A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 11
Jane took a beer out of the fridge and carried a glass of wine with her over to the couch where Maura sat with her laptop open on the coffee table in front of her. "Here we go, now we can get started on finding a venue for this wedding before we meet with our mothers."
Maura took the wine glass out of Jane's hand and took a sip. "This is what I know, you want Fenway and I want a wedding on a volcano in Santorini. I'm confused as to how we compromise on those two things." She admitted.
"Babe, I'm willing to give you whatever you want as long as you don't make me wear a dress." Jane shrugged her shoulders.
"I would never dream of making you wear a dress at our wedding. I know that, that is not your style at all. As much as you are willing to give me what I want with this wedding, I want you to have what you want too. I happen to think that there is a way for both of us to get the wedding that we want." Maura smiled widely at the other woman. She knew that Jane was willing to give her anything that she wanted and it was her greatest wish to return the gesture.
Jane bit her lip tentatively unsure of how Maura would react to the idea that she had. "So, I was thinking that maybe me and my groomsmen could wear a white shirt and whatever color tie that you would want under our Sox jerseys with a suit coat thrown over it and our Sox caps." She finally just said what was on her mind. She knew that if she couldn't let her future wife in on what she was thinking then there would be no hope for their marriage."
Maura scrunched up her face and rocked her head from side to side a few times before she found the right words to reply with. "I absolutely love that idea. It mixes both our styles together. You can dress how you are your most comfortable and I still have so many options when it comes to my dress and my bridesmaids' dresses." She was willing to bend on that topic in order for Jane to be comfortable at their wedding as well. It wasn't all about her vision and what she wanted. She was more than happy to indulge the woman she loved when it came to her role in their wedding.
"Perfect, that part is settled them." Jane beamed brightly at her fiancée.
"I have another compromise that I think you're going to like. I may not be able to make Fenway happen for you, but I can make it so that we get married on a baseball diamond. We can go to the Red Sox's minor league ballpark." Maura rushed the words out of her mouth before she could lose her nerve.
Jane's eyes filled with unshed tears. She didn't know what she had done to deserve that woman, but she thanked God for her twice every day when she said her prayers. "Babe, I would love to do that, but I want you to have what you want at our wedding too. I know that you're a Boston Brahmin and you have to have the fancy wedding to please that circle."
"I have just the remedy for that. We do our rehearsal at the yacht club and then we can pick the perfect ritzy venue for our reception." Maura looped her arms around Jane's neck and kissed her lips softly.
Jane rubbed her nose against her future wife's and smiled against her lips. "I like the way that you think, Dr. Isles. This way we both get what we want and we can appease all our mothers. Now we just need to set a date." She was more than ready to make Maura her wife officially. She didn't care how uncomfortable she had to be to make that happen. She couldn't imagine going through life without the doctor always right there by her side.
Maura nibbled on Jane's bottom lip teasingly. "I was thinking that early November would be perfect. We can still use whatever colors that we want to use and it has us married before the end of the year. I know that I adopted Hank already, but I will feel much better when I'm married to you and there is nothing that anyone can do to take our child from us."
Jane brushed a strand of hair behind the shorter woman's ear. "I promise you that no one is ever gonna take our son from you. You adopted him and I clearly stated in my will that in the event I'm not around anymore he will have you to love him and take care of him. I am never gonna take any stupid risks when it comes to you and your son." She made sure to refer to Hank as Maura's son every chance that she could. She was willing to do whatever it took to make sure her son had a strong bond with his other mother.
"I'm so happy that I'm willing to take the hit for you from Angela when she finds out what you are planning to wear at the wedding." Maura brushed her lips against the taller woman's and threaded her fingers through the hair on the back of Jane's neck.
Jane couldn't help the bright grin that lit up her face. "Now I know that you must really love me if you are willing to be nagged by my mother for a choice I made that she won't like."
Maura laughed breezily. "I owe it to you to make sure that you are comfortable at your own wedding. I want you to show up and show the people who matter most to us your authentic self, Daddy."
"I so regret the day I said that to Jack. It is just giving you ammo that you need to make me even hotter for you than I already am. I don't have any complaints with you going along with what will make me the most comfortable, though." Jane pecked Maura's lips over and over again. She couldn't get enough of the love of her life and she didn't mind one bit showing that to her when they were alone.
