A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 10
22 Weeks Pregnant
Jane was down in the morgue with Maura when Rafael walked in. She groaned lowly and gritted her teeth. "What is he doing down here?" Her words came out like a whine.
"DCU is having their evidence processed in house now." Maura informed her.
Martinez came into the morgue with a smile on his face. "Dr. Isles, I wanted to introduce myself to you since we are going to be working together." He held his hand out to the doctor.
Maura took his hand and shook it. "Pleased to meet you."
"Rizzoli, I should tell you that Carmen says hi and she is doing great set up in a law office in Boston these days." Martinez winked at Jane.
"Martinez, I don't need your kind of help right now." Jane spoke through gritted teeth. The last thing that she needed was her friend bringing up an old girlfriend in front of her current girlfriend.
"What is he talking about?" Maura looked at her detective questioningly.
Jane rolled her eyes and sighed before she answered. "Don't worry about it, Maura." She cleared her throat and glared at Rafael. "Rafa, this is my girlfriend and the mother of my child. Maybe we don't talk about the people I used to date in front of her."
Rafael ducked his head and blushed. "Sorry, Rizzoli, I didn't mean to dredge up ancient history in front of your girl. I have to say that you did very well for yourself."
"I don't mind if you want to tell me about Jane's exes. I love to hear about her younger years." Maura chimed in.
"Martinez and I tried to date in high school, but we both realized that I rather be with a woman than him and we decided to just stay friends. I actually dated his sister, Carmen after we graduated. You're not getting anymore stories than that out of him. He knows better than to tell you anything else." Jane informed Maura and she sent a message to her old friend at the same time. She didn't need him telling Maura about her dating history. She knew more than enough as it was.
Maura looked up from the body she was examining. "Well, it is very nice to meet one of Jane's old friends. I want to learn everything that I can about my girlfriend before she has our son." She smiled brightly.
"If you two are having a son there is a very good chance that he is gonna be just like her. He will play baseball and football and probably wrestle. He will also be the best with the ladies. Janie has always been able to get the most unattainable women." Martinez replied.
Both of Maura's eyebrows shot up to her hairline. "She really played all those sports?" She was happy to learn about what Jane had been like before she knew her girlfriend.
"She not only played all those sports she was the captain and led us to multiple state championships." Rafael smiled at the ME.
Jane stepped in between her girlfriend and her friend. "Ok, that is enough out of both of you. We don't need to tell anymore than that. Martinez, if you want to help me with these baby detectives you will keep your mouth shut from now on." She shot a warning look to her friend. There was a lot of things that he could tell Maura that Jane didn't want her to know.
Present Day
Jane sat on her and Maura's bed dressed in jeans and a Red Sox polo shirt. She was waiting for her fiancée to come out of her closest dressed. Their son was resting in his bassinet beside the bed dressed and ready for the plans they had that evening. "Maura, come on. We have to be there soon. I promise you that you look fine and no one is gonna think less of you for the way you are dressed." She called out to the shorter woman.
Jane leaned over the bassinet and and kissed her son's forehead. "Hey, Bubba, you are such a good baby. Just hang in there and mommy will be ready any minute now. We don't mind waiting for her at all. We know that she is going to be even more beautiful than she already is when she gets done."
Maura walked out of her closet dressed in a deep purple dress that was backless. "I'm ready any time both of you are." She smiled at her fiancé.
Jane scooped Hank up out of his bassinet and held him to her chest. "We are more than ready." She held up the baby for Maura's inspection. She tried her best to make sure that she and their son matched every chance that she could.
Hank was dressed in a Red Sox baby polo and khaki cargo shorts. He was ready for whatever his mothers had in store for him.
Maura inspected her family with a smile on her face. "You and Hank look perfect. I love it when you two match your clothes. You both already look so much alike, but it makes me even happier when you dress alike and look even more like twins."
Jane handed Hank over to Maura. "Take your son. We need to get going. We want to make a good impression on Hope's family. I know that they already love the both of you, but I need them to love me too."
Maura wrapped her free arm around Jane's waist. "Babe, they are gonna love you as much as I already do and that is not up for debate." She put her foot down. She was never going to let her wife and son feel like they were less than just because they didn't have as much money as she did.
"Ok, sweetheart, let's get going." Jane made her way downstairs and grabbed the diaper bag and her keys. She took the baby from Maura when they got to her brand new truck and buckled him into his car seat.
