Liz is hugging Leslie as soon as the redhead is opening the front door of her house and frowns a little. "Hey, I came here as fast as I could."

Leslie is rolling her eyes and closes the door again. "I didn't mean that you have to drop everything as I asked you if you can come by … after work."

Liz is dropping her purse on the couch and shrugs. "I didn't drop anything, I already was on my way out when I got your message. What's going on?"

"Do you wanna have a drink?"

"Uh, do you have Dr. Pepper?"

Leslie snorts and makes her way to the kitchen. "Would we still be friends if I say no?"

"Probably not." Liz chuckles and takes a seat on the couch.

Leslie smiles broadly and brings her friend the said drink. "Adam's not coming?"

Liz is crossing her legs and frowns a little. "He's still interviewing the gangbanger."

"And you left?"

"I already had a double shift because that ass."

"Yeah, I heard about him too."

The brunette takes a deep breath and furrows her eyebrows. "Leslie, what is going on? Has Chaz done something?"

Leslie's eyebrows shoot up high. "No! No, no, no. Chaz and I are fine. We're more than fine."

Liz is nodding slowly. "Okay, so why am I here?"

The redhead is licking her lips and takes a deep breath. "I was hoping that I could talk with you and Adam about this."

Uh-huh, so much about more than fine, Liz is thinking and is frowning again. "Okay."

Leslie is hesitating and shrugs. "Chaz and I had been wondering if you and Adam would like to be … godparents."

Liz is narrowing her eyes and looks confused at her best friends. "Godparents for wha -" She trails off as realization is setting in and her eyes went huge. "No!"

The other woman is nodding vehemently. "Yes."

"Since when."

"Two months."

"Oh, my God." Liz says with a broad smile and engulfs her friend in a careful hug. "Congratulations. Why didn't you tell me, Leslie?"

"Well, you have been busy with your own life." The other woman replies and shrugs.

"Leslie." The brunette says softly with a smile. "I am so happy for you. Adam and I would be honored to become the godparents of your child."

Leslie is starting to laugh all of a sudden. "Does Adam know about that."

"I'll tell him."

"You're going to be a good wife."

Liz is staring at her friend and laughs with the other woman heartily. She sighs in relief because she couldn't understand why Leslie suddenly has been working in operations, but now it starts to make sense. "I am going to have looking for a new running partner."

"You still have Chaz and Adam, and Lucy." Leslie is laughing.

"True, but none of them are you." Liz says with a smile.

"I am pregnant and not dead."

The brunette nods and perks her eyebrows. "You sure?"

Leslie is huffing and swatting her friends arm.

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Adam came home in early morning and only wants to sleep now. He is sitting down on the bedside of his fiancée and sighs heavily while he's watching her sleeping. He would never say it out loud but he likes it to watch Liz when she is sleeping.

He knows that Liz doesn't like it for real but he doesn't care about that, most of the times she even doesn't notice it.

Liz is starting to smile and stretches her arms over her head. She always can feel when he is staring at her, but she isn't bothered by that. "You are late." She mumbles sleepily.

He has to smile and nods, waiting for her to open an eye. "I know, he didn't want to talk."

She cracks an eye open and hums as she stretches her back now. "Did you get him to talk by now?"

"Nah." He admits.

The brunette groans and buries her face in her pillow. "Go back to the station and don't come back until you got him talking."

Adam laughs and kisses her shoulder.

"You're becoming a godfather." She whispers into the pillow.

He only understands You're becoming a father and his heart is dropping. "What?"

Liz turns around again and looks at him. "Leslie is pregnant."

Adam narrows confused his eyes and stares at the wall. "And that's my fault?"

She huffs and punches his shoulder. "Did you have had sex with Leslie?"

"Not that I would know of." He counter and frowns.

Liz chuckles and frowns as he is covering her with his whole body. "What are you doing?"

"Taking a nap for a hour or two before." Adam mumbles against her neck and heaves a sigh.

She smiles broadly and starts to get him out of his jacket. "Come on, help me a little."

He groans and is doing as she has asked. "So soft." He grumbles and blinks at her. "Hi."

