A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 12
Present Day
"Wow," Jane's eyes went wide and she took a look around the venue that she and Maura would be married at. "Wow, I mean this is amazing. I knew the ballpark would be great, but it's better than anything that I expected." Her mouth hung open in awe.
Maura smiled from ear to ear. She had Hank in the carrier that was strapped to her chest. "I knew the minute that I saw it on the internet that you would love it."
Jane looked around the baseball stadium. She couldn't thank her future wife enough for taking what she wanted out of their wedding ceremony into account. "This is incredible and I'm so glad that you wanted to get married here." She gushed to Maura.
"The only two things that were important to me in this wedding ard that I get to be married to you and you are comfortable on our wedding day." Maura pressed a quick kiss to Jane's temple before she kissed the top of Hank's head.
"You are way too good for me, babe. I so appreciate everything that you do for me and Hank. I hope that you know all I want in this world is to know that I make you happy. That's why I give you everything that you even think about wanting." Jane's eyes were hazy with unshed tears.
"I know that you only want to make me happy. You spoil me and you love me better than anyone else that I have ever been with. Like I told you before I'm not to good for you. It was you and your family who taught me the true meaning of love. Since the moment that I knew I wanted a lifetime with you all I've wanted is for you to have a wedding ceremony that makes you happy." Maura looked up at Jane with nothing, but love and adoration in her eyes.
Jane kissed Maura tenderly on her lips. "At least we get to have the laid back wedding that we want. I know that Hank's christening is gonna be a nightmare that I don't even want to begin to think about." She sighed deeply and kissed her son's head to help keep herself calm.
"I think you'll be happy to know that I've got the yacht club and at the country club for the dates that we need them for. And as for Hank's christening I've decided that we can have the reception after at my parents' house. I know that mom and dad would love to do that for their grandson." Maura informed her future wife.
"I'm glad that you're on top of this and I don't have to worry about it. I will show up where and when you need me to show up with a smile on my face. That sounds good to me. I'm glad that Constance and Arthur want to do that for their grandson." Jane shot her fiancée a smile.
Maura rubbed Jane's cheeks with her thumbs. "I promise you that they both adore their grandson and they want to spoil him rotten. The estate is big enough to have both our families together for the event and then we can let your crazy Italian clan make the food for it."
Jane cupped both of Maura's cheeks and kissed her deeply. "Babe, that is the perfect plan. Those crazy Italians will make enough food to feed an entire army and everyone will get to go home with leftovers that will last for days." She buried her face in the doctor's neck and breathed in deeply. Jane needed Maura's scent to ground herself before she got too stressed out. "I think that compromise fits both our families perfectly. This is a good test run to see how they will all behave together at our wedding." She had to look on the bright side or she would poke her eyes out with her girlfriend's scalpels.
"We can go home once we decide for sure that we like this venue. I'm sure that Hank would love to get in the truck as soon as possible. He has a hat on, but you know how much he hates for his head to get cold." Maura pointed out.
Jane bit her bottom lip. "You just tell these people that we for sure want this venue on October 25th and we can get him comfortable." She was just as protective of her son as she was of his other mother. As far as Jane was concerned it was her mission in life to keep her future wife and son happy and safe no matter what was thrown her way. "I couldn't deny this little boy if I wanted to. Not only does he look just like me he also already acts just like me. He even his loves his mommy the most just like I do." She leaned over and kissed her son's head gently.
Maura's eyes lit up with childlike glee and she clapped her hands. "I knew that you would love this place and I can't even deny that I love it too." She threw her arms around Jane's neck loosely and pecked her lips. "I love all of the both of you and I love the way you both love me."
"Just go pay for this venue so we have one last thing to worry about." Jane laughed softly.
"Hank says for you to give him a break. He can't help it that he takes after me. He can't help his genetics anymore than I can." Jane kissed the top of Hank's head. "Mama is gonna miss you so much while she is gone today. You be a good boy for mommy or she will give me hell for the personality traits that you got from me. She thinks that my behaviors are cute in you, but she doesn't feel the same way when it comes to me."
Maura wrapped her free arm around Jane's neck. "I love every part of Hank that he gets from you. You know that as well as I do. I don't want to change the fact that he acts like you I just want to make sure that he has the tools to deal with the things that make you act that way."
