A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.


Chapter 7

Present Day

Jane stood in her bedroom staring at the diamond engagement ring that rested in a box in her hand. Today was the day that she was going to propose to Maura and she wasn't going to let anything derail that. She gave herself a once over in the mirror. She was dressed in her baseball jersey that identified her as part of the Boston PD Homicide Divisions baseball team. She wore a pair of white baseball pants. She put her hair up in a ponytail and put a red baseball cap on her head.

She wasn't worried in the least bit that Maura would say no when she asked her to marry her. She had a fool proof plan that would break down every one of the walls the ME had put up over the years to protect herself. Jane knew that Maura was hers whether they had a piece of paper to confirm that or not. She just wanted to have a ring on her girlfriend's finger and a marriage license to solidify their bond.

"Jane! I wish you would hurry up we have to be at the ball fields soon!" Maura called up the stairs to her girlfriend.

"I'm coming!" Jane yelled downstairs. She had made up a baseball game between Homicide and DCU as a way to propose to Maura. She was confident that this was the way to go when it came to a proposal. She checked herself over again and nodded her head in satisfaction. She made her way downstairs and she smiled when she saw her girlfriend there waiting for her standing over their son in his car seat. She was positive that she had never been more in love than she was at that moment. "I'm ready to go."

"Good, Hank and I have been ready to go for five minutes now." Maura took her son's hand in hers and leaned over to kiss it.

Jane smiled widely at the two loves of her life. Maura was gorgeous as always and Hank was wearing a matching baseball jersey and white baseball pants. She pulled a matching red baseball cap from behind her back and put it on his tiny head. "Now, Hank is ready to go."

Maura looked in between her son and her girlfriend and she absolutely melted. This was exactly what she had wanted when she'd found out that Jane was pregnant. Their little boy was identical to his mama and the thought made Maura's heart soar. Right now the two great loves of her life looked like they could be twins. In this moment she felt a very strong urge to want to make her girlfriend her wife. It hadn't been on this level since they realized that they were having a boy and seeing how big of an adjustment Jane was willing to make at work to keep their son safe while she was pregnant. "He sure is. Hank looks just like his mama right now."

Jane stole a kiss from her. "I hope he takes after his mommy when it comes to his smarts."


Twenty Weeks Pregnant

Maura waited for Jane to come home from a long day at the office. Even though her detective had stepped back from having a more active role out in the field she was still busy teaching the new crop of detectives she had brought into the program she had thought up. She stirred the food that she had on the stove she wanted to make sure that her girlfriend and unborn son had a good meal waiting on them when they got home.

"Maura! How many more times am I gonna have to tell you to lock that door when you come home? I could have been a criminal who meant to do you harm." Jane threw her keys in the bowl that was on the table beside the door. She kicked her boots off and to the side of the entryway. She threw her gun and badge into the middle drawer of Maura's writing desk. She stomped into the kitchen with her right hand rested on her baby bump.

"I'm sorry Jane I forgot to lock the door." Maura apologized. Her girlfriend was always on her to make sure she kept the door locked when she was home alone.

Jane bent down and planted a kiss on Maura's lips. "You have to be more careful when Junior and I aren't home to protect you. I hate to think that something bad will happen to you without me here to do anything to protect you."

"I'll work on it, I promise." Maura smiled against the taller woman's lips.

"That's all I can ask for." Jane rubbed her nose against her girlfriend's. "I'm gonna go upstairs and change out of my work clothes. I can't wait to eat, dinner smells great." She kissed the other woman again before hustling up the stairs to go get more comfortable.

After dinner Jane and Maura sat on the couch. Jane was watching the Bruins game alternately cheering them on and cussing them out based on the way they were playing. Maura was mesmerized by how passionate her detective was about her sports teams. It was part of what she loved about her. She brought the doctor out of her comfort zone and introduced her to new things.

"Back check! Come on, back check! You gotta be better a defense than that!" Jane frowned and pointed at the tv in disgust.

Maura chuckled from where she lay with her feet in Jane's lap reading a medical journal. "You do know that they can't hear you right?"

Jane yelled out something in very excited Italian when her team almost let the other team score. "I know they can't hear me I just like to yell at them to make it feel like I'm doing something." She turned to give Maura a dirty look.

"I love it when you speak Italian even if it is just to cuss your team out." Maura looked up at her girlfriend seductively.

"It's Sicilian not standard Italian. I do speak both forms of the language though. It's a habit I've been trying to get into when I talk to Junior. I want him to be able to speak the language just as easily as I do." Jane corrected her.

