This is something I've been playing with in the back of my mind for awhile now I'm still working out the small details but I have a general direction of where it's going!
"Caleb I'm gonna need you to call my wife and tell her I'll be later than I thought. Tell her I'll be home by midnight at the latest." Fitz said to his secret service agent walking off stage and taking a seat in the third row of the audience. Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III has started his second term in office a little less than a two years ago, and tonight he was making a speech on his stance on the war in the Middle East in early stages of pulling American troops back and reducing the presence of Americans in the foreign countries. Fitz had told his wife he would be home by ten o'clock but the speeches were running longer than he thought and he couldn't just up and leave with out an excuse. She wouldn't be happy that he was running late and that she wouldn't be able to see him for "date night" which they had every time one of them returned home from a trip out of state.
Olivia was just in the process of leaving her office in the west wing when her phone rang she almost didn't answer because she was in a hurry to leave tonight but something in her gut told her to pull her phone out and answer it. She didn't even check to see who it was before she said " Hello Olivia Pope speaking." Of course if she'd checked she would have seen it was Caleb, the head of Fitz' security detail. "Hello ma'am it's Caleb the president wanted me to call you and to tell you he was running late tonight. That he wouldn't be home until midnight at the latest and to tell Sophia good night." She sighed knowing it was always one thing or another with her husband. "Thank you Caleb tell him I'll expect him no later than midnight and that I'll be calling him in an hour. So he'd better pick up!" She said locking her office door and walking down the hall followed by her detail. "Yes ma'am he said he's very sorry that's he's gonna be late if it's any consolation ma'am." She pressed the elevator to go upstairs and walked in to the elevator. "Tell him I'll call later, thanks Caleb." She pressed the end button as the doors slid shut.
Fitz had just gotten done talking to the governor of Ohio when his phone rang, he knew it was Olivia because it was nine o'clock which is when Sophia went to bed. "Hello beautiful I am really really sorry I can't make it home at ten!" He said hoping it would make up for not being there. "I know you are. I just wish you could come home, we haven't seen you in almost two weeks! You've been in South Dakota and Arizona, we just really miss you." She said as she pulled pajamas on to their six year old daughter. "I'm gonna out you on speaker so Sophia can say good night." She put the phone on the nightstand and pressed the speaker button. "Ok Soph you can talk to daddy now" the little girl hopped into bed and laid down with her favorite elephant. "Hi daddy! How's the talking going?" Sophia had no idea what the speech was about but she knew he dad was talking to some old people about something important. "Hi Sophia my speech went well now I'm talking to a bunch if important people about boring things. How's bedtime going?" He asked taking a seat at an empty bench under a window. "I had a bath and mama read me where the wild things are and now I'm laying down with mama and Ella the elephant." Olivia smiled her life was perfect she had a beautiful little girl and an amazing husband who she loved. They had a rough start but they were doing well and coping with the changes they were thrown along the way. "That's great Soph I wish I was there for bed time but I'll be there when you wake up in the morning and we can have French toast! But daddy has to go back and talk to more people so I love you and I'll see you in the morning." Fitz was sad he couldn't talk longer of be there in person but he was used to missing little things like this. "Night daddy I love you too!" Sophia said hugging Ella. Olivia kissed Sophia good night and picked the phone up off the nightstand and putting it against her ear. "Hi" she breathed picking up Sophia's clothes and putting them in the basket in the closet. "Hi...I am really sorry you know that right." "Yes I know that. I love you and I'll talk to you later, you better be home before midnight of you can sleep in a guest room!" She said with a smile as she turned off the light in the little girls room and pressed the end button. She walked around the corner and stopped. " Tom watch my little girl carefully tonight." She told him before walking away.