A/N:Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 3
Present Day
Maura sat in the rocking chair that was in Hank's nursery breastfeeding him. She rocked back and forth gently while she told to him slowly. "Did you have a good time with Uncle Frankie while mama and mommy were out for the night? It seems like you both had the best time together and the Sox brought home a win. You must be a good luck charm. They have been on a winning streak since you were born."
She closed her eyes happy to let her son feed until he had his fill. Sometimes that meant she fed him for more than an hour. He really did have the Rizzoli appetite and he was always down to eat as much as he could. It amazed her that he never really got sick or gained an unhealthy amount of weight with how much he ate. She knew that he was finished eating when he looked up at her with his big brown eyes and allowed her to break the latch he had on her nipple.
She put the baby over her shoulder and burped him. She laughed softly when he let out a loud burp. "You are without a doubt your mother's son. She has no manners either. It's cute when you do it, but not so much when she does it. That's ok you're still a baby there is time for me to teach you how to behave correctly." She cooed at him.
Jane stood in the doorway of the nursery with a smirk on her face. "You talk about me like you aren't madly in love with me. If you were anyone else, I would be offended by your comments."
"I don't say the things I say to insult you. I say them so that maybe you will learn how to behave like a civilized human." Maura arched her eyebrow at her girlfriend.
Jane was dressed in her sleep shirt and boxers. She walked over and took Hank out of Maura's arms while planting a soft kiss on her lips. "Go get ready for bed and I will put him down for the night. With a little bit of luck he will let me get a little bit of sleep before I have to wake up and feed him."
"I love that you handle all the overnight feedings for me, but you don't have to. Your body is still recovering from giving birth and you need all the rest you can get. That was part of the reason why we agreed that I would be the one to breastfeed him." Maura snuggled into Jane's side.
"It's fine, I've got this covered. I take care of you and you trust me to take care of our son the same way. I like doing the middle of the night feedings, it gives the two of us the chance to bond." Jane reassured her. "Now, go on, march. I know how long your nighttime routine takes you to get through." She swatted her girlfriend on her shapely ass to make her point.
Maura laid a trail of kisses on Jane's neck. "You are absolutely incorrigible, but I love you anyway." She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and bent over to kiss Hank's forehead. "As for you, young man, I hope you don't act as much like your mama as you look like her."
Jane whirled around and opened the door to the mini fridge that held some of his bottles and popped it in the warmer with one hand. "You are far too sassy for your own good tonight. And you're the one who said that you hoped he came out looking just like me."
Maura stood up on her tiptoes and whispered huskily into Jane's ear. "You'll just have to punish me for it later, Sgt. Daddy."
Jane groaned deep in the back of her throat. "I haven't had my way with you in over two months. You need to get out of here, so I can concentrate on feeding our son." That woman was going to be the death of her one of these days and there was no question about it.
"I'll see you in the bedroom when you're done here." Maura left the room and turned to throw a wink over her shoulder.
The beeping of the bottle warmer going off brought Jane back to reality. She blinked her eyes rapidly and settled herself into the rocking chair. "I don't know what we are gonna do with your mommy, but we love her anyway." She put the nipple of the bottle in Hank's mouth and chuckled as he went to town. "Don't ever change, Junior. I knew you'd be like this when we found out that you are a boy."
14 Weeks Pregnant
Jane laid back on the exam table waiting for the ultrasound tech to get to work. Maura's left hand was gripped firmly in her right hand. "You ready for this, babe?"
Maura leaned over and pressed a soft kiss to her forehead. "I'm more than ready to find out what we are having. I'm so excited to get a jump on shopping."
"Only you would be this excited to have another reason to shop." Jane let out a chuckle.
The tech lifted up the gown that Jane wore. "This gel will be a little cold." He warned before he squirted the gel on her belly and moved the wand around.
Maura and Jane both watched the screen intently. They could hear the loud whoosh-whoosh-whoosh of their baby's heartbeat fill the room.
"That has to be the most perfect sound I've ever heard in my life." Maura was already feeling tears sting the backs of her eyes.
Jane smiled up at her. "I make it a rule not to argue with a genius, so I couldn't agree more."
The tech froze the frame and zoomed in. "Do you two want to know the sex?" He asked just to make sure that they wanted to know before he spilled the beans.