Maura just stared at Jane lovingly.

Jane jumped up and threw her hands in the air when her team unexpectedly scored a goal.

Maura knew that now was the time to do the thing she had been thinking of doing since the day she'd found out Jane was pregnant. She pulled the ring that she had gotten used to carrying around out of her pocket. "Jane, marry me." She blurted out before she could stop herself.

Jane looked from Maura to the ring lovingly. "Maura, I don't want you to take what I'm about to say the wrong way, but we aren't ready to be engaged yet. We just fixed this thing between us and I don't want to rush it. Also I don't want us to get married just because I'm pregnant. It feels like that would be something that is expected of us to do the right thing by our son. I want us to get engaged because that is what we both want. I want us to want to get married to keep our family together not because we think that is what we are supposed to do."

"I can accept that. Just know when you think we are ready I'm more than happy to marry you." Maura took what her girlfriend had said in stride. She knew that she had to tread lightly when it came to testing Jane's boundaries. She wouldn't do anything to make the woman that she loved uncomfortable.


Present Day

Vince approached Jane as soon as she and Maura got to the ball field. "I want you to know that I'm giving you this money in protest. I think if given just a couple more minutes Coop would have been the one to crack the case instead of Frankie and Callahan." He pressed forty bucks into his partner's hand.

"You shouldn't have bet against my detectives. They are both smarter than they look." Jane couldn't help the smirk that played across her face.

Vince chuckled and he took Hank out of Maura's arms. "Hello, little man, Pop is so happy to see you today. You make it more than worth the fact that I have to deal with your mama." He kissed both his grandson's cheeks.

"Vince, don't think that I won't kill you and Maura won't help me get rid of the evidence." Jane rolled her eyes at her partner. "It's not my fault that you went double of nothing with me and you couldn't make it happen."

Vince chuckled and cradled his grandson to his chest. "Just knock it outta the park out there today, kid." He winked at her. He was in the know about Jane's plans for the day.

Jane pulled Frankie aside when he got to the ball field. "Are you clear on the plan for how things are supposed to go today?"

"Janie, no worries, I've got this. I have the ring and I know what to do with it when the time comes." Frankie reassured his older sister.

"You sure?" Jane couldn't be too prepared for this proposal as far as she was concerned. She knew that Maura deserved more elegant and better than this, but it was them, it was part of the life they had built together and she thought that it would make her future wife happy.

"I'm positive. I've got this and Martinez has got this. He knows what he is supposed to do too." Frankie tried his best to calm his sister down.

Jane clipped her ball bag to the fence behind the dugout. "And Tommy swears that he will get Maura out on the field when it's time. I guess at this point I've just gotta trust my dudes to have my back and relax."

"That's exactly what you need to do. We've all got this." Frankie gave her his best version of a pep talk.

"You just get Hank in her arms as soon as you can at the end of the game and it's all good." Jane tried to calm herself. There was no use in her getting all worked up for no reason. This was supposed to be a happy occasion and she didn't want to look back and remember her and Maura getting engaged as a stressful event.

It was the bottom of the ninth inning and Jane was up to bat. She strode up to the plate cockily and stepped to the side she needed to be on.

Rafael Martinez was on the mound and he smirked at Jane smugly. "You sure you're ready for this, Rizzoli?"

"I'm more than ready for this. Shut up and throw the ball, Martinez." Jane chewed the wad of gum in her cheek and spit in a show of aggression.

Before Jane knew what was happening she was working a two and two count. She fouled off the next pitch from Martinez and she shook her head in disgust. She could hit better than that and she knew it. On the next pitch Jane was able to get full extension over the ball and it sailed over the wall for a home run. She threw her hand up in the air and trotted around the bases with a smirk on her face.

Tommy encouraged Maura to get out of the stands and into the dugout so she could make her way out onto the field. He successfully handed his nephew off to his brother.

Frankie took the engagement ring out of his pocket and put it around Hank's foot. He wrapped his nephew in his arms in a way he was sure would hide the ring around his foot. He waited until Jane was rounding third on her way to home to get Maura's attention. He engaged her in conversation about the turn the game had took to keep her occupied. Before long Jane crossed home plate and the rest of the team mobbed her.

Maura was able to sneak in and get a hug and a kiss from her girlfriend before Frankie distracted her again by handing her son to her, but still staying in her way.

