Sorry about the lack of updates. Been trying to figure out how to get this chapter going. And I am so glad that SVU is BACK! Anyway, a few familiar faces are going to pop up in this chapter, so enjoy!


"So you're moving here?" Emily asked Olivia as they are inside Olivia's hotel room to get ready to go out to dinner. Olivia arrived a few hours earlier from New York.

"I am." Olivia said.

"Mom, that's great. We know that you haven't been happy in a while." Parker said as he fixes his collar on his dress shirt after putting on the tie.

"What do you guys think of Orlando?"

"It's a great city. Great people, you're about thirty minutes away from Disney." Emily said.

"Yeah, I'm not planning on going to Disney. But I did talk to Natalie. She needs help with her foundation and being here to help her with it would be great." Olivia said. As they walk out of the hotel room, the twins look at each other and are both praying that the plan will work.

"Ok, so thank you for watching the kids." Natalie said to Kristen as she puts in her earrings then places her hand on her teammate's shoulder as she puts on her heels.

"It's no problem." Kristen said.

"So Allie finished her homework, but no more than one movie before they go to bed. They had their baths. Allie goes to bed at nine and Noah at eight."

"Got it."

"If you have any problems, just call me."

"I won't have problems, but I will call you if I need you."

"If for some reason they can't get to sleep, call Ash. She knows how to get them to bed."

"And we gotta go." Xander said as he gently pulls his sister outside.

"Have fun." Kristen said and Natalie closes the front door. Natalie places her keys into her purse and sees their mother talking to Quinn, Xander's wife, who is also friends with Natalie after Natalie dated Quinn's classmate, Rachel Berry.

"You brought your wife?" Natalie asked him in German.

"I had to so we don't throw off the suspicion." He replied back as they walk back to his car.

"Then who's putting the dinner onto the table?"

"I got it covered. Ok, Mom. You are going to sit in the back with Natalie." Xander said in English.

"Alright." Alex said and they get into the car. As they are driving to the park, Natalie's phone pings and she looks at it.

From Emily B:

Where's the food?

From Natalie:
What are you talking about?

From Parker B:

SOMEONE TOOK THE FOOD!

"Xan, just go to the restaurant." Natalie said.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because your buddy screwed up." Natalie said in German and Xander sighs.

"For crying out loud Dom." He said in German and Alex has a confused look on her face with Quinn as both Natalie and Xander are muttering in German.

"Please tell me you speak German, Mom." Quinn said to Alex.

"I would hope so after a long time, but no." Alex said.

Emily, Parker and Olivia walk inside the cozy and romantic restaurant in Orlando and the hostess smiles.

"Do you have a reservation?" She asked.

"Two under Cabot." Parker said and Olivia has a confused look on her face.

"But there are three of us." Olivia said.

"Emily and Parker won't be joining you." Natalie said from behind them and they turn around to see Natalie, Xander, Quinn and Alex.

"Neither will Natalie, Quinn and I." Xander said.

"So, what, you guys decided to set us up on a date?" Alex asked.

"Yes." They said at the same time and the four younger adults walk out of the restaurant.

"Might as well enjoy dinner." Olivia said to Alex and they head to the table.

"Do you think it'll work?" Emily asked as they have dinner at a picnic table near a food truck.

"I don't know. Remind me to smack Dom when I see him or I'll have Sydney do it for me since I see her more than I see Dom." Natalie said to Xander.

"I don't think that would work. Hey, got someone looking over at you, sis." He said and Natalie turns around to see a guy looking over at her as he's with his group of friends then she looks away.

"I'm not ready to date." Natalie said and he sighs.

"Nat -"

"Xan, drop it. Now." Reluctantly, he nods. What no one knew was that Natalie had started dating and she wanted to keep the relationship private from her family until she knew that she was comfortable to bring her girlfriend around the family, but her girlfriend has met the kids.

Inside the restaurant, Alex is looking over the menu and glances up to see Olivia looking up at her and slowly smiles as her heart starts to beat rapidly inside her chest, a feeling that she hasn't had since they dated a long time ago.

"So, what brings you to Orlando?" Alex asked after they order their food.

"Work. I'm working with Natalie on her foundation." Olivia said.

"What about the NYPD?"

"I retired last week. I know you said that I needed to stay in New York, but Alex...I couldn't stop thinking about you."

"I couldn't stop thinking about you either. Maybe that's why the kids set this up for us." Alex said.

