A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.

Chapter 6

Present Day

Maura stepped out onto her back patio to check in on Jane and the guys while they grilled. "How is it going out here?" She asked cheerfully.

Jane pulled up her ball cap and wiped the sweat off her brow with the back of her left hand. "It's going good. The food is gettin' ready and the beer is going down easy." She raised her beer bottle to her girlfriend.

"That's what I like to hear." Maura slid up behind Jane and wrapped her arms around the other woman's waist. She rested her forehead on the brunette's shoulder.

Jane leaned back into her son's mother. "I only aim to please when it comes to you. The food will be done in a little while. I hope all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins will be here by then."

"Hush, you. Don't act like you're unhappy to have all of your family here. You made homicide sergeant. That deserves to be celebrated by everyone and it's a great chance to show our new son off." Maura kissed in between Jane's shoulder blades.

Tommy put his hand over his eyes and made a sound of disgust. "Hey, you two, don't do that in front of us. We don't wanna see that. You have a perfectly good room inside where you can do that shit all you want."

Normally Jane wouldn't say what she was about to say, but she'd had just enough to drink and Tommy had left himself wide open. "Baby brother, I just had a baby that means forced celibacy. We are all over each other, 'cause we haven't worked it out in the bedroom in over two months."

"Jesus, Janie, you don't have to tell us these things. That is absolutely disgusting." Frankie made a gagging noise.

Angela walked out just after and looked between all three of her children before shaking her head. "I don't want to know, so I'm not even going to ask. Janie, there is someone at the door to see you and I want it to be your call whether you invite this person in or not."

Jane stood up straight and adjusted her hat on her head. "I'll take care of it, Ma." She said before stepping inside and going to the front door. To say that she was shocked by who she saw there would have been an understatement to say the least. Once she picked her jaw up off the floor she found her voice. "Pop, you're here." Her voice was barely above a whisper.

Frank Sr. stood leaning against the doorway to his daughter's home. "So, I heard that I have a grandson now. I know that I've messed up terribly, but I would like to meet him if you'll let me. I also heard that you and Maura are together now. I'm really happy for you, Janie, I know how happy she makes you. I've seen the way you look at her since the day you first brought her home and I knew that one day the two of you would get together."

Jane studied her father closely to get a better read on him. "If I let you in here to meet my son, you would have to promise me that you will respect ma and the life that she has built without you."

Frank put his hands up in a sign of surrender. "I'm not here to cause trouble. I just want to meet my grandson."

"Ok, come on in. Nino and Nonna are here and Gia is here. I know that they will all love to see you." Jane nodded her head and gestured for her father to enter the house.

"You may need to get your cuffs out. There is a very good chance that my ma will try to kill me." Frank walked in.

"I think that I have to let her do what she's gonna do to you. You left us all, dad. It's the least that you owe us." Jane made a stop at the bassinet that her son was currently laying in and picked him up. "Pop, I have someone here that I would very much like for you to meet." She put her son in her dad's arms.

Frank held his grandson to his chest gently. "Hi, little guy."

"Pop, this is your grandson Henry Francesco Vincenzo Rizzoli-Isles." Jane put her hand on her father's shoulder. She bent down and kissed her son's head. "Hank, I would like for you to meet your Nonino. The guy holding you right now is my daddy."

"You named him after my pop. Do you call him Rico too?" Frank had tears swimming in his eyes that he tried to hide.

"No, he's Hank. He's also named after his grandfather, his godfather, and the man who saved my life." Jane informed him.

Frank nodded his head thoughtfully. "Hey, Hank, I'm very pleased to meet you. I'm your Nonino and I'm so happy that you are the little guy who is gonna carry on the Rizzoli name some day. I just hope that you have as good as taste in women as your ma does." He kissed his grandson wetly in the center of his forehead.

"I'll teach him how to woo the right woman. I mean I learned it from my pop." Jane smiled happily.

"Well, I hope you stick with the right woman better than I did." Frank looked down and studied his grandson. The little boy in his arms was every bit his daughter's son. Jane had looked just like him when she was born. "Jesus, Janie, this boy looks just like you."

"He really does, Pop. I couldn't deny him if I wanted to." Jane agreed with her dad. She liked to hear that he knew that he had done her mother wrong when he ran off on her.

