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A New Family, a New Future-Part 1:

9 Months Later:

Chaos was the best way to describe the Rizzoli-Isles household as it was a busy month ahead. It was two weeks until Jane and Maura's wedding, three weeks until Cailin moved into her apartment for college and four weeks until Louisa started high school. Jane and Maura were going on a week's honeymoon before Cailin started college and then another week at some point with Louisa.

The teenager's adoption was all going to plan. The fact that she already lived with Jane and Maura made things simpler as half of the assessments had already been done when Louisa had first moved in with Jane and Maura so it was just a case of reassessing the situation and home life. Jane, Maura and Louisa were looking forwards to being able to be a proper official family as soon as everything was sorted.

Cailin would be going away to college once Jane and Maura returned from their honeymoon and, while Caitlin was excited about it, Louisa was sad that her older sister figure was going away to college and that was when the idea of Cailin getting her own apartment came about. Louisa could go and visit with Maura and Hope when Cailin was able to see them and Cailin herself would begin to get used to living on her own at the same time. It kept Louisa and Cailin happy and the two had become closer and closer and were more like sisters now.

Hope and Constance were still getting on well and were even planning the parental side of the wedding together. It showed how far they had come and they were working with Angela as well. Jane and Maura had said that they weren't really bothered if it was traditional but they all knew Maura would want some traditional; elements in the wedding so it was finding out the right balance for everything.

"Well Maura will wear the dress and Jane the pant suit," Angela said, "that is clearly obvious. I was thinking about gold for Cailin and Louisa's dresses. They have virtually the same skin tone and I think it would go well with their hair colours."

"Yes and that wouldn't be too girly for either of them to wear," Constance said before yawning. The woman had only just flown in from Europe with Maura's father and had headed straight to the guesthouse to have a mothers' meeting about the wedding plans as Jane and Maura were working.

Louisa was at another skating session and Cailin had gone with her. Louisa had been entered in for competitions and it looked like that whatever was planned for her the skating would always be first. It was the last link she had to her mother and she wanted to carry on skating as it made her feel closer to her mother. Jane and Maura understood that better than anyone and didn't want Louisa to lose anything connected to her mother, especially as the adoption plans were running smoothly. It was only going to be a matter of weeks and Jane and Maura would officially be Louisa's second set of parents.

Maura had been worried that she wasn't doing what was best for Louisa and Constance and Hope had to keep reassuring her that she was doing the right thing for Louisa because she was as Jane had no rights currently when it came to Louisa.

"So where will Louisa be staying while Jane and Maura go on honeymoon?" Constance asked.

"She's staying here. I'm moving into the main house and Cailin is going to come and stay as well," Angela said, "Lou's upset enough as it is about Cailin going away so we said having the time together will make it less painful."

"Cailin is also moving into an apartment so Maura and Louisa can stay some weekends," Hope said, "you said you're going to be around more Constance?" The woman nodded,

"Yes I'm going to try and limit the number of trips abroad and be around more for the three of them and I'm obviously going to help out more at MEND and donate money," she said, "I know I'm not really family but I can make a difference."

"And we'll be grateful for that," Hope smiled before they carried discussing the plans.

Meanwhile at the station and Jane was questioning a suspect whilst Maura was finishing off the autopsy on their latest victim and that would probably be their last case for a while.

"Please tell me you got something Maura because we are struggling to hang onto this suspect and she's the best one we got," Jane said as she walked into the autopsy room and leant against the sink.

"Just waiting for a few more results and then I'll have an answer. The state of the body meant that it's been hard for me to be able to pull results quickly but we will get there Jane and we will solve this case and have our wedding, Louisa officially become ours and then go off on honeymoon for a week and then come back and start a new chapter," Maura said, "it's like Louisa says you just have to believe. Oh and she wants a grown up roses, fairy and unicorn room with the Disney Princesses in the mix. I know we've only just changed it again but she wants it changed again and she promises this will be the last time it's changed."

"What again? She's wanted more bedroom changes in the past two months than in all the time that she's been with us," Jane said, "you've gone and said yes haven't you? Oh come on Maura! Are you crazy?"

"Welcome to raising a teenager. I also think that maybe she wants this new room because she's starting a new chapter with us and she's growing up Jane," Maura said, "I guess this is her way of closing one chapter and starting another one. We won't be her guardians any more. We'll be guardians and parents and I guess her current room reminds her of the past."

Jane thought before sighing,

"One last room change and then she's banned from changing her room for two years. Agreed?"

"Agreed," Maura said.

"So where would you like to go for lunch?" Cailin asked.

"I really fancy pancakes," Louisa said, "and eggs and bacon."

"Sounds to me like someone is very much hinting at IHOP," Cailin said with a slight smirk on her face before driving to IHOP wanting to give Louisa what she wanted.

The two had grown closer over the past few months and Cailin was almost certainly the big sister figure for Louisa and Jane and Maura were glad that there was someone closer to Louisa's age around as they didn't know how to handle some stuff. Of course Louisa had informed Cailin that her friends weren't going to the same high school as her and the two had been discussing how Louisa could make new friends and not get used by people who would probably just want to know her because of Jane and Maura.

The two arrived at IHOP and went inside and discussed everything possible; high schools, Cailin's move to her apartment and college and of course the wedding and adoption. Life was about to change and hopefully there wouldn't be too many bumps along the way.