The plane touched down in the Bahamas. The sun is shining brightly. They get a cab from the airport to their resort. Olivia checked them into their room. They took the time to unpack in their room. Once they got unpacked and grabbed something to eat they decided to walk about the resort just to look around. Olivia and Alex held hands while Calvin took in all the sights around them.

They spent the next few days swimming in the ocean, Alex and Olivia relaxed in the adults only hot tub watching Calvin swim in the resort pool.

They were able to go look at a few tourist shops.

One of the days they carved out to go swimming with the dolphins and grab lunch afterwards. Alex and Olivia bought pictures of each one of them with the dolphins then a group picture.

Once they got back to New York it was after the first of the year.

Calvin went back to school on the second, his winter break being over. Alex spent long nights at the office trying to play catch up from being out of the office. Olivia caught a case just a few days after being back.

Alex and Olivia let Calvin go over to Jake's on Friday after school. Alex was going to stay at the office and continue on the mountain of paperwork she had to go through. Olivia was at a stake out with Amanda watching Nick and Fin in a gay bar.

Alex got home late and to an empty house. She called Calvin to wish him a goodnight.

Then she called Olivia.

"Benson" Olivia answers

"Hey Liv, how's your stake out?" Alex asks her sleepily.

"It's going, nothing so far" Olivia says yawning.

"Awh, don't start the yawning" Alex hears Amanda complain in the background.

"Are you coming home tonight?" Alex asked, putting her phone on speaker, changing out of her work clothes into one of Olivia's t-shirts and sweats.

"It'll be really late. You don't have to wait up sweetheart, I know you've had a long day" Olivia says in a soft sweet voice.

"Okay" Alex says, yawning into the phone.

Olivia chuckles at that.

"I love you Lex" Olivia says back softly

'I love you too, get home safe" Alex says to her crawling under her covers.

"Always, goodnight" Olivia responds.

Alex says goodnight and they hang up. Alex plugs her phone in and the exhaustion from the day takes over and she falls right off to sleep.

Olivia doesn't get home until close to four in the morning. She makes her way to their bedroom and shreds off her clothes putting them in the hamper, not even bothering to put on pajamas before getting in bed. Olivia wraps her arms around Alex giving her a kiss on the head. Alex mumbles and snuggles further into Olivia's embrace.

Olivia's phone ringing is what wakes them up. Olivia groans answering the phone. It's Amanda telling her they have another assault in a hotel in Chelsea. Olivia tells her she'll be there shortly and hangs up. Olivia feels Alex's hands roam against her abdomen. She looks over at Alex and sees a grin starting to form.

"You feel so warm" Alex comments.

"Mm, your hands are freezing" Olivia says back.

"Well I guess I'll just have to warm them up" Alex says, her hands continuing to fall lower and lower on Olivia's abdomen.

"As much as I'd love that, I have to get to work. Rain check?" Olivia questioned.

Alex pouts at Olivia.

Olivia dips down giving Alex a searing kiss. When Olivia pulls back Alex captures her in another kiss. Alex pulls back from the kiss and playfully pushes Olivia away.

"Alright, alright, go before we make you really late" Alex says to her.

Olivia takes a quick shower and gets ready for work.

Olivia comes into the kitchen to see Alex sipping on coffee and the news on the TV. Alex holds out a to-go cup filled with coffee and a banana. Olivia gratefully takes it. Olivia gives Alex a kiss on the lips and tells her she'll see her later.

Alex looked at the time and saw it was close to eleven in the morning. They actually got to sleep in pretty late for a Saturday.

Once Alex finished her coffee she showered herself and just got dressed in her favorite sweats and one of Olivia's hoodies. She came back out and made herself an omelet. Alex finished her breakfast and cleaned up the mess. Alex's phone rang just as she was sitting down on the couch.

"Hello?" Alex answered.

"Ma?" Calvin says into the phone.

"Hey sweetheart, how was your night?" Alex asked him.

"It was good, I was calling to see if I could go over to Riley's? Jake, Matt, Emily and me wanted to hang out over there today? Is that okay?" Calvin asked her.

"And her parents are okay with it?" Alex questioned.

"Of course Ma" Calvin sassed back.

"Calvin!" Alex sternly says back.

"Her parents said yes, and Jake's parents can take us over there. If it's okay" Calvin tells her.

"Okay, just don't be back super late tonight" Alex tells him.

"Thanks Ma!" Calvin gushes.

They say their goodbyes and hang up.

Alex snuggles on the couch and puts on the lifetime channel to decompress.