Maura slid up and put her hand on Jane's hip. She startled them both when she made her presence known. "Frank, I happen to think that there is no way that you could deny Jane. She looks as much like you as Hank looks like her. I see you every time I look at your grandson. He's gonna carry on the tradition of the Rizzoli brothers well."

"He sure will." Frank looked in absolute awe of his grandson. He had a goofy smile on his face and everything. After a minute he came back to himself and realized that his daughter-in-law was talking to him. "Hey, Maura, great to see ya, kid. I'm so happy that you and Janie finally got together. Congrats on the beautiful baby boy. My grandson looks just like my Janie." He kept a tight one armed grip on Hank and hugged Maura with the other arm. He kissed her on her cheek affectionately.

"I think it is safe to say that pop approves of this relationship." Jane laughed as her father danced off with her son.

"I'm glad." Maura smiled and stole a kiss from her girlfriend.

Frank leaned over next to his father with his grandson. "Pop, look Janie's boy looks just like us."

"He really does and I'm glad that you made it here to see him." Henry told his son.

"I'm glad that I made it up to see him too." Frank agreed with his father. He knew that he hadn't been the best dad lately, but he couldn't let his grandson think that he would ever let him down.

"Francesco, don't you have something that you want to say to your daughter?" Lucia asked her son sharply.

Frank looked up at his oldest child. "Janie, I'm really proud of you for making sergeant. I always knew that you would excel at being a detective."

"Thanks, Pop, I appreciate it." Jane smiled at her father.

Frank gripped Jane's shoulder in a show of affection. "I'm glad that you were the first one to carry on the family name. You did good, Janie, you did real good. I always knew that it would be an extraordinary woman to win your heart and settle you down."

"I'm proud to be the one who was first to pass on the Rizzoli name. It means the world to me that I have that in common with my dad." Jane looked into his eyes meaningfully.

"Ma, thanks for being ok with the fact that I wanted pop to stay here and get to know his grandson." Jane cornered her mother just before they got ready to sit down to eat. She had made that decision for her son and not for her father. Her little boy deserved a chance to get to know the man who had raised her.

Angela cupped her daughter's cheek with her right hand. "Janie, I know that you are on my side when it comes to this feud between me and your father, but I don't want you to think that I don't want you to love him. I may be with Vince now, but Frank is Hank's grandfather and I'm very glad that he showed up for him today and for you."

"I'm glad that he let us know that he could still be counted on too. I love you, ma, but you know that I used to worship him. I'm happy the man that I thought so much of is still in there somewhere." Jane replied.

Angela ran her knuckles over Jane's cheek. "Oh, sweetheart, you're so much like him and I always loved that about you. I know how much he means to you and how much you mean to him. I wouldn't do anything to get in between the bond you two share or keep him from knowing our grandson. I really want Hank to be as close to your daddy as you are. I hope that he doesn't let the two of you down again."

Jane looked away from her mother and wiped the tears from her eyes. It meant the world to her that Angela was willing to make peace with Frank to make her life easier. "Come on, ma, let's feed these barbarians before they turn on us." She picked up a tray from the counter and sat it on the kitchen table.

"I know just what you mean when you say that. I'm so glad that everyone could make it here today to celebrate you." Angela started putting food on the table as well.

Jane looked around to make sure that no one could hear her. "I'm glad that you and Maura made an effort to get everyone here. I may act like I hate it, but I'm happy to see the family." She couldn't have anyone hear her say those words.

"I'm your mother, Janie. I know you better than you know yourself. You're getting ready to learn firsthand what I mean by that. I knew that you would want everyone here no matter how much you love to grumble about it." Angela shot her daughter a wink.

Jane dropped in to visit her fellow detectives in the homicide unit. There wasn't much for her and Hank to do during the day and she could only hit the gym for so long. She knew that her colleagues didn't mind her stopping by with her baby in tow. They welcomed Hank with open arms like he was just another member of the squad. The grumpy old vets were the first ones who had bonded with Hank. They instilled their knowledge in him every time that Jane brought him by for a visit.

"Hey, oh, look who came to see us." Frankie rushed over and took his nephew out of his stroller. "Hi, Hank, I'm so happy to get to see you." He kissed both the baby's cheeks.