Maura panted softly into Jane's mouth. "I already told you that you are the king of this castle. That more than makes sure you live up to your rightful title of Daddy." She wouldn't put up with Jane contradicting her when it came to her role as provider and protector. No man had ever taken care of Maura the way that the detective did. Jane did all things that a gentleman would do for her while keeping her blue collar edge. It was a very heady combination for her to try to resist. She would not let her love think that she didn't see how chivalrous and protective she was of her and their son. Jane was the very definition of knight in shinning armor to her. She had always been there to slay her dragons even when they weren't in a relationship.
"I would be nothing without my queen and her little prince." Jane whispered gruffly against Maura's lips. She was so happy that Hank was a mommy's boy and loved Maura just as much as she did.
Maura fluttered her eyelashes against Jane's cheek. "My little prince and I love that we can count on you to protect us, let us know how much we mean to you, and how happy you are to have us in your life."
Jane kissed Maura deeply until she needed to come up for oxygen. "I want you both to always know just how grateful I am to have the two of you. This life we are building together is so much better than anything I ever thought up for myself when I was younger. I used to think that my only choices were either settling down with a man and not be as fulfilled just to make sure that I could have kids or I could settle down with a woman be at my happiest, but I was sacrificing having the children that I wanted. It was a no win situation either choice I made and I would be losing something that was important to me. That is why I kinda just made the choice to stay single to keep me from having to make that difficult choice. Just when I was hopeless the life I have always wanted just fell into my lap."
Maura trailed kisses across Jane's jaw line and behind her ear before letting her lips trace down her neck. "You and Hank are better than any life I could have ever imagined for myself. I love that you can be vulnerable with me like you just were, it is a side of you that no one else gets to see. It lets me know just how much you're grateful to have me in your life along with the loving actions that you have also taken."
"Don't you know by now that you are my better half and you bring out the best in me?" Jane cupped Maura's ass in both her hands.
"I know that, but take the bravest action you can and marry me on October 25th to make our bond as solid as it can be." Maura had done a lot of research to make sure that they could get married as soon as possible. She had started the process back in August the day Hank was born, she knew that she and Jane were going to end up married both for the love of their family and because they wanted to be together for eternity. She had only suggested getting married in November knowing the whole time that she had the perfect date in October picked out for them to get married. She just wanted to make sure that you didn't spook Jane by moving too quickly.
Jane bit her lower lip and smiled at the same time. "I would love to marry you on October 25th. That will make it just about a year before we found out that I was pregnant with our precious son."
"You better watch out at how quick you are to give me what I want. I could very easily become spoiled and difficult to deal with." Maura pecked Jane's lips a few time.
Jane pulled Maura into her lap and then stood up quickly making sure to wrap the shorter woman's legs around her hips. "You were already both those things long before we ever got together. You are a Boston Brahmin after all." She carried her fiancée to the foot of the steps. "Now, I'm done talkin' to you and it is time for us to strengthen our bond by doin' what we do in bed together." She carried Maura up the stairs and threw the woman she loved down on the bed with force yet gently enough to make sure that she wouldn't be hurt in the process. Jane stripped down to her underwear before getting on top of Maura and trying to kiss her senseless.
"That's it, Daddy! Do whatever you want to me." Maura writhed on the bed and enjoyed the feeling of Jane kissing her neck and ghosting a hand over the crotch of her already soaked panties.
Jane ripped Maura's panties off and shoved two fingers inside of her without any resistance. "I love how wet you get from me, baby. I don't even have to think about using lube when you get like this." She curled her fingers inside the doctor and pumped them in and out. She used her thumb to rub her girlfriend's clit while also finger fucking her.
"Oh my God! Oh my God! Performances like this are why I always get to wet for you!" Maura yelled out her passion. Her chest was heaving and her skin was covered with a thin sheen of sweat.
Jane used her hips to put more force behind the thrusts she made with her fingers. She kissed Maura deeply shoving her tongue in the smaller woman's mouth. She used her tongue to claim Maura's mouth the same way that her fingers were claiming her soaked core. It didn't take long at all before Jane felt Maura's inner walls pulsing around her fingers.
