A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.


Chapter 9

Present Day

"Maura, I think that we are in trouble with all three of our mothers. If we don't watch it they are gonna turn this wedding into a circus and not the ceremony that we want." Jane was lounging in the middle of their bed in her usual sleepwear of boxers and a t-shirt. She had slipped Hank underneath her shirt. Her chin rested on the top of his head and his chin rested in the hollow of her throat. He was wearing nothing but his diaper and they were getting skin to skin contact in to help them bond. In exchange for Jane letting Maura be the one to breast feed their son, Maura had insisted Jane be the one to have skin to skin snuggle time with him.

Maura walked out of the bathroom dressed in her silk pajama set. "Jane, all the three of them want is to be a part of helping their daughters plan their wedding. I think if we allow them to do that then they won't be any problem at all." She crawled in the bed and turned so that Hank was in between them. She buried her nose in the right side of Jane's neck and rested her right hand on Jane's left shoulder.

Jane cracked an eye open and looked down at her fiancé. "You are lucky that I love you and you are more than worth the hassle of having to deal with our three nosy mothers just so long as we end up married." She skated her fingertips up and down Hank's little back to keep him relaxed.

"We have over come worse than three meddling mothers before they are nothing that we can't handle." Maura pecked Jane on the lips before she kissed the back of Hank's head. "I can't get over how much he loves to do skin to skin with you. He just gets this content look on his face like he knows he's in the safest place he can possibly be and nothing will ever hurt him. You gave him that by both keeping him safe for nine months and your obviously protective nature. I'm sure that he could feel it even in the womb."

Jane kissed Hank's forehead. "He loves his mommy the most and he knows that his daddy is here to protect him." She smirked at Maura. The daddy thing was both an inside joke between the two of them and an acknowledgement of her true role in their family unit. Out of the two of them Maura was the one who put out maternal energy. Jane on the other hand put out the aura of an alpha male and the king of the castle.

Maura brushed her nose against Jane's. "I love that you are finally starting to own your title of daddy. I love it when you use skin to skin time to let our son know that he is secure. Baby, you are more than man enough to protect us and be the king of this castle. You are at your sexiest when you let that dominant energy fly."

Jane gave Maura a lingering kiss. "I would be nothing without my queen. I want him to know that I'm the place he should run when he needs to feel safe just like you know to come to me. I'm not just your protector anymore, I'm your son's protector too."

"My son and I are both so lucky to have you in our lives. I know that given a choice in the matter you wouldn't have chosen to carry our child, but I'm so glad that all of your traits get to live on through him." Maura place another soft kiss on her son's head. She inhaled deeply so that she could take in his scent.

Jane smirked. "I did my part to start our family, but now the next baby and any others we have you're carrying. Harvest my eggs if you want to, but I have no desire to ever be pregnant again. I got lucky and I had an easy pregnancy, but it's just not for me babe. I will love and spoil the shit outta anymore kids that you give me. I just don't wanna be outta commission for nine months."

"You keep me as happy and as well fucked as you are right now and I will gladly give all the babies you want and then some." Maura whispered hotly against Jane's ear.

"You didn't get enough of me last night?" Jane winked at her.

Maura's hazel eyes darkened with lust. "It's just seeing you bond with him really does it for me."

"You liked seeing me bond with him even when he was in the womb. You loved to just lurk and watch me talk to him." Jane looked at her knowingly.

"I loved the way that you would narrate what you were doing to him almost like you were teaching him how to do it. Like I said before you're a much better teacher than I ever thought you would be. I also think it's sexy when I see you at work teaching the new detectives how to do their jobs." Maura rubbed her hand up and down Jane's arm.

"I think that you're sexy as hell in your black scrubs with your hair pulled back into a ponytail. When I see you looking like that it's all I can do to stop myself from taking you right then and there. The scrubs are sexy, but seeing your big brain at work turns me on even more." Jane spoke huskily.

Maura smiled up at Jane. "I love how much you love me for my intelligence. No one else I've ever been with appreciated it the way you do. It was like they were intimidated."

"Your intellect is a sight to behold and I love when I get to bask in it. You are way more than just your killer body what's on the inside is even more gorgeous." Jane pulled Maura closer to her and Hank. "Don't mention being with anyone else. Hank and I are both very jealous. We are your king and your prince and we selfishly demand all your love and attention go to us."

Maura kissed Jane's cheek repeatedly. "I wish everyone knew just how soft my badass can be when she's with me." She sat up in bed a little. "Give me Hank so I can nurse him and then you can take him to rock him to get him to sleep."

