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The week goes by quickly and Saturday is already here. Arielle being the excited birthday girl she is gets up early and runs into her parent's bedroom where they are still sleeping. She jumps into their bed simultaneously waking them up. Fitz and Olivia immediately grab Arielle into their arms while placing dozens of kisses on her face and wishing her a happy birthday. The trio goes downstairs in their pajamas and Fitz makes them a huge breakfast consisting of heart shaped pancakes, scrambled eggs, French toast, and bacon with orange juice and milk.
After they finish eating breakfast, Fitz gives Arielle a bath and changes her into her birthday attire which is a Princess Anna from Frozen costume. Originally her party was supposed to be Sofia the First themed, but after watching Frozen she changed her mind and wanted a Frozen themed birthday party. Luckily for Olivia and Fitz at the time, they didn't buy any of the decorations yet, but they had to call all of the guests who were coming and inform them on the change in plans.
After Fitz is done getting Arielle ready, he gets himself dressed and joins Olivia downstairs to help put up decorations. Around noon Eli and Maya bring some dishes of food for the party and after attacking their granddaughter with kisses and hugs, they help Fitz and Olivia finish getting everything set up. A half hour later Abby, Stephen, and Zachary arrive with a Frozen themed birthday cake Olivia had asked them to pick up and a present for Arielle.
Since everything is set up for the party Fitz, Eli, and Stephen retreat to the garage, which Fitz turned into his own personal man cave. Fitz hands each of them a beer and turns on the tv. He flips through channels until he finds a football game to watch. Inside the kitchen Olivia, Maya, and Abby are sitting at the table gossiping about the latest news and going on rants about how annoying men can be.
"I don't know about Stephen and daddy but I can't complain about Fitz. He does whatever I ask him to without giving it a second thought and oh, he also has no problem satisfying my every need." Olivia states giving Abby and her mother a knowing smile.
"Yeah he may be able to satisfy your needs but little Fitzy isn't all that perfect. Sure he may do whatever you ask after you ask him to do it a million times. Am I right?" Abby asks both women.
"Ok maybe I do need to badger Fitz a few times before he does something I ask but nothing is little about him." Olivia says with a smirk on her face as she takes a sip from her water bottle.
"Whoa Liv!" Abby covers her ears with her hands.
Maya puts her hands up and shakes her head, "Ok that is a lot more than I needed to know about Fitz."
"Maya's right Liv, that's just too much information."
"Well Abby you did call Fitz little and I had to defend my man by telling you he's just the opposite."
"Ok ok I get now can we move on? I don't think I'll ever be able to look Fitz in the eye again." Abby gags trying to shake the thought out of her head.
"Yeah me either." Maya agrees.
Olivia laughs at both the women who have disgusted looks on their faces. They continue talking and laughing and having a good time. Around one o'clock guests start arriving to the house. The friends that Olivia made and kept in contact with from her mommy and me classes are there with their children as well as a few of Olivia's relatives such as her two older twin cousins Jessica and Jeffrey, her aunt and mother's older sister Janice, and her uncle Peter. A few of Fitz' friends and coworkers are in attendance to the party with their children this including Captain Cyrus Beene, his husband James, and their 3 year old daughter Ella.
Olivia being the good hostess she is sends all the males to the garage to hang out with Fitz and the other guys, knowing that they rather be watching the game and drinking beer. Instead of hanging out with the guys, James chooses to sit with the ladies in the kitchen and joins in on their conversation. Every 10 minutes Olivia gets up and check on the children, who are running around not really playing any game in particular.
One of Arielle's friends accidentally steps on her dress while chasing after her causing her to trip and smack into the wall body first. She immediately starts balling her eyes out from the mixture of pain and embarrassment. All of the adults in the kitchen come rushing into the room to see if it is their kid who is crying. When Olivia sees its Arielle, she instantly runs over to her and picks her up. She rubs Arielle's back to soothe her, something Olivia always does when she is upset. After a minute goes by, Olivia tells someone to get Fitz when Arielle shows no sign of calming down.
