A/N: Hey guys. So first just to get some things out of the way. I've been meaning to respond to some of the comments, but I always forget, so I have to go back and read through them. I did wanna respond to the person saying that they pictured Nicole Beharie as Anna. That actually works. I originally wrote the part of Anna picturing more of a Gabrielle Union, just slightly shorter than Gabby, more Olivia's height or an inch or two shorter. Nicole works as well though, lol. I've just seen Nicole in more serious/mature rolls. I've seen Gabrielle Union in those rolls as well but I've also seen her in more messy roles where she has her shit together, or can have her shit together but she's just out here living life and making mistakes and making it through and embracing it, a la Anna.

On another note, I've been trying to thing of future extensions for this story and I have to say that I am becoming more and more fascinated by an older Adeline. I might give her a spinoff...I should've majored in screen writing or something in the arts :( Damn you STEM! :( . I actually really won't give her a spinoff, but the character I'm imagining would actually make a great protagonist for an original piece, I think anyways. Also, do you guys think I should continue with writing for this story once the show is over. I mean, a show being over has never stopped me before, but let me know. *singing* Let me know. Leeet me knoo-oohhh. When I feel, what I feel, sometimes it's hard to tell you so. You may not be in the mood to learn, what you think you know. (My Jam!)

"It's been three days," Olivia said as

she attempted to multitask between looking over the files Huck had just handed her on their case and explaining to Anna how she didn't know what to do about her mother seeing as she'd been staying in the extra bedroom at her place for the past three days and showed no signs of leaving.

"Well, I don't know Liv," Anna supplied. "Maybe, she just wants to spend time with you." Olivia looked at her and frowned. "I know weird, awkward, against everything you've come to accept or expect in the last twenty-five years, but why else wouldn't she be leaving? The woman's a drifter at best. Maybe she'll drift away in another day or two. Just give it time."

"Yeah, well, she's making me uncomfortable," Olivia admitted.

"Well ask her to leave," Anna suggested in return.

"I can't ask her to leave," she said sitting the papers on her coffee table as Adeline began tugging at her pant leg, beginning to pull herself up into a standing position.

As soon as she got her little legs stable under her, she reached one hand up towards her mother, while still holding onto her leg for balance with the other. "Mmm," she stated simply, signaling her mother that yes, she indeed wanted to be picked up.

Her mother complied, but made the mistake of sitting the girl next to her on the couch rather than sitting her in her lap. The child immediately began to protest, with a somewhat pathetic wail as she tugged at her mother's shirt and began trying to crawl into her lap.

Olivia sighed, and picked the child back up, sitting her in her lap before she wrapped her arms around her and placed a kiss to her temple. This was another thing that had been weighing on her. Adeline seemed to be a little fussier and clingier lately. She pressed her lips to the child's forehead again, this time allowing the kiss to linger as the child began settling down again. She felt warm, and with her behavior from the night before, she feared she was coming down with something. It didn't help that her father had attempted to kidnap the baby only three days ago. She feared that he could've done something to the child.

"Baby, you're warm," she said pressing a few more kisses to Adeline's face, which the child accepted quietly as she leaned her head back into her mother's chest.

"Awww, my toot doesn't feel well," Anna said standing from the couch she was sitting on and reaching across to Olivia in an attempt to take the baby, trying to allow her cousin to get a little work done. She'd watch the woman get interrupted all morning long, either from her own thoughts, her phone, one of her employees, but mostly from the baby that was intermittently clinging to her.

Anna's attempt to help Olivia out failed miserably when Adeline began flailing her arms and crying at the attempt to remove her from her mother's lap. Anna pulled back. "Well excuse me," she said feigning offense. "I didn't want to hold you and get all of your baby cooties on me anyways."

Olivia laughed slightly and picked up the pacifier from the couch, plopping it in the child's mouth. The baby only let out a pitiful hum as she accepted the pacifier and began tugging at her right ear. Olivia picked her up and turned her around so that Adeline was facing her. The child again laid her head on her mother's chest as the woman began bouncing her legs slightly, trying to lull the child into a nap…hopefully. She began running her left hand gently through Adeline's curls, as her right arm wrapped around the child.

She gave up on the papers for the time being as she continued to rock the child and turned the rest of her attention to Anna. "You wanna ask her to come live with you?"

"Who?" Anna said tucking her feet under her and giving Olivia a look. "Addie?"

"No," Olivia laughed. "My mother."

"Don't even, Olivia," the woman said looking down at the coffee cup in her hand before bringing it to her lips. "You almost made me curse and you know I'm trying to stop."

