Hey, guys. I publish this story now because I have absolutely no idea where All or Nothing disappeared. I wanted to update it and noticed that it was gone. I don't know why it was deleted, but it really piss me off. Unfortunately everything is gone now. I looked through my files and found this story that I have written a while ago and somehow I liked it. I have no clue why I didn't published this sooner. Anyway, I hope you'll like this one as well.

And you're welcome to tell me what you think.

Enjoy,

T73.

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Detective Jane Rizzoli yawned unashamed and stretched her arms over her head as she made her way down the stairs, and unfortunately realized that she wasn't thirty anymore. She groaned and cracked her neck. Though it was still dark outside she didn't need to switch the light on because she knew this place by heart. Over thirty years she had spent in this house, firstly only as a regular visitor and with time she spent more time at the house of her best friend Dr. Maura Isles than in her own apartment. The first time the two women had met Jane thought that the doctor was a little strange, distant, even cold. It bugged her that the blonde stuck strictly to medical facts and never dared to make a guess. She never thought that either she nor Maura could ever become friends, but then the detective had a new encounter with her former nemesis, who had a formative influence on her and her past life, and realized that Maura would be always the one who she could trust and who would indeed understand her and her decisions. That the doctor wouldn't judge her for who she was. And with time it became a habit that she stopped by at Maura's every time she felt restless or when she haven't had the courage to go to her place after Hoyt's appearance broke into her apartment and devastated it.

And with time the two women grow closer and became best friends, but during this process Jane realized that she was feeling something else for the ME, and that those feelings weren't appropriate towards a friend and especially towards Maura. Jane never hid the fact that she was into women and was glad that it didn't change the dynamic of their friendship. The Italian realized quite fast what kind of feelings she was having for Maura, but she wasn't brave enough to confess that she was having feelings for her best friend, not just because she didn't want to jeopardize their friendship. Because she wasn't sure if she'd recover again if Maura turn her down. So she decided to watch Maura dating all kind of men who weren't even close to be good enough for Maura to Jane's mind.

Angela, who figured out quite fast that her daughter was in love with her best friend, tried to encourage Jane to talk to Maura about her feelings, but the stubborn detective just told her to butt out, and that's what the matriarch did. But that didn't mean that she wasn't trying to influence the two women. Every now and then she set up a romantic dinner at Maura's for the two women and then excused herself because she had to run some errands.

Jane figured out pretty fast what her mother was doing, but she didn't have the heart to be mad at Angela. She knew that her mother just meant it well. Angela had told her a dozen times that it hurt her to see Jane so hurt and desperate, and that she hated it that Jane started to run into liaisons to numb her heartache.

But one evening, Maura sat on the opposite of her dining table and suddenly said that she'd have to tell Jane something important that she couldn't keep for herself anymore. The usual so self-confident doctor suddenly became anxious and started to fidget on her chair.

Jane watched the blonde for a while and placed an hand on Maura's arm, telling her whatever it was that it'd be okay.

Maura swallowed hard and gathered her courage before she confessed that she wouldn't have feelings for the Italian that friends shouldn't have, and that she was in love with Jane for many years. Since the first day they met, to be exact.

Jane sat silently on her chair and stared at the ME while she took the information in and the blonde started to panick. She told Jane that she wished to take the words back and that she hoped that this incident wouldn't change anything, and that she'd give Jane all the time and space she need.

Jane listened to Maura's rambling and got up to her feet. She saw the panic in hazel eyes and took Maura's hand into her own, and pulled her to her feet as well. She perked her eyebrows when Maura kept on talking and decided to silence the ME by a gentle kiss which took Maura by surprise, but the doctor didn't need long to recover and kissed Jane back.

That's how it started it. That evening Jane and Maura became a couple, and after a couple of months Jane thought that they wasted enough time and popped the question which the doctor accepted without hesitance, and then the two women got married.

Other people would've thought they were rushing things but they didn't knew through what kind of things the couple went through when they were just friends.

The Italian always joked that not every couple went through stuff like Maura and she did in a lifetime, but their friends and families knew that this statement was beyond true.

The couple enjoyed their time together for two years before they decided to start a family on their own.

It wasn't like the try to start a family worked out instantly and at some point Jane became frustrated. But even more exited when Maura told her that the procedure worked out after a couple of attempts. It wasn't like the detective wasn't willed to be the one who'd carry the baby, but somehow she and Maura decided that it would be saver if Maura would give birth if the procedure would work out at all. And Maura had agreed happily.