Seconds later Fitz is running into the room with the rest of the guys behind him. He goes over to Olivia and his upset daughter. Arielle cries even harder when she sees Fitz and reaches her arms out for him to hold her. Fitz takes Arielle from Olivia and sways her back and forth, another mechanism that helps calm her down when she's upset. He rubs her back and tells her everything's going to be fine.
"Where does it hurt?" Fitz quietly asks only audible enough for her to hear.
She points to her arm.
"Do you want me to kiss it and make it better?" He asks in the same soft and quiet voice.
Arielle nods her head and holds up her arm. Fitz gently grabs her arm and places kisses all over it. He then blows into her armpit which causes her to laugh and squeeze her arm shut from the tickling sensation.
Fitz pulls his head back, "Does your arm feel better?"
"Yes daddy. Thank you." She says giving him a hug.
Everyone cheers and Fitz holds a fist up in triumph.
"Way to go superman!" A male voice calls from the back of the crowd that formed in the living room.
"Hey if he has the body of superman and the signature superman curl then he must be superman!" Another voice calls out from the crowd.
"Thank you James!" Fitz says as he puts his hands on his hips and pokes out his chest, striking the superman pose.
Everyone laughs and heads back to either the garage or kitchen. Around three o'clock, Olivia calls everyone into the dining room where dinner is being served. In the dining room there are two tables, one for the adults and another for the kids. Since there are not enough chairs for each adult to sit in, most of the women sit on their significant other's lap or pulls empty chairs from the kid's table and find space to squeeze in.
At the end of dinner the doorbell rings. Olivia gets up to answer it, but Fitz tells her that he's got it since she is still eating and he's already done. He opens the door and standing on his doorstep is the two faces he's been praying all week would show up. His face lights up like a Christmas tree.
"Mom! Kayla! I can't believe you guys actually came! Get over here!" Fitz says excitedly with open arms.
Fitz hugs Susan first and tells her he's so happy to see her again before releasing her and turning to Kayla. He captures her in the biggest and tightest hug he possibly can without suffocating or hurting her. He holds her tight afraid of letting her go and the moment he's been waiting for, four 4 years go. Fitz tells her he missed her so much and reluctantly lets her go. He takes both of their coats off and hangs them in the closet with the rest of the guests' coats.
"Where should I put this?" Susan asks holding up a medium sized box neatly wrapped in pink wrapping paper.
"Oh I'll take it." Fitz says taking the box from her hands and putting it in the closet where the coats and other presents are.
"Would you guys like anything to eat or drink? Dinner just ended but there's plenty of food leftover if you would like any."
"That's ok Fitz; we already ate not too long ago." Susan declines politely.
"Fitz who's at the door?" Olivia asks walking to where Fitz, Susan, and Kayla were standing.
"Olivia!" Susan and Kayla elatedly squeal at the same time.
"Oh my god, Susan, Kayla!" Olivia says in surprise and excitement as she runs over to them, giving both of them hugs.
"It's so good to see you guys again and I'm so happy you could make it."
"It's good to see you too and you look absolutely stunning. Fitz how come you didn't tell me Liv has gotten even prettier than before, which I didn't think could have been possible?" Susan teasingly scolds him.
Fitz shrugs, "I guess it slipped my mind."
Olivia laughs and playfully smacks his arm.
"Susan, Kayla please come in and make yourselves at home while I go get the birthday girl." Olivia offers and walks them further into the house. She excuses herself and walks away in search of Arielle.
"To be honest mom I didn't think you were coming because when we spoke on the phone the other day you didn't give me an answer, so I just figured you weren't coming." Fitz says.
"I'm sorry about that but I wasn't sure if I was coming at the time and when I did decide to come, I wanted to surprise you and Liv." Susan replies.
