Back to You

Ch.56

The first two days of the new year had been spent packing up the rest of the apartment and today was finally moving day.

Olivia stood in her nearly empty apartment with Noah on her hip and a lot on her mind. "Well little man, are you excited to move our new house?"

"House," Noah repeated, looking up at her.

She smiled and kissed his cheek, "It's going to be really great, Noah...there's a big backyard that you can run around in when it's nice out, you have a big new room, and there's a huge play room for all of your toys." Cuddling Noah close, she wondered through her apartment, the memories flooding back to her.

The night she brought Noah home, the day Elliot came back, Elliot proposing and finding out she was pregnant...so many incredible things had happened in this place. It was strange to know that it was going to be the last time she was going to be here, it almost felt like she was leaving it behind her.

"Everything okay?" Elliot finally asked softly after watching her walk through the apartment, a faraway look gracing her face and her eyes seeming distant.

She turned to face him slowly, a small smile forming, "I think so."

"It was hard when I left the house," he confided, moving next to her and squeezing her hand. "I felt like I would forget things...the memories."

She sighed and rested her head against his shoulder, her hand clutching his, "There's just so many things that happened here...good and bad."

He kissed the top of her head, "We're taking the good with us... me, you, Noah...this baby," he spoke softly, running his hand over her belly, "That's all we need. You have your memories up here," he said kissing her temple, "They aren't going anywhere. Leave all of the bad here behind us... the best is yet to come."

"I love you," she said softly, kissing his lips.

"I love you too," he replied, stroking his fingers through her hair. "Are you ready to go? Everything's packed."

Olivia took one last sweeping look around, trying to ingrain every last memory into her brain. Taking Elliot's hand in hers they made their way to the door. She kissed Noah's forehead, "Can you say bye-bye?"

"Bye-bye," Noah mumbled against her chest.

"Let's go," Olivia smiled at Elliot, closing the door behind them.

They pulled into the drive way of their new house, the moving truck on the street along with all of the cars from the people who were called into help with the move, also known as their friends and family who they owed big time.

Elliot put the car in park, looking back at Noah who was sucking on his pacifier and had his blanket tucked under the side of his face that rested against his car seat. He reached over to Olivia, resting his hand on her belly, "Please take it easy today? You don't need to be overdoing it...let me handle things."

"I'll take it easy," Olivia agreed, gently squeezing his hand before resting it on top of his on her bump. "Me, the little one, and Noah are just gonna sit back and relax while everyone else does all the heavy lifting."

He chuckled and kissed her softly, "You're gonna milk this now aren't you?"

"Mhm," she smirked, cupping his cheek in her hand and kissing him again.

In the midst of what was quickly becoming more passionate, Fin pounded on the window. Olivia and Elliot startled apart and she accidentally bit down on his lip.

"Damn it!" Elliot yelled, holding his hand to his mouth, pulling it back to see some blood dripping onto his palm.

"Oh my God, are you okay?" She asked worried, reaching over to him and pulling his hand away so and could see his lip. "Baby, I'm so sorry," she whispered softly, rubbing her thumb on his cheek.