She is still smiling and gives him a peck. "Hi. Now, sleep."

Adam is dropping his head to her shoulder and his body is relaxing immediately

Liz knows that he must be beyond exhausted because he normally doesn't act like a five-year old cuddler, and she wraps her arms around his body.

Adam hums in his sleep and starts to smile.

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Jane is looking up from a file that is laying on her desk as someone is walking into her office without her permission and is about to bite the person's head off, but she stops herself as she sees that the intruder is her own daughter. "Hey, what's the occasion?"

Liz holds up an container and smiles innocently. "Mom."

Jane is blinking a couple of times and she can imagine what contents the container is holding. She makes a face and tries to get as far away from it as possible. "No."

"Ma," the younger woman is laughing. "Come on."

"Uh-uh." The Italian replies and shakes her head. "I am a meat eater and I hate kale."

Liz is smirking and puts the container on the desk. She is quite sure that Jane is going to eat it anyway when she is alone.

Jane takes a deep breath and is rolling back to her desk and frowns a little. "How are you doing?"

"Good." Liz answers with a nods and crosses her legs.

"We have been a little surprised that you cancelled dinner."

"Yeah, I needed a little time for myself. Even Adam preferred to spend the weekend with his parents than with me."

Jane is nodding slowly and looks questioningly at her daughter. Already on Friday, she had sensed that Liz was behaving strangely and had thought that there is a personal issue, that's why she hadn't asked Liz what was wrong. "What happened?"

Liz shakes her head and shrugs. "I had one of those weekends when you better stay in bed. Nothing particular had happened, but I would have been a terribly company."

"So you hit puberty once again." Jane asks with smile.

Liz is considering her answer and narrows her eyes. "For a whole weekend, yes."

Jane rolls her eyes and chuckles. "And you are approachable again?"

"I do not yell of growl, do I?"

Jane is perking an eyebrow and opens the lid of the container, gagging. "No, no one is in panic running out of the bullpen. Adam really preferred to spent the weekend at his parents place?"

Liz takes a deep breath and nods again. "Yap, I was really cranky and that's why I rather stayed in bed instead of ruining your weekend as well."

"Well, thank you for that." Jane states and smiles. "Your mom already had been busy with the older version of you."

Liz makes a face at the thought and is shuddering. "Why do have to put that picture in my head?"

Jane is laughing amused and leans back in her chair. "Just because Mom and I are older than you and Adam it doesn't have to mean that we don't have needs anymore."

"Oh, please stop." The younger woman groans and buries her face in her hands. She doesn't want to imagine that her parents are doing anything else in their bedroom than sleeping.

Jane is smiling broadly and shrugs. Normally, she would clear up the misunderstanding, but it is too much fun right now. "What's the problem?"

Liz is sighing loudly and is leaning forward. "I do love you and Mom very much, but I don't want to imagine how she and you have -"

Jane is waiting and raises her eyebrows. "Sex."

Liz is closing her eyes slowly and nods approvingly. "Yes."

The lieutenant chuckles again and is rolling her eyes. Sometimes she is really surprised how prudish her usually so open-minded daughter can be. "Do you need anything else?"

Liz takes a deep breath and gets up to her feet. "No, Mom only wanted me to bring you the kale. Enjoy it."

Jane gives her daughter sarcastically thumbs up and snorts when Liz is starting to laugh again.

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Adam takes a deep breath and is scratching the back of his head. He knows that Liz is going to kill him and then she's going to kill his friend Noah when she finds out about it.

"Don't look so worried, it's just for a week." Noah says and takes a look at the contents in the fridge. "Come on, help a old friend out, Laverty."

"You mean the old friend who is always trying to hit on my fiancée every time he sees her." Adam replies and frowns.

"She is hot, I can't help it." Noah states and shrugs.

Adam groans and rubs his face with both of her hands. "Okay, maybe you didn't get the sentence, that's why I am repeating it: the old friend who is always trying to hit on my fiancée every time he sees her."

The dark-haired man snickers and shrugs again. "She's still hot."

