AN: I literally am doing nothing with my life so I'll probably be posting a lot within these next 2 weeks! The ideas keep coming to me so why not write them down! Thanks for reading and reviewing, guys :)
Chapter 3
It had been almost a month since Fitz and Liv had their encounter at the convention hall on the night of the election. After that, since the campaign was over, they hadn't seen each other at all. Fitz felt screwed. He jumped to conclusions about Liv and Jake, and he screwed it up. He let his jealousy cloud his judgment. Fitz spent the first two weeks beating himself up, how stupid can I be, he constantly thought to himself. And after he was done throwing himself a pity party, he realized that he needed to get Liv back. She said that she will always be in love with him. It was time for him to earn her back.
So after two weeks passed, he started calling her. He would call her every night, but she wouldn't answer. She still felt heartbroken and couldn't deal with him. She didn't know what he could have possibly wanted. After a week of calling her with no answer, he decided to step it up a notch. He ordered her flowers, the same flowers he brought her that night at the bar, and he would have brought them to her himself but he didn't want to intrude.
He sent the flowers, and they were sitting there in a beautiful arrangement when she got home from work. When he called that night, she finally answered.
"What Fitz."
"No hello?" Fitz tried joking with her.
"Hello… and.. Thank you for the flowers."
"Of course."
There was an awkward silence, she had no idea why he was calling, and he didn't know what to say. He had rehearsed what he would say to her, but now since the moment was finally here he didn't know how to get the words to leave his mouth.
"Fitz.. why are you calling?" Liv finally asked him after a few more moments of awkward silence.
"I just.. I needed to.. Well, I NEED to.. I heard what you said at the campaign hall, Liv. And I want you to know that-"
Olivia interrupted him, "I do not want to have this conversation over the phone."
"Well when can we talk then?"
"You have that dinner at the White House coming up this weekend. I wasn't going to come but Abby begged me, so I'll be there. We can talk then."
"Okay. That sounds perfect. I can't wait to see you. I've really missed you."
"See you then, Fitz." And with that, Olivia hung up her phone and started to allow herself to stress over what she was going to wear to the dinner.
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Olivia started getting dressed pretty early on the night of the dinner. She wanted to look flawless. She needed to look flawless. She did her hair in perfect loose curls and wore the most stunning, form-fitting black dress paired with the perfect pair of heels.
Abby arrived at her apartment 30 minutes before the dinner. They were going to go together, plus Fitz wanted Abby to give Olivia something before they left. When Liv opened the door she saw Abby holding one long-stemmed red rose and quirked an eyebrow at her, "Abby you know I love you, but not like that."
"Shut up," Abby laughed. "Someone had me bring this to you." And then she handed her the rose and then pulled a card out of her purse and handed that to her as well.
Olivia read the note:
I can't wait to see you tonight.
-Fitz
And even that one simple sentence sent her feelings into a whirlwind. She was mostly excited to see him, and talk about whatever he wanted to talk about on the phone the other night. But he made her so nervous… the anticipation was killing her.
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When Olivia and Abby walked into the ballroom, everyone's head turned and looked at them. They always did, because they are two gorgeous women, but as everyone started getting back to their conversations, Olivia still felt two eyes burning a hole into her face. And when she looked up, she saw Fitz already approaching her with the most precious little smile on his face.
When he reached her, Abby winked at Liv and left the two of them to be alone. Fitz didn't know if he should hug her or kiss her cheek so instead he just smiled at her again and said, "You look stunning."
Olivia replied, "You don't look so bad yourself." And that was an understatement. He looked dashing. Him in a tuxedo was her favorite view only second to him in one of his grey t-shirts.
After an awkward moment, they both opened their mouths to talk at the same time;
"So, when are-"
"When do you-"
Fitz smiled, "I was thinking we could talk after the dinner? If that's okay with you."
"That sounds perfect," Olivia smiled.
And right before it got awkward between the two of them again, it was announced that dinner was being served. Olivia walked to her seat and of course, Fitz was seated directly across from her.
