Author's Note: I want to thank you all for letting me share my first Alex/Olivia SVU fanfic. I've only written a few stories, so I still consider myself very much a novice. I also want to extend a thank you to all of you who have given me reviews and provided your thoughts and suggestions. They were all taken to heart. I always love getting them, but that is not the reason I write. I just get these story ideas in my head and I have to put them to paper and see it through. I've met some wonderful online friends since I started this process... brwnsuga, litafan82, NYCBrunette...just to name a few. There are more but they are just not coming to mind at the moment. My plan is to completely write out my next A/O before I post any of it. I get on a roll of writing and posting, then real life gets in the way and my posts become less frequent. So that is my plan.

Again, thank you!

Junebuggnc

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Epilogue

Neither Alex, nor Olivia, had any clue the level of happiness having their children brought to their lives. Every day was a joy. The twins were now on a schedule and the ladies had adjusted to the nighttime feedings, taking turns. They would usually wake between 6 and 7am. They would tag team getting their showers, breakfast, feeding and dressing the twins. Alex had a little further to go to get to the office, so she would usually be out the door before 8am. The nanny would arrive by 8am, so that left Olivia enough time to get to work by 8:30am.

Olivia had just a couple of more weeks to go before her physical to determine if she could return to active duty. She thought she would have missed it a whole more than she did, but she rationalized that by having the twins, she was not as focused on her job as much. She still loved it, but the twins and Alex were now her priority.

The ladies would usually make it home between 5:30 and 6:30pm. They would feed the twins, then spend some time playing with them before it was time for their baths and then bed. After they were down for the first few hours of the night, they would have their supper. Of course as the twins grew and their schedules changed, so the ladies'.

They were able to make time for themselves as they were still newlyweds. A couple of Saturdays each month, Abbie or one of Elliot's girls would babysit and give Alex and Olivia an opportunity for "date night". They would have dinner, maybe see a movie or a show. Sometimes they'd go dancing or just take a walk in the park.

Sundays were all about the kids. From sun up to sun down, they'd play, teach and read to the twins. If the weather was nice, they'd go to the park. When summer rolled around, they both took two weeks off from work and went to the cabin. They brought Beverly with them, she was more than eager to get out of the city for a while. They love watching the twins (who were now crawling) explorer this new and wondrous place. The twins also took to the water when the ladies took them swimming in the lake.

After Olivia was cleared for active duty and the Captain stepped up her training. By the time the twins first birthday came around, Olivia had settled in well as the Captain's second in command. All the plans were in place. The party would be in the Benson-Cabot back yard. All their close friends and family would be there as well as several other infants from the neighborhood. Alex and Olivia had slowly met several of their neighbors and were welcomed. There were a number of kids in the neighborhood ranging in age from newborn to teenagers. Those that had the newborns and toddlers got to know each other well and their kids were getting to know one another too.

Alex and Olivia loved to watch how their family and friends would dote on the twins, especially Abbie. The party had died down, all the families with the smaller children had left. Most of the remaining adults were cleaning up. Abbie had offered to take the twins upstairs and put them down for a nap. She had Josie and Melinda carried an already zonked out Jaden. Melinda gently placed the little boy in his crib and slipped out of the nursery. Josie was still awake and not ready just yet to go to sleep. Abbie had walked over to the window to pull the shades closed as Melinda put Jaden in his crib. Once alone, Abbie took a seat in one of the rocking chairs with Josie.

Alex noticed that Melinda had returned, but not Abbie. She headed back inside the brownstone and to the nursery assuming that Abbie might need assistance in getting two babies to sleep. As she reached the top of the steps, she could heard the Texas drawl as Abbie was speaking. Alex approached slowly and stood outside the door listening to her children's godmother.

"So, I wonder if you are like this all the time? You can't fall asleep at the drop of a hat like your brother over there?" Said Abbie as Josie concentrated on the Texan as she spoke.

Abbie had her cradled in her arms and her free hand was playing with Josie's hand. Abbie watched as Josie smiled at her. She thought it was the sweetest smile she had ever seen.

"You know with a smile like that you are going to have all the boys after you. Who knows, maybe some girls too. And that's OK. You can be whoever who want to be. You and Jay have the best parents in the world. Your mama and your mommy love you both so much and you have all this extended family. I'll be here for you always. So whenever you need me, if you don't think you can talk to your moms' about something, you come to me. Your Aunt Abbie will take care of it. You are so lucky, Josie, so lucky." Said Abbie as she leaned forward to place a gentle kiss to Josie's forehead.

"OK, I see. So it's my voice that puts you to sleep. I don't know if that is good or bad." Added Abbie as she noticed that Josie had fallen asleep.

Abbie sat there rocking the child for a few more minutes to make sure she was completely asleep now before moving her to the crib. Abbie slowly got up and placed Josie in her crib; she adjusted the blanket and the child squirmed a bit before settling back down. She wasn't ready to leave yet. She just stood there watching the sleeping baby.

It was now that Alex slipped into the room and hugged her best friend from behind.

"Hey…they are also lucky because they have you as their Aunt Abbie too." Said Alex.