Jane walked over to the murder board and looked at it. "What are you guys workin' on?" She was supposed to be out on leave, but she had a hard time doing nothing. There were only so many hours a day that she would spend in the gym while she waited for Maura to get off work.

"We got a vic found dead in the alley with a single GSW to the back of the head." Korsak informed her. He knew that there was no use in trying to keep her out of the investigation. Once she sunk her teeth into something she wouldn't let go until she had it in the bag.

Jane studied the board closely and she thought that she had a read on the right suspect after just a few minutes. "Did anyone question the business partner?"

"No, it seems like he had nothing to do with it." Frost answered her.

"It seems to me like the business partner has a great motive. I know it says there that he was ok with the vic's choice to not take the company public, but that's a lot of money to leave on the table. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the partner killed him in order to take the company public." Jane gave her observations on the case.

Korsak shrugged his shoulders. "That seems like as good a track to take with this case as any. Frost, you should take Cooper with you to bring the partner in for questioning. She could learn a thing or two from you and that will get that interview out of the way."

"You can keep pushing her on me all that you want, but I'm going back to having Jane as my partner as soon as she gets back from leave." Frost disputed.

"I would send you with Holiday, but she is busy in Bric right now and that is more important than this." Vince told the younger man.

"Frost, go out with Coop. She is gonna be a good detective one day and that is gonna be in part because of you. We will get the partner situation worked out when I get back, but if I have to go back to Vince then you could do worse that Riley. I am a sergeant now after all, I will need a partner who reflects my new status." Jane made it sound like she was teasing to soften the blow for her current partner. She knew full well that she wouldn't go back to being partners with Barry after she came back from leave. It made more sense for her and Vince to be reunited again, since they held the same rank.

Frost grunted and got up out of his chair. "Jane, for you I will try with her, but if it gets to be too much for me I reserve the right to go back to working with you and Korsak."

"I think that is fair enough." Jane couldn't deny him that consolation if things didn't work out between him and Cooper. She had a feeling that those two were going to make the best partners whether they knew it or not.

Frost didn't say anything he just went to collect the woman who was being forced on him as a partner for the time being.

"Thanks, for that, Rizzoli. I know it couldn't have been easy to try to get him ready for a new partner, but it was the best thing for him." Vince gave her his thanks for making things easier.

Frankie laid Hank back in his stroller. "I should probably be getting back to my paperwork." He slunk away to his desk.

"While we have the children distracted, show me how else I can help before my girlfriend comes to pry me away." Jane told the older man next to her.

"Janie, the kids you picked out to round out this unit are right on. They have done a very good job of picking up the slack while you've been gone. We don't have anymore open cases that we need help on right now." Vince informed her.

Jane sat down at her desk and made herself comfortable. "I'm going to go over the kids' progress reports and I'm going to pick one of them to help me interrogate the subject that I have Frost and Cooper bringing in."

"Sounds good to me." Korsak said. "Do you mind if I park my grandson over by my desk for a little while?" He paused with his hand on Hank's stroller.

Jane booted up her computer. "Take him for as long as you want. It's not like I have anywhere else to be right now."

Vince sat down at his desk and pulled Hank's stroller close to him. He could go over what he needed to while he kept his grandson next to him. There was no way that he could have ever dreamed of having a grandchild, but Jane and Maura had decided that their son should refer to him as his grandfather independently of the fact that he was with Angela now. "I've got him, Janie, just get lost in your files for as long as you need to. I know that you still need to be you and I will do whatever I can to help you with that."

"I know that you've got me, Vince. I appreciate it." Jane threw him a smile before she got lost in the files she was looking at. "Frankie!" She called out to her brother after a few minutes.

"What?" Frankie yelled back across the room.

"Get Callahan and go pick the wife up for questioning. I want her in here too." Jane ordered him.

"On it," Frankie scrambled to his feet and threw his suit jacket on while he walked to the elevator.

"Now that I've got all the kids out of the room. Which of them do you think will be able to figure out about this crime what I already know?" Jane spun around in her chair to face her soon to be partner.

"If you want to take Frankie and Callahan in with you to interview one of our suspects I will take Cooper with me to interview the other. I think either Frankie or Cooper will be the two to piece together that the wife and the business partner are in this together." Vince replied.

