Olivia knew she wasn't blameless. Just as she had helped him get his presidency, she drove him to be than man that he had become. So cold, distant and hateful. They had taken the very best of him, the very character they so believed in and shattered it with their deception. With her betrayal. She knew that as angry as he was at Mellie, Cyrus, Verna and Hollis, she had broken not only his heart but his spirit and for that she hated herself.

"I made a mistake," she said shakily. Their exchange in the electrical closet tore her at her core knowing that there was not a trace of love but only a claim of power and dominance. Though the ache in her body as a result of his roughness paled in comparison to the pain in her heart. For ten months she had played his words in her mind over and over again. The word mistress haunted her. She watched as he approached her like a lion circling it's prey as she tried to apologise for Defiance. Within moments he towered over her.

"That wasn't a mistake. That," he emphasized,

"Was a betrayal. Let me be clear, I may not be able to control my erections around you but it doesn't mean I want you. This is over. We are done." The coldness of his tone and the anger is his eyes conveyed the truth of his words. His calling her a mistress may have broken her heart but in that moment he made her a whore. Olivia inwardly gasped and Fitz saw her physically flinch as though he had slapped her.

Mission accomplished.

He had broken her just as she was broken him. Though the victory felt empty, it felt justified. Cyrus interrupted calling him back to the briefing room and without a backward glance he walked away. Cyrus looked past Fitz as he watched Olivia straighten her shoulders trying to regain some semblance of composure and strength. He knew her well enough to know that whatever Fitz said, it crippled her. Her phone rang and she went to answer holding her hand up as if to convey her goodbye.

"Huck, what's up."

"Liv, I'm outside in my car. I need to talk to you and it's the only place I know that's safe to talk."

"I'm done here. I'll be right out." She answered not bothering to ask him what was going on. She got in the front seat and took a deep breath not looking at him for a moment. Huck waited a few moments before he began.

"Liv, someone had your apartment bugged. Visual and audio. Someone's been watching you." Olivia looked at him horrified feeling incredibly exposed and suddenly vulnerable.

"For how long?" Huck swallowed,

"Awhile Liv. Whoever it is knows our routine. They've been removing the bugs whenever I was coming to sweep your apartment. They knew I swept your apartment regularly." Her mind raced of so many scenarios and conversations that had taken place in her apartment. Immediately her mind went to Fitz. Cyrus' words echoed in her ears. He wasn't being paranoid when he noted that Fitz knew his every move. It seems he did. It made her angry that he would put her under surveillance knowing this tine it wasn't because he wanted to just keep an eye out for her but because he now saw her as a threat.

"Is it all gone?"

"No, I didn't know what you wanted to do. If I got rid of them all whoever is watching you and having them watch you would know immediately that they've been caught out and they would just find another way."

"Then there's only one way."

"Liv..."

"No Huck, I'm done with this. I'm done with this town. OPA aside there is nothing left for me here and I don't want to be in surveillance just to keep OPA open and we both know for as long as I am in DC I am being watched. So I am going to take myself out of the equation. I'm taking back my life. My control. This is done."

"I'm going with you." He said definitively as she nodded gratefully not at all surprised.

"I need a shower and I need to grab a few things. Is there any way you can loop or alter their visual so I can be in and out without detection?"

"Yes, I can give you half an hour to an hour."

"That's all I need."

After her shower Olivia packed a small bag of clothes and whatever little personal things she had lying around. While she packed Huck deleted all the data in her laptop and phone after backing it up in a portable hard drive before leaving it all in an empty shelf in her wardrobe.

They had made a quick stop at his place to grab a bag for him before heading to the office. To say that the associates were shocked to hear of her decision would be an understatement, but they had all watched her in the last months and knew she was reaching a breaking point making the news though shocking, not entirely a surprising. Harrison would be taking over till all their cases were closed and then OPA would dissolve wordlessly as they all agreed OPA without OP would not be the same.

Within a couple of hours of leaving the White House she and Huck were on a plane. She looked out the window thinking of Cyrus. Even after everything they had been through and his determination to keep her and Fitz apart she was sorry that she would be leaving him without some form of a goodbye. He was her mentor and friend. As infuriating as he was, she loved him and would miss him. The less he knew the better it was for him.

She thought of Ella and losing the opportunity to be a part of her growing up. She thought of Gerry and Karen, could she really just disappear from their life. Huck watched the myriad of thoughts the flew around in her mind. He placed a hand on her arm making her look up. She gave him a small reassuring smile that didn't quite reach her eyes.

Cyrus tried calling Olivia's phone and grew worried when it told him that the number had been disconnected. He hadn't heard from her since Ella's christening. He was just about to leave the White House when Fitz had caught him.

"Cyrus..."

"Yes sir,"

"Am I catching you at a bad time?" He asked. Cyrus hesitated knowing that it would only fuel a fire but he was too concerned to even try to say no.

"Yes, I just have to check on something urgently. I will be right back." Before Fitz could protest or question him Cyrus was long gone. Curiously Fitz headed back to his office picking up the phone.

"Jake..."

Cyrus paced in front of what once OPA and found it closed up. Not a trace of a gladiator or his beloved friend. His heart tightened in panic. He got in his car and drove to Olivia's place cursing himself for not checking in with her sooner.

Fitz dropped the phone as Jake explained that Olivia had left. That at first he had assumed that she was just staying in the office or one of her friends. When he checked back on the footage he realised there was a glitch so he immediately went to her place and realised that though very little had been moved she was certainly no longer there.

"Her laptop and her phone were in her closet. It seems she has taken very little in terms of clothes. No jewelery left behind except for a ring. It's the one she never takes off. The one she wears on her index finger."

Fitz knew the ring. He had given her that ring. He had promised that one day he would trade that ring for an engagement ring and that he would marry her. His heart dropped to his feet. He knew what that ring meant to her. The fact that she was still wearing it at the Christening after he had called her his mistress was an indication that she still was still somewhat his. That despite his anger, despite what he said, and how the one word he told her never to refer herself as diminished what they had she still wore it. Now she was gone and she had willingly left the only thing she had that represented the very promise that made them believe for miracles.

"Do you know where she is?"

"No sir. I am still working on it. It seems that she had transferred her funds out to an untraceable account. The last footage I found of them was at the airport but she didn't fly out with her own credentials." Fitz knew that Olivia worked with only the best and if she didn't want to be found she would make sure she wasn't. A part of him wanted to scream, crawl out of his own skin and weep. She was gone.