Adam and Casey sat in the waiting room quietly.
"I hope they name the kid after me." Adam spoke up.
"Highly doubt it. If they name it after anyone, it will be after me." Casey said.
Adam smirked. "A unisex name? Sergeant will never go for that."
"You don't know that."
"Yes I do, I known him for almost five years now. He's my best friend."
"Aww that's cute."
"Do you think guys find your need to bring down men all the time attractive? We don't."
"Why do you think I even want you attracted to me?"
"Who said I was?"
"Didn't you show up to the hospital at 5 in the morning to check on me?"
"Don't remind me of my stupidity."
Both became quiet again. The young doctor that Casey was fooling around with earlier came over. He sat down by her. "Hey."
Casey instantly smiled. "Hey."
Adam looked over instantly and crossed his arms on his chest. He stayed quiet.
The doctor glanced at Adam. "Hey." He extended his hand out. "Josh."
Adam shook his hand. "Adam."
"Nice to meet you Adam. Are you Casey's brother?"
"No." Adam answered. "Just a friend."
"Cool." Josh nodded. "Casey want to go get a cup of coffee?"
"Yeah, I'd love to." Casey smiled and got up.
"Adam did you want anything?"
"No." Adam answered bitterly.
Josh put his hand on her lower back and led her down the hall.
Adam sat their quietly feeling the jealousy built up.
"Olivia Benson." Someone asked at the front desk.
Adam looked over. It was William's step dad. He quickly got up. "She's in surgery now, William is with her sir."
Cragen turned around. "Hey Adam." He shook his hand. He knew him very well because Adam normally stayed with William when they were home because he didn't have a home. "What are you doing here?"
"Sergeant was out of state at the time so I sort of filled in." He sat down on the chair again.
Cragen sat down by him. "Where's Casey?"
"Oh. With some stupid doctor having coffee." He answered with a shrug.
Cragen smiled. "Jealous?"
"No!" Adam quickly shook his head. "I don't care who she goes out with."
"Sure you don't."
"I don't sir."
Cragen nodded. "What did the doctor say about the baby?"
"He is having issues with being in the womb, so its better to do the emergency C-Section. That's all Sergeant could tell me before he went into the delivery room."
Cragen nodded. "When are you being deployed again?"
"I don't know yet, I had some medical problems and my physical wasn't a hundred percent."
"Do you want to go back?"
"No. I'm one of those marines that isn't excited about war and guns." He smiled.
"Ever think of working for the department?"
"Not really." He shrugged. "I'm taking some classes now for pre-med."
"That's good. So you can make the big money and get the ladies?" Cragen teased with a smirk.
"Mostly the money, I don't want the ladies that are interested in my money and not me." Adam stated and looked at Casey coming down the hall.
Cragen shook his head at Adam. "Haven't changed all these years Smith."
Casey kept laughing at everything Josh would say. "So Monday night at nine?"
Josh nodded. "Yes m'am. You got my number?"
"Yes sir." She laughed a little.
Cragen and Adam exchanged looks. Adam rolled his eyes. "Captain did you want any coffee?"
"I'm good." Cragen nodded.
Adam said nothing and got up. He walked past Casey and Josh and went to get coffee.
Josh gave Casey a hug and left. Casey sat down by Cragen. "What's Adam's problem?"
"I wonder." Cragen rolled his eyes. "He likes you."
"No he doesn't."
"So does."
"Well I don't like him."
"Well you're missing out, he is a real good guy."
Casey just shrugged and took a sip of coffee. "Josh is too. He is a doctor, he helps people, not kill them for a living."
Cragen shook his head and said nothing.
Adam came back and sat on Cragen's other side. He sipped his coffee and kept quiet.
William came out of the delivery room and started to take off his scrubs. "It's a boy." He smiled.
Cragen was the first to get up. "Congratulations." He went to shake his hand but William instantly hugged him. Cragen smirked and hugged him back.
William finally let go. "They said we can take him home in a couple weeks once he develops a little more but otherwise everything should be good."
"How's Olivia?" Casey asked.
"She's good. The surgery went well, she's sleeping now."
"Got a name yet?" Adam questioned.
