A/N: Hi, hi, hi. How are you all? Good I hope? Two more weeks till Charlie Tahan (Calvin Arliss) makes his first appearance in season 13! I'm so excited. Like, there are no words to describe my excitement without going on and on and on… Anyways, here is chapter… 9! I already have chapter 10 written and ready to go, and it should be up Friday/Saturday. Enjoy, everything goes to its rightful owners!
Olivia sighed as the door slammed. She was hoping for a more positive reaction; but she certainly hadn't ruled out that kind of reaction. She walked down to his door and knocked. "Calvin?"
"Go away," Came his muffled response through the door.
"Cal, we need to talk about this."
"I don't want to talk about it!"
"Can I come in?"
No response came so Olivia slowly pushed open his door and peeked in. Calvin was sitting on the edge of his bed, his back to the door, and his arms were crossed. She walked over to him.
"I don't want to talk about your stupid boyfriend," He muttered angrily.
"Hey," She told him softly, carefully sitting next to him. "He's not my boyfriend. It was just a date."
"But you like him don't you?" When Olivia didn't answer he looked up at her, his eyes shining with unshed tears. "Don't you?"
"Yes, I like him. But why are you crying?" She wrapped an arm around his shoulders.
Calvin sniffed, wiping his nose with his sleeve, "Once you start really liking him you're going to forget all about me."
Olivia looked down at her son in surprise. "Calvin," She scolded softly. "How could I forget about you?"
"My mom did," He told her miserably.
Vivian, Olivia silently cursed the woman inside her head. "I'm not your mom," She said trying to reason with him.
Calvin looked at her, smiling slightly despite still being upset. "Yes you are," He pointed out.
Olivia smiled at him, the boy who could find something humorous in any situation. "You know what I meant."
"You promise you won't forget about me?"
"Infinity and beyond promise," She told him seriously.
He nodded and leaned into her shoulder. "What's he like?"
"Whom?"
"Mr. Wright. What's he like outside of school?"
"Oh. Well… he's very nice."
"And?" Calvin prompted.
"He has a dog."
Calvin perked up at this, "A dog? What kind?"
"Golden Retriever, her name is Abby."
"So when you two get married, does that mean I can finally have a dog?"
Olivia's eyes widened. "Who said anything about getting married?"
"No one," Calvin said innocently.
"Slow down, we've only had one date."
"When's your next one?" He positioned to where his head was in her lap so that he was looking up at her.
"How do you even know there's going to be a second date?"
"I didn't." He grinned, "But then that blush on your face told me."
She smacked his arm lightly, and his whole body started shaking with laughter. He turned serious after a minute and asked, "When do I get to meet him?"
"You've already met him, Calvin."
"Not as your boyfriend."
She gave him a strange look. "What do you mean?"
"I have to meet him as your boyfriend."
"Why?" She asked curiously.
"Elliot told me last week, while you were at work, that if you ever got a boyfriend I had to scare to living daylights out of him."
She made a point to have a talk with Elliot tomorrow. "Why would he say that?"
"Something about the 'Boyfriend Approval Process,' he said he does it to his daughters boyfriends."
"You are not my father," She pointed out. "You will not be scaring the living daylights out of anybody."
"Party Pooper," He told her pouting. "But seriously, when am I meeting him?"
"I don't know. When do you want to meet him?"
"Before your next date together."
"That could be arranged."
"Good."
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The next day at work, Olivia beat Elliot to the precinct. Lucky him. She turned her chair towards the entrance and waited for him to come in.
Munch was the next one to arrive. "How was your date?"
"Who told you?"
"Word travels fast." When Olivia narrowed her eyes at him he admitted, "Fin."
"Uh-huh. It went very well."
"I'm glad." He went and sat at his desk.
Fin showed up next. "You look like you're about to shoot someone," He told her as he sat at his desk.
"I wouldn't go as far as shoot."
"Stabler must be in trouble."
"You could say that. I just need to have a little chat with him."
Fin and Munch exchanged glanced.
Captain Cragen came in third; he went straight to his office without a word.
Finally, the man Olivia had been waiting for walked through the door. He walked over to his desk, completely oblivious to his partner that was following him with her eyes.
He looked over at Munch and Fin who were watching him. Then he turned to Olivia. "What?"
She said nothing, only narrowed her eyes at him.
"What did I do?"
"Does the 'Boyfriend Approval Process' sound familiar to you?" She quoted.
Realization dawned in Elliot's eyes. He laughed, "Did Calvin actually do it?"
"No, he told me before he even got the chance to meet him."
"Aw, man."
"Why would you tell my son to do such a thing?"
He looked over at her, "I was mainly kidding around. I didn't know he'd take it completely seriously. But, I hoped it would help Calvin approve."
"How would it help him approve, exactly? Calvin seemed to approve right after I mentioned Marcus had a dog."
"I don't really know, Liv. It just works with my daughter's dates. If the guys come back after I scare them a bit, I know they must really care for my daughters."
Olivia's expression softened, "Well thank you for the gesture. But next time please ask me about it before you put these crazy ideas into my boys head."
"Sure thing," He said with a smile.
"Olivia," Cragen said, opening his door. "Someone's on the phone for you."
She glanced at Elliot before picking up the phone at her desk, "Benson."
"Uh," A familiar voice said through the phone. "Olivia, hi, its Marcus. I'm sorry to call you at work but I didn't get your cell number yesterday…" He trailed off.
Olivia smiled, "Marcus, hey. No, it's alright. Work has been extremely dull. Is Calvin alright?"
"No, I mean yes, Calvin is fine. I actually called you about something else."
"Yes?" She asked. Elliot raised his eyebrow at her with a grin and she chucked a pen at him. He ducked and it barely missed him.
"Yesterday was really, really, great. I wanted to know if maybe you could do dinner with me on Friday?"
"Friday… I'm sorry but Calvin and I usually do dinner and a movie on Fridays. It's kind of a tradition… but you're welcome to join us," She added, hoping he would say yes.
"Are you sure? I wouldn't want to intrude…"
"I don't mind at all. How about I double check with Calvin and then I'll let you know?"
"Sounds great, I'll possibly see you then."
She laughed slightly, "Bye." She hung up the phone.
"It hasn't even been twenty four hours and he's already thinking about date two," Elliot said to her with a grin. "He sounds serious."
Olivia's heart sped up slightly at his words but she kept her expression calm, "We'll see."
