A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.


Chapter 5

Present Day

Jane, Frankie, and Tommy along with Korsak and Frost stood outside on the patio in the courtyard around the grill. Jane had been able to start the charcoal all on her own, but they all had to stand around and make sure that it burned correctly.

"Are these the habits that we really want to be teaching Hank? It doesn't take this many of us to start a fire in the grill." Korsak chuckled.

"This is just Hank learning the Rizzoli way. It takes one of us to start the grill and the rest of us to stand around and watch it burn." Frankie offered lamely.

"All of you shut the fuck up for my sake. This isn't that big of a deal. The only thing Hank cares about right now is that someone is there to hold him when he wants it, he gets to have Maura when he needs food, and someone changes his dirty diaper. He has plenty of time to learn the ways of the Rizzoli Brothers." Jane stepped in to calm them all down.

Tommy stepped up to speak now. "We are just saying we have to get to Hank now before Maura turns him into some kind of vegan." He thought that he was being logical in his stance.

Jane sighed deeply. "Maura isn't even a vegan we don't have to worry about that. She's not gonna keep Hank from being one of us. I promise you that she wants that more than I do. Y'all have to remember that she grew up as an adopted only child. All she wants for Hank is that he gets to connect to his Italian heritage. She's going to go along with it no matter how crass we get with our traditions."

"I can't believe all of you irritate her to the point of her going off." Barry shook his head. He didn't know why anyone would want to play a game of fuck around and find out with Jane Rizzoli if they didn't have to.

Jane held up her hand for all of them to stop talking. "I'm going inside now to get the meat to put on the grill. All of you just stand there and make sure that fire doesn't get fucked up." She headed into the house.

Maura had just finished pouring a round of wine for the women inside when Jane walked in the door. "Something I can help you with, Jane?" She fixed her lips into a seductive pout.

"I just wanted to get the meat to put on the grill. If it's not ready yet, there's no big deal. You can just walk out and give it to me when you're done." Jane didn't quite know how to respond to her girlfriend.

"Janie, you didn't miss anything that you would want to be a part of. Us girls were just talking while Nino Rico and Nonno took care of Hank." Angela started loading her daughter down with trays of meat.

Jane smirked. "I can see what you girls are just doing. I'm gonna have a very drunk wife to take care of tonight if I trust her to y'all." She gladly accepted the load Angela was putting in her arms.

"Jane, take all that food outside and put it on the very expensive grill that I got you for your birthday." Maura ordered playfully. She didn't try to deny that she was well on her way to drunk.

"I'm goin', I'm goin'. I'll send one of the boys in for the next load." Jane skillfully stole a kiss from Maura and headed out the door. She made a note to herself to take extra special care of the woman she loved tonight. She wanted Maura to let loose and not worry about her responsibilities.

Maura ran the index finger of her right hand across her bottom lip. She could still feel Jane's lips on hers. "She is so much more agreeable with me than she is with everyone else. She wouldn't show affection the way she shows it to me and Hank to anyone else."

Cailin took a sip out of the wine that she had been allowed to have. "I've been here on nights that it's just you two and Hank. Mo, she is totally devoted to you until the baby needs something and then he gets her attention."

"Mo, Caye, is right. I've seen it first hand. The only person who can take Jane's attention from you is Hank." Callahan felt the need to chime in. She used her nicknames for both of her sisters.

Tommy came in to get the next load of pans of meat. "Callahan, we both know how devoted our sisters are to each other. Just give me some more pans of food, so I can get it outside and be off the hook."

"Tommy, don't make me regret defending you to Jane. She would be much harder on you if I didn't have such a soft spot for you as my best friend. She knows that her and Frankie get their beer and batting cages and I get charcuterie and chess with you. Don't test her, just take this food out for her to deal with." Maura loaded him up with pans.

"Of course, Doc." Tommy smirked prettily and walked outside with the pans.

"Maura, are you sure you know what you're doing? Having my Tommy as your best friend?" Angela broached the subject carefully.

Maura laughed softly. "Angela, I very much do want him as my best friend. He is one of the kindest and sweetest people I know."

"We all know that you are the sister that Tommy prefers over Jane, Mo. You don't have to try so hard to sell it." Cailin couldn't help teasing her sister.

Frankie stepped in the door now. "Do you ladies, have anymore food that you want to give me?"

'Come here, Frankie, we have more for you." Angela directed her son to the fridge. Constance loaded his arms up with pans of food.

"If you are getting all the cousins over here to, I want you to know Jane is gonna be pissed." Frankie took his pans of food.

