Since their talk a week ago, Alex and Olivia decided that the detective would cut back on her hours and with the spare time they would have mandatory family days. And today was their first family day.

Olivia grinned as she tiptoed down the hallway. "Oh where oh where could Ben be?" She turned into his bedroom, only to see Alex pretend-hiding in the closet since she had to hold onto Lexie. "Oh look! I found Auntie Lexie! That's one down…"

Alex rolled her eyes as she stepped out of the closet. "That was far too easy for you, Liv. Try not to act so proud." The detective grinned as she put her hand on Alex's lower back and escorted her out of the room.

"Here we come Ben! You have me, Auntie Lexie, and your sister looking for you!" They heard a small squeal and Alex tried not to laugh. "Uh oh…only one room left. Is Ben hiding in Auntie Lexie's room?" She walked into the room and immediately spotted a tuft of brown hair from behind Lexie's crib.

"Hmm, where would I hide if I were a little boy?" Alex contemplated as she walked over to her closet and pretended to open it up. They heard a quiet giggle as Ben watched his aunt look in all the wrong places.

"Did you hear that Alex? Sounds like a mouse!" Olivia exclaimed as she turned toward the bed and purposely walked around the crib, completely ignoring Ben. "I wonder where it could be coming from! Maybe there's a mouse in the dresser!"

Ben giggled again as Olivia pulled open the top drawer of the dresser, a high pitched squeal surprising her. One second she was looking at a blue plastic bulb shaped object hidden among lingerie and the next the drawer was slammed shut with Alex standing in front of it, cheeks bright red.

"I didn't see—"

"Not one word," Alex cut in, groaning in embarrassment.

Olivia bit her lip as she tried not to laugh at the blonde. If she was being honest, she'd admit to having a vibrator of her own among her lingerie except she didn't bother to bring it to Alex's apartment because she just didn't feel right about it. There was something oddly disturbing about having another woman just down the hallway, a rather attractive one at that.

"I'm calling a no questions asked card."

Olivia raised an eyebrow and tried not to smirk. "I don't think I need to ask questions to understand what that's for, Alex." Alex groaned as she pushed Olivia away from the dresser, guiding her to where Ben was hiding.

"Don't be a smart…tooshie," Alex grumbled as Olivia pretended to be excited as she 'found' Ben.

"Auntie Livia is super smart! I wanna be jus' like her when I'm grow-up," Ben interjected as he jumped up from his hiding spot and hugged Olivia's leg. "But firs' I gotta eat my veggies like Auntie Lexie says so dat I can grow big!"

"Your Auntie Lexie is the smart one, Ben. She's a lawyer! And she told you to eat your veggies which is really smart. That's how you get strong!" She scooped him up without warning and tossed him a foot into the air before catching him again.

He giggled excessively as Olivia continued tossing him up and catching him. "Jus' as strong as you?!" Olivia nodded as she let Ben down who immediately ran over to Alex. "Look Auntie Livia! I can lif' up Auntie Lexie!" He wrapped his arms around her legs and tried diligently to do just that.

"Not quite, buddy, but maybe you can someday after you eat all your veggies!" Olivia encouraged.

He nodded vigorously as he ran toward the door. "I'm gonna go get some carrots! Can I have some?" Olivia nodded as she ruffled up his longer brown locks, mentally noting that he really needed a haircut within the week.

"Why don't you go sit down at the kitchen table and Alex and I will join you in a second?" Without waiting, Ben ran out of the room and toward the kitchen. Both women grinned at the happy little boy before Olivia turned to face Alex. "Look, about—"

"Nope. Don't even," Alex interrupted as she raised a finger to stop Olivia prematurely.

"Not like that, Alex. I was just going to say that if you wanted to…I mean…sorry this isn't coming out right," Olivia muttered as she chuckled. "What I'm trying to say is that if you wanted to start dating someone that's fine. I know I've been making you stay at home a lot since I've been working and I've returned to my normal life, for the most part, but you haven't. So if you want to go on dates or something, I can watch the kids."

