"Daddy, I would like a chocolate cone with chocolate sprinkles and a cherry on the top please."

"Then that is what you shall get. I would give anything for my beautiful princess."

"I love you daddy and I always will. Promise me you won't go away like Natalie's daddy did."

"I love you too baby girl. I am not going anywhere without you I promise. I want you to sit down at this table and eat your ice cream. Your mother will be right back from the bathroom."

"But daddy I want to go with you."

"It's raining outside sweetie. I don't want you to catch cold. I'm only going to get the car. You can see me from this window. Just wait for me Olivia."

"Ok."

She watched him walk to the brand new candy apple red car her daddy had just bought that morning. She saw him reach for the remote and press the button to unlock the car. Then everything went blank. The next thing she remembered was her mother screaming and the police and fire trucks were surrounding the parking lot. Olivia felt panic as she looked around but could not find her father. Where was he? She was so scared and she needed him but he was nowhere to be found.

"He promised he wouldn't leave me"

"Who promised they wouldn't leave you Liv?"

Olivia wiped her eyes before turning around to meet Abby standing in the doorway to her office. "Nothing… No one…. It's nothing." Liv tried her hardest to compose herself and get back to today's grueling task at the OPA. "Where are we on the search for Senator Jeffries alibi?" Senator Jeffries had to have been by far the most repulsive perverted senator in all of Washington, but, he came to Olivia for help and well, this is what paid the bills.

"Liv we have two women who can vouch for Senator Jeffries' whereabouts the night his wife was murdered. The chauvinistic pig was putting in extra hours campaigning two 18 yr. olds for their undivided support in his campaign." Olivia grimaced at the thought of Sen. Jeffries' in bed with any woman. The thought of him taking advantage of two unsuspecting young ladies that hadn't even voted in their first presidential election made her sick to her stomach. Liv tried to hold herself together and gave Abby a nod of approval.

Liv had been having trouble focusing on many tasks at work since her last conversation with Fitz. Everyone knew something was wrong, everyone even knew the person behind it, but no one dared call Liv on it. When she was ready to talk, if she was ready to talk she would. Liv was searching for any reason at all to flee the office but she was unable to find one. Knowing that she had been under a lot of stress lately, her team had picked up a lot of slack without any prompting or questioning. Her team… Liv scoffed at those words. They were her family. They were the only family she had, and would most likely be the only family she would ever have.

Liv had to face the fact that she wasn't getting any younger and soon she would no longer have the option of bearing a child of her own. She loved and cared for each one of her family members differently but she loved them all the same. She had saved their lives and had taken them under her wing. They were like her children. Broken and fragile when she found them, she raised their spirits, fed their souls, and clothed their innermost insecurities until they were standing before her the strong adults ready to venture out into the world on their own. Her oldest Stephen was now married and although things weren't going well with Georgia, Liv knew that given time Stephen would make things right in his marriage.

Marriage. That word ripped through her like a twister approaching a lonely shack it knew didn't have a chance of survival. Liv felt her heartbeat quicken with thoughts of Edison. "I don't care who you've loved or what you've done. I'm in love with you, and I'd very much like it if you would be my wife." Edison did love Olivia that much she knew was true. She could even say that Edison was in love with her. There was a small town outside of Ocean City Maryland that Edison was always talking about. "It's a place called Willards. It's not very big but there is a lot of land to be bought. We could buy acres and acres of land Liv. We could build a home, raise our children, and grow old there. That is if you would have me." Liv could have that, she would probably even be happy. At least she could pretend to be. She knew very well that there was only one man that she could ever be genuinely happy with for the rest of her life. Fitz.

The very thought of him set her body on fire. But there was fear there. Liv knew that she was in love with Fitz and he with her, but everything changed when he said those four words. "Wait for me Olivia." Fitz didn't know how much horror and panic those seemingly harmless words brought. It was like having a knife twisted by the only safe person in your life. He of course had no way of knowing that because she never opened up to Fitz about certain things in her life. Her father was one of them. Nonetheless, When Liv raised her head to meet Fitz's loving stare, all she could feel was the horror of being abandoned again. That is all those words had ever meant to her since… since that day her father went away. "I…I'll think about it" was the only response Liv could deliver at that time.