Jane smiled in a way that showed off her dimples. "I agree, that's fair enough. I know that with you by his side he will be have everything he needs to fight the personality that I passed down to him."
25 Weeks pregnant.
After what they had gone through with Casey that afternoon to make sure that no one could take their son from them. It was important to Maura that Jane had to rest and relax. The last thing that she wanted was for their son to come early because his mother's blood pressure was so high. Maura sat with her feet up on the coffee table in front of the couch and her girlfriend was resting with her head laying in her head while Jane watched the hockey game. Her left hand held a baby name book the she was flipping through and her other hand was stroking the baby that the detective had growing in her belly.
"What do we think about naming him Gorgio?" Maura read an Italian name out of the book she was looking at. She wanted to make sure that her son had a name that would connect him to his Italian heritage.
Jane frowned up at the other woman. "Absolutely not. We are not giving our son a name that makes him sound like a gigolo. That name is way too fancy for the son of a blue collar Boston-Italian detective."
"Then you come up with a name other than the first one that you suggested to me." Maura arched her eyebrow.
"Luca is another good name for a boy, but I don't love that the way I do Henry." Jane retorted. She still stood by the first name that had popped into her head when she found out she was having a son.
Maura nodded her head from side to side as she mulled the name over. "Federico and Enzo are also names that we might consider."
Jane scrunched up her face as she thought about those names.
Angela walked in from the side door before her daughter had a chance to make a snarky reply. She had heard enough of their conversation to know what was going on. "Are you two trying to come up with a name for my grandson?"
"We are." Maura answered for the woman that she loved. She knew that Jane was say something less than kind to her mother.
"It's tradition in Frank's family and my family to name the first born son after a loved male relative." Angela chimed in.
Jane was going to reply, but she let out a sharp gasp.
"Jane, are you ok?" Maura questioned the concern apparent in her voice.
Jane smiled up at Maura to let her know that she was ok. "Junior kicked and it surprised me because it was harder than usual. I've been able to feel him moving around for weeks now, but this is the most firmly I've felt him before now."
Maura leaned over and spoke to Jane's baby bump. "Hey, buddy, can you kick for mommy?" She rubbed her hand around the other woman's belly.
"Ma, in answer to what you just said. I know his middle name is going to be Francesco, but we are thinking about a first name. I kind of what to name him Henry and call him Hank since it is a family name." Jane explained to her mother. This time she smiled when her son kicked her. "Maur, did you feel that? I think he likes the name Hank."
"Is your name Hank? Tell your mama that is wishful thinking on her part." Maura kept rubbing Jane's belly. She gasped in delight when she felt her future son kick her hand. "I hate to say it, but I think you might be right."
Jane put her hand on top of Maura's before she spoke again. "So you like the name, Hank?" She spoke down to her belly. She laughed softly when she felt another kick through Maura's hand.
"He has a very strong opinion already." Maura let out a musical giggle.
"That settles it then. His name is Henry Francesco." Jane smiled brightly up at the woman she was in love with.
Maura leaned down and pressed a chaste kiss to Jane's lips. "He really seems to like that name. I have no problem with naming him Henry Francesco. I love the name as much as he loves it."
Angela flew into the room and kissed her daughter's baby bump. "Nonna already loves you so much, Hank. I can't wait until you get here and I get the chance to show you just how much."
Jane made a token effort to shoo her mother away. She would never admit just how much she enjoyed the way her mother expressed her love for her grandson. "Hank loves you too, ma."
"You won't grow up to be as mean and surly as your mama. You are always gonna be sweet to your nonna. I can't wait to help my mother make you a hat that has your name on it, Hank. Your mommies gave you a good strong name that you can be proud of." Angela rubbed her daughter's belly hoping that her grandson would kick again.
"Junior, show nonna how happy you are to hear her voice. Kick her hand." Jane bent her head to speak to her unborn son. She wasn't going to drop the nickname she gave him just because he had a name now. She called him that because was in hopes that he would be her mini me.
When the baby stayed still Maura thought that she would take the chance of talking to him to see how he would react. "Hank, kick nonna and let her know that you can hear her."
