Before things can get ugly they have to look pretty- yes gladiators you read that right!
"Ah! Really?"
"Yes! The ring is absolutely beautiful I love it. I can't wait to show you and others tomorrow at the firm." Olivia laid back in her bed, home in her comfy condo while dishing all of the juicy details to one of her closest friends and future maid of honor, Mellie. She could not keep her eyes off the heavy rock that lied dormant on the ring finger of her left hand. It was finally happening; they were finally happening!
"See? I told you! And you were worried that Jake wouldn't give you a ring, just because he proposed to you over the phone!" Mellie blurted out laughing.
"Oh please, I should know better than to take advice from you because I still haven't met your boyfriend, nor do I know his name!"
"And I would like to keep it that way! Until I'm ready to let it be known." Mellie replied with an evil laughter, Olivia rolled her eyes.
Fitz sat down at the table staring at his food, grazing over each and every piece with the end of his fork, he could not stop thinking about….Olivia.
"Babe are you not hungry?"
"No, not really I just have a lot of stuff on my mind."
"Do you want to talk about it?" His girlfriend of seven months asked wholeheartedly rubbing his arm.
Fitz started to say no but honestly he wanted to get that Olivia out of his mind! He hadn't stopped thinking about her since he left the restaurant, which was almost nine hours ago.
"You remember how I said I was going to see a friend today?"
She nodded.
"Well it turns out he has a woman, that is now his fiancée!"
"That sounds like great news Fitz, I'm happy for your friend, but I don't understand why you look so unhappy though."
"Because, why purposely withhold this information from me? For almost two years! The minute we started dating I told him about you." If Fitz was to be honest with himself, he could care less about Jake not telling him about his future wife. The problem was that he found himself having deep feelings for someone that belonged to him so quickly. It was sudden, unexpected and he had no idea how to deal with those feelings. He really wanted to be happy for Jake, but he couldn't. Something about Olivia just made him think that Jake surely wasn't the one for her.
"Well, maybe he just wanted to make sure he was serious about her before he brought her around you. Besides I have yet to tell my friends about you!"
Fitz shook his head and thought to himself: She's probably waiting for me to propose to her before she tells anyone, in other words she will be waiting a very long time before she tells anyone. Fitz was burnt out; he figured if he got some sleep in his system, those feelings would eventually dissipate. Besides, he had to go to work early in the morning. He got up from the table and brought his plate with him; he emptied its contents into the trashcan and washed his plate before placing it neatly into the dish rack.
"Good night." Fitz said unenthusiastically to his girlfriend before disappearing upstairs to his bedroom leaving her downstairs all alone.
The next morning, 7:00 am to be exact, had crept on everybody quickly; nobody likes the feel and the sounds of Mondays. If it's not a hangover they are recovering from, then it had to be just the sheer thought of leaving their comfortable beds, a thought that pained and lingered in the minds of most, if not all individuals.
Not Olivia Pope's mind though. She was enamored to go back to work; of course she loved the occupation of being a lawyer and seeing criminals enter the prison system, but today she just had to show off her ring to everyone she knew. She looked in her bathroom mirror to get yet another glance of herself. Her brown hair thick and straightened draped gracefully passed her shoulders. Her attire nice and formal; a dark grey pants suit joined by a pair of black pumps. She was stunning, a word and a few close synonyms that she was so used to hearing.
She looked at the rock on her finger once more before she grabbed her briefcase that lied beside her bed. In the midst of bending down to pick it up she felt a hard slap that grazed over her bottom. She turned around and grabbed her stinging cheek with her left hand as a response and let out a breathy laugh when she saw Jake's handsome face.
"Why do you do that? Why not good morning, or why not.." Before she could finish her complaint she felt a pair of soft lips devour hers. She enjoyed the tingling sensation that shot up her spine as their kiss deepened. Their tongues raced and collided against one another causing Olivia to let out a soft moan. She felt Jake's hands across the zipper of her pants, she had to stop him now or else she was going to be late for work and he world reach the point of no return, but lord knows she didn't want to. She pulled back from the kiss and licked her lips. Jake poked his lip out like a pouting child would, he looked so pitiful in front of her. Olivia chuckled at his changed facial expression.
