*Okay guys, so this story is different from anything that's out there.. Now as many of you know my favorite scandal scenes are flashbacks to the trail. I love the trail, I love everything about it, and so this whole story takes place on the trail. Now as I said this story is different (you will see why). I don't expect to get many people to like it. I don't expect it to be popular, but I'm writing it anyway. This is not an Olitz story, this is not a Mellitz story, this is not and Olake story. You will see by the end of this chapter who this is about. This is just a disclaimer: THIS IS NOT OITZ , DO NOT EXPECT OLITZ.

*It was late august when Fitz was officially given the nomination, they only had 3 months to pull off a miracle. It was around 5:00 when the campaign bus pulled into the hotel parking lot. They had left North Carolina early this morning and had now just arrived in Virginia. They all began to get off the bus; Mellie was still in Charleston at a literacy event. They checked into their rooms, and arranged to meet later for a strategy meeting. Olivia heard a knock on the door that connected her room to another. She knew it was Fitz, she was tired and didn't feel like talking to him right now. Then again they never talked he just used her for sex. She knew she had to open the door, or else he would be mad. She slowly opened it, he pushed in and began to kiss her. He carried her to the bed, and began to kiss her neck. She just laid there , she was too tired for this. Suddenly his phone began to ring. He grabbed it and checked the caller i.d , it was Mellie, he sat up and answered the phone . Olivia lay on the bed, listening to him talk to his wife, she couldn't quite make out what he was saying but he sounded really happy. Finally he hung up …

"My kids are here" he said smiling

"What… aren't they at boarding school ?" she asked, she was really confused

"Mellie flew up with them to surprise me, were going to a family dinner… I'll see you later" he said, and just like that he was gone. Olivia pulled the comforter over her as if suddenly she felt self-conscious. She felt sick, no matter how many times he said he loved her, no matter how many times he called her sweet baby, she wasn't his family .She was just his mistress. She wanted to believe that they would have some kind of happy ever after but she knew it wasn't true, if he became president they would have to do 8 more years of this , 8 more years of stolen moments , and she wasn't sure if she could handle that.

1 week later RNC fundraiser (Tulsa Oklahoma)

*Olivia stared around the room; it looked like something you would see in D.C. not Tulsa. It was a massive ballroom, with huge windows that were accented with grey silk curtains. There was a large stage, with a podium where Fitz would give his speech. They had practiced it every day for a week; this was one of the most important events of the campaign. Everyone in this room were millionaires, they were the people that would help catapult Fitz to the white house. Olivia Glanced around the room; Fitz was at a table with Mellie chatting up some of the party bigwigs. Olivia stared at them, he had his arm around her, he was smiling and laughing, they looked so happy. She felt a twinge of envy building up inside of her. She knew that they were just pretending. She knew that they didn't actually love each other, but she still felt envious anyway. After the incident last week she had been avoiding him, she couldn't look at him , she could even be in the same room with him without feeling ashamed . She knew he loved her, but that didn't change the fact that he was married … he had children. Olivia glanced around the room, she was so unbelievably bored, it was only 7:00 and apparently these things usually went till Midnight. She didn't know how she would make it through the night without someone to chat with. Fitz was busy schmoozing donors, and Cyrus was nowhere to be seen. She assumed he was with James (a times reported covering the grant campaign) she had her suspicions about the 2 of them, but as long as he was happy she didn't care. She glanced over at the food table, there was a large ice sculpture shaped like an eagle, and a few platters of figure sandwiches. She rolled her eyes, she was starving, they had gotten in early from Alabama and all she had eaten all day was a fast-food breakfast sandwich.

Suddenly she felt someone walk up next to her; she turned to see Billy Chambers, Sally's right hand man standing there. Billy was tall and slim with his strawberry blond hair, and tons of freckles he was altogether handsome. At one point they had been enemy's running rival campaigns, but ever since they had joined forces they had become good friends. He was smart and funny, and it would be a lie to admit that she didn't have a tiny crush on him.

"Let's get out of here" he asked

"What?" she asked visibly confused

"Don't pretend that you actually want to be here, this party's a drag"

"We can't just leave"

"Why not ?"

"Well….. I mean …. I don't need to stay but you do …. Your Sally's guy"

"Sally's Guy? Sally's not here Liv , she's in Georgia , her daughter broke her foot and she getting surgery. We have nothing to lose from leaving early"

"Fine let's say theoretically we left early where would we go?"

"We would get takeout and then go back to our rooms and watch one of those creepy CNN murder documentaries"

"I don't know…."

"Oh I'm not asking, I will kidnap you and force authentic Oklahoma takeout down your throat."

*Olivia saw Fitz in the corner of her eye. He would be mad if she left him, if she didn't watch his speech. He would be even madder if he found out she was with Billy. The truth was that she didn't care, she was hungry, she didn't want to stay at this stupid event, and she didn't want to see Mellie and Fitz together.

2 hours later Olivia found herself sitting cross-legged on the bed of her hotel room wearing Princeton sweatpants and a Georgetown hoodie eating Lo Mein from a plastic carton. She took a drink from a bottle of horrible white wine they were selling at the Chinese restaurant. Billy was also sitting on the bed wearing his sweatpants. She handed him the bottle, and he took a sip. She wasn't sure if this was fun or just pathetic. The fact they were drinking wine out of the bottle in a hotel in rural Oklahoma made it pretty pathetic, but she didn't care. They were having a good time watching a documentary about a murdered teenager.

"The mom did it" he said between bites

"No No No , No mother would murder their own child, the Uncle did it"

"The uncle has an alibi" he said

"His wife, wives are known to lie for their husbands" she said

"Why would she let her husband get away with murdering her niece?"

"She doesn't want to see him go to prison because she loves him, besides the mother doesn't have motive to kill"

"I bet she had motive she's just not going to tell the cops about it, everyone has secrets" he said

"Oh really what's your secret Mr. Perfect?" she said teasing him

"Well… I haven't been to church in 3 years" he said

"WHAT! You …. Sally's Baptist bible thumping friends haven't been to church in 3 years! "

"You're so mean" he said playfully hitting her with a pillow "so what's your secret? What's the secret behind Olivia Pope?"

"Nothing, I'm an open book"

*That wasn't the truth at all but she couldn't very well tell him her real secrets, the fact that she was sleeping with a married mad , or the fact that he father had an army of assassins at his disposal*

"If you're so open then how come I don't even know your middle name ?"

"Maybe it's because you're just not observant. I mean you couldn't even figure out who the murderer was."

"We don't know for sure…"

"I just looked it up and the uncle is serving a life sentence , checkmate I win" she teased

"NO NO NO , it's a conspiracy I demand a retrial" he said in a playful tone

"You're crazy" , she playfully hit him with a pillow , he hit back and soon they were having a full scale pillow fight and for the first time in a long time she was actually happy.

*Okay guys so if you actually read this story, by now you can probably figure out that this is an Olivia and Billy story. Now I know you all think I'm crazy but here me out, I was watching the first season again and I think that they would have been really cute together. Now I realize he went crazy, but in this story HE IS NOT CRAZY. He didn't tape Olivia and Fitz during sex, he's just normal Billy Chambers. Just clearing that up, I hope you guys like this.