The whole dinner, Olivia was trying to keep herself from feeling flustered. Fitz's baby blues were staring right into her and she felt nervous under his gaze. He was giving her those eyes. The eyes he gave her while he ran out the clock with her at her apartment. The eyes he gave her when she showed up on the Truman balcony. So yea… she was feeling flustered. And Fitz knew exactly what he was doing.
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Olivia swore she had never sat through a longer dinner in her life. She wanted it to be over so she could talk to Fitz. Right when she swore she couldn't take another minute, Fitz stood up and proposed a toast. Then the dinner was over and everyone got up and started talking in small groups again.
Fitz knew he gave himself the perfect opportunity to pull her away and finally say all of the things he's been waiting to say. He walked up behind her and smiled at the woman she was talking to while he placed his hand high enough on Liv's back to be decent, but low enough to be considered a little more than friendly.
"Can I steal Ms. Pope away for a few moments, Wendy?" Fitz charmingly asked.
After Wendy nodded, "of course!" Fitz nodded towards the door to signal to Liv to walk with him to the adjoining room. And she did. With no hesitation.
Once they were in the small room off to the side of the ballroom, Fitz just stared at Liv with those eyes again and didn't do anything until Olivia finally spoke, "What?"
"I've been waiting a month to say these things that I'm about to say to you."
Olivia just nodded and silently encouraged him to go on.
"Olivia, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry I assumed things were going on with you and Jake. I got jealous when you answered your phone that night, I assumed the worst. And then I saw you tying his tie, like you used to do for me, and I know that is such a stupid and petty thing for me to get upset over but I couldn't deal with it. And that makes me an idiot because you were there with me that night, and you were right, Livvie, we were coming back to each other. And right when we almost were back together I fucked it all up."
Fitz walked towards Olivia and took both of her small hands in one of his and rubbed the top of them with his other hand. Olivia was staring at him with those innocent doe eyes that he could look into forever and he continued, "I love you so much, Livvie. I am in love with you. And I want you. I want you to be mine. I realized that the one thing I want when I'm out of office is… you." He then nodded his head and peered into her eyes willing her to say something.
"Alright," was all she said when she finally replied.
"Alright? That's it?"
"Yep. Alright." And she gave him one of her 1000 watts smiles.
"Wow. Okay… well this was way easier than I thought it would be," and with that, he wrapped his arms around her body and pulled her in slowly to him so he could kiss her. Right as their lips were centimeters from touching, Liv put her fingers up to his mouth and said,
"Oh it's not going to be that easy, mister."
Fitz was silent, This woman!, he silently complained to himself.
"We are definitely not going to get back together just like that. We are going to date. Like normal people do. And we are going to develop a healthy relationship. This is our Last Chance, I'm not letting us jump right back into it and mess it up."
"So you want to pretend that we haven't been in love for over 8 years already. Take things slow?"
Olivia gave him a sly smile and rubbed his chest with one of her hands, "exactly. You're a smart man."
"Oh, I'm going to woo you so good, Olivia Pope. You said you want to want to date like normal people do? I am going to woo you so hard."
Olivia smiled at him through her eyelashes and continued to rub his chest while her other hand was beginning to rub one of the back of his thighs near his ass. He felt himself beginning to get turned on, and she knew exactly what she was doing. She moved into his body even more and then whispered in his ear, "oh… and one more thing."
He gulped and said quietly, "what's that?"
"No sex."
Fitz's eyes shot open from their glazed over half-open state and said, "excuse me?"
"No sex. We are starting fresh. And with us beginning to actually date, I wanted to let you know that I definitely will not be putting out before the third date."
"You are so evil."
Olivia reached up to his ear and flirtily whispered into it, "you know it will be worth it."
Fitz closed his eyes and replied, "Evil."
After a few moments of them embracing, Fitz furthered the conversation, "Well I have a little less than a month left in office and I would really like to be able to begin dating you before then. Today is Friday… I would like to take you to a movie tomorrow night if that's okay with you."
"Fitz… you know we can't go see a movie. Are you crazy?"
"Liv, let me handle things. Don't worry about anything. Everything will be okay. I'm wooing you... remember?" He finished with a wink and she felt her legs wanting to go weak.
