Old Habits Die Hard

When all rivals clash and hard feelings are thought to be over, all can change in a matter of hours. At Karen's wedding Mellie, Olivia and Fitz try their best to act cordial but old habits seem to die hard.

Okay guys so hard to kick this off my mind, fluff and some drama for Olitz. This will feature Charlie, Teddy and Hannah Grant from my other stories "Hang in There" and "All that is expected"

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chapter 1: The rehearsal dinner. The arrival

They say all habits die hard, right? This is what Olivia has learned over the years regarding Mellie Grant. Now Ballard. She knew Mellie would stop at nothing to make them into the spotlight and somehow screw them over. Fine. She could do all that, her and Fitz had been trough worse and they knew how to handle her, but it was one completely different thing to mess up with their kids, and today was a very important day for Karen, One week from today she'd get married to her boyfriend, four years her senior which had been a big deal to Fitz but had learned to live with it. He almost lost it though when Karen informed her she'd get married at 23, too young and so hopelessly in love, Olivia figured that, if Fitz had been younger and they had met maybe in another lifetime she would have not hesitated to marry him, still Karen was still in school and Robert worked his schedule around to make the most time possible to make it work.

Olivia sighed as she looked at her boys all dressed up. Since this was not the actual wedding, both Teddy and Charlie wore matching dress pants and green sweaters. Their smiles were as wide as they could be. Her bigger boy, was wearing a nice black suit, Olivia had to smile at the sight of the boys imitating their father on how to stand and almost having the same Grant dashing smiles. And of course she could not forget her baby girl, she wore a beautiful green dress and she looked like a princess, her short black curly hair almost matched Charlie's but his was actually a bit longer, Hannah giggled in her father's arms as Liv took a picture of her greater loves.

They made their way outside where Tom was waiting for them, he high fived the boys and opened the door for Olivia and Fitz to get in first. "You look dashing ma'm" Tom smiled.

"Aren't we a bit over that whole thing already Tom?" Olivia said seriously. Tom smiled but didn't speak.

"At what time do we have to be there?" Fitz asked as they squeezed on the car with the boys, Liv held her 2 and a half daugther close.

"It's still early, don't worry" she assured him.

"I just don't want Mellie to get there first" Fitz said. And Olivia rolled her eyes.

"Always competing aren't we?" Olivia kissed him softly. "We'll be fine"

"Daddy! Liv!" Karen rushed to them as soon as they parked outside the garden, the dinner was to be at Robert's parents home. "I'm so glad you are here!"

"Hi Karen" Charlie said smiling brightly as each of her little brothers handed her a rose. Her heart melt at the sight of such sweetness from her baby brothers. "I need to steal Hannah for a sec"

"Oh sure" Liv was thankful she was one kid down for a moment. "Go and show her off"

"Congratulations Miss Karen" Tom said when he reached them. "You look so beautiful"

"Thanks Tom" Karen smiled. "You are staying right?"

"Yes" Olivia and Fitz said together.

"Oh Gerry is around there somewhere boys, he said he had a surprise for you" She whispered to Teddy and Charlie. Their eyes ligthed up.

"Can we go mamma?" Charlie asked.

"I want you both in your best behavior though!" Olivia called after them when they broke into a run. She sighed.

"Too much of a deathly combination" Fitz laughed as they made their way inside the house. Fitz shared a knowing look with Tom and he slipped away.

"He's not meant to work today!" she smacked his arm.

"And I can't have the boys demolish the house, specially if Gerry is their fearless leader" Fitz smiled.

And so it began.

What do you think guys? How do you like it? After watching last night's ep I had this idea of how Mellie would behave in the late stages of Olitz relationship specially with kids in the mix

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