I really hope everyone is liking this story! This is how I spent my free time during the summer when I was not watching every single episode that I could like the overly obsessed fan that I am. Please if you like this, be sure to review it!

"Well this is it." Olivia welcomed Vanessa into her apartment. She came in afterwards with Vanessa's new suitcase.

"I like it." Vanessa walked around the apartment to get the feel of her new home, the one she will want to come home to.

"You better like it because I don't plan on changing much of it for you." Olivia went into the spare bedroom and placed the suitcase next to the bed. Vanessa came in and sat on the bed looking around.

"So this is my room?"

"Yep, this will be the one room we can change for you."

"Hey Liv, there were some forgotten animals in the back of my car that you might want!" Elliot called from the front door. Olivia got up and opened the door to be face to face with her partner practically covered by stuffed animals of various sizes. She couldn't help but laugh at him. "Just grab some and stop laughing."

"It's really hard not for me to laugh at that." Olivia quipped, grabbing 2 of the animals are threw them into Vanessa's doorway where she was now standing.

"Hey!" Vanessa picked up the bunny Munch gave her that had hit her in the face then the purple teddy bear that Cragen gave her."Well don't stand in the doorway next time you leave something in someone's car and maybe you won't get whacked." Olivia taught that lesson. Vanessa came over and took all of her other gifts."Thanks Elliot." Vanessa thanked and then brought the presents into her room.

"So is it different to know you have someone else living here now?" Elliot asked while making himself at home by taking a beer from the fridge.

"Well I'm not alone anymore and that's a good feeling." Olivia sat on the couch.

"Vanessa is definitely looking up to you."

"Yeah I know, it's not like I haven't had a girl look up to me before."

"Like a mother?" Elliot shot her one of his looks that Olivia always questions.

"What's that look for? But the last time she had a mother was when she was 3. I understand why she would possibly think of me as a mother. I think she is really gonna be a daughter to me." Olivia answered Elliot.

"Well you two do seem to be alike. Everyone already agreed she has your stubborness."

"And what makes you say that?"

"She refused to break down as she was being examined. That really sounds like what you would do."

"Yeah that is what I do." Olivia agreed. Elliot sat next to her.

"Liv, it's about time."

"About time for what?"

"You have a kid."

"She's a coworker. I haven't adopted her or anything." Olivia argued.

"Well if you wanted to and I know you do, would you adopt Vanessa?"

"Yes I would." Olivia answered after a few seconds. Vanessa had heard just about this whole conversation. She beamed when she heard Olivia say she wanted to adopt her. If she does then she will finally have a mother, she has wanted one forever and by the way the conversation was going, Olivia really wants to have a kid. Vanessa decided to come out of her room. She won't bring up the adoption idea for a bit.

"So what are we gonna do now?" Vanessa took a seat on the couch herself next to Elliot.

"I don't know. What do you want to do?" Olivia realized that second she would be asking that question a lot on days off.

"I don't know. Wait, do you have my backpack? It was at the precinct next to my desk."

"No I don't. I forgot about that."

"I'll go and get it." Elliot offered and got off of the couch.

"El, you don't have to. I can go and get it."

"No, you need to teach Vanessa how things are run in your house and where everything is. I can go and get her backpack."

"Thank you Elliot." Vanessa figured she should get a word into the conversation so they wouldn't forget she was sitting right there.

"You're welcome Vanessa." Elliot opened the door, waved and left the apartment."Do you like him?" Vanessa sprung the question that everyone wanted to know the answer to. She planned on asking Elliot the next time she was alone with him.

"We're best friends, of course I like him." Olivia pretended to not know what Vanessa actually meant by 'like'.

"You can't pull that with me. Come on, do you have feelings for him?" Vanessa scooted closer to Olivia, who had tensed up. No one had flat out confronted her about her feelings for her partner before. Not any of her friends, since they all are from work. They all know the tension between the two.

"You're very quick to get what you want."

"Yes I am. Now stop avoiding the question and answer. I promise I won't tell anyone. It will give us something to gossip about."

"I guess you're right. I don't know..."

"You don't know if you like him or not? Wouldn't you know if you have been working with him for almost 13 years?"

"Yeah I should know..."

"Just say what your heart feels. Always listen to your heart. It knows best." Vanessa smiled. She now knew how much Olivia had been confused about it by the way she looked.

"I do like him." Olivia finally admitted after a few minutes of running her likes and dislikes about him. She learned that she tended to be the only one that could handle him and any time she had left to do any undercover work, she missed him. It killed her when she found out about him and Dani Beck. She hated her for kissing the man she should have been kissing for the past years. Olivia never noticed all these things until she had to think about them.

"See, doesn't it feel better to finally say it?"

"Actually it does. I can finally say that I love my partner."

"Good because you two do look really cute with each other."

"Really?"

"Would I lie about this? I'm a teenage girl you know, isn't it our thing to play matchmaker?" Olivia laughed. Vanessa really knew how to make her smile.

"To be honest, I think adding you and Jayson to the unit was the best move Cragen has ever made."

"Really?"

"I mean it."

"I think now is a good time to say I heard your conversation with Elliot."

"What exactly did you hear?"

"Elliot bring up how it's about time you have a kid and asking you if you could, if you would adopt me." Vanessa got a little shy, hoping Olivia wouldn't be mad that she had eavesdropped on her conversation about her.

"You heard me say that I would?"

"Yeah. You don't have to. Just offering your house to me after knowing me for only a few hours is one of the kindest gifts I could have ever received. You don't have to adopt me."

"Vanessa, you're a really sweet girl. I know we hardly know each other but in the short time we are alone you have been able to make me smile more than I have in a while. We have that connection. I don't know if you can feel it but I know I do. I would love to be able to call you my daughter."

"Really?" Vanessa started to tear up a little bit. It has been so long since she has heard an adult care so much about her.

"Of course. I never lie." Olivia patted then held Vanessa's hand.

"Thank you Olivia!" Vanessa wrapped herself around Olivia who in turn embraced her back. "Does this mean you are going to adopt me?"

"Yes, I'm gonna try." Vanessa smiled at her and hugged her again. Olivia couldn't help but think this girl really deserved this. Vanessa needed a family who will care and not take advantage of her. As Olivia held her in her arms she couldn't believe she now had a daughter to call her own.

I'm planning on going over to a friend's house and our other friend hasn't seen my new hair yet so it's gonna be really funny to watch her freak out!