Disclaimer: I don't own Rizzoli and Isles just the characters and the storylines that I make up.
A/N: This is my first time writing Rizzles I hope that you guys enjoy it. This story is AU and I took liberties with the timeline. In this story Jane's baby will be older than TJ. Jane and Maura will have pre-established relationship that is complicated, but no worries Rizzles is end game.
Chapter 1
Jane Rizzoli stepped into Maura Isles' Beacon Hill home with a baby in one arm and a sack of groceries in the other. She looked down at the baby boy in her arm as Jo Friday danced around her feet barking. "Well, there is one of the women in our lives happy to see us, Kid."
"Janie, is that you?" Angela Rizzoli called out from the kitchen.
"And there is another one." Jane rolled her eyes and placed a kiss on top of the baby's head. "No, Ma, it's the damn mailman." She walked into the kitchen to meet her mother.
"Do you have to be such a smart ass all the time? What are you gonna do when this one grows up and talks to you the way you talk to me, huh?" Angela made a beeline to her daughter and grandson. She didn't even pretend to help Jane with the groceries she took her grandson into her arms. "You're never gonna grow up and talk to your mama the way she talks to your nonna. You're too perfect for that I know that you would never." She cooed down at the boy in her arms.
Henry Francesco Vincenzo Rizzoli-Isles looked up at his grandmother with a serious expression on his little face. His eyes were a dark brown that he had inherited from his mother.
Jane rolled her eyes again. "It's not like I need help or anything, Ma." She began to put the groceries away. "Hank already talks back and he's only six weeks old. You should hear him in the middle of the night when he's ready to eat and we aren't moving fast enough for his liking."
"I refuse to believe that my grandbaby is anything, but an angel." Angela ignored the other part of what her daughter had said. "Where have the two of you been?"
"Maura got an early call out this morning, so we hit the BPD gym, we checked to make sure that Uncle Frankie was doing a good job while I'm out on leave, and then we went to the store to pick up some snacks." Jane informed her mother.
"Probably incredibly unhealthy snacks that she knows I won't approve of." Maura came in the back door carrying her heels in one hand that accounted for the fact that the two women hadn't heard her come in. She had been content to stand and watch her girlfriend and what amounted to her mother-in-law interact with their son. "Angela, your grandson is just like the mother who gave birth to him when it comes to food. When he is hungry he whines and whimpers like someone else I know does when she's hungry." She threw a look over her shoulder at Jane.
"Babe, you're in love with me. You're not supposed to talk about me like that." Jane stamped her foot and whined.
"Like I said, I don't believe it Maura." Angela objected to the way her daughter-in-law talked about her pride and joy, her beloved grandson.
As if to prove Maura's point for her, Hank buried his head in Angela's chest and rooted against her while making soft whining noises.
"Jane, I'm always on your side. You know I can't lie, though." Maura smirked and lifted Hank out of Angela's arms. "Hi, sweetheart, mommy is here and she has what you want." She cooed at the infant and unbuttoned the first three buttons on her shirt. She pulled down her bra and held him up to her chest until she felt him latch on. She softly stroked the dark curly hair on the top of his head with one finger.
Despite the fact that Maura hadn't given birth to him she had still been able to stimulate milk production so that she would be able to breastfeed her son. After Jane had carried him for nine months it was important to both her and Maura that Maura be able to have her own way to bond with Hank.
Jane leaned over a pressed a soft kiss to her son's head. "Hey, Junior, those are mama's. I'm just sharing them with you for right now."
"Jane Clementine Rizzoli! I raised you better than to talk to your son like that about his mother." Angela pulled the towel off her shoulder and snapped it at her first born.
"Jane, behave yourself." Maura couldn't help the need to shake her head and let out an amused chuckle. "Angela, I'm so surprised to hear you be so casual about the fact that your daughter is with a woman given you Catholic background." She really couldn't help herself, she just had to say the first thing that popped into her head.
"This isn't my first rodeo with my Janie. I've known since she started taking an interest in dating that she much rather be with a woman than a man. The only reason I ever nagged her about settling down with a man is because she wouldn't admit to me what I already knew." Angela shrugged her shoulders.
"Both of you can stop talking about me like I'm not here. Ma, you should be thankful I was so stubborn about not telling you what you already knew or we wouldn't have Hank." Jane snarked at her mother before she moved to kiss her girlfriend. "Do you need me to get you anything while you're feeding him?"
