area. Her consultant, Amy, was waiting to check the fit and rearrange anything.
"It looks wonderful." Amy replied, catching Jane's eye in the mirror.
"It really does." Jane agreed, turning to admire herself from a few different angles. After much agony and many fights with her mother, Jane had settled on simple white dress pants, a gauzy white shirt with silver and teal embroidery to match the colors they had chosen for the wedding, and a light silver vest over it.
It was simple and elegant and most of all Jane felt very comfortable in it. She could have worn a dress but she would have spent the whole day feeling awkward and uncomfortable.
"Anything that needs to be adjusted?" Amy asked.
"No, I don't think so." Jane replied. "It looks amazing."
"Your fiancé is a lucky woman." Amy said with a smile.
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Jane pushed open the front door a few weeks later, they were getting close to the big day. She turned to set her keys down and almost fell down when she tripped over a stack of packages in the entry hall.
"Maur?" Jane asked, rubbing her knee where she'd banged it on a box.
"In here." Maura called from the direction of the living room.
Jane made her way towards the couch but stopped when she took in all of the flowers, ribbons, vases, the sheer amount of stuff spread on every available surface in the dining and living room.
"Have you been buried alive?" Jane asked peering over a mountain of gift bags to find Maura sitting cross legged on the floor in front of the coffee table.
The blonde grinned and looked up from the bow she was hot gluing, "Very funny, Jane."
"No but really, have you looked around lately? It's like a party store exploded in our living room." Jane retorted, attempting to clear a spot off of the couch before sinking onto the floor next to Maura.
"Is this where you went after lunch? Frost said he thought he saw you sneaking out." Jane stated, absentmindedly picking up a gift bag.
"I had finished all my cases this morning so I decided to leave a little early." Maura replied, concentrating on the hot glue job she was doing. "Besides I wanted to get a jump start on all of this."
"You should have told me, I would have left. Or you could have waited till I got home. You didn't have to do it by yourself."
"Oh I didn't. Your mother was here for a while." Maura assured the brunette, glancing up with twinkle in her eye.
"Well in that case I'm glad you didn't ask me." Jane scoffed.
"Yes, I must say we probably got more done without you here." Maura teased, putting the bag she was working on down and pulling Jane towards her. She relaxed onto her back on the floor and pulled Jane on top of her.
"I agree." Jane whispered, her face only a few inches from Maura's. She hovered there for a few seconds, enjoying the feel of their breath mingling before leaning down to kiss Maura softly. "You know I was never that good at crafty things, my fingers always seemed too big."
"Yes well, I can think of other things your fingers are much better suited for." Maura smirked, capturing the brunette's lips again in a heated kiss.
- We're getting close to the big day.. right now I'm planning a couple of chapters of the wedding and then an epilogue (so you can prepare yourself XD ) Once again I adore every review, follow and favorite I get. You guys make me super happy!