Angela laughed happily when she felt her future grandson kick her hand. "Well, hello there, little man. You don't like being bothered anymore than your mama does."
"He loves his mommy just as much as his mama does too. We already have those two things in common." Jane smiled at her mother and her girlfriend.
Present Day
Jane threw on a pair of shorts and one of her BPD t-shirts. She looked at herself in the mirror that was in her and Maura's bedroom. "Babe, are you sure that you don't mind me doing training for my new job this week?"
Maura walked up behind her fiancé and rested her chin on her shoulder. "I don't mind at all that you want to go off for three days and train with SWAT as a part of your promotion."
"I'll go to training today come back home when I'm done. I'll wake up here tomorrow and then I won't see you again until the next afternoon or evening." Jane laid out for her.
"Daddy, Hank and I will be fine without you for a few hours every day. I may invite all his grandmothers over tomorrow night, so that we aren't alone." Maura replied seriously.
Jane leaned over and pecked her love on the lips sweetly. "In that case I am so glad that I won't be here tomorrow night."
"You'll be here on Sunday for his christening and that is the only thing that matters to me." Maura told her seriously.
"I can't believe that my mother is making us let the priest that Tommy ran over christen our son." Jane sighed in resignation.
Maura smirked at her. "Just be glad that we were able to get his christening together so quickly. I'm only doing this because I know how much it means to you and your family."
Jane turned around and planted both her hands firmly on Maura's ass. "Sweetheart, I know that you are only doing this for me and you have no idea how much I love you for that. I'm not the best Catholic, but I still want to make sure our son is blessed by God. He needs all the help he can get in this world." She pressed a deep kiss to the doctor's lips.
"I can't disagree with that. Plus, this family we are making is a combination of us both. It is only right that you and I both be reflected equally." Maura wrapped her arms around the taller woman's neck.
"That's right I put up with the things you want for our son because you do the same thing for me. I let you give him several trust funds and I let you buy him a lifetime membership to your country club." Jane kissed the shorter woman's lips sweetly.
Maura scrunched her nose up adorably after looking at Jane's chosen outfit. "You're really going to wear that on your first day of training?" She just wanted the woman she loved to always look her best no matter what situation she was in.
Jane chuckled softly against Maura's lips. "Babe, you can relax we are just working in the gym today. I won't be seen looking like this out in public and sully your good name."
"You are so lucky that you gave us Hank or I would doubt myself for how much I want to marry you." Maura played with the hairs on the back of Jane's neck.
"I can't wait to marry you either." Jane rubbed her nose against Maura's. "For the record I'm glad that I gave us our son too. There is no way that we would be this happy without him."
Maura broke away from Jane to pick their son up from his bassinet. "Good morning, Hank. Mommy is so glad to see you up and about." She kissed both his cheeks and then held him up against her chest. "You are every bit your mother's son and I love you for that. You're just as grumpy as she is when she wakes up before she's ready."
Jane leaned over Maura's shoulder and kissed their son on the top of his head. "Alright, we don't need a litany of all the flaws that I supposedly have."
Maura stood up on her tiptoes and kissed Jane's lips sweetly. "Get to work, Sgt. Rizzoli, you don't want the two of us keeping you from making a good impression on the bosses by being there and ready to go early." She made it a point to encourage her fiancé to be absolutely great every chance that she got. She never wanted Jane to see herself as not being worthy of the doctor. She wanted to build up the other woman's ego to the point that she never doubted their love for each other.
"Hank says for you to give him a break. He can't help it that he takes after me. He can't help his genetics anymore than I can." Jane kissed the top of Hank's head. "Mama is gonna miss you so much while she is gone today. You be a good boy for mommy or she will give me hell for the personality traits that you got from me. She thinks that my behaviors are cute in you, but she doesn't feel the same way when it comes to me."
Maura wrapped her free arm around Jane's neck. "I love every part of Hank that he gets from you. You know that as well as I do. I don't want to change the fact that he acts like you I just want to make sure that he has the tools to deal with the things that make you act that way."
Jane smiled in a way that showed off her dimples. "I agree, that's fair enough. I know that with you by his side he will be have everything he needs to fight the personality that I passed down to him."
