A/N: I apologize for the lateness of this chapter. But at least I fulfilled some of your wishes. Hopefully I did it well enough. Enjoy!

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After going to quite a few B&B's that had no vacancies, they checked into a rather quaint one they discovered in the Back Bay. As soon as they got settled in, Maura went out for a bit of clothes shopping for herself and Jane for the next few days, as she knew that the detective was not letting either one of them go to her home, or even back to the precinct where she kept a few spare items.

"So…" Maura said when she got back, sitting down on the queen sized bed and patting the space next to her. "What do you want to do?"

"Well," Jane started with a smile as she joined her. "We could continue what we started at the restaurant."

"We could." The M.E. agreed, though she made no move to actually do so.

"Or?" She asked slowly, thinking the other woman had something else in mind.

"Things have been pretty hectic for us lately. Do you want to talk about anything before it gets too serious between us?"

Jane's head tilted in confusion. "Like what?"

"Well there are a lot of things to consider. The fact that I'm living with your mother, that we work together, or even that not too long ago we were at each other's throats."

Brows furrowed. "I thought we put that behind us."

Maura nodded. "We did but now things are different. I just want everything to be considered before we start a relationship."

She couldn't help but let out a small laugh. "Do you put all your 'romantic partners' through this?"

"No. You're just more important to me than any of them were."

The amused look Jane held on her face turned to one of adoration as she smiled softly and scooted closer. "I love you, you know that?"

"Mmm-hmm." She snuggled up close to the other woman and smiled warmly when an arm wrapped around her shoulders.

They sat there in a comfortable silence for a while. Maura was reveling in being in such a safe and comfortable embrace while Jane was deep in thought. She was sure they had to talk eventually but wasn't really in the mood to do so now. Though they were as alone as they could get considering the fact that the nosiest person they knew has no idea of their whereabouts. Then again, they had all weekend to talk. Perhaps, Jane mused, they should use this night to just relax and get to know one another in a new way.

"Maura?"

"Hmm?" She sounded, not even tilting her head to look up at the other woman.

"How about we talk tonight. After dinner?"

"Sounds good." Maura said cheerily and then broke away from her new beau. She dragged the tip of her index finger slowly and gently up Jane's arm before using it to tilt the taller woman's chin up, as to give her full access to what she wanted to do next. When she leaned in for a kiss she felt Jane jump in surprise when her lips hit the soft skin. She moved her lips tenderly against the now trembling flesh before moving down and using her tongue to trace along the fairly prominent collar bone.

A shiver of pleasure ran down the Italian's back and she couldn't help the moan from escaping her lips. "Mmm. Maura."

Said woman giggled and pulled away with a mischievous grin on her face. "You like that?"

The tone of voice added another shiver down the racetrack that was currently Jane's spine. She couldn't speak at the moment so she just nodded and hoped that was enough.

She giggled again and returned to her previous post. After a few moments of going back and forth between the slender clavicles with her tongue she started dragging her teeth along as well, for extra effect.

With the very minimal amount of strength and self restraint she had left in her, Jane pushed the other woman off her.

"Jane?" Maura frowned, confused at the action.

"You –I … I thought you said you didn't want it to get too serious before we talked?" She said, mentally kicking herself for stopping such a pleasurable experience. But she wanted it to last between them. If that meant being her own cock block, so to speak, then so be it.

She took a moment to collect herself before responding. "You're right. But if we're not going to talk or make out until after dinner then what do you want to do?"

"I never said we couldn't make out. Let's just be Enchanted right now and have our lips be the only things that touch."

A short burst of air escaped the hazel eyed girl as a laugh. "Okay, detective. I'll keep my hands where you can see them."

"Good thing," she smirked. "I know where they've been!"

Maura just shot her a half-hearted glare before leaning forward to capture the other woman's lips with her own.

Jane retaliated just fine, taking the doctor's bottom lip between her teeth and gently sucking. It was certainly addicting, she had to admit, and it took all her willpower just to keep her hands down in her lap.

Endorphins were flowing, flesh was tinted pink, and tongues were in the midst of a heated battle when they heard the dreadful noise.

"I'm not answering it." Jane grumbled when they separated.

"It could be important, Jane."

"Fine." She sighed and reached over for the still ringing phone. Upon seeing the caller ID, however, she put it back. "Not answering it."

