A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 21
"Hey! All of you better be ready to drop what you're doin'! Dinner will be ready soon." Anna's voice rang through the house.
"That was cute. You don't quite have the authority to pull something like that off yet." Angela chuckled at her baby sister's attempt to put herself in charge of the situation. She put both her index fingers in her mouth and whistled loudly. "Hey! Listen up! Dinner is gonna be ready in about forty-five minutes." She didn't fail to get everyone's attention on her.
Everyone who was in the house including every cop turned to look at the loudmouthed matriarch.
"You need to start wrapping up what you are working on, so you can get to the table on time. Anyone who is late has to help wash the dishes." Angela put her hands on her hips sternly. "And that is how that is done." She threw a smirk over her shoulder at her baby sister. That would teach that kid to think she had more authority than what the younger woman actually had.
Anna threw her hair over her right shoulder and made a huge show of rolling her eyes. Her older sister never passed up a chance to put her in her place. "Ok, I bow down to Angela Rizzoli the consummate housewife and mother." She didn't bother to try to keep the sarcasm out of her voice.
Angela lightly smacked her sister on the butt with a wooden spoon. "Girl, I swear that you infuriate me worse than even my daughter can. You've been with Gia for way too long and she has rubbed off on you in all the years you've been married."
"I like the way she rubs up against me, so I guess that is the only thing that could have happened." Anna smirked and shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh! You are such a damn pervert! I didn't mean it like that and you know it." Angela stared her baby sister down harshly.
Anna arched her eyebrow at her older sister. "You've been with a Rizzoli; you know how physical they can be when they put their imaginations to it."
"Angela, Anna-Rita that is enough outta both of you! You make it seem like I didn't raise the both of you to be polite! You girls need to watch your mouths when it comes to the newest members of our family." Sophia gestured to Constance and Hope. She wasn't going to do or say anything that would make Maura's mothers feel unwelcome.
Angela and Anna looked at each other before they replied in unison. "Butt out, Ma!"
Sophia stood there in stunned silence at the fact that her daughters had gone from being enemies to allies in a matter of seconds.
"How come that doesn't work when Jane and I say that in total unison?" Frankie didn't bother to try to keep the smirk off his face.
"We are more intimidating then you and Janie are together." Angela scoffed at her son.
Anna shook her head and laughed. "That and we gave Ma grandchildren she isn't going to risk pissing us off and losing access to her grandbabies. Until you give your Ma a grandchild she still has all the power."
"Does that mean there might be an end in sight to her and Janie's constant bickering?" Frankie's face perked up upon hearing that news. His mother and sister had been fighting since before he could remember.
Angela chuckled and stirred the sauce on the stove. She shook her head in a good natured manner. "Frankie, that is never gonna happen. Your sister will always be too stubborn for her own good and find something to argue with me about. She has your father's personality and she will never hesitate to throw herself into a fight."
Maura did her best to ignore the chatter around her while she read the text that Jane had just sent her. "Hope, Callahan, Cailin I need all three of you to come with me. There is something that we need to do right now." She gathered her son in her arms and kissed his cheek tenderly.
Jane had never been more thankful that her Nino and Nonna trusted her alone in their house while they went down to Gia's house to have dinner with the rest of the family. It was important that she had this meeting in private for the time being. This was a very sensitive situation that needed to be handled with care. The very future of her family depended on this meeting going well.
"Calm down, Rizzoli, we are all gonna make sure that this goes well." Cavanaugh tried to calm his best detective down. He couldn't blame her for being so keyed up when it was her family that was in the line of fire.
"I know that," Jane gave her boss an epic side eye for his ill advised comment. The last thing she needed right now was someone trying to talk sense into her. It was even more unwelcome than it normally was. Her temper was even more sensitive than usual.
Dean walked into the the room. "Rizzoli, this is your last chance right now. You can still back out before you make what I think is a huge mistake."
Jane stared the federal agent down for questioning her decision making. "I don't need your opinion this is the right choice not only for my family, but for the rest of the city as well." She didn't bother to try to keep the steel out of her voice when she spoke to the condescending man.
"Whatever you want." Dean threw his hands up in the air. He was done trying to talk sense into the woman he had once hoped to build a life with. He gestured for whoever was hidden in the shadows to come out now.