Maura laid in the floor with Hank and she stared up at the toys hanging from his play mat with him. "Oh, yes, Hank, you are so smart." She praised her son.
Hank smiled widely. He always loved to hear his mommy talk to him no matter what she was saying.
"You are such a happy baby. Oh, yes you are." Maura cooed at her son. She rubbed his little belly lightly.
Jane walked into the door and took a moment to watch her future wife and her son interact with each other. "Babe, you are absolutely perfect with him." She got down in the floor and kissed her son's forehead. She crawled over to Maura and pressed a sweet kiss on her lips.
"He's my son. I should be perfect with him." Maura shot back with a saucy wink.
"I see it's gonna be that way tonight." Jane smirked back. "You need a little lovin' from daddy before you have to spend tomorrow night alone in our bed." If her fiancée was going to play things that way she was more than happy to beat her at her own game.
Maura raised up slightly to press a passionate kiss to Jane's lips. "I would like that very much. I will never say no to having you inside of me."
Jane blushed bright red at hearing that comment. "Don't talk that way in front of the boy. He doesn't need to hear those kinds of things."
Maura laughed and got up from her spot on the floor. "You lay there and entertain him while I get started on dinner. He should be ready to eat in a few more minutes."
"That sounds good to me, babe." Jane laid next to her son and hit one of the toys that was hanging down from the play mat.
"How was training today?" Maura started to gather ingredients from the fridge for dinner.
Jane rested her hand on Hank's belly protectively. "It went well. It's a good thing that I have been working out so much lately or it would have kicked my ass."
Maura put a pot on the stove. "If I can't talk about you being inside me in front of him you can't cuss in front of him." She shot the other woman a smirk. "I know that you're in the best shape I've ever seen you in right now."
"Cussing and sex are two very different subjects. I know that this kid is gonna cuss he spent nine months in my womb." Jane kissed her son's cheek repeatedly. "I'm so glad that you've noticed all the work I've done to get back to the shape I was in before I had a baby. I think I'm more in shape now than I was when I was doing sports in high school."
"I can feel how fit you are when you lay on top of me." Maura licked her lips as she started cooking. "With any luck, Hank won't pick up all your bad habits."
"We can't do anything with your mommy when she's in a mood like this. The only cure for the way she feels is that mama has to give her all her attention." Jane's voice with even raspier with lust. "Babe, you're kiddin' yourself if you don't think our son isn't gonna cuss as much as I do. He just won't really let loose in front of us until he is a teenager." What Jane didn't say was she meant that if their son was anything like her he would cuss like a sailor on the high seas.
"I know better than to even argue with you. Our son is just like you right now and I know that isn't going to change in the future. He will without a doubt have your tongue and temper, Daddy." Maura threw some pasta in her pot of water. "Jane, you should know that I always want you. I wanted you even before I let you know I was more than ok with you pursuing me. I feel safe in saying that you're the best I've ever had."
Jane's mouth hung open at how bold her girlfriend was being. "You're gonna cum for daddy tonight." She said once she had regained her bearings. "What are you gonna do about a babysitter for Junior tomorrow?"
Maura acted like she hadn't heard the first part of what Jane had said. "Mother wants to watch him tomorrow while I'm at work. She is fully prepared to take care of him and she has even hired a nanny for the day. She's very excited at the prospect."
"Well, she didn't have to do all that just to get us to let her watch him. She's his Gigi and we want him to have a strong relationship with her." Jane plastered a fake awkward smile on her face.
Maura grinned and shook her head in an amused fashion. "You know how my mother is, babe. She goes all out for everything. She doesn't know how to do things on a small scale. Just wait until you see what she has planned for Hank's christening on Sunday."
Jane batted at one of the toys hanging off the mobile and chuckled softly when Hank grinned. "I already know that it is going to be ridiculous and I have accepted that. If all three of his grandmothers want to go all out then we will let them. There is nothing that we can do to stop it anyway. I just want to pick our battles from here on out they are gonna spoil all of our kids rotten. We have to let the small things go and try to stand our ground on the bigger things."
"Like we are ever going to want to tell them that they can't do something for their grandson. I want all of his grandparents that are here around him. It can't do our son any harm." Maura cut a loaf of bread in half and then she made a butter spread to go on it.
