Once Fitz leaves, everyone is looking at Olivia stunned in silence, with their mouths to the ground. Even Olivia is stunned about what just happened. The silence lasts a couple minutes, but Abby being Abby is the first one to break the silence.
"What the hell just happened Liv?"
Olivia just looks at Abby and goes into her office closing the door behind her. She doesn't exactly know what to do. She knows she needs to go back out there and explain everything but that means that she has to explain all the late night phone calls, all the secret rendezvous', the whole affair. And in front of her parents too.
"This calls for a glass of wine," she thinks to herself. She gets up a goes a retrieves the bottle of wine she keeps at the office for cases that call for a bottle of the best.
Once she downs one glass, she pours herself another one and decides she should go back out there before they start coming up with situations and circumstances in front of her parents.
Before she goes back out she picks up her phone and sends a text to Fitz.
Olivia: "Thanks for this. Now I get to go explain to my team AND MY PARENTS why the President of The United States just kissed me AND asked me on a date."
Fitz: "No problem sweet baby (;"
Olivia: "I really hate you sometimes!"
Fitz: "Love you too!"
She smiles, puts her phone down, grabs the glass of wine, and heads back out there.
Everyone hears the door open and looks up from their thoughts, to see Olivia sitting down across from them with a glass of wine.
"Oh this better be good, you busted out the wine." Harrison says with a smirk on his face.
"HA HA very funny Harrison. But I know you guys all have questions, so ask away."
"Did he leave his wife for you?"
"Did she actually have a child with another man?"
"Are you guys a couple?"
Everyone started asking questions all at once. Olivia was starting to get overwhelmed by them all.
"SHUT UP!"
That got everyone's attention.
"Look, I understand that each of you have your own questions but I need you guys to take turns or this is going to go a lot worse than I had hoped for.
"Mom, dad, why don't you guys ask first?"
Eli was the first one to ask the question.
"Alright honey, how long have you guys been together? Couple or not."
"About a year, on and off."
Eli didn't really know what to say. All he could do was nod his head. Eli was a smart man, he was top of his class at Harvard, held the title of being the fourth richest man in the world, owned his own airline company: Pope's airlines. So he knew when he knew when he was being lied to, especially by his own daughter.
"Livia, I'm going to ask you one more time and I expect an honest answer. How. Long. Have. You. Been. Together."
She knew the minute that those words left her mouth that she wasn't going to fool anyone, especially her dad. So she took a deep breath and told him the truth.
"Five years, on and off."
"FIVE YEARS!" Her mother was furious.
Maya Pope did not do cheaters. She frowned upon them, however, she was raised never to judge a book by its cover and so therefore when she was in a situation where there was a cheater and/or a mistress she always heard them out. This however was her daughter, and she could not believe that she let a man one, cheat on his wife, and two, and be a mistress herself.
"Mama, let me explain. I-"
"No Olivia, you listen to me. I will hear what you have to say about all of this because it has sparked my interest. BUT I do not like the fact that you degraded yourself and gave yourself the title of being a MISTRESS. I also don't like the fact that you let this man willingly cheat on his WIFE!"
Right then everyone knew where Olivia got her spitfire personality. Olivia let her mother calm down a little before she proceeded.
"Mama, can I please talk now?"
"Yes, you may."
"Thank you. Now,
She took a sip of her wine and looked around the table so everyone knew she was talking to them.
"I would like to say that, yes technically I was considered the "mistress", however I am not."
She saw the confused looks on everyone's faces and proceeded.
"I am not his mistress and never was, because he refers to me as the love of his life. If you don't believe me ask Cyrus next time any of you see him. Or better yet, ask Fitz yourself."
"Can I ask a question?" Quinn asked.
Olivia nodded her response and let Quinn ask whatever she wanted to ask.
"If he refers to you as the love of his life, did he divorce his wife just to be with you?"
"Honestly, I don't know. We were on a break. I was seeing Jake at the time. I never asked him. I do think I was a factor in the divorce, however I don't think he actually divorced her because of me."
"You were one of the MAIN reasons. I always told you I would leave all of it behind for you, but you never let me. Mellie having a child with another man getting out was the perfect time to file for divorce."
Everyone turned to look at the door and noticed Fitz himself standing there along with a VERY unhappy Cyrus. Fitz walks over to where Olivia was a kissed her on the head and took a seat next to her.