"Not yet. I didn't get a chance to discuss it with Olivia."
"Can we see him?"
"Not yet, they are bringing him up to the pre-mature section of the hospital. His lungs aren't completely developed yet so they are putting him on the machine for about a week just to be on the safe side. I haven't even held him yet, they took him right away."
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Couple days later…
William sat by the small plastic box that his son was in. He couldn't hold him yet, just touch him by putting his hands through the access of the box.
"Xavier?" Olivia suggested as she looked through the name book.
"No." William took a sip of his coffee.
"Alexander?"
"No."
"Why?"
"I don't like it."
"Jonathon?"
"He doesn't look like a Jonathon."
"What does he look like?"
"Some unique name."
"Carlos?"
William looked over at her. "Really?"
"No." She rolled her eyes. "I wanted to see if you were paying attention."
"I am."
"Sirius?"
"No. Sounds evil and devil like."
"I give up." Olivia closed the book. "I'm tired."
"Take a nap."
"No."
"Why?" William asked. Olivia shrugged. "He will be fine." He whispered. "I'm awake. Take a nap. C'mon." He kissed her forehead. She nodded and rested her head back.
William finished his coffee and looked through the clean clothes that Casey brought them over the days. They spent all day and night at the hospital with their son. Both refused to go home.
He found a clean shirt and took his old one off. He changed his shirt and folded the dirty one. Olivia always found it weird that he folded his dirty clothes but he was just used to it over the years.
He sat down by his son and watched him. "Hey buddy." He put his hand through the access and gently caressed his small hand. "You're going to be a heartbreaker, aren't you?"
There was a knock on the door. Casey came in with a bag of food. "Hey, I got you guys some food." She whispered seeing Olivia was sleeping. "How is he?"
"Small improvement over the days but nothing major." He took the bag of food. "Thanks, I'm sick of chips from the vending machines." He dug in the bag and went straight for the burger.
"I thought you hated junk food." She smiled at him.
"I do." He nodded and took a big bite out of the burger. "I'm going to gain weight being a father, I know it."
"That's ok. No name yet?"
"No. We got nothing."
There was another knock on the door. Adam came in this time with a box of pizza and a bag full of drinks. "Hey."
"Coke." William demanded.
Adam instantly dug into the bag and handed him a can of Coke. "Hungry much?" William nodded and finished off his burger, he went in the bag and got another one. "Want a slice of pizza?" William nodded again. Adam opened the box and let William grab a slice.
"For a skinny man, you eat a lot don't you?" Casey asked. William nodded.
Olivia stirred out of her sleep to the smell of food. "I want some." She opened the pizza box and grabbed a slice. "Oh food how I missed you."
William finished his food. "I'm going to get coffee, Adam want to come with?"
"Yeah." He got up and followed him out of the door. "So how is he?"
"He is ok, the doctor said it just takes time." William explained. "How are you and Casey?"
"What about Casey and I? We're not dating"
"Not even flirting?"
"No, she steers clear from me when she sees me nearby." Adam explained and put in quarters for the coffee machine. "She's dating some doctor that works here."
"Oh, the one she was making out with when Olivia was in labor." William thought out loud without thinking. Adam just looked over at him. "Oh, shit, I forgot you didn't know about that, sorry man."
"Why are you sorry? I don't care." He shrugged. "She's not my girlfriend."
William gave him a suspicious look. "Ok."
"I don't care Sergeant." Adam attempted again to convince him.
"Ok. Hey I never got the chance to thank you for helping out when Olivia was in labor."
"You don't have to thank me for that."
"Olivia and I were talking, we would like it if you would be our kid's godfather."
Adam instantly smiled. "I'd be honored. Thanks. Can I name him?"
"I don't like the name Adam, you know that."
"Damn it. Never mind."
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Casey looked at the baby and then Olivia. "You should get a meaningful name for him. I mean after all this."
Olivia nodded and drank her Sprite. "I though of a name, I'm just going to discuss it with William first, see how he likes it."
"What is it?"
"I wanna discuss it with him first." Olivia said. "So are you and Adam together?"
"No. I'm seeing Josh. The doctor from here."
