"Hey Sweetheart" Olivia said coming into the house. She spotted Mark making dinner "Oh my god best husband award"

"How was work?" Mark asked as he stirred the sauce he was making.

Olivia wrapped her arms around his stomach from the back. "I love you"

"One of those cases?" Mark asked looking over his shoulder.

"What?"

"Sorry I sort of nicknamed the type of cases you have" Mark shrugged a little. "Like today you had a case that involved a bad husband so you praise me cause I'm a good husband. Another is where kids are involved which makes you kiss all our kids and tell them you love them"

"Ok wow you officially know me too well" Olivia shook her head as she stood by him.

James and Jenny came in the kitchen and both smiled seeing Mark cooking. "Dad is cooking take cover!" James yelled teasingly.

"Tell them to stop picking on me" Mark mumbled as he pouted and rested his head on Olivia's shoulder.

"Leave your father alone. He is actually a very good cook its just that he is clumsy and lazy" Olivia teased. Jenny and James laughed even more. Mark just gave her a look. Olivia smiled and returned the look.

"Daddy, daddy!"

"Lilly, Lilly!" Mark yelled back as the two year old ran into the kitchen.

"Make them stop" Lilly yelled hugging around his leg.

The twins ran in after her with their Halloween masks on.

"Hold it" Mark said. The twins stopped. "Stop scaring your sister"

The twins laughed and took off their masks.

"I hate boys," Lilly mumbled still holding on to Mark's leg. She looked up and spotted Olivia "Mommy!"

"Lilly!" Olivia yelled back smiling. Lilly ran over to her and jumped into her arms. Olivia picked her up and gave her a kiss on the cheek and just smiled at the brown eyes looking back at her.

"Dad guess what?" Matt asked walking over to Mark.

"Um…this is hard…I don't know" Mark said shaking his head knowing the twins started their first day of 3rd grade tomorrow. "Mommy any idea?"

"I can't think of anything" Olivia played along even though the twins kept reminding them the whole week.

"Tomorrow is our first day of school!" Mike yelled.

"Why do you people yell all the time?" Jenny shook her head and got up and left the kitchen. James laughed and followed her.

"Go wash your hands dinner is ready" Mark gave a kiss to Lilly and kissed each twin on the head. All three kids ran off to the bathroom.

Olivia took some of the sauce Mark made on her finger and tried it.

"Hey! I have been working hard on this no touchy," Mark ordered and slapped her hand playfully.

Olivia laughed "You are mean when you cook"

"I didn't intervene when you gave birth, you do your thing and I will do mine"

"Hey you never gave me a kiss Mister"

"I didn't? Kissy Marky Livvy" Mark teased in a baby voice. Olivia chuckled and took his face into her hands and kissed him.

"Ewww!"

Mark and Olivia smiled against each others lips and turned to face Lilly and the twins in the doorway. "Can we help you?" Mark asked.

"Mommy boys have cooties," Lilly said disgustedly.

"Yea, cooties, yucky. Get away you cootie boy" Olivia teased and pushed Mark away from her. Mark smiled and rolled his eyes.

"Cooties!" The twins yelled at the same time and started to poke Lilly on the shoulder.

Olivia started to poke the twins "Cooties!"

Mark laughed and came behind Olivia and poked her shoulder "Cooties!"

Lilly quickly ran to Olivia's side and the twins took Mark's side.

"Cootie boys!" Lilly yelled and hugged Olivia around the leg.

"Cootie girls!" The twins yelled in unison and Mike held on to Mark by his jeans and Matt hugged around his leg.

"Yucky" Olivia teased smiling.

"Gross" Mark teased smiling back.

James and Jenny came in the kitchen and both shook their heads seeing Mark and Olivia making funny faces at each other.

"I swear they are worse then children sometimes" James shook his head.

"You better take my side, girls have cooties" Mark informed him.

"Jenny you have to be with Mommy and me" Lilly said taking Jenny's hand.

James rolled his eyes and sat down at the table. "When you guys are done getting cootie shots, I'm starving."

"Party pooper" Olivia gave him a small smile.

"C'mon seriously, we have to go" Jenny sat down by her brother. "I have a date"

"With Dickie?" James asked trying not to laugh at the name.

Jenny shot him a look "Yes."

"Dickie" Mike and Matt said in unison and burst into giggles.

Lilly looked up at Olivia "I don't get it. What's so funny?"

"Daddy's face" Olivia answered knowing Mark was a good sport when people teased him.