"Alright, Maura, you can turn around now." Frankie told her after he had given his sister a chance to get set.

Maura turned around to find Jane down on her knee with her hat turned backwards. Her first instinct was to question what was wrong before Jane held up a hand to stop her from talking.

"Maur, you are without a doubt the most amazing person I have ever met. You've loved me even when I didn't deserve it and you loved our son from the moment I found out that I was pregnant with him. I know that we come from two different worlds, but despite of our differences you still wanted me to be your best friend and then later fell in love with me. Right now you need to look at our son's feet, he has a surprise for you." She paused to give her girlfriend a moment to do as she had said.

Maura's face registered first shock and then happiness when she saw the huge diamond ring on her son's foot.

"You are my very best friend and I love you more than anyone or anything except our son. Maura Dorthea Isles, will you make me the happiest woman in this world and marry me?" Jane asked. She had tried hard to keep the emotion out of her voice, but she knew she hadn't been successful.

Maura gasped and her eyes teared up.

Jane took the ring from around Hank's foot and slipped onto Maura's left ring finger. "What do you say, babe, will you marry us?" She wrapped her left arm around Maura's over their son's back.

"Yes, my answer is yes! I can't think of a thing I would love to do more than marry you." Maura kissed Jane passionately.

Jane kissed Maura until the need for oxygen made her pull back. "Baby, I promise you that I'm gonna protect the hell outta your kids and keep you so well fucked that you won't ever wanna think about anyone else." She whispered hotly in her fiancé's ear.

"You are so damn vulgar, but I love you so very much, now take your son and let me get a good look at my engagement ring." Maura handed Hank off to his other mother and then she took the time to study the ring that now adorned her finger. The ring that Jane had picked for her held one huge square cut diamond in the center with two smaller oval cut sapphires on either side of it with smaller round cut diamonds going around the band. She had to gasp again, she had no idea that her girlfriend was so capable of picking out such a perfect ring. "Jane, I love this ring."

"I was hoping that you would. I knew that I was only gonna ask that important question once and I wanted to make sure that I got it right. I thought this ring was a little untraditional and very us." Jane took Maura's left hand and kissed the back of it. Seeing her ring on her fiancé's finger really charged her up. She was like a horny teenaged boy knowing that the ME belonged to her and only her now.

Maura pulled Jane into a searing kiss wrapping both her arms around the taller woman's neck. "As long as you were the one who was asking for my hand in marriage I was never going to say no."

"I have another surprise for you tonight. Hank is having his first sleepover with his Nonna and probably his Pop if we are being honest. We both know that Vince spends more time in the guest house than he is willing to admit. That means you and I will have the house to ourselves and we won't be getting up in the middle of the night to feed our bottomless pit of a son." Jane pressed their midsections together.

"I love the sound of that plan." Maura buried her face in Jane's chest. She knew that they would have to get used to having sex with their son in the house, but for this first time since her fiancé had given birth it was better that they were alone.

Rafael Martinez walked over to the couple with a huge smile splitting his face. He lifted Jane up in an enthusiastic hug. "Congratulations, Rizzoli, you found yourself one hell of a woman."

"Martinez, put me down right now! I don't want to have to deal with an overzealous puppy." Jane scolded her old friend.

Martinez sat Jane back down on her feet. He took Maura's face in his hands and kissed her cheeks. "Congrats, Doc. You couldn't do any better than my old partner. I know that you two are gonna be so happy together."

"Hey! Keep your filthy lips of my fiancé. I don't know where they have been lately. I haven't been at work for you to tell me all the nasty details of your dating life." Jane yelled at him.

"You're just worried she is gonna decide that she likes me more than she likes you. You can't hold it against me that I'm more charming than you are when it comes to women." Martinez smirked at her.

Maura slapped Jane's shoulder playfully. "Jane, don't you dare act like you don't like Rafael just because he likes to tease you."

"Maur, come on! You're not supposed to like my asshole friends when they are being dicks. I can't have you take their side over mine, they already gang up on me." Jane protested playfully. She didn't think that she and Martinez would be able to find this type of friendship again after what had gone down between them on the job.

Frankie walked over and gave Jane a crushing hug before she could say anything else. "I'm so happy for you, Janie. I know that you and Maura are gonna be so happy together and that you are both gonna be the best mothers to my nephew."

Jane hugged her little brother just as tightly as he was hugging her. "Thanks, little brother, I know how much your godson means to you. To say that Maura and I are gonna be the best mothers he can ask for means everything." She kissed her brother's forehead. "I want you to be my best man." She spoke lowly so no one else could hear what she was saying.