"You know I have to go to work, and so do you sir."
"We could always call in sick." Jake grabbed her by the hand and spun her around and pulled her into him so that her back was facing him. He wrapped her arms tightly around her waist, kissing the side of her neck enjoying her white diamonds perfume that saturated her brown skin.
"Okay, we will call in sick, and before you know it we will both be out of a job. Therefore, the bills and this wedding you want to have will definitely have no way of being paid." Olivia said reaching behind her to grab the back of her fiancée's neck. Jake sighed; she did have a good point.
She exited his embrace and faced him once more, planting both of her hands on Jake's chest allowing one of her hands to trace over the policeman badge that displayed his first and last name.
"I tell you what, when I leave from work I will go over to your place and we will have ourselves a little Monday night-cap, and if you're good I may even do that thing you like." She winked at him; she loved to get his hopes up.
A goofy smiled took over his face as Jake thought about the thing. God bless that thing.
"In that case hurry up woman we are going to be late for work, I'll drive you."
With that being said they were out of her condo. Olivia got into the passenger seat of Jake's police car and laughter escaped her throat when this fool decided to put the sirens on.
"Yes, girl that is lovely!" Mellie said as she held Olivia's left hand in hers staring eye level at the diamond. Her two other colleagues as well looked in awe at the glistening jewel.
"Later on I'll let y'all go skating on it!" Olivia said in a cocky tone as her colleagues busted out with laughter at the substantially giving her high-fives for that comment.
"Everyone in my office now!" Chief Deputy Prosecutor, Cyrus Beane, called out to Olivia, Mellie, and the other two lawyers in the hallway before he stormed out heading to his office.
The team of women looked at each other confused and startled as they rushed down to see what was going on.
"I don't believe this, sports has turned into a matter consisting of a bunch of chest-bumping, boisterous, trash- talking idiots!" Cyrus cursed while walking around the table where the ladies were sitting dropping a file hard onto the table.
"Steve what's going on?" Olivia stared at her boss wondering why he was so mad.
"I don't know, some kid hates the idea of losing, so he takes a baseball bat and decides to hit the kid hard upside the head with it no helmet on."
"Oh my god!" Mellie said in disbelief raising her eyebrows, now sitting up in her seat.
"Well is he okay?" Crystal, one of the other lawyers present in the room asked, although she was pretty sure of the answer.
"He died on the way to the hospital, as far as I'm concerned this is a murder case, forty years with likelihood of parole if he admits to his wrongdoing." Cyrus snapped.
Olivia grabbed her chest at Cyrus's strong suggestion, she grabbed the file that Cyrus had laid out on the table and looked through it.
"Cyrus come on, these kids are fourteen and fifteen."
"That's still plenty old enough to know better." Cyrus shrugged.
"So what do you want us to do?" Temperance, the last and final woman in the room called out.
"Temperance and Crystal I want you to go their high schools, their homes and see what turns up. Mellie and Olivia I want you both to stay here and interview the boy that hit the kid's mother since she is coming in for questioning."
The four women obliged as they quickly left the room to get to work.
"This was an accident Ms. Pope, my son Christopher is not a criminal."
"No disrespect Ms. Adams, but a teenager doesn't out of the blue and accidentally hit another teenager upside the head with a baseball bat with no helmet on and not mean to cause any harm." Olivia said in one breath, no mood to beat around the bush.
"Look you know how kids are! They are competitive, there's no way in hell he meant to kill him!" The frantic mother yelled in defense of her son.
"So that's the justification? Kids are competitive and don't like losing, so to prove that they should become a superhero and introduce harm to the winner. And I will give you and him the benefit of the doubt, I believe that he didn't intend to kill him, but the fact of the matter is he did, and he has to be punished! " Mellie replied sternly, Olivia nodded in agreement.
Ms. Adams sighed, bringing her hands up to her face, fighting back tears.
Before Olivia could respond, she felt her Iphone buzz in her pocket, she pulled it out of her pants pocket and checked the name that flashed on the screen, it was Jake. Jake knew not to call her when she was at work unless she was on lunch break from 3:30 to 4:10 pm, which passed three hours ago. So she figured it was an emergency.