Mark rolled his eyes and sat down at the table. He motioned for the twins to sit down also. They did.

Olivia picked up Lilly up and sat her down in a chair. "So who wants Dad's food?"

Mark was the only one to raise his hand. He looked around at the kids who were a little scared to try his food. "Fine don't eat what I cooked. When you need money don't come to me. Especially you Lilly" He playfully winked at the little girl.

Lilly giggled and then raised her hand. James rose his hand also "I need money after dinner" He explained.

Olivia shook her head and got the food.

After a while all of them were eating dinner. Jenny and James getting into small fights but they stopped just as fast.

Mike and Matt smiled evilly at each other and put most of their food into Lilly's plate when she wasn't paying attention.

Lilly looked at her plate. "I ate all this before"

Matt and Mike burst into small giggles.

James figured out what they were doing since he used to do it to Jenny. He took the chicken he knew the twins liked and put it in his plate.

"Stop playing with the food" Olivia shook her head. "Please."

Jenny smacked James upside the head. "Jerk."

"Stop" Mark ordered. "Eat your food."

All the kids got quiet again.

The back door opened and Zane came in. "Hey kids"

"Hello father" Mark teased. "Your late for dinner"

"Can't have any anyway" He threw his smoke out before coming into the house and then closed the door behind him. "I got things to do"

"What things?" Mark asked looking at him.

Zane came over to the table and took some fries from Mark's plate "Stuff"

"Meaning?" Olivia asked.

"Stuff with a lady friend" he tried. "You see Mark when two people love each other-"

"Just go" Mark quickly interrupted.

"Peace" Zane waved and went upstairs to get changed.

"I'm out also" James got up. "I got a date with Liz"

"I have a date also" Jenny got up next. "Thanks for dinner"

The two kids gave Mark and Olivia a kiss and then went out the house.

Mike and Matt got off their seats.

"Where are you two going?" Olivia asked.

"We have a date with a videogame" Mike answered and left the kitchen with his twin following.

Lilly took a deep breath "Just us then huh?"

Olivia and Mark smiled a little and both gave her a kiss on the head at the same time.

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Brad watched Ben playing video games as he helped Casey fold laundry. He didn't really know how to do very well it but he was helping since she was four months pregnant.

"Brad" Casey shook her hand in front of him to snap him out of his trance.

Brad looked away from the game and looked at her. "What?"

"You have been folding the same shirt at least three times now."

He looked down at one of his jerseys in his hand and then folded it and put it in a pile.

Casey grabbed the jersey and refolded it properly and then placed it on the pile nicely. She pushed the basket toward Brad. "Stick to the socks honey"

He nodded and started to look for socks that matched.

Casey picked up one of Ben's underwear and held it up. "Brad look" She pouted a little since they were small.

Brad looked over at her "I have those in green also" He teased with a smirk.

Casey rolled her eyes with a small smile and kept folding the laundry.

There was a knock on the door.

Ben quickly paused his game and jumped to his feet. "I got it!"

"No you don't" Brad quickly jumped over the couch before the little boy opened the door by himself. He picked him up from the back and placed him on his shoulder. "How many times did I tell you not to answer the door by yourself?"

"Twice" Ben burst into little giggles as his father held him on his shoulder.

Brad opened the door and smirked a little at his mother and sister on the other side. "Hey guys"

"Hi" Maria gave him a kiss on the cheek and then kissed Ben on the head. "Sweetie what are you doing on dad's shoulder?"

"Hanging out" Ben answered with a small laugh.

Brad smiled a little and gave his sister a kiss on the cheek. "Hey Maggie"

"Hey" She picked Ben up and gave him a kiss on the cheek "What's up kid?"

"The sky" He answered with a grin.

"Hey watch that attitude" Brad warned and went back to the couch to Casey. He gave her a soft kiss on the cheek knowing Maria irritated her but it was worse when she was pregnant because she was so emotional. "We going to be ok?" he whispered.

Casey nodded a little and kept folding the laundry trying to bite her tongue on anything that Maria said that could offend her.

Maggie brought Ben over and sat him down by his remote control that he left behind. Ben started playing his game again.

"Casey why do you always let Benjamin play video games? It's not educational" Maria shook her head and sat down by Brad making him in between the two women. "You want me to show you how to fold the shirts in a better way?"

"Mom" Brad rolled his eyes. "Leave her alone."