"No one else is worthy of knowing how loving I can be." Jane handed her son to his mommy. "Go to mommy, Junior. She wants to give you her boob to make you happy. I guess you and mama have that in common. We both love a good set of boobs." She often talked to her son like he was a little adult.

"Jane!" Maura scolded Jane while she laughed. She got Hank latched on to her breast so he could feed. "If you're gonna teach him to love a woman's boobs then you also need to teach him to love a woman for what she has on the inside."

"Babe, a great rack is a great rack and sometimes that just has to be appreciated even if it is only for one night. You marry the girl with the great personality and you have your fun with the girl who has the great rack." Jane shrugged unapologetically.

Maura leaned over and kissed Jane deeply, but quickly. "I don't know why I love you, but I do and so I have to love you just the way you are."


Jane bounced around the kitchen with Hank strapped to her chest in a carrier. He let out a little whine of complaint. "You're ok, Junior. I know that this isn't fun for you, but we have to get dinner ready for mommy when she comes home. Mommy is our queen and we want to make sure that we show her that every day. We have to make sure that she knows we love her for all of who she is. People haven't been very nice to mommy and now we have to let her know that she is loved because of the things that make her different from everyone else. You'd be a very lucky boy to have even half of the intelligence that mommy has. I hope she passes it all down to you, my son."

She was in the habit of talking to her son like he was a little adult instead of like he was a baby. She felt that she could be extra vulnerable with him since he couldn't go telling anyone her secrets. Jane was making fettuccine; she knew that it was one of Maura's favorite dishes that she could make. Jane herself was Italian and she was never going to turn down a good pasta dish for dinner. Maura was really the only person who knew just how well Jane could cook. Jane had very obviously learned her lessons from her mother and her grandmothers well.

Jane opened a bottle of wine and poured it into a decanter to let it breathe. She knew that Maura would be able to taste a difference in the wine if she didn't. "Do you think mommy is gonna be impressed that we managed to surprise her with a romantic dinner? She deserves this and a lot more for puttin' up with the two of us. Your mommy loves you so much that she chose to be your mommy even though she didn't have to be. I never want you to doubt just how much she loves you. She was my favorite person in the world before we met you and now I want her to be your favorite person too."

She twirled around and put a pan of garlic bread in the oven. "Ok, Hank, the most important part of the meal is now baking. Some may argue that pasta is already enough carbs, but it's nothing without garlic bread. Your other mother will tell you that it's not good for you, but trust me, kid, you have to live a little sometimes and trust that everything is gonna turn out ok."

Jane was just plating dinner when Maura walked in the front door and threw her keys in the bowl on the table by the door. "Hey, Babe, come on in and get yourself ready for dinner. I just finished up and everything is still hot."

Maura walked to the kitchen sink and washed her hands. "I'm glad to see that you are using the baby carrier with so much ease. It's good that we keep him close to us while we do our chores." She took her son out of the carrier and kissed his forehead. "Hello, mommy missed her boy so much today. I know that your mama took good care of you like she always does. It's great that the two of you are getting so much time to bond together. I'm sure you're enjoying baseball and bottles with your mama."

"Let's put him in his bouncy seat in the middle of the table." Jane carried their plates to the table and set them down.

Maura sat the baby in his chair putting him into the middle of the table where they could both protect them. "There we go. He is right where he likes to be in between the two of us."

Jane portioned out a salad and put it on separate plates from the rest of their meal. "Just sit down and eat. I went so far as to make a salad to please you. You knew that it would make you happy if I ate something green tonight."

"You know just how to make me happy. I just ask that you try to take care of yourself, so that we can enjoy our retirement together. I want to raise children with you and then spoil our grandchildren with you." Maura took a bite of her salad. "It is amazing how well you can cook when you actually try."

"I wanna spend our retirement together too." Jane looked down at her plate and blushed. "I have to pull out all the stops to make sure that you wanna keep me around for the rest of our lives. It helps that I know you're not tryin' to turn me into some kinda housewife. I mean that was ma's goal when she taught me how to cook. With you this is just us sharing household chores you know I don't wanna be a stay at home mother anymore than you do. So, it is safe for me to cook for you." She took a bite of her pasta and moaned lowly. She had absolutely outdone herself this time and she didn't feel a tad bit arrogant thinking that.

Maura took a bite of her pasta and let out sounds of delight. "This is better than any fettuccini I've ever had and that includes when I spent time in Italy."