"Oh, the one you made out with spontaneously?" Olivia smiled. Casey raised her eyebrow. "Will and I don't have TV in here, all we do is talk all day. Sorry kid."
Casey shook her head. "Gossiping little girls."
"Hey, Will and I would like it if you could be the little guys godmother, if you want of course."
Casey grinned. "I'd love to be, thank you." She quickly hugged Olivia. "I think I might cry."
"Don't cry." Olivia chuckled.
"Can I name him?"
"No, William doesn't like unisex names like Casey."
"Damn it. I hate that guy sometimes"
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Casey and Adam left the hospital room around the same time.
"Hey guess what?" Adam looked over at her as they walked to the parking lot. "I'm a godfather."
Casey stopped in her tracks. "Not to their baby right?"
"Of course to their baby." Adam stopped also. "Why?" Casey kept looking at him. "Oh no, you're the godmother?" Casey nodded. "Damn it."
"Look, it's fine, we just have to stay out of each other's way."
"What do you make it sound so awkward?"
"Because we don't get along."
"No, you don't get along with me, I'm the civil one. You're the one that can't stand me."
"So? You tend to stalk me."
"I do not."
"Well you got this little boy crush on me."
"Don't be so cocky." Adam rolled his eyes and kept walking.
"It's not cocky." She quickly followed.
He turned around and walked backwards as he talked. "Look at that, you're stalking me now."
"No I'm not, the parking lot is over there."
"Then why were you looking at my ass?" He smiled.
"What ass?"
"I got a wonderful ass and you know it. You can bounce a quarter off it."
"See, now that's cocky." She smiled and purposefully didn't want to tell him he was going to fall over two steps walking backwards. In a matter of seconds, Adam tripped and instantly fell on the cement. Casey burst into laughter and took the two stairs and walked right past him.
"Ow." Adam laid on the ground. "That was mean."
Casey stopped at her car. "I thought you were gonna bounce right back up falling on your ass." She smiled and got in her car.
Adam laid there staring at the sky as he listened to her turn on her car and drive off.
"You ok Smith?" Cragen extended his hand out to the younger man.
Adam nodded and took his hand to pull himself up. "Yeah."
"You going in?"
"No, I was just on my way out when I fell actually."
"Stick around for a bit, I'll give you a ride to the base." Cragen offered knowing Adam didn't have a car or a home and sometimes no money. He had nothing but the military.
"No, I'll take the cab, thanks captain."
"Why waste money? C'mon, I'll give you a ride in ten minutes. I just came to see those three."
"I appreciate it sir, but I'm fine. I'm going to walk around the city for a bit anyway." Adam nodded not liking hand outs from anyone.
Cragen nodded and headed into the hospital.
He knocked on the door softly and went in. The nurse was letting William hold the baby for the first time because his bones were finally developed enough. "Hey." Cragen whispered.
William looked up with a huge smile. "Come in, look at my son."
Olivia watched the father of her son with a huge grin seeing how proud he was. "Evan, it means young fighter."
William looked at her and nodded. "Evan." He looked down at the baby. "Hi Evan Charles Benson."
"Grant." Olivia corrected. "Evan Charles Grant." William looked up at her and smiled even more.
"That's a good name." Cragen sat down next him. "He looks like a fighter."
"One more person can hold him for now then we got to put him back, he isn't completely strong yet." The nurse informed them.
"Captain did you want to hold him?" Olivia asked.
"He needs mommy bonding now, I'll take a rain check." Cragen smiled seeing Olivia wanted nothing more than to hold her son.
"Thanks." Olivia said excitedly and gently took Evan from William. "Come here baby." She whispered with tears in her eyes. "He is so small and light."
Evan suddenly jerked his arm rapidly.
The nurse instantly took him from Olivia. "He is having a seizure."
"What?" William instantly got up from his chair. "Where's the doctor?"
"Down the hall. Last door on the left." The nurse slowly put Evan down not to hurt him from his own movement.
William instantly ran out of the room to get the doctor. He ran as fast as possible.
Olivia stood there frozen not knowing what to do. Knowing she couldn't do anything to help her son. She simply began crying. "Oh my god."
Cragen slowly took Olivia and held her as she cried on his shoulder so she wouldn't have to watch her son suffer.