"Jane, this is the place." Maura said when they pulled up outside what could only be described as a mansion.
"This isn't a house this is a fuckin' castle?" Jane got out of the truck and opened Maura's door for her. She took Hank's car seat out of the backseat and grabbed the diaper bag.
"Just play nice, babe." Maura looped her arm through Jane's free right arm. She was the one to ring the doorbell when they made it to the door.
Jane gave Maura a harsh side eye. "I am playing nice. I haven't even gone in yet, it's not like I insulted one of your relatives to their face."
Hope threw open the door before Maura had the chance to reply. "Maura, Jane, I'm so glad that the two of you could make and that you brought the baby with you." She hugged her daughter tightly and smiled widely at Jane.
"I'm glad that we were asked to come." Maura kissed both her biological mother's cheeks in the European manner.
Jane plastered a polite smile on her face. She wasn't quite sure that she knew how she felt about her fiancée's birth mother yet. There was just something about the older woman that gave the detective pause. "We were so happy to get the invitation. I know that I always love the chance to show my future wife and our son off."
Hope ushered them into the house. "Come on, right this way." She led them into a large sitting area that was filled with people.
Maura put her society smile on and continued to cling tightly to Jane's arm.
Jane surveyed the room and adjusted Hank's car seat on the arm opposite the one that Maura was latched on to.
"Everyone, I would like you to meet my daughter Dr. Maura Isles and her fiancé Sgt. Det. Jane Rizzoli." Hope gestured to each woman as she spoke.
Maura gave a polite wave.
"Hi everyone," Jane spoke in a voice that was in a higher register than she normally spoke in.
Hope bent down to take the baby out of his seat. She kissed his cheek when she lifted him up and then turned him to face the rest of the room. "And this adorable infant right here is my grandson Hank. His full name is Henry Francesco Vincenzo Rizzoli-Isles, but Hank is what he likes to be called."
"Nonsense, Hope, I will be calling that boy Henry. It is a good strong name and as his great-grandmother I reserve the right to call him whatever I want." An older woman with salt and pepper hair banged her cane on the floor to get everyone's attention.
Hope turned to Maura and made a show of rolling her eyes. "Of course, mother, no one would dream of telling you what you have to call your first great-grandchild." She took a deep breath to center herself. "Maura, Jane, this is my mother Molly Martin."
Maura stepped forward and shook her grandmother's hand. "Dr. Maura Isles, pleased to meet you."
Molly made a show of looking Maura up and down. "It's very nice to meet my oldest grandchild. This family couldn't deny you if we wanted to. You look exactly like my Hope."
"Sgt. Jane Rizzoli, I'm so glad to meet Maura's family." Jane offered her hand to Molly.
Molly looked Jane up and down in the same way she had Maura before she finally took her hand to shake. "You look like that you are more than worthy of my granddaughter. I don't care about your pedigree; I care about your character. I can tell just by looking at you that you have a lot of integrity and family loyalty. You were made to be a part of this family."
"That is the best compliment that I can get and I will pass that on to my Ma she will be very happy to know that she raised me right." Jane gave a genuine smile.
"Mrs. Martin, would you like to hold your great-grandson?" Maura asked her grandmother.
"I will not answer to that name if you call me that. I'm your grandmother and I will be addressed as such." Molly huffed. "I would love to hold my great-grandson." She sat down and held out her arms for her daughter to put the baby in her arms.
Maura bowed her head in a sign of respect. "Of course, grandmother."
Hope stooped down and put her grandson into her mother's arms. "Get in your chance to spoil him while he's here."
"Bah!" Molly dismissed her daughter. "Henry, I am so pleased to meet you. I am your great-grandmother. We have been waiting a long time for a young man like you to continue the family line."
"You should know that he was adopted if that means anything to you." Maura was quick to inform them. She was very proud of the fact that she had adopted her son and she wanted everyone to know that.
Molly focused her intense emerald eyes on her granddaughter. "I don't care about that. If you adopted him, he is a part of you and that is all that I need to know that he is family. Whether he likes it or not is the leader of the next Martin generation and just by looking at his other mother I know that this family is in good hands. He has the loyalty and the courage to run this family."
"I will take that. I was so worried that you weren't going to like me. I am more than willing to accept every compliment that my son gets that goes back to me." Jane spoke up.
"Molly, stop talking the kids to death. Let them get comfortable." An old man with silver hair tried to call the woman down.
