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The last couple of cases Casey has been the primary ADA so Alex and Olivia haven't gotten to really see each other in the office or much out of the office given both of their caseloads.
It was trick or treat day and Olivia was able to hang out and walk around with Calvin and his grandparents. It had been almost a year since Calvin was taken from her and her heart soared with joy when he asked if they could get together on Halloween. A couple hours into walking around at a Halloween festival Calvin wasn't having as much fun as Olivia hoped but before he could tell her and his grandparents something else he wanted to do Olivia got called into work. She told them goodbye and headed into the office even though she knew he understood she hated that she had to walk away from him. Olivia had gotten busy with a kidnapping case that turned out the baby had actually died of SIDS and the parents covered it up. It took them over a day to finally find the truth. While Olivia was busy with a case Alex got a unique visit.
Alex's assistant called her to let her know she had visitors. She quickly looked at her calendar and didn't see any meetings scheduled so she told her to send them in. Alex closed her case file she was previously writing in and waited until there was a tentative knock on the door.
"Come in" Alex called out.
The door opened to a boy no older than twelve or thirteen with shaggy brown hair and two adults standing behind him. Alex waved them in and they sat down in front of her desk.
Calvin looked around her office with curiosity.
"I'm Alex Cabot, what can I help you with today?" Alex gave a smile that put them at ease.
"You're Olivia's girlfriend , right?" Calvin asked.
Alex tilted her head looking at the boy with more curiosity now.
"Who might you be?" Alex questioned instead.
"I'm Calvin and these are my grandparents. I saw Olivia earlier but she got called into work" Calvin tells her solemnly.
Alex nodded her head in understanding.
"I see, so what brings you by?" Alex asked delicately..
Calvin looked back at his grandparents and nodded to them, his grandmother put his hand on his shoulder and looked back to Alex.
"This was only supposed to be a temporary situation until his mom got out of rehab and could take him back, but she just got arrested a month ago and won't be eligible to get out until after he turns eighteen" She explained to Alex
Alex nodded along not really understanding why that would bring them to her.
"Miss Cabot we are getting up in age, we love Calvin, but if you and Olivia would be willing to take him in I'm sure we can arrange a visitation schedule for us. I understand if this is too much to ask of the two of you but he really has grown an attachment to her and he's had nothing but great things to say about you" Calvin's grandmother finished.
Alex's eye's snapped to Calvin wide-eyed.
"Olivia told me all about you, that even though you weren't with us, you were off saving the people that you could overseas. One night Olivia's friend came over late and I thought it was you, but it wasn't and that's when she showed me a picture of you guys so I would know who you were." Calvin finished softly.
Alex opened her mouth and closed it again without saying anything, she was shocked to say the least. A full minute passed before Alex could say anything.
"Does Olivia know you're here?" Alex asked them.
"No, we know she works a lot so we wanted to make sure you agreed before we brought it to her attention. We would feel better knowing that you're with him too" Calvin's grandmother told her.
Alex nodded, her thoughts going a mile a minute.
"Just so I understand this, in order for you to give custody back to Olivia I would also need to have custody of him?" Alex asked them slowly.
Calvin's grandparents both nodded at her.
"We want him raised by two people so we know one of you will be with him with your guy's work schedules" Calvin's grandmother told her
"I see⦠Can you just give me one minute?" Alex questioned standing up grabbing for her phone.
They nodded and she stepped out into the hallway.
Alex dialed Olivia's number and it rang three times and went to voicemail. Alex huffed in annoyance.
"Liv, it's me, somethings come up, call me when you can and Liv? I love you" Alex says into the phone and hangs up.
Alex walks back into the room.
"Calvin, I just want to say Olivia loves you so much but this is something she and I need to talk about, so how about your grandparents and I exchange numbers and once we talk I'll give you a call. Okay?" Alex's voice softens the way it does when she talks to kids.
Calvin nods understandingly. Alex shakes hands with his grandparents and they exchange numbers. They were out of her office within a few minutes.
Alex called Trevor knowing he would be able to give her advice.
"Langan" He answers
"Hey Trevor, it's Alex , do you have some time to meet ?" Alex casually asks
"Yea I can be in your office in about twenty minutes" He said, already heading over towards her office.
"Thanks" Alex says and hangs up.
Trevor knocked on the door and opened it without waiting for an answer. He stuck his head in and saw Alex with her head in her hands.
"Oh no Cabot, please tell me we don't need to play let's make a deal" Trevor barks out a laugh with a joking tone.
Alex looks up at his voice.
"No, it doesn't have anything to do with a case.. I actually need to retain you to be my lawyer" Alex sat up looking at him.
