Jane is sitting in Maura's office that gets emptier and emptier with every day since they had decided that they have done enough for the citizens of Boston and furrows her eyebrows.

"Are you about to change your mind, Jane?" Maura asks as she puts a stack of books into a brown box and looks briefly at her wife.

The Italian turns her attention back to the doctor and starts to shake her head. "No. No, I am not. I am tired, Maura, and I want to spend the rest of our years that we still have in peace."

"So, what's bothering you?" Maura asks and stops her task at hand.

"Nothing," the other woman answers and takes a deep breath. "It's just … Everything started here, Maura. We met in the morgue for the very first time, we became friends in here and I confessed my love for you in this office. This is the reason why I got the chance to meet you, to get to know you and to fall in love with you. This area, this building is the reason that I found the best that happened in my life. You, Maura."

Maura is looking surprised at her wife and walks with pursed lips to the couch, sitting down next to the Italian. "You are absolutely right, Jane." She says and takes her wife's hand in her own. "If we wouldn't have been colleagues we wouldn't sit here today, as a married couple. We do owe this building a lot of things, and we made good and bad memories in here. But we are not thirty anymore, Jane. We do know that we belong together."

Dark brown eyes are finding hazel ones and Jane smiles a little. "I am not afraid that our marriage won't work out after we retired. It just feels like an era is ending."

The ME is smiling and nods slowly. "Somehow, an era is ending, but the one who is following is just as competent as we have been. The BPD is in good hands, Jane."

Jane nods as well and takes a deep breath. She opens her mouth to replies something as she hears the familiar sound of crutches approaching the office of Maura and arches an eyebrow.

Liz is rounding the corner and groans loudly as soon as she sees Jane sitting on the couch. Great, she is going to make a drama, she thinks and goes on crutches to the free armchair, flopping down on it.

Jane furls her brows and is waiting for an explanation, but she is waiting in vain. "What happened?"

Liz shrugs and purses her lips. "Nothing, just an accident."

"An accident," the older woman asks skeptically and her daughter smirks. Jane knows exactly what that means because it has been her answer for years. "What happened?"

Maura chuckles and leans back. She has soon learned that it is in vain to worry about her daughter because she is just like her wife.

Liz rolls her eyes and lifts her right leg onto the small table, and makes a face as pain is shooting through it. "Adam and I have been chasing our prime suspect in the Lawrence murder and somehow I tackled him down and in the same time he got a knife out of his pocket in the same time."

"So he stabbed your leg," Maura asks and furrows her brows.

Liz is sighing and scratches the side of her head. "He more cut it."

"How deep."

"Mom."

"Answer the question." Jane says authoritatively.

The younger woman rolls her eyes and hesitates. "Deep. I am forced to do a couple of weeks desk duty."

"Thank God." Jane exclaims and looks up at the ceiling, and Maura chuckles again.

Liz rolls her eyes again and looks around in the office of Maura. "It looks weird here, so empty."

Maura is smiling and gets up from the couch. She walks to a sideboard and get her daughter a bottle of water. "Well, I make place for my successor, Liz."

The younger woman accepts the bottle and opens it. "You are looking forward to it, aren't you?"

Maura wiggles her brows and nods approvingly. "Yes, I am."

"And me too." Jane adds with a soft smile.

Liz nods as well and smiles back at her mothers. She gets her crutches back in her hands and gets up from the armchair with a groan. "I am going upstairs now. I am sure that I will need forever."

Jane scoffs and shakes her head as Liz makes her way out of the office. She stands up from the couch and starts to help her wife with the packing. "Let me help you."

Maura smiles at her wife and continues the packing.

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The rest of the year has gone quite uneventful after Liz couldn't work in the field for two months after she got hurt by a prime suspect. The biggest event after that has been the send-off of Maura and Jane. Tears have been cried and hugs have been shared that they and a couple of speeches followed and then the big party for them really started.

All of them ate a lot and drank a lot, and each of them had been sure that they are going to regret it in the next morning, but none of them really cared about it that day. And they regretted the celebration the whole weekend. That has been six months ago now and neither Jane nor Maura did complain about there decision one single time. It has surprised Frankie, Adam and Liz that Jane has shown up only one single time to see if they get along with their new lieutenant Jonas Novak.

And they actually do. Jonas Novak does have the same mode of operation like Jane had and that's benefiting for each of them. Frankie hasn't been so disappointed that he didn't get the promotion because he didn't see himself in the age of sitting behind a desk and take care of political stuff.

