Chapter 6

The next day Maura was sitting at her desk at work. Her day went slowly because there was no case which meant no body to examine. Jane was out with Frost, so no time for secret kisses either. She decided she could do some online shoe shopping, she definitely needed a pair of shoes under her new dress. Jane asked her out for a first real date on friday night and she wanted to wear something new, just for Jane.

Scrolling through the pages she came across the kids section and decided she could buy some summer shoes for Sophia too. Luckily the kid loved clothes as much as Maura did. While she screened the page her phone buzzed. It was a text message from Jane asking her if she could pick up Sophia from school because she had to work late. Maura replied that she was happy to do that, shutting down her laptop, grabbing her stuff and she was out.

When she arrived at Sophia's school she saw the kids were already out. Sophia stood at the swings with another girl Maura hadn't seen before. She parked the car and walked up to Sophia.

"Hey honey, mommy had to work late so I'm here to pick you up, are you ready to go?"

"Oh hi Maura! Yes I am! This is Emily, she asked if she could come to play at our house"

"Oh..." Maura didn't know Jane's rules about play-dates so she decided she would let Sophia choose this time "Well.. What do you want Sophia?"

Sophia stood a little closer to Maura whispering "I don't know... Mommy says I shouldn't play with her because she's one of those..."

Maura didn't know what "one of those" meant but she decided that if Sophia would like to play with the girl she should let her. She could ask Jane later what her rules for play-dates where. "Well mommy isn't here now so it's your choice, do you want to play with Emily?" Sophia shrugged, then agreed and they went off to home.

At home Maura soon found out what Jane meant with "one of those". Emily wasn't the nice looking little girl Maura thought she was. She liked to gossip about their classmates, saying mean things about kids that didn't wear fancy clothes like she did and she liked being bossy.

Sophia wasn't as tough as her mom yet, so she let Emily boss her around, doing all the things Emily asked from her. Maura walked by Sophia's bedroom to check on the girls when she heard them talking.

"No a family can't have two mommy's so you'll be the dad!" that was Emily.

"But I have two mommy's so it is possible when the daddy has left" Sophia replied.

"No you have one mommy! Only one mommy is real cause she carried you in her belly"

"But Maura says she loves me as much as my mommy does, so I say she's my mommy too!"

"Well that's weird and I don't want that, you'll play the dad" Emily said, ending their discussion with her tone.

Maura didn't know what to do. She wanted to help Sophia but the little girl should also learn to stand up for herself "What would Jane do?" she thought. But then she heard Sophia again " I don't like playing with you so I'll go outside to play with the boys. You're welcome to play ball with us if you want".

30 Minutes later Maura and Sophia both waved happily when Emily drove off. "I don't think I'll play with her again" Sophia sighed " She's definitely one of those girls". And she went off to play outside with her nephew.

...

It was eight o'clock when Maura sat down on the couch after putting Sophia to bed. The little girl tried a trick on her, saying that since mommy wasn't around she also could pick her own bedtime couldn't she? When Maura said that wasn't gonna happen the little girl pouted just like Jane, so Maura promised she would read two bedtime stories if Sophia was in bed in ten minutes. Now Maura was up for a little rest on the couch.

Maura heard Jane come in at half past eight. "Hey Maur... How did it go with Sophia today?" Jane asked when she walked into the living room.

"It went alright Jane, she played with Emily after school"

"Emily?! I told Sophia to stay away from that kid... How did it go?"

"I'm sorry Jane, Sophia asked if Emily could come and I didn't know your rules for play-dates so I let Sophia choose. She did say you said she couldn't play with her but I didn't understand why. Now I do though..."

"Why? What happened?"

"Nothing that Sophia couldn't handle. But I heard her talk about Casey,I guess she thinks he left because of her"

"What? Why would she think that? What did she say?"

"She said that a family could have two mommy's when the daddy has left"

"Hmm... Maybe it's time that I talk to her about Casey and me" Jane thought out loud "I never did because I thought she was too young to understand. But she shouldn't think that Casey left me because of her".

"I think she's big enough to understand some things now Jane, you should talk to her about it"

"I will, but right now she's asleep and I need a beer and some kisses" she winked at Maura "can I get you something?" "Hmm some wine will be great... And a few kisses can't be bad" Maura said, walking up to Jane who was already in the kitchen.

Jane drank some of her beer and then leaned over to kiss Maura.
"God I missed you today" Jane sighed "I hoped for some secret kisses at work, but then Frost said we had to go gather some information and I couldn't even give you a proper goodbye kiss". Maura kissed her again "I missed you too Jane, we still have some time to make it up before we go to bed though"

Jane led Maura to the couch "Sounds like a great plan Maura. God I hate it that I can't sleep in the same bed as you already. I want to wrap my arms around you, kiss you till you sleep and then hold you for the rest of the night waking up with you in my arms"

"We'll get there Jane, for now we just have to use all the little moments we can have together. Let's lay down and cuddle on the couch for a while before we go to bed"

They lay down, Jane wrapped her arms around Maura, pulling her closer. She kissed Maura's neck smelling Maura's lovely shampoo.

And just like that, they fell asleep on the couch, not waking up until the next morning, startled by a loud scream.