"This is just one of the perks of agreeing to marry an Italian woman. It's now safe for me to use all the family recipes on you. Since the minute that Hank was born you have been a Rizzoli that gets you in on all the family secrets." Jane shot Maura a wink. Both her grandmothers had slipped her the family recipes on the day that Hank was born. She was excited to be able to share her culture with her fiancé and son.

"If I had known that you could cook like this I would have locked you down almost two years ago." Maura couldn't resist the urge to tease the other woman.

Jane gave a smile that showed her dimples. "I had to date you for awhile to make sure that you were worthy first. I don't share these recipes with just anyone. We would have gotten to this point sooner if Ian hadn't come into town." She said the man's name in disgust if she ever saw him again it would be way too soon for her liking.

"Jane, you are the only person who is worthy of my love. No one else matters to me. I thought Ian was the love of my life, but it pales into comparison to what I feel for you." Maura smiled back at Jane.

Jane cleared her throat to break up the emotions she was feeling. "Just so you know your son is yours for the rest of the night. He has really missed you today."

Maura gripped Hank's foot affectionately. "I have really missed him too. I caught myself thinking about him when I was in the middle of an autopsy. Every minute I'm away from him just makes me want to be with him more."

"Maur, you don't have to feel bad for wanting to be with our boy. He's right there beside me when I'm working out and I still don't feel like I'm close enough to him. He is the most important person in either of our lives and it just doesn't feel right for us to be away from him." Jane rubbed Maura's knee.

"I just never knew that I could love another person the way that I love him. When I met you I thought I felt the greatest love I would ever feel, but the minute he was born I knew that my love for you couldn't compare to my love for him. It feels like he is a piece of me that I'm missing when I'm not with him." Maura let all her feelings spill out.

Jane turned to give Maura a meaningful look. "We both love him the most in the world 'cause he's a part of the both of us. I may have been the one to carry him, but you helped to take care of him for nine months. Where the other half of his DNA came from doesn't matter he belongs to both of us equally." She couldn't stress enough how important it was that Hank knew just how much Maura loved him. She never wanted Hank to feel the way that Maura had when she found out that she was adopted.

"You really are more romantic than anyone knows to give you credit for. I love it when you're my badass detective at work, but I like it even more when you're in wife and mama mode at home." Maura couldn't resist teasing her a little bit.

"I have to keep a little bit of mystery in my life my mother and my brothers are all up in all my business." Jane chuckled softly.

"One day Hank is going to say some of the things that you say now and I am going to laugh when you hear how you sound." Maura shook her head playfully.

Jane shoveled a fork full of pasta into her mouth. "I know how I sound I only say the things that I know I need to say." She said after she swallowed.

"If you don't take smaller bites you're going to choke." Maura scolded her lightly.

Jane shrugged her shoulders and took a sip of her beer. "I'm marrying a doctor. You know just what to do if I were to start choking."

Maura made a show of rolling her eyes. "I may hesitate to save you for a minute, if my saving you means that you're going to continue to do the ridiculous things that you do."

Jane just smirked at her in return.

A little while later they had finished eating and Maura took Hank out of his bouncy chair. "Hey, you, little boy. You need to tell your mama to go upstairs and give you a bath before she gets you ready for bed. Mommy will do the dishes while you two are busy." She kissed both his cheeks.

Jane took Hank into her arms. "Junior, tell your mommy that we will take that deal, because we cooked. We don't wanna have to clean up the mess we made." She cooed at him happily. She did tend to talk to him like a grownup, but she still loved to engage in baby talk with him.

"Jane, go give him a bath. It will relax the both of you. I expect the two of you to be in the bathtub when I come upstairs." Maura laid down the law.

"Hank, tell your mommy not to be mean to us like that. We are more sensitive than she realizes even if we don't show it." Jane hid behind the baby, so Maura wouldn't get mad.

Maura kissed Hank's forehead. "Mommy could never be mad at you. She knows how sensitive you are. You and mama can go take a bath and then get in bed and wait for me to come read with you."

"We will see you up there when you get through down here." Jane carried Hank up the steps to the master bedroom. She was going to give him a bath in the master bath. It was easier than having to give him a bath in the guest bathroom.

When Maura came upstairs, Jane and Hank were laying in the middle of the bed cuddling. From what she could hear Jane was telling him a story she had made up off the top of her head. "Are you two going to be ok in here while I go take a shower?"

"Hank and I will be just fine right here. I'm tellin' the kid a story 'bout cops and robbers. It seems like to me that he is enjoying it." Jane arched her eyebrow sharply. She plastered kisses all over her son's face. "Babe, go take a shower. We are content right where we are. We will be ok until you get in here."

