"Why didn't you talk to me about this?" Mark asked sort of shocked what she had on her mind. She didn't get to answer since the waiter got to their table with plates full of food. They said nothing until the waiter walked away from the table.
"Well…I…just wasn't sure what to do, so I didn't want to talk about it" Olivia answered as she pushed the food around on her plate.
"Well do you know what you're going to do since your finally talking about?" Mark asked as he watched her play with the food.
"Yea, I decided I will stay, I mean the incident was like a rude awakening" Olivia answered as she took a sip of water and looked out the window.
"Ok, if you want, I'm not going to sway your decision either way, but what was the rude awakening for?" He asked watching her stare at the busy streets outside; she finally looked over at him.
"Everyday we go in and there's another victim, it just never seemed to stop and never get better, like we weren't doing enough and that those bastards just kept multiplying every time we put one of them in jail," she said playing with the sugar packet, he could tell there was more that she wanted to say, so he just let her talk "but last night made me realize that I cant sit back and let that happen to some girl, so I'm going to keep being on SVU, to prevent as many of those bastards to do something like that or something worse to some innocent women" Olivia finished starring outside again, getting mad as she thought about all the cases before, Mark could see it in her eyes what she was thinking of and he just looked at her with a small smirk, thinking how much talent she had toward handling victims.
She felt his eyes on her; she looked over at him and saw his small smirk. "what?" she asked sort of confused.
"Nothing, just thinking how you would love to beat up one those bastards right now" he answered smiling. She smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Yea I would, but I'll settle for kicking your ass" she teased smiling, she knew how cute he found it when she made fun of him.
"Oh…good one" he said smiling and putting up his hand for a Hi-Five, she laughed and gave him a Hi-Five over the table.
"Lets eat the food before it gets cold" Olivia suggested smiling. He just smiled and stole some fries from her plate. She smiled and grabbed the eggs that were on his plate.
"Touché, detective" he said laughing, she just laughed.
"Morning" a voice behind them said, Olivia turned around and Mark looked up. Casey was standing with Melinda.
"The doctor and the lawyer, its early in the morning, go away" Mark said smiling. Olivia smiled and rolled her eyes.
"What's up?" Olivia asked looking at the two.
"Mark be a gentleman, move so us ladies can sit" Melinda said smiling.
"Ladies? Where?" He teased trying not to burst with laughter. Casey smiled and grabbed a fry from Olivia's plate and threw it at him. "She wasn't this violent at the wedding" Mark said smiling as he got up and pulled another chair at the table.
"It teaches you not to mess with a lawyer" Olivia said smiling.
"Mark, I'll warn you now, girl talk ahead, so…" Melinda said smiling as she sat down.
"Thanks for the warning, I'm going to be manly and go watch a football game" Mark said smiling as he grabbed his drink from the table and gave a kiss to Olivia and went by the bar.
"How you holding up?" Casey asked.
"Better, you two track me down just for that?" Olivia asked with a smirk.
"We weren't even tracking you down, came for breakfast before Casey preps me for court" Melinda answered as she grabbed some of Mark's food.
"Fun, free breakfast and court in one day, your on a role Melinda" Olivia said smiling.
"Yea, he wont mind, I called about your house and it should be back to normal by tomorrow, they are still taking pictures and writing reports and stuff"
"You guys still going to live there?" Casey asked.
"No, were going to look for another house, I don't want to live there anymore, and Mark doesn't want me to live somewhere with bad memories" Olivia answered.
"I have to find myself a Mark" Casey said, almost like a statement. Olivia and Melinda looked at each other and smiled.
"Yes you do sweetie, don't bring us down with your sad life" Melinda teased.
"Shut up" Casey mumbled smiling and rolling her eyes.
"You want me to ask Mark to set you up with one of his friends?" Olivia asked smiling, knowing the answer she was going to get.
"No, he would set me with the biggest loser for fun" Casey said defensively. Melinda just smiled.
"He would not" Olivia said smiling, Casey gave her a look like 'are you kidding me?' Olivia just smiled "ok, maybe he would cause he likes to get amusement from your misery" Olivia said laughing, Melinda broke into laughter as well.
"Funny, really funny, thank you, your husband by the way" Casey said rolling her eyes.
"You did start it, that year on April fools, when you hid all of his clothes early in the morning" Melinda said trying to stop laughing.
"Olivia helped me, and it was pretty funny, oh the good times" Casey said smiling.
"I'm his wife, he's not going to get back at me, you know he likes pranks, so you knew the consequences of leaving him in his boxers" Olivia said laughing.
"I feel lonely, are you three done with girly talks for the morning?" Mark asked appearing at the table.
