"So, you didn't have the chance to say goodbye," Jane asks as she sets the table of her daughter and furls her eyebrows.
Liz comes out in her bedroom, dressed in a shirt and sweats, and is frowning. "I didn't even know when Will is going to leave. He just said at the end of this month. That was the last time when we were really talking."
"What a dick." Jane growl.
"Jane!" Maura is admonishing her wife.
"What," Jane asks louder and furrows her brows. "Hanley caused a lot of anguish and then sneaks away."
She is right, though. Liz started to wonder that Hanley hasn't showed up at work anymore and had asked her uncle where he is. Frankie had looked a little dumbfounded at her and told her that Hanley got transferred three days ago.
Maura looks worriedly at their daughter. "And how are you feeling, honey?"
Liz is shrugging and gets a bottle of water out of her fridge. "I don't know how I feel. Both, relieved and hurt. But, I started to date someone."
"Oh." Maura says with a smirk as her wife groans.
"Please tell me that it's not your ex's replacement." The Italian is pleading and glances at her daughter.
"Why? Detective Laverty is nice."
"He almost looks Hanley. Besides he's taller, and a little more muscular."
"He does have a nice smile."
"He reminds me of me." Jane replies and looks helplessly at her daughter as Maura chuckles. She isn't going to say that she told Maura that she actually likes Adam Laverty after they met. "How did you guys meet?"
"I was sitting with Leslie in Greely's after work and had some drinks as he asked if he can join us. He told me straight ahead that he is going to work with you after I introduced myself." Liz answers and shrugs.
"Well, at least he was honest about that." Jane grumbles approvingly.
Liz is smiling broadly. "Don't worry, Ma. We decided to take it slow."
"How slow?"
"We haven't seen each other naked yet."
Jane shudders at that thoughts but nods. "That's a start."
Maura chuckles as she carries a pan over to the dining table. "It sounds like you are over William."
"Not exactly over." Liz sighs and sits down on a chair. "I mean, he was the first man I felt in love with, but I have to keep going. I can't become a nun because my first real relationship has failed."
"Why not," Jane asks and wince as her shin gets kicked under the table.
Liz glances at Maura and they start to chuckle.
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The next morning, Jane has clasped her hands behind her back and is strolling over to Adam Laverty's desk, eyeing him suspiciously. She is right, though. He does look a little like Hanley. He has a fair complexion, dirty blond hair cut short, light blue eyes. He is tall, quite muscular, and dressed in a gray suit. And when he opens his mouth to speak, he can scare someone because of his chesty voice.
So, he actually is the opposite of Hanley.
"What are your intentions with my daughter?" She asks and just that would have made Hanley jump.
Adam is frowning and is slowly looking up. His whole appearance is more self-confident than the one of Liz' ex-boyfriend. "Excuse me?" His asks a little confused.
"You are dating Elizabeth Rizzoli-Isles."
"Yes."
"What are your intentions?"
He chuckles and gets up from the chair. "Well, fist of all I want to get her to know better."
"Are you planning to see her naked?"
He place a file on another desk and furls his eyebrows. "I am not sure if this should be any of your business."
This means yes, she thinks and clenches her teeth. "She's my daughter."
He turns to her and sighs. "This is exactly the reason why it shouldn't be your business." He says calmly and shakes his head as her eyebrows shoot up. "This sounded wrong. I respect you and your wife, and I respect your brother. But there is a thin line that you are oversleeping right now. And that's my privacy, not to mention Elizabeth's. She told me about the bad break up she just had, so had I, that's why we take one step at a time."
"Have you kissed her already." She asks and follows him.
He blinks a couple of times and scoffs. "I just told you that you are overstepping a line and the next thing is if I have kissed your daughter?"
She is still following him. "I take that as a yes."
"Thank God you can't follow me anymore," he laughs as he enters the men's room."
Jane is huffing and glares at the sign. "I take that as a yes." She waits but he doesn't say a word, and she turns with another huff.
