The next weekend Calvin was off to his grandparents. Alex and Olivia had a nice weekend out to dinner and a play. Olivia had started slowly moving some of her things into Alex's apartment that week. On Friday Calvin texted Olivia to make sure it was still okay that a couple of his friends came over. Since Alex was in court when he got out of school Olivia left work early to pick him up.
Olivia went into Cragen's office.
"Hey, Alex is stuck in court. I have to go get Calvin from school" Olivia told him.
"Alright, see you Monday" Cragen said.
Olivia nodded and grabbed her jacket, saying goodbye to her team and left.
Amaro looked after her and looked back at the other detectives.
"Wonder what that's about, she never leaves early" Amaro says out loud.
"No clue" Munch says, not looking up from the paper he was filling out.
Olivia gets to his school and sees him and a couple kids out front.
"Hey guys, are you ready?" Olivia says through the window.
"Yea" Calvin says, opening the door.
His two friends sat in the back.
"Hi Mrs.Benson" she heard the two kids greet her.
They made the short trip to the apartment fairly quickly.
Olivia opened the door to the apartment and let the kids in first. They sat down at the table putting their book bags on the back of the chair.
"So, what are your names?" Olivia asked them.
"I'm Matt and this is my sister Emily" Matt tells her.
"Well it's nice to meet you" Olivia tells them.
Calvin went into his room and grabbed three canvases and paint.
They were painting when Alex got home with the pizza she stopped to get after court was over for the day. Alex came in and slammed the door. The three kids looked up from where they were painting towards her. Olivia got up and walked towards her.
"Hey honey, you okay?" Olivia questioned
"No, I had a crap day in court and I swear Trevor loves to gloat" Alex huffs, thrusting the pizza into Olivia's hands and then taking off her heels.
"Would you like to meet Calvin's friends from art class?" Olivia asked, reminding her they had company.
Alex's head shot up and she looked at the kids watching her.
"Oh, uh yea, just give me a second" Alex says and heads to her room to change out of her court clothes.
Olivia set the pizza on the counter and set paper plates out for the kids. They set the paintings off to the side to eat. When the kids each had a piece Olivia went into Alex's room. She was pulling a t-shirt on over head when Olivia came in.
"So Trevor huh?" Olivia said
"He's a great friend but such an ass to work with " Alex huffs out.
"Still don't know how you're friends with him" Olivia mutters
Alex rolls her eyes.
"Should I remind you Calvin is ours thanks to him? Let's also not mention he got you off the hook for a murder charge" Alex questioned her raising an eyebrow.
"Yea,yea" Olivia says, pulling Alex into a quick kiss.
"So these kids, how are they?" Alex asked, pulling out fuzzy socks from her dresser.
"They seem fine, they are twins" Olivia tells her.
"Okay, let's get back out there I'm starving" Alex tells her.
Alex and Olivia grab a piece of pizza and stand in the kitchen to eat it.
"I'm Alex, it's nice to meet you" Alex tells them after taking a bite of pizza.
"It's nice to meet you too Mrs.Benson" they say in unison.
"They aren't married guys" Calvin tells them.
"Oh, we're sorry" Matt tells them.
"No sweetie, it's fine" Alex says reassuringly.
When they were all done eating dinner Alex asked if they wanted to play a game. They got out the uno cards and decided to play that for a while. The next game they played was sorry, half way through the game there was a knock on the door.
Alex got up to answer it.
"Hi, I'm Matt and Emily's dad. Doug Michaels" Doug says, holding his hand out.
"Hi, I'm Alex, Calvin's mom" Alex says, shaking his hand.
"Come in" Alex says, stepping aside.
He comes in and sees the kids and Olivia at the table playing a game.
"Hey dad" Emily says, waving.
"Hey" Matt says, nodding at him.
"Did you guys have fun?" Doug asked them.
They nod in unison.
"This is Calvin" Matt says, pointing at him.
"It's nice to meet you" Calvin tells him.
"You too, and it's so nice that you guys had them over tonight" Doug says to Alex and Olivia.
"They are welcome anytime" Olivia tells him, starting to put the game away.
He nods his thanks and they grab their backpacks and paintings and head out the door.
"They seem like good kids" Alex says when the door is shut.
"They are, they are on scholarship so we have more in common then a lot of the other kids in my class" Calvin tells them.
"Have you talked to Jake since tryouts?" Olivia questioned him putting the game back on the shelf.
"No, but we will find out who made the team in a week" Calvin tells them shrugging.
"Okay, well you'll talk to him then right?" Alex asked delicately.
"I guess" Calvin says.
"Can we have ice cream?" He asks suddenly
"Of course, what's pizza without ice cream for dessert?" Olivia says back smiling.
Alex rolls her eyes but gets up to go get the ice cream anyway.
They eat ice cream and watch dark shadows until bed.
The following week a lead in a serial rape case came to light and they started the case up again. They worked the case round the clock to try and put a stop to this guy. It didn't help that they also had venglanties out there also looking for him. It took them all week to find out the guy that saved the girl on Monday was actually the serial rapist. He staged his own injuries the night his friend was attacked so he wouldn't be caught and tried to frame someone else for the attacks. Olivia worked through the weekend to catch this guy.