The hours flick by and Alex is listening to some lifetime movie in the background as she's looking up sperm donor sites. Alex knows it was just a brief conversation months ago that she and Olivia talked about potentially growing their family but Alex was curious and she wanted to do more research for when the time came.

Calvin came home barling in with Matt and Emily hot on his heels talking about the dolphins Calvin got to swim with in the Bahamas.

Alex got up to meet their dad standing at the door. Alex gave him a gentle smile and waved him in.

"Thanks" Doug says to her, shutting the door behind him.

"I got called in to work the nightshift. Do you mind if they stay here tonight?" Doug asks Alex.

"Of course they can stay, I don't mind at all. I do have one question though" Alex says back.

"Where's their mom?" Alex questioned him.

"She passed away a few years ago. Cancer" Doug says sadness covering his face for a minute before shaking it off.

"Oh, I'm so sorry" Alex says, putting a comforting hand on his arm.

"I appreciate it, and I appreciate you and your wife too for letting the kids come over a lot." Doug tells her.

"It's not a problem, really," Alex tells him.

He yells to tell the kids goodbye and says his goodbye to Alex before opening the door and leaving.

Once he left, Alex went to check on the kids. She saw the door was open to his bedroom and they were all sitting on his bed looking at the pictures they gave Calvin of the dolphin encounter.

Alex smiled to herself and went back out to the living room. She shut her laptop and set it on the coffee table. She then got up and started on dinner since his friends would be staying for dinner.

Alex opened a diet coke for her to drink as she started making dinner. She wanted to make something quick so she started frying up hamburger meat for tacos and started boiling water for the rice. Just as Alex poured the rice into the pot her phone started ringing. Alex stirred the rice then grabbed her phone.

"Cabot" Alex answers.

"Hey sweetheart, I'm stuck at a crime scene for a little while longer" Olivia says back softly.

"Oh, okay, I'm making dinner now. Do you want me to save you a plate?" Alex asked.

"That would be great. I'll try not to be too late" Olivia tells her.

Alex hears Amanda in the background telling a uniform to bag some evidence.

"I should tell you, Matt and Emily are staying tonight just to give you a heads up" Alex says, stirring the meat in the pan.

"Okay. I have to go, I love you and I'll try to be home soon" Olivia says sounding distracted.

"I love you too" Alex says back.

Alex finishes getting dinner ready, setting out the chopped up lettuce,tomatoes and cheese on the counter yelling for the kids.

They each made their own tacos and had spanish rice with it. Alex gave the kids water to drink.

"How was your day with Riley and Jake?" Alex asked them.

"It was good, we played the Wii and watched a couple movies before Mr. Michaels picked us up and took Jake home" Calvin says between bites.

His friends nodded along with him.

"Cal says on Sundays you guys take him to the rec center to play basketball? Can we go tomorrow with you?" Matt asks her.

"I don't see why not" Alex says back smiling at them.

"Oh, and I was thinking how about we make brownies tonight?" Alex asks them.

They look at each other then at her and agree.

They finish dinner and Alex has Calvin put the leftovers away as she loads the dishwasher. Once that is done. She has him grab the eggs from the fridge and she looks on the back of the box telling them all the ingredients they need.

A little while later the door opens and Olivia walks in seeing the kids surrounding the table. She had to admit it smelled great.

"Hey mom!" Calvin shouts excitedly

Then followed by "Hi Ms.Benson" by Emily and Matt.

"Hi guys, Cal? Where's Ma?" Olivia asked.

"She went to the bathroom," Calvin tells her.

Olivia nodded her head and walked towards them. As Olivia got closer she saw they were looking at the brownies in the pan. She raised her eyebrow at them.

"Ma said we had to wait for them to cool down" Calvin tells her.

"Uh huh" she says grinning at him. She kisses his head and goes to grab her plate from the fridge.

Alex comes down the hall and sees Olivia warming up her food.

"The brownies should be good to go guys" Alex tells them.

Alex walks over and cuts the brownies and gives the kids one each.

"Thanks!" Alex hears them all say at once.

Alex chuckles and they go sit on the couch to start a movie.

Alex walks closer to Olivia who's leaning against the counter eating.

"Hey Liv" Alex says to her.

"Hey sweetheart" Olivia says after finishing her bite.

"Long day?" Alex asks her. She hands her water from the fridge.

"You have no idea. I had a talk to this bartender today and since when has safe sex been a thing of the past?" Olivia asks, shaking her head in disbelief.

"Makes you scared for the kids growing up in this day and age. The only thing we can do is make sure ours know why it's important to protect them and their partner" Alex tells her comfortingly.

