A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.

Chapter 4

Present Day

Jane groaned when she walked in the front door carrying a grocery bag. She should have known something was up when her girlfriend sent her to the store after she'd gotten out of the shower following the baseball game she'd played with her brothers. She should have known better than to think that Maura would be able to keep this dinner to celebrate her promotion low key. Part of her wasn't even surprised by the huge banner that read Congratulations Sgt.

"Really, Maura? Really?" Jane stomped her foot theatrically.

Maura walked to her and took the bag from her hand while placing a soft kiss on her lips. "Thanks for running to the store for me, babe."

"I thought we were gonna keep this low key. There was no need for all of this." Jane pouted adorably.

Maura's eyes lit up with the smirk she was trying her best to hide. "Hank wanted to do all of this for you. I can't tell our son no."

"We are blaming all of this on Hank, are we?" Jane arched her eyebrow.

Maura put her hands on Jane's shoulders. "Jane, our families want to be happy for you, let them."

Jane was more than willing to let it go and go along with what her girlfriend wanted until she realized the wording Maura had used. "Maura, what do you mean our families?"

"I invited Hope and my sisters and my mom. Anymore than that and you will just have to wait until closer to dinner to find out who all is coming." Maura grinned at her.

"You are so lucky that I'm in a great mood and have no interest in getting back at you for whatever it is that you have planned." Jane arched her eyebrow.

Maura made a show of standing on her tiptoes and discretely sucking Jane's earlobe into her mouth. "Sgt. Daddy, I promise that if you cooperate right now and don't make a fuss about how I want to celebrate you, then I will more than make it worth your while later. You said it yourself a couple nights ago when you said that you haven't had your way with me in almost two months and I miss our fucking as much as you do." She whispered breathily into Jane's ear.

Jane let out an involuntary full body shiver. She absolutely loved it when Maura talked dirty like that. "If I didn't love you so damn much I wouldn't let you get away with this. I would even be pissed off that you were blaming this all on our son. But, because, I love you I'm going to let you get away with this little charade you have going." She pulled her girlfriend to her and gave her a deep kiss.

"Hey! Oh! You two do that when there isn't anyone else around to see you." Angela walked in the side door and scolded them both playfully.

"Maura, you need to remind me that the only reason we don't kick her out is because we need a sitter on site in case the both of us get called into a crime scene at the same time." Jane gripped Maura's hips in her hands to ground herself.

"Jane, Angela is the best sitter that we could have for Hank. You can't throw her out and you have to put up with her behavior." Maura parroted dutifully. She turned to her almost mother-in-law and smiled brightly. "Angela, I will be in there to help you with whatever you need as soon as I get your child to occupy my child."

"Maura, take you time. I know that it takes a minute to get Janie to behave." Angela called back.

Jane shot death glares at both Angela and Maura. "Where's my son?" she spoke through gritted teeth. She knew that the two of them getting along as well as they did wasn't good for her at all. There was no way she could ever count on her mother to take her side when she had made it obvious that Maura was now her favorite child.

"He is in his bassinet by our bed. If you want to go shower and then get him ready that would be a big help for me. I know that you can get the two of you ready in the same amount of time it takes for me to get ready." Maura didn't try to pretend that she didn't take her time to get ready.

"Whatever you want, babe." Jane gave her another deep kiss and headed up the stairs to their bedroom.

The sound of the shower running had just reached the downstairs when the doorbell rand. Maura wiped her hands off on her apron and went to the door. She threw it open without bothering to look who was on the other side. It was something that Jane scolded her about regularly. Her girlfriend thought that she didn't do enough to keep herself safe.

"Hello, darling," Constance Isles stood at the door all elegance and sophistication. She wore a huge smile on her face. After the year that she'd had, she was more than happy to be able to visit her daughter, her future daughter-in-law, and her grandson. If being hit by a car had taught her anything it was that she needed to take more time with her only child. She took Maura's face in her hands gently and kissed both of her cheeks lovingly instead of the normal aloof European manner she used.

"Hi, mom. I'm so glad that you could make it. I know that it will mean a lot to Jane too. She doesn't care so much about celebrating herself, but she will be pleased that you showed up for me and your grandson." Maura pulled her mother into hug.