Jane shrugged her shoulders. "I think that maybe if we are lucky one of them will come up with the answer. My best guess is either Frankie or Callahan. I mean I taught Frankie myself and Callahan has the same damn brains as Maura has. That being said Cooper pays more attention to the details and I could see it being her and Frankie to figure it out."

"We will see about that when we get the both of our suspects in the interrogation room. I'm sure that the kids are gonna surprise you with how smart they actually are." Vince put his hand and Hank's belly and rubbed it gently.

Maura marched into the bullpen from her basement office. She wasn't in the least bit surprised when she was able to pick up her son and cradle him in her arms without either of the detectives that were in the room noticing. They were both engrossed in whatever files that they were reading to notice what was going on around them. She cleared her throat and spoke in conversational tone. "Hank, I can't believe that your mama and your pop don't pay more attention to you. I know that they are on the hunt, but you are so much more adorable than that."

"I thought he was sleeping." Vince offered lamely.

"Korsak was watching him. I didn't think I had anything to worry about leaving my son in the care of his grandfather." Jane of course placed the blame on her partner.

Maura turned Hank to face them after she had kissed both his cheeks. "I think that he forgives you to for being a little too occupied in a case to know what was going on around you. I mean he was in the middle of a police station there is no way that I can think that he's not safe."

"Sorry, babe," Jane gave a half assed apology that they both knew she didn't mean.

"You don't have to be sorry. I mean you are supposed to be on maternity leave, but I know better than to think that you are going to just sit idly by while I work and you are supposed to be at home with our son. We both know how much you love him, but we both also understand who you are and your need to always be doing something to keep busy. That is the nature of the woman I fell in love with and I wouldn't change her for anything in the world." Maura wasn't about to pass a harsh judgment on her girlfriend for being the woman that she well knew her to be.

There was no way that she could expect Jane to want to sit on the sidelines when it was clear she was more than up to the task of being able to work. That wasn't her girlfriend's style and she wouldn't know what she was supposed to do with her if it was. Maura loved the passionate and impulsive detective for all of her character flaws and personality traits, not in spite of them. She would love Jane and want her to be herself no matter what was going on in their lives. It was one of things that she had come to count on over all the years they had known each other.

"Babe, I'm really glad that you know who I am. I'm not saying that I'm going to go back to work full time right now, but I have to have something else to occupy my days other than changing diapers and waiting for our son to need a bottle." Jane pointed out to her. She loved how much her girlfriend got her on a deeper level and knew that she needed to be able to work to keep her from going insane.

Maura smiled lovingly at the mother of her child. "Then I'm going to count on your skills to get me out of this place at a reasonable time today. If you're in here and the rest of your cohort isn't, I know that you have a case solving hunch. You're really a better teacher than I would have initially thought you would be. I'm very proud of you for shaping the new generation of detectives."

"I'm willing to bet that you will be out of here by five today. There is no need for me to draw out this case anymore than it needs to be when I'm pretty sure that I already have it all figured out. I like for my wife to be home with me and our son as much as humanly possible. If I can help that then I am going to do it." Jane shot a saucy wink at the ME. She loved that she was in the habit of thinking as the shorter woman as her wife. She hadn't officially asked her yet, but she had a ring and planned on proposing as soon as she had the right moment.

In Jane's mind she had to be the one to propose to Maura. It was an unspoken truth that she was the butch one in their relationship and it fell on her to be the one to propose marriage. She knew that she wasn't a man, but she wanted to be a gentleman when it came to Maura. She didn't have any social status, but she would treat her girlfriend with the respect that she deserved. It was the one thing that she could give her aside from the child she had already freely given to her with her whole heart. Jane had known that if she could trust Maura with her heart then there was no one else she would rather trust to co-parent her son with.

Maura's face lit up with a beautiful smile when she heard the taller woman refer to her as her wife. There was nothing else in the world that she had ever wanted to be more than Jane's wife. That was an even more exciting prospect to her than when she had passed her medical boards. "Your wife likes being home with you and our son too. Everyone knows that if I don't get out of here at a reasonable time you are going to be eating something very unhealthy due to your faked inability to cook."