Angela kissed both his cheeks. "Hush, you, she will go with it once the cousins get here."

"I don't wanna be you when Janie finds out about everything that you have planned for the night. I'm not gonna tell her though, she likes to shoot the messenger." Frankie walked outside with the food he had been tasked with taking out.

"Company is here she will be good as gold." Maura muttered so that Frankie couldn't hear her on his way out the door. She knew that she had Jane well under control even if the other woman wouldn't admit it.

"Maura, you are so lucky that she loves you with the amount of things that you like to pull on her. She wouldn't put up with it if it came from anyone else, but you." Constance joked.

"Maura has the best of both worlds, she has a woman who can understand her and a man who can throw her around like a ragdoll." Callahan chimed in.

"Sis, I don't think Jane ever denied that she's Maura's man." Callahan giggled.

Maura covered her face with her hands and groaned loudly. "Let's put it this way. I don't need anyone else to be the man of my house, cause Jane's home." She couldn't help bragging on her girlfriend.

Hank let out a cry from his bassinet. Rico and Angelo had finally gotten him down, but he was a light sleeper when he wanted to be and now was one of those times.

"If no one objects I will get him." Constance volunteered.

"Go ahead, mom. He will love to be held by his Gigi." Maura told her mother.

Constance scooped Hank up into her arms and cooed at him. "Hello, Henry, Gigi has you, you're ok now. You are the most beautiful little boy in the whole world. And you're very lucky to have the mommy that you have."

Hank's huge brown eyes flew open and he looked at Constance intently.

Maura stood beside her mother. "Hi, handsome. You're alright. I know that you woke up and were alone. You're safe, you're always safe when you're home with me and mama." She leaned over and kissed the top of his dark curls. She could clearly see when she looked at his full head of hair why Jane had, had such fearsome heartburn when she was pregnant. "Mom, he's giving you case face. Jane looks like that when she's thinking about one of her cases."

Hank smiled peacefully secure in the knowledge that his mommy was right there next to him.

"And you're such a lucky little boy that you look just like your mama. You my grandson are going to break hearts and take names." Constance spoke softly to the baby in her arms. "He looks just like his mama it stands to reason that his expressions would be just like hers."

"Hopefully he doesn't have the dating track record that his mama has. She picked some real winners before she met Maura. Her taste in men was terrible and she had a habit of picking unsuitable women." Angela scoffed.

Maura couldn't let that comment pass without trying to defend her girlfriend. "I didn't have the best track record either, but Jane and I got it right with each other."

Jane put a steak on the grill. "I don't even want to know why we have so much food. If Ma and Maura turned this into a spectacle I'm not going to be surprised."

"Ma and Maura always go overboard. There is no reason for you to be surprised." Frankie backed his sister up.

Jane groaned and shook her head. "Maura is damn lucky that I love the fuck out of her or I would be pissed that she can't respect my need to not be in the spotlight." She knew even as she was saying the words that she would do whatever it was that Maura wanted her to do with a smile on her face.

"Janie, you're whipped and we all know it." Tommy couldn't pass up the chance to make a wisecrack at his sister's expense.

Frost and Korsak both laughed at Tommy's comment. They had seen first hand how willing Jane was to do what Maura told her.

"Tommy, don't help me out or anything here. As a matter of fact, don't say anything else. The last thing I need is your type of help. I'm just gonna say if any of you knuckleheads had a woman as pretty and as smart as Maura you'd do whatever it took to keep her happy too." Jane defended herself.

"Including giving her a baby that you conceived with your boyfriend at the time." Frost didn't hold back.

Jane smacked her partner on the back of his head. "You don't help me either. I will have you know that Maura and I both wanted Hank very much. This is why Frankie is Hank's godfather and not you."

"Alright, enough with the violence, Jane. Just make the steaks and don't worry about these goofballs." Korsak chuckled happily.

Jane whirled around on her former partner. "Just 'cause you're stupid enough to date my ma doesn't mean that you get to give me fatherly advice."

"Janie, don't worry about all of that, let's just have another beer." Frankie handed his sister a fresh beer. He knew just how to calm her down. He'd had a lifetime's worth of practice at it.

Jane took the beer and took a long pull from it. "Tommy, if Ma and Maura are gonna have as many people over here as I think they are, then I'm gonna need you to go get more wine and beer. If my suspicions are correct and they invited the cousins over, then we are gonna need a lot more wine and beer." She gave her baby brother her car keys and her credit card.

