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The next morning Alex and Olivia woke up to an alarm blaring at them. Alex turns in Olivia's arms to hit the alarm off. They both lay there for a few minutes waking up for the day. Olivia pulls Alex impossibility closer to her and starts kissing her neck mumbling good morning to her.
"Mm, good morning to you" Alex sighs out.
Alex turns towards Olivia giving her a good morning kiss not letting it go further.
"We should shower and get ready for Calvin's game" Alex tells her.
Olivia groans but agrees. After a long shared shower for both of them they get ready for the day.
A little while later Alex and Olivia were sitting on the bleachers with Calvin's friends Matt and Emily, their dad had to pick up an extra shift today so Alex told him she would take them home with her after the game.
Calvin's team ended up losing the game. Even though he was disappointed they lost he understood that they did their best. Olivia , Alex and all three kids went back to the apartment for Calvin to change his clothes and shower.
Once Calvin is changed Alex asks them if they want to hang out in the park. All three kids agree to that so Alex makes sandwiches and snacks to bring with water bottles to the park. At some point during their park adventure Jake shows up with a soccer ball and they all make two teams to start a game. When the game was over and all the kids were out of breath Alex called them over for lunch. After they had their lunch they switched teams and played another game of soccer. Olivia and Alex were sitting on the blanket in the grass watching them. They enjoyed watching them all run around laughing and having fun. Alex felt a weight lifted off her chest at Calvins new found friends. They both were so glad Calvin found friends and was adjusting so well with his new surroundings.
It was late afternoon when they all decided to go back to the apartment. It was Olivia's weekend to be called in so she left catching a cab to the precinct. Calvin asked if Jake could come too and with his parents' approval she said yes. All the kids went to Calvin's room when they got back to the house to play his game system, they were told to leave the door open so Alex could keep an eye on them.
Alex checked in on the kids a few times in between doing laundry and cleaning up the apartment. It was almost six when Alex started dinner deciding on spaghetti and salad. As she was making dinner she heard whoops and hollering from Calvin's room about the game and rolled her eyes at the kids. It didn't take too long until dinner was done and she called the kids out to the kitchen to eat. They all made their plates and sat at the table as Alex pulled up a stool to sit on next to them.
"Mom, can we play monopoly when we're done?" Calvin asks in between bites.
Alex froze mid bite, almost choking on her noodles.
"Um, sure if you guys want to" Alex says after swallowing her bite.
Calvin and his friends nod their agreement.
Alex's heart swelled at the term.
After dinner Calvin grabbed the game and Alex cleaned up the mess and put away the food.
Everyone took their perspective pieces and put them on go.
A few hours into the game everyone was out but Alex and Calvin. Alex decided to give him the win and forfeited the last bit. Calvin grinned and pumped his hand in the air at his win and Alex heartly laughed at him. Alex put away the game and told them to pick out a movie to watch. They all agreed on journey two. Alex made everyone popcorn and they kids sat on the couch as she sat in her chair.
Alex had texted each kid's parents asking if it would be okay if they had a sleepover seeing how late it was getting and they agreed to it.
Olivia came through the doors towards the middle of the movie. She sat her keys down next to the door and took off her shoes. She smiled over at Alex in greeting and Alex smiled and waved back. She got up and followed Olivia back to their room to not disturb the movie and the kids. Alex sat on the bed while Olivia put away her gun in the safe. When it was locked back up Olivia turned and leaned in to give Alex a kiss.
"Liv" Alex says against Olivia's lips
Hmm?" Olivia asked softly, pulling back from Alex.
"Calvin and his friends are having a sleepover. Movie night" Alex tells her.
Olivia starts undressing and changing to pajamas.
"That sounds nice" Olivia says over her shoulder.
'Yes, and Calvin called me mom today '' Alex gushed. Alex's smile is wide and her eyes shining at Olivia.
Olivia turns around in shock.
"He did?" Olivia questioned shocked
"Yes" Alex excitedly said standing up.
Olivia wrapped her arms around Alex lightly chuckling in happiness.
"Oh baby, that's great" Olivia says, kissing the side of Alex's head.
Alex just nodded into Olivia's neck laughing with her.
They go out to the living room seeing the kids almost all asleep. They tell Calvin and Jake to go sleep in his room. They give Jake a sleeping bag and an extra pillow for the floor. The siblings each sleep on the couch and chair with their own blankets. Alex and Olivia go to their room and watch a bit of TV before going to bed themselves.
