I took a deep breath and try to stop my heart from pounding as I raised my hand and knocked on Donnelly's door. She has been a friend, coworker, and most importantly one of my biggest backers besides my parents and Olivia. She deserved to hear the news from me before I made the public announcement later this evening.

"Come in"

I open the door and walk in preparing for what could lay in store.

"Alex what brings you here?" She asks as she lays her pen on the desk.

"I need to talk to you about something important."

Donnelly looked at her with questioning eyes as she motioned for me to have a seat so we could talk.

"What is it?"

"Liz, I have decided to withdraw from the District Attorney's race." I take another deep breath and continue without giving her a chance to interrupt "Over the last few weeks I have realized that I want a family with Olivia and in doing so I will become a stay-at-home mom and raise our child or children however many we decide."

I finally stopped talking and took a chance to look at Liz who was leaning back and smiling at me.

"Say something." I finally whispered after the silence began to get to me.

"Alex" she says as she stands "I would say it took the two of you long enough to have a family and I couldn't be happier for you too."

I released the breath I had been holding and let the stress melt away from my body.

"I will be announcing my withdrawal from the race this evening at a press conference I have called. I know this is the right time but over the last few weeks I realized something was missing and after seeing Olivia with the little boy she rescued I realized what it was. I want to watch her hold our child, I want to watch her read him or her bedtime stories, I want to experience her calm constant demeanor when they have an accident and require stitches while I am in a panic mode."

"So, I have a couple of questions for you." She says as she sits on the corner of her desk smiling "Are you adopting or will you be carrying the child? Also, will I be named as the God Mother? Because I better be Alex."

I laugh and lean back in the chair more relaxed now. "We haven't discussed the particulars just, yet we just agreed to have a family, we both know my extensive dealings with endometriosis I cannot carry a child. We both know where Olivia stands on her carrying children so it will be either adoption or a surrogate using my eggs. Of Course, you would be the God Mother just know Elliot will be the God Father."

"The 16 is the only family Olivia has, and Elliot is basically her brother. Now let's return to having the child."

"Liz, I just told you we haven't quite decided yet but if I have my way, and we both know I will, it would be a combination of adoption and surrogate. There are more than enough children out there who needs loving homes."

"Not to speed up the process." Liz says reaching back for a file on her desk "You brought up the little boy that Olivia rescued."

"Yes" I say nodding wondering where she was going.

I reach for the file that Liz extends to me and open it up. It is a picture of the baby boy Olivia rescued from a hotel when working a human trafficking case. The medical reports state he is in good health and unfortunately no relatives had been found other than his mother which was a deceased prostitute. He was currently in a state-run facility which was overcrowded on a good day and unintentionally being ignored due to the number of toddlers and infants in their care. I closed the file and looked up at Liz.

"Go talk with her and call me back." She says as she moves behind her desk "I can make a call and pull some strings if you two agree. He will be in your care by the time the press conference is finished."

"You knew all along, didn't you?" I asked standing to go and see Olivia at the precinct.

"I could tell by the way you looked at her when you saw her with children. I was just waiting for you to realize it before I said anything."

"You could have saved me the trouble of campaigning you know." I call back as I open her door and head over to the 1-6.

"Well almost a decade of working with me has taught me you only learn the hard way." She calls after me as I shut the door quickly knowing she was not only smiling but laughing.

I walk in and smile at the love of my life who is busy typing away on her computer. I realize she is deep in thought when she doesn't turn around to the sound of my heels on the tile floor.

"Liv" I say softly as I lean against her desk as I have done since the day, I came to be their ADA. "Do you have a minute so we can talk in private?"

Olivia looks up at me with concern in her eyes but starts smiling with the look I am giving her.

"Yeah, lets go to the crib." She says standing and motioning for me to go before her as she always has done.

"Let me have it what is it." She says as she shuts the door.

I pull the file from my briefcase and hand it to Olivia "Read it."

I stand there and watch her face as she reads the file on Baby Boy Blue. I see the array of emotions flash across her face. Shocked that he's still in foster care, relieved that he has a clean bill of health and devastated that he would never know his mother.

"Alex, I know all this I rescued him remember." She says as she hands me the file back.

"And Liz can make a call, and he will be in our apartment by tonight." I tell her straight forward. "But that is only if you say yes." We had just discussed having a family the weekend prior, neither of us was prepared for a child to fall in our lap the following Monday.

"Baby." She says looking at me with a huge smile on her face "That little boy has been through hell his first few months of life. Let's bring him home."

I smile at the look of happiness that has crossed her face. I have always known deep down that she wanted to be a mother but like so many other things that was something she kept hidden within. I know it's not because she feared I would say no, to be honest I would go to the ends of the earth to make this woman as happy as she was at this moment, and in her own way she knew that as well. I knew it had more to do with her conception and her fear of becoming her perm donor. She was born with built in mother instincts and has always been a natural when working with child victims.

"You think Cragen will let you off for the rest of today?" I ask her as I reach for my cellphone to call Liz and tell her to make the call. Honestly if I know Liz she was making calls as soon as I walked out if she hadn't already.

"I'm sure he will I have plenty of time on the books and not to jinx us, but we have nothing new today, why?"

"Well," I say stepping to her and pulling her into my arms "We need to do some shopping, he does need a bassinet and other supplies. He's an infant and can't sleep in the full-size bed in the guest room. Speaking of which I need to call some movers to come and remove the furniture so we can start turning it into his room."

"Alex this could only be temporary."

"Possibly, even if he is we still need a nursery for when we do have a child. Right now, this child needs a home, a loving home, we have more than enough love for him or any other child we adopt or choose to have. So, I will ask again, do you think Cragen will give you the day off?"

"I know he will." She says as she kisses me gently "Have I told you how much I love you lately."

"Not since this morning but once he's asleep tonight you can always show me again and again." I say with a laugh and push her towards the door to go talk to Cragen. I can't help but sigh and look at the heavens above and say a prayer for the accident that almost took her from me. Without that incident we probably wouldn't be where we are today, on our way to shop for baby items to bring home the first of what I hope is many children to come.

It is time to bring Noah into the picture and complete their family.