Vermont:

If there was one thing Fitz knew better than anything else in his life, it was his love for Olivia. Yet here he was, alone at the airport, waiting for her and she never showed. Obviously she had moved on...with Jake of all people. He just didn't understand what she saw in him. He looked around him one more time, before he accepted the truth. She didn't love him. She didn't want him. He was not man enough, a failure; like his father had always told him he was. His shoulders drooped, he had a scowl on his face and he walked away from the airport, to his truck in the parking lot. He was a defeated man, who had no more hope. No more dreams. No more energy. He drove of, the snow softly starting to fall, the wind picking up.

Washington D.C. :

She still couldn't believe that he never called her , never send her an email or a text. He had just upt and left and it was like she had never mattered to him. She raked her brain , thinking of what it might have been that had made him leave her. She was no saint, but she was trying to do it all and she thought he had excepted that, encouraged it . Well little did she know. He had just left her and honestly, it hurt. She was more hurt this time than any other time before, because she thought they had made a start into finally getting it right . At finally being ready to love each other , fully committed.

She decided to play it cool. She was going to concentrate fully on her work and let him sit and simmer, so he would realize what he was missing.

4 weeks earlier :

Olivia was in a meeting with Jake and Cyrus, when her cellphone rang. Glancing at the screen she saw it was Fitz. A smile broke out on her face and she hurriedly answered, while holding up her free hand to silent the men in her office.

"Hi", she breathed into the cellphone. Jake looked disgusted, if she said that it could only mean that he was calling her. To all others she always answered with "what". But lately he had heard him call her about every damned day and she had started answering him with :"Hi".

Olivia was unaware of Jake's mood swing. She was far to happy to hear Fitz on her phone, telling her he could get away for a week, would she like some company there in DC? She happily told him that yes, she would love the company. "I will even pick you up from the airport, just tell me when". When he told her he loved her , she quitely proclaimed to love him too. Ever since she had kissed him in front of the camera's she had been more open and giving in her affection for him. They where in a good place right now, even though it was already a month ago that he had been the outgoing president, since they had seen each other.

Both where excited and happy to soon be back in each others arms. She resumed her meeting with Cyrus and Jake, unaware that Jake was plotting the end to her and her boyfriends relationship once and for all.