That was over twenty years ago. Well, almost thirty when Maura and Jane welcomed their son more than excited and they were also relieved that he was more than healthy because Maura's first pregnancy held some complications. Still, Colin kept them covered after all of them got home.

Three years later they took a little girl home who they named Eva. Jane said jokingly that she regretted it that they didn't named her first born Adam, but when she saw Maura's scowl she stopped laughing.

Jane took a deep breath but then slowed her steps as soon as she hears muffled voices coming from the living room and cursed under her breath for leaving her tried and tested gun upstairs. She tilted her head to the side before she tiptoed in the direction of said room. She nearly jumped around the corner and blinked a couple of times as she spotted a young man and a young woman sitting on the couch.

The woman jumped startled and placed an hand over her heart and seemed to be about to pass out.

He had an olive complexion, wavy brown hair cut short, and greenish blue eyes. He was tall, quite muscular, and was wearing jeans and a light gray tee.

The younger woman also had an olive complexion, wavy golden brown hair neatly braided, and hazel eyes. She is of average height, athletic, and wore almost the same like he did.

Jane jumped in surprise and clenched her jaw. "Holy shit," she snarled. "What are you guys doing here?" She always knew that her children would be her death on day, but she really had hoped that this feeling would ease as soon as they'd be adults. Now she realized that she thought wrongly.

Colin glanced amused at his younger sister and smirked. Since their early childhood they were inseparable and the older they became the stronger their bond grew. It almost was like they're been twins who were born three years apart. 'Hello to you too, Ma. I hope we didn't wake you."

Eva snickered and Jane rolled her eyes at them.

She walked to the fridge and opened its door to get herself a bottle of water like she had planned as she got out of bed. "You didn't. And you didn't answer my question." She quirked an eyebrow when she saw that her daughter tried to close an magazine without attracting attention. "What's that?"

Eva cleared her throat and smiled innocently. "Nothing."

The older woman scrutinized her and stepped a little closer to the couch, and then she took a look at the clock on the wall. "I learned one thing about the two of you quite fast. You don't come by at four in the morning just because of nothing."

Colin got up ton his feet and wrapped his arms around Jane's shoulders, leading her to the kitchen. "And I know that you don't get up at that time if you don't need anything."

The Italian sighed and gave up trying to find out what kind of plan they hotched. She looked long at Colin's face and heaved a sigh. "You loom tired, and you need a clean shave."

He started to chuckle, bent his head and kissed his mother's cheek. "You look very well too."

Jane smiled broadly and started the coffeemaker and the smile grew even wider when she heard Eva joyning them in the kitchen. She was very proud of both of her children because they didn't only inherited Maura the best traits of her wife's appearance but also her intelligence. Either of them turned out to be pretty smart, and either of them skipped classes in school and college. At some point Jane sometimes felt like she was the dimwit in the family but Maura always convinced her that it was their merits that their children turned out quite goodly.

Colin was a intern at Beth Israel and Eva was working with Maura in the forensic lab, and sometimes Eva watched Maura performing autopsies.

Jane was glad that neither of her children had the crazy idea to take her profession, and somehow it hurt her pride at the same time. She wasn't sure why, but she would've been happy if Colin would've become a cop. Neither she nor Maura ever tried to influence their children as it came to their choice of profession, all that mattered to them was that they got a good education and that they do whatever they love. And as soon as Colin and Eva told them that they wanted to go to college, Jane was beyond relieved. She was happy that neither of them made the same mistake that she once didn't.

Eva clapped an hand over her mouth as she yawned and wiggled her brows as she saw her mother's skeptical look. "I'm fine." She chuckled and stretched her arms over her head. "Seriously, I'm fine."

"You're tired as well." Jane replied and took three mugs from the cupboard. "I can talk to your supervisor."

"Please dont,' the younger woman groaned and Colin laughed out loud.

Jane smiled mischievously because she knew exactly why her daughter refused her offer. Eva already decided in a young age that she want to continue Maura's work and she stayed true to it. Maura was beyond proud as Eva came to her one day and asked shyly if it'd be possible to work in Maura's department.

She got three mugs out of a cupboard and placed two in front of her children. She looked closely at both and a frown crept up her forehead as she realized that either of them held something back. " Okay, spill it out," she simply stated and crossed her arms.

The younger woman blinked confused and briefly exchanged a look with Colin. "What?"

"Something's going on, and I wanna know what it is."

Colin rolled his eyes but smiled. "Nothing's going on, Ma. We just -" he trailed off when footsteps came from the stairs and his face lit up as Maura rounded the corner.