This morning, Liz is sitting in the living room on the couch and has her elbows propped up on her knees and she is staring straight ahead into nowhere with a deep frown. She had thought that she would be mad at her husband because they normally go out for a run together every Tuesday and Friday in the week and today is Friday, but this morning Adam has been already gone as she woke up.

She let her hands glide down her face and the frown is deepening. "Oh God," she breathes and her eyes are landing on the apartment door as it gets opened.

Adam can sense the presence of Liz as soon as he enters their apartment and his shoulders are slumping. "Morning, Liz." He says and prepares himself for her outburst. "I brought breakfast."

Liz is looking directly at him and licks her lips. "Adam, sit with me. We have to talk."

He takes a deep breath and throws his keys into the bowl. "Liz, if this is because I didn't wait for you, I can explain it just hear me out."

She is straightening up and shakes her head. "Please, sit down."

Adam is clenching his teeth and flops down on the smaller couch. It would be the first time that they are arguing about trivia like a jog in the morning. And he is sure that he's losing his temper as well. "Do you wanna pick up a damn fi -" He trails off as she takes his hand in her own and his upcoming anger is replaced by confusion.

Liz is swallowing hard a starts to play with his fingers and searching for the right words, but she can't find any.

Panic is spreading through Adam's body and he tries to stay calm and to control his thoughts before they are running completely wild. "Liz, what's wrong?"

She opens her mouth to answer the question but not a single word is coming out. She closes her mouth again and shakes her head.

Adam is skidding closer to the edge and shakes his head as well. "Liz, you have to talk to me, because right now I have a couple pf ideas and I don't like either of them."

Liz has to smile a little and licks her lips. "Adam, we have to move."

His confusion is more evident now and he furls his eyebrows. "What do you mean? Why do we have to move? Did our neighbors complain about us?"

"No," she answers and takes a deep breath.

He takes a look around in the apartment and can't understand why she wanna move. "I thought that you love this apartment, Liz. I mean, it is big enough for us. We have a balcony, a guest room, a bedroom, a big living room and a kitchen that is working more than fine. What else do you want?"

Liz is tugging at his hand. "Adam, look at me." She waits until they make eye contact and smiles a little. "We have to move."

"Why," he asks and shrugs. "This place is fine."

She rolls her eyes now and chuckles. "Believe me when I say that."

Adam can feel that the tension is slowly fading, but he is still not understanding. "What are you trying to tell me, Liz?"

Liz is furrowing her eyebrows now and smiles softly. "That our current apartment is soon going to be too small for all of us."

"That our apartment is going to be too small for -" he starts to repeat and then he trails off. It's clearly visible that something is clicking in his brain and his eyebrows shoot up high as realization sets in. "No."

She can't help the little smile and nods slowly. She isn't sure what she is seeing in his face right now, if it is shock, horror or delight. "Yes."

"How?"

"Really?"

Adam rolls his eyes at himself and swallows the lump in his throat down. "I know how. What I meant is since when do you know it?"

"Since this morning." Liz answers and shrugs. "I mean, I had the feeling for a month, but I didn't want to exult about it and that's why I kept it for myself, but I did slow down."

He nods slowly and now all of her strange behavior starts to make sense. He has noticed that she didn't workout that much and excessive anymore and that she avoided to have her daily ration of coffee, but he has been thinking that it was a new kind of quirk.

He takes a deep breath and rubs his face with one of his hand while all the things start to make sense.

Liz is taking a seat next to him and places an hand on his thigh. "Adam, please say something."

Adam is staring down at his feet and swallows hard. Thousand things are running his mind in this moment and he doesn't know how to express a single one. He is aware that his silence is extremely bad in this moment and that his wife could get it wrong.

Liz heart is dropping when he doesn't say a word and she is thinking that he has changed his mind about everything they had talked about. "Adam." She says and her voice is shaking.

Adam is finally turning his head and has a deep frown on his forehead. "You are really pregnant? You are one hundred percent sure?"

She doesn't dare to say out loud the answer because she is sure that her voice would give her away, that's why she is only nodding hesitantly.

He let his head hang down and exhales slowly through his mouth.

Liz is rubbing his back and feels bad for keeping it back once again and takes a deep breath. "Adam, I know that I should have told you about my suspicion and that -" Her eyebrows shoot up as she is pushed back into the couch and silenced by his lips. It is not a angry or forceful kiss. On the contrary, it is slow and gentle and she has to run her hands through his hair.