Constance pulled back from Maura and held her daughter gently by her upper arms to get a better look at her. "Jane is just going to have to get used to the fact that the Isles family is very proud to have such a decorated detective join our clan. I'm so pleased that I get to tell some of the vapid women in my social group that my daughter has married the best detective in Boston and on top of that she's a woman. They will be absolutely green with envy. And that is before I show them picture of my very handsome grandson."

"My son is very handsome." Maura agreed with a smile. She looked over her mom's shoulder and saw Hope, Callahan, and Cailin at the door. She pulled away from the older woman and gestured her biological mother and sisters into the house. She turned Constance around to face them. "Mom, this is my birth mother, Hope. And these two are my sisters, Callahan and Cailin." Maura made sure to point at each person as she spoke.

Constance held both of her hands out for Hope to take. "It's a pleasure to meet you. Our Maura is a carbon copy of you."

Hope took Constance's hands and did her best to infuse all the love she felt for their shared daughter into her touch. "I'm very pleased to meet you too. Our daughter is an absolutely remarkable woman and I know I have you to thank for that."

"Maura is a force unto herself. The woman she has turned out to be doesn't have a thing to do with either of us. This is what fate determined she would be." Constance replied.

"I look forward to learning more about our daughter from you. I just got here and already I'm totally in love with her." Hope shot a warm smile in Maura's direction.

Maura cleared her throat to alleviate the tension she was feeling. "All of you should come in and make yourselves comfortable." She waved the group into the house.

"The only thing worse than being the firstborn child after losing a baby has to be, being that firstborn baby come back from the grave" Callahan paused to speak lowly into her older sister's ear.

Maura glared at her. "For once in your life try to behave yourself. You may not listen to our mother, but you will do well to remember that Jane lives here too and she won't hold back if you mess up."

"Did you just threaten our sister with your wife? If you did that is the greatest thing I have ever heard. Callahan doesn't know when to quit." Cailin put a hand to her mouth to try to hide the laughter she was experiencing.

"Just go in there and make yourself at home like you always do." Maura laughed and shook her head at her youngest sibling.

Cailin bounced into the house happily. "Maura, where is Hank?" She asked after looking around and not seeing her nephew anywhere.

"He's upstairs with Jane and they both should be down any minute. I know that you miss him and want to see him. It's not like you stop by here everyday just to get some face time with your nephew. I promise that he's going to be as happy to see you as he usually is." Maura tried some sarcasm on for size. It was one of the things that she learned from Jane when it came to dealing with her younger siblings.

Jane stared at herself in the bedroom mirror after she got out of the shower and pulled her clothes on. She was looking very good for a woman who just had a baby six weeks ago if she didn't say so herself. She had bounced back very quickly to her pre-baby body. She was pleased with her progress and she knew that Maura was too. She could see the look in her girlfriend's eyes every time that she saw her half dressed. The same spark of desire that had been in Maura's eyes when she saw her before she was pregnant was the look she could see in her eyes now that she had given birth to their child.

Jane stopped by Hank's bassinet and picked him up. "Come on, Junior. We have to go downstairs and face whatever your mother has schemed to do against us." She held him up in front of her face and kissed both his cheeks. "Yes, we do. Your mommy is so fussy when she wants to be. That is why we just let her have her way."

She surveyed the way that her looked to make sure he was ready for company. Hank was dressed in Red Sox onesie with a pair of gray shorts. He little feet were covered with stockings and he had a cap with a Red Sox logo on his head. "You are such a handsome man, yes you are, oh yes you are."

Jane was dressed similarly to her son. She was wearing a Red Sox t-shirt with gray shorts and athletic socks. She knew that Maura wouldn't be able to resist the two of them when they were dressed alike. It was enough that the two of them could be twins when they dressed alike they were irresistible.

Jane walked down the stairs with Hank cradled in her arm facing outward, so that he could see what was going on. She wasn't one bit surprised to see Maura's mothers present in their house. She had given Constance a piece of her mind and she was in hopes that Maura and Hope could forge a relationship. She genuinely liked Cailin and she could tolerate Callahan. The truth be told she and Callahan were basically the same when it came to being on the job.

"I have a happy, fed, and clean baby here. I know that at least one of the women in this room would love to cuddle him and tell him how handsome he is." Jane announced giving anyone who wanted to hold Hank a little while the chance to.