Maura smiled against her lips. "I need you to put the bottles I pumped for him in the fridge. And then if you wanted to feed me some of the soup that Angela is making while he eats I wouldn't say no."
"I think I can handle that. It's a small price to pay for not having to be the one that has to breast feed him. You're amazing, Maur. You're working full time right now and you still make sure that our boy has what he needs." Jane put his bottles in the fridge and took a bowl of soup and spoon from Angela.
"Jane, I would never let Henry go hungry no matter how busy I am. This is a partnership we both do our part. You carried him for nine months and now it's my turn to keep him fed." Maura reassured her.
Jane dipped the spoon into the soup. She blew on it to cool it down and held it up to Maura's lips. "Just eat. You need to keep your strength up so that you can make enough milk for our little piglet."
"You're one to talk, Janie. He eats just like you did as a baby and still do as an adult." Angela scoffed.
"Exactly my boy eats like a Rizzoli. Maura is gonna need all the strength she can get to keep up with his demanding feeding schedule." Jane argued with her mother. She could never let her have the last word if she could help it.
Her chest puffed up with pride when she talked about her son being a Rizzoli. There was absolutely no trace of his biological father in him and that was for the best. Casey had wanted nothing to do with her or the baby they had made together and he had signed his parental rights over and allowed Maura to adopt him without a fight. Had he tried he would have had one hell of a fight on his hands that he would have lost.
"You're only so proud about that because you're not the one who has to feed him. He sometimes taxes how much I can pump and still be able to breast feed him." Maura patted her son's little upturned butt gently as he sucked away on her breast.
Jane arched her eyebrow and fed Maura another spoonful of soup. "If it were on me to feed him, he would be on the best formula that money could buy and we would just hope for the best. Like I said, you're a champ and I recognize that. I love you for how well you take care of our son. I wouldn't be half the parent that I am without you by my side." She kissed Maura's cheek and winked at her.
Angela hit Jane on the shoulder with her dish towel. "Stop flirting with your girlfriend while she feeds my grandson. She doesn't need you distracting her. You save that behavior for when he goes down for a nap." She scolded her first born.
Jane made a show of rolling her eyes. "We don't even exist anymore. She's more concerned with her precious grandson." She winked at Maura to show that she was teasing. She bent over and kissed her son on the head again. "That's the one thing I agree with her on. My bubba is the most adorable baby in the whole wide world." She cooed at him.
Hank's eyes flicked around looking for Jane.
Maura smiled down at her son softly. "Did you hear your mama? You light up when you hear her even though you've been with her all day. I heard that you downed a bottle for your Uncle Frankie earlier and then you spit up on your Uncle Frost."
Angela laughed and shook her head. "Poor Barry,"
"I know. I told Junior that he had to be easy on his Uncle Frost or else he will never want to hold him again. Though in Frost's defense he did handle a little spit up better than Maura did the first time he spit up on her." Jane covered face to try to hide how hard she was laughing.
Maura fixed her lips in a pout. "Did I make fun of you the first time he peed on you? I don't think I did." She unlatched the baby from her breast and pulled her bra back up. "Burp him,"
Jane placed a sweet kiss on those pouting lips. "No and that is only because he did it to you before he did it to me." She took her son and put him over her shoulder to get him to burp. "Junior, I told you that your mommy was just soft and polite when she bosses people around. It doesn't sound sound anything like when I boss your uncles around." She patted his back to get him to burp.
Angela picked up a burp rag and put it on her daughter's shoulder. "I swear no matter how old you get you're always gonna learn the hard way. You were just bragging about him spitting up on Barry."
"Barry bounced him around after he ate that's why he spit up." Jane dismissed her mother's concern. "Junior here hardly ever spits up on his mama." She patted Hank's back a little harder and she smiled when he let out a loud burp. "That's my boy."
Angela rolled her eyes and shook her head at the same time. "You shouldn't be so proud of him burping that loudly. You sound like your father when you say things like that."
Jane lifted the baby off her shoulder and kissed both his cheeks. "Recent behavior aside Pop wasn't all bad. If he was you wouldn't have had three kids with him."
Maura decided that it was time for her to step in before the conversation could get heated like it always did when it came to Frank Sr. "Jane, don't you have an appointment that you need to get to? You don't want to be late for that. I finished up the autopsy that I got called in to do and I can take Hank for the afternoon."
