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Family

After she negotiated the fist shock about Dr. Bell's statement, the conversation went on without any other unexpected surprises. The scientists had agreed on handing her all the achieved files about corthexiphan, so she left the building together with Peter, both of them carrying a box full of files. They put the boxes in the trunk.

"Thanks for your."

"No problem. Guess I will see you around in the next day."

Olivia nodded. He just smiled at her and than one question came up to her mind.

"Are you not angry with your father and his friend. I mean, they experimented on you when you were little."

"Yeah, sure. I was angry with them. I think, it was something around ten years ago, when Walter told me and back then I was angry and I took some time off. I was traveling for almost eight years, not wanting to go home, but then suddenly something changed and I realized, that my family meant a lot to me and even though Walter had done these things to me before, I had the feeling, that, if I wanted to feel better again, relieved of the anger, I needed to talk to him and that I needed to forgive him, so I came back and I'm glad I did."

She smiled. He was honest with her, maybe a little to much.

"That was quite an answer. Bye."

He nodded, while he was still smiling and then turned around and walked back, towards the building. Olivia looked after him a few seconds and got into her her car. She glanced down on the clock in the dashboard. Suddenly she remembered what she had promised Ella and so she was late. Really late. Almost an hour. She imagined how Ella would upbraid her for being late and again the smile found it's way on her face. It would be hilarious and she would laugh but for that Ella again would upbraid her. She started the engine and drove out of Manhattan and towards Brooklyn, where her parents lived.

She rang the doorbell and then there where footsteps. The door slid open and Ella stood in front of Olivia. Her little face serious.

"Aunt Liv, you are late."

Ella held open the door for her and she got in. Olivia got in and went down the short hallway and into the living room, Ella following her the entire time. When both of the had reached the living room, Olivia turned around to look at Ella.

"Why are you late, aunt Liv? You told me you would meet us here at 12.30, now it's13.30. Can't you read the clock, even I can do that."

Ella's face was still serious and her hands where on her hips. She looked so cute, but Olivia tried not to smile about Ella's cuteness.

"Well, Jack called me. He had a new case for me and I had to meet the clients. Have you heard of Dr. Bell and Dr. Bishop?"

Ella nodded.

"These two need my help. That's why I'm late."

She nodded again and hugged Olivia. Now Olivia started to smile. Ella always wanted to know exactly what was going on, but that was something she loved about her. She just loved Ella's curiosity.

When Ella finally let go of Olivia, Rachel and their mum entered the living room. Rachel just looked asking from one to the other and Marilyn was just smiling. Olivia stood up from her kneeling position.

"Hey, mum."

"Good to see you, Olive. It's been a long time since the last time I saw you."

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that. It's just that everything is really busy lately."

The doorbell rang again and Olivia went for the door. She opened it and found her dad standing in front of her.

"Hey, sweetheart."

She let him inside.

"Hey, dad. Where were you?"

"I was doing some shopping. The bags are still in the car, but I'll get them later."

Both of them went back to the living room and Olivia realized, except for Greg, her entire family was standing in one room together. The last time this had happened was a while ago.

"So, are we having any plans what we are going to do."

Suddenly everybody around her started to smile, but it wasn't the nice kind of smile, it was m ore the evil, teasing kind of smile. Olivia knew, that this wasn't a good sign.

"Okay, one of you has to tell me right know, what is going on."

Everybody stayed smiling and silent, but the smallest of them. Ella was the one to tell her the bad news. But they only were bad for her, but amusing for everybody else.

"Aunt Liv, you're going to cook today."

Olivia was take off guarded and also she was slightly shocked by the cruelness of her own family only thing she wouldn't do was cook.

"What? No way. Never."

Her mum came up to her. Handing her a wooden spoon and a shirting.

"Olive, now that Rachel is living with you, we know that you wont starve to death, but when she will move back to her house, together with Greg, you' re on your own again. And you can't live on by eating fast food or microwave food. You also can't go out each day, even though you might have the money for it. You just have to admit that you need to learn cooking."

Olivia's eyes were staring at the wooden floor. Yes, her mum was right and it was embarrassing that she had to admit it.

"Okay, what's on the plan?"

"Spaghetti Bolognese."

She nodded. That might be something that even she could get together. First thing they did was carrying the bags from the car inside the house. They unpacked the thing and Olivia started to memorized what she needed for spaghetti.

"Olive, today you'll be on your own and we will see how bad it will be in the end."

Marilyn smiled and went out of the kitchen. Olivia started with cooking water. Water in a pot and spaghetti into the water. Then she put the pot onto one of the burners and started to cook it. After that she took out a pan and started to roast the mince. After it was roasted enough, she took some tomato sauce and poured it into the pan. Then she took a spoon out of one of the drawers and tasted the sauce. It tasted not that good so she took some spices and tried to make it at least a little better. After a little of experimenting around, she couldn't taste anything anymore. She threw the spoon into the sink and gave up. When she entered the living room everybody was sitting around the small coffee table talking, laughing. Little Finn was sleeping in Rachel's arms and he didn't bothered waking up, because of all the noises.

"I'm giving up, which means. Lunch is ready."

Ella looked at her with a questioning look as did her mum. Rachel had a look on her face that hoped that she hadn't screwed up to much and her dad was just exited for the result. They went to the kitchen and and sat down around the small kitchen table. It was nice round and when everybody had settled down Olivia started to serve the food. A few minutes later the room was filled by silence. Everybody was eating. Olivia didn't tasted anything but the look on the faces told stories. She totally screwed up. Her mum was the first to speak.

"It's not as bad as I thought it would be but you haven't put salt into the water. You have boiled the water together with the spaghetti's instead of boiling the water first and then adding the spaghetti. But your sauce is actually not that bad, Olive. All you need is some practice."

Olivia smiled slightly about that comment and was also relieved that it hadn't been to bad.

"Aunt Liv, can you do me a favor?"

"What is it, baby girl?"

"Please, don't cook while I'm with you. At least not until you know how to do it."

Ella had drawn her nose nappy and her her eyes were almost shut. She looked totally adorable and so Olivia this time started to laugh.

"Yeah, I can promise you that."

Everybody else was also laughing and it was just a perfect moment. They were together as a family and that was something that couldn't be compared with anything else.

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