"What's going on in here?" Jay inquired walking into the bathroom sporting a pair of dark wash jeans, and a white t-shirt. He could hear Erin's laughs, Olivia's loud squeals, and the sound of splashing water.

Erin had been back home with them for almost four weeks. She could now do just about everything when it came to taking care of Olivia. She had also started work again at the precinct, and it was going well. They were falling into a daily routine, and were living like a family again, well to an extent. Jay still treated her like she was a glorified roommate. He still slept on the air mattress in Olivia's room, and didn't even bother trying to flirt with her. She wasn't sure why but it bothered her so much, but it was driving her crazy.

"Be careful don't slip!" Erin warned him as he entered the bathroom. Olivia was splashing like crazy in the bathtub and there was water everywhere. "Don't worry I'll clean up the water, but I just couldn't stop her it was too cute."

Jay grinned. "Don't worry about it. I wouldn't have stopped her either." He turned his attention back to Olivia as he squatted down next to the tub. "Are you having fun making a mess, silly girl?"

Olivia squawked in excitement splashing again in response. Erin had already been drenched in water, so she just laughed. "Oh really Liv?" Jay chuckled. His white shirt was now completely soaked and see through.

The sight of the soaking wet see through t-shirt on Jay's perfectly sculpted body made Erin gulp right away. Her eye dilated as she watched him begin to remove the wet fabric. She tried not to stare as he peeled the dripping shirt off of himself, but she couldn't look away. When he turned his back to her in order to toss the shirt onto the sink counter, she was only more turned on by his sexy shoulder and back muscles.

When Jay rotated back around, Erin forced herself to stop staring. He kneeled down in front of the tub beside her. "So, we don't work tomorrow. I was thinking we could take her to get her picture with Santa, and do some Christmas shopping. We have three weeks until Christmas and we work next weekend," Jay spoke.

Erin didn't need to be told twice that the holiday season was approaching. After spending Thanksgiving at Voight's, where she was slightly weirded out by how close Hank and Jay had become, she'd began her countdown until Christmas.

Typically, she wasn't a fan of the holidays. The season brought back to many bad memories. She remembered going to school after break, and feeling so left out when all of the kids would talk about what Santa brought them. Her mom never bothered with gifts, and Erin was left convinced for quite a few years that she was on the "naughty list." This year was different though. She was determined to make Christmas incredible for Olivia. She wanted her daughter to have everything she'd missed out on and then some.

"That sounds perfect. I'm going to dress her up in in that Christmas outfit I got the other day for her pictures."

Jay reached out and ran his hands through his daughter's short wet hair giving her a mohawk. "There now we'll just dye it red and green. Nice and festive." He teased.

Erin laughed for a second, before gasping with excitement. "Do you think she has enough hair for a little pony tail? We should pick up some of those tiny hair elastics tomorrow."

"Does this mean you're shooting down my baby Mohawk idea?"

"Shut up." She laughed swatting his shoulder. She felt a tiny jolt of electricity spread through her body when her hand made contact with his bare skin. "I Uh." She stuttered trying to compose herself. "I think her little fingers are pruning now. Time to get her out of the bath."

Later that afternoon, Erin leaned in closer to her daughter with a spoon full of baby squash "Last bite Liv. Open up." Right as the spoon was about to enter her mouth Olivia sneezed, blowing some of the food from her mouth, and from the spoon back onto Erin's face.

"Ohh eww. Eww." Erin complained heading away from the highchair, and towards the counter to get a paper towel, and clean her face.

Jay had been standing in the kitchen preparing dinner for himself and Erin, but was now to busy laughing to cook.

"It's not funny Jay! I can't see. it's in my eye!" Her reaction only made him laugh louder. When Erin went to grasp the paper towel, Jay stepped in her way, so she couldn't reach. "Jay, move…move…Please move." When he kept on laughing but didn't oblige, Erin wiped some of the food off of her face with her hand, and then rubbed it onto Jay's cheek.

Jay's jaw fell open and his laughing stopped. "Did you just?..."

It was Erin's turn to laugh now. "I think I did."

"Oh you're dead now." He reached and grabbed the baby food jar off of the counter. Before he could follow through with that statement Erin had turned on her heels, and took off running.

"No, Jay! This isn't fair! I can still only see out of one eye!" She screamed and giggled as he came up behind her. He grabbed her from behind and tickled her sides. From laughing so hard, Erin's legs gave out beneath her, and she fell to the ground. Jay went to the ground with her, where he moved so he was now straddling her waist holding her down.

"No. What are you doing?" Erin laughed seeing the devious smirk on his lips. Her eyes fell to the jar of baby squash he still had in his hands.

He grabbed her wrists in one hand and pinned them over her head. "Don't you want a baby food facial Erin?" He teased.

"Jay. Jay, stop." She tried to sound serious, but couldn't help the laughter in her voice. "I swear to god, Jay." She pleaded with him to stop as he lifted his finger covered in baby food.

"What' it worth to you if I stop?" He asked with an eyebrow raise.

"I'll do the dishes the rest of the week!" She offered.

"And?" He fished for more.

"I'll sleep on the air mattress! You can sleep in the bed!"

"And?"

"You want more?" She asked exasperated.

"I mean if you want that facial…" Erin cut him off.

"No! No! No! Laundry. I'll do your laundry!"

"Deal." He smiled reaching for a onsie that was sitting on the coffee table a few inches away. He used it clean his hands, since it was already dirty. While he did that, Erin noticed for the first time the position they were in. Her breath instantly hitched in her throat, and when Jay turned back to face her she was sure it was because he could hear her heart pounding against her ribcage.