"Yes, we want to know." Jane answered quickly.
"Dr. Isles, do you want to do the honors or should I?" The tech asked.
"You do it." Maura replied. For once she didn't want to be a doctor she just wanted to be a proud mother.
The tech flashed both of them a dazzling smile. "Congratulations, you are having a healthy baby boy."
Jane gasped and bit her lip. "It's a boy? Maur, is that right?" A tear made its way down her cheek.
"Yes, my love, it's right. We are going to have a son." Maura gave Jane a salty kiss on the lips from their mingled tears.
Jane laughed happily. She had been so in hopes that their first child was going to be a son. She knew how to deal with a boy better than she knew how to deal with a girl. She had two brothers after all and she could remember what they were like when they were younger. "If he's anything like my brothers, we are gonna have a lot of fun with him. I can't wait to teach him how to play baseball and football."
"And I can't wait to teach him about science and for you to teach him about his Italian heritage." Maura gushed.
The tech cleared his throat. "Ok, the amnio is already done and we will have the results of that for you by the end of the day today. I will have these ultrasounds printed out for you and you are free to go after you make your next appointment." He left the room to give Jane the privacy to get dressed.
"Do you know how excited his Uncle Frankie and Uncle Tommy are gonna be to have a nephew? His nonna will be over the moon. His Pop Vince is gonna have him rotten before he ever gets here. And with any luck his Uncle Barry will teach him how to be a computer genius like he is." Jane took some tissues and wiped off her stomach before she got off the table. She took her gown off and started to get dressed so she could go into the office.
Maura pulled Jane to her and kissed her deeply. "I would love all of that. The only thing I care about is that he is happy and healthy."
"That's all I care about too." Jane finished dressing and took her girlfriend's hand.
The two women stopped by the desk and got the copies of their anatomy scan and made their next appointment. They walked out to Jane's unmarked car and Jane opened the passenger door for Maura.
Maura slid into the car gracefully and offered Jane a smile when she closed the door for her. Sometimes it amazed her how chivalrous her detective could be when she wasn't trying to play the tough guy. It was a side of Jane that only she got to see.
Jane got into the driver's seat and started the car. "So, I was thinking that we could talk names on the way to work." She pulled out of the medical center's parking garage.
"I would like that very much." Maura reached over the center console and took Jane's hand.
"For a first name I was thinking Henry and we could call him Hank. It's my Nino's name on my father's side and my Zio's name on my ma's side. What do you think about that?" Jane took a moment before pulling out in traffic to look over at Maura to see what she thought about the name.
"I love it. And it would translate well to French." Maura beamed happily.
"You really like it?" Jane was surprised that Maura took her first suggestion that well.
Maura shot her a quick wink to let her know that she truly was ok with the name. "I do like it and it can go on a list. I don't want to settle on the first name that we both like. We have plenty of time to figure this out." She squeezed her hand.
Jane made sure to lace their fingers together securely. "If you don't object I know for a fact that I want his middle name to be Francesco. It's not so much to honor my pop, but to honor my brother. Maur, you know that on top of being the woman I love you're my very best friend. Frankie though, Frankie, he was my very first best friend and he's always kept all my secrets. He was the first person who I told that I was into girls. He never once turned his back on me. He just went right along with it. Frankie is like my shadow everywhere I go he's right there with me." She spoke passionately about her need to have their son carry on her brother's name.
Frankie was always there for her and never asked her to change who she was or how she behaved. It had been apparent since they were kids that he was going to do whatever she did whether she wanted him to tag along or not. When she decided she loved baseball and football he had played right along with her. So when she chose to join the police force he applied to the academy as soon as he could to make sure that they got to work together.
"You don't have to tell me anything about how close you and Frankie are. I was in that morgue with you when you begged me to do what I had to do in order to save his life. I was there on the steps of headquarters when you shot yourself and I had to keep you alive until the paramedics got to you. I would be honored for our son to share a name with the man who hero worships you the way he does. I want him to learn from his Uncle Frankie just what a badass his Ma is and never let him forget it even when he eventually goes through his teenaged rebellion." Maura spoke just as passionately as Jane had.
