Baby Fever – Chapter 9
"Coffee?"
"You're in a good mood this morning," Elliot observed as he took the cup that his partner had extended.
Olivia smiled widely as she sat down behind her desk, "Yep!"
"I take it things are better with Casey."
Elliot was happy to see his partner's smile grow even larger when he heard her respond, "We're going to try again!"
"That's great Liv! I'm glad to hear it! Like I told you before, you and Casey are going to be great parents." He told her as he shared her grin.
"Thanks El. Now, we have to find a new donor. Casey doesn't want to use the same one."
"Well, I'm sure that it will all work out for you but if you have a hard time finding a new donor I'm sure that John would be happy to lend a hand!"
"EW!" Olivia threw a pad of post it notes at him as she tried to act more disgusted then she actually was – as gross as his suggestion was…it was still kinda funny.
"Elliot, Olivia we just got a call. You guys are up!" the Captain told him as he exited his office with the assignment slip in hand.
"Sure thing Cap!" Olivia rose from her desk and grabbed the paper from him, "Let's go partner!"
Elliot smiled to himself as he followed her to the elevator. Olivia was back!
Over a month later, Casey and Olivia found themselves back where they had been before – waiting for the egg timer to go off. This time they sat on their bed while the test and the timer sat on the dresser in the corner. The room was filled with even more tension then the first time. They sat together with their fingers linked. Casey practically shot up off the bed like she had been burned with they heard the 'ding' of the timer. Olivia rose slowly next to her. She silently looked up at her lover can kissed her soundly before they moved towards the dresser.
"Damn it!" Casey cursed as she threw the negative pregnancy test across the room.
Olivia gathered her into her arms before she had a chance to pick up anything else, "Honey, its ok. We'll try again. We were lucky to get pregnant the first time around. Some people have to try half a dozen times before it takes. This will happen; we will just have to wait another month or so."
Casey knew that the other woman was right but her words were not as comforting as they should have been, "Come on," Liv pulled her back towards their bed, "Let's get some sleep. Wouldn't want me to forget everything we went over for my testimony because I was too tired huh?" She hoped that bringing up work would put the redhead's mind on something else. Apparently she was wrong,
"Liv, can we really afford to keep doing this? We can't just keep dropping money like this." No matter how badly she wanted a baby it would be hard to raise the baby when in large amounts of debt.
"Well," she paused for a moment as they climbed into bed together, "We could always try an at home insemination. That's bound to be cheaper."
The younger woman giggled at the thought, "You know, it's not a bad idea but a vial of semen was never something that I fantasized about bringing into our bedroom."
"Oh yeah, what have you fantasized about bringing into our bedroom?" Olivia asked mischievously as the rolled on top of her lover. She quickly pinned her wrists to the bed as her lips descended from her jaw line down her neck.
"Um," Casey had a hard time forming a coherent thought when the woman on top of her took her earlobe between her teeth, "Well, detective, we have been together for quite some time now and surprisingly we have never made use of your handcuffs."
Olivia sat up and looking at the woman she was straddling, "You're right counselor but that is something that is easily taken care of." Without having to move from her current position, she reached over to her bedside table and took her handcuffs out of the drawer.
"What about court tomorrow?" Casey asked as Olivia snapped the first cuff around her wrist and threaded the other side through their headboard.
The brunette smiled as she secured her lover to the bed. She leaned down so that they were face to face, "Fuck court."
"I can think of something else I would rather have you fuck," Casey told her as she struggled to lean up and kiss her.
When Olivia leaned down and captured the cuffed woman's lips she was positive that she was no longer thinking of negative pregnancy test that was lying on the other side of the room.
"So, what's the verdict?" Olivia wasn't telling all the guys about what was happening with their pregnancy attempts but she was keeping Elliot in the loop – it was hard enough to keep it from him the first time around.
She slouched in her chair with a sad look on her face, "Negative."
"I'm sorry Livia. You guys gonna try again?"
"I think so," she said as the leaned back in her chair and linked her fingers behind her head, "Casey is afraid of it all becoming too expensive but we will find a way to make it work."
Elliot was about to respond when the Captain cut him off, "Olivia! Elliot! We need you down at St. Luke's. A jogger found a baby in a box in Central Park!"
"Dead or alive?" Olivia asked as headed for the door.
"I'm not sure! It's touch and go!"
Olivia sighed to herself as they made their way to their car, 'Why does it always have to involve a baby?'
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