"Honey I'm just trying to help. It's easier to fold them nicely then to have to iron them later on." Maria informed them.

Brad looked over at Casey who already had tears in her eyes. Normal she was just feisty at moments like these but with the pregnancy everything hurt her and made her sad.

"Mom please" Brad shook his head. "She knows how to fold the laundry. I let Ben play video games, not her"

"Why would you let him?" Maria shook her head at her son.

"Because it's fun" Ben answered with a smile. He defiantly had his mother's attitude.

"Eyes front young man" Brad said sternly. His mother kept staring at him waiting for an answer. "Because I'm too lazy to watch him that's why. Jeez mom, he is a kid. He likes video games."

"Don't talk to mom that way" Maggie threw a pillow at her brother.

"Don't throw my pillow at me" Brad threw it back.

Maggie threw it back playfully hoping Brad would catch it but it slipped out of his hands. It hit the pile of clothes Casey folded and made all of them fall to the floor.

"Oops" Maggie bit her lip "Sorry"

"Sorry babe" Brad quickly picked them up knowing it pissed Casey off.

Instead of yelling at him like everyone expected she started to cry softly and quickly went to the bedroom.

Ben looked up "What happened to mom?"

"It's what girls do Ben, they cry" Brad told him as he got off the couch. "Mom" he pleaded looking at the clothes that were now unfolded. His mom started to fold the clothes. Brad went into the bedroom to check on his wife.

Casey was lying on the floor by the bed just staring at the ceiling as tears slid down her cheek.

Brad walked over and kneeled down by her. "What you doing?"

"My back hurts, I'm straightening it out." She answered and wiped her eyes.

Brad wiped the tears from her cheek. "Want a massage?"

"No. I want peace and quiet"

"Honey I'm sorry about knocking the laundry down, it was an accident. My mom is refolding it all as we speak"

"Oh that's great. Now she's going to tell people she folded Casey's laundry cause Brad's wife doesn't do anything, she just sits on her fat ass all day."

"I love your ass. It's perfect" he smiled and lay down by her. "Oh this is good for the back" he rested his hand on her baby bump. "Honey you do everything, you do more then you're supposed to."

"Well according to your mother I can't fold laundry, I can't cook, and I don't care about my son" The last statement made her get in tears again. "I love our son." She sobbed.

"Oh baby" He hugged her around the stomach and rested his head on her shoulder. "I know you do. You're good to him in everyway."

"I want to get up but my tummy is in the way"

Brad laughed a little. "Didn't think this lying on the floor thing all the way did you?"

"No"

Brad gave her a kiss and picked her up. He placed her on the bed. "Staying here alone or coming along?"

"I'll come" She sat up and got off the bed. "Give me another kiss."

Brad gave her a kiss and then led her out of the room. He sat down by Ben and played video games with him.

"What are you guys having?" Maggie asked.

"Brad doesn't want to know" Casey rolled her eyes.

"So? Tell us" Maggie sat down by Casey "Whisper it"

"No!" Brad yelled as he kept looking at the game. "Casey doesn't know how to whisper. I don't want to know"

"How could you not want to know?" Maria asked looking at him. "It's your baby"

"So? I don't have to know the gender to love it"

"That's why you need to know. So you could stop calling our child 'it'" Casey said with a roll of the eyes.

"I want to be surprised" Brad shrugged.

"What about names?" Maggie asked. "It's easier to choose from one gender then both."

"It's more fun looking names up. Ben we named because that was the name of the day and later that night he was born"

Ben looked up at him. "Seriously?"

Brad nodded. "If you were born one day earlier you would be Thomas Christopher Stewart, luckily now you're Benjamin Andrew Stewart."

Brad's phone started ringing. He paused the videogame and quickly got yelled at by Ben. "Stewart. I'll be right there"

"Don't you dare" Casey warned.

"I have to go." He gave Ben a kiss on the cheek. "Take care of the girls"

"I will" Ben nodded.

Brad got off the floor and gave his mother and sister a kiss. He kissed Casey on the lips and then kissed her stomach. "I got my cell, if you need anything call me ok?" Casey nodded and returned the kiss.

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Mark typed up a report for work, as Olivia got ready for bed. "How was work?"

"Sucked like always. Everyday I go in and there is a new victim" She pulled her shirt off.

"Honey there will always be victims. You work for SVU" He turned around to look at her.

"I know" She nodded and took her bra off "I just wish it would all end."

"What would?"