Paddy Doyle walked out of the shadows dressed in street clothes without any shackles on him. "Rizzoli, I appreciate you having faith in my word. I won't do anything to make you regret that faith."
Jane nodded her head stoically. "I wouldn't have offered you the deal that I did if we both didn't want to keep your daughter and her children safe." She crossed her arms over her chest in a defensive posture. "And as a bonus you threw in a way to keep the whole city of Boston safe." She wasn't about to let down her gruff demeanor when it came to her fiancée's biological father just because he was useful in this one instance.
"Doyle is very clear on the rules here. We make sure that it looks like he had all charges against him dropped and he gives us what we need to take down a branch of the cartel." Dean reminded everyone of the terms of the deal that Paddy had signed.
Paddy glared at Dean harshly. "I'll make damn sure that you get the information that you need to take down the cartel if it means getting me back to my family."
"That is what we agreed to in the deal that we signed I don't think that he will back out on the chance to help family." Jane agreed with Paddy to get Dean off their backs.
"Before I give you that information though I would like to see Hope, Maura, and my grandson." Paddy laid out his terms and he thought that they were fair. He was giving them a huge win in exchange for letting him skate on the charges against him.
Jane shrugged her shoulders. "I don't have a problem with that if it is what he wants. He's played ball with us so far and he needs some incentive to continue." She could also agree with Paddy's feelings on this subject. It was only fair that they gave a little to get a little more from the mobster. She texted Maura to bring Hank up to where she was and to pass the message along to Hope.
"By all means let's do everything we can to accommodate him." Dean made a show of rolling his eyes at the thought of it. He couldn't believe that the federal government had agreed to make a deal with the actual devil himself.
"Dean, you're just pissed because I was able to broker a major deal that will help all branches of law enforcement. That means that you won't be able to take credit for it." Jane scoffed at him in disgust. It was apparent to her that he only ever did things if he thought they would be in his best interests.
Jane was able to tell right away when Hope walked into the room she was able to read it on Paddy's face when he laid eyes on the love of his life. She was sure the look he had on his face in that moment was similar to look she had on her face when she looked at Maura.
Paddy's expression softened considerably and that told Jane that his gaze had fallen on Maura and Hank. The look on his face reflected fatherly pride in his daughter and grandson. He was so happy to see his daughter and her first child safe that he bypassed Hope like she wasn't there at all. "Maura, is this my grandson?" The tone of his voice was both soft and reverent in an effort not to scare the infant in his daughter's arms.
Maura smiled softly at her biological father. "Paddy, I would like for you to meet my son Henry Francesco Vincenzo Rizzoli-Isles. We just call him Hank."
Paddy held his hands out clumsily to show that he wanted to hold Hank. His face lit up the first genuine smile he'd had in years as Maura helped him situate Hank in his arms. He very carefully settled the tiny little boy against his chest. "Hi Hank, I'm your Gran-da. I want you to know just how happy I am to finally meet you. I'm also glad that I will be able to be a huge part of your life to make up for not being in your mommy's life." He placed a very tender kiss on the top of the baby's head. In that moment he showed that he did have a human side to him and he wasn't just a cold blooded killer.
Hope couldn't help herself in that moment her actions were not her own. She walked over to the man she shared daughters with and put one hand on his shoulder and another hand on top of his on top of their grandson's head. "Our first grandchild is absolutely beautiful."
"He looks just like the woman who our daughter loves. He more than makes up for the fact that Maura wasn't married before she had a child." Paddy turned his head and pressed a kiss to Hope's temple.
"Don't forget that is my grandson too, Doyle." Vince felt the need to speak up.
Paddy's head shot up and his eyes locked with the other man's. "I know that he is your grandson too, Korsak. You've proven that time and time again even before he was ever thought of."
"It's just damn lucky that I was in the position to be there for Janie, Maura, and their son." Vince wasn't going to back down willingly.
Jane looked between her partner and her fiancé's mobster father. "What's with the dick measuring contest, boys? It looks like you two have something more going on here. I'm such a great detective that they just recently promoted me. I know that there is more to the story than you two are willing to tell."
Vince looked over at his partner and wrung his hands together. "I have something to tell you and it can't go any further than this room for right now."
"It's ok, Vince, you can just say it. Whatever it is, I promise that it won't change the way we see you." Maura shot him a reassuring smile.
