"He's adorable, Liv." Nick looked down at the baby in his arms and smiled, remembering when he held his own daughter for the first time.

The team had come by that evening, after closing their case, to visit their sergeant and meet the baby. Cragen had left earlier in the day to go home and get some sleep himself; so Olivia had gotten some time alone with her son. But she was happy to have the team there.

"Hey, stop hogging the baby." Amanda joked as she went up to Nick and reached for the little boy. Nick reluctantly gave the baby up.

Liv smiled at the two detectives. While no would ever replace Brian or be able to take his place as the father of her son, she took comfort in knowing that every member of her team, as well as Cragen, would always protect her little boy. With no other family, Fin, Amanda, Nick, and Don took that place in her life.

Nick sat down in the chair next to the hospital bed, with now empty arms. "When are you going home?"

"They said they're going to discharge me sometime tomorrow, probably late morning." Olivia told him.

"That's good." Nick said, knowing that Liv despised being confined. "I'm sure you're ready to get him home."

Liv simply looked at him, but didn't say anything more. She was ready to be at home, to be with her son in a familiar environment. But she wasn't physically ready to have her baby come home with her. At that moment, Olivia had a car seat and absolutely nothing else related to an infant in her apartment. With case after case coming into SVU constantly and very little time to sleep yet alone shop and then trying to cope with no longer having Brian, Liv had found no time to get herself ready for her son to be at home. And she had always figured that when she got the chance to start her maternity leave a little early after the trial was over, that she would get the chance to at least get some basics. But no such luck and now she was completely unprepared.

Amanda had looked up from the baby, when she heard the room go silent. "You okay, Liv?"

"Umm… yeah…" Olivia looked at her. "I just… uhh… I have absolutely nothing ready to bring him home tomorrow."

"What do you mean by nothing?" Fin joined the conversation.

Olivia sighed. "Just that, nothing. I have a car seat that is still in the box and that's about it. No clothes, no blankets, nowhere for him to sleep. Wow… I already sound like a horrible parent."

"Woah, Liv… You're not a horrible parent." Nick assured her. "You've had more going on in the last few months than most people deal with in a years' time. You need to give yourself a little credit."

"But how do you take a newborn home without anything to wear or any place to put them to bed?"

They could all see the defeated look on her face. It was obvious that she was more than in love with Judson and after working with her for some time, they knew what an incredible mother she would be. But Liv had a hard time being unprepared, it was the one thing that scared her. And going it alone with a baby was going to be scary enough without having to worry about whether or not she had diapers or a change of clothes for her son.

"Let's not worry about that too much tonight, you need to get some sleep girl." Fin told her.

Amanda gave the now sleeping newborn back to Liv and placed a comforting hand on the new mom's shoulder. "You'll figure it out."

"Thanks, Amanda." Liv gave her a small smile.

Nick stood up from his seat. "Do you want me take you home in the morning? I can go get your car and get the car seat put in it for you."

"That would be great Nick." That was at least a small relief for Liv. "Thank you."

The next morning came rather quickly for the new mom and baby. While Olivia was still sore from labor, she was happy to get out of the hospital and be back at home with her little boy.

After getting dresses in her comfortable leggings and an oversized sweater she had packed for herself and feeding the baby, Olivia sat quietly in the chair by the bed just watching her son sleep. In that moment she finally felt like she got to take in all of his little features. He had lots of dark hair, somewhat curly hair, obviously from his mother and he also had her nose. But his eyes, although he was still not fully alert, were very much his father's; the almond shape, the green color, screamed Brian in every possibly way, which thrilled Olivia.

Her inspection was interrupted when Amanda came through her hospital room door, a rather larger gift bag in her hand that read It's a Boy. "I hope I'm not disrupting anything."

"Of course not." Liv said. "We're just waiting for Nick."

"Well I just wanted to drop this off for you guys this morning." Amanda set the bag at Olivia's feet.

"You didn't have to do that Amanda." Liv was never one to accept gifts.

"I figured you never got a baby shower or anything, so I wanted to do something for you. And it's really from me, Fin, and Nick."

"You want to hold him so I can open it?" Olivia handed the baby to Amanda, who gladly took the infant.

Liv tore away the white tissue paper and began pulling items out of the bag. There were a couple packages of plain light blue and green onsies, three patterned sleepers, two print long sleeve onsies and matching leggings. There were also bibs, burp rags, and a couple swaddle blankets.

"I can't accept all of this." Liv knew she needed everything, but she couldn't help but feel guilty taking all of the things that her team had bought.

"Don't start with that Liv." Amanda warned her. "You need all of these things and we want to be able to do this for you."

"Thank you so much." Olivia said genuinely.

Nick walked in just after Amanda had left and Olivia had gotten Judson changed into one of his new outfits. With her bag already packed, both the baby and Liv were ready to go.

Nick helped Liv carefully put Jud into his car seat, where he almost instantly fell asleep. Nick carried the baby to the car, while a nurse, much to Olivia's dismay, pushed the new mom in a wheel chair. The night before, Nick had gone to Olivia's apartment and put the car seat all together, as well as a few other things that would be a surprise.

When they finally got back to the apartment, Nick carried the car seat and helped Olivia up the elevator and down the hall, as she was somewhat sore from giving birth. As soon as they walked into the apartment Liv noticed what Nick had done the night before.

"Where did that come from?" Olivia was staring at a what looked like an expensive, grey and white baby swing.

"Before you get mad about that, it was a gift from Brian's mom. It was here when I came by last night. The doorman said she dropped it off and all I did was put it together." Nick explained.

"Of course she did." Liv remarked, knowing that her son's grandmother would certainly be spoiling him.

"And the basinet that is in your room was a gift from Cragen." Nick warned her of the other gift before she scolded him.

"All of you did too much." Olivia said.

Nick shook his head. "When are you going to learn to accept people's help? Just take the gifts and enjoy your son, Liv."

Olivia sighed. "I know, I know."

Nothing more was said before Jud made his presence known, with small whimpers. Olivia unbuckled him from his car seat and swept him into her arms. "I probably need to feed him."

Nick nodded. "I'm going to let you guys get settled then. Call me if you need anything."

"Thanks, Nick. I really do appreciate the help."

"Of course, Liv." And then Nick left.

With her baby in her arms, feeding, Olivia finally felt like she could relax. It had never felt better to be sitting on her own couch, in her own house. Even though Judson had been six weeks early, he was healthy and in all honestly, Liv was happy to have him finally with her. After all that had happened, he was the best distraction and she was so thankful for him.