"This going to be great," Adam whispers under his breath and is eyeing luggage. He isn't quite sure what exactly happened or why he is Noah's first choice. All he knows is that his friend showed up shortly after he came home and that he'd need a place to stay for a couple of days.

"Bro, don't you have a guest room," Noah asks and furls his eyebrows.

"We do," Adam sighs and is praying that he is going to survive this evening. "but we also use it as study. And that means that you are not sleeping in it."

"Why?"

"Because you have the habit to snoop around, Noah."

Noah is now nodding approvingly and is grinning.

Adam is about to open his mouth as he hears the apartment door getting opened. He swallows hard and hurries in the direction and presses his lips to Liz' as soon as she walks through it.

The young woman's eyebrows shoot up high as he is doing so and she can sense that something is wrong. "Well, hello to you too." She says as he pulls away and is searching his eyes. "What was that for?"

"Can't I kiss you when you come home?" He is asking back and tries to smile.

She narrows her eyes and throws her keys into the bowl. "What is wrong?"

His smile drops and his shoulders are slumping. "Noah's here."

Liz is arching an brow and she is clenching her teeth. It's not like she doesn't like Noah, but he is a little too persist for her taste. "Okay. When is he leaving?"

Adam is frowning deeply now. "In a week."

Liz is blinking a couple of times and thinks that she must have heard wrong or that he is kidding her, but she can see that he means it. "Excuse me?"

He raises his shoulders high and heaves a sigh. "Noah showed up shortly after I came home and he told me that he needs a place to stay because his girlfriend kicked him out."

"I wonder why," she states and keeps an straight face.

Adam is nodding approvingly runs an hand through his hair. "Look, Noah and I are friends for over fifteen years, I just can't send him away."

She still has a unreadable face as she starts to walk towards their bedroom. "Okay."

He is looking dumbfounded at the spot where Liz has been standing just seconds ago. "Okay?"

She nods and glances at the couch on which Noah is sitting. "Hey, Noah."

The other man looks over his shoulder and furls his eyebrows. "Hey, Liz."

Adam is following his fiancée and is looking warningly at Noah. "Don't move and don't touch anything, all right?"

Noah holds his hands up and smirks.

Adam rolls his eyes and follows Liz into the bedroom. He closes the door and is glancing nervously at her. "You are mad."

Liz undo the buttons of her white dress shirt and shakes her head. "No, I'm not."

"Really," he asks with an high-pitched voice and he has the feeling like he has entered an alternate universe.

She takes a deep breath and furrows her brows. "Yes, really. I am not mad at you."

"But?"

"You are going to pay for that."

Adam smiles as she turns to him and let his eyes roam over her body. "All right."

Liz is smiling back at him and walks up to him, shoving her index finger into his chest. "So no sex until Noah is gone."

The smile on his lips is dying instantly and he is frowning once more. "What?"

"You heard me." She says with a smile and gives him a peck."

"You can't sit it through yourself."

"I sat it through for seven months, Mr. Laverty. I can handle a whole week. See it as a little motivator."

Adam is groaning disapprovingly and follow the woman into the bathroom. "Are you serious?"

"Do I look like I am joking?" Liz is answering unimpressed by his whiny tone.

"Elizabeth." He whines loudly.

She turns to him and smiles broadly. "Yes, Adam?"

Adam sighs resignedly as he sees the determination in her eyes and clenches his teeth.

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Leslie is laughing out loud and bites into her sandwich. "Why didn't you take a picture of Adam's face when you told him that there will be no sex until Noah's gone again."

Liz is tapping against her temple and snickers. "I took a mental one and pinned it to the wall. But it's also a good motivator, Adam is spending his spare time with searching a apartment for Noah."

Leslie is still laughing and shakes her head. "That is the reason why he is in such a bad mood. Why exactly is Noah staying at your place?"

"His girlfriend kicked him out because she couldn't take his traits anymore."

"And how are you holding up?"

"I hope that Adam is soon finding a apartment or he has to arrest me for shooting one of his best friends."

"Because of the sex or because of Noah's traits?" Leslie asks with a smirk.

Liz is smiling wryly and takes a deep breath as she glances at her friends. "Both." She answers and is laughing with Leslie.