Alex comes home on Monday evening to Calvin and Olivia going over his book report. Olivia and Calvin high fived when she was finished reading his paper, Calvin was grinning at her. Alex had a soft smile on her lips as she was watching them.
"Mom! Ma just read my paper and she thinks it's good!" Calvin calls over to Alex excitedly
"That's great!" Alex says back smiling at them.
"Our boy has a talent for book reports," Olivia tells her proudly.
Calvin looked down at his hands in embarrassment but his smile never fell.
"He is a pretty good historian too" Alex says, pulling Calvin into a one armed hug kissing the top of his head.
Calvin's stomach grumbled and he dramatically leaned back on the couch.
"I'm hungry!" Calvin says loudly.
"Alright, Alright dinner should be done" Olivia says getting up to go check on the lasagna.
The timer goes off as she's walking to the kitchen.
Alex and Olivia have a glass of red wine to go with the pasta as Calvin has a cup of water. They all eat dinner. After dinner Olivia takes a shower and changes and then Calvin goes to take a shower. While Calvin is in the shower Alex's in their room taking off her makeup. Olivia comes up behind her giving her a kiss on the cheek. She sets down a glass of wine on her stand next to Alex, then takes her own and goes to flop on the bed. Alex changes into her pajamas and gets into bed too. Alex is reading over a case file sipping her wine and Olivia is watching the nightly news when Calvin comes in to tell them he's going to play the game until bed. They give him one hour then bed.
They hear his game turn off in a little over an hour but let it go because he did turn it off without them having to tell him again. Alex finishes up on her file signing her name and closing it. She looks over at Olivia who's glass is almost empty and hands her own over to sit on the nightstand so she can put her file on her side. Olivia grabs the glass and sets it next to hers. Alex looked over at her deep in thought. Olivia lightly touches her thigh over the covers to pull her back.
"Lex?" Olivia questioned
"Hmm" Alex asks, blinking out of her own thoughts.
"You looked like you were a world away, what's going on?" Olivia asked, taking Alex's hand and gently rubbing her thumb over it.
"Do you remember when you asked me about children being born through sperm donation?" Alex asked delicately, looking hesitantly over to Olivia's face.
Olivia's face scrunched in confusion.
"Yes?" Olivia questioned back.
"Well I was thinking about it and though I have no issues with sperm donation from a anonymous donor, if we decide to have more kids I'd want to use someone we know-" Alex took a breath and stared at Olivia's shell shocked face and continued in a rush-" not because I'm attracted to anyone else but just for future reference we know what we're getting into for genetics and personality and you know you don't want to take a chance that our kid could be dating one of their siblings and-"
"Are you saying you want more kids?" Olivia asked, cutting off Alex's adorable rambling.
Alex heavily sighed out giving Olivia a half smile that showed her insecurity.
"I am" Alex says, nodding her head
Olivia's face broke out into a genuine smile.
"Okay, I would like more kids too. I know we have a lot more to talk about but this a start" Olivia says back softly.
Alex's relief spread across her face and leaned over into Olivia's lap kissing her excitedly. Olivia deepened the kiss before pulling back panting.
"You know we can't actually make kids this way" Olivia says laughing in between kisses with Alex.
"I know, but it's so fun to try" Alex says, catching Olivia's lips between her own.
A few hours later Olivia woke up naked in bed to a ringing phone. Olivia heard the water running and knew Alex had gotten up to shower before work. Olivia went into the bathroom after she hung up with Cragen. Olivia opened the shower door seeing Alex getting rinsed off and stepped into shower. She stole a quick kiss from her as Alex stepped out of the shower.
"Cragen called, I have to go, it's bad" Olivia says over the running water as Alex was getting dried off and dressed.
"What happened?" Alex asked concerned.
"I'm not sure, he wouldn't say, just that I need to get over there quick '' Olivia says, rinsing off and getting out of the shower.
"Okay, don't worry about Calvin or his practice today, just be careful and let me know how Cragen is." Alex says leaning against the sink.
Olivia stepped out of the bathroom in her towel and went to the room to throw on clothes for the day.
"Yea, of course, wish Cal good luck for me" Olivia states giving Alex another quick kiss before heading out.
Olivia left to head out to Cragen's apartment not knowing what she was going to walk into.
Alex watched as Olivia left for work. She was concerned about Cragen. She didn't know much about the case they were investigating and that was probably a good thing. Alex finished getting ready for the day. She made coffee and a light breakfast. Since she still had a bit of time before she had to wake Calvin up. Alex turned on the TV to watch the morning news when her phone rang and Olivia's name flashed on the screen.