Jane was laying on her stomach staring at her son with nothing but love in her eyes. "I want that to, babe."
Jo Friday got out of her bed and walked over to where Hank laid on the floor and she laid next to him.
A bright smile spread across Maura's face. "Aw, Jane, look at that! Jo Friday is laying by the baby to protect him." She exclaimed happily.
"I told you that she would warm up to him. From now on that is gonna be her baby too. She just needed to get the chance to get used to him and now she is in love with him." Jane buried her nose in the top of Hank's head and inhaled deeply. Something about her son's scent just calmed her. Knowing that he was around made her want to be better than she was for her family of three. If she had things her way their family would grow by a few more babies.
Jane knew that it was important to both her and Maura that Hank grow up with siblings. She couldn't imagine her life without her two little brothers and she wanted her son to know what that kind of bond felt like. Maura for her part didn't want her son to grow up lonely the way she had. When Maura was a child she would have given anything to have siblings she was able to count on.
"I'm glad that your dog has finally warmed up to our son." Maura started on the sauce for the pasta she was making.
Jane rolled her eyes. "Now we just have to get your turtle used to our baby."
"Tortoise," Maura corrected her fiancée automatically. She knew that Jane only called Bass a turtle to get under her skin. She just wasn't going to give the other woman the satisfaction of knowing that she had that information.
Hank started to whine and kick his feet.
Jane scooped him up in her arms protectively. She got to her feet carefully. She hated to let him have even one moment of discomfort if she could help it. "Come on, Junior, let's get your bottle warm." She walked into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle from the fridge before she popped it into the bottle warmer.
"Daddy, it isn't going to hurt him if he cries for a minute." Maura laughed and stirred the pasta in the pot.
"I don't want him to be uncomfortable even for a minute. I want him to feel like he can always come to me when he wants to be safe." Jane admitted sheepishly.
Maura walked over to the taller woman and threw her arms around her neck. "That statement right there is why I know that I absolutely chose the right person to marry and have children with. I can tell that you will do whatever it takes to protect us and keep us happy."
Jane leaned down a little and pressed her lips to her fiancée's. "You've got that right, babe, and don't you ever forget it. I will go to war if that is what it takes to keep our family safe and happy." Her words had more power behind them than any wedding vows ever could. She just didn't know how soon that instinct would be put to the test.
Maura rushed around collecting the items she would need to get through her day. Hank gurgled from his car seat on the kitchen island. "Hold on, Hank, mommy is coming." She called out to her son. She wanted to get him to her mother's house as soon as possible.
She was happy that her mother wanted a chance to bond with Hank, but she was still a little nervous about leaving him with her all day. She knew that Constance could handle a child she had made it to adulthood safe and sound after all. It was just that she and Jane hadn't let anyone who wasn't a Rizzoli watch their son alone for more than a few hours.
Hank kicked his little feet and made soft cooing noises as he looked up at the the toys that hung from the handle of his car seat. Even though it was obvious he was every bit Jane's son, he was also a lot more mellow than she was as long as no one bothered him.
Maura threw the strap of her briefcase and the diaper bag over one shoulder before she walked over to her son. "You are such a happy boy this morning. I'm glad that you're going to be in a good mood when we get you to Gigi. She is going to love spending this much time with you alert and talkative. You try to talk a bunch and make a lot of noise when you're happy just like your mama does." She looped the handle of her car seat over the crook of her arm and put her coffee mug in that same hand.
Hank smiled up at his mommy showing off the dimples that he had inherited from his mama.
"You like using that smile against me just like your mama does. You know that I can't say no to that happy look on both your faces." Maura made a face at her son. She wanted to do whatever she could to keep on smile on his little face. She would do anything to make him and her future wife happy. She knew that she would give up everything for those two. Maura came from money, but the family she had with Jane and their son was more valuable than anything else in her life ever had been.
Hank scrunched his forehead up and looked at his mother curiously. He looked just like Jane when she was trying to figure something out about a case.
"Ok, Det. Rizzoli, you don't have to try to figure me out." She opened the door that led to the garage and walked outside. She was grabbing the handle of the rear driver's door when her world went black.
A/N:Here is the next chapter I hope that everyone enjoyed it. Until next time please review.
