Pairing: Olivia/Melinda

"All In The Family – CH2"

Just as Fin was about to get his freak on with this blonde he met at the club the night before his doorbell rang. "Don't worry baby, they'll go away" he whispered in the woman's ear and continued kissing her neck. His doorbell rang again and again and again, "Go away" he yelled from the couch."

"Fin, it's me…open up" Olivia said.

"Liv" he said looking at the time on his watch. "Hold on a second." Fin lifted himself from the couch and walked over to the door. When he opened the door he saw Olivia standing there with a green duffle bag in hand.

"What took you so long?"

"Umm…" he said as he looked back at the blonde. "I have…."

Olivia interrupts. "Fin, I need a place to stay for a while" she then brushed pass him entering his tiny one bedroom apartment. Olivia immediately stops when she sees the woman. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you had a friend over."

"It's okay" Fin said.

"Oh really" said the blonde, who looked pissed.

"Yes…really" Fin said.

"Well then, it's your loss" the woman said as she stood up and walked out of the apartment slamming the door behind her.

"Damn Liv, you got bad timing. I was just about to get me a piece of ass."

Olivia flopped down on the couch. "You got a beer?"

"Yeah, I'll get you one." Fin returned and hand her a beer as he sat next to her on the couch. "You want to talk about why you need to stay here for a while?"

"No. I'm too upset to talk about it now."

"The bed is yours…I'll take the couch" he said and then got up and took the duffle bag in the bedroom.

Several days had passed since Melinda told Olivia she was pregnant. Olivia was at the house to pick up some of her things when Melinda pulled into the driveway. Olivia tried to hide when she heard the key in the door but realized there was no point in hiding because Melinda had seen her car in the driveway.

"Hey" Melinda said with a soft deepened voice. "I'm glad you're here."

"I only stopped by to pick up a few things" Olivia replied.

Melinda sat down on the bed. "Liv, can we talk?"

"About?"

"About us and the baby"

Olivia sighed. "Mel, what is there to talk about?"

"I want to know where this leaves us. You left the other night and I hadn't heard from you since. You never returned any of my calls and I was beginning to worry sick about you until Fin called and said, you were crashing at his place."

"I gotta go" Olivia said as she picked up the box and headed downstairs.

"So, this is what you do…you run? You're going to walk out on your pregnant wife."

Olivia dropped the box on the floor and turned around. "It's not like WE decided to get pregnant. Mel, you ran off and got inseminated and I didn't have any say in it. That was something we were supposed to do together…you know, pick out a donor. Now, it's like you're forcing me to become a parent and I don't like it."

"What about you, Liv? What about you making me wait on being a mother? At first you said, wait until we're married and then we got married. Then you said, you wanted to wait a year or two after we were married so I did. Now it's, wait until we're financially stable. Come on Liv, you don't want kids, just admit it."

"That's not true, I do want kids"

"What is it then?"

Olivia didn't answer.

"Oh, okay…I get it now. You want kids…it's just, you don't want kids with me" Melinda said as she sat on the couch shaking her head as tears filled her eyes.

Olivia walked over to the couch. "How could you think something like that? Mel, I love you and I want kids…with you." Olivia sighed. "It's just…I just think….I wouldn't…."

Melinda interrupts. "Just leave, Liv…go."

Olivia went back over to fin's place. "Hey, you okay?" Fin asked as Olivia entered the apartment.

"Yeah, I'm good" Olivia sat in the chair next to the window.

"What are you watching?"

"Can't Hurry Love" Fin replied. "It's a sitcom on TVLand." Fin gets up and goes into the kitchen. "Did you know this one chick on the show looks just like you? Bud Light or Heineken?" he yelled from the kitchen.

Olivia didn't answer; she just stared out the window. Her mind was on Melinda and the baby. Fin walked back into the living room with one of each. "Liv, Bud Light or Heineken?" he asked holding the beer in his hand. "Liv…"

"What?" she said as she turned towards Fin.

"I said, Bud Light or Heineken"

"Bud Light" Olivia replied.