"Hey Liv, everything okay?" Alex answers lightly
"No, Cragen woke up with a dead escort in his bed. It's not looking good" Olivia tells her
"Oh god" Alex gasps, putting a hand up to her mouth in shock.
Olivia sees Cragen coming out of the building.
"I gotta go" Olivia says and hangs up.
Alex blinks at the abrupt end to the call and hangs up too and sets her phone down.
Alex watches the news but so far she doesn't see any story headlines.
Alex went to wake Calvin up to get ready for school. He made a bagel and had some juice for breakfast before Alex dropped him off to school and went to work for the day. Alex knew since this case now involved Cragen the DAs office would take over the investigation. Alex checked her phone every few hours to see if she got any new updates from Olivia and she didn't. She's been radio silent all day. Alex heard whispers throughout the DA's office that the public integrity unit was taking over the case.
Alex worked all the way up until it was time to go pick Calvin up from practice. They had leftovers for dinner given how late it was when they got home.
Olivia came in exhausted from the day. Calvin had already gone to bed and Alex had ended up falling asleep on the couch waiting for Olivia to get home. Olivia sighed looking over at the bundle that was Alex on the couch with a throw blanket over her. Olivia bent down in front of her gently running her hands across Alex's cheek. Alex jerked awake blinking to clear her vision. She saw Olivia's face inches from hers with a sad half smile looking back at her. Alex slowly sat up on the couch taking the hand that was on her face and pulling Olivia up onto the couch to sit next to her. Olivia put her head on Alex's shoulder sighing. Alex leaned her head against Olivia's, rubbing her arm slightly. They sat there in silence for a moment.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" Alex quietly asked her.
Olivia shook her head
"Not really" Olivia mumbled back.
Alex nodded in understanding just quietly comforting her girlfriend.
The next morning Olivia woke up early since she didn't have a restful sleeping night. She started on a pot of coffee and showered hoping that would help her lack of sleep. Alex was sitting at the table still dressed in the pajamas and slippers hair in a messy bun drinking a cup of coffee when Olivia made her way back out to the kitchen. Olivia grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down at the table across from Alex.
"Morning" Alex greeted
"Hey, Morning, I didn't mean to wake you" Olivia tells her apologetically.
Alex waved it off.
"It's fine, you don't look like you've slept at all" Alex tells her looking over the exhaustion on her girlfriend's face.
"Not much, Cragen has his interview with public integrity today" Olivia rubs her hands down her face.
"I heard whispers around the office that the public integrity unit was taking over the investigation" Alex says back, taking a drink of her coffee.
"Yea, do you know anything about Paula Foster?" Olivia questioned her.
"Not a lot, I was still in witsec when she got promoted to run the unit. As far as I've seen she's good at her job" Alex shrugged apologetically.
"Well thanks for telling me that. Our new Captain came in and let us know we can't go anywhere near this investigation but Foster gave me her card to let her know what I found. She didn't believe I would stay away." Olivia huffs out, setting the card down on the table.
"She can tell your loyal Liv, and it's one of the things I love about you." Alex says lovingly reaching across the table to give her hand a squeeze.
"They didn't give up on me. I'm not giving up on him" Olivia says determinedly.
Alex nodded in understanding. Alex looked down at her watch and saw how late it was getting.
"I should get ready, can you wake Calvin up.?" Alex asked, drinking the last of her coffee and getting up to put the cup in the sink.
"Of course" Olivia says, getting up and heading down the hallway to Calvin's room.
The rest of the week went by fairly quickly. Olivia and Alex went to Calvin's games on Thursday and Saturday.
On Saturday after the game they went out to a pizza place and the arcade for a few hours. When they got home Calvin took a shower and changed out of his baseball uniform. Alex pulled up different hotels and tourist guides for Maine to show Olivia. They looked through quite a few before deciding on bar harbor Maine in a nice cabin with a view of the ocean. Olivia booked it for them and for the first time in a week she was glad she was able to focus on something good for the future. A vacation with her family is just what she's going to need after the hell work has been putting her through.
On Sunday Munch picks her up to meet Cassidy to try and get more information out of him. He didn't know much but gave them his theory on what happened. Olivia brought Cragen take out for dinner when she visited him at the hotel they had him staying in because his apartment was a crime scene. A few minutes into her stay with him the detectives came and arrested him. Olivia followed them out telling Cragen she'd call his lawyer for him.