"I'm so sorry, excuse me I have to get this." Olivia apologized to Mellie and Ms. Adams before she left into the hallway and walked into her personal office shutting the door behind her. She finally answered the vibrating device and held it to her ear.
"Jake what is it? You know I'm at work."
"I know, sorry love, but my brother is in the hospital and I have to go see about him."
"So?" Olivia at all didn't mean to sound insensitive and hoped he would be okay but what did that have to do with her?
Jake took no offense to her reaction as he knew better than to interrupt her at work.
"I'm saying can you find another way home? And can we cancel the nightcap for tonight and do it tomorrow? Because I leave here in another thirty minutes and an hour and a half is definitely not enough time to spend with him, since you get off in two hours. "
Olivia sighed, she knew she should have taken her car to begin with!
"Okay, that's fine I will….catch a cab or something."
"I'm sorry I'll make it up to you."
"I'm sure you will, I'll see you later on bye. Love you." Olivia hung up the phone and placed it back into her pocket, making her way back into the office where Mellie and Ms. Adams were at.
Knock Knock Knock
Olivia looked up from the paperwork on her desk as her attention turned to the sound of the knock.
"Olivia go home! I swear you are the workaholic of the century." Mellie laughed at her friend.
"I'm alright. I'm trying to look over this case some more since the trial is in another four days. And you know with Jake around, I'm not going to get shit done."Olivia chuckled looking back down at her papers
"Mhm, let me guess he drove you to work and he can't pick you up because he has something else to do." Olivia's head immediately show up as she looked at Mellie. That was a clear sign that Jake always had something to do and whatever it was Olivia always came second to that. She loved Jake and would want nothing more than to spend her life with him, but it really did crawl under her skin.
"Judging by your silence I see that I'm right, do you need a ride Olivia?" A question that left her mouth more often than not.
Olivia felt bad for putting her friend through this once again, so shook her head.
"I really don't min-"
"It's fine. I will catch a cab, I really need to finish this." Olivia interrupted.
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"Alright I'll see you tomorrow."
Olivia waved bye to her friend before returning back to her work.
Olivia stood outside the forty nine story building waiting for the cab, it was dark and she hated being alone especially at night time. She kind of felt stupid not taking that ride home from Mellie now.
Suddenly a police car pulled up not too far in front of her. She hesitated going near the car when she thought Jake said he wouldn't be able to pick her up, but she didn't think too much of it, she thought he probably had a change of plans. Whatever the reason she was happy that he was here; she couldn't wait another minute for that damned cab. She walked at a fast pace to the passenger side of the policeman vehicle.
She saw the door open up for her. When she got close, she paused before she got in. The driver was no Jake but she surely remembered his face.
"Hi." Fitz deeply smooth baritone voice left his mouth traveling up to Olivia's ears.
Jesus Christ! This man was even finer than the first time I saw him, Oh god, I love his voice.
"Hi." Olivia smiled.
"You remember me? Fitz. That guy that awkwardly left the restaurant Friday?"
"Of course I remember you, but how did you know I was here?"
"I didn't..don't think I'm stalking you or anything; I was about to drive past you until I got a clear glimpse, thank god this building has generator lights or else I would have never known you were there, do you need a ride? I don't want my man's fiancée out here all alone."
Olivia answer this gorgeous piece of specimen dummy! She yelled at herself in her head.
"Yes, I do need a ride thank you so much for offering." Olivia wasted no time hopping into the car with her briefcase, closing the door after she was comfortable. The car disappeared into the night's street.
"Where do you live?" Fitz asked sweetly, his eyes glancing at her quickly before returning back to the road.
"Evon Avenue." Olivia smiled.
"I know exactly where that is."
Olivia smiled as she turned her head to face his direction. This was a beautiful man that sat next to her. She was engaged and knew she shouldn't be thinking this way about any man but her own, but she just couldn't help it. Even though it was dark outside the city's streets were lit up by the bright full moon as well as the streetlights. She admired his Adonis build; one hand was on his lap and the other was on the steering wheel. His biceps looked perfectly muscular. The short-sleeved tight uniform shirt he was wearing hugged his arms and mid section flawlessly making him look even more delicious. His blue-grey eyes were piercing and unlike a pair of eyes she has ever witnessed before. And oh dear god, that hair! It was brown and smooth; luscious and wavy curls took over it. He had to be in his late forty's; Olivia was a sucker for older men.