"Okay."
"Alright, well, we should get going. The dinner has been over for a few minutes. I will call you when you get home and then we can work out the details of this date." He said the word 'date' with a flirty and playful tone.
"Alright, mister. I'll see you tomorrow. I hope you don't disappoint. First impressions are everything." She flirted back.
He decided to try his luck again, and he leaned in to kiss her goodbye. Once he got close, for a second time, Olivia interrupted and said, "I definitely don't kiss someone before the first date." And then patted his chest twice and turned and walked out of the room.
Fitz was over the moon.
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It was the next day and both of them were both more excited for their "first date" than they wished to admit. After Olivia got home, they talked on the phone for an hour after discussing that Fitz would be at her apartment at 6 to pick her up. It was so nice to just talk to each other, they missed those days.
It was 5:45 and Olivia still didn't know what to wear. Fitz told her to dress casually, that they are always in work clothes and they should relax and enjoy the night. She decided to go super casual and wore her hair in her typical loose curls but wore a pair of skimpy jean shorts… she wanted to make this no-sex period in their relationship as difficult as possible for him. With her shorts, she wore a flowy black tank top and black converse. He said casual, she told herself when she looked herself over in the mirror.
Fitz arrived exactly at 6 and knocked on the door twice and nervously waited for her to answer. There is no reason to be nervous, this is Liv, he tried convincing himself. But he knew there was a reason to be nervous. This was their Last Chance and everything needed to go perfectly. She opened the door and he immediately let his eyes roam her long and golden legs.
"Are you kidding me with those?" Fitz said pointing to her shorts.
"What? Should I change? You said casual. This is casual."
Fitz interrupted her rambling and stepped inside her apartment, "You look gorgeous, Livvie. Those shorts are…" and when he couldn't find the proper word he just said, "damn".
"Okay, well thank you." She slyly smiled up at him and then allowed herself to look over his body. Of course he was wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans. "I see you went with a grey t-shirt. You look great."
He replied, "Thanks, Liv. Are you ready to get going?"
"Yep," and with that, he grabbed her hand and walked her down to the car waiting to take them to the movies.
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Fitz and his agents found the least popular movie theater to close down for them, they didn't want to ruin anyone's Saturday night plans. Fitz also got the theater to show the Disney movie, Lilo and Stitch. He didn't know if she would wanna see any new movies that were out but he knew he couldn't go wrong with a disney classic. His tough and powerful Livvie loved an animated Disney movie, and he thought it was one of the cutest things. He also just got them Popcorn and Skittles for dinner. He would've loved to take her out to an expensive dinner, but that could wait. He knew how happy she would be just eating a huge tub of Popcorn with him along with both of their favorite candy. And he didn't forget the red wine, of course.
They went and found their seats, and Fitz told her he'd be right back. He went and got a picnic basket full of their popcorn, Skittles, and red wine. He sat down in the seat next to Liv and she smiled when she saw the contents of the basket, "Good man."
"I figured I couldn't go wrong with that."
"What movie are we watching."
"Lilo and Stitch."
"YES. Oh my god, two for two, mister," Olivia excitedly replied to his choice of movie.
At that, he leaned his head backwards against the chair and his mouth turned up into the cutest smile and he stared right into her eyes. She felt her face flush. This man knew her better than anyone else on Earth, and here he was being as perfect as ever. He leaned back and pulled the armrest that was down between them up and out of the way.
"Don't worry, no funny business, just trying to get more comfortable," Fitz defended himself to Olivia when he removed the barrier between the two of them.
"Oh, I completely understand," Olivia flirted her response back and leaned her back against his chest so basically her whole upper body was against his. Fitz didn't know where to put his hands. After he sat there like a brick for a few minutes, Liv giggled and grabbed one of his hands and wrapped his arm around her and placed his hand on her thigh. "You can touch me, silly."
Fitz blushed and said, "I just didn't know if…"
"Calm down, Fitz," Olivia slowly replied then turned her head around to look at him and cutely winked.
Right after that, the movie started and Liv reached down and grabbed the Popcorn and handed Fitz the skittles. They settled in, and neither of them could remember the last time they felt so comfortable.
