Beams of sunlight sliced through the blinds, shining directly onto Olivia's eyes waking her up. Groaning she turned away from the light and snuggled in closer to Murphy. She watched his chest slowing rising and falling. Moving her hand up, she lightly drew lazy circles on his chest with a fingertip.
His hand reached up to stop her movements, "that tickles" he mumbled. Olivia smirked and looked up to see Murphy still had his eyes closed. She leaned in to give him what was intended to be a quick peck but when she pulled away Murphy pulled her back in to kiss her deeply.
Olivia smiled brightly, "Good morning"
"Good morning" Murphy replied, smiling too.
"Noah should be up any minute" and right on cue, Noah's cries could be heard through the baby monitor. "See I told you, like clockwork." Olivia kicked the covers off her and getting up she made her way to Noah's room. Murphy got up too, gathering his clothes laying on a bundle on the floor. When he emerged from the bedroom he found Olivia sitting on the living room floor, changing Noah's diaper. Murphy stooped down to pick up his suit jacket that had been discarded the night before.
"Did you want to stay for breakfast?" Olivia asked.
"No thanks, I need to stop off at home before work. But how about dinner tonight?"
"Okay I'll meet you back at the precinct after I pick Noah up from daycare?"
"Perfect" Murphy said before leaning down he kissed her on the cheek. "I'll see you later. Bye Liv, bye Noah." Murphy gave a quick wave before leaving.
Another long day dealing with the depravity of people Olivia thought to herself before leaning back in her chair and tossing her pen down. Looking down at her watch she saw it was almost 5:30, she cursed and pushed her chair back from her desk. I'm going to be late picking Noah up again!
She hurried toward the door passing Nick along the way.
"Whoa where's the fire?"
"I'm going to be late picking up Noah!" she yelled over her shoulder to her partner before running out the door.
Olivia pulled up to the curb outside Noah's daycare. She took the stairs two at the time and pulling back the door she hurried in, almost bumping into one of the women who worked there.
"Oh Mrs. Sykes, I'm so sorry I'm late."
The woman smiled sweetly at Olivia, "Oh that's alright, your partner came in about an hour ago to pick him up. He said that you sent him to come get Noah because you were held up at work and weren't sure if you were going to make it on time."
Olivia felt her stomach drop, "What are you talking about? I never sent anyone to pick Noah up."
The woman looked at Olivia in utter confusion. "I…are you sure? He said that you two worked together"
"Are you kidding me?" Olivia felt completely overwhelmed with fear. "I never sent anyone here to pick him up. You just let some stranger walk out of here with my son!? What did he look like?"
"I…I don't know" the woman replied clearly flabbergasted that this could be happening, "he was...I don't know average looking I guess. Tall with black hair."
Olivia turned her back on the woman and pulling out her cell phone dialed the precinct.
"Lieutenant Murphy" the voice on the other line said after the second ring.
"Declan, Noah is missing!" she said, her voice full of urgency. She felt her stomach flip and she suddenly felt nauseous.
"Olivia? What are you talking about?"
"I went to the daycare to get him and they said that my 'partner' already came and got him…I think it was that guy who thought he might be Noah's father. Jonathan Johnson"
"How do you know?"
"I don't for sure. The woman gave me a vague description sounds like it could be him. Oh god Declan what am I going to do?" He could hear her voice catch in her throat.
"It's going to be okay Liv. You stay there, we're on our way. And Liv, we're going to find him. I promise."