Disclaimer: Except for Kara, nothing's mine!
It was half past nine when Kara started yawning.
"Kara honey, it's way past your bedtime. Let's get you to bed," said Olivia as she started to move to the couch that was occupied by a semi-unconscious Kara in Elliot's lap.
"No…I'm no-" Kara's sentence was interrupted by the yawn that she unsuccessfully tried to hold back.
Elliot chuckled lightly and nodded when he caught Olivia' pleading look.
"Come on lil' K, you can show me your room,"
"But you'll have to…story…"
Olivia smiled as she watched Elliot carry Kara upstairs. Kara was attached to Elliot like superglue and Olivia wouldn't like to have it any other way. Elliot was a great father of five, her partner for over a decade and her best friend.
She got up and started to clean up the messy plates.
"You want any help?"
Olivia turned to find Elliot leaning on the living room doorway frame.
"That was quick. What story did you tell her this time?" she asked, handing him the plates.
"Nada. She was dead asleep before I could even tuck her in," the both of them chuckled.
The following steps of doing the dishes and tidying up the mess in the living room was already a routine after too many times.
"So what do you want to watch?" Elliot asked as they headed back into the living room.
"If I remember correctly, it's your turn to pick the movie," It was also routine that Elliot would stay for a movie after his visits.
Elliot laughed, "Aw Liv, you might as well just pick the movie. It'll save you some time from battering me until I surrender,"
Olivia mockingly let out a sound of protest but headed towards the DVD cabinet. Elliot let out a groan when he saw the DVD Olivia pulled out.
"Please Liv, not Moulin Rouge again!" he pleaded, hoping that his partner would take mercy on him.
"Fine, what do you want to watch then?"
"How about act-…comedy?" he quickly corrected himself when he saw the look in her eyes. Olivia turned back to the cabinet, rummaging for something that wouldn't torture Elliot.
"How about this?" she said as she straightened up.
Elliot took over the case.
"Click?" Elliot lifted a brow, "Nice to know you have something that doesn't torture me," he laughed as he put the disk into the player.
"I'm always telling you to bring your own disk in but you never seem to listen," she lightly grumbled as she plopped down on the couch beside Elliot.
"You have a DVD collection that we could never finish by the rate you're expanding it. So whatever I bring might be stocked in there. I mean, you don't even know what you have in there,"
Olivia playfully swatted Elliot's arm.
"As much as I don't want to admit it, you do have a point there," she chuckled.
It was halfway through the movie when Elliot realized that his arm had fallen asleep. He was about to move when he realized that Olivia was the reason, she had fallen asleep.
He didn't dare move. He didn't want to wake her. Elliot looked at her tenderly; she had been through so much. Being a single mother wasn't easy, especially with what she had to face everyday at work. He was there for her every time she asked him to, but Elliot knew that most of the time, Olivia was too stubborn to ask.
Elliot pressed the mute button before carefully shifting into a position that wouldn't end up in back-pains in the morning. He smiled warmly, Olivia slept like a child, always clutching something in her hands. Today it was his shirt. Elliot tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear before he drifted off.
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