Alex stayed quiet for a few seconds with a raised eyebrow. "So we went from you seeing…that…to you telling me I could go out on dates." Alex grinned as Olivia blushed. "Liv, that existed in my drawer for far longer than you've been here so I think I'm fine. But thank you for offering to allow me to date. Quite honestly, I find that…that…is so much simpler than another person."

Olivia laughed wholeheartedly. "You're telling me! So much easier than dealing with a relationship," She stated before trying to backpedal as she realized what that might suggest. "I mean I haven't since I've lived with you because that would be…"

"Nope! Too much information!" Alex cried out as she started laughing. "Oh my gosh, we've known each other for how long and we're talking about this? I don't even talk about sex with my gyno…" The blonde chuckled as she admired the blushing detective. "But the same goes for you…about the dating thing."

"Thanks, Alex, but I think I'm fine," Olivia admitted as she stole a glance at Alex as she turned to walk toward the door. The blonde was barefoot in a pair of well-worn blue jeans that had paint specks on them from last week when they redid Ben's room. Her hair was up in a messy ponytail and an oversized Harvard law shirt adorned her chest. How could something so simple look so damn good on her?

"And if…" Olivia snapped her eyes up and off of Alex rear, where her gaze apparently wandered off to while she was thinking. "If you need to…I mean this is your house too. Just do me a favor and lock the door because I don't think things would end well if I crawled into bed with you while you were doing that…"

Or maybe things would end very well. Olivia tried not to grin at the thought. Of course, Alex's phrasing made that comment sound rather…awkward. More recently—since they had grown more comfortable around each other—Alex had been opening up to the detective, especially about her hurt and anger toward Ben and Claire.

There would be times, four to be exact, when Alex would just crawl in bed with her and allow the detective to hold her. Neither of them spoke of it after the fact and they both liked it that way. They had a minimal conversation the first night it happened anyway.

Olivia had woken up from a timid knock on her door since her job made her such a light sleeper. She quickly climbed out of her bed and opened up the door, expecting Ben to be waiting outside with Ellie in his arms and a sad look on his face. Instead, Alex stood there looking just as timid as Ben usually did.

Without a word, Olivia guided the blonde into the room, quickly glancing at the clock and noting that it was two am. They both sat down on the edge of the bed while Alex frantically tried to wipe away her tears so it was less obvious how upset she was.

"What is it, Lex?" Olivia whispered as she scooted closer to the blonde, her hand rubbing slowly up and down a shaking back. Despite going to Olivia's room for a reason, Alex couldn't quite seem to form a single word, so instead she leaned slightly toward the brunette. Olivia took the hint and pulled Alex close to her, allowing the blonde to rest her head on her shoulder.

They stayed like that for a close to an hour before Alex finally spoke, admitting that she was sad and angry and so confused. She hated Claire and Adam for leaving her and she hated them for doing this to her and yet she missed them so much. They talked for another hour before Olivia managed to convince Alex to lay down with her. Neither of them would be able to explain how Olivia wound up spooning Alex from behind come morning.

And that had been the start of those rare nights when Alex would crawl into bed with Olivia. The second time it happened, Olivia immediately led the blonde into bed with her. The third time, Alex didn't wait to be invited. The fourth time, Olivia just woke up cuddling against the blonde, surprised that she didn't even wake up when Alex joined her.

"Nope, no, absolutely not going to do that here, honestly, I'm fine," Olivia stated as she tried to shake away all her memories with the blonde. "Now, I do believe we have a little boy who is patiently awaiting some carrots."

"We certainly can't deny him his carrots!" Alex exclaimed in a teasing manner as she adjusted Lexie in her arms and walked toward the kitchen. Olivia followed her, grinning at the way Alex looked so damn comfortable padding down the hallway barefoot with a baby in her arms.

Maybe she could get used to this whole domestic thing…