Everyday Liv would run to the bay window in the front of their home like she always did when it was almost time for daddy to come home. She waited for her father for a very long time. Unable to take the pain of her daughter being disappointed night after night that her father hadn't returned Liv's mother finally decided to set her down and have a talk.

"Baby girl, I know that you may be too young to understand this but there is something I need to tell you. Daddy had to go away to be a police officer for the angels. Daddy will not be coming back."

"Why mama would daddy leave me and not say goodbye? Why would he promise me that he would never leave me mama? Why? Why would he say those things and just go away and never come back?"

Completely heartbroken at the sight of her daughter processing what she was telling her, Liv's mother responded the only way she knew how. "Because my love, God said that it was time for him to go be with him. I know that we did not get to have a proper goodbye like we did when granny passed, but things were different with daddy" God had done this to her, God had taken her daddy away from her, and it would be a very long time before she could forgive him for it.

"Enough!" Liv shouted out loud. She needed a distraction and she needed one now. Olivia Pope was never one to feel sorry for herself. She was never one to allow things to bother her for too long. She learned that lesson the hard way. Just then her phone rang.

Liv ran to her desk and looked at the name that appeared on her cell. SDF is how he stored his number in her phone, his personal cell phone number. Liv couldn't help but smile a wicked smile when remembering what SDF meant and how it came to be. Sweet Daddy Fitz. It was a name that made Fitz cringe. He thought it made the relationship seem cheap as if she were calling him her sugar daddy. She still had no idea what made him enter his name in her phone the way he did.

"What?" Liv answered the phone pretending she hadn't noticed the name that appeared on her screen.

"Hi" There it was the one word that always brought her to her knees. The one word that could greedily deprive her lungs of every bit of oxygen they so desperately clung to.

Shaken yet trying to maintain composure Liv responded "Hi".

"Liv, I need to see you."

"Fitz I can't come to the White House and you know why. It's far too dangerous I would never want to jeopardize your presidency."

"Is that why you won't say that you'll wait for me? Because of my presidency, or was it because Mellie is too much of a match for you."

Feeling the knife of Fitz's words tear through her Liv flatly replied

"What do you want Mr. President?"

"Liv Please if you don't love me, I will let you go. If you don't want to wait for me I will understand, but you need to tell me so face to face."

Liv's head was telling her no. There were a million reasons as to why Liv should have said no. There were so many dangers in them being together. What would happen to his political career? To her career if word of their relationship had ever gotten out. She knew she shouldn't, but she also knew that in the end her heart always won. Liv's head was screaming for her to just hang up but her heart wouldn't allow it. She could no longer deny it. She needed Fitz in her life and the way his voice sounded on the phone, that quiet raspy whisper, she could tell that he needed her too.

"Tell me where and I'll be there"

"Your apartment in an hour. Or, I could come to your job if you'd prefer."

"One hour, my apartment."

If one hour was all the time that Liv would have to prepare then she'd better get moving. Liv hung up the phone and couldn't help but notice that a smile was starting to form at the corners of her mouth. Neither could Huck. "Huck, I'm on my way out. Tell Harrison and Stephen that if there are any problems they will have to handle things themselves. I'm taking the rest of the night off to deal with….. some things."

"Liv, be careful. I want you to remain safe." Safe? Did Huck not realize that Liv never felt safer than when she was lying in the arms of the man she loves. Lying in the arms of her Fitz... Her Fitz. Liv simply nodded and forged a slight smile in attempts to ease Huck's worrisome mind. The she entered the elevator and she was gone.

Thank you for reading. This is my first FF and I welcome all comments and constructive criticism. I am working on the next chapter which should be up shortly.