Maura bent her back in a perfect arch on the bed and she pushed her pelvis against Jane's hand as she came apart due to her intense orgasm. "Daddy! Just like that! Make me cum for you! Show me that I can only reach my release at your hands!" She finally collapsed on the bed panting quickly.
Jane nuzzled the other woman's neck with her nose. "You were absolutely incredible, babe. I love it when you come undone in my arms." She traced her thumb gently over the tip of Maura's clit and she made sure to keep her movements very slowly.
Maura could feel her body ramping back up for another out of this world crash because of her love. "I love what you do to me." She licked the shell of Jane's ear to spur her on.
"I love laying you bare and making you a complete mess." Jane's thumb started to move faster on the center of her lover's pleasure. She could still feel her partner's juices running down her fingers and her wrist. It always amazed her just how aroused that she was able to make the love of her life. She licked and sucked on both of the ME's nipples enthusiastically.
"Daddy, no one has ever done me as well as you do! Fuck me harder!" Maura climbed up to the peak of her pleasure rapidly.
Jane pounded her fingers in and out of the smaller woman. She was determined to do whatever the other woman wanted done to get her over the finish line.
Maura moaned loudly indicating the she had reached her completion. She collapsed on top her bedding breathing heavily.
"You were such a good girl for daddy." Jane drug her tongue up and down Maura's neck.
"Daddy, I want to take care of you too. I'm just so satisfied and spent right now." Maura closed her eyes and snuggled up as close to her fiancé as she could.
"Shh," Jane whispered softly into her ear. "It's ok you don't have to take care of me right now. I'm ok. I just want you to get some rest." She was more than happy to wait for her girlfriend to reciprocate than to force her into something that she didn't have the energy for.
25 Weeks Pregnant
Jane sat across from Casey in a booth at the Dirty Robber. She had thought it would be for the best if they met in a public place. "Thanks for comin', Casey. I know that we didn't end on the best terms, but I thought it was important that we talk."
"I don't see what we have to say to each other. We wrapped things up neatly when we decided not to take things any further between us." Casey shrugged his shoulders.
Jane reached her right hand across the both and laid a folder on the table. "There is just one last thing that I need from you. You know that I'm pregnant and you in no way want this child. I need to make sure that I have that in writing right now." She opened the folder to show documents that were ready for Casey's signature.
Casey took a cursory look at the papers in front of him. "What is all this for?"
Jane took a pen out of her shirt pocket. "Casey, just sign the papers. This is just to terminate your rights to the baby I'm carrying. There is no way that this kid was fathered by anyone, but you. You sign this paper for me now and I won't ever ask you for anything again."
"I'm more than happy to sign my rights away to this kid." Casey signed both sets of papers without a second thought.
"Thank you for making this easy for me. I didn't want Maura to have to fight to adopt her son." Jane put her signature on the papers as well. That was all it took to sever her son from his father and she couldn't be happier at how easily it had happened.
Casey nodded his head in what seemed to be understanding. "You're going to raise him with Maura?" It phrased like a question, but it was more a statement on his part.
Jane ran one hand over her face and the other over her baby bump. "You love the army more than you could ever love your significant other and I love Maura more than it would ever be possible to love you." She wasn't going to sugarcoat it for him. He needed to know that he wasn't the only one who had other options outside their relationship.
"At least I know that the child I don't want is going to be safe in the hands of someone who will love them. I can step away without feeling guilty about it." Casey really didn't feel anything for the baby that Jane was carrying.
Jane cleared her throat to break up the tension between them. "His mommy loves him more than you ever could. Now you are totally off the hook for having to take care of him and he will get to be with the only other person who loves him as much as I do. I will be sure to get these papers filed the first thing in the morning. I don't want to waste any time."
"You're having a boy?" Casey's eyes lit up.
"I am," Jane nodded. "There is no doubt in my mind that he is gonna be just like me and I couldn't be happier about it. If I play my cards right he will worship his mommy the way that I do and he will look up to me as a role model."
Casey just nodded his head. "You are a good person for him to have as a role model." He now had a wistful look on his face.
Jane stared at him like she was trying to see into his very soul. "I see you got a whole lot more interested in the topic of the baby when I said that Junior is a boy."