"Really?" A genuine smile lit Frankie's face up. "I would be honored to be your best man. I will help you with whatever you need and I will plan you the best bachelor party that you could ask for."

"I'm counting on it. You're the only one I can trust not to cross lines that don't need to be crossed." Jane hugged him again. She couldn't believe her brother would think that she would chose anyone other than him to be her best man. He was her first best friend and she had given her son his true first name as his middle name. There was no way she could pick anyone other than him to stand up with her when she married the love of her life.

Tommy picked Maura up in a strong hug mindful not to crush his nephew who was between them. "Maura! We are gonna family for real now."

"You were already family to me, Tommy. You know that you are my best friend." Maura laughed happily. "Tommy, you are going to make Hank mad you better put me down now." She knew full well how her son felt about being crowded. He was very much his other mother's son when it came to people getting in his personal space.

"He's not as cranky as his ma is yet." Tommy sat Maura back on her feet. He took Hank out of his mother's arms. "Frankie, come get our nephew so everyone can hug the life out of his mothers." He held Hank up for Frankie to take him.

"Jesus, Tommy, don't treat him like this is the lion king and he is baby Simba." Frankie quickly took his godson into his arms. "Shh, you're safe, buddy, Uncle Frankie's got you. I won't let Uncle Tommy manhandle you like that anymore. I know that he doesn't know how to be gentle with a little guy like you."

Jane threw back her head and laughed. "Hank is so his Uncle Frankie's boy. Tommy, you better give up now if you think that you're gonna come in between them." In the first few weeks of her son's life she had come to see that Hank was as close to Frankie as she was and he trusted her baby brother the same way that she did.

"Well, the next one is gonna be Uncle Tommy's baby. I mean it's only fair since Frankie is Hank's favorite uncle." Tommy bargained.

"Sure, Tommy, the next one will be closer to you. I'm so happy you're confident that Maura and I are gonna have another baby together." Jane humored him.

Tommy hugged Jane around the neck. "Of course, I am. You and Maura are perfect for each other." He moved out of the way before Jane could reply.

Angela immediately took her youngest son's spot and hugged her daughter. "Janie, I'm so happy for you. I know how happy that Maura makes you and that is all I've ever wanted for you."

"Ma, she is the love of my life and I'm so glad that you can be happy for us." Jane kissed her mother's cheek.

Angela patted her daughter's cheek and smiled up at her. "I knew from the first time that you brought her home that she was the one for you. I'm so happy that you knew you could trust me enough that I would believe in your love for her."

"Ma, I never thought that I couldn't tell you that I liked women better than men, it's just that I didn't want to disappoint you, by denying you the future that you had imagined for me. I've always known that you accept me for who I am and who I choose to love, but I wanted you to be happy with who I was too. I wanted to try to be the version of myself that you had thought up for me when you found out that you were having a daughter." Jane pulled back and stared her mother in the eyes so she could see how sincere she was being.

Angela leaned up and kissed her only daughter in the center of her forehead. "Sweetheart, I never needed you to pretend to be someone who you weren't for me. All I ever wanted was to see you as happy as I know you are with your fiancé and your son. I never cared about who it was you'd settle down and start a family with as long as you would have someone to be with you in this life."

Jane closed her eyes to stave off the tears that she could feel forming. "Ma, you'll never know how much I appreciate you for that. I love the way that you already think of Maura as my wife even though we aren't married yet. All it took was for me to tell you that she was the love of my life and you started treating her like your daughter."

"I just want to support you." Angela replied.

Constance threw her arms around her daughter's neck. "Congratulations, darling, I'm so happy for you. I know that Jane is everything that you've always wanted in a partner and then some."

"Jane is more than I ever could have imagined for myself. I just hope that you aren't disappointed that I didn't fall in love with someone who runs in the same social circles as we do." Maura admitted her deepest fears to her mother.

"The only thing I care about is how much I know that Jane treats you like a queen. I can't ask for more than that." Constance reassured her.

Maura had the decency to blush at her mother basically calling her spoiled. "I can admit that Jane does spoil me and Hank way too much."

Constance gave her daughter a cheeky look. "I don't know that you need to be indulged anymore than you already have been. My grandson, however, deserves to be spoiled every chance someone gets."