"Coming up to see if I needed rescuing?" Asked Abbie.

"Something like that. I didn't want to disturb you with Josie. Your time with her and Jaden is special."

"I think I can do it. I mean before having these two beautiful souls come into my life, I didn't think I was ready that I could do it, be a mom. But being with these two, even if only part time, I know I could do it. Raise a family."

"Oh Abs, I've always known you could do it. Why do you think Liv and I chose you as their god mother? We knew you were ready and when you find your special lady you can have your own kids. In the mean time, you can practice on these two and spoil them to your heart's content."

Alex walked over to the dresser and double checked that the baby monitor was on and grabbed the receiver.

"Let's go back downstairs. Maybe we can have a bit more of an adult party now that all the kids are elsewhere." Said Alex as she tugged on Abbie arm.

"Can we break into the liquor cabinet now?"

"Yes, Abs. Come on."

By the time they got back downstairs, the adults has gotten all the food, cake and ice cream put up. All the trash and recyclables were gathered and in their respective bins. Everyone was relaxing in the shade on the patio with either a beer, mixed drink or water in hand, just hanging out. Alex settled into the lounge chair with her wife and Abbie went to mix a drink.

The group hung out for an hour or so. It had been a while since they all had been together especially at a non-work related occasion. Slowly everyone filtered out leaving the two ladies alone with their two sleeping bundles. The twins had woken from the nap and the ladies spent time with them. They were walking now. Josie was a bit more steady on her feet than her brother. After everyone had supper and the twins their bath, the ladies settled them in for the night. The decided on a nice relaxing joint bath before bed. They had made love in the tub, so when they got into bed they were ready for sleep.

Olivia was on her back with Alex nestled at her side as they usually are each night. Alex's head was resting on Olivia's chest. She always let the sound of Olivia's heartbeat put her to sleep. Olivia was not as close to sleep as Alex was. Her hand that was resting at Alex's lower back was tracing small circles there. She had been thinking about something for a while but had been holding off discussing it with her wife.

"Allie?"

"Hmm?"

"You think we are ready for baby number three?"

Alex, slightly shocked at her wife's question, propped up on her elbow to look into her wife's eyes.

"Babe, the twins just started walking. We'll be in diapers for another year if we have another baby now?" Replied Alex.

"I know, it's just… I like them at this stage. They are like little sponges learning everything. I just love sitting there and watching them discover new things…"

"We have time Olivia. If we wait until the twins are maybe three years old, that will give us a break on diaper duty and put a few years space between the kids ages."

"I know, you're right. I just love what we have together and I want more."

"And we will have more. Let's enjoy what we have now and wait just a bit on baby number three, OK?

"OK, but we can still practice right? Ya know?" Said Olivia with a hint of mischief in her voice.

"Yes, Sergeant. We can still practice." Replied Alex who leaned down to capture her wife lips in a passionate kiss.

A couple of years had passed; the twins were now three years old and were in a daycare run specifically for NYPD, Fire Department and other NY city employees. They still needed Beverly as the twins were only there part of the day. Alex was still Bureau Chief and doing quite well. A bureau chief position opened up in homicide and Abbie was promoted. Alex hated to lose her, but she also enjoyed working with young, new ADAs and showing them how things are done. Olivia was still working alongside the Captain; he was taking more time off now. He and a retired buddy of his bought a small cabin upstate and had been spending much of their free time fishing. A couple new detectives had been transferred to SVU for a couple of reasons…one, someone would need to pick up a little bit of Olivia's workload with her not being in the field as much and two, Munch had announced that he would be retiring the next year. The newbie's were not assigned partners just yet; the Captain had them floating around with each of the senior detectives. He felt that they should learn all they could from his best detectives.

One Saturday morning, Alex woke up not feeling very well. Both the twins had caught a stomach bug and were just getting over it. She assumed she had now caught it too. She quickly pushed covers from the bed not caring if she woke her wife or not. She was hoping to make it to the toilet in time. Olivia felt the bed jostle, but didn't fully come awake until she heard the retching coming from their bathroom. She quickly tossed the covers back and went into the bathroom to find her wife find kneeling at the toilet emptying what little was in her stomach.

"Alex, Baby, what happened?" Asked Olivia as she wet a washcloth with cold water and began tending to her wife.

"I think I got the twins stomach bug."

After about 10 minutes, Alex's stomach had settled down. She had cleaned herself up and brushed her teeth before Olivia put her back in bed. Their normal Saturday routine was now off a bit. Normally, Alex would let Olivia sleep in and Alex would make breakfast and tend to the twins for a while; she knew how much Olivia needed to sleep when she could because her schedule could become erratic on a moment's notice.

Olivia had fixed some toast and ginger ale and was taking it up to Alex. When she reached the landing of the third floor she saw the top of her son's head from the nose up and two little hands clamped onto the baby gate that blocked the path down the steps. He had his teddy bear, Henry, crooked in one arm and his blanket, George, crooked in the other.

"Well, good morning, little man. It's a little early for you to be up yet."

"Somebody's sick." Replied Jaden as he heard Alex throwing up a little while ago.