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Liz is jumping as soon as a paper cup appears on the roof of her patrol car and her eyes finds Adam's. "Thank you, I think."
"Jane can be a pain in the ass sometimes, right?" He gets straight to the point.
She furrows her eyebrows and nods. "Sometimes. What did she do?"
"She asked if I plan to see you naked, or if I kissed you already."
"I'm sorry for that." She says with embarrassment.
He sighs and places an hand on the roof of the car. "It's okay. And I have to admit that kissing you sounds very tempting to me."
"Please help yourself." She replies with a smile.
He takes her pinky in his hand without attracting attention. "Not at work. You're gonna have to wait until tonight."
Liz is staring blankly at him blushes a little. "Okay." She isn't used to be the one who gets turned down and that is written all over her face.
He frowns deeply. "Look, I want to keep job and private life separated. And I can see that you normally aren't the one who gets rejected, but my past has taught me to be careful when it comes to colleagues you are dating."
She nods understanding and chuckles. "No, it's all right. You don't have to explain. It's just … My ex used to kiss me all the time when we were alone and I kinda get used to it."
Adam looks around at the parking lot and chuckles. "We are far from being alone."
Liz is rolling her eyes and furrows her eyebrows. "And now I am feeling like an needy jerk."
He is snickering and shrugs. "Well, at least you are speaking out what you are thinking. I promise you, I'll satisfy your needs." He narrow his eyes and shrugs again. "Well, one of your needs."
"I wouldn't mind if satisfy me at all," she retorts and arches challenging an brow.
Adam holds her gaze with a smirk before he starts to walk. "I'm gonna go now."
She laughs amused and it feels like she hasn't done that for years. Adam Laverty might looks a little like Hanley, but they are different. If she had said something like that to her ex, Hanley would have forced her in the car and drove off, and Adam just walks away with a grin. That's probably the reason why she is attract to him, his self-composure.
"Who was that," Leslie asks with a skeptic look.
Liz rounds the car and opens the driver's door. "Just a Detective blah-blah-blah."
Leslie smirks and gets into the car because she already has seen that face of her friend. "And what's Detective blah-blah-blah's real name?"
"I don't know what you mean," Liz replies and starts the engine.
"Lizzy." Leslie laughs and claps her hands.
"Shut up," the brunette growls and drives off.
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Liz is stopping at her apartment door and is wringing nervously her hands. "Well, we're here. That's my apartment."
Adam nods and takes a deep breath. "I am not coming in with you, but I did enjoy the evening."
"So did I." Liz laughs. "And I would like to repeat it."
"So, good night." He says and turns to leave. He turns back to her and chuckles as he catches the arched brow, pulling her against him for the very first time. "I was just messing." He whispers with a laugh and points at his mouth "Don't judge those if this sucks. They haven't used for things like that for a while."
She briefly looks at his mouth and chuckles. She becomes serious as soon ad he does and holds her breath as he closes the last gap.
Liz is holding her breath and raises her eyebrows high. Out of shape, my ass. She thinks to herself and start to hum. She always thought that Hanley would be a good kisser, but that man proves her that she has been wrong.
He pulls away and traces her bottom lip with his thumb. "I'm gonna go now."
"Are you sure," she whispers and hates herself for sounding so needy.
"That I want to leave? No. But I better do just that before I pass the point of no return."
"I wouldn't mind that." She states and curses herself. For the love of God, what's wrong with you?
He sighs loudly and steps back. "I wouldn't mind that either, that's why I am going. Good night, Elizabeth."
"Good night," she whispers as he really turns to leave. She heaves a sigh and unlocks her door.
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Jane is standing next to her daughter in the Café the next morning and is eyeing her skeptically. She can see that something crawled up Liz' ass and died. "Morning."
"Morning," the younger woman grumbles and sips her coffee.