"True, okay! Enough about work, what are we doing tonight? It looks like the kids are choosing a movie? " Olivia says, finishing her tacos and rinsing her plate off.

"Yes, we decided to watch movies with snacks" Alex informs her.

Olivia nods and pulls Alex towards the living room. They sit cuddled up together under a throw blanket watching 'hunger games' with Calvin and his friends.

After the movie Alex and Olivia go to bed leaving the kids up to watch another movie, then promising to go to bed afterwards.

Once they are cuddled in the bed Olivia plays with Alex's locks of hair. Alex hummed in pleasure at it.

"Something on your mind babe?" Alex asked her eyes closed, enjoying Olivia playing with her hair.

"This case, this perp is coming after closested men. He knows how to choose a victim" Olivia says irritated.

"It's something everyone has to come to terms with in their own way" Alex comments back.

"I'm just glad I have you, and Calvin and our friends that love us the way we are" Olivia tells her.

"Me too Liv, me too" Alex says back, giving her a quick kiss on her cheek.

"I love you so much" Olivia says looking into Alex's eyes cupping her cheek.

"I love you too" Alex quietly says, leaning up, connecting their lips together in a soft kiss.

Olivia worked the case the next couple days and came home on Monday night after getting drinks with Barba.

Olivia came in the door seeing Calvin on the couch watching some comedy movie.

"Hey bud, how was school?" Olivia asks him taking off her coat.

"It was good, I started a group project with Matt and Emily for science," Calvin tells her.

"You'll let me know if you need any help?" Olivia asked, sitting down next to him.

"Yes mom, but can we work here after school?" Calvin asked her.

"Of course. Where's Ma,?" Olivia asked him.

"Uhm, sleeping I think?" Calvin shrugged.

"Okay, I'm going to go check. Love you, goodnight" Olivia responds ruffling his hair.

"Love you too mom" Calvin says back his attention back to the TV.

Olivia opens the door to the bedroom to see Alex not sleeping but knee deep in a case file.

"Of course you're not sleeping" Olivia says, chuckling, shutting the door behind her.

Alex looks up at her eyebrows furrowed.

"Hello to you too" Alex says back.

"Cal said you were sleeping" Olivia answers the unasked question.

"Ah, no, not sleeping. I just couldn't look at this case file with him in the distance" Alex says distractedly.

"I get it" Olivia says leaning over the bed giving her a kiss.

"Mmm, you taste like wine" Alex tells her.

"Yea, drinks with Barba the ADA. He was giving me his new theory on how to get this guy's charges bumped up" Olivia says, standing up and grabbing clothes out of her dresser to shower.

"You think it'll work" Alex asked intrigued.

"Maybe, I'm not sure yet" Olivia says honestly, giving Alex a shrug.

"I'm going to go shower" Olivia says and goes to shower.

The next few days Alex worked long days into the night. Olivia went to court to see how Barba's theory worked out. Calvin and his friends worked on their science project.

After Olivia and Fin were able to arrest Jeremy for murder they went back to the station and Cragen wanted them to change around their desks. Munch brought in a hit on a cold case he was working. They went over what they knew from the suspect and Cragen wanted Olivia and Nick on the next flight to Miami. Olivia finished out her day with paperwork and went home.

When Olivia got home she saw Calvin and his friends writing on their poster board for their project. Olivia also saw the pizza that was ordered.

"Hey guys" Olivia says to them.

Various greetings are said back to her.

Olivia grabs a piece of pizza looking over them at their work.

"So what is this on again?" Olivia asks.

"The different stages of growth in a plant's life" Emily answers for them.

"Uh huh" Olivia says.

"Yea mom, like when the seed is planted and how to grow and why sunlight and water is important for its growth" Calvin tells her pointing at each part as he said it.

"It looks like you guys are doing a great job. I'm going to change" Olivia says.

Olivia goes to change in her room. Olivia opens the door and finds Alex on the phone. Olivia closes the door behind her. She only hears Alex's end of the call but can tell it's case related. Olivia quickly changes and puts her work clothes in the hamper. She sits down on the bed patiently waiting until Alex hangs up the phone. Alex tosses her phone on the bed after she hangs up.

"What's up?" Olivia asks her curiously.

"That was one of the detective's I'm working with on a DV case I caught" Alex says back sinking on the bed next to Olivia.

"Hmm, should I be worried?" Olivia asks in a joking manner.

Alex scoffs and playfully rolls her eyes.

