There were so many things running through her mind as she finished playing the video over for what seemed like the hundredth time at her desk.
No one told her, not even a hint of what was going on.
She deserved to know what was happening to the only person that meant that much to her. The one person that she would do anything for, she had no idea was being locked away and people were probably hurting her. Abby felt helpless, but she knew that at least if she was told by someone before she would have been able to do more than she was able to in her current situation.
David lied to her face when she asked him, and Quinn and Huck would not even give her a hint as to what had happened to her. They said she was gone, but they could have at least told her that something was wrong, she deserved that after all the time she spent with them. They were her family at one point, even when she didn't get along with Quinn but now she was out in the dark for leaving the firm.
She deserved better, and she deserved to know what was happening with her best friend.
She wanted to scream at all of them, especially David. She knew that she had hurt him but she knew that the man she had loved at one point would have at least given her the courtesy to let her know what was happening to her friend, or at least the kind of danger she was in. She deserved some sort of explanation, whether or not it was vague.
Abby could not lose Liv. She kept losing the people around her that she cared about, and it was tearing her apart but the one person she turned to one she lost them, she could not lose.
She lost Stephen, Harrison, and even David. Losing David was her own doing, and she knew that but she didn't have any support system and most of it was not her fault. It wasn't fair that every person she cared about was disappearing from her life, she was falling apart.
Liv was the one constant thing that had been in her life since law school. She was the one person that Abby could always depend on, and she could not lose Olivia Pope from her life. That was the one person she could not accept losing, she needed her more than she needed anyone.
Olivia was her person, and she knew she needed to save her. There had to be a way for her to do it, she would not stop until she knew that Olivia was safe and sound and back where she belonged; with Abby.
Tears continued to spill down her cheeks as she threw down the stapler that was on her desk onto the ground. No one cared enough to tell her, no one thought that it would matter that Olivia was missing to Abby. They thought that she didn't care about her, even though Olivia was the one person she didn't just care about, she needed.
Olivia was her everything; her savior, her best friend, her confidant, the only person that she trusted with any secret. Even when she wasn't on the best terms with Olivia, she missed her and that was the part that angered her the most. After three months of not talking to her, she still had a hold on her that she could not let go of.
Wiping the tears from her eyes, Abby tried to compose herself before putting the flash drive in her purse and leaving the office. She could not sit around while Olivia was out there with someone hurting her, she knew that Liv would not be sitting around if the positions were reversed.
Abby left the White House and decided that it was time to pay OPA a visit. Her emotions were clouding her judgment so she figured that going to see David in that moment would not help her, with the anger she was feeling especially with them. With all that she had revealed to him, that she had trusted him with, she wished that he could have given her that same respect.
She took a taxi toward the familiar building and let herself into the place she used to consider a second home until Olivia left. It was too painful to come back to after she left, because all of the memories gave her the hope that she would come walking through those doors again, like she always did.
It was painful walking through them now, she wasn't there and there was little chance that she ever would be. A small tear fell down her cheek as she walked into the doors of Olivia Pope & Associates.
There she saw Quinn and Huck both staring intensely at the laptop that was being placed in front of them. They knew, and they didn't tell her either.
She took in a deep breath to calm herself as she made her way over to them. "Where is she? Do not lie to me." Abby had a dangerous look in her eye that threw daggers at the both of them, and dared them to lie to her. She'd had enough secrets and lies that were hidden from her, and she was not going to tolerate it anymore.
Huck and Quinn both gave each other a knowing look, and sighed. She'd came back there before and she asked where she was in a more composed manner. They knew that she knew that they were closer to knowing where she was than anyone else would. They were the most capable of figuring out where the person they all cared about would be, that's why Olivia hired them in the first place.
"I have known her longer than either of you, and I deserved to know about this before either of you, but I'm not wasting my breath on that. I need to find my best friend." Abby looked at them as she leaned over the table, she was across from them. "Before I went to the White House, you guys forget that she left us, you both left right after I did. I didn't come back because I didn't want her to leave us again, without a word."
Her eyes softened as she finished speaking, the anger for the two of them was simmering down as she realized that she was gone again and she didn't have the opportunity to tell Olivia that she was sorry, and why she left in the first place. "Before my work, relationships or anything, you know Olivia has always come first for me." Her eyes met Huck's and he nodded his head to her and then to Quinn.
