Chapter ten. I love you all, thank you so much for the response and HUGE thanks to y'all who take the time to leave reviews, I love you guys most because you make me feel appreciated. Not much to say except, enjoy!

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It had been four days and Nick and Olivia still hadn't talked about the pregnancy aside from what had become their ritual when he'd see her each morning:

"You feelin ok? "He'd ask cautiously, not wanting to push, only to be met with her go-to answer for everything.

"I'm fine."

She carried on around the office as if nothing were out of place, as if she and Nick hadn't hadn't had their lives rocked by a huge revelation; they'd interact as work dictated they should and after work, Nick would wait faithfully for the phone to ring or a text asking him to come over to talk but neither ever came, she would never bring up the baby. And it left him feeling as if she thought that ignoring it would make it go away. Nick tried his best to be patient, to give her space, fully understanding how hard this all must be for her with dealing with Noah's situation (another thing she'd stopped talking about) and finding out about a pregnancy that she, that they had in no way planned. Still, even with the shock of it all, Nick couldn't help being happy about it and had been praying since he left her apartment that night that she'd come around and see the good in this. He loved Olivia and had no doubt in his mind that she felt the same. He knew in his heart that their baby would be just the bridge they needed to get where they needed to be - with each other. Unless her evasiveness had been about her not wanting the baby at all and waiting for the right time to tell him - not that there's ever a right time for a man to hear from the woman he loves that she's not interested in having their child - after said child has already been conceived and is growing inside her.

Today he sat at his desk faithfully, nervously watching the squad room doors, waiting for her to walk through them while he sipped ginger ale to calm his raging stomach. Spending his mornings with his head in the toilet - at least now it made sense and he was pretty sure that he was experiencing the symptoms that Olivia obviously wasn't, right down to sore nipples and moodiness the last couple days and he sat googling the possibility as he watched the doors.

"So I got another ticket to the game tonight, you in?" Fin asked, startling Nick who hadn't heard him coming.

"Man, how do you keep managing to get your hands on courtside seats to the Knicks?" Nick asked while closing the browser on his phone.

"I got a guy." Fin shrugged.

"Don't you know by now, Fin's got a guy for everything." Amanda snickered from her desk.

"So you comin?" Fin asked. "Although I should probably be keepin my distance from you and your mystery illness. But if figure if I didn't catch it yet I probably won't..."

"There's nothing to catch, I'm not sick." Nick said with a swig of his ginger ale.

"Says the guy who's been puking his guts out every day for what...almost two weeks now?" Carisi, of course had to jump in.

"Not that it's anybody's business but its just stress, okay? I'm not contagious."

"Nobody's been under more stress than Liv lately and you don't see her throwin up." Amanda joked as she got up and walked across the room for more coffee.

"Funny Rollins. Hey, speaking of Liv, it's almost ten, not like her to be so late getting in." Nick observed.

"That's cuz she's not comin in."Fin informed the squad. "She called out this morning, said she had something to take care of."

Nick's heart dropped while simultaneously pounding so hard and fast, he could hear it in his ears. "Did she... I mean, is it serious?" He asked, trying to sound indifferent with his stomach forming that particularly painful knot that only Olivia could cause it to tie itself into.

"Serious enough if she called out." Fin supposed.

My baby... She's getting rid of my baby! Nick's mind was in complete overdrive as he shakily stood up from his desk.

"Nick, you alright?" Amanda asked with a hand to his shoulder. He caught a whiff of her perfume - the same perfume that he once thought was amazing, and it didn't agree with him, making him insanely nauseous.

"Yeah...just not feeling too good." His face had suddenly gone pale and he felt like there was too much saliva in his mouth.

"Uh oh, clear a path, he's gonna blow!" Carisi yelled as Nick turned and made a dash for the bathroom.

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Moments later after emptying his stomach Nick stood at the sink frantically dialing Olivia. Her phone rang once before going to voicemail and Nick knew what that meant; she was avoiding him, which could only mean that she must be at the clinic right this minute and doesn't want him stopping her from...

"No...no she wouldn't do that without talking to you first." He said out loud to himself but then his mind wandered back to that night they found out and how upset she'd been...

"You're crazy! Do you understand, at all, the repercussions that are going to come from this? Nick this is bad and I can't pretend..."

"Oh god, Liv, no!" He cried as he dialed her apartment. The phone rang three times before Lucy answered.

"Lucy, it's Nick. Is Olivia home?"

"Uh, no she had an appointment, she won't be back for a few hours."

"...and if you're there, it means Noah's not with her..." He mumbled nervously.

"Is something wrong?"

"No, I don't... I'm having a hard time getting hold of her and I'm just a little worried."

"Well, I could have her call you when she gets back."

"Better yet, when she gets there could you call me instead?"

"Uh...sure..." The young woman agreed, confused and unsure of what exactly she'd just agreed to. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah... Thanks Lucy. I'll let you go, kiss little man for me."

"I will." As soon as Nick hung up he dialed Olivia's cell phone again. Again sent to voicemail.

"Olivia, it's Nick. You need to call me as soon as possible!" He said with all urgency before hanging up.

"Liv please... Don't do this!"

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