Tommy touched the first two fingers of his right hand to his forehead and threw his older sister a mock salute. "I will get right on that and get it done for you. Like you I'm pretty sure that the two women who like to think they run your life invited our aunts, uncles, and cousins over here today."

"Tommy, just get out of here and do what I asked you to do. I know that our mother and my girlfriend run my life. I don't need you to remind me of that little fact. And my poor son has the same two women thinking that they know everything when it comes to his life. You don't know the huge bullet I took for the Rizzoli brothers by being the first one to have a kid. You two goons owe me one for that." Jane sent her brother off with a pointed finger. He didn't know the half of the bullets she had taken for him over the years, because she was the oldest.

Frankie and Tommy didn't even realize the bullet she had taken for them by being the first sibling to have a baby and be close to getting married.

"Jane! Come get the door, it's for you!" Angela called out to her daughter after she had answered the ring of the doorbell.

Jane took Maura's hand and reluctantly trudged to the front door. Jane had fortuitously been inside when the doorbell went off. She groaned loudly when she saw who was at the door. "Maura, this is my Aunt Gia and my Aunt Anna. Aunt Anna came to the baby shower and Gia was at work that day."

Maura offered her hand to the other women and shook both their hands. "I'm happy to see you again, Anna. And I'm very pleased to meet you, Gia."

"Ok, let me break it down for you, Maur. You gonna wanna remember this for later." Jane took a deep breath before beginning. "Gia is my Pop's baby sister and also the reason he was able to so easily accept me being into girls. Anna here is my ma's baby sister. If you can't tell by the way that they are hanging all over each other, they're together and they have been for years." Jane first pointed to a tall dark headed woman that she looked remarkably like. She next pointed to a woman who was shorter than the first with brown hair and honey colored highlights.

"Your two aunts are married?" Maura turned around and put both her hands on Jane's shoulders.

Jane stole a kiss from her girlfriend. "They are, baby. And they are never allowed to watch our son unless it's an emergency."

"We aren't as bad as Janie makes us out to be." Anna said.

"Baby, she's right to give that warning." Gia pointed out to her wife.

Maura rubbed her nose against Jane's affectionately. "Why aren't they allowed to watch our son?"

Jane pulled Maura tight against her body. "Let's put it this way, I'm their kids' fun aunt and they owe me a lot of payback. I used to wind those kids up and then send them back to their mothers. I gave them the noisiest toys I could find for Christmas and their birthdays. I would send them home tired and cranky after they spent the night with me in my apartment. We don't want the two of them repaying the favor when it comes to our kid."

"You're gettin' payback whether you let us watch your kid or not, Rizzoli." Gia crossed her arms over her chest much in the same way that Jane would.

Maura looked between Jane and her aunt like her curiosity had been tripped. "Jane, are you aware how much you and your Aunt Gia are alike."

"We've heard that more than a time or two." Gia smirked.

Jane shot a glare at her aunt to get her to behave. They were very close in age and as a result they were more like sisters than they were aunt and niece. She smiled sweetly at Maura and spun her around to face her aunts. "Maur, I know how much alike we are. Everyone in the family has always said that she will never have a daughter more like her than I am. I'll prove to you how much alike we are. Her real name is Gianna. I think that I've taught you enough about Italian that you can translate it by now."

Maura closed one eye and thought about the answer for a moment. The amount of wine she had drank over the course of the day was clouding her mind. "I should know this."

"You do know this, baby. I know that you can get this." Jane encouraged her girlfriend.

Maura ran her hands over her face to give herself a moment to breathe. "Well, if Gianni is a short form of Giovanni then it means John. The female form of that would Giovanna and that would turn into Gianna. That means…" Maura reached behind her back and stroked Jane's cheek with the back of her hand. "Her name is Jane like you."

"That's right, Maur, we are both named Jane. I'm named after her, 'cause she's my pop's favorite sister." Jane kissed the top of Maura's head to praise her.

Gia punched her niece on the left shoulder affectionately. "Where is my great-nephew? I need to hold that little dude."

Jane broke loose of Maura to pick Hank up from his bassinet. She placed him in her aunt's arms. "There he is. Gia, I know that you're gonna be as close to him as you are to me."

Gia bounced Hank in her arms and kissed the side of his face. "Of course, I'm gonna be as close to him as I am to you. You're my Janie and I always wanna be a big part of your life." She threw her free arm around her niece's shoulders.

"I want you to be a part of our lives and I want you and Anna to double date with me and Maura. I think that we are gonna be the best of friends." Jane squeezed her aunt's shoulder.

