Hello there. Here I leave the new chapter. I really hope you like it.

My plan is to write 4 more chapters and this fic will be done. I probably don't be able to update at least for a week, but I'll try my best to not to extend much more.

I'll be waiting for your opinions.

Olivia knew that with her job it was difficult to keep a good friendship with someone outside her office, and since her promotion, she wasn't the one who generally went to the morgue. Trying to avoid not seeing each other for a long time, she and Melinda had agreed to eat lunch together at least once a month, and until now they had managed to keep what they promised half the time.

Since Olivia's return from her vacations, they were having a bit of standby. So, taking advantage of this time they had agreed to have lunch together.

Olivia only had to go through the door. It was a simple task, but she wasn't sure if she could do it. She had felt a bit dizzy all the journey down the morgue, but it had worsened a lot at the last steps. She almost fell once she opened the door, startling the other woman who was sitting on her desk.

"Olivia!" Melinda run to her "Are you ok?"

"I need to sit down." She was feeling worse and worse. Melinda helped her to the chair in front of her desk. Opening the windows to have some fresh air.

"It's the first time," Melinda asked her, already on doctor mood, once the color had returned to Olivia's face.

"Yes," She answered quickly. "I didn't eat much at breakfast." Not wanting to worry her.

"Are you saying the truth Olivia" But Melinda know her too well.

"Yes?" She didn't look at the other woman.

"Liv"

"Well..." Olivia started. "It's probably nothing but I have had this dizziness all week, and some nausea that doesn't let me eat as much. Especially in the morning, I have almost thrown up this morning"

"Anything more?"

"Sleep. I want to sleep all the time" She said "Don't worry I'll go to the doctor" Both of them knew that the last sentence was a lie.

"God Liv... If I didn't know you better I would ask you if you were pregnant" Melinda said as she went to refill Olivia's glass of water. But when she didn't hear a sassy remark from the other woman, she turned back to look at her friend's surprised face. "Liv?"

She hadn't thought about it, but now she remembered how three months ago she had a problem with her pill. The doctor told her to stop them one or two months and see if it was just the medicine or if there was something more because at that moment everything seemed fine. But with the work and the holidays, she forgot about it. At first, they were fine with the condoms but even if she thought hard she didn't remember when was the last time they had used them. She wasn't a teenager anymore to do this kind of careless thing. But when her period didn't come she just thought about the stress or the menopause, not a pregnancy, she was 45, not precisely oven material.

"Liv?" Melinda called her again.

"Yes," She didn't make eye contact.

"Do we need to go to the pharmacy?" Melinda was trying to laugh at the situation, seeing her friend's face, but it was a bit surreal.

"I think so" Oliva looked at her friend. "Oh, God" She put her hand on her face, not wanting to believe her words. "I don't know. Just in case, I don't think so... right?" She searched her friend's support.

"We won't know until you do at least the test if you don't want to go to the doctor first"

"Ok" It was barely audible.

One hour later Melinda's office bathroom seemed like a teenager movie. She had gone to the closest pharmacy while Olivia waited for her in her office. Now both of them were sitting there, looking at three different branches of quick pregnancy test, all them with a smiley face. But her face was not precisely smiley, it was a more worried one. Because despite they had to wait for over fifteen more minutes to have the results of the blood test Melinda did for Olivia, the last one knew they would be positive.

At the end the blood test was also positive, leaving Olivia spiraling herself in a worried mood.

"Ok," Melinda said cutting off the silence. "Let's go to the restaurant and then we'll talk" without letting room for discussion.

Once seated on their table Melinda couldn't stop herself anymore.

"Olivia..." Melinda whispered "Tell me it's with that mysterious man" Her friend only feared for her.

"Yes," Olivia answered quickly. " God," She knew he had to go to a doctor before starting to think about all that could happen, but it was easier to say than to do it. "Yes, but I'm not sure how is he going to take it" Olivia sighed smiling a little "Because as you can see it wasn't planned." She had dropped hints here and there to Melinda that she was with someone, that they loved each other madly, and that he was perfect with Noah, but that she was not ready to tell her who it was.

"Yeah... I can take the picture" Melinda smiled a little bit too. "But if he's invested with Noah?"

"Yeah, but he's older" Olivia sighed. "Babies are a lot of work. And we barely manage with work and Noah."

"We'll see" Melinda tried to comfort her friend. "But right now you can start talking about him" She could see that her friend would be happy once all the surprise went down. "You know the stuff you didn't say like name, work and all that."

"Ok," She said "Anyway I wanted to talk you about him before all this" And then her phone started to ring.

Olivia picked it up, without looking at the ID caller "Benson".

"Did you said anything about Noah needing a vaccine today, that I don't remember?" She knew that voice too well.

"Hello to you too," Olivia said making a sign to Melinda to wait a little bit as she went a bit away from their table.

"Hello, Mi Amor (my love)" She signed as he greeted her.

"Yes, I told you yesterday. But If you didn't listen to me..."

"I probably... you know that I don't like to go alone to the pediatrician if there's a vaccine," Rafael said pouting, making Olivia smile.

"Yeah, I know... I have to be always the bad one." They had had this conversation a few times already "You have to train into that."

"It's..." He started.

"I don't want excuses," She said in a light tone not mad at him "We share all, the bad and the good. And I'm sure Noah doesn't remember it anymore because you both had pizza for lunch and ice-cream." He only grunted at her words, they both knew each other too well.

"Ok" He concealed "Everything went well, he's perfect."

"Ok" She thanked him for the information before she heard Noah calling him to play in the park.

"I'll let you have dinner," He said

"Yeah, go play your sentence."

