A/N I decided to split the Alex/Gabby chapter up into two different parts! enjoy!

Gabby sat in the living room doing her homework while old episodes of the TV show Friends played in the background. Her phone buzzed and she answered it without thinking twice.

"Hello?"

"Hey it's Alex. Do you still want Chinese food for dinner or should I get something else."

"Whatever you want is fine, I'm not very hungry."

"I don't care if you're not hungry. What do you want for dinner? Chinese food, pizza or something else?"

"What ever you want is really fine. I'll eat whatever."

"Alright." Alex said sighing. "I am just leaving the office I am going to run home and change and pick up dinner. I'll be over in a half hour, forty five minutes tops."

"kbye." Gabby said hanging up the phone and going back to her homework. The next thirty seven minutes went by quickly and before Gabby realized it she heard a key slide into the lock. At first she got excited thinking her mom had gotten off super early, then she remember Alex had a key to the apartment so Gabby just sat there finishing up her homework.

"Hello!" Alex called walking in the door.

"In the living room," Gabby replied. She could hear Alex put dinner in the kitchen before joining her in the living room.

"Wow they sure give you a lot of homework." Alex said pointing at the large stacks of books and papers in front of Gabby.

"I guess," Gabby said. "But you got here just as I finished so it's ok." She said closing her notebook and adding it to the pile in front of her. Gabby looked sheepishly at Alex standing above her and smiled.

"You want to eat now?" Alex offered.

"I'm not really hungry yet…" Gabby said her voice trailing off.

Alex sat down on the other end of the couch but turned her body so she faced Gabby. "Can we talk then?"

"I have a feeling I don't have much of a choice." Gabby said giggling nervously.

"Of course you do sweetheart. If you don't want to talk about it we don't have to."

They sat quietly for a few minutes and Gabby anxiously twirled a piece of her hair around her finger. Finally Gabby opened her mouth to speak.

"I'm sorry I have pushed you away." Gabby began without making eye contact with the blond who was eying her carefully. "We have always been pretty close. You've always been there for me and have taken care of me when mom was busy. When I was younger I knew if mom wasn't around I had Uncle Elliot and you to count on to be there for me." Gabby got really quiet again before continuing. "When I realized what a serious role you were playing in my life and in mom's life I got scared and pushed you away. I thought you were going to leave me and mom and I didn't want to get hurt." Tears had begun to roll down Gabby's face.

"Gabby." Alex whispered softly, trying to hide the shake in her voice. "I have told you a hundred times and I will tell you a million more. I love you and Olivia more than life it's self I will never do anything you or her and I will never ever leave you." Alex took a deep breath. "Can I tell you a story?" Gabby nodded her head. "When I first met you, you were 5 years old. You asked me if I was a friend of your mommy's, I said yes. You looked at me very closely; you crossed your arms and asked me if my name was Alex. I told you it was. And with your little brown eyes you surveyed me up and down at least ten times before talking again. You said, 'mommy said she had a new friend named Alex and she was really pretty. I think she's right but my mommy is prettier.' I told you that I agreed with you and you said; 'ok, you and mommy are both pretty so you can be pretty together. Are you going to be friends with us forever?" Alex smiled at the memory and Gabby laughed quietly. "Do you remember what I said to you?" Alex asked Gabby.

Gabby shook her head and Alex continued. "I said; 'I'd like to be you and your mommy's friend forever' you didn't even reply to my comment you just took my hand in yours and dragged me across the room to your mom where you declared loudly enough for the whole precinct to hear that 'mommy you're right Alex is very pretty and she said that she was going to be friends with us forever, and forever is a really long time'. I don't know why I remember that so clearly but I do and I want you to know something, I told you then and I will tell you the same thing now, ten years later. I am going to be around forever. And no matter how many times you second guess it, you'll be wrong. Cuz I'm sorry babe, but you and Liv are stuck with me."

Gabby smiled as tears rolled down her face. She slide over to Alex's side of the couch and embraced her in a tight hug. Gabby and Alex hugged for a moment before Alex remembered what was in her purse. "I have something for you." Alex said as she got off the couch and headed towards the kitchen. She came back a moment later and handed Gabby a small box.

"What's this for?" Gabby asked holding the box in her hands.

"Just open it." Alex said eagerly.

Gabby opened the box slowly and took out the silver bracelet and studied it carefully. It had the word 'forever' engraved in cursive on one side and the date of the day Gabby and Alex first met, ten years ago on the other. Gabby let out a small gasp. "It's beautiful." Gabby said holding the bracelet delicately.

"I knew you were having a hard time with all the changes and I knew you were starting to second guess everything so I just wanted to tell you that story and give you a reminder that you can have with you every day."

"I love it." Gabby said hugging Alex tightly.

"I'm glad." Alex said smiling. "Now how about we eat some dinner ok?"

Gabby nodded and followed Alex into the kitchen. Alex knew that there was more that Gabby and her had to talk about but she decided it was better that they took a break from serious conversation and had something to eat first.

A/N please please please review for more! your reviews motivate me to write more :)