She sometimes thought that Jane forgot that she had witnessed firsthand just how far she was willing to go to keep her oldest brother safe. Maura could tell how much the close bond that Jane and Frankie shared meant to both of them. That was the life she wanted for her future son. She wanted him to have siblings he could count no matter what. She was determined that her little boy would never know a minute of the loneliness and sadness that she had known as a child. She was very glad that in the unlikely event that she and Jane couldn't be there to raise their son that they would have Frankie and Tommy to fall back on to love him and tell him about both his mothers.
Jane cleared her throat and stared intently out into traffic for a moment. "I didn't just shoot myself to save Frankie." Her voice had dropped to a harsh whisper.
"What's that?" Maura asked for clarification. She wasn't really sure what her girlfriend had meant by that.
"I didn't just shoot myself to save Frankie. I shot myself to save you too. I didn't know if there was anyone else in the building or how soon you two were gonna be rescued. I couldn't risk anything happening to either of you. I did the only thing I could to do to end the threat and get everyone out of there safely. Really I only cared about you and Frankie I didn't do it for anyone else." Jane kept looking out the front window, so Maura couldn't see the blush of embarrassment that spread across her face.
Maura ignored the expression on Jane's face. She would let her hide her feelings when it came to small things like this. It was the big things she would push her to talk about. She lifted Jane's knuckles to her lips and kissed them. "I love you so much and I have for so long now."
"I love you too, Maur." Jane pulled into a parking space outside headquarters.
"When are we going to tell everyone what we are having?" Maura asked as her girlfriend got out of the car.
Jane walked around the car and opened Maura's door for her again. She did her best to treat her girlfriend like a gentleman. It was the very least a woman like her deserved and she wasn't going to fall short of giving her the very least. She offered Maura her hand and helped her out of the car. "Well, I thought that we could announce it at Sunday dinner. We could get everyone presents or something and tell them that way. I don't really wanna do a weird gender reveal thing."
"That sounds perfect to me. We will invite Vince and Barry too. I think that is the best course of action." Maura agreed with her partner.
Sunday Dinner
"Angela, as usual this meal was fantastic." Vince leaned back in his chair and rubbed his sizable belly.
Barry shook his head at the older detective. "Mrs. Rizzoli, this was great and you managed to feed the stray even more than he already eats."
"I still don't eat as much as one of the Rizzoli Siblings and that's all the Angela cares about." Vince shot back.
"Hey!" Frankie and Tommy yelled out at the same time.
Jane managed to smack both of her brother's on the back of the head even through her right arm was still in sling. "Just 'cause Korsak opens his big mouth and says something that is true doesn't mean that you two have to react to it. Maura and I have some huge news we want to share with you today." She set a gift bag down in front of Barry, Frankie, and Tommy. "Act like you all have some manners."
"Jane, be nice to your brothers." Maura sat a bag down in front of Angela and Vince. "Ok, open them."
Jane waited for everyone to open their presents. "Maura and I would like to announce that we are having a baby boy."
Frankie and Tommy high fived aggressively.
"Fuck yeah! We are getting a little dude to teach stuff to." Tommy exclaimed.
Frankie jumped out of his chair and hugged Jane fiercely. "I'm so happy for you. This kid is getting the best ma to grow up with." He moved to Maura and kissed her cheek. "You are gonna be a great mother to my nephew. And let's face it you've got your work cut out for you. You get to keep both him and Janie in line."
"Thanks, Frankie, that means a lot to me." Maura let the feeling of really being welcomed into the family wash over her. It was this atmosphere that she wanted her son to grow up in. She was glad that she was able to give this to her child.
Barry punched Jane affectionately in her good shoulder. "He's gonna be a badass, partner. Let's just hope little Rambo in there has a better sense of self preservation than you do."
"Ma and Maura will probably have it beat into him by the time he can walk. Or they can try anyway. I'm gonna teach him all the things that I taught my brothers and then some. I think I'm gonna be in trouble when he becomes a teenager if he's anything like me." Jane laughed.
"Don't wish that on me. I hope my grandson will be safer than my children. He will like to do tame things and not get the crazy idea in his head to be a cop." Angela took Jane's face in her hands and kissed both her cheeks. "I'm so happy for you and I know that you're gonna be a great mother to this little boy. Even if you will make him as tough as you made your brothers."
Jane shrugged her innocence. "Kid has two moms he's gonna have to be tough. And he's a Rizzoli that comes with the territory."
