Thanks for those of you still reading. It's been hard to write this with Danny having being written out of the show...my poor Amaro, at first I thought, what will I do with this story now? I ran a few scenarios through my head that included him dying and leaving Liv to grieve but then I thought how stupid that was and that I'd be cheating myself and you out of where I originally intended to take this story and so it stays. Well, that being said, let's get to chapter 14, Dick Wolf owns and enjoy!

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Three weeks had passed and Nick and Olivia were learning to work out the ebb and flow of their relationship in the midst of dealing with Olivia's newfound morning sickness. Three weeks ago, she woke up and things had changed. Now it was she with her head in the toilet every morning, with raging sickness, and Nick was the one offering her sympathy, though he was thankful that it wasn't him anymore.

This morning, a Saturday, she had woken up terribly ill. She thanked God that it was her day off as she lay there in bed but that was all she thanked him for, to say that she felt lousy was an understatement; she felt like crying and she wished that Nick were here so she could curse him. She was so nauseous yet every time she would go to the bathroom it was nothing but dry heaves until she gave Noah his breakfast (which she had hell preparing) and he'd insisted on sharing a bite with her.

"Noah, that's sweet baby but mama's not feeling well." She gracefully declined but he wouldn't hear it, it was their thing; mama always had a bite of his breakfast, always. There was no backing out now.

"Mama hah shum!" He insisted, gingerly holding out his little spoon for her. "Ahh" he said, signaling that he wanted her to open her mouth. She looked at him and saw that he wasn't budging, sitting there with his spoon extended and she gave in, slowly leaning in to take the bite of food.

It was a strawberry, she could do a strawberry, no problem. Except she couldn't. She took the fruit in her mouth and let out a "Mmmm" which seemed to appease Noah and he gave her the biggest, sweetest smile. Only when she started chewing, that's when the nausea came full throttle but she was a trooper, all she had to do was swallow right?

Attempt to swallow and the fruit was down for about 4 seconds before it came back up and she ran quickly into the bathroom (it wasn't dry heaves). She threw up hard and leaving Noah sitting there, eating his breakfast happily.

While she was in the bathroom, Nick entered the apartment, quickly hanging his jacket and walking into the kitchen.

"Babe? Hey Mano, where's mom?" Noah shrugged his shoulders and put some scrambled egg in his mouth. Nick laughed and kissed him, Noah responded by giving him a spoonful of eggs.

"Much better than baby cereal." He said, chewing. "Okay little man, be right back."

"'Tay."

"Liv?" He was about to turn the corner and she was just emerging from the the bathroom when he saw her.

"Hey." He went to give her a kiss on the lips but she quickly turned her head and threw herself on the couch. "Sorry I couldn't be here last night, it was pretty late when we wrapped up." He took a seat beside her while keeping an eye on Noah.

"You don't look so well" he said sympathetically as he brushed a lock of hair out of her eyes.

"I don't feel very well" she told him, as she turned and put her arm around him, curling up to him and putting her feet up under her.

"I'm sorry babe" he hated that she was so sick because of him. "The good news is that I'm off till Monday so I'm here."

"I'm sorry to be such a bother." She said, already giving up on the idea of cursing him, she was just happy to be in his arms.

"Nah. Why don't you go and lie down, I can keep an eye on Noah."

"I have my doctor's appointment..."

"That's not until one, go. Try to get some sleep, I'll wake you when it's time."

"Thank you." She kissed him quick on the lips then kissed Noah before making her way slowly to the bedroom and shutting the door. Nick got up and went over to Noah.

"Well dude, just us for a few hours, what's your poison?" Noah put strawberries in his mouth before uttering something that Nick couldn't make out.

"Or we could do that."

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"Well, you'll both be happy to know that you're fine." Dr. Gates told Olivia. "Unfortunately, morning sickness can be a bitch but thankfully it doesn't last long. But unless you're throwing up excessively it should be fine. Other than that, how are you feeling?"

"Other than the morning sickness, I feel great; well, my breasts have gotten ridiculously sore since I saw you last but I'm okay."

"Try a cold compress when you can, that should help a lot. So, are you ready to take a look at the baby?"

"I'm excited and nervous all at the same time; this makes it kind of real." She was anxiously running her hand over her stomach. Dr. Gates smiled and squeezed her hand.

"Would you..." She listened to that voice in her heart that told her Nick should be there. "Before we start, would you ask Mr. Amaro and my son to come in. I think he'd...well he'd like to uh... Could you just ask him to come?"

"I'll be right back." She said with a laugh. When she left Olivia sat with that same hand to her stomach.

"You've gone all in with this guy... God please don't let it...it won't Olivia, for once you've gotta trust that it won't."

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More to come, in the meantime, reviews are lovely so won't you be lovely to me?