"Paddy is my older brother." Vince cleared his throat and looked down at his feet. "We have the same parents, but mom took me and he stayed with our father." He admitted his deep dark secret.
Jane's face lit up in recognition before it paled severely. "That means…" She couldn't bring herself to say what she had just figured out.
"That means he's Maura's uncle." Paddy laid the facts bare for everyone. He pressed his lips to the top of his grandson's head.
Vince clasped his hands together and his blue eyes were cloudy with tears. "Now, you see why it meant so much to me that you want Hank to think of me as his grandfather."
"Vince, it's ok you don't have to explain yourself to us. That was your truth to tell whenever you were ready to." Maura spoke up to reassure her wife's partner.
Jane discreetly wiped away the tears that had gathered in her eyes against her will. "That's why you protected her before." She of course was referring to the call he had placed to Paddy when they found out who had killed Colin. "And why you pushed so hard for us to get together."
Vince shrugged his shoulders in a sign of his innocence. "She's my niece, I just wanted her to be with the best woman possible for her. I knew that you would love her the way that she deserves to be loved. I also knew that you will keep her safe no matter the cost. In case you are wondering I didn't know we were related until Colin was killed."
"Jesus Christ, Vince," Jane pulled her partner into a huge hug and kissed his cheek. "Hank is so lucky to have you as his Pop. You're gonna help me turn him into a damn good man." She didn't even question the fact that her partner had just told her that he was related the notorious gangster that she had just saved from prison with one hell of a plea deal.
Dean cleared his throat awkwardly. "Rizzoli, I guess it would be good if we got to planning how we are going to get Hoyt's latest apprentice."
"We aren't gonna get any work done if we don't let my Ma and the rest of my female relatives feed us for our mission. I promise you that they won't take no for an answer, but they will feed you the best food that you have ever had in your life." Jane felt the need to extend a little bit of an olive branch to him. Hating him took too much energy out of her and she rather focus on her fiancée and son.
Hope wiped the tears from her face and stared up at the love of her life. She kissed his lips softly. "Jane, open the door there are two people out there who Patrick needs to meet." She looked over her shoulder at the younger woman.
Jane dutifully opened the door and let the two people who were out there inside. "Come on in."
Callahan and Cailin walked into the house looking a little awkward.
"Patrick, I would like for you to meet your other two daughters, Finley Callahan and Cailin Marie." Hope introduced her daughters to their father.
Paddy just stared at his younger two daughters in disbelief for a moment. "Hope, they are both so beautiful. All three of our daughters look so much like you."
"Maura only looks like me she gets her IQ points from you." Hope teased him gently. She had a hard time being in the same room as the father of her children and not falling under his spell. She had plenty of reasons to be mad at him and to never want to see him again. She just couldn't bring herself to feel those things when it came to Paddy Doyle.
Callahan looked over at her younger sister and she didn't understand why she didn't appear surprised at the news. "Cailin, you don't seem shocked by learning Paddy Doyle is your father too. I mean I'm not surprised because I already knew. I don't get your reaction."
"You don't get a perfect match like that from a half-sister. When Maura was my donor I got the clue that we shared both the same parents." Cailin replied bluntly. She was just as smart as the rest of her family was.
"Baby, why didn't you tell me that you knew?" Hope cupped her youngest child's face gently.
Cailin shrugged her shoulders. "I just thought that you were working up the courage to tell me. I didn't what to push you or make you uncomfortable. We already had enough going on with my illness and finding out that Maura has always been alive."
Paddy cleared his throat. He knew that he only had limited time to spend with his family at the moment. He didn't want to waste that on his children arguing. "Finley, Cailin, I'm so happy to meet the both of you. Just know that there is nothing that I won't do to make sure that you are happy and safe. You can ask me for anything that you need and I will do whatever it takes to get it for you." He reached out and touched each of his daughters' shoulders in turn careful not to disturb the content infant in his right arm.
"I'm glad to meet you too." Cailin smiled at her father.
Callahan jerked away from his touch violently. "My name is Callahan and you don't have permission to put your fucking blood stained hands on me."
Paddy held his free hand up and took a couple steps back in a sign that he meant her no harm. "Sorry," he mumbled and looked down at his feet like he was ashamed.