"Keep up that attitude, Constance. When that boy gets to be a rotten teenager I'm going to send him to you, his grandma, and his nonna. The three of you think he needs to be the most spoiled baby in the world." Jane walked over and put her arm around Maura's shoulders.

"My grandson is an absolute angel with all the charm of his Uncle Frankie and his Uncle Tommy." Constance corrected her.

Jane leaned into her fiancé. "Remind me to talk to my brothers about their obvious flirting with your mother. They know no shame. I don't know what I'm gonna do with either of them."

"Jane, you're going about this the wrong way. We should let them flirt with her it puts her in a good mood. We need to use all the help we get when it comes to that." Maura rested her cheek against Jane's chest.

Jane smirked at her fiancé. "In that case I will tell them both to flirt harder."

"Just tell Tommy to hold back a little I don't need my best friend other than you on my mother's side." Maura agreed with her.

Jane kissed Maura's cheek and shook her head. "Sweetheart, we've got to get you out more. You need better friends than me and my brother."

"I do still need to meet your cousin the lawyer. I think that could be more my style." Maura teased.

"Honey, you're out of your damn mind if you think that I'm gonna let you and that cousin of mine anywhere near each other. I don't need that kind of stress in my life." Jane arched her eyebrow. She knew just how well her cousin and Maura would get along and she didn't need that at the moment.

Frank had even managed to show up to watch his daughter propose to the love of her life. "Janie, you're gonna have a wife. You already invited all the stress into your life. You did good and picked one worth all that stress." He hugged Jane and Maura.

"Pop, don't give her a reason to regret saying yes already." Jane laughed and kissed her father's cheek.

Frank kissed Jane's cheek and then Maura's. "Sweetheart, just remember that even though you're too good for the likes of us that we make up for that in the love we give."

"I'm not too good for any of you, Frank. You're the first people who loved and accepted me for who I am. And you just hit on why I keep your daughter around. She loves me so deeply and sincerely that I can't stay mad at her." Maura kidded around with her future father-in-law.

"You act like I do so much to make you mad. But, Pop is right, you are way too good for us." Jane shot a wink in her doctor's direction.

Maura kissed Jane chastely on the lips. "Like I just said I could never be too good for a Rizzoli, you taught me how to love."

"Now, that is not fair. You don't get to make me fall more in love with you than I already am." Jane pouted cutely.

Frank had to take the chance to crack a joke. "Maura, we will forgive you all your sins. You're a doctor and that gives us bragging rights back in the old neighborhood. You have no idea what it means to my ma that she can say that her granddaughter is a doctor."

"If you want even more bragging rights tell her to tell everyone that both her granddaughter-in-law's mothers are doctors." Hope took and chance and inserted herself into the situation.

Jane shot Hope a grateful look. "Oh, hey, yeah! That is a great idea. Nonna will be queen of the neighborhood with news like that."

Hope gave Jane an affectionate smile. "I know that I have been excited to brag about how my daughter-in-law is an accomplished and decorated detective. My parents and siblings can't wait to meet you and they are already crazy about Hank. I send them all the pictures that Maura sends me."

Jane stood behind Maura and gripped her waist tightly knowing that she would need support at that news. "I am honored on Hank's behalf that the rest of his family wants to meet him so badly. I know that news will be great for his little ego."

Maura leaned back into Jane for support. She felt her knees go out from under her that her birth mother had family that wanted to meet her fiancé and son. "Jane and I would be more than happy to introduce our little family to the rest of the family." She started to tear up and she needed a minute for it to pass. "Hope, I can't tell you how much that it means to mean that you told the rest of your family about my wife and son."

"Maura, you don't have to thank me for doing what was right. They are so happy to have a great-grandson and great-nephew. They are eager to welcome the three of you into the family. As a matter of fact they know that my continued cooperation with them depends on them accepting my daughter and her family." Hope assured her.

Jane decided to speak up for Maura since she knew that the other woman was too overcome with emotion to speak. "You have no idea how much that means to me and Maura. All we want is to be happy together and give our baby boy the best life possible."

"I will be very happy to meet my other family and introduce them to my son and fiancé. I'm so glad that you care enough about the three of us to defend us to your family, Hope. I can't put into words how much that means to me." Maura was trying her best not to let the woman who gave birth to her know just how much that information had melted her.

"You three are my family too. I will always defend you." Hope smiled warmly at her.


A/N: Here is the next chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I'm playing around a little bit with the storylines that were on the show. So, I've shaken up the history with Martinez a little and I think you'll like what I have in store. Until next time please review.