"With your girlfriend dressing the way she does you can bet that we are going to be having double dates and spending more time together. I need to talk fashion with her." Anna put both her hands on her hips.

"I would love that, Anna. You have no idea what it's like to be with that woman." Maura reached out and grabbed Anna's shoulder.

Anna scoffed and rolled her honey brown eyes. "I'm married to Gia Rizzoli; I know exactly what it's like to be in a relationship with someone like our Janie. It's no lie when people say they are just alike. They have the same personality and everything."

"Gia, give her the baby." Jane elbowed her aunt in the ribs.

"Why would I do that? I'm enjoying him." Gia retorted.

Jane whispered out of the side of her mouth. "Gia, trust me we need her distracted right now. Give her the baby or she is probably going to tell my wife how much trouble we are together."

Gia handed Hank over to her wife without question. "Hey! Hold our great-nephew and quit runnin' your mouth, sweetheart."

"Janie, he looks just like you did as a baby. He is so perfect." Anna held the baby cradled in her right arm and she had her left hand over her mouth with tears in her eyes.

Jane looked at her aunt out of the side of her eyes. "Holy shit! Anna, don't cry on me! I know how damn handsome that boy is, but you don't have to act like that. He doesn't need the ego trip that knowing his good looks make women cry would give him."

Anna pointed a threatening finger in Jane's direction. "Don't you dare infect this perfect little boy with your shitty attitude, Jane Clementine Rizzoli. Despite your best efforts I am gonna make sure that this one turns out to be sweet. He's got the same stubborn ass Rizzoli in him that my children have and I am going to make sure that it's not his weak spot."

"Will the two of you just come on in the house? You can both get a drink and that will calm your asses down." Jane shut the door and led her aunts further into the house. "Hey! Look, who's here!" She called out to the room at large.

"Anna, Gia, you're both here I'm so happy to see you." Angela greeted her sister and her sister-in-law.

Tommy walked out onto the patio carrying a cooler full of beer and ice. He had just gotten back from the store with Constance. She had gone with him and bought everything that they would need for the party. "Cold beer here!" He announced.

Jane stopped her brother before he could get any further and stole a beer from the cooler. "Thanks, Tommy. I really needed that." She took a long pull off her beer.

"Yeah, Tommy, you did us all a solid." Frankie took three beers out of the cooler for Frost, Korsak, and himself.

Tommy finally got to a good spot to put the cooler down. "Thank all of you for taking your beers." He said sarcastically.

"Thanks, Tommy, we are all enjoying the beer that you carried out here for us." Frost told him.

Vince raised his beer in a salute to his girlfriend's youngest son. "Thanks for bringing the beer out for us, Tommy. We couldn't have done it without you."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Tommy threw a hand over his shoulder. He was very used to being eased by now.


20 Weeks Pregnant

"Maura, come on. I don't know why we have to do this on our day off." Jane whined. She walked next to the cart that her girlfriend was pushing through the baby store they were in. She rubbed her expanding belly protectively.

Maura threw a pack of bottles into the cart and tried her best to ignore her girlfriend's attitude. "Jane, our son has things that he needs and this is the best time for us to get those things for him. I know that you will love to pick out outfits for him that go against everything I would pick out for him to wear."

"He needs plenty of Red Sox onesies and he will need some Pats and Bruins gear too." Jane chirped happily.

"Like I said you have to buy him things that I won't approve of. If I don't complain about his sports' gear you don't get to complain about the things I want to dress him in." Maura bargained with the other woman.

"I can agree to that. I won't complain unless you try to dress him in something that makes him look like a little baker." Jane agreed to the terms of Maura's deal.

Maura put a breast pump into the cart. "I was thinking that I know that you won't want to breastfeed him, but I could have the work done to be able to." She changed the subject.

"Babe, I would love it if you wanted to breastfeed our son. We both know that there is no way that I want to do it. If it were up to me, we would give him the best formula that money could buy. I would be more than happy for you to have that way to bond with him. I'm gonna be carryin' him for nine months, it's only right that you get to feed him." Jane was more than happy to go along with anything that Maura wanted to do. Making the other woman happy had become her sole purpose in life. As an added incentive she wouldn't have to be the one to breastfeed their future son and she would have more freedom once she gave birth.

"I would love to use that as a way to bond with him. I'm glad that you know what a great bonding experience that is and are willing to give it over to me." Maura smiled happily.

