1A/N: Hey thanks for the reviews! Sorry about not answering the question about Oliver in the last chapter, I forgot. But he is only 10, no older than that, sorry about that. He is a little mature for his age, but you'll find out why later in the story. Thanks again for the reviews, sorry it took me so long to update, but here's the next chapter, hope you enjoy!

Chapter Four: Late

That next morning Oliver woke up around 7:45 AM and nearly fell out of bed when he saw the time. His mom usually always woke him up around 6:30 so that they both had time to get ready before they had to leave. His school started at 8:00 and she usually had to be in work no later than that. He immediately got out of bed and ran out of his room and into the living room, where he saw that there were no lights on at all. Then he walked towards his mom's bedroom and saw that the door was shut, which meant that she was at home. He knocked on it but received no answer, so he opened it up slowly and looked in. He saw her asleep on her bed so he walked into the room and over to her bed. He stood next to her and shook her a little trying to wake her up,

"Mom...Mom wake up. We're both going to be late"

"Hmmm...Five more minutes" she mumbled before rolling over and turning her back to him.

He shook his head before walking back towards the bedroom door and flipping on the light. He watched as she stirred slightly, but then relaxed again. He walked back over to her and shook her again,

"Mom...Mom get up"

Then he jumped over onto the other side of the bed, causing her to pop up,

"What...What is it? What's wrong?"

He shook his head at her and released a small smile at her reactions. She looked like she had just been scared out of her mind, which was plausible given what he had just done to her.

"Mom it's 7:50 we're both going to be late" he told her motioning towards the clock.

"What?" she said aloud as she turned from looking at her son to looking at the clock on her nightstand, "Oh my God, I must have forgotten to flip the alarm on"

"Obviously" he muttered with a smile

"Alright well lets get going. Do you want to stop down the street and pick up some donuts? Or do you just want to have a bowl of cereal?" she asked as she sat in bed looking at her son, who was sitting next to her.

"Umm Mom, you know how you've been real busy lately?"

"Yeah"

"I don't think you've been to the store in like three weeks"

"And?"

"And so there's no milk" he told her

"Oh, well what have you been eating?" she asked

"Dry cereal, Honeycomb is good that way" he answered

"Okay, well then, today when I get home from work we're going to the store" she told him as she ruffled his hair.

"So I guess we're having donuts" he commented

"Looks that way" she replied

"Cool" he smiled

"Okay well let's quit the chatting and get dressed so we can head out" she said as she got out of bed.

As soon as she stood up and had her back to Oliver, he smiled to himself, then he stood up on the bed and ran and jumped off, onto Olivia's back. She sensed him about to jump off of her bed and was ready to catch him.

"I had a feeling you were going to do that" she told him as she gave him a piggy back ride back to his room, "You know you're getting to old for this"

"Never" he laughed

When they got to his room, she turned her head a little to look at him and he gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before sliding off of her back.

While Oliver was getting ready in his room, Olivia went back to her room to get ready. She wondered why Elliot hadn't called her cell or her apartment looking for her. But when she picked up her cell phone she found out why he couldn't reach her on that, the battery was dead, it must have died during the night. Then once she had gotten dressed and walked into the living room she saw why Elliot couldn't reach her on her land line either. She had been looking up some information on the internet and had forgotten to plug the phone line back in. She immediately plugged it back in and called Elliot on his cell.

"Liv is everything okay, I was just on my way over there" he told her

"Good morning to you too Elliot. My cell died and I forgot to plug my phone line back in last night after I was on the internet. Everything's fine" she told him

"What were you doing on the internet at 3 AM?" he asked her

"I wanted to check something out about Callie's family. Look my alarm didn't go off this morning so I'm running late. I'll be there as soon as I can okay" she told him

"You mean you forgot to set your alarm" he told her smiling

"Shut up, and quit smiling" she told him

"I'm not"

"Whatever. Look I'll see you in a little while okay"

"Okay"

A few minutes later Oliver came out of his room with his baggy blue jeans and oversized sweatshirt, and his black beanie that said, 'If you can't live on the edge, Why live at all?'

"Oliver, you know you aren't allowed to wear that outfit to school. I told you that when we bought all of that stuff. It was house clothes only. You look like a gangster" she told him, crossing her arms.

"Mom you haven't done laundry this week, and these are the only clean clothes I have left" he told her matter of factly.

"Okay but sweetie seriously, what's wrong with your blue Nike sweatshirt and blue Nike beanie?" she asked him

"I let Chad borrow my beanie last week at the park and I haven't gotten it back yet. And I dropped ketchup on my blue sweatshirt a few days ago" he told her

Olivia closed her eyes and let out a deep breath before uncrossing her arms and saying,

"Fine. Let's get going"

She opened the apartment door and ushered him out before following him, making sure to lock the door behind them. When she turned to follow him down the hall she noticed he didn't have any of his hockey stuff with him.

"Ollie did you forget your hockey gear" she asked

He stopped and waited for her to get beside him before looking up at her,

"Mom it's Friday"

"And?"

"And I don't have hockey practice on Friday's remember" he told her

"Oh yeah I forgot." she told him as she put her arm around his shoulders as they walked down the hall to the elevator together.

They got into their car and drove down a couple of blocks to where the donut place was. They parked the car and got out, walking inside together. They stood in line behind three other people waiting for their turn to order.

"Mom we are going to be really late" Oliver said, looking up at her

She looked down and smiled before saying,

"You can't honestly say you aren't happy about being late for school"

"Yeah, but don't you get in trouble when you're late?" he asked

"No worries, Elliot's covering for me" she told her son with a smile

"I like Elliot. He seems like a cool guy."