"Yea, sit down" Olivia answered, Mark grabbed a chair and sat done next to Olivia.
"So what did you ladies talk about that made you laugh, I could hear you at the bar?" he asked smiling.
"You're ass" Melinda answered smiling.
"I have a nice ass, nothing to laugh about, you want to see?" Mark asked smiling and pointing at his butt.
"I don't want to see, I want to kick" Casey answered smiling.
"You're a lawyer, you want to kick everyone's ass" Mark replied.
"No, yours only" Casey said.
"Hey I got an idea, lets talk about something different then my husbands ass" Olivia suggested smiling.
"You ate my food!" Mark yelled out looking at his half eaten plate of food.
"Melinda, not me, all her" Casey said pointing at Melinda.
"And you call yourself a lawyer? Giving up your friend like that, not cool Casey" Mark said smiling and shaking his head.
"You call yourself FBI? You noticed after sitting here 5 minutes, not very Sherlock like Mark" Casey said smiling and shaking her head the same way he did. He started laughing and gave her a Hi-Five over the table.
"You two are too good of friends, lets order food, Mark is paying" Olivia said smiling.
"Of course Mark is paying, what else is new, and hopefully he gets to eat this time for the food he pays for" Mark said smiling as he gave a look to Melinda, who just smiled. The other girls just smiled.
They ate for another hour, before the girls had to leave for Melinda to be prepped for court.
"So what do you want to do now?" Mark asked as he pulled out his credit card to pay for the breakfast.
"I don't know, any ideas?" Olivia asked as she sipped on her water.
"Well its 10, so any ideas?" Mark asked smiling.
"Its 10:01 now, any ideas?" Olivia asked laughing.
"Lets do this for another 3 hours and maybe we can come up with something" Mark said smiling as gave the credit card to the waiter.
"How long do you think it would last?"
"Maybe 5 minutes, before we start throwing things at each other, because we couldn't come up with any ideas" Mark said laughing.
"Very pathetic, we have a day off and we cant even come up with anything" Olivia said smiling as the waiter came back carrying the credit card and handed it over to Mark.
"Speak for yourself, I got an idea, lets go pick up James and go ice skating, since we haven't done that in a while" Mark suggested as he got up and held out Olivia's coat for her so she can put it on.
"Good idea, lets go" She said giving him a kiss and throwing him his coat, he smiled and putted it on and followed her outside.
They arrived at Mark's sister's house to pick up James around 12.
"What do you want to tell him?" Olivia asked as they got out of the car.
"Melinda said they should be done with the house by tomorrow, right? So lets tell him he can spend another night here since he likes to hang out here, and when we get the new house Il figure it out" Mark answered as he put his arm around her waist and walked toward the house.
"Ok, you got it" Olivia agreed as she placed her arm around his waist.
They walked up to the house and Mark rang the doorbell. A woman who was the same height as Olivia, and looked a lot like Mark, opened the door.
"Hey you two" She greeted them as she gave each one a big hug.
"Hey Kristen, how are you?" Olivia asked her sister in-law.
"I'm great, was everything ok? Mark sounded kind of weird this morning" Kristen asked.
"I was just tired, where's James?" Mark asked.
"His upstairs playing video games with the boys"
"Ok, Il be right back" Mark said as he went upstairs to his nephew's room.
Olivia sat down and talked to Kristen about what happened while Mark got James. He came back down 10 minutes later, with James on his back, a boy who looked younger then James was clung to his neck and Mark holding him with one arm, and another boy who looked like he was a little older then James in his other arm, all three boys were messing with his hair. Olivia and Kristen looked up and smiled when they saw him.
"They attacked you again?" Kristen asked smiling.
"Yea," Mark choked out since his neck was being pulled from the back by James and being pulled to the front by the other boy.
"Guys, I think Uncle Mark needs to breath" Kristen said taking her sons off of Mark.
"Thanks, I swear I started seeing two of you" Mark said smiling and fixing his hair.
"Hi Mom" James yelled out as he saw Olivia, he jumped off of James's back and ran to her.
"Hi honey" Olivia said smiling and picking him up.
"Dad says were going ice skating, do I have to? Cause I want to finish the game" James asked looking at her.
"You can finish it tonight, cause your spending another night here, deal?" Olivia asked smiling as she held him.
"I am?" James asked very happily.
"yea, so lets get going so, you can hang out with Nick and Patrick after" Olivia answered kissing him on the forehead and putting him down on the ground. Nick and Patrick heard he was coming after and all three gave each other Hi-Fives and smiled.
"Hey Uncle Mark, you bring us presents?" Patrick asked starring up at Mark.