It was Olivia's turn to give her a look, but Anna quickly changed the subject, not wanting it to continue further now that her taking responsibility for Maya's living arrangements had been, although playfully, put onto the table. "So what's up with Jake and Miss New Booty?"

"There is no 'Miss New Booty'," Olivia quickly retorted, quoting Anna.

Anna quickly brought her coffee mug up to her lips, mumbling into it, "That ain't what I heard."

She only stared at the gossipy woman for a few seconds. "What did you hear?" Olivia asked and Anna could pick up on the attitude.

"Nothing girl," Anna admitted. "D-a-m-n." Olivia rolled her eyes at the woman opting to spell out her swears rather than say them. "Why you get all defensive every time…"

"I don't get defensive," Olivia said glaring at Anna.

"Alright," Anna somewhat whined. Olivia rolled her eyes looking down at the baby again as the room grew quiet, thinking the conversation was over. That was until she heard Anna say softly. "Just have that same energy the next time you find one of them hoes at his apartment."

"Anna," Olivia scolded in an exasperated tone.

Anna laughed, causing Olivia to smile as well, "What?" she asked, rhetorically. "I'm just saying, if you have something to say, you better say it before the pastor says speak now or forever hold your peace, because I am telling you right now Olivia Carolyn Pope, I am not fighting anyone inside of a church for your ass." She brought the coffee mug back to her lips, but paused before taking a sip. "Now we make it out into the parking lot that's a different story." She then proceeded to take a sip.

Olivia laughed. She really didn't want to play into Anna's antics, but the thing that made the things she said funny was that she knew that there was some truth hidden in everything the woman said, even if it was just inside of her head.

The conversation quieted for a little bit, each woman lost in her own thoughts. Olivia debating on what to do about Adeline's seemingly brewing illness and Anna brainstorming on things to put in the show she was putting together. It was Anna's phone chiming that broke the silence.

Olivia watched as the woman picked up the phone and read what was on the screen before typing in a reply. She then sat the phone back down on the table.

"So, how's Alex?" Olivia asked, causing Anna to look up at her, her eyebrows drawing together as if Olivia had just breached a subject that was none of her business. The woman just continued to stare giving her a look that read as a warning and an inquisition as to what she was trying to get at. Olivia smiled, knowing that she had just poked a spot in Anna the woman had just attempted to agitate in her.

Anna just flipped her off causing Olivia to laugh again. She looked down at the baby lying against her chest and noticed that the child was not sleeping as she had thought, but was just being unusually quiet and underactive. She sighed before deciding to make a go at the files once again.

She actually managed to get half way through them before she heard commotion coming from the front of her office. She soon heard the familiar voices of her employees and her on again off again employee. Adeline raised her head from her chest as the voices grew nearer, looking out into the hallway. She noticed the child look up at her and she turned her attention away from the papers in her hand, hoping to engage the child, testing to see if she would interact at all or just bury her head back into her chest as she'd been doing most of the morning when anyone tried to play with her.

"Who is that Addie?" She smiled at the child, causing the child's eyes to perk up just a little. She pointed into the hallway, where Jake was the only one visible now as Marcus and Quinn had made their way deeper into the conference room, "Who is that?"

Adeline looked into the hallway for a moment before raising her chubby hand towards the glass door, mimicking her mother's action. She then looked back at her mother briefly before replying, "Da."

"That's right sweetie," she said as she snuggled the little girl. Okay so she had mixed feelings about this, though most of them was positive. In this instance, she was happy that the child was feeling well enough to engage her. But she had shared her body with this little girl for nine months, and she was being generous because she was sure it was closer to ten. She had also given up wine from the time she had found out the kid had taken up residence in her uterus as well as drank it sparingly during the first seven months of her life while she was breast feeding. She was pretty sure she'd lost more sleep than Jake, not that she was complaining, but the girl had been saying Da, or singing it rather, specifically in regards to the man. He was obviously over the moon, but she did feel some way about some form of Mommy not being the first words uttered from the child's mouth. Yeah, she'd read about the M sound being more difficult for the child to make, but she made the M sound all the time, and anytime anyone said the word Mommy to her, Adeline knew immediately who they were referring to. So why was she torturing her?

Adeline sneezed again and Olivia made a face when she saw the yellow tinged mucous come out of her nose. She quickly grabbed a tissue from the table and fought through the flailing little hands to wipe the baby's nose. Of course, this started a new slew of tears, causing Anna's eyes to open shortly before she dosed off again.

