Disclaimer: Still don't own anything that's R&I related.

AN: Hey y'all! Thank you so much for all of you who have read, followed, favorited and reviewed. I loved reading all of the reviews on whom the mystery person is that walked in on the girls last chapter. So now I have some bad news. This is the final chapter of this story. I know, makes me sad too. This story has outshined any of the stories I've written as a single author. This is the longest story, until now I've never hit triple digit reviews on my stories, this one now has the most followers, etc. And all of this is thanks to you readers. Most of all though, this is all because of you SoNFan1978. I know you'll disagree, but there will always be a part of me that considers this as your story and not ours. You didn't have to ever share the idea for this story and you certainly didn't have to ask me for help in writing it. I am so grateful and honored that you allowed me the opportunity to be the person working on it with you. Anyway, on with it. Enjoy!

They had both jumped back from the kiss when they first heard the voice. Now as Maura looked up she could see that Jane had one of the most pained expressions on her face that she had ever seen. Jane drew in a deep breath and sighed before she turned around.

"Morning Ma," Jane said as she turned around to face her mother rather than Maura. She was trying to start a new train of thought and distract her mother from the questions she'd just asked.

"Well, good morning to you," she said in a slight huff.

"Angela," Maura greeted the woman quietly.

"I didn't say it was a good morning," Jane retorted. "I still feel like I've been hit by a Mack truck," she said as she took a sip of her coffee she had picked up off of the counter.

"Jane you were nearly…"

"Maur," she interrupted. "I know what happened yesterday," she said snapping at Maura a little more harshly than she'd intended. She saw the look of hurt on Maura's face and set her cup down so she could apologize.

"Well I for one would like to know a little bit more about what happened yesterday," her mother said interrupting her before she could make an apology to Maura. "We make it to the scene to check on you and next thing I know I'm stuck in a waiting room in the hospital, because apparently your emergency contact is Maura, while God only knows what is happening. Then when you do get back from the hospital I'm shooed back to the guest house without really being informed of what's going on and now I walk in on this. So, again, how long has this been going on?"

Both women had gone silent. They didn't really know what to say to anything that Angela had said. Now that they looked at it they did kind of keep Angela at bay yesterday with everything that had gone on, but they just hadn't wanted her to worry. The two of them had everything under control once Maura had convinced Jane to go to the hospital.

"A little less than that rant was from you," Jane finally spoke up.

The other two women in the room looked up. "What?" Angela asked for clarification.

"This," Jane said moving her good arm between herself and Maura to emphasize her point, "has been going on for less time than that rant took, practically. Maura and I had figured out some things about each other and were confronted with it on Sunday morning before dinner. That's why neither of us showed up for dinner. We needed time to think about it.

"Then you cornered me in the café yesterday morning. I had plans to go see Maura yesterday in the morgue to apologize when we got the lead on the case and I had to go. From there you kind of know most of the rest about yesterday. We had just finished the talk we started yesterday in the ambulance when you showed up," Jane finished her explanation and took another sip of her coffee. She didn't know what to expect to hear from her mother about this.

"I'm confused," Angela commented. "What things did you find out about each other that had you fighting in the first place?"

Jane nearly choked on her coffee. Out of all of the things her mother could have focused on from what she said she chose to pick that. Well, at some point she supposed she was going to have to tell her. She set her coffee down and glanced at Maura. She could see Maura nod slightly giving her the little push that she needed to tell her mother what had been going on.

"For a while now I've been writing lesbian fiction and posting it on the internet under a pseudonym. I had a reader that started commenting on my work and after finding out that we lived relatively close to each other we decided to meet. That's where I was Sunday morning. The reader who had been commenting on my work turned out to be Maura." Jane reached out and took Maura's hand in hers. "I freaked out and left from the coffee shop where we met and then everything else happened yesterday."

"Oh, I see," her mother said as she made her way over to the coffee pot to pour herself a cup.

Wait, what? That was not what she had expected to hear her mother say at all. She had expected her to be upset by finding out that her daughter had been secretly writing lesbian fiction and that she had decided to date her best friend who was a woman.

"Maura is my mother experiencing symptoms of shock?" Jane asked in a hushed tone.

"While I would have to do a physical exam to check her heart rate and blood pressure to be certain, she doesn't appear to have any of the signs or symptoms of a person experiencing shock."

Jane and Angela both started chuckling. Apparently they hadn't been speaking as quietly to one another as they had thought. Jane brought Maura's hand to her mouth and kissed the back of it. "I really do love your google mouth."

