"Liv we need you to go the Chile this weekend."
"Cyrus, what the hell. I just got back from Seattle two days ago. I haven't even washed my clothes from this last trip." She put her coffee cup down."
"Look Liv, the migration we were trying just went pear shaped. So we need you down there to back the migration out and then correct what needs to be corrected and install the security patch we developed."
Olivia closed her eyes and counted to ten before she responded.
"Who the hell did you send down there? Cyrus, this is elementary shit that a child could do. Wait! Did you send Jake to do this install?"
Cyrus dropped his head letting her know that he had.
"I'll go Cyrus, but I'm sending him back here and you will be firing him. I told you he was padding his resume but you didn't listen, so he's out. I'm taking Huck with me. I don't feel like trying to figure out what he fucked up."
"I'll take care of it Liv."
OPA security consulting is one of the hottest security consulting firms in the world. Thanks to Olivia's coding skills and an impenetrable security suite she developed they were in high demand. Cyrus Beene was her business partner and ran the company day to day operations, which allowed Olivia to develop new code.
They employed a menagerie of people who if not for Olivia would all be in jail for hacking and various felonies.
Harrison was their sales guy. Olivia always said he could sale ice water in hell. He was a business major at NYU and had a MBA from Wharton. What he didn't have was the ability to choose good people to bring into his life. Anan Sherif was why he had to wear an ankle brace the first six months at OPA. Olivia hired the best lawyer to get him off for a securities fraud scheme. Harrison had no idea that afte sex with Anan and him going to sleep that she was using his credentials to log onto the security and exchange system and executing trades. The feds caught up the Harrison and Anan was in the wind before they could apprehend her. If Harrison hadn't had a pinchon for taping his sex capes he would have gone down for the entire scheme. The feds need someone to blame so, the six months probation was Harrison's crime for not keeping his credentials secure.
Abby Wheland need things to harness her need to hack and destroy everything in her wake. She discovered her ability with computers when she was eight. Her father was a notorious IRA master bomber. He would put the deadly bombs together with Abby sitting in his lap. Then one day she told her father that they needed to be further away when the bombs went off and she had learned some things at school about computers and clocks. When they finally arrested her father in Ireland, her mother fled with her and her sister to America. Her mother alway suspected she was a little off when she was little and when they moved to New York she didn't really seem to grieve her father like they had. She turned inward and her mother took her to a doctor to find out what was wrong with her. Personality disorder, was all that her mother heard and it would plague them for the rest of their lives. Abby had no impulse control either, so when she fixated on something right or wrong you wouldn't stop. Without Olivia coming into her life to help her focus on something good, the federal pen she was in was going to lock her up and throw away the key.
Stephen was a black market hacker who could be hired at the right price until the British authorities caught up to him on a fake credit card scheme. He went to prison, but while there he hacked his own prison record paroled himself a full ten years ahead of time on the wardens's computer. He was a module prisoner for the first three years, just biding his time until he could bust himself out, and he wasn't going to leave the prison Shawshank Redemption. He had a car pick him up outside the prison and booked a one way first class ticket to Brazil complements of the warden's credit card. The authorities were about to close in on him in Venezuela, when he slipped into a hotel bar that held one Olivia Pope. She offered him a chance for freedom and a clean life, and just so happened a private plane back to the states, if he committed to work for her.
Quinn Perkins, many knew her as the Kindergarten Teacher who hacked the pentagon to find out what happened to her brother in Afghanistan. He was labeled a traitor and joined the Taliban. She hacked the pentagon to get the files to prove that he was not a traitor but a patriot who had been under cover and had been essential in the demise of most the of the terrorist cells in that part of the world. She published all the papers on Wikileaks and sent copies out to every news service she could. She soothed her parents hearts but she wound up on trial for espionage and was waiting for trial when she was released into Olivia's care. Being a favored vendor for the federal government had it's perks.
Huck was special to Olivia. He was born slightly autistic, but he had a good head for mathematics and computers at an early age. Huck used to live next door to Olivia and she was his only friend he could have due to his limited socialization skills. He is the reason Olivia made her mark in the world in Cyber Security because Huck was her inspiration and her collaborator on their first version of code. Huck's mathematics was the basis for the code and why it had been impenetrable up till now. The math was in his head and no one knew he had created new mathematical equations that the world had never seen or would see due to his inability to communicate with Olivia or his family. Olivia became Huck's protector over the years. Kid's always seem to want to mess with Huck and Olivia was more than happy to beat up a few kids twice her size. Olivia loved it when people underestimated them. The trend continued to college as they both enrolled at MIT and graduate a year head of schedule. Huck may have been a math savant, but Olivia was gifted beyond measure with her 190 IQ and her charming personality.
This was merry band of OPA Security's except for the one off which was Jake Ballard. He was a favor Cyrus had to cash in from Jake's father. The guy was all talk, but when it came time to put up, he was totally inept. Every job they'd sent him on even with supervision he had messed up. Olivia had let it go, but this was the end to her. This account generated nearly 10 million dollars a year for her firm. She was not about to see that income stream disappear.
