The next two days Olivia had to be off ordered by Cragen. Olivia took Calvin to school and picked him up, giving Alex a break. Alex got held up in court on Friday , so Olivia was the one to take him to the airport. She hugged and kissed the top of his head standing at the gate watching him walk off towards his terminal.
Olivia's phone rang as she was watching him walk away.
"Benson" Olivia answers.
"We got a home invasion" Amaro tells her
Olivia sighs.
"Text me the address" Olivia says back handing up.
Olivia pulls up to the house walking in, meeting with Amaro. Olivia looks around the room picking up a family photo shaking her head. It started out with looking like a hate crime given the mom's work on a gay marriage bill and her affair with her co worker. The more they investigate they realize the dad had been abusing the daughter.
They figured out that she orchestrated the murder of both her parent's with her old babysitter and her brother.
Olivia sat down at her desk after coming back from the hospital. Amanda was sitting at her desk working on paperwork.
"Hey, you good?" Olivia questioned sitting back in her seat.
"Yea, all good" Amanda tells her not looking away from the computer screen.
Olivia nodded, not further questioning her, she settled in and started on her paperwork.
Olivia saw her phone ring an hour into paperwork seeing it's Alex and answered.
"Hey you" Olivia says sweetly
"Hey, Calvin and I want to know if you'd be up for a night out with us" Alex tells her.
"Oh yea, well how can I say no to that?" Olivia questioned, smiling into the phone.
Amanda looked over to Olivia, eyebrows scrunched in confusion but didn't say anything.
Olivia finished up the file she was working on and headed out. Alex and Calvin are standing outside the precinct waiting on her.
"So where to?" Olivia asks, grinning at them.
"We were thinking ice skating then pizza" Calvin tells her excitedly.
Olivia looks at Alex, her eyes softening at the thoughtful gesture remembering their last date watching the skaters.
The week went on as normal for them and school.
That Sunday night Alex was cramming looking over her notes for trial and Calvin was out with a friend.
Olivia had not seen Haden since the hostage
situation, so when he invited her to a movie saying she could choose it as friends she decided to go. They walked out from the movie continuing down the sidewalk talking.
Haden looked over at her.
"Why didn't you tell me about Cabot, about your son?" Haden asked.
Olivia raised an eyebrow.
"I see someone was snooping in my confidential file" Olivia quipped back.
"I mean can you blame me, I thought we had something here , then you talk about conflicts of interest just for me to find out you're in a relationship with the acting ADA in your squad" Haden presses.
"We can't publicize our relationship given how close we work together. Casey oversees all the cases Alex and I work on together and our bosses know. We didn't see the problem with keeping it between us and the people who needed to know" Olivia shrugs.
"I gotta admit, a little jealous Cabot caught you before I could" Haden says, chuckling , shaking his head.
Olivia grins and tilts her head to the side.
"She's had me a lot longer than she's probably even realized" Olivia says back smiling thinking back on everything they've gone through.
"Well she's one lucky girl" Haden chuckles.
"I think I'm the lucky one, and I'm sorry if I ever made it seem like this could ever-" Olivia starts to say
" No, I'm sorry I was caught up in the moment, it won't happen again" Haden says assuring her.
Olivia's phone goes off.
"Benson" Olivia answers.
Olivia hears Calvin's voice through the phone and smiles.
"Hey Calvin, are you home from the arcade already?" Olivia asks, checking the time on her watch showing it's a little after eight.
"Yea, I can pick you up and how about we get some dinner on the way home?" Olivia tells him, grinning.
"Alright love, see you soon" Olivia says and hangs up.
Olivia looks back at Haden after pocketing her phone.
"My son" Olivia tells him.
"No, no I get it" Haden tells her.
Olivia walks away to her car and heads out to get Calvin.
When Olivia pulls up out front of the arcade she sees Calvin and another boy about his age standing outside. Olivia rolls down the window.
"Hey guys, get in" Olivia calls out.
Calvin gets in the front and his friend in the back.
"Thanks for picking us up" Calvin tells her, smiling.
"Not a problem, and it's okay with his parents if he comes over and eats dinner with us?" Olivia questioned making sure.
"Yea, they said he could come and they will pick him up around nine" Calvin said shrugging.
They stop by a pizza shop to get a large pizza and salad.