"Yes, mommy has an upset tummy this morning."

"Like me?"

"Yes, I think she has what you and Josie had. Come on. You want to help me take breakfast to her. I bet seeing your smile this morning will do wonders for her."

"OK." Replied the small voice.

Olivia opened the gate and went through and locked it back behind her. Then mother and son headed to the master bedroom.

"Jay, pick up George or you are going to trip." Said Olivia to her son who was dragging his blanket on the floor.

As best he could he scooped up the lingering blanket and held it along with Henry in both arms so that none of the blanket was touching the floor. When they reached the door Jaden ran to the foot of the bed. There was an old cedar chest that belonged to Alex's grandmother at the foot of the bed. The twins were big enough now that they can crawl up onto the cedar chest and then onto their moms' bed. Otherwise, the bed was still too tall for them to climb onto the it. Jaden threw his blanket and bear onto the bed and proceeded to up on the cedar chest and onto the bed.

"Easy Jay. Mommy probably doesn't want to be shook around too much."

"OK." Said the little boy as he slowly crawled closer to his mommy tugging George and Henry with him.

"Babe, Jay and I have brought you some toast and ginger ale."

"K." Said Alex weakly and she shifted to lean against the headboard.

Olivia set the try over her lap as Jaden sat beside his mommy.

"Jay, will you watch over mommy while I go check on Josie."

"OK, mama. She was still seeping."

Olivia made sure the newspaper and bucket were set at the side of the bed for Alex before she stepped down the hall, just in case. When she reached Josie and Jaden's room she found her daughter still fast asleep the wrong way in the bed buried under the covers. She was able to reposition her little girl and tuck her back in without waking her. Olivia had hoped the children would sleep another hour or so, at least Josie, probably will.

When she got back to her and Alex's room, she found that Alex had slid back down into bed; Jaden had crawled under the covers and snuggled next to his mommy still clutching Henry and George close to them both. The food try was down near Alex's knees, both were asleep. As Olivia removed the tray she saw that one piece of the toast had been eaten and about half of the glass of ginger ale was gone. She set the tray on the dresser and tucked the two sleeping Benson-Cabots in bed before heading back downstairs.

Alex initially did not go to the doctor thinking the stomach bug would only last a couple of days as it did for Jaden and Josie. By the end of the next week she wasn't much better. So after much insistence from her wife, Alex agreed to go to the doctor. Olivia was in the Captain's office doing some paperwork; on the days he was off, Olivia worked from his office. She looked up at the knock on her door to see her wife on the other side. She called for her to come in as she got up from the desk.

Olivia went to hug her wife and led her further into the office, closing the door behind them.

"So, what did the doctor say?"

"Well, it's not the stomach bug that the twins had."

"OK, so what's wrong?"

"Well, you know how we have both been really busy lately; I've been dealing with the Van Hook case and you and Elliot have been pulling long hours working the Patterson case?"

"Yeah, what does that have to do with your stomach being upset?"

"Well, it seems to have affected our brains as we both forgot about that little procedure I had done a few weeks ago."

"A few weeks… OH! MY! GOD! You're pregnant?"

"Yes, Babe! We're pregnant!"

Olivia picked up her wife spinning her around in the office celebrating with joy, whooping and hollering

"Liv! Liv! Please put me down or I'm going to be sick."

"OK, yeah, OK."

Olivia leaned in for a kiss.

"So, baby number three?" Asked Olivia.

"Yep, baby number three."

Two Years Later…

Alex, Olivia, Abbie and Elliot were all settled in the front row. Olivia held a sleeping Sami in her lap. Samantha Benson-Cabot was born to the ladies on a winter's snowy night. It was a routine birth once their entourage arrived at the hospital. Olivia had been woken up in the middle of the night by Alex when she realized she was in labor. Abbie was closer so they called her to meet them at the hospital to take the twins for a couple of days. Olivia was there in the delivery room coaching Alex and soon born to them was another little girl. She was of normal size and had a head full of dark brown hair just like her mama. It was a few hours later when they finally got a peek at her gorgeous blue eyes.

Josie and Jaden were mesmerized by their little sister. The ladies made sure to make plenty of time for the twins so that they would not feel neglected with a new baby in the house. Now they were getting ready to watch the twins graduate from kindergarten. Both of the Benson-Cabot offspring were well read, smart; they also knew some simple math too. This put them ahead of most of their classmates. Come fall they would be attending the private school that Alex went too, so both ladies knew that their twins would get the extra attention they'd need to keep excelling at their school work.

Sami slept peacefully in her mama's arms with Alex to her left. Olivia was able to hold her wife's hand as the proud group watched Jaden, then Josie cross the small stage in their miniature cap and gown to receive their diploma's for completing kindergarten. After the twins took their seats, Alex leaned over to Olivia and placed a chaste kiss to her wife's lips; as she pulled back she smiled sweetly at her wife.

"What was that for?" Asked Olivia.

"Because, I can. I love you and I love us, our family." Replied Alex.

Olivia squeezed Alex's hand.

"Me too, Babe, me too."

THE END