"This. Everything. All this crap that happens to kids and women." She leaned on her dresser and wrapped her arms around her body. "Today…we had a victim come in and she was drunk. There was hardly any evidence to follow up and I didn't believe her so her case was closed. Couple of hours later we find evidence by accident that her own father was the rapist. The woman killed herself before we got a chance to tell her."

Mark ran a hand through his hair and then got up. He softly took her in a hug and held her. "It's not your fault"

"I didn't believe her," She whispered against his shoulder. "I don't want to do this anymore"

"Do what baby?" he whispered. Her naked breast was still against his body but that didn't concern him now. It was the last thing on his mind at that point.

"SVU. The only reason I'm standing here is because my mother was raped. They never caught him. What's the point?"

He held her tighter "Olivia you do good in this world. More then half the people in this city. You protect all of them"

"I screwed up Mark. I didn't believe her cause she was drunk. My mother was a drunk and I judged her because of my mother."

Mark let go and took her face in his hands "One mistake Olivia. You can't throw it all away because of one little mistake"

She pulled away from him and went to get a t-shirt "It wasn't a little mistake Mark. It was someone's life. I caused her death because I didn't believe her." She pulled a shirt on and sat down on the edge of the bed.

Mark kneeled down in front of her and placed his hands on her thighs. "This isn't your fault sweetie. You did your job. You followed the evidence where it took you"

"It was too late. We were too late" She buried her face in her hands.

Mark slowly took her in a hug and let her rest her head on his shoulder "You can't give all this up because of one case Olivia. It's not fair to anyone. You can't throw away the good you'll do"

"What good?" She got off the bed and started to unzip her pants. "It will never end. It doesn't work. There will always be another perp and another victim. I just…hate it. I want it to end already"

Mark sat down on the bed and just watched her "So you just give up? That's not the Olivia I married"

"The Olivia you married isn't the reason some victim ended her life." She pulled her pajama pants on.

"Liv it's not your fault baby. You arrested the rapist. You did your job"

"My day doesn't end when we get the perp Mark, you know that. I'm just sick of seeing blood and tears every single day and then having to come home and try to act as if everything is ok when I hug my kids. I don't want to do it anymore" She lay down under the sheets and stared up at the ceiling.

Mark moved up the bed to sit next to her. He put her hair behind her ears "Olivia you are not the type of person to sit back and let women and little girls get hurt. It's not you. You are a fighter…my lover but a fighter in general"

Olivia smiled a little. "I'm getting sick of it. I need time off from all of this."

"Then get a couple of days off. You have vacation time coming. Don't quiet SVU just because one case got close."

She took his hand and wrapped it around her "I wish everyone was like you"

"Well if they were you wouldn't have a job" He placed a kiss on her cheek. "If you weren't SVU I would have never met you. I'm glad I met you"

"Yea I'm glad I met you also" She turned to the side but kept his arm around her waist.

"You want me to stay here? I have some things to finish up for work"

"Stay here. Please?"

"Sure" He gave her a kiss on her temple. "I'm here" he gently rubbed her waist in a loving way to comfort her. His cell phone started ringing. He looked at it and saw it was work. He just turned it off and kept holding his wife. Olivia just looked at him wondering why he didn't answer since he never missed a call from work on purpose. He smiled a little at her "I'm here"

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Brad got out of his car at where the crime scene was. He put his badge around his neck and walked past all the people. He went under the crime scene tape and over to his partner "What do we have?"

"US Marshall. Shot twice in the chest on the front steps of his home." Dakota answered as he looked at his notepad.

"More like executed" Brad circled around the body. "M.E. here yet?"

"No" Dakota answered. "How's Casey?"

Brad looked up at him "Shut the fuck up. I told you already. The only thing that comes out of our conversation is work."

Dakota shrugged a little. He looked around and the NYPD officers were by the crime scene tape keeping the civilians back. "Casey is how many months along now?"

Brad shook his head "I'm warning you Jones."

Dakota smiled a little "You know we didn't use a condom when we slept together"

Brad looked around but there were too many people around for them to fight. He kneeled down by the body and tried to ignore him.

"What if that is my kid? Maybe Casey is pregnant with my child" Dakota provoked.

"You had an affair with my wife months before she found out she was pregnant. It's not your child you son of a bitch."

Dakota kneeled down by the body so he was across Brad "The first time yes"

Brad looked up at him as Dakota smirked and walked away since their M.E. showed up. Casey wouldn't sleep with Dakota again, would she?

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