"Hi."
"Hi."
"Why are you here?"
"I came beca-"
"Oh let me answer this one for you, sir. He is here because the love of his life is about to be asked so many questions about their love affair and he can't possibly let her do it by herself without him there to support her and answer any and all questions that you guys might have towards him, considering that he is one of the main people involved."
Cyrus mocked the way Fitz had told him in the Oval on why he was leaving, yet again to go to OPA.
"Very well Cy, you DO know how to listen. Now are you going to stand there, take a seat, or go BACK to the White House?"
"Honestly sir, I may have a few questions myself so I'd like to stay."
He took a seat next to Eli, considering they knew each other from college and were fairly good friends.
"Alright everyone, ask us anything you want."
"Why him Liv?"
Olivia looked at Fitz and knew exactly why him, "Because Abby, he is the love of my life. Weather I like to admit it or not he is. He makes my day better by just being in the same room as me or giving me that goofy grin that always makes me just want to kiss him no matter where we are, or the fact that when I look into his eyes I don't only see those beautiful blue eyes but I see our future. I can see myself marrying him and starting a family, I can see the children we are going to have running around the yard playing while we are drinking a glass of wine watching them play, I see the house we will raise our family in, I can see the porch we will sit on and drink coffee and watch our grandchildren run around our yard, I see the jam I will make for our family in the cabinet, I see us growing old together and dying in each other's arms, at the same time of course because if one of us dies the other one wouldn't be able to survive. Because I am the happiest I have EVER been when I am with him. That is why I will always chose Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III."
To say they were shocked to hear her profess her love for Fitz in a way that would make everybody jealous of what kind of love the two of them shared was an understatement. Even Cyrus who knew how much the two of them loved each other was shocked to hear it.
However Maya knew her daughter loved him, she just heard it loud and clear, but what she didn't know was how Fitz felt about her daughter.
"Alright Fitz, we all just heard how much Olivia loves you and why she will always love you. But why do you love my daughter? Why did you chose her to be with?"
"Well Mrs. Pope, all Olivia said is true. I see everything that she just stated. However, since Olivia walked into my life I have never been able to function right without her by my side.
"He isn't joking. Even Mellie would call Olivia to get her to come and see him so he could function as Fitz."
Olivia and Fitz chuckled at Cyrus' statement because of how true it was, but everyone else just had more questions about it all.
"Anyway as I was saying, I can't function without her. My every emotion is controlled by the look on her face, therefore when she is upset I am upset; when she is mad I am mad. I would move Heaven and Earth to be with your daughter Mr. and Mrs. Pope. She is the love of my life. I didn't know what love was supposed to be like for me until I met Olivia. Of course I grew up watching the love between my parents. So I did have an idea what love was but when you want something bad enough sometimes you settle and convince yourself of something that isn't true. I settled for Mellie because I thought I needed to get married and start on my path to becoming President. Then Olivia came into my life and turned it upside down. I fell in love with her from the moment my eyes locked with her beautiful brown eyes. I knew then that no matter what I had to be with her. I even went as far and filed for divorce then but Cyrus, Mellie, and Olivia would not let me. I know I should have waited to pursue your daughter until I was a single man, however I failed miserably at that. One day I want to marry her and make her my wife. I want her to have my children, and to start a family together. I want her to have everything she's ever wanted and nothing less. Livvie I told you I was a coward to marry Mellie and not wait for you to come into my life, I want you to know that I am never going to be a coward again. And I mean that Livvie."
By now Olivia, Abby, Quinn, and even Maya were in tears. Olivia's profession brought them all close to tears but Fitz' made the tears fall. Olivia kissed Fitz with everything she had. She just couldn't control it anymore. By the time Cyrus cleared his throat, she was already straddling him in the chair, grinding her hips to him.
"Alright you two. As touching as you guys love for one another is, I for one would love to hear how all of this happened. So will you two please enlighten my on this? And please tell me how Mellie knew about all of this." Harrison was getting impatient waiting for the untold story about how their affair started.
For the next two hours Fitz and Olivia told everyone how their affair started and everything in between. When they were done they decided to call it a night considering they had a big sex scandal with a congressmen to start on tomorrow bright and early.