Maura took off her jewelry and put it away. "You both better still be awake for me to read a story when I get out of the shower." She paused to press a kiss to both of their foreheads. The sight of both of them laying there with their curls going wild she couldn't help melting on the inside. She would never get over how much she loved that her son looked so much like his other mother.

"Hey, my pretty boy." Jane lifted her son up and down like she was benching him kissing his little lips every time she lowered him. She knew for a fact that would keep her son up while they waited for Maura to get out of the shower.

Maura leaned against the doorframe watching her fiancé interact with their son. "One of these days he is going to throw up while you do that to him and when he does you're not going to get any sympathy from me." She warned the other woman.

"I like my chances with him. He is usually nice to me when it comes to his spit up. On the other side of the coin I do have the advantage of knowing when to bounce him and when not to. I also know that he is basically a grumpy old man like his mama, so the two of us are able to calm each other down before either of us will do something that we both regret." Jane moved over in the bed to make room for Maura to get in with them.

Maura crawled into bed and grabbed a book off the nightstand. She loved that both she and Jane had different bedtime rituals with their son. That way it didn't matter which one of them put him to bed. They both knew just how to make him comfortable in their arms. "Daddy, you are lucky that I love you, but I don't know what to say to you sometimes."

Jane smirked at her fiancé. "I have that effect on people. He's about ready to fall asleep. Read him the book that you picked out for him and he will be out."

Maura took her glasses off of her nightstand and put them on before she started to read to her son. Hank's bedtime routine had to be one of her favorite parts of the day. Before she was halfway through the book she looked over to see Jane and Hank both fast asleep. She checked the time on her phone. "It'll be about an hour and a half before he wakes up to be fed. I'll just let both of them sleep for now." She muttered to herself. There was no sense in risking waking up Hank to move him to his bassinet. He would wake up soon enough to eat and then she would be able to transfer him to his bassinet once he drifted back to sleep.


Jane sat at the kitchen table shoveling scrambled eggs into her mouth. Hank was in the sling that was close to her chest. Her son was at his most content when he was making contact with her or Maura.

"I can see now why our son eats the way he does." Maura walked into he kitchen dressed in a black shirt and a charcoal pencil skirt. She put on black six inch heels to complete her outfit.

Jane looked up at Maura her eyebrow raised in a question mark. "Like a caveman?" She couldn't resist cracking a joke.

"A lot. You, Frankie, and Tommy eat like you don't know when you are going to be able to eat again. I appreciate the growth that his eating habits have given Hank. He has some of the best genetics." Maura replied seriously.

Jane shrugged her shoulders innocently. "He will be lucky to turn out as athletic as me and his uncles are. We use our fast metabolism to our advantage."

"I'm just glad that he has your genetics. He is going to be a great athlete no matter what sport he decides to play." Maura knew just how much it meant to Jane that their son play sports. It was the same way that she felt about their son being good in school.

Jane smiled happily. "If he takes after me he will play football, baseball, and wrestle. Remind me and one of these days I will show you the trophies I have in those sports. I know I make a big deal outta me being an athlete, but I'm also really smart too. I know I'm not as smart as you, but I'm not as stupid as I lead other people to believe I am. I mean I did get into BCU even if I couldn't afford to go there. I know that I act like I don't understand the big words that you use, but I know that you know that I do. You're the only person that I will trust with that information."

"Jane, I'm aware that you're smarter than you let anyone know. I would love to see all your trophies and pictures from when you were in school. And I may not act like it, but I very much want Hank to follow you into all those sports. I bet Frankie and Tommy followed in your footsteps when it came to the sports you played." Maura shot an award winning smile at her.

"Frankie and Tommy played every sport that I played. We also played hockey. If Hank takes up that many sports, we are gonna be very busy in the future. If he is as athletic as I am then it's also gonna cost us a lot of money for the select teams." Jane informed her better half.

"It's a good thing that we have plenty of money to go around for Hank and his future siblings to play whatever sport they want to." Maura kissed her fiancé's cheek. "What are you two going to do today?"

Jane finished chewing the bite that was in her mouth before she answered. "We are gonna hit the gym at BPD like we do every day and after that I'm not really sure what we will do. I may go up to homicide and finish up some paperwork I need to do for making sergeant."

"If you want to give him to me when you go up to do paperwork I will most likely be free. Paperwork is all I have on my plate today. He is a welcome addition to the lab and everyone loves when he comes down for a visit." Maura sipped her green tea. She was doing her best not to drink coffee since she was breast feeding.