"Fitz, you leave those kids alone. We don't want to chase our granddaughter off before we get the chance to know her. We can't have her taking our great-grandson with her." Molly tried to get her husband to behave.
Jane chuckled softly. "It'll take more than that for me to try to convince Maura to cut you out of our lives. I'm from a big intrusive Italian family, what is going on here doesn't even begin to touch us on a good day."
Fitz reached over and squeezed Jane's shoulder. "See, this is the example of the type of person that all of you should be bringing home. Maura just met the family and already she has done more to live up to our expectations than the rest of you have."
"Grand-da are you just making Maura your favorite because she is your oldest grandchild?" Callahan couldn't sit in the same room as her older sister and be quiet for long. It wasn't that she disliked her, she just liked putting her on the spot every chance that she had.
"I like Maura the best because she brought home someone who is obviously smart and a hard worker instead of a ladder climber like the rest of 'ye have brought home to us so far. From what I understand Sgt. Jane might make a better detective outta you than you have the right to be." Fitz already felt a connection to Jane. It could have been that she exceeded expectations for any man that all of his daughters had brought home combined.
Jane threw her arm around the old man's shoulders. "Is there anybody in here that you need me to teach how to bring home a proper woman?" This she knew how to do. She could bond with someone over trying to pick up women.
"Jane, if 'ye don't mind we need you to teach all these boys how to pick up a proper woman to marry into this family. All we want is someone who is smart and has ambition. We don't care what social class that they come from." Molly answered that question. Her sons and grandsons could use a lot of help with the type of women that they brought home thinking that they were suitable to be members of the Martin family.
"I would be happy to give lessons. I don't know what exactly I did to land Maura, but I will try to impart the rest of my skills on whoever needs it." Jane smirked. She knew that she had always had a way with landing women, but the fact that she was able to get Maura, it made her some sort of legend. It was known fact that Maura was totally out of her league.
"If they didn't pay attention to Irish logic then maybe they will be willing to listen to what an Italian has to say. You people just seem to have a way of being able to be able to charm just about anyone into being able to do whatever it is that you want them to do." Fitz told her boldly.
Maura laughed. "Jane, you can say whatever you want to say, but there is no way that you can disagree with him."
"Hey, he didn't say a damn thing that I disagree with. I know that we Italians have a way with women. Everything he said on that subject is true." Jane shrugged her shoulders helplessly.
Maura slapped Jane's stomach playfully. "You will all have to excuse her. She just doesn't know when to be serious."
"I don't mind the sense of humor at all. If nothing else she will liven up this family a bit." A middle age man with blonde hair that had gray steaks in it stood up.
"For once in your life you could keep you mouth shut, Connor." Hope gave her younger brother a dirty look. "Maura, this is your Uncle Connor."
Maura smiled at her uncle. "I'm happy to meet you, Connor."
Connor pulled her into a big hug. "I'm glad to meet you too, Maura. You did good when it came to your choice of wife and child. You really took the pressure off the rest of the grandkids. They are all grateful for that whether they tell you that or not."
Maura hugged her uncle back. There was a time in her life when she wouldn't have been comfortable with the physical contact, but she had gotten over that during her association with the Rizzoli family. "I like to think that my wife and child are perfect. I also think that you and Jane are going to get along very well. You seem to have the same sense of humor that she does."
A tall blonde headed woman stepped up next. "I'm your Aunt Erin. I can't let Connor take up all the attention in the room like he always does. I can tell you that Jane is going to fit right in with this family and you have a very handsome son." Erin introduced herself.
"Thank you so much for complimenting Hank. Maura and I think that he is the most handsome little man in the whole world. The women in this family unit really have to stop telling him how handsome he is or he is gonna have a huge ego."
Hope slapped Jane on the shoulder playfully. "You keep quiet. He needs to be told how handsome he is as many times as we can tell him. He needs to know his worth so that he doesn't settle for less when it comes to all the little girls who are going to be chasing after him when he gets older."
"Jane, she does have a point. We don't want him bringing home a woman that will make him ruin his life if he makes the wrong choice." Maura pointed out to her girlfriend.
Jane shrugged her shoulders. "I guess I can let it go just this once. We don't want him to fall for the wrong girl who only wants him for his money." She couldn't bring herself to disagree with the doctor no matter what ridiculous thing that she said. Jane loved Maura for all her little personality quirks and all.
