That night Noah, Olivia, Elliot and Eli had a blast. They had a nice dinner out at a favorite restaurant of theirs, it was a buffet so they were all able to pick what they wanted to eat rather easily, Noah going with chicken fingers and fries, Eli a spicy chicken sandwich and Olivia and Elliot sharing a chicken Parmesan dish.

"Why do you guys share your food mommy?" Noah asked curiously.

"If i'm being honest buddy i really don't know why it's just something we've always done sense we met and we just haven't stopped" she explained to him as he nodded taking that as an answer as they then went to the theatre together.

The movie was amazing, all 4 of them enjoyed it, laughing during most of it as they all had quite abit of candy and popcorn, the adults feeling it was ok for the kids to splurge abit sense school was out for winter break and they hadn't all really had a chance to do something like this as a family in a while.

Once the movie was over Elliot dropped Olivia and Noah off at her apartment "hey Liv, please blink your lights once you guys get inside."

Olivia smiled to herself but didn't show it as she exhaled a sigh "really El?"

"Hey don't even argue, you know we have this conversation every single time, and who always wins?"

She sighed and chuckled admitting defeat "you do, just be glad i love you" she said as she gave him a quick kiss "I love you to Liv and I wouldn't ask if i didn't care."

"I know I know, why do you think i end up giving in and agreeing to do it every time you ask me?"

"You make a good point there love, see you guys tomorrow", he said as he watched the 2 of them head upstairs.

Noah smiled once inside "mama can I write my letter to Santa clause tonight? I wanna have it ready for when i see him tomorrow."

"Yes of course sweet boy, but you cant give it to Santa at the mall tomorrow i'll have to mail it to the north poll cuz remember his elves help him out?" She said as she blinked her lights and watched Elliot's car drive away "yeah i remember that now."

She smiled abit and helped him situate himself at the kitchen table as she handed him a pencil and a couple sheets of paper to write with "I'm gonna go shower but you know where i am if you need me, and lights out in 30 minutes, if your not finished writing the letter by then you can finish it in the morning when you wake up."

Noah nodded "ok mama, I love you" he said as he hugged her.

"I love you too sweet boy, good night" she said as she headed off to shower.

In the shower she turned on her shower speaker and let some music play through ugh what a long week.. Why can't Garland come back? Why did he have to retire and leave me to deal with this jerk chief Magrath? Why does every one leave.. Her thoughts continued going into darker and darker places as pretty soon she was back to when Elliot had left. He came back though, i have to remember that, he came back and we're now closer than ever she thought as she was now washing her hair.

About 15 minutes later the spray of the water was rather cold as she got out , now completely clean and freshly shaven as she wrapped a towel around most of her body then looked in the mirror.

I look so close to perfect, if I could only make these scars completely fade.. She thought as she rubbed some skin care cream onto the scars that she had bought from a skin care store a while back.

A few more minutes later she was dressed into her Pajama's as she went out to check on Noah, finding that his letter to Santa clause was finished and folded, she smiled, i'll read that in the morning she thought as she then laid down in her bed and pulled out her phone Did you guys make it home safe? She texted Elliot.

Almost immediately she got a reply back We did, we had a great time with you guys tonight.

She smiled Me and Noah really enjoyed ourselves as well, I was thinking.. Me and you haven't had any strictly us time in a while, is any particular night good for you? She sent back.

Well Eli's old enough to be sorta left to his own devices now that he's stopped hanging out with those awful friends of his, when does Noah have his sleep over?

Sunday night. She sent back.

Sunday night sounds great to me Liv, I'll make us a reservation somewhere and make positive that i'm not on call.

Sounds great El, goodnight, i'll see you at the mall tomorrow she sent back as she managed to fall asleep with little issue.

Olivia woke up at around 8 on Saturday morning as she smiled glad that Noah was still sleeping soundly in his room as she decided to read his letter to Santa while she had the chance.

Dear SantaeaMy name is Noah Porter Benson, but you probably know who I am because Santa knows every thing right? I really hope i'm on the nice list this year, I can't be happier and honestly there's not a lot of things that I really want. It's always been team mom and me but this year sense I've gotten to know Elliot more I feel like he's on our team to. He's so nice to me all the time and I know mama loves him as much as I do. But anyway i guess the question is what do I want for Christmas right? So here's what i want. Santa i would really like a game stock gift card, there are a couple games i really wanna buy. My DS has been messed up for a month so i'd really like another 1. I also want a new pair of dancing shoes but there's 1 thing that i want more than all of those things combined and i'd be happy if this is all I get for Christmas. I really, really want Elliot and Eli to move in with me and mama. By now Olivia had tears in her eyes reading his letter.

Elliot makes mama so, so happy. Before i met Elliot mama was always sorta sad and gloomy, like there was something missing from her life, but now that Elliot is around mom is so much happier, but I notice that sometimes she's still sorta sad when he's not here, she's always happy though when he is here so I want him to live here. Yes it would make me really happy and maybe I'd even have a dad then like I've always wanted, but it would make mama even happier and that's all I really want for Christmas is for my mama to be happy.

Sincerely, Noah Porter Benson.

"Oh my god... Don't i want that too sweet boy, oh don't i want that too..." She said quietly to herself as tears fell onto the paper, Olivia being extremely touched and moved by the letter, and how perceptive and selfless Noah was. I'm gonna make sure that Noah has a great Christmas this year, the best 1 he's ever had Olivia thought to herself as she went to go wake her son and start the day.