"You can't blame me for being a little sad that I'm just not in a place to be a father yet. Every man dreams of having a son to carry on the family name. To get to teach everything he knows how that he will need to about becoming a man. Getting to teach him to drive, and shave, and have his first beer with him." Casey shrugged his shoulders sheepishly.
Before Jane had a chance to reply to everything that he had said she heard the familiar clack of heels, expensive designer heels approaching them.
Maura stopped at the head of the table with one hand on her hip. She glared at Casey from head to toe. "You don't get to feel any of that. I'm sure that you had second thoughts after hearing that Jane and I are having a son. You didn't want him before you knew he was a boy, so you don't get to want him now that you see him as someone who can carry on your legacy." She had never looked more like her biological father than she did right now. She was the very picture of righteous indignation and rage. All of it was adding up to a white-hot missile of Irish ire aimed right at the man who had treated her girlfriend so poorly.
"I, uh," Casey stammered out not quite sure what to say.
Jane went to speak, but she was stopped by a mob princess glare coming from the woman she loved.
Maura held her hand up like a stop sign. She was not about to be stopped now that she had built up a good head of steam. "If you don't sign those papers I will ruin you. Both my mother and father have many different friends in positions of power in different countries all over the globe. I will lobby every congressman and senator and executive cabinet member that I know to get the word to the right general to ensure that you never get that star you crave so badly. Once you get bounced out of the army on your sorry ass I will spread word to every private military contractor and security service that I know to make sure you never get a job with them. I'll do the same thing of the department of justice and every war college that there is. By the time I'm through with you, you will be lucky to land a job as a security guard at some discount store. You do not want to test me on this. I will burn your life to the ground if it means keeping you from having any claim to my son."
Maura had taken on the aura of a Valkyrie willing to gather an army behind her to go into battle for her son. Her eyes flashed dangerously and the shadow of Paddy's anger passed through them briefly. She had managed to funnel her mob boss father's temper into a smack down befitting of her waspy artist mother. She didn't show her rage by yelling the way the Italians she loved did, but she took on the very picture of a devious socialite used to wielding their status to get their way.
"Maur, take a deep breath," Jane modeled a deep cleaning breath to calm the ME down. "He already signed the papers. You know I wouldn't be sitting here this calmly if he hadn't. Junior and I are both fine. There is no need for you to breathe fire for us." She reached out and took her love's hand. To her the doctor had never been sexier than she was in that moment.
Casey looked between the two women and lifted himself from the booth quickly. "I have no intention of coming after your family. He's your son, not mine. I'm just glad that he will have someone like the two of you to protect him." He nodded to both of them. "And on that note, I'll go." He walked away as fast as he could.
Jane grinned up at Maura her dimples showing. "I love it when you get protective of your son."
Maura leaned over and kissed her chastely. "I will gladly protect my son any day of the week." She slid into the booth across from Jane.
"You are so gettin' laid tonight." Jane dropped her voice a couple of octaves and desire smoldered in her dark brown eyes.
Present Day
Jane walked into the country club that her future wife belonged to. She was pushing Hank in his stroller and he was sleeping like a rock. She quickly found the table where her fiancée and all three of their mothers were seated. "Sorry that we're a few minutes late. Someone decided that it was time to have a blowout in his diaper just before we walked out the door. It's his fault that we are operating on Italian time today." She kissed her mother and her future mothers-in law on the cheek before she pressed a quick kiss to Maura's lips.
"You two are fine, babe. We all just got here too." Maura grasped Jane's hand under the table after the taller woman sat down. She then ran her other hand over her son's little belly.
Angela rolled her eyes at her daughter. "Don't you dare blame my grandson for you being late. He is an absolute angel."
"If you had to change the diaper that I just did you wouldn't think that about him. He was an absolute mess." Jane scoffed loudly.
Maura cleared her throat to tell Jane to cool it. "Anyway, I think that it is time to inform you about the where and the when we have decided to hold our wedding." She brought things back around to the topic at hand.
"Darling, I know that you have picked the perfect venue." Constance lit up with a smile.
"I can't wait to hear what you two have decided." Hope shot her daughter a soft smile.
Jane nodded her head in a sign that Maura should be the one to tell their mothers what they had decided about their wedding.