Jay looked down at her face and chuckled. She still only had one eye open because the other was covered in squash. He let her wrist free, but she didn't move them. She was paralyzed in place. "Hey, Blackbeard, nice squash eye patch." He joked before bringing his hand to the side of her face, and rubbing the pad of his thumb along her eyelid, removing the food.

Erin blinked a few times adjusting to the stickiness from the food on her lid. "Thank you." It barely came out as a whisper. His hand still rested on the side of her face, and he was still straddling her, making her heartbeat at a more rapid pace then she thought possible.

Jay knew he should move. His mind told him to get up, but he couldn't get himself to listen. The last month he had constantly been chanting to himself, "She's not your wife, she's not your wife," but right now it seemed like she was. She looked like her, talked like her, felt like her, and in that moment he didn't want to believe that she wasn't his Erin.

"Dada!" Both of their heads snapped to the side to face their daughter. Olivia interrupted before either of them had a chance to make any rash decisions.

"Did she Just?.." Erin asked.

"I think so!" A ridiculously large smile came across Jay's face and he jumped to his feet. "What did you just say, baby girl?" He walked, or more so ran towards the highchair. "Can you say it again?"

"Dada! Dada!" Olivia chanted again.

Jay laughed, elatedly, rushing over to the highchair. He swiftly lifted her out of it. "Dada?" He prompted her to say it again.

"Dada dada da." She babbled.

"Yes! Dada." Jay cheered lifting her up over his head and then bringing her back down to kiss her cheeks.

Erin stood back watching how excited Jay was. In her recollection, she had never seen him so joyful. She leaned against the back of the couch watching them, when suddenly Jay's excitement became all too familiar. Maybe she had seen him this excited before.

She clenched her eyes shut trying to piece together fragmented memories. Then, like a brick wall, it hit her. She knew exactly when she had seen him this enthused.

Erin opened her mouth prepared to speak, but immediately closed it. No words would come out. She'd been trying to talk to him for two days now, but she was never able to get it out. She had to do it though. He needed to know. "Now or never." She whispered to herself. "Jay, you wanna talk for a minute on the couch?"

Jay searched through the fridge for something to eat. They had just gotten home from a long day at the precinct. "Yeah, give me a sec. Do you care if I drink the last beer?"

"No, go ahead."

A few short minutes later, he joined her on the couch with a beer, and a half eaten turkey sandwich in hand. "So what's up? This is about my haircut isn't it? You hate it. I can tell." He teased.

Erin rolled her eyes, then ran a hand over his short hair. "Your hair looks fine. This has nothing to do with your hair."

"Alright then what's up?" He stuffed the last bite of sandwich into his mouth and pulled Erin's legs up onto his lap, and began to rub her feet.

"Well, maybe it can wait a minute if you are going to give me a foot rub."

Jay chuckled. "Come on, what did you wanna talk about? It's been a long day, I just fueled up, and now I wanna go blow off some steam with my wife." He nodded towards the bedroom with a sly grin.

"Yeah that's kinda what we need to talk about."

Jay's brow furrowed hearing the concern in his wife's voice. "Our long day on the job, or our bedroom activities? I've been under the impression that said bedroom activities have been going pretty great for the last four years."

"Maybe we've been a little too great, Jay." She watched as his expression become even more confused, and that confusion seemed to directly correlate to adorableness, because she just wanted to lean and kiss his bewildered face.

"Help me out babe. I don't think I'm following."

Here was the moment of truth. It was time for the conversation she had desperately been avoiding. "I scheduled an appointment for Thursday to confirm, but I'm pretty sure. Jay, I'm pregnant." She couldn't look at his face. She was terrified at what his response would be. She knew her husband would be supportive, but this was not something they had planned. She wished she had been more responsible about taking her birth control.

"Pretty sure?"

"I took one of the at home tests, well two of them."

He laughed with a mixture of disbelief and excitement. "Where gonna have a baby?"

Erin looked up at him now completely puzzled herself. He was smiling, and smiling hugely at that. "Yeah." She nodded.

"Why didn't you tell me before? I could have been there when you took the test. This is amazing, Erin!"

Was this really happening? She wondered to herself. This was nowhere near the reaction she had anticipated. "You're excited about this?"

"What? Of course I am!" He reached his hand over to her stomach. "My baby is in there. Our baby. Of course I'm excited."

"Yeah?" Tears welled up in her eyes. She was terrified, but some of his excitement was beginning to rub off on her. She was going to be a mother. They were starting a family.

"Yeah." He nodded in agreement as he leaned in to capture her lips with his. He pulled away sensing her crying, and kissed the tears from her cheeks. "I'm gonna be a daddy, Er. You're making me a daddy! He stood up from the couch and pulled her up with him. "I can't wait. You are going to be the best mommy. I can already see it." He bent in front of her, and examined her stomach with his hands.

"You can't tell yet, Jay." She laughed while wiping away tears with the back of her hand.

"I know but our baby's in there." His eyes got huge. "Do you think the baby can hear me? Hello, baby. Hi, it's daddy. I love you." He spoke with his lips almost pressed to her stomach.

Erin laughed again. "I don't think it can hear yet."

"Just in case." He smiled up at her before standing up and pulling her into his arms. "I'm so excited, Erin. We're going to be amazing at this. We're gonna be mommy and daddy. Can you believe it?"

With Olivia in his arms Jay turned and notice Erin perched with her eyes clamped shut. "Are you okay, Erin?" He walked to her concerned.

She opened her emerald orbs, with tears glazing them. "Yeah, I'm great. I just… I remember the last time I saw you so genially happy." His expression egged her to elaborate.

"It was the night I told you I was pregnant with her."

"That was one of the best nights of my life. It changed my life. She changed my life."

"Dada." Olivia blurted.

"Yeah beautiful, I'm talking about you." He kissed her temple. "I love you my little liv bug."