Fin hand Olivia the beer. "Liv, what's going on…between you and Mel?"

Olivia took a big gulp of the beer. "Mel's pregnant"

"That's great" Fin initially said until he saw the look on her face. "Isn't it?"

Olivia sighed. "Fin, I wanted to wait a while before having kids but she went out and got pregnant on her own."

"What the fuck, Mel slept with some dude?"

"No, she would never do that. She was artificially inseminated."

"Oh" Fin said and then took a drink. "So, she didn't tell you she was getting inseminated?"

"No" Olivia replied.

"That's doesn't sound like Mel"

"Well, she did" said Olivia.

"So, who's the daddy?"

"It's donor, not daddy" Olivia said.

"Well, who's the donor? What color is he?"

"I don't know" Olivia answered.

"She didn't tell you?"

"No, she didn't" Olivia said. "Fin, you know I don't care about what color the donor is, as long as the baby is healthy, that's what matters."

"So, does this mean you do want the baby?"

Olivia went silent for a moment and tears filled her eyes. "I'm scared, Fin"

"Scared of what?"

"Serena" Olivia said as a tear ran down her right cheek.

"Your mom"

"Yeah" Olivia wiped the tear away. "I put off having kids because I had such an awful childhood. I'm afraid I'll turn out just like her and ruin my children's life."

"Liv, you'd make a great mother. You have nothing to worry about. Have you told Mel your fear of becoming a mother?"

"No"

"Why not?"

"I don't know. I'm still upset with her, what she did was wrong. I feel like she betrayed me."

"Yeah, I understand your point of view" Fin told her and sighed. "But look at it from Mel's point. You two have been together for a long time. She's ready for a family and if you two wait any longer, well…time is going to pass you by and it'll be too late."

"Why is it, you always get me to see things her way?"

"Because I'm your best friend and I love you" Fin said and the doorbell rang. "That's the delivery guy."

Two days had passed and Olivia was at the precinct going over paperwork when Casey walked in. "Is Cragen in his office?" she asked Olivia.

"Yeah but it's not a good time. He's chewing into EL right now."

"Okay, I'll wait" Casey took a seat in the chair next to Olivia's desk.

Olivia leans forward. "Case, have you heard from Mel? It's been two days since I last saw her."

"Why? She told me how you walked out on her"

"Not you too" said Olivia.

"Mel loves you and…"

"I love her too"

"What about the baby? Casey asked. "Will you love that baby?"

"Case, I felt like she betrayed me. I love Mel and if she's pregnant that means we're pregnant"

"So, that means you want the baby?"

"Yes" Olivia answered.

"Liv, that's great" Casey said and then she looked at the time on her watch. "Oh fuck, it's 12:30pm. You gotta go and stop her."

"Stop who?" asked Olivia.

"Melinda's at the clinic and…"

"She has an appointment… good, I'll surprise her. Which clinic is she at?" Olivia asked.

Casey face paled. "Liv, it's not that kind of clinic"

"Then what kind of clinic is she at?" Olivia asked.

"She thought you didn't want the baby and she didn't want to lose you… so, she made an appointment to terminate the pregnancy. Liv, she wanted this baby so much and she wanted the baby to be a part of you, that's why she asked Simon to be the donor."

"Simon! My brother is the donor?"

"Yeah"

"Where is she, Case? Which clinic?"

"She's at the Women's Clinic, on the corner of 124th and Bellevue. Her appointment is at 1pm, you got twenty-five minutes to stop her."

Olivia ran out the precinct. As she got in the squad car she put on the emergency siren and raced through traffic. It seemed like it took forever to get to the clinic. She ran through the double doors but didn't see Melinda in the waiting area. She asked the receptionist if Melinda Benson had an appointment and if she was there. The receptionist told Olivia, she couldn't give out that information. Olivia waved her badge to the receptionist and demanded to see Melinda.

Moments later, Olivia sees Melinda walk from out of an office with her arms folded and tears trailing down her face. Olivia eyes widen as her heart raced. "Mel, you didn't…please tell me, you didn't" Olivia said, shaking her head and with tears in her eyes.