"Jane and I are getting married on October 25th at the stadium for the Red Sox's minor league team. We will be having our rehearsal dinner at the yacht club and we will be picking another upscale venue for our reception." Maura informed them strongly. She wasn't going to give any of their mothers the opening to think that they had a say in the matter.
Angela glared at her obstinate daughter. She couldn't believe that Jane had talked Maura into this nonsense. "Jane Clementine Rizzoli! You should be ashamed of yourself for making Maura agree to something like that. That is not classy at all."
"It may not be classy, ma, but it fits the two of us. All you have to do is show up and be happy for us. I promise that I'm not gonna do anything to embarrass you. I love all three of you, but you need to know that this day is about me and Maura and what we want for our wedding. Ma, you're already unhappy, so I'm just gonna come out and tell ya somethin'. I'm wearin' a white shirt, a jersey, a tie, a black vest, and jeans. Also we are wearing Sox hats." Jane just dropped the news as quickly as she could. She knew that she would only have to deal with one meltdown from her mother if she got it out all at once.
Maura picked up Jane's hand and kissed it in a show of solidarity. "I for one happen to love the idea. I want my future wife to be comfortable on our wedding day. With this idea it satisfies both of us and we don't have to have a long drawn out argument. There is no way that either one of us are going to change our minds on this." She put her foot down while still being polite.
Jane spread her arms out in a helpless gesture. "Ma, I am who I am and there's nothin' that any of us can do 'bout that. Wouldn't you rather I show all my loved ones the best of me instead of me being miserable in dress that won't fit the idea of what I want at all?"
"Jane, I don't know where you come up with the ideas that you get, but you're very lucky that I love you and only want to see you happy. I realize now that I didn't try to accept you for who you are when you were younger, but I have the message now and I'm not gonna complain as long as you look good and are happy with the way you look." Angela patted her daughter on the cheek lovingly.
"Thanks, Ma, I'm glad that you're on board with this. There is no way that we be able to pull this wedding off so quickly without you." Jane shot her mother a grateful smile. She knew that she had always tested her mother's convictions, but Angela always rose to accept her daughter beautifully.
"I happen to think that it perfectly suits the two of you. I really don't care what anyone else thinks of the ceremony." Constance was quick to show her support.
"I agree," Hope added.
"We plan on asking Vince to officiate the ceremony. He is a very important part of this family and we want him to feel that way." Maura informed them.
Angela picked Hank up out of his stroller and kissed both his cheeks. Your mommies are lucky that you're so cute that it makes me want to go along with their crazy ideas." She cooed at her grandson happily. Hank really was hands down her favorite person in the whole world.
Hank scrunched up his forehead and puckered his perfect lips in a cute little pout that made him look just like Jane.
"Little boy, it doesn't bother me when your mama gives me that look and it's not gonna work for you either. I'm gonna love on you whether you like it or not." Angela kissed his cheeks again.
Jane glared at her mother. "You know what? When he grows up to have a temper that is as bad as mine is then you have no one to blame, but yourself with the way you aggravate him on purpose." She came to her son's defense like she wasn't just as helpless against the women in their lives as he was.
"Jane, leave your mother alone. Henry is just going to have to get used to how much his grandmothers love him." Constance backed Angela up.
Jane leaned over towards Maura and she whispered through gritted teeth. " Maura, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get through this wedding planning without strangling one of these three women. My bets are on either my ma or Constance. Hope is the easiest one out of the three of them to death with."
Maura laughed softly. "Jane, you're not going to kill any of them. You're going to do this one thing for me even if you complain about it. You being in prison for killing one of our mothers is not an ideal way for you to spend our wedding night and the rest of our marriage." She took her fiancé's hand and squeezed it reassuringly.
"I'm gonna trust you to keep the three of them in line. If they in any way get out of hand and I chirp at them, you will not hold that against me. I'm doing the best I can given the situation that I'm in." Jane stared into Maura's eyes intently. She didn't want there to be any mistaking the meaning behind her words.
"I promise you that I won't let them get to the point of getting on your nerves. I know that you are compromising just as much as I am for this wedding. The least I can do is make sure that our mothers don't make you absolutely crazy." Maura leaned over and pecked the other woman's lips sweetly.
A/N: Here is the next chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it. i'm moving both timelines along, so that we will be caught up soon and be able to deal with just the present day. Until next time please review.