"To answer that question, I am not experiencing shock Jane," Angela looked over at her daughter sitting at the breakfast bar next to Maura. "I was a little surprised that it took something as random as you writing stories and Maura being a reader of them to get you two together. The rest of us have been waiting trying to figure when you two would finally wake up and finally figure it all out for yourselves."

Both Maura and Jane's mouths dropped open for a second, taking in what Angela had to say. Apparently everyone had known that they were in love with each other. Well, everyone except for the two of them.

"Great," Jane mumbled. "That's just what we needed; for the whole rest of the planet to know about our feelings except for us."

"Oh don't change things up now and decide to be a drama queen," her mother scolded her. "No one's going to say anything about it."

Jane started pacing. She ran her hand first over her face and then through her wild mane of hair trying to process what it was her mother was saying to them. Her mother was really okay with the fact that she was in love with her best friend and the fact that she wrote lesbian fiction.

"I honestly don't understand why it took you two this long for the two of you to get it," her mother commented from the other side of the kitchen.

Jane stopped pacing and looked at her mother. "Well it's a lot to take in. At this point though I don't really think it matters. What's done is done and Maura and I are together now."

"Right," her mother responded.

After that the conversation drifted off and after a few moments of silence things seemed to become awkward with the trio. Jane still paced just a little bit thinking over some things. Maura's eyes drifted her to laptop where she had minimized the window where she'd been reading the story before Jane had walked in that morning. Angela's gaze wandered between the two other women. She took in how she thought a relationship between them would go.

"So," Angela finally spoke up, "how long? What, eighteen months; two years at the most maybe?"

Both women glanced up from their positions with confused looks on their face. "Um, Ma, what are we talking about here?"

"Well you said you were together so I'm taking that to mean that you're about ready to settle down and give me grandchildren. I was just wondering if you had an idea yet on when you would start trying so I'd know when to expect the possibility."

Jane sucked in a deep breath. Maura could feel the tension and anger roll off of Jane even though she was now feet behind her. This was not going to be good and she prepared herself for the worst. "Oh my god, Ma, really!" Jane shrieked from behind her.

"We haven't even been in a relationship for an hour and you are starting in on this!" Though she hadn't looked back at her, Maura could tell that Jane was pacing once again; more frantically though this time. "What gives you any right to think that's an okay topic to talk about at any time, let alone at this moment in time?"

"It's only…"

"No, Ma!" Jane cut her off harshly. "It's only nothing. Look, I am glad that you are able to be around and to get to see you like I do, but you don't get to decide these things." Jane stopped pacing so she could look directly at her as she spoke. "Who I have in my life is my choice. Who I love is my choice. And who I may or may not end up marrying one day and having a family with is my choice. How and when we decide to have a family will be our choice, together, because it's our family."

There was an awkward silence throughout the house as Jane finished her speech. She couldn't believe that she'd really just stood up to her mother about getting into her personal life. "You know what? I can't do this anymore. I'm getting out of here," she said as she took off for the guest room.

She left a stunned Angela and Maura behind her in the kitchen. Maura snapped out of the daze quickly. She knew that she had to stop Jane from doing something crazy and possible injuring herself even more than she had the day before. She spoke up quickly, "Angela, I think it would be best if you gave us a little space right now so I can get Jane calmed down." Though she was trying her best to be polite the words came out with an edge in her voice that told Angela she was all business at this moment.

Angela nodded her head and grabbed the cup of coffee she had been drinking from. Though Maura didn't stick around long enough to see whether or not Angela had really agreed to her demand and would leave. She was more concerned about the state she would find Jane in in the guest room.

Maura quickly made her way to the guest room. She walked straight through the open door expecting to find Jane packing up the small bag of clothes and other items she had gotten from Jane's apartment the evening before. What she found though, stopped her dead in her tracks.

Sitting on the edge of the bed was Jane, just watching her as she entered the room. On her face was one of the famous Rizzoli smirks she had. This one in particular was one Maura could definitely read. It said that Jane knew just what she had been doing and that she knew Maura would follow after her.

Maura slowly walked over to her; the smirk stayed plastered to her face. "What are you doing?" Maura asked her quietly as she stopped in front of Jane.

Jane leaned over a little bit and looked around Maura. She leaned back and looked up before asking, "Do you think she really left?"

"What?" Maura asked her in amazement.

Jane's smirk turned in to a smile as she shrugged her shoulders a little. "I wanted her to leave and I knew there was a better chance of that happening if you told her to because you thought she upset me."