After rushing home to send her laundry out she started to pack. She was in constant contact with Huck to see if he could back the install out remotely before they got there. Huck was pissed, he said Jake had done the install without testing it's effect in their testing environment, he had just come in and installed the security patch in their production environment. He literally brought Chile's largest Internet Service Provider to it's knees. Lucky for them Huck had loaded Jake's laptop with a key stroke bug that tracked everything he did. He knew right away that he was going to crash their servers. He let him crash them in order for Cyrus to finally see this guy was a menace to their business. Thanks to Huck they were only down for an hour.
Now Huck was cleaning up the damage to whatever servers that were still having issues. She could not believe that Jake was single handily trying to destroy her reputation. Cyrus was going to own this one including losing his share to the profits from this job.
Olivia got everything packed and waited for the car to come pick her and Huck up to take to the private airport for their company jet to take them to Chile. Just before takeoff Cyrus let her know that Jake was on his way back and he had flown him back in deep coach at his own expense. To say that Olivia was worn out was an understatement. She had a penchant for hitting the ground running whenever she was doing and install. Straight from the airport to the job site, but she knew she was on e this time, so she told Huck they would start the install the next day. Huck told her to go to the hotel and rest he would go over and take a look at what needed to be done and sooth some bruised ego's.
Olivia felt like she crawled to the front desk at the Ritz Carlton. She checked in and the front desk clerk let her know her suite was ready. She dragged her way up to her room and as she opens the door, there standing in the middle of the room is a Greek God in nothing but a towel and water droplets flowing off his body.
"Oh! I so sorry I must be in the wrong room. I'll go back down to the front desk and figure out what happened."
A beautiful smile emerged from the Greek God. "No need to rush off, lets just call the front desk to find out what happened."
She couldn't place the accent he had, but she wasn't exactly paying closing attention to anything, but getting a good look at this man's body.
He picked up the phone and turned toward Olivia and smirked at how she was looking at him. He was getting and eye full himself. As the phone call was picked up, he started to speak fluent Spanish. Olivia started to squeeze her thighs together at hearing this sexy baritone speak spanish. She was going to have take a cold shower for sure after this.
He set the phone down and said, "the front desk apologized for the mix up. I was suppose to leave yesterday, but my business here in Chile was extended to next week. It appears that I am taking up your suite. I can pack up and move to another room. Just give me few minutes."
"No, no. There's no need, I'll go back downstairs and get another room. You seem to have settled into this room just fine."
"Please allow me to at least pay for your room. I feel really bad that you've traveled a great distance and I'm sure you are tired."
"What makes you so sure I've traveled a great distance?'
"Well you have slight bags under your beautiful eyes, your clothes are slightly wrinkled. Not enough for anyone else to notice, but I'm not anyone else. The wall seems to be holding you up. Come, sit down while I go downstairs and get your room and a key. It's the least a gentleman as I claim to be can do."
Olivia smiled and Fitz thought his heart would beat out of his chest from that beautiful smile. Olivia laid her raincoat across her wheeled suit case then her purse as she went to sit down before she fell down.
"Just give me a minute to go and put something on and I'll be right back with your key."
Fitz came back out pretty fast or so he thought. He found Olivia had fallen asleep on the chez lounge. He pulled a small cover off the back of his couch. He rubbed his thumb against her cheek as he smiled and went down to the front desk.
Olivia yawned and stretched as she started to wake up due to being hungry. When she finally opened her eyes she found the most intense blue eyes staring back at her.
"You look like a cat when you wake up."
Olivia smiled. "So is this how you impress a woman by being creepy and watching her sleep? Especially someone you just met?"
"Only the ones I'm interested in." He chuckled.
"What time is it?"
"A little after 7pm."
"Oh my goodness! Why did you let me sleep so long?" She jumped up looking for her shoes and her bag.
"What happened to all my things?"
"Well to answer your first question, I find that the body usually tells you when you need to rest and who am I to wake you. To your second question, your things are now in your room which by the way is across the hall from this room."
She smirked and sat back down at the foot of the chez and looked at the strange man who she could not get enough of his company.
"If you are up to it, I would like you to join me for dinner. Have you been to Chile before?"
"No, this is my first time in Santiago."
"Good then allow me to introduce you to Chilean cuisine. There is a great resturant that is within walking distance. I feel that travel weryness can be off set with a good walk before and after a meal. You will sleep like a baby." Hkise smiled.
Her heart wanted to leap out of her chest and kiss that smile off his face. She needed to get out of there for a moment. Or she was going to do something she might regret or not.
"Well with a and invitation such as that, I'll have to take you up on your offer. I will tell you that I have a colleague who flew down with me. If it's ok with you, I would like to invite him also."
"By all means the more the merrier."
Merry was not the emotion he was feeling, but a slight amount of jealousy. Something he was never known to have toward any woman. He was a little taken back by how this woman was getting under his skin so fast. He did try to do work as she slept, but he kept staring at her as she slept. He pulled out his sketch pad and started to draw her beautiful tranquil face. He had never seen anything quite that astonishing.
"What is wrong with me?"