A/N: I was so happy with the response last chapter, let's hope they keep coming because the length of this story will depend on them. Sorry for the shortness of this one, someone is helping me to improve my story writing skills. Please read and review.
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Walking back into the squad room, Elliot and Olivia found the room a little too quiet. Most people were at their desks heads down, working on their DD5s, the ones that weren't were just sitting there staring at anything or were typing away on their computer. No one was talking, like they usually did. It was so unusual.
"I wonder what's going on in here... Oh look, Olivia," Elliot said, pointing to her desk, There on the desk top was a bunch of flowers, her favorite, Lilies, white ones and an envelope.
"Hmm," Olivia murmured walking up to her desk. "I wonder who this is from," she said picking the envelope up off her desk. Her name was written on it in unfamiliar, messy writing in black pen ink.
She opened it and pulled out a folded sheet of white lined paper. She opened it and began to read the letter, trying to figure out who knew she was working there, considering it was only her first day.
It read:
Dear Olivia, I bet you didn't think you would hear from me again but I've had time to think and I'm terribly sorry for abandoning you and our child while you were in labor, it was stupid and immature of me. Was it a boy or a girl? What's his or her name? I'm so sorry, please let me meet my child, I will be a good father, I promise. Love Joe.
Olivia sighed and ran a hand through her hair, shaking her head in disbelief. This could not be happening.
"What is it?" Elliot asked concerned.
"Ah... Nothing," Olivia replied distantly, shaking her head as she folded up the letter and slipped it into the back pocket of her black pants.
"You sure?" He didn't believe her.
"Yeah," Olivia lied. "We should go talk to the captain."
Elliot nodded, deciding to drop it before he pissed his new partner off and followed her into Captain Cragen's office.
"Munch and Fin are interrogating the perps but they aren't talking and they lawyered up," Cragen said as he saw them enter the small room.
"No, real surprise there," Elliot muttered as he leaned against the wooden wall of the office, which separated it from the squad room.
"Well, there's nothing much else we can do until the lawyer shows up, so why don't you two go have an hour for lunch today while things are slow. Get to know one another since you're going to be partners," Captain Cragen suggested.
"Great idea. Thanks, Cap," Elliot said and Olivia agreed.
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Elliot & Olivia walked side by side down the dirty, cracked Manhattan sidewalk as they weaved through the busy pedestrian traffic, careful not to bump into the hundreds of people shoving past them. The people oblivious to the world around them as they headed to wherever it was that they were headed.
"Penny for your thoughts, Olivia?" Elliot asked, seeing that she was in a world of her own, despite the busy activity going on around them.
With a sigh, Olivia replied, "I need to check on Indiana-Rose. I need to make sure she's okay."
"Why wouldn't she be? What's got you so spooked?" he asked concerned, looking at her beside him as they continued to walk.
At the end of the block they crossed the street before turning the corner changing their destination to the childcare center where Olivia hoped Indiana-Rose was safe.
Exhaling a deep breath, Olivia pulled the letter from her pocket and passed it to her partner. "I got a letter from Indiana-Rose's father. He apologized for leaving and he wants to meet her."
"Seriously?!" Elliot asked in disbelief as he opened up the folded letter and read it to himself.
"Yeah, seriously. Why couldn't he just leave us alone. Indiana-Rose and I are happy with the way things are. Why does he suddenly want to be a father now after four months?" Olivia muttered to herself.
"So what are you going to do?" Elliot asked and handed her back the letter as they turned on to the street with the daycare center.
"Honestly, I don't know yet. I don't think he deserves to see Indiana-Rose because of his immature behavior. He abandoned us for goodness sake. It makes me think that he could have an ulterior motive and I'm scared that my daughter will get hurt in the process. I don't care about myself. Only Indiana. She doesn't deserve that kind of pain," she said as she walked up the welcoming path to the door of the center. "Want to come in with me?" she asked, opening the door and changing the subject.
"Are you sure?"
Olivia nodded with a smile. "I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't," she said and walked in, holding the door open for Elliot to enter behind her.
She walked into the dark, quiet baby room to find them in the middle of nap time.
"Hello Olivia," Leah greeted her in a whisper, spotting her and Elliot walking in.
"Hi Leah. How's Indy been?" she asked and leaned over the port-a-cot, which contained her content, sleeping daughter, who was now wearing a rainbow colored onesie.
"She was a little grumpy but eventually calmed down but she made herself sick, so we had to change her," Leah explained.
Olivia nodded and gently picked up the infant. "Hi sweetie-pie," she cooed.
In response to being picked up, Indiana-Rose fussed and opened her eyes, settling when she saw her mommy. "Yeah, it's just Mommy, baby," she whispered and kissed her forehead. "Go back to sleep now."
Elliot's cell phone rang and he quickly excused himself before the loud ringing of his cell phone woke the sleeping babies in the room.
"Mommy will be back to pick you up later, Indy. You be a good girl. I love you," she whispered and kissed the baby's head before laying her back down in the port-a-cot to finish her nap.
Olivia walked outside and found Elliot standing there, waiting for her, watching cars just drive on by past the building.
"Elliot?"
Her voice startled him. He cleared his throat and turned to her. "Oh, hey. Ready to go get some lunch?" he asked.
"Yeah," Olivia nodded. "Who was on the phone?"
"It was the captain. He needs us back at the station a little earlier than planned. They found the woman who made the fake emergency call this morning. Some uniformed officers are going to pick her up and take her to the station. So we need to get some lunch quickly because we need to go interrogate her," he explained.
"Okay, let's get us some lunch then," she said with a smile and they started to head to a cafe to get take out lunch.