"Te amo (I love you) Liv."

"I love you too honey."

They hang up, and Olivia couldn't stop her smile.

"It was him, right?" Melinda asked already knowing the answer.

"Yes." She answered plainly, playing with her glass of water.

"And?... I'm going to have to take you the words one by one, because at this rate..." Melinda said taking a sip of her drink.

"We work together, so it was a bit complicated, but now that we had disclosed we just have to keep it professional." She started to ramble a bit.

"Oh," Melinda was having the time of her life.

"Thank God that at least we had separated offices"

"It's Barba!" Melinda exclaimed a little too high.

"Melinda!" Olivia said trying to lower the volume of the other woman.

"It's him?" Olivia nodded "I knew it!" Those looks you had"

"What?"

"You didn't notice?" Her friend asked. "The way you looked at each other the few times I could see, they were like you were undressing each other"

"Oh…"

"You weren't precisely subtle. At least for me" She laughed. "I didn't think that was the type of guy you wanted"

"Yeah...But he's different and when I realized it he already knew me so well. And the way he's with Noah, I fell hard and fast" Olivia admitted.

"So, how is he. I bet he's good"

"Melinda!" Olivia knew that she was doing it on purpose, her little revenge to being in the darkness of her relationship. They were laughing while chatting, forgetting for a little while all their problems.

After all the ordeal, she was the first one to arrive at home. Their home, she loved the sound of it.

"Hello!" She said to make herself noticed, founding Noah and Lucy playing in the living room. "How is it, my love?" Olivia said as she went to the floor with the other two.

"Mommy!" Her boy squealed happily and started to tell her his day, not noticing that sometimes the boy said some word in Spanish. She couldn't stop her smile, despite her constant fear of how it would end the day.

It wasn't after bath time, with Lucy long gone, when Rafael went through the door. But she hadn't yet decided how to approach the subject.

"Anybody home?" Rafael asked.

"We're in the kitchen" He went there, found the other two making the last touches of the dinner.

"Papi!" Their boy greeted him happily.

"Hello, amigo! You helping mommy?" He asked him as he kissed his forehead.

"Yes! We're making nuggets!"

"Hello cariño" Rafael went to her kissing her chastely on the lips "Really!" Rafael said to Noah

"We're having roast chicken" Olivia saved him of another Nuggets night.

"Thank you!" He smiled and let them there having fun while he went to take a fast shower before dinner.

It wasn't until she left Noah in his crib when she started to feel nervous again. She could not stop herself from being absolutely happy and thrilled about the baby thing, after all, she had always wanted to experience a pregnancy and all it comes with it, she thought touching her fat belly, smiling.

She found Rafael pouring himself a bit of scotch and a bit of the wine from last night for her, like always.

"I don't want wine tonight, Rafi," She said as she sat on the sofa.

"Oh, ok," He said, "You're not filling well?" He didn't want to sound to preoccupied as he accompanied her on the sofa.

"No... just..." She looked at him and went quiet.

"Liv, mi amor (my love), you are starting to worry me" He tried to say in a light tone. "What is it? You know you can tell me anything"

"I know... but..." She signed. "I don't know how to say it" She bit her lower lip, breathing and looked at Rafael "I'm pregnant." Three little words that she hoped didn't end her family. But Rafael didn't say anything, he only stared at her. "I know it's a bit of a surprise, but it could be a good thing right?" He still didn't say anything "Rafi?" She tried to take his hand but he got up suddenly and went to their bedroom leaving her alone sitting on the sofa.

Olivia knew that it would make their lives a lot more complicated, but she had thought that he was there on le long haul or that was what he said to her many months ago. She knew she could not impose him all that, but she also knew that she would go on with it, with him or alone. She hadn't even question herself about the abortion option.

Her own thoughts distracted her enough to no heart Rafael's steps as he came back to the living room. It was only when he caressed her cheek, taking away her tears when she looked at him again. He was smiling at her, kneeling in front of her.

"Mi Amor (My love), despite I'm probably not the best father material, nothing could make me happier than embarking on this new adventure with you. I love you and Noah with all my soul and in this few minutes I already love that little thing." He was crying too, too excited, touching her belly.

"Rafi" She approached him and kissed him.

"I had already thrown that possibility years ago."

"Me too. Even more after getting Noah." They had their foreheads touching.

"But, before..." Rafael backed a bit. "I have had this little thing for a few weeks, trying to find a way to ask you that would be memorable, but I don't want to wait anymore," He said as he grabbed something from the pocket of the pyjama pants. "Would you do me de honor of being my wife?" He asked with his sassy smile, knowing that it was his moment of letting her without words.

"Yes, yes!" Olivia said as he pulled beside her and gave her hand to him to put the ring in its rightful place. It was simple, of platinum with small diamonds encrusted that crossed the half of the ring.

They started to kiss with her trying to put Rafael on top of her.

"Wait" He stopped.

"What?"

"The baby"

"What?"

"I don't want to hurt him?" And with that she started to laugh out loud, leaving Rafael a little puzzled.

"You are going to be one of these dads" She affirmed. "The kind of that are all the pregnancy fussing around" That seemed to outrage him a little.

"No," Rafael said sure of himself "Maybe..." He smiled. He was still on top of her holding his weight with his arms, looking at her, smiling. She knew him so well "Probably" He finally admitted. They were happy.

"We have an appointment tomorrow after dinner"

"No problem, I'll take the afternoon of" She was to content to remark that maybe it was a little excessive.

"As you want counselor, but now come here and kiss me" She pulled him by the shirt.

"As you wish."