Olivia went to Alex's Sunday morning with bagels and hashbrowns. She saw they weren't up yet so she sat the food on the table and went to Alex's room. Alex was still soundly sleeping. Olivia decided to let her sleep and went back out to the kitchen to start on the coffee. Calvin was the first one to wake up. He came out of his room to see Olivia drinking a cup of coffee and watching the morning news. Olivia looked up at him.
"Hey, I feel like we haven't gotten to talk much this week" Olivia says, patting the seat next to her.
He sat down rubbing his eyes.
"Yea,Did you catch the guy?" Calvin asked her.
"We did, finally" Olivia tells him, throwing an arm around his shoulder.
Calvin nods.
"I brought breakfast, bagels and hashbrowns, but you'll probably have to heat up the hashbrowns. I wanted to let you guys sleep" Olivia says back.
Calvin gets a bagel and puts regular cream cheese on it.
They sit there and Calvin eats his breakfast. He gets a cup of orange juice and Olivia finishes her coffee.
"Did the list come out to see if you made the team?" Olivia asked him while he ate.
"Yea, I made the team" Calvin says.
"That's great!" Olivia exclaims.
"Yea , practice starts next week" Calvin says nodding.
"I'm so proud of you" Olivia tells him, reaching out to hug him.
"Thanks" Calvin says, hugging her back.
Alex comes out yawning.
"What do we have here?" Alex asks, looking at them.
"Calvin made the baseball team!" Olivia tells her excitedly.
"That's great sweetie" Alex tells him, fluffing his hair on her way to grab coffee.
"I also brought breakfast for you guys" Olivia says getting up to give Alex a kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you" Alex said, grabbing a bagel and putting strawberry cream cheese on it.
Alex said down on the recliner finishing up her bagel.
"So I have some news" Alex tells them.
"Okay?" Olivia questioned
"The job McCoy offered me, opened up a little sooner then what we were expecting, so I start Monday" Alex says excitedly.
Olivia got up and pulled her into a hug.
"That's great!" Olivia replied into Alex's hair smiling.
Calvin got up and hugged both of them.
They all let go and sat back down.
"I will miss you around the squad room though" Olivia tells her sadly.
"Yes, but you get to come home to us every night now, I think that is a fair trade" Alex quips back smiling.
Calvin looked between both of them.
"Wait, Olivia is moving in with us?" He asks excitedly.
"I am" Olivia says back grinning.
"This is so great!" Calvin shouts excitedly.
Olivia and Alex chuckled at his response.
Calvin's phone went off and he went into his room to grab it.
Alex went to sit next to Olivia who put an arm around her shoulder and kissed her hair.
"I think that went well" Olivia comments.
"Me too" Alex says back leaning her head on Olivia's.
After a few minutes Olivia refilled her and Alex's coffee cups and sat back down on the couch. Calvin came back out when they were almost through their second cups.
"Hey guys" Calvin says walking into the room.
They looked up at him.
"Yes?" Alex says, sitting her cup down on the table.
"Matt and Em want to know if I can go to the skating rink with them this afternoon. Can I go? " Calvin asks them.
"Do you have everything ready for school tomorrow?" Alex asked
"Yes" Calvin says and nods.
Olivia and Alex look at each other.
"We don't see why not" Olivia replied back.
"Great, thanks!" Calvin yelled over his shoulder as he went back to his room to get ready.
Alex sighs.
"What?" Olivia questioned
"He's growing up so fast. How long do you think we have until we have to worry about him dating?" Alex asked, horrified at the thought.
"At least another year" Olivia says, chuckling.
Alex playfully hits Olivia's arm.
"It's not funny" Alex says, struggling not to smile.
"You are going to be so much fun when he does start dating" Olivia says, pulling Alex closer to hug her.
"Says the SVU detective" Alex quipps rolling her eyes.
Around noon there was a knock on the door and Olivia answered it. Olivia saw Matt and Emily on the other side of it.
"Hey guys, where's your dad?" Olivia asked, letting them in.
"He's in the car waiting for us" Matt says.
"Calvin!" Alex yells from where she is wiping down the counter.
He comes out and walks down the hallway.
"Hey, I just have to put my shoes on" Calvin tells his friends.
He grabs them and sits on the couch to put them on.
"Ready" He says standing up.
"Have fun" Alex and Olivia say to them as they are leaving.
He waves at him and shuts the door behind him.
They spent most of their day just lounging around the house.
It was starting to get late when Olivia's phone rang. Alex grabbed it from the table and handed it to Olivia and went back into cuddling.
"Benson" Olivia answers
"Yea, okay. I'm on my way" Olivia says and hangs up.
Olivia kisses Alex on the head and goes to stand up but Alex holds on just a little bit harder.
"Baby, I have to get up. We got a distress call from a three year old" Olivia tells her.
"Okay, okay" Alex says letting go.
Olivia stands up and pulls Alex with her. Olivia holds Alex's face in her hands and delicately kisses her.
"When Calvin gets back, tell him I love him" Olivia says quietly.
"Of course, now go , do your job" Alex says, shooing Olivia out.
"Love you" Olivia says over her shoulder on the way out.
"Love you too" Alex yells after her.