Fitz chuckles, "Well congrats, you definitely succeeded in surprising us."
"Here we are." Olivia announces joining the three of them again with Arielle walking beside her this time.
"Mom, Kayla this is Arielle, your granddaughter and niece." Fitz states proudly while picking his daughter up.
He points to Susan, "Ari this is my mommy and your grandma Susan. Can you say hi?"
"Hi." Arielle greets her in a small shy voice.
"Hello sweetheart it's so nice to finally meet you. I have been waiting for this day for a very long time. Your daddy's told me so much about you." Susan says in her natural sweet and gentle voice.
Fitz then points to Kayla, "And this is my younger sister and your aunt Kayla."
"Hi Arielle it's nice to meet and has anyone ever told you that you are the most adorable little girl on the planet."
"Awe say thank you Ari." Olivia says.
"Thank you." Arielle replies a little more confidently becoming comfortable with her grandma and aunt's presence.
"You're welcome princess." Kayla says admiring her niece's costume.
"Hey that's what my mommy and daddy calls me." Arielle states in amazement.
"Yeah, well is it ok if I call you princess too?"
"Yes. Daddy can we eat cake and open presents now?"
Fitz looks at Olivia and she shakes her head no, "Um not right now princess, we still have a little more to do before we get there ok."
"Ok daddy." She turns back to Kayla. "Aunt Kayla will you play with me?"
Kayla heart swells at her niece calling 'Aunt Kayla' and asking if she will play with her.
"Of course I will." She responds happily and flattered.
Arielle squirms out of her father's arms and grabs Kayla's hand leading her into the living room, where she introduces all of her friends to her aunt Kayla and they play. Olivia, Fitz, and Susan all smile as they watch Arielle interact with Kayla. Whatever Kayla is saying to Arielle must be funny because she's laughing so hard and even request that Kayla pick her up.
"It looks like Arielle and Kayla are having a good time." Susan points out.
"Yeah I'm extremely happy that Arielle likes you and Kayla and already feels comfortable with having you both around." Fitz eagerly replies.
"Me too. Fitz, Liv you two are doing such an amazing job raising her, I'm so proud of you. She is such a little sweetheart."
Olivia laughs and wraps her arms around Fitz' waist, "Thank you Susan, you saying that means a lot to the both of us."
"You're welcome."
Olivia looks up at Fitz and smiles. He smiles back at her and gives her a kiss on the lips. When they pull apart, Arielle and Kayla are standing next to Susan watching them.
"Ari baby what's the matter?" Olivia asks.
"Mommy I want cake and my presents, can we please eat cake and open presents now?" Arielle kindly asks.
"Not yet baby, we have to wait for aunt Abby to return and then we will eat cake and open presents ok." Olivia responds.
"Ok. Aunt Kayla come on let's play." She says running into the living room with Kayla following closely behind.
"Come on mom I'll introduce you to everyone."
Fitz takes Susan's hand and takes her out to the garage where all the men are and introduces her to all of them except for Stephen and Eli who she already knows. She gives both Stephen and Eli hugs and thanks them for taking care of her son for the last 4 years. Fitz then takes her to the kitchen where all the females are. He lets Liv introduce his mom to all the ladies while he goes back to the garage with the rest of the guys.
Olivia introduces Susan to all of the females and James. Susan who already knows Maya gives her a huge hug and the two women catch up. 15 minutes later, Abby arrives back to the house with one of the presents that Olivia and Fitz bought for Arielle.
"Alright everyone I'm back." Abby announces walking in the kitchen with a white box and a red ribbon on the top of it, in her hands. "Here you go Liv." She hands Olivia the present.
Olivia hugs Abby and expresses her gratitude, "Thanks Abs I owe you one."
"It's no problem Liv, don't worry about it." Abby simply replies with a shrug.