Alex was watching the news when the breaking news story came up of Cragen's arrest and all the press taking pictures of him getting hauled out of his hotel with Olivia not far behind him on the phone with someone. She looked pissed at the amount of press she pushed through. Alex muted the TV and tried calling Olivia but didn't get through to her. Calvin came out of his room with his headphones on and Alex quickly changed the channel not wanting him to see that. He came and sat next to her pulling off his headphones keeping them on his neck.
"Hey mom" Calvin says, looking down at his laptop while pulling something up.
"Hey, sweetie what's up?" Alex asked him.
He showed her his laptop with these beautiful mountain views overlooking the ocean.
"This is Acadia national park. It has some really cool looking trails, do you think we could check it out while we are there?" Calvin asks with a goofy grin on his face as Alex took the computer and scrolled through the pictures.
"I don't see why not, I'll add it to the list of things Ma and I are compiling for us to do" Alex confirms back grinning over at him.
"Great!" Calvin exclaims jumping into Alex's arms to hug her.
Alex chuckled, hugging him back.
"Do you wanna order food and watch the latest episode of Grimm ?" Alex asked him when he let go of her.
"Is that the cop show with magical creatures?" Calvin asked, scrunching his face at Alex.
"Yes,yes it is" Alex agrees laughing.
Calvin shrugged
"I get to pick the food though!" Calvin says, pointing his finger at her.
Alex lifts her hands in surrender playing along.
"Of course" Alex agrees, handing him some take out menus to go through.
They settle on greek food, calling to have it delivered and they start the show waiting on their food.
Olivia gets home slamming the door frustrated. Alex jumps from the loud noise and Calvin quickly turns around to look.
"Sorry guys" Olivia mutters, pulling over blazer and shoes.
Olivia goes to put away her gun and goes back out to the living room where her two favorite people are. Calvin's taking a bite of her food when Olivia sits in the middle of both him and Alex. Alex quietly offers her food and Olivia takes the offered bite from her. Olivia, not wanting to bring up what happened today even though she knows Alex probably already saw the news, leans further back into the couch and throws her arms around both of them so they would cuddle closer to her.
They finished up the episode they were watching and threw away their dinner containers. Calvin told them both goodnight and went to bed. Alex and Olivia went to their room, Alex getting into bed and Olivia changing out of her work clothes. Olivia finally sits on the bed getting under the covers.
"Did you see?" Olivia questioned softly.
"I saw the news where Cragen got arrested but I didn't follow the story" Alex confirmed.
"They charged him with murder. He's being set up! I know he is, we just have to find evidence." Olivia shook her head frustrated.
"You will Liv, I know you will" Alex says confidently pulling an upset Liv in her arms to console her.
They fall asleep like that a little while later.
The next day Olivia went to Cragen's arraignment. They didn't let him out on bail. Fin and Amanda went to Ganzel's apartment to talk with him and Olivia went to an interview with Foster, Ms. Wilson and her lawyer. After that interview Olivia and Foster went back to her office to talk about the interview and the allegations against Cragen.
When Olivia left Foster's office she went to Alex's since was already at the DA's office. Olivia knocked on the door to Alex's office. Olivia heard the muffled come in from Alex and opened the door.
"Hey sweetheart" Olivia comments, shutting the door behind her.
"Hey Liv, this is a nice surprise" Alex says back with a soft smile at her girlfriend.
"I had a meeting with Foster and figured I'd stop by to see my beautiful girlfriend" Olivia says cheekily.
Alex rolled her eyes at Olivia playfully.
"Well you're always welcome here, so tell me how'd court go this morning?" Alex asked standing up from her desk to take the seat next to Olivia on the couch in her office.
Olivia sighed heavily.
"Not great, they didn't grant bail" Olivia tells her and Alex can see the rage behind her eyes.
"I just got out of a meeting with Foster and she's thinking about making a deal with Delia for her testimony about Cragen's alleged abuse against escorts" Olivia says scoffing.
"I'm sorry babe" Alex tells her, taking a hold of Olivia's hand in hers.
"Just work as hard as you can to clear him before it comes to that, okay?" Alex states back putting her hand under Olivia's chin to look at her.
"There's one more thing, Haden came up on the wire taps from the undercover op and they learned about our brief history. Foster doesn't think it should come out so, for that I'm grateful,just concerned that it's out there for our enemies to use." Olivia says apologetically to Alex.
Alex's face contorted for a second then closed her eyes to let out a breath.
"Well if it does come out we will deal with it, but if Foster said she wasn't going to report it then it's just one less thing to worry about, okay?" Alex tried to say reassuringly.
Olivia nods and gives Alex a chaste kiss.