"Finley Callahan Martin, you apologize to your father for being so rude. I raised you to have manners." Hope scolded her middle daughter like it was a reflex for her.
Callahan rolled her eyes at her mother. "I'm not going to apologize for being rude to the mobster you decided to have three daughters with!" She stormed out and made sure to slam the door behind her as loudly as she could.
Hope pinched the bridge of her nose. "I'm sorry for her, Patrick. She has to rebel in every way that she can."
"You don't have to apologize for any of our daughters having harsh feelings towards me. Callahan? You gave her my mother's maiden name. I'm very grateful for that. I mean that was my temper on display right now. I can't blame you for that." Paddy smiled at the love of his life with a look so soft on his face that it was doubtful that he was the kind of man who was able to commit a crime.
Jane gestured with her eyes for Vince to take Hank from Paddy. She wanted to get her son back to the safe house they were staying in for the night.
Vince stepped in and took Hank from his brother. "We need to get him settled and you have things to do. We will see you when you are done fulfilling your obligations."
Dean made his presence known awkwardly. "I think that now is the time for us to leave our superiors to deal with Doyle while we all get something to eat." He was eager to get this mission over with and get out of this awkward situation with Jane.
"I can't believe that I'm gonna say this, but I agree with you, Dean." Jane knew when it was time to walk away and let someone else do the work.
Vince pressed a quick kiss to Hank's head and walked towards the door. "Yeah, the G-Man makes a point. We should get down to the house and get some of your Ma's cooking."
August 7th
Maura sat in a chair nursing her son. She had a blanket thrown over the baby and she patted his little back as she fed him. "He is most certainly a Rizzoli when it comes to eating. He is going to town on my nipple right now."
"He gets that from me too." Jane smirked sexily at her girlfriend.
Maura just looked at her girlfriend in exasperation and shook her head. "Do not talk that way in front of my son. It is bad enough that he spent nine months with you and I couldn't be there with you every minute to know all the swear words you taught him. If one of his first words is a cuss word, I will know who to hold responsible. It will come from either you or one of your brothers."
Jane shrugged her shoulders innocently. "He's gotta say the F word 'cause sometimes it's the only way to get your fuckin' point across." Her deep brown eyes danced with mirth. She couldn't help letting her smartass mouth runaway with itself.
Tommy walked into his sister's hospital room with a huge smile on his face. He was already on top of the world because he had got to help deliver his nephew. "Janie! I have a couple things that I need to talk to you about." He held up a manila envelope that was full of cash. "Fuck! I saw him when he was born, but he is really tiny."
Jane was dressed in a pair of gym shorts and a gray BPD t-shirt. She was sitting next to her girlfriend so that she could hold both her and their son. It was obvious that she had a taken a shower not long before her brother had come into the room as her hair still looked damp. "Tommy, keep your voice down damn it. Your nephew is eating, he doesn't want your loud ass mouth disturbing him. Plus, knock the next time. My lady is feeding our son right now and I don't want you seeing anything by accident."
"Sorry," Tommy had sense enough to look down at his feet in shame. "But, I got the money from all the bets right here. I thought I would bring it to you before I got jumped by a bunch of cops and Italian Zias to get it."
"Give it to me and I will get it taken care of. They won't mess with me the way that they will mess with you. Both groups love betting on things and then pushing their luck when it comes to getting their money." Jane held her hand out for the envelope.
Maura looked at her girlfriend in alarm. "Jane, you approved of their betting?" She sounded genuinely shocked.
"I didn't just approve of it, I placed a few bucks on it." Jane explained like it was no big deal. To her it wasn't, it was just a side effect of her Italian heritage. "They were going to do it whether I agreed with it or not. Babe, you're just gonna have it, we are Italian it is what we do."
"You're lucky that I love everything about you or I would be worried about the fact that I chose to have a child with you." Maura laughed softly. She unlatched Hank from her chest and pulled her nursing bra up. She turned to Jane and put a burp cloth over her shoulder. "Burp your son."
Jane settled her son over her shoulder and patted his back. "You have to admit that I have my charms and that is why you fell in love with me."
Maura plucked the envelope from Jane's hand. "I will take that, thank you very much. Now, you can burp Hank without anything getting in the way." She kissed her girlfriend's temple lovingly. "I'm the only one who can be trusted with this money." She knew better than to trust Jane with the money. There was no telling what kind of ridiculous rules she was willing to break to keep that money away from everyone else.
