Here it's the next one. It's the first part of two chapters. I hope you like it.

Sometimes Olivia hated the way people depended on technology. Like right now, when she needed her phone but there was no more battery.

She normally was careful with that because someone would call her o write her at any moment. But today they had an undercover operation on the spur of the moment with all the squad and she forgot to charge the phone after calling Lucy to inform her and ask her if she could stay late with Noah.

It all went perfectly. They catch the bad guy and all his network of the sale of newborns, so it was supposed to be a good ending day. But once in the car to go home, when she looked at the phone for the first time in six hours, she saw that she had too many missed calls and messages to be normal. They were from Lucy and Rafael, but as she went to see what it was the screen went black.

Once at her apartment door, after trying not to have a car accident for driving too fast, she could not stop her hands tremble afraid of what she would find. She stopped herself for a moment to take a deep breath before opening the door.

Inside her place, the light was dim, probably from one of the lamps beside the sofa and there was not any noise. She left her coat and shoes beside the door and went to the living room, finding one of the most adorable images of Rafael sleeping on her sofa, with no tie, waistcoat and shoes and his colorful socks full in a display. He had the first buttons of the shirt unbuttoned, the sleeves folded up to the elbow and you could see some stains of food next to the wrinkles, with his hair a bit disheveled. And on top of him was Noah, sleeping on his belly protected by Rafael's arms.

It would have been the perfect image if it was not for the bandage on Noah's left arm. She went beside them kneeling down to touch Noah's hair, making enough noise to wake up the man.

"Liv?" Rafael said rubbing his eyes with one of his hands while the other kept Noah in place, sitting up a little on the sofa.

"Hey, what happened?" She asked in a small preoccupied voice.

"You didn't see the calls or messages?"

"I just saw who called me before the battery sold out."

"Oh..." Rafael didn't know exactly from where to start "Do you want to pick him?" He asked referring to Noah

"Yes, but he's too calm now. I would feel really bad if I would wake him."

"Yeah...Lucy called me in the middle of the afternoon; she could not get in touch with you, she said something about an undercover operation. She and Noah were in the ER because Noah had fallen in the park and his arm hurt a lot. I do not know how you do it, Olivia. Getting there and seeing him crying, so small, it broke my heart" Rafael told her "I did not understand how everything happened, Lucy was very nervous. What I know is that he has a small fissure and that his arm is bandaged to give it stability for a few weeks and weld well. It hurts but with the medication given to us by the pediatrician he seems to be much better. But every time I tried to leave him in his crib he would start to cry, so we finished both on the sofa." Rafael said trying to lighten the mood a little.

But with not a good result "Liv, it's not your fault. You know right?" He asked knowing what was going through her head.

"I know, but I should have been there for him. I'm his mom." Olivia said rubbing circles on his baby back.

"Liv..." Rafael tried to calm her a bit. He couldn't stop himself, running his hand on her cheek, making her look to him.

"I'm going to put him in bed" She used as an excuse to back a bit.

"And why Lucy called you?" Olivia asked once she was again in the living room.

"That's a good question," Rafael said looking through the window not wanting to make eye contact, showing obvious discomfort to the question.

"Barba?" Olivia asked again, going next to him and putting a hand on his shoulder.

"She..." He started "She has the idea that both of us have a relationship," Rafael said quickly, leaving Olivia surprised.

"What would she think that?"

"And I don't believe she is the only one" Rafael murmured.

"What?" He could feel the discomfort coming from Olivia.

"Liv... Have you not noticed?" Rafael was tired, he knew that probably it wasn't the best moment to have this conversation, but he could not stop himself.

"What are you trying to say, Barba?"

"Since when have we seen each other without a work excuse, just because we want to?" It was a simple question, but one too hard to answer carelessly. He knew that Olivia wouldn't say anything to that question, so he carried on "I want to believe that you feel it too, that we are more than best friends. For God shake, I was on Noah's emergency list; it was the only way I could bring him home" He rambled a little before he had the strength to face her.

She was looking at him so severe that it scared him. But he knew that once he started this conversation, it was no turning back, it was all or nothing.

"Since the first day, I met you I knew you would drive me crazy and that's what you have done for the last years. And I've been waiting for you because it was never the right moment. At first, well, I don't know if I want you to tell me what was your first impression of me" He laughed sadly. "And then it was all the Lewis thing and Noah, not that he is a bad thing, just you both had to adapt to each other so I couldn't storm in. But this afternoon while taking care of him I could not stop thinking what if we made the last step?" He rambled "I know that we would be great, even awesome. We would fight like crazy sometimes, but it would be all worth it" He took her hand "I don't know when it happened but when I noticed I already was madly in love with you. So would it be too crazy to think that you could feel the same for me?" He asked, not noticing that Olivia was with her own breakdown.

How could she not have seen it? Right now, she felt stupid.

When she met him, she thought he was good at his work, but nothing more than a badass, a frivolous man that was just after the fame and glory. Always well dressed and knowing what to say to be the master and lord of any situation in which he could be found.

But once their meetings started, with dinner or a drink at some random bar or their beloved Forlini's to work on a case, the image she had of him changed. He slowly had opened a door for her to see what was inside of him. There she found a good man, with a well-protected heart behind walls and walls, with a size of the moon, who was thoughtful of the victims, who really cared for them. With a hard past like her.

So slowly, that meetings started to be at her place, so she could have time with Noah. At first, he would come after the boy had gone to bed, to no disturb the mom. But one day he offered to bring some takeaway, and she said yes. That night was something weird, he wasn't very comfortable with kids, but he tried. And Noah seemed to like the poor awkward man who spoke to him in a foreign language.

For an outsider, it could appear that he didn't like kids, but she knew him and his past and could see that apart from not knowing how to behave around her baby he was afraid to do something bad to him. But just with a bit of time and patience, they warmed one to another. They became as thick as thieves, leaving her even more work. So they started to forget about the work once the three were together, sharing dinner on weekdays and doing something on the free weekends, like go to the park. With Noah screaming Rafi! All the time with an incomprehensible sentence that the man seemed to understand, surprisingly, making her laugh as she watched them from the site they had chosen as a base camp for that day, spreading a sheet to eat in the park.

It became routine sharing the duties once the dinner ended. Some nights with Rafael doing the dish duty while she put the boy to sleep or vice versa once Noah started to ask his Rafi to read him and him bringing the boy a few books in Spanish saying that it was to enrich Noah's mind as a poor excuse. And him staying later to chat about anything. With lingering touches here and there, every time more frequently and more prolonged in time.

So when one afternoon she had to stay late at work not knowing the hour she would go home, and Lucy had to go home to prepare her exams, he called him at her first option, completely comfortable and secure that he would take good care of her little boy.

And since when she called him Rafael on her mind?

She had lost herself in her mental breakdown, not answering Rafael's words, and once she returned to reality he wasn't there, he left with a wrong idea of what was really happening.

She took her phone and started calling him at the same time that she opened the door to see if she was going to be lucky enough to find him waiting for the elevator.

"Rafael?" She called him before looking at the hallway. Once outside she saw him, he was with his back towards her "Rafi" She called him again, more in a lower voice once she was beside him as she hugged him from behind surrounding him with her arms on his neck.

Maybe it's a little cliché but I love when Olivia realizes that he had been there always for her, always waiting for her to be prepared. That he knew from the first moment that she would be hers.

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