It came as no surprise to the brunette when Cailin was the first to step up to want to hold her nephew. "Hank, Aunt Cailin wants to hold you." Jane crooned in his ear.

"Give me my nephew it feels like it's been too long since I've had the chance to hold him." Cailin took the baby into her arms gladly. "Hi, Hank. I love you so, so much." She said in a sing-song voice to her nephew. She knew that her mother and sister weren't on the most solid terms yet, but she loved the fact that she and her sister didn't seem to have any of those problems between them. She had been blessed to be in her nephew's life since he was born and she didn't want anything to change that.

"He's all yours until someone else wants him. Good luck if you have to battle one of my brothers for him." Jane teased the younger woman.

It wasn't long before Frankie and Tommy both came in. They were not alone, though, they both had company with them. Jane's paternal grandparents had walked in with Frankie and her maternal grandparents had come in with Tommy.

"How did you two get Nino and Nonna, and Nonno and Nanna here? I can't deal with any of you right now." Jane covered her face with her hands and groaned loudly.

"I'm only doin' what Ma asked me to do." Frankie defended himself.

"And I'm only doin' what Maura asked me to do." Tommy took a similar track as his brother.

"Maur, get Hank and come in here please!" Jane called out to her girlfriend. She wasn't about to take any chances when both sets of her grandparents were in the room. She knew that she needed her son as a buffer between her and her grandmothers.

Maura walked over a moment later carrying Hank. "I'm right here, Jane." She looped the fingers of her left hand in between the fingers of Jane's right hand.

"You did this fix it." Jane spoke through gritted teeth. This was not her idea of a nice relaxing Sunday dinner.

"It's so good to see all of you. I'm so glad that you all could make it." Maura greeted her future in-laws.

Jane leaned into Maua for support. "Nino Rico, Nonna Lucia, Nonna Angelo, and Nanna Sophia, this is Doctor Maura Isles my wife. Nonna, Nanna I know that you two met Maura at the baby shower."

"Lucia, Sophia, I'm so glad to see you both again. Rico, Angelo, I'm so happy to finally meet you." Maura smiled hugely at Jane's grandparents.

"Janie! What do you mean your wife?" Lucia demanded.

"You mean to tell me you married this young woman without inviting us?" Sophia wouldn't let herself fade into the background.

Jane took a deep breath to calm herself. She held onto Maura's hand tighter to ground herself in the moment. "That was just a force of habit. In every way that counts, Maura is my wife. I, of course didn't marry her without all of you there. I promise you that I plan on making her an honest woman as soon as I can. You don't have to worry that I will have a baby with her, but not marry her." She was quick to quell the objections that she knew were coming. She didn't need a crystal ball to see what either of her grandmothers were going to say.

Henry stood up and kissed Maura's hand. "It's very nice to know that we are going to have a woman as beautiful as you joining the family soon."

Angelo didn't bother to try to hold back. He took Maura's face in his hands and kissed both her cheeks. "Welcome to the family. We are so happy to have a doctor in the family now."

"Hey! Angelo, don't chase that girl off before we get a chance to keep her." Sophia elbowed her husband in the ribs as hard as she could.

"Sophia, I assure you that I'm not going anywhere." Maura assured her.

"Henry isn't helpin' the matter either. He is flirting with this girl like she wants to look at him. I mean granted Janie does look just like him, but he's lacking the other things the good doctor would want." Lucia groused.

Jane decided to put an end to the madness and she took Hank from Maura's arms. "Ok, who wants to hold the baby?" She knew that that would occupy them for a minute.

"Jane Clementine Rizzoli, you give me my great-grandson. I've seen him very little since he was born." Sophia held her hands out for her great-grandson expectantly.

Jane gave her son to her grandmother without any complaint. "He's in his snuggly stage of the day. He is gonna be as good as gold for you. He's a good boy for everyone, but me and his mommy."

"There is no need for you to talk like about my great-grandson. Look at how perfect he is in my wife's arms." Angelo sent a discreet wink in Maura's direction.

Maura blushed beautifully and and giggled like a school girl. "He's an angel no matter what Jane says about him."

"Hey! Nonno! Don't you be making eyes at my girl like that. I know that she's gorgeous, but you don't get to be shameless like that right in front of me." Jane moved her arms up and down in a very Italian fashion.

