Not Everything Done In The Dark Is Shameful Barson Story

Not Everything Done In The Dark Is Shameful chapter 16

The sun was not up yet. Rafael Barba laid in Olivia Benson's bed. Hours before he placed 2 pillows between them, it was not exactly The walls of Jericho. In the movie It Happened One Night, that he mentioned to Olivia, Clark Gable's character put up a sheet to divide the hotel room he had to share with Claudette Colbert's character. In reality the pillow wall was not necessary. Olivia slept on the far right side of the bed, he slept on the left. The bed was big enough that there was absolutely no danger of them touching. They slept closer to each other when they fell asleep on the sofa. Olivia fell asleep last night almost instantly with her back turned to him. Now, he saw her turn in her sleep onto her back. She was breathtaking, and her soul was just as beautiful. How could he keep his feeling for her a secret? How had he kept them hidden, especially lately, he thought to himself. He got out of bed, he was happy that the first night he planed to sleep in her apartment, he brought a bag with him and forgot to take it with him. He took apart the pillow wall, and placed the pillows at the foot of the bed, then he made the side he slept on. He went into the bathroom, and changed his clothes. He put on a pair of tan jeans, and a green bottom-down shirt. He finished getting ready for the day. He walked back into the bedroom. He saw Olivia was still sleeping soundly, and he smiled when he looked at the bedside table clock. it read 8:30. She needed the sleep, he would not wake her. He heard footsteps, and walked into the living area, he was standing in the living area before Noah got there.

"Is mommy sleeping?" Noah asked. walking up to Barba.

"Yes." Barba answered smiling.

"Barba, mommy said she ran into a bad guy."

"Yes she did."

"Why are there bad guys?" mommy said that girls can be bad too? "Why?"

Well yes, there are some bad people, but I don't know why."

"You and mommy put them in jail so they can't hurt anyone?"

"Yes."

"Barba, mommy says you put bad people away in different ways, you're a lawyer. The guy who hurt mommy, will you put him away?"

"I'm going to try my hardest Noah", he answered the little boy with conviction.

"Good."

"Noah what do you want for breakfast? Barba asked once again walking into the kitchen.

"Cookies?"

"Ah, I see where this is going. I'll rephrase. What does your mommy allow you to have for breakfast?"

"Cookies!"

"You are not having cookies. Noah do you want you're mommy to be upset with me?"

"No, I can have Cheerios with milk, and fruit."

"Good answer." Barba quickly found the Cheerios and milk, and set the items up at the table for Noah, who followed him, sat down happily and eat. Barba walked back to the kitchen, and opened the fringe. He could tell most of the food in there was for Noah. He found some fruit and eggs. "Noah does your mommy like scrambled eggs?"

"They are so gross, but she loves them. You know what else she loves that's gross tomatoes."

"Good to know." Barba said preparing a fruit plate He then put up the coffee. He heard Olivia's cell phone ring from her bedroom 3 times before she answered.

"Fin, no, please tell Amanda she doesn't have to do that. Yes, ok, tell her to please give me 15 minutes, please ok." Olivia said. "Oh!" Barba heard Olivia say sounding surprised. She bolted to the living area, and was about to run to Noah's bedroom.