They get into the apartment Olivia opening the door and the two kids going inside ahead of her. Olivia comes inside after them and locks the door behind her. She sees the boys sitting at the table opening the pizza box already. Olivia chuckled, shaking her head. Alex watched as they ran to the table to sit down and eat.
Olivia looked over to Alex on the couch notes all over the place.
Alex started to put it all back into the folder and close it, setting it on the end table. She stood up and made her way over to Olivia playfully crossing her arms.
"Uh, I remember us only having one child" Alex says with a smirk raising an eyebrow.
"We do, Calvin wanted his friend to come over after the arcade so I thought we could get dinner too for them until his parents came. I even got you a grilled chicken salad. " Olivia tells her.
"That does sound good right about now" Alex laughs telling her.
Alex stepped closer, giving Olivia a peck on the lips.
They walk over to the kids. Alex sets out two bowls for her and Olivia for the salad as Olivia grabs cups and puts water in them for everyone.
They sit down to eat with the kids.
"So Calvin, how was the arcade?" Alex asked.
"It was good" He said in between bites.
Alex looks over to his friend that swallowed his bite.
"We had fun, we made the highest score on dance dance revolution!" His friend said excitedly.
"That's great. Olivia loves to dance too" Alex tells him, pointing over to her.
"So that's where he gets his dancing skills from" the friend says, taking another bite.
Olivia and Alex look at eachother then at Calvin whose cheeks are a little pink.
"Done" Calvin says finishing up his piece he had.
"Can we go?" Calvin asks them.
"Uh, yea" Olivia says watching them get up and head to his room.
Olivia looks at Alex chewing her salad.
"What do you think that was about?" Olivia questioned.
Alex swallowed her bite.
"I'm not sure, but we should probably ask him about it" Alex tells her.
They finish up eating and put the food away.
Alex goes back to looking over her notes with her feet in Olivia's lap and Olivia flips through channels until deciding on a sitcom.
When the show's ending credits roll there is a knock on the door and Olivia gets up to answer it.
Olivia opens the door to see a couple on the other side of it with a little girl standing in between them.
"Hi I'm Jake's dad and this is my wife and our daughter" He says holding a hand out for Olivia to shake.
Olivia shakes his hand and opens the door further for them to come in.
"Calvin, Jake" Olivia yells for them.
"I'm Olivia" Olivia introduces herself to them and then points at Alex who looks up from the couch to wave at them. "And that's Alex. We are Calvin's parents"
"It's nice to meet you both" Jake's mom says.
They see the boys come into the room and tell them goodbye. Alex puts away her work for the night.Olivia shuts the door and looks at Calvin who is still standing in the middle of the room.
"Hey Calvin, why don't you come have a seat with us" Olivia says, guiding him to the couch to put him in the middle of them.
"Can I ask you guys something?" He asks, looking between both of them.
"Sure" Olivia says
"Absolutely" Alex tells him.
"Jake wants me to try out for the baseball team next month" Calvin says.
"Do you want to play baseball?" Olivia asked him.
" I don't know, I've never tried but it'll be cool to not have to wait all the way to basketball season to play something" Calvin shrugs.
"Well how about this we will take you to a batting cage, have you hit a couple, see if it's your thing, if it is, go for it, if not just let him know you're not interested" Alex tells him, putting a gentle hand on his shoulder in support.
"Sounds good" Calvin says nodding in relief
"Now we also have a question" Alex tells him.
He gives them a confused look.
"Okay?" He says but it sounds more like a question.
"What did you tell Jake about your family?" Olivia asked softly.
"I just said you guys were my mom's. I think he made his own guesses" Calvin tells them, looking at the ground.
"And that's fine but if you ever want to tell him we adopted you that's also okay. We want you to feel comfortable telling people whatever you want" Olivia tells him.
Calvin nods.
"Thanks guys" He says to them.
Olivia tickles him and he starts laughing and Alex joins in.
"No fair! You guys are ganging up on me" He says in between laughs.
"Alright, Alright, how about ice cream and then it's time for bed" Olivia says stopping the ticking and Alex stops too grinning at them.
"Yeah!" Calvin yells.
Alex gets up and gets them ice cream. Once they get done she rinses out the bowls and puts them in the dishwasher. Calvin goes to bed. Alex walks into her room to find Olivia getting undressed.
Alex comes up behind her and peppers her neck with kisses. Olivia turns around and kisses Alex, pulling her bottom lip in her mouth.