"I should let you get back to work. I'll see you tonight." Olivia says getting up from the couch.
"Love you" Alex says looking up at her from the couch.
"Love you too baby" Olivia says leaning back down for one more kiss before leaving Alex's office.
When Olivia got home that night Alex wasn't home yet. Olivia saw Calvin sitting on the couch with chips and pop writing on his laptop. Olivia shut and locked the door.
"Hey bud" Olivia calls out to him.
He looked up from the computer and smiled at her in greeting.
"Hey Ma, Mom's not home yet" He tells her.
Olivia looked from his snacks to him again cocking an eyebrow at him.
"I can see that, what's with all the snacks?" Olivia asked, snagging a chip from him.
"I'm a growing boy, I gotta eat" Calvin chuckled back, not offended.
"Well why don't you come help me start dinner then" Olivia says chuckling back at him.
He saved his work on his laptop and closed the screen. They washed their hands and started getting everything out for dinner to start cooking.
Alex opened the door to their apartment and heard laughter flitting across the room. Alex closed and locked the door walking towards the noise. Alex stopped in her tracks when she saw Olivia's heartily laughing holding her stomach as Calvin tried to clean his face off from the flour that was all over him and his face.
"It's not funny Ma" Calvin grumbled putting the towel down after trying to clean his face off.
"Come on Cal, it's a little funny" Olivia comments back trying to hold back the smile breaking across her face.
Calvin takes the bit of flour still on the counter and throws it in Olivia's face grinning at the shocked expression that comes across it.
"Oh, it's on!" Olivia exclaims jokingly throwing more flour at him.
They are both laughing and didn't even see Alex standing there watching them. Alex loudly cleared her throat and they both froze mid action.
"Mom!" Calvin shouts to her.
"Alex!" Olivia says at the same time.
Alex gives them an amused smile.
"What's going on here?" Alex asked, crossing her arms across her chest raising an eyebrow.
"Ma was trying to teach me how to bread chicken and didn't tell me-" Calvin half glared at Olivia " that I'm not supposed to completely dump all the flour and it got all over me!" Calvin shouts explaining it to her.
Alex grins at his outburst and looks over to Olivia who's still grinning at them.
"Well that's one way to learn!" Alex chuckles back.
"Mom!" Calvin yells offended.
"Let me get changed and we can get started on the right way to bread chicken" Alex tells him laughing a bit as she walks away from them to her room.
Alex comes back a few minutes later. Calvin and Olivia are at the counter with the chicken on the cutting board rolling it in the flour. Alex comes up next to them to start helping.
Over the next few days Olivia's schedule got even more hectic with work. Their witness got murdered and then the other witness was ran off the road that ended with her also getting killed. Their case was falling apart bit by bit. Amaro lashed out during his interview with Foster and felt like he was getting outcasted by his team. Munch and Olivia went to get Cassidy to talk to Ganzel about helping them with their case as a last resort to save it. After Delia's motion hearing Cassidy called Fin and Amanda to tell them Ganzel was willing to help provide evidence against Delia's goons. In exchange they would drop some of the charges that they had against him. They spent the weekend waiting to see if they were able to get prints off the weapons. They got a hit on all three suspect's but were only able to arrest one of them.
That Monday night Cassidy and Olivia were supposed to transport Ganzel to testify. A carjacking went wrong and an officer shot Cassidy. Olivia called it in over her radio and rode with Cassidy to the hospital. Munch,Fin and Harris met her at the hospital when the ambulance got there.
Alex was sitting on the couch going over a case file with the news on in the background. Calvin was sitting at the kitchen table doing his homework. The newscast flashed breaking news with an officer involved shooting at Ganzel's apartment complex. Alex's attention shot up to the news story turning it up. Alex knew Olivia was working late and that is the case she's been investigating for weeks now. They didn't identify the officer that was shot and said it was unclear on the injuries that were sustained. Alex felt her heart drop, her eyes shot over to the little boy listening to his headphones and doing his homework not paying attention to what was happening. Alex quickly stepped in her bedroom and called Olivia. Of course she didn't answer. Alex didn't leave a message and called Fin first and then Munch, neither of them answered her either. Alex sent Olivia a text asking her to please call when she had a chance. Alex tried to take a few calming breaths to hold back her panic, hoping it wasn't Olivia that was shot. Alex dialed Olivia's number again hoping she would answer. When the tone beeped for her to leave a message Alex took a shuddering breath.
"Liv, I saw the news. Please call me back. I love you" Alex says, emotion pouring into her voice.
Alex hung up and now all there was to do is wait
