a/n: Theres only a few more chapters left in the first installment of this series! feedback and reviews are much appreciated and welcomed :)

Olivia sat at the table in the kitchen in the apartment alone, enjoying the peacefulness. Jay was working overtime so she turned on some music, made a cup of coffee and looked at some houses. Her house had been on the market for three or four days before it quickly and sadly sold. As hard as it was to empty the house, it gave her the feeling of being able to breathe again, a relief of a horrible event over, and the good memories boxed up. They had finally finished putting things into storage and into the apartment yesterday.

A knock at the door had her tossing her phone on the table and going to the door. She flung the door open without checking and her jaw dropped. She really should listen to Jay more, especially when he always says 'Check before you open the door,' like she was some child. Although in this moment she wished she had because she would have never opened the door. She couldn't believe who was standing there, just as shocked to see her.

"Is Jay here?"

Olivia shook her head no.

"Okay well, I'm going to go then." She rasped out, turning to leave.

"Would you like to come in?"

Olivia instantly regretted the words once they left her mouth, but Olivia needed to know why she was here, figure out what she wanted. Well, she kinda already knew what she wanted.

"Sure."

Olivia felt extremely vulnerable as the 'guest' looked around the apartment and looked at all the pictures.

"He looks good."

"He is."

"Looks happy."

"He is, very happy."

"Hm, I'm sure."

Olivia caught the sarcasm. And she knew the other person knew she would too. Olivia was the queen of sarcasm and sass, she would not let this happen to her in her own home.

"Why are you here Erin?" Olivia said with a clipped tone.

"My relationship with Jay has nothing to do with you Olivia."

"It actually has everything to do with me. I'm always going to look out for him, I'll always have his six, unlike you."

Both women stood their ground.

"I get that you're Jay's friend and you came around right around the same time I left but-"

"Exactly, you left. With no reasoning to give him until you were gone. You completely cut ties with his and left him a mess and caused him to become reckless and make dangerous choices with work. You broke him and I had to pick up the pieces! You destroyed him and you didn't even care, you didn't even look back."

"You don't even know me, you didn't know us! you don't get to stand there and throw judgement about something you have no fucking clue about."

"I don't have to know you to know that you did a really shitty thing. Because I know after everything I've been through, I stayed. I didn't run. You need to leave, don't come back and don't ever reach out to Jay again. you had a chance and you blew it."

"I'll leave that up to Jay, not you."

"Get the fuck out of our apartment."

Olivia slammed the door behind Erin and grabbed her phone to call Diana.

"Hey hooker." Diana answered.

"Call the girls, I'll coming over. Have the tequila and vodka on ice."

Jay was doing paper work at his desk when Platt called him to tell him he had a visitor in the garage. Platt sounded a bit odd but Jay happily jogged downstairs, thinking his visitor was Livi. Jay stopped dead in his tracks when he didn't see his girlfriend, but Erin instead, standing there holding two cups of coffee.

"Hey partner." She said with a smile.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, shocked.

"Wow Jay, I'm good thanks, it's nice to see you too, I know it's been forever right?"

"I haven't heard from you in how many years? Did you expect a warm welcome?"

"Warmer than the one you gave me, yes actually. I explained why I left."

"But you didn't have to cut me out! We were partners, for christ sake, we were dating Erin!"

"I came to make peace with you, to let go of all of this. To start over, start us over."

"There's no more us, you make that clear when you stopped answering my calls. There's nothing to make peace with, took me a while but I got over it, got over you."

Erin put her coffee down.

"Went to your apartment, had the pleasure of finally meeting the ever elusive Olivia."

"What did you say to her?" He said angrily.

"Not much, before she told me to get the fuck out."

"Good."

"You two seem chummy, considering she said "our" apartment."

"We're dating."

"Why am I not surprised." She said shaking her head in disbelief.

"You don't get to act like that. You walked away, not me."

"She swooped right in to snatch you, didn't she? Did you wait at least 24 hours before you fucked her? Just friends my ass."

"Do you hear yourself right now? Who do you think pushed me to call, and call and call and send text after after? That would be her. Everything I was ready to give up, she told me to try one more time, till finally she couldn't stand to see it break my heart every time you didn't answer. We were friends, we are still friends. We just started dating in early spring, not that I owe you an explanation. And as a matter of fact, I wanna marry her, start a family, spend the rest of my life with her, and only her."

Jay saw the hurt in Erin's eyes.

"Perfect fairytale ending." She said, holding back tears.

"What did you honestly think? That things between you and I would be sunshine and rainbows, that'd I'd welcome you back with open arms? You did a lot of damage when you left, and she fixed me. She makes me the happiest I've ever been."

"That's really good Jay, take care."

Jay watched Erin leave. He never thought he'd come face to face with her again. In a way, he was kinda glad, felt relieved that it was actually over and dead with her. He didn't leave anything unsaid, he felt good about that.

When Jay got home, Olivia was at the table where he had left her this morning. He noticed the vodka bottle on the table and her empty glass with lime in it. She hadn't even noticed him come in.

"Hey babe."

"Hey."

"Whatcha doing?"

"Going through files on some houses from the realtor."

"Any good ones."

"A few maybe, I don't know, I can't really focus."

"Maybe we can go look at some tomorrow.' He bent down to kiss her, 'How was your day?"

"Uneventful, yours?" she said, picking up and refilling her glass.

"Uneventful huh? That's not what I heard. What's up with the Vodka?"

She put her glass down.

"What did you hear?"

"I know Erin came here looking for me. She came to the district."

"I'm gonna rip her fucking throat out." She muttered.

"That would be considered murder, so please don't." He joked.

She downed her glass and put it in the sink.

"I'm going to bed, I'll pack my stuff in the morning."

"Liv-"

"Don't Jay, okay. I get it, you guys made talked it out, made up, wanna start over and start seeing each other. Don't pour salt on the wound, I don't need to hear it. You've always had a soft spot for her."

Jay raised and eyebrow at her.

"Not anymore, someone else has that spot, the right person."

"You...you chose me?"

"You do you sound so shocked?"

"Because it's Erin."

"I will always choose you." He put his hands on either side of her on the counter. "Hearing that you told her to get the fuck out of our home makes me wanna bend you over this table." he said pushing himself into her.

"Right here is close enough." She said pulling his head down to kiss him.