Maura stood at the door and glanced surprised at him and Eva. It wasn't like she didn't want them to be here, it was just because of the time of night. She made three long strokes and then she engulfed her eldest child in a tight hug before she did the same with Eva. The two women may worked together and saw each other the whole day, but that didn't mean that they had time to share a lot of private moments. Either Maura had to be at a crime scene or the Lab was too busy so they only had time to exchange the current happenings in their lives. And even though they spent lunch time together every now and then, they mostly talked about Eva's new boyfriend of whom Jane didn't know about.

She knew that it was hard for her wife that neither Eva nor Colin weren't the little child anymore who Jane chased through the yard for hours, and that the Italian barely can handle the fact that their children were old enough to be in serious relationships. And then there was Colin whom she barely saw anymore because of his work at Beth Israel. She understood better than anyone else that his free time was limited as a intern, and that he wanted to spend his free time with his friends instead hanging around with his parents, but that didn't mean that she wasn't allowed to miss him. Maura scrutinized his face and couldn't help the smile that broke free, but then the happy look was replaced by confusion. "Is everything alright?"

Eva chuckled and thanked Jane silently for the coffee that the older woman poured into her mug. "I told you that our mothers become suspicious when we meet here at this time."

"That's because I start to think that neither you nor your brother have any contents in your own fridges." Jane said back and quirked an eyebrow, and Maura started to smirk. "It wouldn't be the first time, would it?"

The older doctor shook her head with a smile. " Or that you'd be about to raid our liquor cabinet." She added and walked over to her wife.

"Neither one thing nor the other." The young man replied and shrugged. "But we already drank all of Ma's beer."

"What," Jane asked with an high-pitched voice and opened the door of the device to check the substance of his words. She shut the fridge again and glared at her son.

"Some things will never change." Eva laughed amused and took a swig from the cup. "No, we just came by because my place is at the end of the town and Colin's is a mess."

He gave her a shove and furled his brows. "It is not." He sighed heavily as Eva looked skeptically at him and turned the corners of his mouth downward. "Maybe it is a little bit."

"And about what did the two of you whisper when I came down the stairs," Jane asked and studied the younger people.

"Ma!" Colin whined now.

Maura placed an hand on Jane's shoulder as she walked to the fridge and opened its door. "Okay, let's stop interrogating those two. How about I make you something to ear?"

Eva nodded approvingly and hunched her shoulders. "Yeah, sounds good to me."

"To me too." Colin agreed.

Jane rolled her and spluttered. "If course it does." She grumbled and ducked her head when the blonde scowled at her. Of course she was glad to see her children again, but she had hoped that they would meet for lunch or dinner, and not for a snack in the middle of the night. She also was surprised that Maura didn't mention that Colin looked beyond tired. She wondered what kept him awake, but she knew better than to ask when she sensed that he didn't want to talk about it at the moment. They might looked only a little bit alike but she knew that Colin and Eva could be as stubborn like her. And that they were able to shut everyone out until they solved the problem themselves, or when the problem became too big and when they needed the assistance of their mothers. But mostly their pride got into their way and then she and Maura had to figure out what was wrong.

She glanced long at Maura and started to smirk devilish. "You can consider yourself lucky that neither Mom nor I came down here naked."

Maura stifled an amused laugh as her children made a disgusted sound.

Jane had to fight with herself so she don't started to laugh. She furled her brows and glanced accusingly at Colin and then at Eva. "So it's totally fine that we caught either of you several times on the couch making out with your ... love interests, but it's not okay for your mother and me that we still show affection?"

"Showing affection like kissing in front of us is different from telling us that you still have sex." Eva shot back and sheepishly. "I mean, you're our mothers, and you're ... old."

"Excuse me," Maura asked surprised and looked in disbelief at her daughter. "What are you thinking what we did to have you?"

"IVF?" Colin suggested and ducked his head as soon as a kitchen towel flew towards him.

"No one likes weisenheimers." Jane growled through gritted teeth but he still started to smirk.

Maura started the stove and nodded at a cabinet. "Eva, please get us some plates."

The young brunette didn't protest and got up from her chair, rounded the kitchen island and kissed Maura's cheek. "Even though you just told us that you and Ma are still sexually active, I want you to know that I love you."

Maura's eyebrows shot up high as soon as she heard those words and she looked baffled at the detective.

Jane snorted and shook her head without replying anything.

Colin got up to his feet as well and walked to the coffee maker, grumbling, "Really? Was that necessary?"

Eva glanced innocently at him and fluttered her eyelashes, but the smile on her lips was anything but innocent. It was waggish.

He rolled his eyes and refilled his cup without saying another word.