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A simple "Oh" was all the team got in response from Olivia after the news.

It had been a rough road with Johnny D. during the adoption process for Liv and Noah. The disgusting rapist and prostitute seller had found out just days before the adoption was set to be finalized that Noah was his son with Ellie Porter. Barba, Langan, and Judge Linden has assured Olivia that Johnny D. did not have to know about his son, but that didn't stop word from spreading and the sperm donor, as Fin referred to him, had decided to fight Olivia's right to adopt Noah. Of course, his efforts had been repulsed, he was sentenced to life in jail without parole, and Olivia got to finally be momma to Noah Benson. Though it was still a subject no one preferred to bring up with Liv.

The next day found Olivia back in the pediatric unit, herself in a seat between Noah's bed and the bed of the infant. Nick had accompanied her, after letting Barba go home and get some rest.

"So do you know for sure that Johnny D. is who sold this baby to that couple?"

"Yeah, we're almost positive." Nick answered.

"Wait." Olivia moved her eyes from where they had been resting on the little girl fast asleep and she made immediate eye contact with Nick. "Jonny D. is in prison. How was he supposed to have sold a baby to this couple from a jail cell?"

Nick was waiting for that question. "We were wondering the same thing. But the wife said that they met with Johnny D. almost nine months before they got the baby. She said he knew one of his whores was pregnant and that she would have a baby to give up. Neither the man or woman told us how they met him, but they said after their first meeting with him they started meeting with a different man to make their payments for the baby. We don't know who this other guy is, but he got them the baby so we figure he has to be related to Johnny D. somehow."

"Just when I thought we had gotten rid of this scum bag." All Olivia wanted was Johnny D. and his relation to Noah. "He just gets worse all the time. How did he get away with all of this right in front us?"

"Well it doesn't matter now. He's serving his sentence and he has no way of finding out that we have this baby." Nick understood Liv's reservations about any connection to Johnny D., but he had to help her believe that he wouldn't make another important aspect of Olivia's life even more complicated.

Olivia nodded in response to Nick, but she didn't know that she believed him. Johnny D. was at a point where it didn't matter who the kid belonged to, if he had anyway to use it as leverage or revenge against Liv, her team, or Barba, he would.

The day lingered on and still found Olivia in the pediatric ICU. She had gone back to her room and gotten some much needed rest and had met with her doctors to check on her progress. She had been cleared of the possibility of having a brain bleed. Her ribs were healing, but still extremely sore and tender. It had all been so much on Liv's body, both physically and mentally. She had been assaulted in her home before and to have it happen again brought some unwarranted side effects. However, Olivia would never let anyone know that she was struggling with some of her well managed PTSD. She would get through it; it may take a little extra time, but she would get through it again. After her exams, though, she had refused to stay in her bed any longer than she needed to. Being able to see Noah was the only thing keeping her sane. And, honestly, she wanted to keep an eye on the baby, too; she had no one else.

"I knew I would find you back here."

Liv looked up from the seat she occupied once more to lock eyes with Barba. The man was clad in his jeans and polo instead of his usual suit and tie.

"Where else would I be?" Olivia smirked at the man.

"How is the little man?" Rafael walked over to where Noah sat quietly in his bed. The little boy stared at him, cracking a small smile at the familiar face.

"He's good, seems to be back to himself." Liv said. "I think he's just as ready to go home as I am."

Rafael pulled the closet spare chair he could find up next to Olivia's. "How is she doing?" He turned to look at the small infant who was fast asleep.

"She's okay. They said some of her levels had dropped over night, but she's seems to be better this afternoon."

There were small holes in the sort of incubator crib they had the baby girl in; Barba reached gently through one of the holes and reaching a finger towards her hand. The infant immediately grasped his finger with her own small hand.

"Has the team been able to track down her real parents or anyone who claims her?" Rafael asked Liv, but didn't move his gaze from the little girl.

"Not yet. They were running her DNA, trying to find a parent, but they hadn't gotten the results back yet this morning. I just... I can't imagine someone just selling a baby." Olivia sighed.

"I will never understand how any of the assholes we deal with do what they do or why they do it. But the kids just really get me. How does anyone look into the face of a child and still do terrible things to them?"

Liv scoffed. "I have been asking myself that same question since I started."

"I just hope they find someone for her. She deserves a home and a family. She has the chance to have a normal life; she won't remember all that has happened." Rafael watched the baby's chest rise and fall as she took her breaths. And all he could think about was Noah. He had been so lucky to find a home and mother in Olivia and he would get to experience life as a completely normal child. That's what this little girl deserved too.

Liv was a little taken aback by Barba's reaction to the baby. He had never expressed even an ounce of interest in any children before; she didn't quite know what was so different about this one. "Hopefully something works out."

As the pair sat in the pediatric unit, both of them focused on the two children they were so worried about, Nick, followed by Rollins, came in through the automatic doors. Both of them looked rather uncertain.

"What are you both doing here?" Rafael asked.

"We got the DNA results back." Nick said matter-of-factly.

"So there was a hit?" Olivia questioned him hopefully.

Nick looked back to Rollins and then to Liv. But it was Amanda who spoke first. "There was a match for both parents. Do you remember that prostitute murder we worked on the east side where the woman had been stabbed and then had her throat slit?"

Olivia nodded, the case was still fresh in her mind. They had been given the case a little over a month earlier and they still didn't have a single suspect nor were they any closer to solving the case. It had been a brutal murder, a blood bath. The woman had been worked over before the assailant had stabbed her nearly thirty times and then taken the knife to her throat to finish her off. The crime scene had no fingerprints, no hair, no fibers, nothing that would lead them any closer to a solid suspect. And she was a prostitute, there was a list a mile long of people who could possibly have reason to attack her.

"Well she is most certainly the mother of that baby." Rollins announced.

"Wait, that's right." Liv began to recall. "Warner had mentioned that she thought the woman had recently given birth. So that would fit the timeline."

"You said you guys that you found both parents?" Barba urged.

"We did. And... I mean... We knew Johnny D. sold this couple that baby." Nick hesitated in his answer.

"Yeah, we knew that." Olivia sounded slightly annoyed.

Nick snuck another look at Amanda before he spoke. "The match for the baby's father was Johnny D."

"So you're sure that Johnny D. is her father?" Rafael always had to be absolutely positive.

"Completely sure, or at least Melinda told us that she was and she wouldn't get something like this wrong." Rollins assured them.

"Wait... Wait..." Olivia looked between both Noah and the infant. "This means..." But she stopped.

Rafael looked at Liv and then at her team, trying to see if they maybe knew what Olivia was thinking. "What does this mean, Liv?"

Olivia took a deep breath. "This means... This means that this baby is Noah's sister."

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