Jane nodded thoughtfully. "Ok, I will take him down to the morgue for visit while we are there. I'm sure that you and our mothers already have wedding stuff on the agenda for us this week."

"We do, I thought that we could have lunch together today and try to decide on a venue for the wedding. I don't know about you, but I rather get married as soon as we can. I don't want to wait." Maura told her.

Jane leaned over and kissed the top of Maura's head. "I want to get married right away. I'm not going to do anything to delay that. We can pick out a venue at lunch today and then we can decide on everything else. I already have Frankie as my best man and I thought that maybe we could get Vince to officiate the wedding." She put her ideas on the table.

Maura smiled brightly. "I would love for Vince to officiate and I think that I would like to have my oldest sister as my maid of honor. Callahan is the perfect fit for that role. I never thought that I would have a relative close enough to me to have a maid of honor."

"Callahan is the perfect choice for your maid of honor, babe. My wedding party is Frankie, Tommy, Barry, Martinez and then one of my male cousins. You're welcome to round out your bride's maids with some of my cousins if you need to. Those four are my boys and I can't get married without one of them and then to appease my mother I have to add one of my cousins to the groom's men." Jane explained to Maura.

"I'm absolutely ok with that. I would be happy to have one or more of your female cousins stand up with me on our wedding day. I also have cousins that I can ask to be in our wedding if I need to do that. I'm really glad that you and Martinez are on good enough terms now that you can ask him to be in our wedding. I know how much the two of you went through together to get to this point." Maura reassured Jane. She knew just how much her former partner meant to Jane even after the things they had been through on the job.


22 Weeks Pregnant

Jane was in the café having her breakfast. It was actually her second breakfast after the food that Maura had made her that morning. Her girlfriend was doing her best to make sure that she ate healthy things for their baby, but she couldn't help that she needed more than that to eat. Right now Jane was shoveling scrambled eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and toast down her throat to round out the diet that Maura had set for her.

Jane closed her eyes to enjoy the flavors that were exploding over her tongue. She had never been one to ignore the way that food tasted in order to get to work faster. She opened her eyes when she saw a shadow pass over her. "What do you want?"

Rafael Martinez sat down across from her with a huge smile on his face. "Good to see you too, Rizzoli."

Jane glared at her former partner. "What are you doing here? I thought I had saw the last of you years ago."

"I'm back. I'm the commander of the drug unit now. I heard you had some kind of training going on for new detectives and I wanted to get in on that." Rafael informed her.

Jane arched her eyebrow at him. "So you're a lieutenant now? I can't believe that they promoted you after what you did."

Martinez shook his head. "They are letting me head DCU as a sergeant. I know that we messed up when we were partners, but I learned from that mistake and I know better than that now. I have forgiven myself for the mistake that we made, it's time that you forgave the both of us."

"We knew better than to send her in, but we did it anyway. I don't know how we can forgive ourselves or each other for that huge mistake. I'm studying to make sergeant right now and I won't blame them if they turn me down based on my poor track record. I can't believe that they just willingly promoted you and I don't think that they will be as forgiving with me. I can only hope that they will promote me sometimes in the next decade. I'm going to need that flexibility now that I'm gonna have a family." Jane stood up and pointed to her ever expanding belly.

Martinez flashed a dazzling smile at her. "Wow, Rizzoli, you're gonna be a mom. I'm happy for you. We were young detectives and we made a mistake. That shouldn't be held over us for the rest of our careers. We were friends going all the way back to high school. I mean we were on the same football team and the same baseball team. I don't think you want to throw that friendship away anymore than I do. I've really missed my friend." He let himself be vulnerable with his old friend.

Jane closed her eyes and sighed. "You make a good point. I think that it's time to put the past behind us. I would love for my friend Rafael to help me train these new detectives. We will run them through homicide and DCU. We are gonna have to get together and tweak the program a little bit, but I think it will be good for them to have experience in both units." She had to agree with him, it was a very good idea to get those baby detectives more experience.

"Ok, then, we will make the time to do that. I guess that you're on desk duty and I have a lot of paperwork to do, so we should have time to do that today." Martinez replied. "So, you finally found someone who was woman enough to settle you down?" He smirked.

"Something like that. She is one hell of a woman." Jane couldn't help the smile that came to her face when she thought of Maura.


A/N: Here is the next chapter. I hope that y'all enjoyed it. I am moving right along with the story line and I am doing my best to explain what happened in Jane's pregnancy. I would love to hear your feedback and what you want to see in the coming chapters. Until next time please review.