"Shh," Olivia hushed the child as she stood and slipped her to her hip. She picked up the pacifier and walked out of her office, hoping to task Jake with taking care of their cranky daughter for a few hours while she ran a few errands.

"Aww baby," Olivia said as she walked back and forth as she gently bounced the child in her arms. "I know." She had just tried to hand the baby off to her father which had brought on this new set of tears. The child refused to be held by anyone else for the last hour or so and the tears came on and off. She watched as the child covered one ear with one of her hands and clutched at her shirt with the other as she sucked on her pacifier. She could hear the congestion and the runny nose was more persistent now. Her sad little eyes stared up at her mother as if she was asking for help to get rid of this crappiness.

"I really hate seeing her like this," she said looking over at Jake who was trying to throw together a quick dinner for them after learning that Olivia hadn't eaten anything since she left her place to head to the office that morning and that Adeline had refused anything since lunch time. He decided to go with minestrone soup. Yes, it was the middle of the summer, but the soup was something Addie could eat since she refused her bottle and took only a few sips from her sippy cup, and there was no rule against soup in the summer time.

He looked up from the stove and saw the look in Olivia's eyes and she looked as if she was almost on the verge of tears herself. "What'd Dr. Johnson say?"

"She said to bring her in first thing tomorrow morning. She'd squeeze her in," she told him. "But to bring her into the emergency room if her fever got too high or we get concerned about anything. She said not wanting to eat was normal if she'd come down with something but keep trying to get her to take something. As long as she keeps making wet diapers she should be fine."

They heard the front door open and close and he smiled as he saw Olivia forget the tears that were threatening to overflow in favor of rolling her eyes. A few moments later Maya entered the kitchen.

Maya sighed and went straight to the refrigerator, "Hello, Baby," she said.

"Hey, Mom," Olivia said. She was about to ask her mother where she'd been all day. The gym clothes gave away the last few hours or two, but she was curious. She and her mother had had a little talk, and she had made it clear her mother was to engage in no illegal activities as long as she was staying with her. The woman agreed, but Olivia didn't trust her.

"Good evening Mrs. Pope," Jake beamed, earning him a look from Olivia and her mother. Mission accomplished, to annoy Olivia and Maya. Olivia because she really didn't like him being so chummy with her mother and Maya because he called her Mrs. Pope. Olivia's annoyance quickly faded away and she looked down at Adeline trying to hide the smile on her face as she noticed her mother glaring at Jake.

"Boy, don't play with me," she told him as she opened the bottle of water and brought it to her mouth. She turned her attention to the baby in Olivia's arms. "Hey baby girl," she said smoothing the baby's curly mane that was now free of the two puffs she had seen this morning.

The baby responded by turning her head and whining causing Maya to draw back and give her a look. "She doesn't feel well," Olivia explained.

"Well what's wrong with her?" Maya asked.

"I don't know mom," Olivia said with a huff. "I have to take her to the doctor tomorrow morning."

"Well has she taken anything?" He heard Maya ask.

"Tylenol," was her daughter's reply.

"That's it?" Maya asked.

To which Olivia replied, "Mom, please?" as she turned to walk out of the kitchen, begging her mother to be helpful or be quiet.

"You didn't give her any decongestants? Robitussin?" Maya asked following behind her. "Her nose is running away with her."

"You can't give that stuff to babies, Mom!" he heard Olivia protest.

He couldn't help but to laugh out loud to himself when he heard Maya's reply. "Why not? I gave it to you. You survived."

"Oh boy," he said to himself as he turned the stove off. "This is going to be a fun night."

It was going to be interesting if nothing else. It was the first time that Addie was actually sick. Sure, they had had a few rough nights when she was teething, but that was somewhat easily overcome with some gum soothing methods, and honestly other than that the child had been fairly healthy. Probably due to her mother's over obsession with bundling her and having everyone sanitize their hands before touching her during the first few months of her life which also happened to last throughout the winter. The woman had banned Quinn from the office for a week in December when she'd made the mistake of sneezing in the vicinity of the baby. And she definitely wasn't going to anyone's daycare. He was surprised Olivia had actually taken up with the Mommy and Me classes where their daughter would be required to play with other children. Thankfully as the child had gotten older and the weather had gotten warmer, her mother had relaxed a little bit, but he wasn't sure how long that progress would last now.

He moved the pot to a wooden cooling rack, hoping that would allow it to cool faster and popped the garlic bread in the oven. He had just grabbed a beer out of the fridge when Maya walked in with a pen and paper.

"You need to go to the store," she informed him.

"Why?" he asked as he watched her continue writing on the paper which already had what looked like a short list of items written on them.