Maura presses her lips together to hide her smile. She wasn't the one who had the idea to ask Liz how her date wen, but she can tell that it didn't end how Liz has hoped.
"Someone is in a grumpy mood." Jane states with a laugh and her wife snickers.
Liz is rolling her eyes and glares at them. "I am sure you are the reason that I am grumpy."
"We didn't do anything." Jane laughs. "The only thing I did was saying Good morning."
Liz huffs as she glares at her Ma. "Wipe that smug smile off your face."
"Whoa, watch your mouth." Jane says with faked indignation.
"I'm sorry. I -" Liz starts and sighs as her radio starts to crack. "I have to go."
Jane is deadly serious all of a sudden and takes her phone its holder, waiting.
Maura furls her eyebrows and sips her tea. "What are you doing?"
"Waiting."
"For what?"
Jane's phone starts to buzz in her hand and she smiles. "For that." She says and arches. "There are advantages of having a officer in the family."
"You never said that about Frankie." Maura replies and frowns as her wife starts her to push.
"Sssh, move, move, move." The Italian hisses with a smile.
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Liz is standing with Chaz and Leslie at the mobile command and rolls her eyes as she listens to the discussion in side the truck. She turns her head as she hears a well-known voice and spots her family and Adam, walking towards them.
Jane has her eyebrows furled and nods at her daughter. "What do we got?"
Liz sighs heavily and points at the dead man in the front yard. "Family drama. That guy in the front yard is probably the lover of Peter Delafield's wife, the man who has entrenched in the house."
"Where is the problem," Frankie asks and looks at the nice looking one-story house.
"Every time one of us or the EMT comes close to the gate Delafield starts to shoot, and his wife is inside."
"Well, that's a problem." Adam says and sighs.
"Why doesn't SWAT crash the house?" Frankie asks confused.
"They are about to." Chaz says as he joins them. "But Delafield threats to shoot his wife and himself as soon as he sees a APC coming close to the house, or people who are dressed in black."
"Sounds like a psychiatric episode to me." Maura says and looks at Frankie. "Do he have a history with that?"
Frankie is typing on his tablet. "Give me a … Yep, Peter Delafield is schizophrenic."
Maura is looking at the Italian. "He must have stopped to taker his medication."
"Doesn't make it any better, Maura." Jane replies with furrowed brows.
"Ma," Liz says hell-bent. "You and Frankie made the same oath like I did, to protect and serve. And I want that get that woman inside that house out alive. And her husband, no matter what he did."
Jane is a little stunned by the fiercely address of her own daughter and she could swear that she has looked into the face of her younger self. She sighs heavily. "Who's gonna be your backup?"
"Jane." Maura hisses.
Adam takes a step forward and his eyes never leaves the youngest Rizzoli's. "I am."
Jane sighs loudly. "What is your plan, kid?"
Liz steps closer and frowns. "I came from the backside of the house and it does have a second entrance. I only need a car and some distraction."
Frankie throws his keys at her. "You got it, kid."
Liz is smiling relieved and walks towards her uncle unmarked car with Adam. "You don't have to do this to impress my family."
"I do this because I got inspired by your speech, not to impress your family." He replies and flops down on the passenger's seat. "And if we're going to die, you're seeing my pretty face."
She looks at him and makes a face as she reverse the car. "Barf."
He laughs heartily and looks out of the windshield. "That's the reaction I always get. Do you actually have a driver's license?"
"That's the reaction I always get." Liz laughs.
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He enters the locker room and finds Liz as she is about to pull her long sleeve shirt over her head. "That was a hell of a job. You saved two lives."
Liz sighs and shrugs and sighs. "I was just doing what is right."
"Well, take credit where credit is due." He says and frowns. "Without you, we would have three dead people."
"I accept that when you buy me a beer and a bacon cheese burger." She says and puts her jacket on.
Adam jumps up to his feet. "That's a word. Let's go."
She smiles and follows him.