Trevor gives her a look of concern.
"Are you okay?" He asks her suddenly.
"Yea, I'm fine nothing like that" Alex pauses and hands him twenty bucks to make this officially a lawyer client relationship.
Trevor raises an eyebrow but takes the money anyway. It's way less than his usual retainer fee.
He nods at her to start.
"Okay, Olivia and I have been in a romantic relationship for just over a year but it hasn't interfered with our work. We started it a few weeks before I left to go to the ICC. We haven't disclosed yet because we wanted to make sure it would work between us-" Alex took a breath and Trevor nodded along with her.
"So when I was gone we temporarily got custody of a 12 year old kid and now his grandparents have custody of him. They came here to ask if Olivia and I would be willing to take him. Which of course how can I look at Olivia and tell her no, when he had to leave it broke her heart. The thing is they aren't willing to just give him to her. They want both of us because they want some stability for him. " Alex finished.
"Have you talked to Olivia about this?" Trevor asked.
"No, I tried to call but she didn't pick up." Alex told him.
"Okay, so if you are both willing to go through with this I can draw up custody papers for you. I'm assuming you don't live together?" Trevor asked and she shook her head.
"So we can plan out living arrangements and custody but since you're in a relationship it won't be hard, it's just a formality. I would suggest you disclose your relationship so if you guys do go through with this, it's not something a defense attorney can use against you" Trevor tells her and she understands.
"Thanks for coming, I'll keep in touch" Alex says and he gets up to leave.
Alex worked for a few more hours before calling it an early day. Olivia was still busy with her case.
Olivia finally finished the case, her and her team were just watching the parents in agony of what happened to their son and her heart did go out to them. The team started to dispense back to other cases that needed their attention. When Olivia walked back out into the squad room Casey and Amanda were with her. Olivia stopped immediately seeing Alex sitting on her desk. She tilted her head trying to think if they had any plans she forgot about in the midst of this case. Amanda walked ahead to her desk subtly watching Olivia watching Alex sitting on her desk. Casey stopped abruptly behind Olivia not to run into her and looked around to see why she stopped.
"Hey, what are you doing here? Does Cutter need me for something?" Casey asked, stepping around Olivia.
Alex looked up from playing with her nails towards Casey.
"No, I'm actually here to see Benson" Alex tells her.
" Okay, have a nice night guys" Casey waves and heads out.
"You have a minute?" Alex asks
Olivia nodded and took her to the interview room. Olivia closed the door and turned around to face a now nervous Alex. Olivia scrunched up her face in concern.
"Lex, you okay?" Olivia questioned coming up to stand closer to her, raising her arm to put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I met Calvin" Alex tells her.
Olivia looks confused at the admission.
"I don't understand, how could you have met him, he lives in Vermont" Olivia replied confused.
"The day you got this case he and his grandparents came to my office. Did you know his mom got arrested and won't be eligible to get out until he's eighteen?" Alex asked as her arms circled around herself.
Olivia raised her eyebrows in surprise at this.
"No, no I didn't. Did they come to you to see if you could help on appeal?" Olivia questioned shocked.
"No, they came to ask if we would take custody of him." Alex paused " both of us" Alex told her.
Alex looks up from the ground she was previously looking at to Olivia's face seeing her reaction. Olivia's face held surprise and apprehensiveness.
Olivia put a hand on her own chest.
"I - what did you say?" Olivia whispered
" I told them that I would talk to you and that we would call them." Alex explained
Olivia started pacing in front of Alex.
Alex stepped forward stopping her from continuing to pace, she put her palms on both sides of Olivia's face trying to calm the storm of emotions she could see starting to surface behind Olivia's eyes. Olivia put her hands on Alex's hips.
"You want kids, I know you want him" Alex whispers knowing how close they were she didn't need to be any louder.
"Do you? Do you want this with me? We haven't even disclosed our relationship" Olivia says back softly.
"I've just been waiting on you to decide when we are ready to disclose Liv. I told you I'm all in, I'm not going anywhere" Alex says just as softly as before.
Olivia and Alex's foreheads were resting on each other. Olivia moved the inch in to give Alex a soft kiss before pulling back.
"I'm ready" Olivia says, smiling at this beautiful blonde in front of her.
Olivia feels this weight lifted off her shoulders, she knows she's ready to wholeheartedly put her heart on the line for Alex again and even with how abandoned she's been feeling due to Elliott leaving she believes Alex when she says she's not leaving anymore. Olivia's heart feels lighter knowing she's going to have Alex and now they will have Calvin together.