The brunette was the one to speak as she looked at Abby, even with a small look of sympathy in her eyes. Quinn and Abby were nowhere near close, but she was realizing that she still cared about Olivia as much as they did, maybe even more. "She's going to be sold through an auction that we finally have access to." Quinn began to explain, deciding on how to explain the rest. "She's being sold to the highest bidder, it ends in 48 hours."
The look in Abby's eyes showed the loss of hope in being able to get her friend back. She knew that her best chances of finding Olivia were to stay with Quinn and Huck, because they were the most capable of tracking people down.
Tears pooled in her eyes at the realization that they didn't have money, and she knew that the government would not be able to access this auction or be able to pay them off. She wanted Olivia back more than anything in that moment, she needed her guidance in order to know what to do in this situation.
"We're going to try our hardest to get her back Abby." Quinn tried to reassure her, even though there was not much use in doing so.
Blinking back the tears in her eyes, Abby knew she had to focus in order to find her and she knew she would not be able to sleep until they had a solid plan to follow through on.
"I have money, Abby. The matter at hand is accessing it and changing the source of where the money is coming from. We can't let them know that we are anywhere near the President." Huck explained and some relief finally appeared on Abby's face at those words.
"Are you sure this is going to work? We can't just chance Olivia's life, this is not just a case; this is my best friend." Her words were vicious, but she needed them to know that she was serious about finding her, if they wouldn't be able to save her no one would.
"We'll have it done by the morning. Go home Abby, there's nothing you can do but wait. You won't be any help with no rest." Quinn told her gently, for once she was finally treating Abby like a person.
Abby knew that they were right, she was never good in learning anything over the basic technological aspects. What she knew is that she wouldn't be able to sleep until Olivia was back next to her, she needed her to be okay.
"Call me if there are any updates, at any time." Abby stared at them both with a serious look in her eye when she mentioned the last part. With the nods of both of their heads, she left the building and headed out of the building.
When she put her key into the door, she knew that this was the only place where she might get some rest. As she walked into the living room of Olivia's apartment, she noticed the wine stain on the couch, along with the scattered mess. She observed it all, trying to find anything but she knew that it was useless. Quinn and Huck, and probably even Jake must have already looked over every detail of the scene.
Her eyes watered as she noticed the broken lamp, Olivia was a fighter and she knew that it must have been a hell of a fight to get her out of there.
She went to the bedroom and looked around, the bed was nicely made and didn't seem to be touched. Abby looked around the room, it had been so long since she'd been in her friend's room after everything they'd been through. They kept drifting to other people, Olivia found comfort in either Jake or Fitz, and Abby found her comfort in David, but it wasn't the same as having Olivia being the one to tell her that things were going to be okay.
David saying that everything would be okay meant a lot less than Olivia, because she knew that with Olivia everything would be okay. She trusted her word more than anything, and she'd never been someone to let her down. David was someone who hid things from her, and even lied to her on a few occasions. She could always depend on Olivia for the truth, even if it was something that she didn't want to hear, at least she knew what was going to happen.
Abby sat down on the bed and removed her shoes, and laid back on the bed. The soft scent which always smelled like Olivia ran through her nostrils as she closed her eyes and concentrated on her breathing. The scent alone reminded her of the safety, and comfort that she always had when Olivia was around, in the hugs and words she shared with Abby. When Liv disappeared so did everything else that Abby found in the woman, no one could replace the feelings that she brought to her.
Memories of all the times that either of them had woken up screaming in the middle of the night, came back as she laid in the bed. Every time Olivia was able to calm her down when she was having a nightmare and she took those moments into consideration as she slowly drifted off to sleep.
She was awoken by a call around three in the morning, she didn't bother to look at the caller I.D. because she figured that it would either be Huck or Quinn. "Any news?" She asked, without even letting the person on the other line speak first.
"Abby." The person spoke gently, but it was enough to wake Abby up completely.
"Olivia?" She thought it was a dream so she needed confirmation from the voice again in order to reassure herself that she was still alive.
"I need your help." Olivia whispered, and Abby felt relief wash over her face at those words.
"Anything."