"No, why would I? You messed with my hair and attacked me when I went into your room" Mark said kneeling down to the eye level of the small boy.
"Oh please, be a good sport, its all in fun," Nick said to Mark and ran over to Olivia. "You bring us anything, aunt Olivia?" he asked looking up at her.
"No, but I had this pain in my back, for some odd reason…lets see what that was" Olivia said smiling and pulled out three chocolate bars from her back pocket. All three boys smiled and ran over to her, all at the same time reached for it.
"That's for the grown ups" Mark said smiling and taking the chocolate from Olivia, he passed one to Kristen and gave one to Olivia.
"Can we have some?" James asked looking up at Mark.
"Give me a kiss, and Il let you have it" Mark said smiling and kneeling down. James smiled and gave him a kiss and took the chocolate. Patrick and Nick did the same with Olivia and Kristen.
"Lets go ice skating" James mumbled as he ate his chocolate after the boys ran upstairs.
"Lets go" Olivia said smiling and putting James's jacket on him.
"If you guys need anything, you call me, ok?" Kristen said as she gave Mark a hug.
"We will, thanks for letting him sleepover here tonight" Olivia said smiling, as Mark helped James put on his shoes.
"Its not a problem, you take care of yourself, ok?" Kristen replied as she gave a hug to Olivia.
"I will, bye" Olivia said smiling as they walked out the door.
They arrived at the ice skating rink around 2.
"Be careful" Mark warned as he helped James and Olivia on the ice.
"You need to save us if we fall since you were on the hockey team in college." Olivia said smiling as she held onto James's hand.
"I will, don't worry" Mark said as he skated around them.
"How do you do that so fast dad?" James asked looking at him.
"Practice, lots and lots of practice, you need to learn how not to fall first, before you can skate really fast" Mark answered as he took James hand and Olivia held onto the other one.
"I might, if you two let go of me" James said looking up at them.
"Were cool, you're lucky you have such cool parents" Mark said smiling teasing him on purpose.
"Dad don't say your cool, then you're not cool" James whined. Olivia and Mark just smiled. Olivia lost balance and grabbed Mark's arm and pulled him down when she fell. James was still standing and laughed hysterically watching them fall. She ended up falling right on top of him, by accident her butt landed on his hand.
"I don't mind this" Mark said smiling and gently squeezing her butt, she smiled and playfully slapped him on the shoulder.
"Who's cool now?" James teased looking at them on the ground.
"Fine, you can be the cool one in the family" Mark said smiling as he got up. "it was her fault I fell" he said smiling as he took Olivia's hand and helped her up.
"It was gravity" Olivia said smiling as she held on to his hand, James skated in front of them. He lost balance and fell, Mark jumped over him, Olivia tripped and fell. Mark started laughing as he skated back to them.
"Are you ok?" Mark asked smiling as he kneeled down by the two.
"I'm ok" James answered as he grabbed on to Mark's shoulder and pulled himself up.
"You ok honey?" Mark asked taking Olivia's hand.
"Yea I'm fine, you left me alone to trip over our son" Olivia said smiling. Mark smiled and gave her a kiss.
"Il trip next time, so you can laugh at my pain" Mark said smiling as he pulled her up.
"Dad, can you do any tricks when you skate in hockey?" Mark asked as he skated by them.
"Yea, a lot" Mark answered while he was holding Olivia's hand.
"Do one" James pleaded.
"No its ok" Mark said.
"Please" James begged.
"Yes, please" Olivia added.
"Fine, but you asked for it" Mark warned smiling as he let go of Olivia's hand and started skating fast toward a wall.
"What does he mean by that?" James asked smiling looking up at Olivia.
"I don't know, but it cant be good for us" Olivia answered also confused.
Mark went toward one wall, jumped and hit the wall with his skates and started skating back to them, he glided his skates on the ice and covered both Olivia and James in ice.
"There's your defense trick" Mark said smiling, looking at them covered in ice.
"Well thank you," Olivia said smiling and wiping the ice off of her face.
"Sure, you guys look nice wet" Mark teased trying not to laugh.
"Dude, that was so cool, you have to show me how to do that" James said excitedly as he wiped the snow off his face.
"First you need to learn how to skate, go skate" Mark said wiping some snow off of James's jacket, James smiled and started skating.
"How's my wet brown eyed girl doing?" Mark said smiling and taking Olivia's hand.
"Wet, that's how I'm doing" Olivia said smiling. He smiled and pulled her toward him, she just stood there letting the skates do all the work.
"I love it when you're wet, you look so cute" Mark said smiling as he placed his hands on her waist.
"Thank you, but I prefer dry" Olivia said smiling and kissed him.
The loud sound of a gunshot interrupted their kiss.