"I can already tell that you're a smart woman. You know better than to argue with your wife and how much that will make your life better." Connor couldn't help taking an instant liking to Jane. She just had a certain air around her that said it was a good idea to befriend her.
Jane made a show of looking Maura up and down. "Have you seen her? She is way outta my league. It is in my best interests to keep her happy no matter what. I would be stupid to lose a woman like her. Maura is the most important person to me right alongside with our son. They are both my favorites in different ways, so they have to share the title of my most important person. I don't think either of them mind. It is already very clear that Hank loves his mommy the most and he won't mind sharing that title with her. I mean I'll be lucky if he doesn't go to school still latched onto her. I can't say that I would blame him if he did." She made no qualms how much Maura meant to her and she wasn't going to pretend otherwise to make anyone more comfortable.
"And that is exactly why you are perfect for her. You see her as being worth more than you are even if that isn't true. It's clear that you love her more than yourself and that's all we could hope for, for our niece." Erin spoke up. "It doesn't hurt that you gave birth to an absolutely adorable son."
Jane looked down and blushed. "I love her more than I love anything else in this world except for Hank. I can't disagree that he is adorable. That is how I got Maura to agree to marry me. I was quick to share my son with her. Even though I could never imagine him calling anyone else his other parent. Now I won't have any other kids unless they are calling her mommy." As far as she was concerned she had her family and she would do whatever it took to hang on to Maura and Hank.
Maura shot a huge smile in Jane's direction. "Grandmother, I think that we should give Grandfather a chance to hold Hank if he wants to." She spoke softly to her grandmother.
Molly looked up at her with an arched eyebrow. "I suppose that we can give Fitz a chance to hold his great-grandson. Only just this once though."
"I agree. Hank loves all his grandmothers and wants to be with them whenever he can. We just have to let his grandfathers hold them, so they don't feel left out." She took her son out of her grandmother's arms and put him in the arms of her grandfather.
Fitz held the baby close to his chest before he kissed both his cheeks. "Hello, Hank, I'm your great-granddad. It's ok for you to love your grandmothers more, but you just need to know that your grandfathers have more to teach you than they do."
"Hey! Don't all of you ruin my nephew. He likes spending time with me." Cailin came out of the bathroom. "I don't know what needs to be done, but the sink in the bathroom acts like it's clogged."
"We will call the plumber." Fitz said without taking his eyes off Hank.
Jane cleared her throat. "I would be happy to take a look at it. It's most likely something that I can fix. I'm a master plumber like my father and I know what I'm doing." She offered helpfully. She wanted to prove to her fiancée's family that she was worthy of the woman she was going to marry. Her father had taken her on as an apprentice when she was younger and by the time she'd graduated high school she'd been a fully certified plumber. That was the job she had done to pay her way through Junior College and the Police Academy.
"You don't have to do that, Jane." Hope spoke up before her parents could say anything.
"Nonsense, I know what to do and it won't take any time at all." Jane reached into her pocket and pulled the keys to her truck out. She tossed them to Cailin. "Go to my truck and get my tool bag, when you come back you can show me which sink to look at."
Cailin caught the keys and headed out to get the older woman's tool bag. She knew better than to do anything, but what Jane told her to do.
Maura turned to her future wife and gave her a grateful smile. She knew that the other woman didn't break out her plumbing skills for just anyone. "Really, Jane loves to be able to help out when she is needed. She will get this job done quicker and cheaper than any other plumber that you could hire." She felt the need to talk Jane's skills up to her biological mother's family. She wanted them to be able to see what she saw in Jane.
Even though Jane was a woman Maura still felt the biological pull that told her Jane would be a good mate and a great person to have children with. It was a biological imperative for people to seek out people that they would make strong children with. Maura couldn't help thinking that she had picked the perfect mate to have children with in Jane. She knew that her family would be protected and that Jane would work herself to the bone to provide for them despite Maura's vast wealth.
"Jane, I can't tell you how much this favor means to us." Molly decided that now was the time for her to chime in.
"Maur, do you have a hair tie?" Jane pulled her polo over her head. "Molly, I'm more than happy to do this for you."
Maura pulled a hair tie out of her purse. She always carried an extra for Jane just in case she needed one. "Here, my love." She gave it to her girlfriend.
"Thanks, babe." Jane pulled her hair up into a quick ponytail to get it out of her way.
Cailin came back in dragging Jane's tool bag with her. "Jane, I have your tools."
Jane walked over to the young woman and picked her tool bag up. "Show me the sink that I need to fix."