Jane checked her watch. "You're right, babe. I do need to get to that appointment." She handed their son over to his other mother. "Ok, you, when I get back we have to do a little tummy time. You'll never be ready to play football and baseball if we don't get you in fighting shape."
Maura shot an exasperated look at her girlfriend. "You know that there's no guarantee that he is going to like sports don't you?"
"Don't you put that out into the universe. He spent nine months alone with me when you weren't there to police everything I said to him." Jane pecked Maura on the cheek and kissed the baby's forehead. "I have to go I will be back as soon as I'm done with my appointment. Uncle Frankie is gonna come over a little later for his first night of babysitting. Maur, I know that Brother is gonna do great alone with his godson."
"I share your faith. Even if Brother runs into trouble Nonna will be here to help him out." Maura agreed with Jane.
"Frankie will handle Hank just fine, but I will be just over in the guest house if he needs help." Angela assured them both. "But on that note I should get to the café."
Jane slung her arm around her mother's shoulders. "Come on, ma, I'll walk you to your car." She led the older woman out of the house.
Maura smiled at her son lovingly. "Finally, your mama and your nonna left us in peace. I love them both, but they are a lot to deal with at the same time." She kissed his cheek. "Come on let's get you changed and into some clean clothes."
Maura had just come down the stairs from changing Hank in his nursery when there was a knock at the front door. "If this is one of your uncles we are going to have to order food." She tickled him under his chin and smiled brightly at the huge smile that lit his face.
The smile faltered when she opened the door to reveal her biological mother on the other side. Just as quickly the cold waspy smile that she reserved for society functions took its place. "Hope, I'm surprised to see you here." There hadn't been much contact between the two of them since Maura had donated her kidney to her half-sister.
Hope stared wistfully between the baby who she thought she'd lost at birth holding her first born child in her arms. Not only was Hank Maura's first born child, he was Hope's first grandchild. "Maura, I don't mean to just drop by unannounced like this, but I have a present for the baby. I tried to stop by your office, but they told me that you went home for the day." She rambled nervously.
"Forgive me for being rude, come in." Maura ushered her inside and closed the door behind her. She led her into the kitchen and offered her a spot at the counter. "Let me get you a cup of tea." She started to struggle to make them each a cup of tea.
Hope stepped up to help her daughter. "If you'd like I can hold the baby for you." She offered tentatively.
Maura wasn't always good at interpersonal interactions, but she could see the wistful look in her mother's eyes when she looked at the baby in her arms. She put Hank in Hope's arms. "His name is Henry, but don't let Jane hear you call him that. She will insist his name is Hank even though she is the one who gave him that name."
Hope settled the baby in her arms and kissed the top of his dark curls. "Well, mama, is just gonna have to forgive me if I call you Henry. It is my right as your grandmother to call you whatever I want to. I mean if that is what your mommy wants." She gave Maura a meaningful look.
Maura set a cup of tea down in front of her and smiled softly. "His mommy wants that very much and his mama will do whatever she has to do to make his mommy happy." She put her hand on top of Hope's. "I know that we have had a lot of time stolen from us that we can't get back. In this moment I can think of nothing that I want more than for both of my mothers to help teach me how to be a mother."
"Maura, are you sure that's what you want? I know that I treated you horribly when I found out that you are the baby I thought I lost at birth and I also know you already have a mother. You don't need me to step in now that you're an adult and act like I have some sort of claim to you." Hope patted Hank's little butt and rocked him gently. "If this is what you want I could think of nothing that I want more than to help my oldest daughter be a mother to my first grandson. Provided that it's ok with the mother who raised you."
"That is absolutely what I want and I've talked about it with my mom and she agrees with me. I have a few conditions for that though." Maura leveled her with a serious gaze.
Hope licked her lips nervously. "What are your conditions?" It wasn't like she could turn down anything that her oldest daughter asked of her after she had saved her youngest daughter by giving her a kidney.
Maura cleared her throat and looked away for a moment before looking into her biological mother's eyes. "I need you to tell my two sisters what you and I already know to be true. Paddy isn't just my biological father he's their biological father too."
"I would ask how you know that, but I won't insult your intelligence you're a doctor too. You know just as well as I do that you wouldn't be a perfect match for Cailin if you didn't share two parents. And it is pretty obvious that you and Finley look a lot more alike than you should if you were half-sisters." Hope could admit defeat when she knew she was beat.
Maura closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Thank you, Hope, for not trying to lie to me. The only way we can move forward as a family is if we are honest with each other. I need that from you and so does our Henry. He can't count on you to be there for him if you don't tell him the truth all the time."