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When the movie was a third of the way over, Olivia realized that she had been the only one drinking the wine and was feeling tipsy. Fitz would feed her a skittle every few minutes and was rubbing her leg very sensually.
"Oh my god… are you trying to get me drunk?!" Olivia turned her head that was resting on his chest to look at him, but was way too comfortable to get up and face him.
"No way, Livvie. I just wanted you to relax. I know how stressed out you get during the workweek." Fitz responded.
"Well thank you, I feel really great right now. I don't remember the last time I felt so content." Olivia let her body sink further into his. And Fitz continued rubbing her leg.
When the final 10 minutes of the movie started playing, and Olivia was definitely tipsy and drawing circles with her fingers on Fitz's inner thigh, Fitz thought he would try a little more. He had been doing great, not making any moves so far, with her body so warm against his and so much of her gorgeous skin showing. So he used the hand that wasn't rubbing her leg and moved all of her hair to one side of her neck and lowered his head to the side he just cleared. He inhaled her scent and hummed with content and then Olivia tilted her head to give him more access. He started pressing gentle kisses against her neck and then after a few minutes he started to give her open mouth kisses. He would rub his tongue against her neck and use slight suction, by this point Liv was definitely getting turned on.
The moment Fitz used a little bit of teeth, Olivia pushed his head back and said, "That's enough for you, mister."
"Are you serious, Livvie. You're going to let me get all revved up and then say 'that's enough'?"
"I told you not until the third date. It's not my fault you have terrible self control and don't know when to stop, or avoid getting yourself turned on."
"I've been turned on since you laid against me. This isn't fair. You're too beautiful."
Olivia sat up and put distance between the two of them.
Fitz stared at her and said, "what are you doing? Get back over here."
"Nope. I'm helping you out. Learn some self-control," she raised her eyebrows at him.
Uuuuuggggghhh, Fitz let out a groan.
"If it's any consolation, this is hard for me too," Liv told Fitz.
The movie was over and Fitz stood up and grabbed her hand and said, "Let's go, Livvie."
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They got back to her apartment and Fitz walked her back to her door. "Can I kiss you." Fitz so-very-cutely asked her.
She looked up at him through her eyelashes and nodded. Then, he lowered his head and gently pressed his lips against hers. Surprisingly, Olivia was the first one to offer her tongue to him and he very willingly tangled his tongue with hers. After kissing for a few moments, Fitz bit onto her bottom lip and slowly pulled away to end their kiss.
"Wow," Olivia said, "that felt really good." She was definitely feeling the wine she consumed at the movie.
"Yea, it did," Fitz smiled back at her. "Can I spend the night?" He bluntly asked her.
"I don't see the problem with that… as long as you don't try anything, mister."
"I won't!" He said a little too excitedly. After he realized how desperate he must have sounded, he lowered his voice and finished, "I just wanna hold you."
"That's fine with me," Liv finished with a kiss pressed to his cheek.
They decided they would go straight to bed and just watch some Netflix. Liv felt very tired and would probably be falling asleep pretty soon.
Fitz took off his jeans and shirt and climbed into bed wearing just his boxers. "I'm going to go change," Olivia told him and then immediately walked into her bathroom.
When she walked out of her bathroom, Fitz was scrolling through Netflix and decided on starting the series Breaking Bad. "Hey Liv, I heard this was a great series and I figured we could watch it togeth - seriously? That's what you're going to wear when you're not letting me have sex with you?"
Olivia was wearing a red satin slip and knew she looked good. She didn't want to tease him but she hated wearing anything constricting to bed. She ignored the second part of his statement and slid into bed next to him and said, "That sounds great, Fitz."
Fitz shook his head at her and pressed play. After the first episode, they were hooked and watched two more episodes before Olivia eventually fell asleep. Fitz felt tired too and turned off the TV and then spooned up behind her and nuzzled his face into her neck.
"Goodnight, sweet baby, I love you." Fitz sweetly said, even though he thought Olivia was asleep.
Surprisingly, Olivia squeezed his hand and mumbled her reply, "love you."