"Because if you two are going to get any sleep, you're going to need this," she told him as she put the last two items on the list and handed it to him. He looked it over and saw that it was a list of some over the counter medicine, including some ear drops and some other items that looked like they could be used in an apothecary.

"Okay, but can I not get the decongestant? Liv's gonna be…" he tried but she cut him off.

"Boy just get what's on the damn list! Hell. If she doesn't want to give it to the baby then I'll drink it. Maybe it'll help me sleep through all of this crying."

"Okay," he said holding his hands up. He placed the cap back on his beer and put it back in the refrigerator. He took the list from her and asked her to watch the bread in the oven before he headed out the door.

Olivia sighed as she slowly walked back into her office. She sat the box she'd just been delivered down on the table in the hallway next to the conference room. She then proceeded to the window in the conference room, the one they used as their main board and began removing all the photos that had been placed there while they were working on the case they'd just wrapped up. She walked back to Huck's office and dropped them in the bin of files that he would get rid of. She then walked back down towards her office, stifling a yawn as she did so. She grabbed the box off of the table before entering quietly as not to wake the sleeping pair on her couch. She smiled at them as she passed them and made her way towards her desk. She sat down, pulled up a few confirmation emails and began printing them. She knew she should probably wait to surprise him, closer to Father's Day, but she was having trouble holding this secret in. She was genuinely excited, she was definitely not a baseball fan but she knew that he was and so she couldn't wait to see his reaction to the little trip she'd cooked up for them. She was excited about them getting out of D.C. to take a trip together. She didn't know how she particularly felt about traveling with Adeline. This would be their first planned trip with the baby. She had originally resigned herself to holding on to the secret until the following weekend but after the night they had had, she figured she had to find something to have some energy about.

She had gotten maybe two hours of sleep. Jake had gotten a few more. Adeline had cried on and off the entire night. She'd felt so guilty when she pried herself away from her to go and take a quick shower only to find that the baby had cried the majority of the time she'd been gone. Jake had taken that time to change her into her pajamas since she wouldn't stop crying either way. They had all three then taken turns trying to soothe the baby, but Adeline did not want to be bothered with her father or grandmother and had clung to her mom as if her life had depended on it. And being in Olivia's arms seemed to be the only thing that comforted her long enough for the child to actually dose off. She had tried to hand her over to Jake, but the baby woke up immediately and began crying again. This prompted Olivia to take her back and try to get comfortable on the couch. After another couple of hours, she'd finally convinced Jake to go to bed since one of them would have to be awake enough to drive them to the doctor's office the next day. It wasn't until well past three in the morning that she'd managed to lull the child into a deep enough sleep that she could be put down or passed off without waking up.

Her mother had approached her, arms out stretched. "Give her here. You go to bed," Maya had said, not giving Olivia a chance to respond before lifting the baby from her chest. Adeline hadn't woken up as Maya laid her on her own shoulder and began strolling around the living room with her, rubbing her back gently and saying something about, "Grandma's baby isn't feeling well." Olivia had been too tired and delirious to argue so she retreated to the bed room to join Jake. Yeah, that had been her night.

"Should I be worried?" she heard a deep, sleep filled voice coming from the couch.

Her brows furrowed and her smile widened. "Why would you be worried?" she asked.

"Because you're smiling at nothing," he said. "You only do that when you are plotting in your head. And I need to know if you're plotting against me."

She laughed tiredly, causing a smile to come to his own face as he laid his head back on the couch and closed his eyes again, placing a kiss on top the head of the sleeping child on his chest. The night had been long and the morning just as long.

Olivia had joined him in her bed at some odd hour that morning, pushing her body up against his as she instructed him to get up so he could watch her mother while she watched their daughter. He'd protested and didn't get much push back as she cuddled up close to him and fell asleep before she could get good into her argument. They had been awakened by Maya that morning, an hour before Addie's doctor's appointment. Surprisingly the woman had been very helpful and …thoughtful. She'd actually allowed them to sleep in closer to the time of the appointment as she had taken care of their daughter throughout the morning and had gotten her dressed, and had fed her what little food she would take. Olivia had mumbled an unsure, "Thanks," as she took the baby from her mother right before they headed out the door. By that time, Adeline had fallen asleep again.

The doctor's office had been a chore as their daughter had made it clear, she didn't care how bad she felt she was not going to let that strange woman stick that damn thing in her ear without a fight, and fight she had. Olivia had laughed at the child's antics, and he had smiled at the woman's comment of, "Oh boy, she's a fighter. Or should I say, oh girl." Adeline had proceeded to contort her body after her mother had grabbed both of her little hands and held them down, the doctor holding her head, and had managed to attempt to use her feet to kick the lady's hand away.

