A/N: Hey guys, it's been forever, I know, I have been working heavily on some Stargate fics, so if you loved that show too, look at some of my stories. This is going to R/O. I thought about E/O, but Rafael just fit better in my mind. This is short. I will be working on some others and posting them soon.

If the World Was Ending – JP Saxe Ft. Julia Michaels

Olivia closed her eyes. She hadn't told anyone of the relationship she and Rafael Baraba had. Brian had left her, and Rafael was there. Noah was adopted, and Rafael was there, and one night after a rough case, Olivia admitted to Rafael Barba she just needed someone. He nodded his head and grabbed her hand. They headed out of the bar and back to his apartment. The sex was good, like forbidden fruit, and she chastised herself for sleeping with the ADA.

He was a good man, and a man that she wanted to be with, but they couldn't. The next day it was business as usual. Three months passed by and another hard case, let her wander to his apartment again, and she was the one pulling off his clothes. She was speaking Spanish to him and, his pupils dilated at her touch. She enjoyed him once again, and although she didn't regret it, she knew this isn't how it worked. Nothing was forever.

They played the game on and off, and then, one day, Rafael had told Olivia he wanted to let the DA know. He wanted to make this work, and although she wanted that more than anything, it was too much, too soon. She couldn't and wouldn't be put on trial for her interest in yet another man that became a conflict.

Rafael saw it in her eyes and dropped it immediately.

"Rafa, if things were different," Olivia admitted and hugged the man close.

Rafael nodded and went back to the case at hand.

A few weeks later, Rafael Baraba was charged with the murder of that little boy and left New York, leaving Olivia and the life he knew behind.

Rafael had been gone two weeks, and she needed him, missed him felt it in her gut that she should have never let him go. So she texts him and gets a reply. She messages him and admits her mistake, but they both know that right now, he is gone, and they weren't going to be seeing each other for a while.

It's been close to a year, and Olivia and Rafael keep up telling each other everything, like two best friends in high school, and Olivia smiles every time his face pops up on her phone. She misses him more than ever, and as she reads her message, she is in shock, he has finally decided to come home.

Olivia is elated. Then she fears it. Not knowing what to expect. Did he still care about her the way she cared about him? Had he thought she just wanted to be friends. She closed her eyes. She messaged him back and hoped for the best.

It was the day that Rafael was to return to the city, and he was sending her all these pictures of him with his mom and familiar shops. She was swamped at work and wasn't going to be home until late.

Suddenly a week passed without either realizing, and they still hadn't seen each other. They were going through the motions as if he was in California and not 12 blocks away. Olivia had gone home late at night and gotten through the door when she felt the building shake and heard the warning on her phone, that an earthquake happened in the Atlantic Ocean. Olivia panicked a little, although Noah seemed to be okay. They were told there could be shock waves. She didn't like the ground under her moving.

Twenty minutes later, there is a knock at her door.

"Are you okay?" Rafael asks.

Olivia looks at him, leans in and hugs him.

"I've got you, Liv," Rafael claims.

Rafael walks with Olivia to the empty couch.

"It might not be safe here," Olivia claimed.

"And my apartment's much better, if this is the way my world is supposed to end, I'm spending it with you," Rafael admits.

Olivia kissed his lips, grateful to the man giving her a second chance.