Jane shrugged her shoulders innocently. She wasn't going to apologize for being the way she was. She was reasonably sure that no one in her life would know how to deal with her if she acted any differently. "What can I say? You know me well, Maur. Hopefully Frost and the kids will be back here soon and we can get these interviews underway. If that turns out the way I think it will then they will just have paperwork to do on the case."

"I really love watching you be a teacher and a mother. You excel at both like I always knew you would." Maura bit her lip teasingly.

Jane took a step closer to her girlfriend her already dark eyes made even darker by want. "You bring it out in me."

Korsak looked between them uncomfortably. "Hey, that doesn't sound like police business. We don't need the two of you flirting in the middle of the bullpen." He tried to reign them in.

Just then the two teams of detectives they had sent out to bring in their suspects walked into the bullpen and went towards the interrogation rooms.

"It looks like you're about to be busy. I am going to take Hank with me down to the morgue." Maura offered.

"Don't take our son into the dead people room." Jane protested.

"I'm taking him to my office. I wouldn't take him into the autopsy suite where the bodies are. You know me better than that, Jane. Come down and get him when you're done." Maura hugged Jane quickly and kissed her cheek. She loved the feeling of her love's body pressed against hers. The workout routine that Jane was on to get back to her pre-baby body was working wonders. She was even more sculpted and stronger than she had been before she got pregnant.

Jane dropped a kiss to Maura's forehead. "I'll see you when I'm done here." She bent to kiss her son as well. "Be good for mommy and don't let any of the geeks down in the basement turn you into one of them."

Maura just sighed in exasperation with a smile on her face. She really did love all of the sides of her future wife, but some of them were harder to deal with than others. She put Hank is his stroller and walked over to the elevators.

"Korsak, I will go sit in with Little Rizzoli and Callahan if you want to take Frost and Cooper." Jane offered once she was no longer distracted by her little family.

"That sounds good to me." Vince replied agreeably. "Wanna bet on it?"

Jane smirked back at him. "Twenty bucks says that my detectives figure it out before your detectives."

"I get double or nothing if Cooper is the one who cracks the case since Frost has more experience." Vince wagered.

"Bet, you're on, Partner!" Jane held out her hand for her partner to shake.

"Deal," Korsak shook hands with her. It was going to be so much fun for him getting to be her partner again.

"Jane! Dinner is ready come get a plate." Maura called to her girlfriend from the kitchen.

Jane was firmly planted on the couch watching the Red Sox game. Her son rested in his bassinet next to the couch. "Coming," She jumped to be feet as quickly as she could and walked into the kitchen. She stole a quick kiss to her girlfriend's lips and made her plate.

"Do you want to eat in here or on the couch?" Maura had become lax about a lot of her strict rules since her detective had to come to live with her. Before Jane she would have never dreamed of eating her dinner on the couch.

"On the couch, babe. We gotta watch to see if the sox bring home another win. Hank is even wearing the Red Sox onesie that his grandma just brought him." Jane carried both of their place into the other room and set them down on the coffee table.

Maura grabbed her glass of wine and she got Jane a beer. "That should bring the Sox some very good luck then. He has been their lucky charm since he was born." She met Jane in the living room and put both their drinks down on coasters.

Jane settled down on her side of the couch. She always sat on the left side while Maura took the right. It kept them from bumping elbows when they ate in this room. "I know he's been my good luck charm since before he was born. Getting pregnant with him finally landed me the woman of my dreams for the rest of my life. He gave us a reason to stop dancing around each other and start dancing with each other. We would have found our way no matter what, but I think he saved us a whole lot of time and heartache. Without a reason for us to get serious about each other and make it stick we could have been on and off again for years before we finally got it right together. Like we have both already said we don't like the way he got here we are just glad that he's here."

Maura brought her hand up to her chest and a loving look on her face. "Jane, you are so sweet when it's just me and you alone together. You give me and our son a part of yourself that you hide away from everyone else and you don't know how much it means to me that you trust me like that."

"Babe, you are everything to me. I think you deserve to see the sides of me that I hide from the rest of the world. It is the very least that I owe you for loving me as well as you do." Jane took Maura's hand and squeezed it lovingly.

"You don't owe me anything at all. You're the first person in this world to love me for me and take me just the way that I am." Maura corrected her.

A/N: Here is the next chapter. I hope that everyone enjoyed it. Until next time please review.