"Jane," Maura said admonishingly as she lightly smacked Jane on her good shoulder making her laugh. "You are just a little too devious sometimes."

"Come on, I wanna see if it's safe to go back into the kitchen and living room now," Jane said standing from the bed. "I was kind of in a drugged state last night and missed the game, so I'd like to try and catch the highlights."

"Now why doesn't that surprise me?" Maura asked playfully.

Jane looked down at the slightly shorter Maura. "Thank you," she whispered seriously. Maura just looked back at her confusedly. "For helping me to get rid of my mother: for the time being," she explained. Her eyes flicked down to Maura's lips for a moment and back up again.

She leaned in and captured Maura's lips. The kiss was sweet, but chaste. It was only meant to emphasize the thanks. She pulled back from the kiss and rested her forehead on Maura's for a moment.

When they finally broke apart she took Maura's hand in her own. Now they needed to find out if her mother really was going to give them the space she wanted and needed.

R&I

Jane and Maura were curled up on the couch together. What had started out as watching the highlights of the game she had missed, had somehow turned into an almost all day TV marathon day. Somewhere around lunch Maura had joined her and they had watched some crazy daytime TV that neither of them usually had the chance to see. After a couple of hours of that Maura had insisted they watch something that had an educational value to it.

Somewhere along the way Jane had fallen asleep for a couple of hours and when she'd woken up their day spent in front of the TV had turned into an impromptu movie night. Maura had ordered Chinese from their favorite take out place and they had curled back up on the couch together.

The movie had just ended and they had decided to flip back over to regular TV and see what was in the news for the day. Though it didn't appear as though their services would have been needed today if they had been able to go in to work; well Maura could go to work whenever she wanted, she just chose to keep Jane company for now.

"Do you want kids?" Maura asked her out of the blue.

Jane turned down the volume on the TV and moved around a little so she could face Maura a bit better. "Is this because of the thing with my mother earlier?"

Maura pulled her bottom lip slightly between her teeth and finally nodded her head. "It's just that you've always gotten angry anytime your mother has brought up the subject and I wanted to be able to understand a little bit better where it comes from."

"For the past few years, the only time my mother has really brought up the subject of her wanting grandchildren it's been attached to her seeing me attached to some hot guy who I'll have pretty babies with. I've known for a while now that that wasn't how I was going to spend the rest of my life, so yeah, I kind of resented the fact that she would bring up the topic in the way that she did. Today was actually the first that she brought up giving her grandchildren with someone who wasn't one of those hot guys. That in itself was kind of nice. Yes, I want to have kids one day, but like I said to her today that decision is ours to make whenever we are ready to make it, and not any sooner than that. It's not any of her business when we decide we're ready and when, or if, we decide we want to share any of that information with her we can, but that will be later on."

"Earlier you said that would be the decision of whoever you were with."

"Yes, I did say that. For the longest time now though, the only person that I've wanted to have a say in that with me is you. I didn't ever expect it to be possible, but now it is."

"Really?" Maura questioned her.

"Really, really," Jane replied.

Maura leaned in and captured Jane's lips. With the kiss she tried to communicate all of the love and happiness she was feeling in that moment. She finally broke the kiss when the need for oxygen became great.

"I love you," she whispered.

"And I love you," Jane replied as she rested her forehead on Maura's.

Suddenly Maura jumped back startling Jane just a little. "What?" Jane asked curiously.

"You know it's been a while since you've updated the story. What's going to happen to Jamie and Maria?"

Jane just flashed Maura one of her big Rizzoli smiles. "Oh, I think everything is going to work out just fine between them," Jane replied knowingly. "I see an amazing future ahead for them."

Bear with me for a moment please or skip down to the next paragraph if you don't want to read all of this, but I have one more thing I want to say as this story comes to a close. I, myself, have a personal reason for wishing to finish this story today. A year ago today I responded back to a pm I received from a reader to one of my stories. That reader was SoNFan1978. A year ago today my life changed so much for the better that I couldn't even begin to tell you about it. I never imagined a year ago that I would be where I am now. Bee, I know it hasn't been the best year for either of us, but for me it's been amazing simply for the fact that I've had you in my life. Thank you doesn't seem like enough to say because I don't think there are enough words for what you've done for me this past year. I am forever grateful to have you in my life. Things may not always be the best, but I have faith that it's all going to work out. I wouldn't be here without you. Thank you.

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