Olivia was so lost in her thinking she didn't realize Fitz was trying to ask her a question.
"Ms. Pope?"
"I'm sorry; I'm just a little sleepy that's all. What did you ask me?"
Olivia! Pull it together.
Fitz knew she was checking him out, but he repeated himself. "I said so you're a lawyer right?"
AAAAAAH THAT SMILE!
"Yes, prosecutor more specifically, and I take it you're a cop?" Olivia asked.
"I take it you're right."
Olivia patted herself on the back in a joking manner.
"So where did you go to school?" Fitz asked desperately trying to get to know the very attractive lady next to him. It was like a dream come true, after all weekend of thinking about her, he got a chance to talk to actually talk to her. Alone.
"Harvard- undergrad and law, graduated top of my class, I received the highest score in the school on the bar." Olivia cockily said.
"Alright Ms. intelligent look at you." Fitz snapped his fingers twice trying to be funny causing Olivia to giggle out loud, but her face soon turned to all seriousness.
"That doesn't bother you?"
"What?" Fitz quickly glanced at her looking confused.
"You're not intimidated by my prestigious background?"
"Of course not, should I be?"
"No, you shouldn't but most men are, I tell men about my schooling and they just jump and run away. Hell your friend Jake was like that until I set him straight. I'm an intelligent woman yes, but I'm not stuck up or anything."
"Listen Ms. Pope-"
"Stop being so formal, I'm Olivia!"
"Olivia, it's a pride issue, believe it or not most men don't want to have a woman above their pay grade, and they don't want to seem subordinate or be placed in the shadows. Call it a double standard if you must, but that's just in a man's blood! To be completely honest though, the issue is not always, although sometimes, about a woman being more intelligent or making more money than a man. Now personally, I don't give a damn, I love an intelligent woman that can support herself. The problem is that some women tend to hold it over their heads, and that's stupid if you ask me.
Olivia listened to what he was saying and he made perfect sense. A man has never opened up to her or took the time to explain these things; she just that fast was starting to become so comfortable around him. She told him where to turn as they were not too far from her condo.
"I hear you, now enough about me- what about you?"
"What about me?"
"You always wanted to be a cop?" Olivia asked bluntly.
"No, not always I went to Yale for undergrad, and like you I graduated at the top of my class, but I decided I wanted to take a different approach. I went into the Navy as an officer and basically flew planes, it was just a passion I have always had ever since being a little kid. After about twenty-three years I retired. Law enforcement has always intrigued me, so this is how I got to wearing this uniform."
"Interesting…" Olivia said with much enthusiasm, there was so much more she wanted to know about him and immediately was saddened by the fact that they pulled up to her place so soon. Jake canceled their nightcap so she decided to have some fun of her own. She took a deep breath and gathered enough courage to ask.
"Do you want to stay over for awhile and drink some coffee; you know continue having this friendly conversation?"
Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes! Olivia begged him in her mind. Her heartbeat racing.
"Olivia, I would love too, but it is pretty late, I don't think Jake would approve this."
Fitz knew he didn't give two rat's asses about what Jake would think; he cursed himself as soon as the words left his mouth, he had to think of something else to say and fast!
"Actually now that I think about it, I don't see what the problem is, just two friends over coffee right?"
"That's all." Olivia nodded batting her eyelashes.
"Lead the way." Fitz instructed, getting out of his car.
Hallelujah, what a mighty god I serve. Olivia prayed, as she felt her stomach do happy flips. Fireworks exploded inside of her.
I want to take a moment to say thanks for all the positivity and encouragement I have received on my first fanfic! You guys are freaking wonderful, I'm not sure if having twelve reviews on the first chapter is all that, but it definitely is to me, and I like to thank my followers and favorite-ers as well. I feel so compelled to write more for you all in appreciation. And the next chapter shall be uploaded sometime tomorrow or late tonight. I hope you enjoyed this one.
Warning, It's going to get messy and the rating will change!Also any confusion you may have or information you feel is left out,- don't worry everything will be taken care of down the road.
On another note, in real life, I do love me a man in a uniform.