"Jane…"

"I don't care if my mother's hair is on fire; I'm not talking to her right now." She broke her own rules and used her hands to cup Maura's cheeks in order to bring her into another kiss. This one lasted a bit longer than the last one but, sadly, not long enough. The phone started ringing again and she nearly threw it against the wall. She wasn't surprised at her mother's persistence but it was really starting to get on her nerves. She was about to hit the 'ignore call' button when she saw that it wasn't the pesky woman. She sighed and answered. "What do you want, Korsak?"

"Your mother is driving me crazy." He half yelled in the receiver.

"Join the club."

He sighed. "I don't know what you did or didn't do but you better fix it, Rizzoli."

"Look, me an' Maura are on a little vacation right now."

"A vacation?" He scoffed. "You didn't even finish your paperwork from the last case and now you're taking a vacation?"

"Just for the weekend. Relax, I'll get it done on Monday."

"You better hope Angela calms down by then. What did you do anyway?"

"Nuthin'." She lied. "Just pass her off to Frankie, he's used to it."

"Bu – " His words were cut off when Jane pulled the device from her ear and hit the 'end call' button.

Maura looked at her curiously as she put the phone down on the nightstand. "Everything okay?"

"Yep. It's so peachy, it's like we're in Georgia." The detective said with a laugh.

"Funny you should say that…" She started.

Jane's face fell, as she figured she was going to be stuck there for about a half an hour while her best friend went on and on about the history of peaches in Georgia.

Not paying any heed to the other woman's facial expression, she continued. "Did you know that Georgia and Massachusetts share the same state dance: the square dance? It's not that odd considering it is the state dance of twenty-one other states."

"That's it?"

The Irish woman's head tilted. "Yes. You think there are more than almost half of our states that share that dance?"

"No, I just – usually when you go all Wikipedia on me there's a lot more information."

"I can say more if you wa – "

"No!" She said far too quickly and loudly, making herself wince. "It's fine. Very educational as it is, Maura, thank you." She jumped up off the bed suddenly. "Hey, you hungry yet?"

"Um… sure."

"Great!" She took the M.E.'s hand and led her out the door. It might have seemed a little sudden and out of nowhere but all Jane was thinking about was what came after dinner. Well, really more what came after their after-dinner chat.

They found a little café not too far from where they were staying and had a quick dinner. They chatted about insignificant things, just whatever came to mind, during their meal and the walk back.

When they got back the pair sat down on the bed. Jane let out a breath of nervous air and waited, expecting the other woman to start first. She didn't and, instead, stared at Jane.

After a couple of awkward moments, Jane spoke up. "So… about these things you wanted to talk about?"

"Nothing in particular comes to mind. Well… maybe…"

"What?"

"Are you sure you're okay with even being in a relationship right now? I mean you and Casey were kind of… I don't know."

She smiled at the concern so obviously drenching the tone. "I'm fine. Things have been over between us for awhile. Though I don't know how he'll take the news when he finds out that he no longer has a chance with me now that I've somehow managed to get the most beautiful woman in the world to fall in love with me."

Maura beamed. "That you did. Somehow." She added a playful wink to punctuate her words.

"So… talk over?" Jane hoped that it would be that easy. At least for now.

"Talk over." She confirmed.

The detective smiled and made a quick move to tackle the other woman so that both of them were now lying on the bed with Jane on top of Maura. The latter woman tried her best to gain control of the situation but failed miserably. Instead she just decided to enjoy the view of Jane smiling above her while strong arms were placed on either side of her head. She definitely wasn't complaining when the Italian woman started to lean down to place a tingle-inducing kiss upon her lips. Though she wanted to respond to the kiss with all she had, she took the opportunity for revenge. First she wrapped her arms around the other woman's torso slowly. Then she quickly slid her legs around Jane's before jerking her body to flip them over. She only managed to turn them on their side, however, but quickly got on top.

"Hey." The woman with her back now against the bed laughed. "No fair!"

Maura just smiled before answering that comment with a kiss. This led to an even more heated make out session where hands were roaming every inch of the body against them. Eventually they exhausted all their energies and just lied beside one another. After a few minutes of comfortable silence, the doctor spoke up. "What do you want to do tomorrow?" She asked, lazily tracing random shapes against the space on Jane's chest just above her breasts.