The fight had been fruitful as the woman had told them that Adeline had an ear infection and some stuffy sinuses. After an outdone look from Olivia that bacteria would dare infiltrate her child's body and reek such havoc, she'd asked how, to which the woman explained that she likely had allergies and since little noses and ears don't drain that well, the irritation and inflammation caused by allergies likely just sat there a little too long, allowing the virus or bacteria to thrive. She had then proceeded to tell them that if it was viral it would likely pass on, but gave them a prescription for antibiotics in case it didn't look like it was getting better over the next few days and wrote down the names of some allergy medications and children's ibuprofen to control the fever and hopefully get her feeling a little better. They had stopped at the pharmacy on their way back to her office and just decided to stay there since it was closer to the doctor's office. This led to him and Addie falling asleep on her couch.

"Well it is you who I'm plotting on," she said causing him to open one eye again. His eyes followed her around the room as she stood and grabbed a box on her desk then headed over to the printer to retrieve the papers there. "But you shouldn't be worried." She walked over to him and sat on the edge of the couch.

He studied her as she smiled down at him. "Happy Father's Day," she told him and he looked at the papers in her hand as she handed them to him. He took them and began looking them over. "I know I'm a little early buuut, I figured you can use a little pick me up. Plus, I figured I'd tell you before I let it slip out."

He looked at one of the papers that was a confirmation for a hotel suite in Boston and one for a suite in Manhattan. He gave her a curious look, so she handed him two more papers which were conformation for train tickets to Boston and New York, he also noticed the dates on them and things started coming together.

He looked at her again and her smile widened as she could tell he was putting two and two together. She handed him the box and his suspicions were immediately confirmed as soon as he tore into the paper and saw the major league baseball logo on the top of the box.

She watched as a satisfied and almost boyish smile came to his face as he pulled the tickets out. He really wanted to get up and hug her and yell because he hadn't been to a baseball game in…he couldn't even remember, and she had gotten tickets to see his favorite team, the Chicago Cubs play the Yankees in Yankee Statdium and the Red Sox in Fenway Park on Father's Day weekend. Then he noticed that six tickets were in the box.

He held them up, "Six tickets?" he questioned.

She feigned offense, "Yeah, I like baseball," she lied. "Plus I figured Lauren would wanna come if she's coming along to watch Addie." It would be rude to invite the woman along as just the help, when she'd become more like family.

He gave her a look, but sat up carefully not to jostle Adeline too much, and pulled her into a kiss. She gladly accepted his tongue when he offered it to her, and leaned in a little more to deepen the kiss.

"Eww," they pulled away to see Quinn standing in the doorway of her office with a fake disgusted look on her face. "Get a room. Preferably one your kid isn't in. Or me." She dropped the small stack of papers on the table near the door and proceeded to go into the conference room to finish getting rid of the evidence.

Olivia smiled a Quinn's mocking and looked down at the sleeping baby, running her fingers gently through her curls.

"She's right," Jake said making to get up from the couch. "Let's get home so I can thank you properly."

"Oh," Olivia said. "Midday nap?" They'd been joking about how badly they wanted to just go home and collapse into bed all day.

Jake responded, "I'll even let you be big spoon," he said making her laugh. This was in response to him telling her that if she was going to sleep that close under him that she had to lower the temperature in her apartment at night, to which she defended that she was not as aggressive a cuddler as he claimed she was and maybe she just wouldn't touch him at all while they were in bed, which never worked.

They quickly gathered their stuff and made their way out of the office and back to her place where, thankfully, Maya was still there. And after asking what the doctor had said and making a comment about Adeline probably being allergic to Rowan's "cheap ass cologne" which earned a laugh from Jake and a stifled one from Olivia, she gladly accept care of the baby for the rest of the afternoon.

A/N: Let me know what you guys think. This chapter was mostly domestic fluff but I plan on getting into a more meaty plot starting with the next chapter. I think that's why it's been a little hard for me to write for this story. I had to get through some undramatic fluff to show the progression of relationships and how things are coming a long with everyone and how they living before somebody inevitably get in their own way and feelings and starts destroying everything. I mean it's Scandal, if nobody's tripping you know someone just got finished tripping and someone else is about to start, smh, lol. Also, I would like to thank my Beta for helping with this one and letting me bounce ideas off of her. Reviews and comments welcomed.

And Also again...I DON'T WANNA GO TO WORK TOMORROW! WAHHHHHH!