"I'd say that Maura knows how to handle us, Sis." Tommy couldn't help cracking a joke.
Jane's left eyebrow shot up dangerously high. "Tommy, don't make me regret letting you be her best friend other than me." She finally got her son to burp. "Good job, Hank. That's mama's boy!" She praised her son happily.
"Go easy on your brother, Jane." Maura laughed softly and laid her head on her girlfriend's free shoulder. "He really isn't as bad as you try to make him out to be."
"Thank you, Maura." Tommy smirked smugly. "See, Janie? Even your girlfriend thinks that I'm a good guy." He would never pass up a chance to get under his older sister's skin. It wasn't who he was and Jane wouldn't know how to deal with him if he were any other way.
Present Day
Frankie scraped his fork across his plate loudly. "The food is great as always, Ma." He said after he swallowed the huge bite of food he had taken.
Angela reached over and smacked her son upside his head. "Hey! Have more manners than that. You need to act like I raised you to be a gentleman."
"Ma, just about everyone here is used to us. They know that you're not a bad mother just because we have the manners of cavemen." Jane reassured her mother with a laugh. She reached over and rubbed Hank's head. He was in the baby carrier strapped to Maura's chest. "I know that Hank here is gonna be the exact same way."
Maura arched her eyebrow at her. "My son will have impeccable manners even if he doesn't use them often. At least he will know how to behave when he is out in polite society."
"As well he should. Henry is both an Isles and a Martin it is his job to act like a little prince when he isn't with family." Constance spoke up.
"I want the boy to use his manners when he's around the rich people. That is the best way that I can prove that I'm the best spouse that Maura could ever ask for." Jane cleared her throat.
Hope took a sip of her wine. "Jane, you already understand Boston Brahmin Chess better than if you grew up in that environment."
"Luckily for me I understand all about human nature and I am able to read people easily." Jane shrugged her shoulders before getting to her feet. "I think it's time for us to go back into the war room, so that we can get ready for what we need to do." She didn't want to delay getting to the man who had taken her son. It was an added bonus that she would be able to take another of her nemesis's apprentices off the streets for good. The sooner she got all those murderous bastards off the streets the better as far as she was concerned on the matter.
"Go on and get to work then." Angela slammed her hands down on the table before standing and throwing her hands up in the air to shoo the law enforcement officers in the room away. She knew that this was their way of letting her have some little say when it came to getting justice for her grandson. All the cops respected her enough to give her that gift. "Come on!" She urged everyone to get on their feet. "For those of you who aren't cops you are on clean up duty." She announced imbued with the authority that he had given herself.
Jane led everyone back into the room where they were holding their planning meeting, it was better to just do as her mother said before her Italian temper got inflamed. "Where were we before we took a break?" She took control of the room easily without anyone objecting to her being in charge.
"Janie, you just tell me where and when to show up and you better bet that I will be there." Frankie gripped his sister's shoulder in a show of macho affection.
"I know that I can count on you, little brother. You're the last person that I'm worried about right now. You just keep being my guy the way you have always been and that is all I need." Jane flashed her first best friend a smile to let him know that everything was going to be ok.
Dean looked down at the plans of the property that they were going to raid before he looked up at everyone else in the room. "How do you all want to handle the puzzle that this compound will be?" He cleared his throat at the end of his sentence.
"We are gonna handle that in a way only we can." Vince smirked. He wanted to be the first person to put his faith in Jane before he had even heard her plan. He knew that she would know just what to do given the situation.
Gia nodded with a huge grin on her face. "I like that plan a lot."
"It hasn't failed us yet." Jane bumped knuckled with her aunt in a show of solidarity.
"Do I want to know what that means?' Maura stood in the doorway with her arms crossed against her chest. "Never mind, don't tell me what that means. That way I don't have to object to any part of this crazy ass Rizzoli plan. Hank's safety is the most important thing to me right now. I don't care how you get to the person who took him off the streets where he can't hurt anyone else.
A/N: Here is the next chapter. I hope that you all enjoyed it. I'm doing my best to move the plot along here. If you're surprised about Vince and Paddy being brothers then i'm right there with you too. I didn't know that was going to happen until this chapter. Until next time please review.