"Stay in bed?" She asked with a hopeful lift in her voice.

"As much as I would love to, we can't do that all day."

The detective shrugged weakly, as to not shift the other woman off her. "How about we go out and do something fun? Something that's not running or yoga."

She thought about it for a moment but couldn't come up with anything. "Like what?"

"Well now that you have some free time you can get your scuba diving certification."

Maura brightened up at that. "Sounds like fun! I already know the place that we can go do it!"

She laughed nervously at the thought. "We? I said you. Besides, I don't even have a suit."

"And mine is at my home where your mother probably is. They include rental fees in the cost of a certification course, Jane. We'll be fine."

"Lucky me." She grumbled.

"Jane!" The shorter woman admonished.

"I know, I know. It'll be fun." She said half-heartedly.

Maura smiled, thinking she won. "Exactly." She snuggled up closer to Jane, who enveloped her in a warm embrace and, within minutes, they were both sound asleep.

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After a nice breakfast, some more fooling around between the sheets, and a quick lunch, the two were off to their first scuba lesson.

"We have to sit here and learn stuff? I never liked school. Why are you doing this to me?"

"We need to learn safety rules, Jane. And it's only three classes."

She stuck her tongue out at the woman who had already turned to face the front and was already starting to write things down in her notebook. Before the instructor had even walked in. The detective shook her head at that fact but wasn't wholly surprised.

When the instructor finally entered the room, he introduced himself and wanted the class to do so as well. He then went over safety regulations before showing them a video. After the video was a short quiz.

Jane, having been lost in thought during the video, had no idea what she was doing. She spent the allotted time internally debating whether she should try to copy off of Maura's paper or just turn it in blank. She finally settled for sketching a picture of a pirate Bass in the middle of a sword fight with the hero of her made up story – Joe Friday. Luckily for her, they weren't graded and the instructor went over the answers and the explanations behind them, after they had finished.

From there they went to a nearby pool where a bunch of equipment was laying out. They got one on one help on choosing the best mask for them and then the instructor showed them how the air tanks worked. He then took them through the proper way of breathing with the apparatus before taking them in the relatively shallow pool to try there. Even though she wasn't paying much attention, Jane was flying through the course while Maura seemed to struggle. After their first round in the pool, the M.E. was the only one who had to be pulled out, as she was coughing up water.

"You okay, Maura?" Jane asked, concerned.

"Fine." She responded, a little upset. She didn't fail at much of anything in her life, even athletics.

The taller shot her a smile and tried to pep-talk her back into the pool. "C'mon, you know what they say! Just get back on the… uh… seahorse!"

That caused her to crack a smile and shake her head at Jane's goofy, yet endearing, attempt to make her feel better. She took the hand that the other woman had offered and got back in the pool, working one-on-one with the instructor this time to get it right. It didn't take her too long to figure out what she had done wrong, enabling her to join the rest of the class and finish today's course with no other issues.

After showering off the chlorine, they decided to walk around for awhile before stopping for dinner at a random restaurant they strolled past. It wasn't the best meal they've ever had but it satiated their appetite. For food anyway. As soon as they entered the room they were all over each other once again. This hunger, however, was harder to satisfy.

Clothes were quickly discarded and flesh met flesh in a twisting, fiery tango of desire. They explored all new areas of their partner's body as well as of their own sexuality. As much as they would have loved to continue until the sun came up, they hadn't enough stamina to even last them half the night. Thoroughly tuckered out by the third hour, they fell asleep, once again, in each other's arms.

Unsurprisingly, they slept in late. So late, in fact, that they missed out on their breakfast. With sleep still in their eyes, their grumbling stomachs forced them to find food and did so in a nearby diner.

While food meant energy, the amount of carbohydrates in their meal combined with their lack of sleep nearly made them slip into a food coma right then and there. They made it back to their room for a nap before continuing on with the previous day's activities.

As much as neither one of them wanted to, they ended the day with a talk about what to expect at work the next day. It was a short chat as their only concerns were of Angela and Sister Winifred. Nevertheless, they explored as many possible scenarios as they could think of in order to be best prepared. With that weighing heavily on their minds they went to bed and slipped into a fitful sleep.

As soon as they stepped foot into the station the next day, they heard a voice that made Jane's hair stand on end.

