After a while you guys will get tired of me! Please check out my oneshot Hope, and my unfinished Did you sell the house? I don't know if this will be a one shot or not think I am leaving up to the reviews. Unlike Shonda I value and listen to fans, I am an Olitz lover since April 5, 2012 when Fitz first kissed Olivia in the Oval! No looking back now Enjoy!
Life can be very hard even for a Grant, 18 year old Karen Elizabeth Grant knew that better than many
people cared to realize. Her life was during a complete 180 it was mid-November 2 weeks after Election
Day. This was a very big deal, she was the current President's kid and it was her first year to vote and her
father's final few months in office. The last three years had been the best for her and her 6 year old kid
brother Teddy. Their parents had finally divorced and it was the happiest of times. Their mother was in
Virginia being a Senator and they lived in DC full time with their dad. These times also brought around
sad times because it was two weeks since the 4th anniversary of her oldest brother Gerry's death.
He would have been 20 years old in college and probably still a golf ball, oh how she missed him
especially this first semester of college.
Ava Essence Pope, the brightest, smartest, and most friendly 4 year old you could ever meet, well at least that's what her teachers and adults said about her; how she wish majority of the kids at her after school program and functions thought so. She went to school with the children of DC finest and most elite, because she surely was as the daughter of the formidable Olivia Pope who actually did go to boarding school with children of kings. Well, according to her grandfather, who she's never meet but heard a few stories about; no grandfather or father actually, just Uncle Huck, her cousin Javi, and Uncle Stephen who she didn't see only about 4 times a year. She was smart, so smart that she was currently in the first grade at 4 years old hence to the teasing and her dreading going into her after school program. The program focus on being the after care for three of DC's top elementary schools, so not all of her friends attended. She only went maybe twice a week when her mommy was working very hard and late along with her Aunts and Uncle, having a single parent was not easy. Some of the teasing was very emotional and shocking in this day and age. Ava was very fair skinned, with curly dark brown hair, the cutest slightly plump lips, and those doe shaped sea blue eyes; yes she was going to break hearts one day. Not today, the Latino and African kids distant themselves from her because of the her eyes and hair that was not as kinky or straight with a little curl like theirs, the Caucasian kids didn't want the want to be white girl around them. Not all kids were like this and especially not at her school, who know racism was so present now and in very young kids; to top it off who wanted to play with the baby of the bunch?
She learned to just read or play on her tablet when she was stuck here in this place, she couldn't tell her mother she was her pride and joy, and her mother would do anything for her. Ava also picked up on the pain and the hurt in her mother's eyes and every since this little genius became who she was around age 2 ½ she vowed to never cause any excess pain or worry to her mother. This was a lot for a 4 year to think about even an intelligent one, but those were the thoughts that ran through her head as her pretty curls were being yanked by some 5 year and was being called a baby by his friend and sister. Her pretty eyes were watering then she heard his voice, "Leave Ava, Alone you are the babies!"; her savior was here Teddy Grant, the 6 year old kind hearted little boy who never was anything but nice to her. Ava loved when Teddy showed up even though they only saw one another maybe once or twice every two weeks.
They played on the swing and just giggle for the next 45 minutes, while Teddy's trusty agents were not too far behind something that Ava never really played attention too. Teddy was kept out of the public eye a lot the past 3 ½ years and he had grown and matured so he never offered up the info that he was the President's son because then he question his "friends" loyalty. He knew Ava being as smart as she was knew who he was, but she never mention it or acted differently maybe it was because she really needed a friend or she liked him like his sister Karen got all googly eyed over her friend Sam. The thought grossed him out, but Ava's eyes didn't change around him in fact he thought he was looking in a mirror when he looked at her eyes they mirrored his and his father's.
Ava knew who Teddy was but she was afraid to mention it because she really needed a friend, he was the one friend she wouldn't tell her mom about. Not because she didn't think she wouldn't believe her, but because anytime a newspaper, magazine, or news station showed the President's face her mom would get rid of it asap. Did her mom hate the president, not like what he had to say, or didn't vote for him? She would never ask and didn't want anything to jeopardize her play time and protection time from her friend so she never said anything. She was pulled from her thoughts as Teddy's pretty red headed sister was approaching, time to say goodbye she thought.
Teddy ran to Karen and look back to see the sad look on Ava's face, he asked for the time she told him 4:45pm he knew Ava's pretty mom never let her stay too much longer after 5 so either her, her uncle, or one of aunts were on the way. Teddy ask to play a little longer, Karen obliged and walked closer to the sweet looking little girl; she was shocked to see them sitting side by side in the swings looking up at her with identical eyes that imaged her father's. The eyes that she and Gerry weren't so lucky to inherit, Teddy introduced them and she inquired about Ava's age she told her four; "she's a genius, already in the first grade!" Teddy exclaims, "Your mom still gets you at 5 right?" Ava replied "Yes". Teddy told her they would stay until her mom or someone comes to get her, Karen was shocked did Teddy have an elementary crush? As she observed them she notice that their behavior was more along the lines of brother/sister, honestly seeing them reminded her of Gerry and herself.
"My aunt Quinn is here" she heard Ava say as the girl little jump off the swing and run to a pretty brunette with wavy hair, Karen remembers her. About 4 months after Gerry died her and Olivia Pope were picking her up off a floor drunk at a college party. She looked again at the little girl, doe shaped eyes and little pump lips were identical to Olivia's but it was something about those eyes. They left and as they preceded to the White House her mind couldn't leave Olivia, she had helped her father get elected both times and fixed her problems and her dad's countless times in his first term, but not the second or the divorce. Olivia was alive she would see her from time to time on the tv, but she thought they were good friends her father and Olivia; unless it was Olivia and her mother and with very little contact from her mother over the last three years that could very well be true. Those eyes matched her father's and brother's, their shape and her mouth matched her mother's Olivia; could it be, no it couldn't! Karen was truly outstretching and over thinking.