Adam pulls away and is holding her gaze now and a small smile is playing around his lips. "I have to be careful from now on, you are not alone anymore."

Liz can't suppress the broad grin as soon as she can feel his hand on her belly and swallows hard. "I have never been alone, Adam. I have you and I have Mom and Ma. And I have Tommy and Frankie. Not to mention T.J. and Sam. And now we, you and I, are gonna have this baby. I can't think of anyone else who is more lucky than me.

He nods and kisses her once again.

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Jane is sitting at the head of the dining table and leans back in her chair, eyeing each member of her family. "So, you want to tell us something, Elizabeth."

Liz can feel everyone's eyes on her and is slowing the chewing. She swallows hard and licks her lips. "I … said that I, we have something to tell you after dinner."

Jane is holding her gaze before she looks at everyone else. "No one is eating anymore." She says and takes a deep breath. Deep down in her heart she already knows what her daughter is gonna telling them, but her has to hear it from Liz to believe it. It hasn't gone unnoticed that Liz' appearance has changed or that she hasn't touched any alcohol the whole evening. But still, she has to hear it to accept the fact.

Liz is glancing down at her empty plate and frowns. Shit, is it already too late to go back for seconds? She takes a deep breath and nods to herself to gather strength, licking her lips. "I … I am pregnant." She looks at her family as her statement is met with silence and swallows hard.

Maura has noticed the same changes like her wife and she had the same feeling like Jane. She inhales shakily and takes the hand of her daughter in her own, squeezing it. "I hope that all of us are going to help you whenever you need us, Liz."

"That's for sure." T.J. adds with a nod.

"I will be damned if I let our princess down." Sam says and winces when the hand of his mother meets his forehead.

Tommy and Frankie chuckles and wiggle their eyebrows.

Liz is looking at Maura and releases a relieved sigh, but then she is looking at Jane whose face is unreadable and her heart drops .

Maura is looking in the same direction and frowns. "Jane."

Jane is clenching her teeth and tries to steady her breathing, and her heartbeat. She has expected it, but there is no way you can prepare yourself to hear those words coming from your only child. She closes her eyes and shudders before she looks at her daughter and her husband. She licks her lips and furrows her eyebrows as she recalls the values with which she has grown up: Family and beyond that there comes nothing. Family is all.

She nods slowly and smiles at the couple. "We will be there whenever you are needing us. And I hope that you are gonna have a girl, so you can see through what Mom and I had to go through."

The entire room erupts in laughter and Liz wiggles her eyebrows. "Well, thank you, Ma."

Everyone is starting to plan the life of Liz' and Adam's unborn child except for Jane and Maura.

The Italian looks at her wife and can tell what the broad smile of Maura is telling her. I am proud of you, and it's gonna be okay. We teach them everything we know.

Jane smirks like an idiot and points with furrowed brows at Adam and he turns serious. "Your child, no matter if boy or girl, is going to be a Sox fan. No Cubs."

Liz is laughing heartily and caresses lovingly his cheek.

Adam lungs with the others and lift his bottle of beer with a nod. "Sounds like a deal."

Maura takes her wife's hand in her own and draws circles with her thumb on the back of Jane's hand.

Jane nods slowly and takes a deep breath as she let her eyes wander over everyone's faces and somehow her heart comes to rest and she doesn't mind it a bit. She looks up at the ceiling and smiles. Now I know what you always have been talking about, Ma.

Maura is watching her wife closely and has seen the look up at the ceiling. She knows that Jane isn't really religious, but she has caught her every now and then when Jane has spoken to loved ones like Korsak and Angela who already have deceased, and she knows that it is a emotional thing that her wife is doing every now and then. Especially when big chances are coming up. It's not like she is kneeling down and folding her hands, it's more like they had a private talk and she never have seen a reason to disturb that moment. She let Jane have it so she can seek shelter in her whole family.

Liz is smiling broadly at Adam and gives him a peck. She knows that they doesn't have to hold back those things anymore as long as they don't get out of hand, which has never happened since they have been a couple.

Jane smiles broadly. "I am happy for you."

Liz is smiling like an idiot at her Ma and sighs. "Thank you, Ma. It means a lot to me."

"And to me." Adam adds with a nod.

Jane is rolling her eyes and smirks. "All right, let's drink or I'll start to cry." She says and the others laugh amused with her.

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All right guys, the end is near. I am thinking of writing another chapter or if I should start right with the epilogue. What do you guys think?

Anyway, I hope that you are going to like this update.

Enjoy,

T73.