"Jane Clementine Rizzoli!" Angela stepped out of the café armed with a spatula.

Said woman kept her head down and dragged Maura along. "Not now, Ma, I have paperwork I really need to finish."

The older Rizzoli saw the clasped hands and beamed, but still used her angry voice. "Oh no you don't, young lady. We need to talk."

She stopped and sighed. "Fine. Go on, Maura, I'll see you later." She said, letting go of the other woman's hand.

"Maura too." Angela demanded before walking back into the café. She checked behind herself once to make sure she was being followed before going into the kitchen.

The two younger women gave each other worried glances as they waited for what came next. What did come, however, was definitely not expected. In a split second they were both brought into a massive bear hug.

"Oh, I'm so happy for you two! Why didn't you tell me sooner that you were dating?" She pulled away. While her face was positively beaming, there was a hint of disappointment in her features. "I had to hear it from Sister Winifred? Jane, you know already that I have no problem with something like this. And especially not with Maura! I never dreamed you'd be dating a doctor!"

"Sorry, Ma." She knew arguing about the semantics of when and where everything happened would be pointless so she just left it at that.

As much as she wanted to, she couldn't stay mad at them for long. She was just so happy her only daughter had finally found someone. "Just go on and finish your work."

Jane did as she was told for once and Maura followed suit. Since the latter woman had finished her stuff on Friday she had nothing to do but browse shoes on her phone. Things seemed to be going swell until Sister Winifred walked in.

"Dr. Isles, I thought I warned you about this on Friday."

That caused the chocolate eyed woman to look up at Maura. "She talked to you?"

With a nod to her best friend, she turned to face the older woman. "You did. But it's really not your place."

"My place is to help people who have strayed from the path of the lord which is exactly what you two are doing."

Jane just rolled her eyes and tried her best to focus on her paperwork, letting Maura do all the arguing.

Korsak and Frost looked up from their desks, wide eyed and a bit worried at where this heated discussion might lead. The older man decided to get up and walk over to Jane. "Hey Rizzoli, you really gonna just let them go at it?"

Without looking up, she answered. "Yep. If I just sit here and try to ignore it, I won't draw my gun."

He laughed and shook his head. When there was a pause in the argument, however brief, he decided to put in his two cents. "You know, Sister, the bible also bans round haircuts but you seem to be rocking it."

Frost stood up as well. "Yeah, and I think I remember you having a lobster roll for lunch the other day. Kind of goes against Leviticus 11:10, doesn't?"

"Well I… th-that's different." She stuttered.

Just then an officer who had been walking by when he heard the beginnings of the debate spoke up. "I don't know too much about the bible but Jane Rizzoli has saved a lot of people's lives. If that doesn't make her good in God's eyes, I don't know what will."

A round of agreement came from the ever developing crowd that showed up simply to support the two. Sister Winifred was growing flustered and was about to come up with a retort when Cavanaugh came in, having heard the commotion from his office.

"What's going on in here?" He sighs. "Sister Winifred, I told already that I have no issue with Detective Rizzoli and Dr. Isles' relationship. I'm giving you one more warning to stop with the preaching in my department or I'll be forced to kick you out. Do I make myself clear?"

Her face gave every indication that she wanted to retaliate with some choice words that were somewhat inappropriate for a nun to be speaking but she kept it under control. Instead she just nodded and sat back down at her desk.

The lieutenant then turned to the two women that were currently laughing as quietly as they could. "And you two! Don't make things difficult for her. This is still a workplace. Keep it professional."

"Yes sir." Jane said with all the seriousness she could muster. Turns out, that wasn't very much.

He just shook his head and left, wondering what he did to deserve such a hard to control group. It was bad enough with the hallway sports, though he was thankful archery season was over.

"So, Jane…" Maura started rather flirtatiously when things around them had begun to get back to normal with the exception of Sister Winifred, who was currently trying to bore through them with the force of her stare. The M.E. was well aware of this and decided to increase her intensity level just to irk the nun.

"Um… yes?"

"How about we go down to my office?" Her fingers glided along the cheek of the other woman before stopping, for a brief moment, on her lips.

"But… I – I have to finish these." The detective whined.

"I know. I'll be waiting." She said with a wink and smile before turning to go down to her office.

Jane just gaped after her before blasting through the papers in front of her at record speed.