"Could be. How's Natalie doing? There are rumors that she's dating again." Alex sighs.

"She's scared to start dating again. I never imagined my daughter being in an abusive relationship. And then no one helping her."

"I know you would have. But Natalie didn't want to call you. She didn't know how you would react."

"Well, if Kevin wasn't already dead, I would have killed him with my bare hands for abusing her. Did he ever lay a hand on Allie?"

"Thankfully no. Natalie shielded her from that. She wouldn't know what to do if Kevin did hit Allie. Two months after Kevin died, Natalie adopted Noah and that little boy kept Natalie from hitting rock bottom. When James died the night before Natalie's birthday and over a month after the World Cup...she didn't know if she would ever play soccer again. She wanted to be exactly like her father, except for being a defense attorney. She still hates defense attorneys."

"Who doesn't?"

"Parker and Emily since their father is Langan." Alex said then looks at Olivia.

"How did you know that?"

"Parker looks exactly like Trevor while Emily is a mini you."

Natalie is on her phone on the back porch and has a smile on her face. She doesn't realize that Alex and Olivia walked into the house. They hear Natalie laughing from the back porch and walk over to the door.

"Yes, I'm coming to Utah to see you before you head back to Ireland." Alex hears and stops in her tracks, making Olivia crash into her and making Natalie looks over and Natalie's smile instantly drops.

"Babe?" Natalie hears on her phone.

"Let me call you back, Lynn." Natalie said then hangs up her phone.

"Were you spying on me?" Natalie asked her mother.

"No. We heard you on the phone." Alex said.

"Very typical of you Mom. You've been doing this since I started dating before I had Allie." Natalie angrily said as she walks into her house.

"Sweetie, we weren't eavesdropping."

"I am going downstairs. The kids are sleeping and for god's sake, if you two have sex, do not wake them up." Natalie heads down to the basement to the home recording studio and sits inside the control room.

"Think she's still not dating?" Olivia asked Alex.

"If she is dating, she won't tell me." Alex said then rubs her face.

Olivia walks down the stairs twenty minutes later and hears music playing from a room. She quietly walks in and sees Natalie with her back to the door, leaning back in the chair as she listens to the music.

"Hey." Olivia said and Natalie sits up, looking at the former detective, and stops the music.

"Hey." Natalie said and Olivia sits on the couch.

"Nice recording studio."

"Thanks. After I moved into the house from the city, I knew I had to make one since I work with a lot of singers, so I built this and that door over there is a private entrance. Look, I'm sorry for snapping at you and Mom. I just don't want her or Xander to know that I've been dating again."

"I figured. How long?"

"Since January. When I tore my ACL and MCL last year at the end of the regular season for Orlando, I had to go to Utah to work with a new Irish singing group. One of the singers is my girlfriend and I've been dating her since January. She's older than me, but she makes me so happy. Happiness that I haven't felt in a really long time." Natalie takes out her phone and shows Olivia a picture of her and Lynn.

"You and your Mom have similar taste in brunettes and older women, but she's beautiful." Olivia said.

"She lives in Ireland, but she spends a lot of time in Utah with her group. She's already met the kids and they love her and she loves them. I just don't know how Mom will react when I do tell her." Natalie said.

"Nat, you know that your Mom is making sure that you're taken care of."

"I know. This is her singing." Natalie pulls up Lynn singing "My Lagan Love" from the "Songs from the Heart" PBS Special for Celtic Woman.

"She hasn't aged. How old was she when this was filmed?" Olivia asked.

"My age. Maybe slightly older. I really love her, Liv."

"I can see it in your face that you do."

"I just...Since she lives in a different country, I'm worried that she's going to meet someone better than me." Natalie said.

"Sweetie, from what you're telling me about her and how I look at you when you talk about her, you're going to make this work." Olivia said softly.

Alex, wearing a Harvard t-shirt and jeans, is looking through a magazine on the couch as Olivia is talking to Natalie to calm her down when the doorbell rings. She stands up and walks over to the door and opens it to reveal a woman standing there.

"Hi. I'm looking for Natalie." The woman said with an Irish accent.

"She's in the basement. Come in." Alex said and the woman walks into the house.

"She didn't know that I was at the airport."

"I'm sorry, but how do you know my daughter?" Alex asked.

"She didn't you yet?"

"Clearly not since I have no idea who you are."

"I'm Lynn Hilary. Natalie's girlfriend."