"Janie, there is no way that Angelo can help himself in the face of a woman that beautiful. You have done the absolute best of all of us." Henry assured his granddaughter.

"I come by it honestly, Nino. I get it from you." Jane couldn't help smirking from pride.

Constance found Hope in a corner and approached her. She wanted to take minute while things were quiet for the two of them to have a talk. "Hope," She said by way of greeting. It was a miracle that she had made it this far, she would take rest as it came.

"Constance," Hope gave the woman who had raised her daughter a polite smile.

Constance took a deep breath to fortify herself. "Hope, I want you to know that Patrick told me that you had died in childbirth and I needed to keep her safe from his father. I will not however apologize for having the most amazing daughter and getting to love her."

"I don't expect you to apologize for loving her. I'm glad that my daughter had your love and influence even though I couldn't be there to give mine to her." Hope retorted.

Constance knew that she had to give this woman some grace. "I want you to know that I may see myself when I see Maura sometimes, but when I look at her now I see you. I'm glad that my daughter comes from such a pretty woman."

"Constance, as far as I'm concerned she is our daughter and we both have many things to be proud of her for." Hope could acknowledge that she had to recognize Constance as Maura's mother too.

"I agree," Constance nodded seriously. "And I think we can also agree that our grandson is absolutely perfect. I think the best thing that we can do for Maura is support her and teach how to be a mother. She can benefit from both of us. I don't want that beautiful daughter of ours to have to choose between loving either of us. I want us both to be on the same page and let that remarkable woman know that both her mothers are here for her no matter what."

Hope smiled and put her hand out to Constance. "I couldn't agree with you more. I would love nothing more than our daughter having the both of us there to teach her how to be a mother. She's not just mine or yours she is a combination of both of us."

Maura walked over to her two mothers shyly. "I'm glad to see that you both are getting along well. I had worried that this was going to be very difficult for the two of you. Seeing you both here like this now it makes me think that both of you know that you were born to be my mothers."

Constance hugged her on one side and Hope hugged her on the other. They both found the need to make their daughter feel how much they loved her. Maura may have gone most of her life without knowing that either of her mothers loved her, but they were both determined to make sure that she never felt that way again.

Maura pulled away from her mothers and cleared her throat. "Are Callahan and Cailin both having a good time?" She asked. It was the only safe question that she could think of. She didn't want to have to have time for any awkwardness between her and her mothers.

"Those two are fine. I'm just glad that you've been able to integrate them into your life." Hope chimed in as quickly as she could without it being suspicious.

"I do love my sisters a lot. Jane loves them too even if she does want to strangle Callahan most of the time." Maura stated truthfully. She could still remember finding out about Callahan being her sister right before she had found Hope and Cailin.

18 Weeks Pregnant

Jane stood in the BPD police academy gym where her new recruits were supposed to meet her. This was a huge gamble for her and she wasn't about to let her detectives' training program fail. She had Frankie, Callahan, and Riley Cooper standing in front of her. She had, had all three of them called up, because they had the most promising scores on the detectives' exam. She looked down at her belly and whispered softly. "Ok, Junior, you gotta help your ma be able to teach these young recruits. No one can know that we don't know what we're doing."

"Janie, what are we doin' here?" Frankie was dressed in a BPD t-shirt and matching navy blue shorts.

Jane stood up taller. "That is Detective Rizzoli. If you keep your mouths shut and listen to what I have to say you may learn something." She barked out at the three rookie detectives in front of her. She made sure to stare each one of them down to cow them into submission.

"Sorry, Detective Rizzoli." Frankie muttered and looked down at his feet.

"We are here today to begin your training as detectives. Due to an agreement I have made with the brass the three of you will bounce between me in homicide and someone to be named later in DCU. You three have the best test scored on the detective's exam and as such I have been allowed to play with you for my training program. All of you have a shot at a spot in either homicide or DCU once your training is over. I know that your academic test scores are well above average, but right now I want to see where your physical agility is. Now on my whistle I want you all to give me the best mile that you have in you." Jane picked up the whistle from around her neck and blew it sharply.

Maura walked into the gym while Jane was testing her recruits on how many pushups that they could do in a minute. "You look like you're really putting them through their paces." She slid up beside her girlfriend and wrapped her arm around her waist.