"No Liv, you don't have to worry about any detective stealing me away" Alex responds sincerely.

"Good, so what did the detective want?" Olivia asked scooting back on the bed and pulled Alex in between her legs so she could start rubbing Alex's obviously tense shoulders.

Alex hummed at the pressure Olivia was giving her shoulders. She definitely needed it.

"Just wanted to let me know they finally got her to agree to testify against her attacker. What does it say about relationships, that a lot of the abusers we put away are a significant other?" Alex ponders.

"It says that we are doing our job and putting away the bad guys that's out there" Olivia confirms back to her kissing her cheek.

"That's true," Alex agrees.

Olivia continues to rub Alex's shoulders for a few minutes before bringing up the fact she has to fly to Miami tomorrow.

"Sweetheart, there's something I wanna tell you" Olivia starts out.

Olivia can feel Alex begin to tense up again.

"It's nothing bad, I promise" Olivia tells her.

"Okay?" Alex responds hesitantly.

"Cragen is sending Nick and I to Miami tomorrow to pick up a suspect. I should only be gone one night. I just wanted to tell you. I didn't want to fly out of state and you don't know" Olivia admits.

"Oh, okay, Liv, I know the job. I know this is something you have to do. I'll arrange my meetings so I can get Calvin from school. I do however want to know when you land safely" Alex responds, reaching up to where Olivia's hands are still on her shoulders and pulling them down so she can lean against her instead.

"Of course Sweetheart" Olivia says back softly.

They lay like that for a while until they hear a knock on the door. Alex had started dozing off and at the sound she sat up and rubbed at her eyes. Olivia moved her legs from around Alex and got up.

"Lay down, I'll get it" Olivia tells her.

Alex yawns again, nodding. Olivia sees her stand up and grab pajamas out of her drawer before closing the door back and heading out to where the kids were in the kitchen. They were finishing up on the pizza on the table. Olivia opens the door and sees Doug on the other side. She gives him a friendly smile and moves aside to let him in.

"Hey, the kids are just finishing dinner" Olivia tells him, shutting the door behind him.

"Thank you" Doug says to her.

The kids see Doug standing there and gather their stuff.

"Hey guys, how'd it go today?" He asks them.

"It was good, we got a lot done" Matt tells him and Calvin and Emily agree.

Calvin grabs the poster board to show him all the progress they have made.

"It looks good guys," Olivia says from behind Doug.

"Thanks!" They all say proudly.

Once they left Olivia tossed the empty pizza box and locked up the door. Calvin went to shower and Olivia told him he could stay up until ten but then the game had to be turned off. Of course Calvin agreed and hugged her goodnight before going to shower.

Nick and Olivia landed in Miami and grabbed lunch at a small Cuban restaurant before going to the correctional facility for their suspect. When they got there much to their surprise Agent Dana Lewis from the FBI was also there. Once they decided to work together they were able to bring him back to New York for questioning.

Close to forty-eight hours later Olivia was walking into the door of her home. It was late and she was exhausted. Olivia went straight for the kitchen cabinet and grabbed her bottle of scotch she had and then opened a second cabinet to get a cup. She sat down at the table, opened the bottle and poured herself a drink. Olivia didn't know how long she was sitting there nursing her third glass of the night when a blurry eyed Alex came into the kitchen eyeing her. Alex took a seat next to her, she put her arm on the table palm cupped to her face leaning on it silently watching Olivia. Olivia was quiet for a few moments just sipping at her drink.

"She told me she was just like me" Olivia whispers to Alex, breaking the silence.

Alex stayed quiet just nodding at her to continue.

"I just never would've-" Olivia shook her head and downed the rest of her drink. She went to grab the bottle and Alex's hand reached out to stop her.

Olivia's red puffy eyes met Alex's. Alex sighed. She brought up the hand she had of Olivia's and kissed it. Once, twice then just cradled it to her face.

"If she and I are so much alike, what does that say about me?" Olivia questioned quietly.

"Liv" Alex says, voice breaking.

Alex pulls Olivia onto her lap arms wrapped around her letting Olivia quietly sob into her neck.

Once Olivia was too exhausted from crying Alex pulled her to the room. Olivia robotically sat on the bed while Alex went through her dresser to find her something to wear to sleep in. Olivia started taking off her clothes to change. Alex went back to the kitchen to put up the scotch and put the glass in the dishwasher. Alex went back into the room and Olivia was already under the covers,Alex slipped in bed next to her. Olivia curled into Alex's comforting arms , Alex played with Olivia's hair. They laid like that until they both fell off to sleep.