Jane smiled back and then stole a kiss from the shorter woman. "I want you to have as great a bond with our son as I will. I want this little boy to know how much both his mothers love him. And I really want him to know that you are the mother that chose him as her son. Casey didn't want anything to do with him, but he does have a better parent who wants to be his parent. It will do him a world of good if he knows that." She hugged Maura tight and then pulled away from her. "Now, let's go get a bunch of outfits for our son that he will probably never get a chance to wear."


Present Day

Maura sat in a chair in the master bedroom pumping. She knew that she couldn't use it to feed her son, because she had been drinking.

Callahan and Cailin both sat at the end of the bed. They were both there to keep their sister company.

"I don't know how you take so much time out of your day to feed your baby. I don't think I could do it." Callahan commented.

"Right now I couldn't imagine doing it either. I don't know how mom was prepared to do it at my age." Cailin chimed in.

Maura shook her head at both of her sisters. "I do it because I know this is what's best for him. He eats a lot and my milk production is out of control because of that."

"He really does eat a lot. I remember when mom had Cailin and I know that she didn't eat that much." Callahan laid back on the bed and stretched her arms out above her head.

"Hank is a Rizzoli. They all eat a lot, so he is not the only one. They all have a very fast metabolism and they have to eat a lot at every sitting. The boy really does take after his mama in all ways." Maura informed her sisters.

Cailin got up and started going through Maura's closet. "Mo, you have so many gorgeous clothes. When I grow up I want to be you."

"Cailin, you can go shopping in my closet whenever you want to. You don't have to do it right now." Maura laughed.

A knock came at the bedroom door.

"Come in," Maura called out.

Hope stepped into the bedroom. "I just wanted to come check on you girls."

"We are fine, mom." Callahan rolled her eyes.

"Hope, we are just hanging out until I'm finished pumping. They have both been here before when I've had to do it and I'm used to them keeping me company. Jane likes to insist that I have someone with me, so I don't get lonely." Maura explained rationally.

Hope sat down on the bed by her middle daughter. "I'm glad to see all my girls getting along. This is all I've ever wanted for all of you. I want you three to have a bond that even I can't break."

"Mom, you have to start giving me an allowance that lets me buy clothes like Maura has." Cailin came out of the closet.

"I can assure you that Maura doesn't buy anymore expensive clothes than the ones that you have money to get." Hope arched her eyebrow.

"She's welcome to come shopping with me any time. I would be happy to spoil my baby sister with a whole new wardrobe. She's young she needs to have the appropriate clothes to go out and have fun with people her own age." Maura chimed in.

Cailin squealed excitedly and rushed over to hug her oldest sister tightly. "Mo, I would so love to go on a shopping spree with you. I want you to teach me all the tricks for looking the way you do."

Callahan made a show of rolling her eyes at her baby sister. "Way to go, Maura. She's not enough of a brat already you had to go and offer her to buy her new clothes."

"Finley Callahan Martin, behave yourself." Hope scolded her middle child.

"Just for that you are coming with us on this shopping spree and I'm inviting both my mothers. And before you try to come up with a way out I will make sure that Jane is free to be with Hank. That way you can't offer to babysit." Maura stared her sister down.

Callahan's jaw dropped. "You've been taking lessons from Rizzoli. You are too sweet to do anything that evil. You had to have learned that from her."

"That is Sgt. Rizzoli to you. You will show my wife the respect she deserves as your supervisor." Maura arched her eyebrow in a very Jane-like way. "I understand that you resent me for being taken from our mother and being forced to live in my shadow. I even understand that you want to rebel against Hope, but you don't have to take it out on me like this. I want to be close to you in the way that Jane and Frankie are close. I'm not trying to replace you or make you feel badly. You can tell me how you really feel and we can talk it out like the two adults that we are."

Callahan's expression softened upon hearing her sister talk to her like that. "I'm sorry, I don't mean to be a bitch to you. I know that none of this is your fault. You didn't ask to be born and raised under the circumstances that you were. I'm pretty sure if we had been raised together that you and I would be as close as Jane and Frankie are. I don't mean for it to sound like I don't respect Jane, because I do very much. I want to be her when I grow up. She is one hell of a cop."

Maura smiled widely. "She would love to hear you say that. I know that you just try to rebel against her to make you look tough. I'm going to tell you something that you can never tell her that I told you. She thinks that you are a very good cop and you're going to be even better when you get more experience."

"She really said that?" Callahan had a bewildered look on her face. She was in awe of the detective that Jane was and she wanted to be just like her sister's girlfriend in that capacity.

Maura nodded. "She said that. And we both know that she doesn't say things that she doesn't meant."


A/N: Here is the next chapter. I hope y'all enjoyed it. Until next time please review.