"Why don't we lose the rest of these clothes, hmm" Olivia says, taking off Alex's shirt and tossing it on the floor.
Olivia wakes up to her phone ringing. Olivia groans and grabs it seeing it's Cragen. Olivia doesn't answer but lays back down for a second Alex turning over to cuddle into her.
"I have a case" Olivia tells her, wrapping her arm around Alex kissing her head.
"I have to get Calvin to school and then head to court" Alex says sleepily, not making an effort to move.
They lay like that for a few minutes until they heard Calvin go out of his room. They get up and get ready for the day. Olivia gets in the shower, while Alex gets dressed and takes Calvin to school.
Olivia ends up being late to an interview with Amaro about a missing teenager. They started their investigation running down leads all day.
The next day Olivia and John go talk to the newspaper and it doesn't go as well as they hoped. Olivia took an early lunch to meet Haden at a donut shop. Olivia laughed at the irony for cops and donuts.
Olivia talks about her case, she wants him to call in a favor to get set up a sting, to shut down the paper for good. He doesn't agree with her wanting to shut down the paper and decides not to help her.
"This friendship only works with me being far away from your cases, we can't call in favors for each other" Haden expresses to her.
" I know, but you're hiring up in the DAs office, you have the authority to help." Olivia shakes her head.
"Which is why I can't abuse my power" Haden says.
Olivia's phone chimes and she looks at her message.
"It's the missing girl's mother. I got to go" Olivia tells him.
She leaves him sitting there going back to work. When she gets done talking with the mother she heads back to the squadroom. Amanda and Nick are interviewing the girl that got a creepy vibe from him while Fin and Munch keep her boyfriend busy in another room. Olivia goes into Cragen office playing the second message she got from her daughter. They pull Amaro and Rollins out of the interview to let them hear it. It takes hours of going over all the information the witness gave them.
They finally head out to a beach they think could be it. They get more information after talking to local police they get sent to a different beach.
Amaro and Benson are overseeing the forensic team and dogs finding bodies. They quickly realize they are dealing with a serial killer. They call in backup when they see how many bodies the dogs are sitting at. Haden shows up at the beach to see what they are dealing with.
Olivia left the squad after a long few days to try to catch up on some sleep. Olivia opens the door to Alex's apartment and goes to her bedroom. Olivia changes clothes and lays down next to her cuddling close. Alex mumbled something that Olivia couldn't hear and scooted further into Olivia's grasp. Olivia falls to sleep in a manner of minutes.
The next day the body count was up to seven. Haden makes a statement the next day to the press that they will find the people responsible and they are holding the newspapers accountable.
Olivia went to talk to the missing girl's mom because she got a third call from her daughter.
Melinda gave them an update on the tick infestation from the most recent victims body which gave them a starting point. Olivia and Nick checked out surrounding hospitals trying to find out if someone ever got away from this man.
The investigation starts to pick up when they interview a girl that got away from him. They find where he is keeping the girls.
The case ends with Amaro killing the suspect to save Olivia's life.
Olivia and Nick go back to the squadroom once the victim gets dropped off to the hospital.
Nick asks for a minute before Cragen goes over the paperwork with him that he needs to fill out.
Alex and Calvin pass him on his way out to the bunkers where the beds are so he can call his wife.
They walk in and Olivia is still leaning up on the side of her desk catching her breath.
"Hey guys" Olivia says slowly, a little surprised to see them there.
Calvin has a baseball hat on. Alex is just in her regular jeans and a T-shirt.
"Hey!" Calvin says back.
Alex looks at Liv, seeing she has no clue why they are there.
"You forgot, didn't you?" Alex asked amused.
"Forgot?" Olivia asked, drawing a blank.
"We were going to take him to the batting cage," Alex reminds her.
"Oh! Right. Can you just give me a few minutes" Olivia asks.
Alex nods and they sit next to Fin, Munch and Cragen at the table.
"So baseball huh?" Munch asks
"Yea, I wanna see if I'm any good before I try out for school" Calvin tells him.
"Well just remember there's a lot of sports out there if this one doesn't pan out, you'll just have to try another one" Munch tells him.
Alex grins at that.
"Oh, he's already looking forward to basketball season" Alex tells them ruffling his hair.
Olivia walks up to them.
"Ready when you are" Olivia tells them.
They head out to the batting cages.