The redhead takes a other bite of her sandwich and furls her eyebrows. "For how long is Noah staying?"

"He said a week, that's two weeks ago now." Liz says and makes a face. She is still staying true to her word and is punishing her fiancé and herself in the same time, and somehow she has the bad feeling that Noah isn't leaving their apartment anytime soon.

Her friend is smirking and takes a swig from her water. "And how is the wedding planning going?"

"Painfully slow." Liz answers and licks her lips. "Maybe we can finish it before your child turns eighteen."

The redhead chuckles and is rubbing her belly. "Get married before I go into labor and we are even."

Liz chuckles and nods approvingly. "That sounds like a plan." She says and frowns. "And how is Chaz doing? I haven't seen him for a while."

"He is a little frustrated because -"

"Mmh."

"Maybe the two of you should meet." Leslie suddenly says and blinks against the sun. She frowns and looks at her best friend. "To workout together. You know, two frustrated people who -"

"I got it." Liz is laughing and waves her friend's terrible explanation off. "So, do you know the gender of the baby?"

"We do, a boy." Leslie answers with a broad smile.

"Oh, Jesus." The brunette mumbles.

"What does that suppose to mean," Leslie is asking and gives her friend a push.

The brunette chuckles again and shrugs. "He's going to break a lot of hearts, that all I meant."

Leslie is nodding slowly and smiles weakly.

Liz can see that something isn't right and puts an hand on Leslie's thigh. "Is something wrong?"

The redhead is licking her lips and heaves a sigh. "I don't know if I am ready for this, Liz."

"What do you mean?"

"Being a mother. I am scared, Liz."

Liz is holding her friend's gaze and doesn't know what to say to soothing Leslie in this moment. But then she is listening to her own heart. "It is normal to be scared, Leslie, and you are not alone in this. You have Chaz and his parents, you have Adam and me, and you have my parents as well. Not to mention the BPD. You are not alone, all right?" She says and furrows her eyebrows. "And Adam and I are gladly baby-sit for you if you and Chaz need some time for yourself."

Leslie nods and finally is smiling again. "Thank you."

Liz is smiling back at her and takes the redhead's hand in her own. "No need to thank me, Leslie."

Leslie takes a deep breath and is nodding to herself. That definitely was something she needed to hear from her best friend right now.

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Liz is propping herself up on her elbow as soon as she is laying down in the bed. "We have to keep an eye on Leslie." She whispers to him.

Adam is furrowing his eyebrows and turns his head. "And why do you think so?"

"Because -" She trails off and frowns deeply. She isn't really sure why she does have this feeling right now. "Because I think she is going to need any help she can get after she has given birth."

"Are you implying that Leslie is going to hurt the baby?" He asks and is sitting up now.

"No," she answers and rolls her eyes. She knows how this must have sound and she wants to slap herself. "No, I don't think so, Adam. It's just … she isn't much older than me and I would be terrified, and I would be grateful for all help that I get."

Adam is scratching his forehead and nods slowly. "That is true, I would be nervous too. Yeah, we are keeping an eye on them and help wherever we can."

Liz nods and kisses him before she is going to turn of her bedside lamp. She starts to shake her head as he is holing her in place. "No," she whispers as she pulls away a little. "Noah is still sleeping on the couch."

"Only until tomorrow," he is whispering back and starts to turn Liz on her back. "I got him a one-room apartment. I am going to help him moving."

Liz his holding his gaze and smirks. "And when you come home tomorrow we can do whatever we want to do."

Adam is sighing heavily and shrugs. "We can be quiet so he won't know about it."

"Since when are you so pushy?" She is laughing and is struggling so she keeps her hands to herself.

He can see that her resistance is slowly but surely fading. "Since I am sharing the same bed with you and am not allowed to be with you."

The smile on Liz' lips is dying and is running her fingers thought his hair. "Tomorrow, when we are alone again."

Adam sighs loudly and nods approvingly before he rolls off of her. "Okay."

"I love you." She whispers and puts her head on his shoulder.

"I love you too." He whispers and pulls her closer before he closes his eyes