DISCLAIMER: I don't own SVU, this story is for entertainment purposes only. I own the characters I create and the story alone.
A/N: There's so much love for this story its unreal! Well here is the chapter you've all been waiting for, here you find out if your guess was right or wrong! It's short but next chapter should be VERY long!
Chapter Five
Olivia drove AJ back to the one six alone. It gave her time to think about how her co-workers were going to react to the news that she knew who her baby's biological father was because she'd illegally ran her daughters DNA to get a familial match and now they would go through the court to have his name put on the birth certificate.
Truth was she didn't know why she was doing it. AJ was her daughter, she was the one who'd carried her for nearly nine months (two weeks before her due date Miss Amelia decided to make her early entrance!) she was the one who'd named her, decorated the nursery, brought her clothes, fed her for the first three months from her own breast. She was AJ's parent and not him, however, she'd made her decision and now, now she had to carry on with it, whatever the outcome she knew in the long run it was best for her and AJ.
They met in the precinct parking lot and Olivia placed AJ in her carriage wanting to have free use of her hands when she was explaining everything to her co-workers.
"Ready?" He asked her as she allowed him to take the handle and push his daughter.
"Can you ever be 'ready' for something like this?" She asked as she gazed at her sleeping daughter.
"I guess not." He shrugged in reply.
They walked the rest of the way inside in a comfortable silence knowing that the other was going through their explanation in their mind.
"Hey Liv!" Fin grinned rushing over and embracing Olivia.
"Hey… uh can we uh talk to you all in the office." She mumbled awkwardly.
Everyone filed into the office and they knew instantly something serious was about to go down.
"Uh well as you know I've been away for a couple of days just clearing my head… the reason I needed to go was because… because I ran AJ's DNA through the system and… and found out who her father was." Olivia said glancing once again at the snoozing infant. "Uh well you should know we're going to court to have his name put on the birth certificate and he's going to legally be AJ's dad as well as biologically."
"Why Liv? I mean, who is he?" Fin asked in complete shock at what Olivia was saying.
"I am."
"Cap?" Munch, Nick, Fin and Amanda all gasped in unison.
"Yes. We had no idea, Olivia found out a couple of weeks ago and I found out yesterday that AJ is in fact biologically my daughter. I guess Olivia found my sperm most attractive." He chuckled at the last part awkwardly but it was all that was needed to break the awkwardness that crowded the group.
"Wow congratulations Captain, I mean, I can't imagine how strange it is that your granddaughter is in fact biologically your daughter… I'm going to shut up now." Fin noted, he was making it all out in the way Olivia had expected people to do it.
"We're going to go for joint custody, Olivia's choice but that won't be an agreement through the court just something she has told me and I have agreed to but the first things first is we're going to have to get a lawyer and get into court, I don't think anyone will try and stop us." Don rambled excitedly.
When AJ stirred Don looked at Olivia for permission, it may have been his daughter too but that last thing he wanted was for Olivia to feel like he was taking over and pull the plug on his want to have his name on AJ's birth certificate.
"You chose his sperm but not mine?" Munch asked in disbelief. "I have more attractive sperm than him." He teased.
"As strange as it sounds Munch when I was looking at those long rambling descriptions of the sperm donors I was looking for someone like Don, who was kind hearted, brave, committed, dedicated, second I saw NYPD Captain I went with it but I never thought I was actually choosing his… had I known the result would have been very different, he's… he's always been like a father to me and now… now he's my daughter's father and I can't begin to explain to you how fucked up all this is."
"I'm sure you can't but there aren't many nuclear families around anymore Liv. Just because you're unconventional doesn't mean that Amelia is loved any less than she was loved before." Munch reassured her.
"I know." Olivia smiled as she looked over at her superior, her baby's father bouncing AJ softly in his arms and pulling faces at him. He may have been too old to go off and find a woman to have his babies in the traditional way but in some sense Olivia felt proud to be able to give him the one thing he'd always asked for and that was a child to call his own. The one thing she knew for certain was that AJ would always be loved.