"Aurora sweetheart it doesn't work like that." I explained slowly as the shock of the question faded. "Well why not? You're my parents, parents are supposed to be married right?" Aurora asked confused as she started crying. "Not all parents are married, mine aren't and your father's are divorced." I pointed out thoughtfully as Aurora continued to cry. We continued to try and sooth Aurora, only nothing was working; she just kept crying until she fell asleep in our arms. "What do you suppose set her off?" I asked El as I gently laid Aurora on the couch and covered her up in a Barbie blanket. "She's an eight year old girl, how am I supposed to know?" El asked with a sigh as we sat on the couch across from our daughter. "Your so good with her El, she was practically in your lap within thirty minutes of meeting you; and here I am confused about her favorite TV show." I groaned into my hands after a few moments of awkward silence. "Are you going to adopt her, or are you doing this surgery thing and never seeing her again?" El asked as he watched Aurora sleep curled up in her pink Barbie blanket. "I'd love to adopt her El, but you know as well as I do how difficult that could be. I'm single, work all hours, have no family to watch her, and I live in a single room apartment." I explain standing up and starting to pace the living room floor. "Were her parents, we should be raising her Liv. We could move in together and I'm sure Cragon will do what he can." El offered hopefully as he watched me pace. "You want to live together? El if we do that then we can't work together, you know that!" I exclaim while standing there in the middle of the living room starring in shock at him.

Before El can respond the hotel door opens and Cragon walks in with a light brown teddy bear held in his left hand. "I...uh came to see my granddaughter, I hope I'm not interrupting anything." Cragon stated standing in the doorway. For the rest of the day the tree of us stayed in the hotel room getting to know Aurora, and slowly becoming a family; and that night we all left with smiles on our faces "Liv I think we should talk." El states as we walk into my apartment that night. "Alright, why don't you order the food while I get changed." I offer while making my way to my bedroom. There's no talking as we take turns using the bathroom, there's no talking as we grab a couple of beers from the fridge and settle on the couch. Finally after I paid and tipped the deliveryman and the food had been sat on the coffee table, El looked at me. "I think we should talk, set everything on the table." El states seriously as we lock eyes. "Okay what do you want to talk about first?" I asked trying to stall for more time. "Aurora needs parents to raise her, not a manager or lawyer." El explained before taking a sip of his beer. "El you know I agree, but I'd never get approved to adopt her, and neither would you." I stated sadly as I curled up in the corner of the couch. "I have an idea, why don't we go see Alex tomorrow and get some legal advise, then we could talk out our options; Okay?" El asked hopefully as he held out a carton of noodles for me. "But Alex is an ADA." I pointed out between bites of noodles confused. "Yes but, maybe she knows someone we can talk to." El said after swallowing his mouthful of food.

"Let me get this strait. The two of you have an eight year old daughter together that is sick, and you want to try and adopt her?" Alex stated confused as we sat in her office. "Yes Alex we have a daughter, she's being fostered by her manager at the moment. But El and I would like to know all of our options, before we even think about talking to Aurora's lawyer." I stated frustrated as I pinched the bridge of my nose. "Alright, I do know someone that could help; let's go." Alex said with a sigh as she got up out of her chair and led us over to the elevators and pressed the down button. Once we arrived on the third floor Alex led us down the winding hallways and twisting corridors all the way to the back of the building and quickly knocked on a simple office door. "Casey you in, I have some friends that could use your expert help?" Alex called opening the door a crack. "Come in." A voice called from in the office. As we filed into the room we were met with a redheaded women sitting behind a large wooden desk as she talked on the phone and wrote something in some files. "Olivia, Elliot this is my friend Casey Novak. Casey these are the detectives I'm always talking about." Alex introduced us before sitting in one of the chairs in front of Casey's desk once the read-head had hung up the phone.

"What can I do for you two detectives?" Casey asked folding her hands on the desk in front of her. "Well we came for some legal advise regarding our daughter. She's being fostered by her manager right now, and we would like to adopt her." I explained after I had sat down in the remaining chair in the office. "Why is she being fostered?" Casey asked confused as she started getting paperwork out to make our case. So for the next hour and a half we sat there explaining our reasons and answering all the questions that Casey asked. "Why don't the two of you sit down together sometime and talk this through, you're also going to need to talk to your daughter. If after all that you still want to go through with the adoption, then I'll gladly write up your paperwork and hand it into the agency." Casey offered as we all stood up and shook hands. "Thank you we will." El said placing his hand in the middle of my back and leading me out of the office. After we said good-by to Alex, we went across the street to the park for a walk. "What do you think Liv?" El asked while we walked past some kids playing soccer. "Well the only thing that makes sense, to guarantee us being able to adopt Aurora; is to get married." I said looking El in the eye.