"Right this way." Cailin walked off in the direction of the bathroom that had a problem. Her future sister-in-law followed her without question.
"Jane is already more useful than all of my sons combined. Maura, if you don't marry her we will find another way to make her a part of this family." Fitz didn't bother to keep his admiration of the detective hidden. He was absolutely in awe of her abilities.
Maura laughed happily. "You don't have any worries there. I can't imagine being married to anyone, but Jane. I absolutely melt every time that I see her and our son dressed like twins like they are now. I don't want my fiancé or my son loving any woman, but me."
"I don't think that you have any problems there. It's obvious just from the way that Jane looks at you that she is totally devoted to you and that little boy." Hope spoke up. She looked lovingly at her father holding her first grandchild.
A couple minutes later Jane came back into the room with Cailin on her heels. "Ok, the sink is fixed." She pulled her polo back over her head. "I'm about to give a lecture that Maura has heard multiple times. All of you need to make sure that you keep your hair out of the sink. It creates a terrible clog and that's not something that anyone wants to have to deal with on a regular basis. I went ahead and put a piece in the drain that will catch the hair and you'll be able to clean it out that way. On another note the pipes in that bathroom need to be replaced." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a business card and handed it to Hope. "Before Maura can insist I will give you this card, so that you can contact our company to come fix that problem for you. We will of course give you the friends and family discount."
Maura looped her arm around Jane's waist. "Rizzoli Brothers' Contracting is very good at what they do. You should call them for all of your home improvement needs." The company had been her idea as a way to cement her family's legacy in Boston. She wanted to be associated with more than the Brahmin community.
23 Weeks Pregnant
Jane slid into a booth across from Maura in the Dirty Robber after she got off work. All she knew was that her girlfriend had asked her to meet up there after her shift was finished and she didn't have any details other than that. "Maur, I'm here and I'm tired I don't wanna have to play guessing games with you. I just know that you must be up to something big if you are willing to bribe me with bar food to get your way." She grumbled. Her pregnancy hormones were making her even more grumpy than she already was.
Maura shot a huge smile at her girlfriend. She found that Jane couldn't say no to that smile no matter what kind of crazy idea she came up with. "Watching you teach this new batch of detectives has given me a crazy idea and I decided to make it a reality." She informed the other woman without giving anything away.
"I love you, but you are absolutely exhausting sometimes." Jane put her face in her hands and groaned. "Babe, you're gonna have to tell me what you're talking about. I don't have it in me to do any more detective work today." She softened her tone and smiled at the other woman to let her know that she didn't mean to be so crabby with her.
"On my lunch break today I went by the bank and got a small business loan. You once told me that your grandfather the iron worker built this city and I want that legacy for our son and any future children that we may have. So, I started Rizzoli Brothers' Contracting. You're a master plumber and I know that Frankie is too even though he isn't as good as you are. I thought that it would be a way for us to give Tommy a steady job and give back to this city. I want you, Frankie, and Tommy to be equal partners in this. You and I own your share of the company outright and I have made it so your brothers can pay off their shares once the company is profitable." Maura explained to her.
Jane narrowed her eyes at the love of her life and then she sighed in resignation. "Maura, you didn't have to do that. The Rizzoli family is not some charity case that you have to take care of. You also don't have to do this as a way to buy my love for you if that is what you're thinking."
Maura reached across the table and put her hand on top of Jane's. "Daddy," She said lowly. "I don't think that at all. I just think that this will be good for our family and I don't want you to argue with me about it." She knew just how to get Jane to do what she wanted her to do.
"You know that you're too good for us, right?" Jane lowered her voice to barely above a whisper to speak to her girlfriend.
"That's not true, Jane. I'm not to good for you. You and your family taught me how a family should love. I consider all of you more my family than the people who raised me and my biological family combined. This is the least that I can do to make sure that the next generation is set. This way they can make their own way in the world and they won't have to rely on a trust fund to get them through life." Maura explained herself.
Jane smiled shyly and looked down at the table. "You know that I can't say no to you even when I should. So, the only thing I have to say to that is thank you for loving us as much as we love you." She leaned over the table and placed a tender kiss on the doctor's lips.
A/N: Here is the next chapter, I hope you guys enjoyed it. I thought that it was time to bring Hope's family in this chapter and introduce the Rizzoli-Isles family to them. I also worked in a differed back story between Jane and Martinez that I thought would be fun. Until next time please review.