"In return all I ask is that you tell me how my grandson came to be. It's not a condition of me being truthful with you. I just want to know your and Jane's story." Hope replied. Her constant rocking motion was slowly but surely putting her grandson to sleep.
Maura nodded her head solemnly. "Well, I don't think that it's a big ask for you to ask me how your grandson came to be. It's a complicated story, but it ends up with me and Jane together and that is all that matters." She couldn't help herself she had to bend over and kiss her son.
"I have time if you want to tell me." Hope assured her.
"I would very much like to tell you that story, honesty goes both ways." Maura couldn't help thinking that her biological mother was one of the most perfect things that she had ever seen.
Eleven Months Earlier
In the weeks since Jane had shot Paddy she and Maura had been unable to make peace with each other. They were both too stubborn to admit that they were wrong. The result of that was that they couldn't make up with each other no matter how hard they tried. So, instead of communicating with each other and working on their relationship they had sought comfort in the arms of men who were wholly unsuitable for them. Jane had let things progress with Casey and Maura had met a man named Jack at BCU where she had started teaching classes. It took them being trapped together in a car and almost drowning before Vince found them to push them to at least rekindle their friendship if not their romantic relationship.
Now Jane stood at her kitchen sink holding a pregnancy test in her hands and staring out the window at nothing. She was so lost in thought that she didn't even hear Maura come in until she called her name. Jane turned from the sink with a bewildered look on her face. She presented the pregnancy test to Maura and spoke aloud the words that she knew would change the course of her life forever. "Maur, I'm pregnant."
Maura sat her purse down on the counter and heaved a sigh before pulling the taller woman into a crushing hug. "It'll be ok. We will get through this together. I promise you that this baby is going to be more loved than any other child on the face of this earth."
"I don't know if I can do this alone. I know for a fact that Casey doesn't want a baby and I don't want to bring a child into the world like that." Jane rested her head on Maura's shoulder.
Maura brought her hands up and cupped Jane's face. "Look at me, Jane. I want you to listen to me. It doesn't matter what he wants. If he doesn't want to be a father he doesn't have to be. You will not be doing this alone. I'm right here for the both of you and I always will be. Right now though, I will get you an appointment with an OBGYN I know before work and then we will go from there."
Jane rested her forehead against Maura's. "I don't know what I would do without you. And I hope that this baby never has to live its life without you in it." She pressed a chaste kiss to Maura's lips.
Maura kissed her back. "You and this baby don't have to worry about that. Even if you and I aren't getting along this child will always have me." She rested her hand on Jane's still flat stomach.
Jane laid her hand on top of Maura's. "You heard that, Junior. You're always gonna have Maura here to love you and take care of you, even if I can't be there in the moment." She leaned down and directed her voice at her belly.
Maura chuckled softly. "Go get ready for work and I will call my doctor friend. I'm confident that we will either be going to the OB before work or after work." She propelled Jane in the direction of her bedroom so she could make her call.
Jane walked out of her bedroom dressed and ready for work just in time for Maura to hang up the phone. She picked her keys up off the table where she kept them and held them up. "We're ready to go. You just have to tell me where we are going."
"We are going over to Mass Gen. the OBGYN I know works over there in one of the doctor's buildings." Maura replied. She had wasted no time or resources to get Jane and what she hoped would be their future child to the OBGYN. She wanted them to have the best care and she wouldn't let anyone compromise that even if it was Jane who tried to argue that she didn't have to spend money on her or her baby.
"Alright, I'll drive us there. Let's just get going so we can get this over with." Jane fought the urge to roll her eyes. She was thankful that her sort of girlfriend had the connections to take the best care of her and her unborn child.
It didn't take long at all for Jane to drive her Maura to the doctor and it wasn't long at all until the doctor called them back into the exam room. Jane didn't make a big deal out of changing into her paper gown in front of Maura. She got up on the exam table and put her feet into the stirrups.
In no time at all the doctor came in and inserted the probe into Jane and the loud whoosh-whoosh-whoosh of the baby's heartbeat filled the room.
Maura made it look seamless that she kept Jane's hand in hers the whole time that the doctor examined her. She didn't bother to try to hide the tears in her eyes when she heard the baby's heartbeat. It was like the most miraculous thing she had ever seen or heard. This baby would be a living breathing extension of the woman she loved dearly. "Jane, that's your baby."
