A/N: I've decided to start a new story but I really don't know how I feel about this first chapter so leave reviews and you tell me if I should continue or start over. As always, Enjoy!
Olivia watched as Fitz and his girlfriend, Amanda, walked out of the restaurant holding hands before she turned to her plate and finished eating.
"Fucking lovebirds," she mumbled.
That should have been her. Ever since she first laid eyes on Fitzgerald Grant III three years ago she knew she was in love. She had run into him when she was rushing to get on the elevator on her first day working for attorney David Rosen. She had almost spilled her coffee when she ran into his massive chest. Looking up she was about to apologize when her eyes met the most gorgeous pair of grey/blue eyes she had ever seen. She was entranced but quickly averted her gaze.
"I'm sorry," she managed to stammer out.
"You're fine," he chuckled as he ran one hand through his curls. "My name is Fitzgerald Grant but you can call me Fitz. And you are?"
"Olivia… Pope."
"Nice to meet you Olivia." Just then the elevator stopped on his floor and he strolled of without a backwards glance.
She exhaled loudly as the doors closed and she slumped into the corner. "Good going Olivia," she said to herself.
She often ran into him every morning as she got on the elevator and one day he asked her out on a date. She accepted and what started out as one date turned into fifteen and before she knew it they were exclusive.
They were the envy of everyone in the office. People just knew that they would eventually get married and have children but apparently fate had other plans for them.
Two years into the relationship he asked her to move in with him. She accepted and everything was good until Edison Davis came back into her life. Edison had been her high school sweetheart and her first love. They decided to go to Princeton together and they both wanted to major in Political Science. He was everything to her until one day she walked in on him and another man. She was devastated. She didn't say anything to him as she left she just slowly backed out of the room and went to stay with her best friend Harrison. The next day she returned to get her clothes from his room and then she had Harrison inform him that if he ever spoke to or came near her again she'd tell everyone what she saw.
Apparently, Edison found out he had contracted AIDs and he felt like she should know.
When he showed up at her door one night she almost slammed it in his face but she knew he was a smart man who valued his life so if he had found her and risked his life by showing up at her place of residence she knew it must be really important.
She left the door open for him to come in as she went to sit on the couch, not bothering to offer him a seat.
"What do you want? You can't be here, you shouldn't be here."
"Olivia, I … there's something I need to tell you."
"No shit. Did you come to tell me you're dying, please tell me you're dying?"
"Actually I have AIDs. I wanted to tell you in person so that you could get checked out just to be safe. I never wanted to hurt you you know that. But I wasn't being honest with myself by being with you. I've always been more attracted to the same sex."
"WHAT THE HELL! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Ugh, just save it. I don't want to hear about your sad little story. You said what you came to say now get out! Get out before I kill you myself!" she yelled.
She was furious and her chest was heaving as she struggled not to break down and cry. How could he do this to her? What was she going to tell her family or Fitz if she found out she had AIDs. She couldn't put Fitz through that. He had his whole life ahead of him and now it could be ruined because of her. They had just recovered from a miscarriage and things had been rocky but they were in a great place again.
She knew what she had to do. Going to their bedroom she packed all of her clothes into her suitcase and gathered her things from the bathroom and called Harrison to come get her.
When he came she ran to him and held onto him as she cried her eyes out. Sniffling, she gathered her things and pushed him out of the door.
"Liv, talk to me. What's wrong?"
"I can't talk now, we have to leave before Fitz gets home from work."
"Okay." He knew not to push Liv when she wasn't ready so he took her to his place and set her up in the guest room. When she was settled he came in and sat on the end of her bed. "Give it to me straight."
"It's Edison. He came by today and told me… he told me he has AIDs and that I should get tested. It's been 6 years. I could have been living with this disease for 6 fucking years and I didn't even know- "
Harrison flew off of the bed interrupted her, "That son of a bitch. He's gonna pay for this. Liv I told you he was bad news back in high school but you wouldn't listen and now look what happened. I'll kill him I swear I will. Let me find him in an alley, he's dead. I have an ex-CIA friend who goes by the name Huck. He can make it look like it never happened. What's your endgame?"
"My endgame?"
"What do you plan to do?"
"Well obviously I'm going to go get tested but I don't want Fitz to know about this. He'll hate me. I need to leave town; get a fresh start while I figure my life out."
"Fine. But are you sure you don't want to at least give Fitz an explanation for why you're leaving?"
"Trust me its better this way. If I find out I have AIDs then I'll call him but I don't want to complicate his life."
That's why now she was forced to watch him be happy with some other woman. It killed her on the inside. He looked for her for months but she never told anyone where she was going so he kept running into dead ends. She knew he was suffering but that he'd eventually get over it; he had to because she couldn't live with herself if she knew she had become a burden in his life. She did what she felt was best for him even though he couldn't see it at the time.
She was back in town visiting her old mentor Cyrus. He was getting ready to run for president and he asked her to come and lend her support as well as be his advisor. She was reluctant to agree at first but a huge part of her missed Fitz and she wanted to see him from a distance, to know if he had moved on and if he was happy. Apparently he had found someone new but it still didn't stop the pain she felt in her heart when she watched him look at Amanda with the same loving gaze he used to give her.
She contemplated stopping by her old office just to see if he was there and she could run into him "accidentally" but just then her phone vibrated. Glancing down she saw it was a text from Cyrus: Meet me in 10 minutes at my office. She paid for her meal and grabbed her things. Just as she was running to catch a cab she spotted Fitz outside of the restaurant. He appeared to be waiting for her but that couldn't be, he was on the phone.
"Thank you Cyrus," Fitz said just before he hung up.
P.S. I want to clear up any confusion. So basically Fitz saw her while he was in the restaurant but he played it cool. He knew about Cyrus running for president and he figured eventually Olivia would be back because of that. In order to talk to her he knew he had to do it under the pretense that she was meeting Cyrus. So he's thanking Cyrus for texting Olivia and getting her to leave the restaurant where he can now confront her!