"I am I need to know that I can trust all three of them to have my back out in the field. If it makes you feel any better when my stop watch goes off I'm going to let them go for lunch and then send them up to homicide to take a test for me." Jane spoke out of the side of her mouth.

Maura leaned her head on Jane's shoulder. "Good, you should let them go soon. They could all use a water break from the looks of it." She couldn't keep her inner doctor in check.

The alarm on Jane's stop watch went off and she blew her whistle. "Not bad at all, you three! I like what I'm seein' out there from you. You keep that up and I may actually let you out in the field this week. Alright, now you need to get some water and then hit the showers. You have ninety minutes for lunch and then you will report to the homicide division for a written exam I have for you." Jane gave them their marching orders.

All three of the younger detectives limped over to the bleachers to grab their water bottles. Jane had really thrown down the gauntlet for them to impress her. She was glad to see that so far they all seemed to be up to the job that they would be tasked with if they passed her new training course to her satisfaction.

Callahan drained half her water bottle and caught her breath before she approached Maura. "Hey, I'm Finley Callahan and I'm pretty sure that I'm your sister." She held out her hand for the medical examiner to shake.

Lost in a fog Maura shook the other woman's hand on autopilot. When things got to be too much for her she could always count on falling back on her upper crust manners. "Doctor Maura Isles, I'm very pleased to meet you." She didn't really know what else to say at the moment. There was really nothing to say. She couldn't even deny the claim that the younger woman made, it was obvious that they shared a lot of genetics in common.

Jane pried Maura's hand off Callahan's gently. "Ok, you three are gonna go take your showers and I will tell you when I expect you in my division." She shooed them off.

Maura still stood there looking blankly at the three retreating forms of the young police officers. She still wasn't quite sure that she could accept the information that she had just been told.

"Maur, you ok?" Jane rubbed her back soothingly.

Maura just nodded her head numbly. "I'm fine." Her hazel eyes welled up with tears. It seemed she was finally meeting a blood relative who wasn't a criminal.

Present Day

"I swear I don't know what I'm going to do with that girl sometimes." Hope scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I can't believe that Finley just walked right up to you and told you that she is your sister. She has no tact at all. She shares the same genes as you and Cailin. The two of you don't act like that. I would never dream of behaving that way and I'm sure that Constance taught you that is unacceptable behavior for polite society."

Constance raised her wine glass in salute. "That is absolutely correct, Maura would never be that blunt, that's what she has Jane for." She couldn't help making a joke.

"Mom, I know who Jane is and I love her for it." Maura defended her girlfriend. "Hope, you and Jane both have to lighten up on Callahan. She is rebelling against both of you. If you don't meet her halfway she's going to be totally out of control." She defended her younger sister.

"Spoken like a true oldest child, babe. We defend the assholes even when they don't deserve it." Jane walked up holding Hank in her left arm.

Maura couldn't help melting as she took in the way both of them were dressed for the first time. "Aw, babe, you two look like twins. I love it so much." She took Hank's Red Sox beanie off his head and showed off his wild head of black hair. It was every bit as crazy looking as Jane's always was.

Hank primped up and let out a little squeak at the cooler air that hit his head without his hat on.

"Maur, he likes to keep his crazy Italian curls under wraps he gets upset when you take his hat off." Jane cradled her son to her chest and she sighed when he shivered. "Baby, he's cold. Give him his hat back."

Maura laughed softly. "Jane, your mini me is fine. He just doesn't like anyone messing with him." She kissed her son's cheek soundly. "Hi, Hank. You don't have to fuss like that, it's ok mama has you and mommy is right here." She cooed at him.

Hank cracked one of his brown eyes open and smiled goofily at the sound of his mommy's voice.

Jane could tell that Constance wanted a chance to hold her grandson. "Hey, Constance, I need to go fire up the grill. Take Hank for me and I can get to it." She thrust the baby into the older woman's arms.

Constance patted Hank's back to settle him. "Bonjour, Henri," She spoke to her grandson in French.

Jane arched an eyebrow and looked in Maura's direction. "See, I told you that we wouldn't have a problem getting him to learn other languages. I speak standard Italian and Sicilian to him. You and Constance speak French to him. I think he's gonna be ok." She cracked wise. She really couldn't help herself it was her natural defense. It had served her well this long and she wasn't about to make a change.

A/N: Here is the next chapter, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Until next time please review.