Jane squeezed Maura's hand affectionately "That's our baby, Maur. And I'm so happy to know that they are completely healthy for right now."
"I know that you will do whatever it takes to keep them that way. I'm not worried about that at all. You're my protector and I know that you won't do anything less than that for our child. I trust you with my life and I know that you'll take care of this baby, because it's part mine." Maura leaned over and kissed her forehead.
Jane blinked away the tears in her eyes. "I'm so happy that we are having a baby together, I'm just sorry for the way that it happened."
Maura squeezed her hand. "You have nothing to be sorry at least not as far as us having a baby together is concerned. I don't care how this child came to be, I'm just happy that we are having a baby."
"You're way too perfect and I don't deserve you." Jane smiled up at her goofily.
The doctor cleared her throat to break up the moment the pair was having. "I will go and have the ultrasound pictures printed out for you and let you get dressed. I'll leave them for you at the front desk and leave you to get dressed." She left the room.
Jane slid off the exam table and got back into her clothes. She ran a hand over her still flat stomach. "Ok, Junior, you heard the doctor. Everything with you looks good right now and we are gonna keep it that way. The last thing we want is your mommy breathing down our necks."
Maura's face lit up with a million-watt smile. "Mommy?"
Jane rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Yeah, mommy, I'm way too hard to be anyone's mommy. The title suits you perfectly."
"If that's the case you're gonna be the best mama and when the baby gets older you'll be the best ma just like Angela." Maura replied.
Jane groaned loudly. "Don't mention that woman to me right now. I can only imagine that she is gonna be breathing down my neck for the next nine months. She is gonna be all up in my business more than she already is. I already know that she is gonna be obsessed with this kid. As a matter of fact lets just go to work right now and then I can freak out about how pushy my mother is gonna be later." She held out her hand for Maura to take.
Maura took her hand and kissed it. "Let's go to work."
Once they were in the car Maura sat in the passenger seat looking at the ultrasound pictures. "Our baby is already adorable."
Jane took a moment to look over at Maura. "Junior takes after his mommy."
"Jane, there is no way of knowing if the baby is a boy or a girl yet. Don't get in the habit of calling it him and then be disappointed when it's a girl." Maura chastised her.
Jane couldn't help laughing. "I promise you that I'm not gonna be disappointed no matter what I'm gonna love this kid. That being said, for both our sakes I hope that this is a boy. The last thing that we need in our lives is a little girl who is just like me. I really don't think that we would be able to handle her."
"I have a lot of practice from having to handle you. I could deal with a daughter just fine. You would be a pushover with a little girl. I know that we said that the baby is going to call you mama, but let's face it when it comes to our future daughters you are totally going to be a girl dad." Maura had to call things the way that she saw them. There was really no other way for her to be, she couldn't lie and Jane was the only one able to handle her when she was so blunt.
"When we went undercover at the lesbian bar and I said I would be the guy you said that it was a cliché. Now here you are telling me what a good daddy I would be to our hypothetical daughters." Jane couldn't help the huge grin that lit up her face.
Maura used the back of her hand to caress Jane's cheek. "You're so damn handsome when you grin like that. It makes me feel like I'm the luckiest woman on earth and that I'm the only woman in the room."
Jane tried hard to hide the blush that was spreading across her face as she parked her unmarked car. "Let's just go in. I need to get something to eat." She got out of the car and walked around to the passenger side and opened the door for Maura.
Maura looped her arm through Jane's. No one at division one thought anything of the pair being touchy feely. They were always like that and people had gotten used to it. "At the risk of ruining your good mood I have to tell you that you can't have coffee for the first trimester."
A pout made its way to Jane's face and she stomped her foot. "Are you kidding me? I have a little parasite taking over my body and I can't have coffee or beer. That is taking things way too far."
Maura craned her neck and kissed Jane's cheek. "Jane, it's only for a few more weeks and I promise you that you will survive."
Jane's frown deepened. "How the hell am I supposed to explain to my nosey ass mother that I'm not drinking coffee?"
"Relax, Jane, you can just tell her that I made you do it and she will believe it. Everyone knows that you can't deny me anything that I ask for." Maura reassured her.
Jane rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Fine, let's just go in there and get this over with." She gave up like she always did when it came to Maura. The other woman hadn't been wrong when she said that everyone knew that she would do anything that the ME asked of her.
A/N: Here is the first chapter, I hope y'all enjoyed it. Until next time please review.