"The first time that he gets called to the principal's office for fighting she's going to deal with it on her own." Maura shot Jane a playful glare.
Jane shot her a smug smirk in return. "Trust me the principal isn't gonna want to deal with me. They didn't like dealing with me in school when I beat the snot outta whatever little punks were bullying Frankie and Tommy."
Vince had to laugh heartily at that. "She beat up kids for you two? You two big strapping men had to have your big sister fight your battles for you?"
"In all fairness she didn't fight our battles for us, she just helped us." Frankie defended.
"I mean when it's three guys comin' after ya it's not bad to have Janie on your side. You'd be surprised how good she is in a fight." Tommy chimed in.
Frost jumped in now. "Nah, we wouldn't be surprised at all. I've seen her break a chair over the back of a meth crazed gangbanger before. Not to mention the size of the dudes I've seen her tackle out in the field."
Jane sighed and rolled her eyes. "Hey! You guys are not helpin' my case out at all here. As a matter of fact, if I ever need character witnesses in court don't call any of these guys to help. They are only gonna make things much worse for me."
"Janie, why do you do the things that you do? I don't know what I'm gonna do with you." Angela scolded her daughter.
Jane groaned loudly. "Ok, I get it, I get it, Ma. I can't fight you and Maura both. I'm already on light duty at work and I'm not gonna go chasing down any suspects. I have a couple things in the works and I'm sure you'll all be happy with them." She tried to calm them down. "Now, enough of that for one time and one time only you can all come say hi to the kid." She raised her shirt up to show off her baby bump. She knew how to get them off of her back when she really needed to.
Present Day
Tommy and Frankie burst through the front door of Maura and Jane's house on Sunday morning. Jane was sitting at the counter with a cup of coffee and the baby was up on the counter in his bouncy chair where she could keep an eye on him. She was wearing a baseball shirt and a pair of shorts.
"Who invited your uncles over this early, Junior? I haven't even made it through my first cup of coffee yet and my brothers are here. I bet your mommy and your nonna did this. They do things just to make me crazy." Jane spoke to her son like her brothers weren't in the room.
"Maura invited me over for breakfast the other night when I babysat. She said if we were going to play baseball today we may as well come over for breakfast before we head to the park and that way we are all here for Sunday dinner." Frankie went to the coffee pot and got himself a cup of coffee.
"And ma invited me over. I'm not gonna say no when her or Maura are cookin'." Tommy walked over and made a face at Hank. "Hey, Hank the Tank. How are you doin' today?" He took the baby's little hand and made it into a fist so he could bump knuckles with his nephew.
"Ma and Maura should be in here any minute now. They only trusted me to make the coffee." Jane informed them. "Tommy, you can take him out of his seat and hold him he will love it."
Frankie looked at his sister in alarm. "Hey! Don't let your puppy dog little brother hold my godson. We don't know if he will drop him."
"He will be fine. He has to learn sometimes. You aren't always gonna be able to babysit and we need Tommy to be able to take care of Hank." Jane got up from the counter to get another cup of coffee and to pour one for Tommy. "Francesco, start another pot of coffee and see if you can't figure out that space age espresso machine of Maura's that damn thing hates me."
Tommy gently took Hank out of his chair. "Hi, Slugger, you get more handsome every time I see you. You are gonna be a ladies' man just like your Uncle Tommy. And you could do worse than listenin' to your ma when it comes to pickin' up women. Between me and you she's always been able to pull the hottest chicks." He cradled the baby in his massive arms making sure to keep him close to his chest.
Frankie set to work doing what Jane had asked him to do. "Does Maura have a bean grinder or do I have to do it by hand?"
Jane shrugged helplessly. "Fuck if I know, Frankie. I told you I don't even know how that machine works. It's like she's makin' coffee porn when she uses the damn thing. I love her, but there are times I tune her out before I get caffeine in my system." She winced when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her from behind. "You two couldn't have told me that she was right behind me?" She turned around in Maura's arms and planted a kiss on her lips.
"My love, you're crazy if you don't think I know you ignore me sometimes." Maura craned her neck and looked up at Jane. She pressed another kiss to her girlfriend's lips.
"Hey! You two get a room and don't do that stuff in front of my nephew. He's young and impressionable just like his uncle." Tommy made a show of putting one of his massive hands over Hank's eyes to shield him from the sight of his moms kissing.