"Well I suppose he is pretty cool" she responded

After waiting about ten minutes it was finally their turn to order. They stepped up to the counter and the lady ready to take their order, stared at Oliver and then gave a disapproving look to Olivia.

"Excuse me do you have a problem with my son?" Olivia asked the lady

"No, but you do realize that it's almost 8:30. Most schools around here start at 8" she told Olivia

"Yeah and?" Olivia said to the lady

"Look it's people like you who don't make your kid go to school that cause all of the problems, these are the kids that end up getting involved in gangs and drug dealing and that kind of stuff" she told Olivia

Olivia smiled half heartedly before looking down at her son and then back to the lady.

"Look lady, you don't know my story okay. And for your information I'm a cop-"

"Oh so now you think you're better than me because you're a cop"

"I didn't say that. My son and I just woke up late and he's on his way to school now, but we had to have breakfast first, so can we please order now"

"You cops think you can do whatever you want, whenever you want" the lady said to Olivia

"Hey stop being so mean to my mom. She's a good cop, and I go to school every day, you're probably just jealous cause you don't have any kids" Oliver said, sticking up for his mother

"Ollie" Olivia said in a raised voice

"Sorry" he said, to both Olivia and the lady behind the counter

"Can we please just order so I can get to work and he can get to school"

"What do you want?" the lady asked annoyed

"Two chocolate covered and two plain, a glass of milk, and a cup of coffee, please" Olivia told the lady

Five minutes later they were sitting at a little table next to the window of the donut shop, both scarfing down their donuts and drinks. Once they had one donut eaten, they decided to head to the school. They got into the car and Olivia headed down the next two blocks to Oliver's school. They arrived at the school a little after 9 and noticed he had finished his other donut and his glass of milk. She wrote him a note explaining why he was late and handed it to him.

"You want me to walk you in?" she asked him as he grabbed his backpack

"Mom I'm ten, I'm not a baby" he told her

"Right, sorry. Hey you want a piece of gum?" she asked

"Yes please" he replied holding his hand out for the piece of Winter Fresh gum that she stuck in his hand.

"Baby are you getting a ride with Chad after school?" she asked as he stepped out of the car

"Mom, don't call me that anymore, geeze"

"Oh this coming from the kid who wanted a piggy back ride to his room"

"Mom shhh. Don't say that too loud. You never know who might hear you" he said looking around

"Hey kid, we are still in the car, I think it's safe" she laughed at him, "Now Chad's mom?"

"Yeah his mom said she would drop me off at home today" he told her

"Okay love you"

"Love you too mom" he replied as he shut the door and waved goodbye to her one last time before heading into the school.

Olivia raced the rest of the way to work and couldn't help but think about Callie. She knew there was more to that kid's life than what she had learned, and she knew that Callie's mother looked familiar, but she couldn't figure out why. She tried looking her name up on the internet, but to no avail. So she planned on looking up her name in the database a work to find out why she had looked so familiar.

She arrived at work a little after 9:30 and rushed in, trying to go unnoticed by the Captain and the others, however that didn't work. Right after she had sat down at her desk and received a smirk from Elliot she heard her name called from the Captain's office.

"Benson, my office now"

Elliot leaned over his desk and whispered,

"I did what I could, but I think he knows you were late, sorry"

"That's okay" she told him as she got up and headed to his office

Once she got into his office he sat down in his chair and motioned for her to sit down as well, which she did.

"Look Olivia if you have a rough day and need some extra time to sleep you could at least call and let me know"

"I know I'm sorry. And it wasn't that. It's just I forgot to set my alarm and my cell battery died, and my land line wasn't plugged in-"

"Olivia I'm not mad at you I just want to make sure you're okay with this case. It's not getting to you is it?" he asked

"Captain all cases get to me" she told him with half a smile

"That's not what I meant"

"I know. Look I'm fine okay, I really want to work this case. It's important, I made a promise to that little girl."

"Okay well take it easy okay, and if you need to talk I'm always here" he told her

"Thanks Captain. Is that it?"

"Yeah"

She nodded as she got up and exited his office and headed back over to her desk. After she sat down she could feel someone watching her, she looked up to find Elliot staring at her obviously waiting to know what happened in the office.

"I'm still on the case. He just wanted to make sure I'm not letting it get to me"

"All cases get to you...and me" he told her with a smile

"I know, that's what I told him"

He smiled before asking,

"So, how are things?"

She lowered her eyebrows and looked at him with a confused face, before she realized he was asking about Oliver.

"Oh, uh there good I guess"

"Good, so what's our next move with this case?" he asked

"Actually I was thinking about running Anna Blake through the database here, see if anything pops up"

"Why?"

"She looks familiar for some reason, but I just can't place it"

"Maybe you passed her in your hall one time" he suggested

"Maybe. But I don't think that's it" she told him

"Okay, well let's run the name then" he said

A few hours later they had the answer to their question of why Anna Blake looked so familiar.

"Oh my God, that's why she looked so familiar" Olivia said out loud while looking at the computer screen in front of her.

"Why, what did you find?" Elliot asked walking over to her and leaning over her to look at the screen.

"Do you remember her now El?" she asked as she turned slightly to look at him.

"Oh my God. She was raped...Seven years ago. That makes Callie-"

"Most likely the product of that rape" Olivia finished as she turned away from Elliot to look back at the screen.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed that chapter. I wanted to add a little more of Olivia and Oliver interacting with each other, so tell me what you think. Please!