"Tommy, good call covering his eyes for him. That's how I know you're a good uncle." Jane stole one more kiss from Maura and then she chuckled. "Let's go sit on the couch and watch tv while ma and Maura make breakfast. We aren't gonna be any help and the least we can do is stay out of the way." She herded her brothers out of the kitchen. It was what she could do to help at the moment and she always did what she could to make things easier on Maura.
Tommy settled down on the couch with Hank. "The little guy can't do it for himself. I gotta protect him. It's my job to help teach the newest Rizzoli brother the ways of the world."
Frankie flopped down next to Tommy. "I hate to say it, but for once Tommy has a point. We gotta teach him how to be a Rizzoli brother."
Jane put coasters down on the coffee table and set her and Tommy's cups down on them. "You act like I don't know that. I taught the two of you how to be Rizzoli brothers. Hell, I am the oldest Rizzoli brother." She couldn't help giving her brothers a hard time.
Angela came in through the side door. She just shook her head when she saw her children already piled in front of the tv. "Are you three really teaching my grandsons your bad habits already? He should be in the kitchen with me and his mommy. He may actually learn to cook unlike the three of you."
Jane tilted her head back and looked up at her mother. "Ma, we are trying to relax by watching sports' center here. We are out of you and Maura's way that's the least you can ask for right now."
Angela leaned over and kissed Jane's forehead. "You're right that is all I can ask for. You are really great at keeping the boys in line."
Frankie looked between his mother and sister. "Tommy, since when is Janie ma's favorite? I'm not sure how to act here."
Tommy shrugged his shoulders as best as he could with Hank in his arms. "Beats me. The two of them have been fighting every since I've been alive. I'm used to her being pop's favorite."
"I do see your point. Jane is a lot more like Frank than she is Angela." Maura was so adorably awkward all that time and it was endearing.
Jane let out a deep belly laugh. "It's not rocket science. She's happy with me right now because I gave her a grandson and I'm out on maternity leave. I promise you that it won't take long after I go back to work for her to be pissed at me again."
"I just tolerate you now, because you had a baby. I love Maura more than I love all of you for giving me my grandson." Angela took bacon and eggs out of the fridge.
Jane shrugged and made a face. "I'll take what I can get."
By the time that Hank cried out to be fed the three Rizzoli siblings were on their third helping of breakfast each. Jane could put away just as much food as her brothers did if not more without breaking a sweat.
Maura stood up to grab her son. She hadn't even halfway finished her first plate yet.
Jane waved her back down into her seat. "Sit, babe, I'll feed him. You need to eat and he needs you to eat, so you can feed him. He has plenty of bottles and I know that you already pumped once this morning."
"Are you sure?" Maura asked her.
Jane didn't respond she just took Hank out of his chair and went to the fridge to get a bottle to warm up for him. "I've got him. We are partners here."
"Janie, do you think maybe I could feed him?" Tommy asked hopefully.
"Of course you can, baby brother." Jane handed her son over to her brother without question. She loved how much her brothers adored her son. It was obvious from the way that they looked at hum and talked about him. She grabbed the bottle and gave it to Tommy when it was warm.
"Here we go, big guy. Uncle Tommy has got what you want." Tommy made an airplane noise before putting the bottle in his nephew's mouth.
Frankie looked up from his plate to address his sister. "So, when do you take your sergeant's exam? We only help you study for it the whole time you were on light duty."
"I took it on Friday and I will tell you about it later." Jane smirked she liked holding information back to torture her brothers just a little bit. There was no way she was going to tell her family full of gossips that she had made sergeant before the rest of their inner circle came over for dinner. Those three would tell everything that they knew without the least little bit of interrogation. There were times that she didn't know how she and her brothers had come from the same place, but then she remembered that she was more like her father when it came to keeping secrets and they had taken after Angela.
Maura sent her girlfriend a discreet wink. She could keep a secret as long as no one pushed to question her about it. This whole Sunday dinner this week was to celebrate the fact that Jane had been promoted.
A/N:Here is the next chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I've played with the format starting this chapter flashbacks will be marked by weeks pregnant instead of how many months ago it was. My math just wasn't mathing on that and I own it lol. Until next time please review. I would love to here what you think and if you have any suggestions moving forward.