Olivia calls everyone back into the dining room because it is cake time. Abby dims the light while Maya brings out the cake, placing it in the center of the dining table. Arielle sits in the middle of the table with the cake in front of her while Olivia and Fitz sit on either side of her. Fitz lights the big candle on the cake shaped like the number 3. Everyone sings happy birthday and claps when Arielle blows out the candles.
Fitz evenly cuts the cake in fair sized squares and places them on the small paper plates while Olivia hands the pieces of cake out to everyone. Once everyone finishes eating their slices of cake, they all move to the living room while Fitz grabs the presents out of the closet. Arielle sits in the center of the floor while everyone else is sitting or standing around her. Olivia hands Arielle her presents one by one and helps her open each of them while Fitz uses his phone to capture this moment on video.
The first present she opens is a Crayola widescreen light designer kit from Abby, Stephen, and Zachary. The second present she opens is a dolphin pillow pet from Cyrus, James, and Ella. Next Arielle opens the present that Janice, Peter, Jessica, and Jeffrey got for her, which is an easy bake oven. After that she opens Susan and Kayla's present, which is an iPad mini. Arielle then opens a huge box with a pink scooter in it, given to her by Eli and Maya. A pink helmet and pink elbow and knee pads are also in the box. Arielle moves on to open all of the rest of her presents before it's finally her parent's turn to give her, her present.
"Ari ready to open the present that daddy and I bought you?" Olivia enthusiastically asks her daughter with an excited smile on her face.
Arielle violently nods her head, "Yes please."
"Ok here you go." Olivia hands her the box with the red ribbon on the top of it.
Arielle removes the top of the box and in the box is a baby pug about two weeks old. Olivia takes the baby pug out of the box and gently places it on Arielle's lap. All of the guests 'awe' when they see the little pug snuggle into Arielle's body.
"What do you want to name him princess?" Fitz asks Arielle still videotaping her.
"I get to name him?!" Arielle asks with wide eyes full of astonishment.
"Of course sweetheart, he's your doggy." Fitz chuckles at her reaction.
"Hmmm I'm going to name him… Squishy!" She says gleefully.
"I love it that is the perfect name for a pug too." Olivia says petting Squishy and giving her daughter a kiss on the head.
"Ok Arielle mommy and I have one more surprise for you and it's upstairs in your bedroom. Aunt Kayla is going to cover your eyes and follow us up to your room now." Fitz says while pausing the video on his phone.
He and Olivia hurries up the stairs and head to Arielle's bedroom. They hold up a large sheet covering their second present for Arielle and wait patiently for everyone to enter her room.
"On the count of three open your eyes Ari ok." She nods her head. "Ok one… two… three!"
Fitz and Olivia drop the sheet just as Kayla uncovers Arielle's eyes to reveal a pink enchanted princess castle bunk loft bed. Arielle squeals with delight and runs over to her bed/castle. On one side of the bed are steps with built in drawers and on the other is a slide. Fitz, Olivia, and the rest of the guests watch in amusement as Arielle runs up the stairs to the bed, crawls on the top bunk bed and slides down the slide a couple of times before she calms down.
"So Ari I'm guessing you like your new castle then." Fitz chuckles out.
Arielle runs as fast as her little legs can go and flings herself into her daddy's awaiting arms.
"I love it daddy, thank you!" She responds and gives him a hug.
"You're welcome baby. I told you that I would get you a castle and it comes with comfortable beds. I might not be able to fit anywhere in or on it but I can assure you that mommy can." Fitz says looking at Olivia and flashing her a lopsided grin.
She shakes her heads and rolls her eyes trying to hide the smile that's forming on her face. Pretty soon after Arielle opens her presents, guests start to leave. Fitz and Olivia make sure to thank everyone as the walk out the door. Everyone is gone except for Olivia's parents and Fitz' mom and sister. Now Fitz and Olivia are standing in the doorway with his mom and Kayla who are about to leave, there's just one problem. In Kayla's arms is a sobbing Arielle who doesn't want her grandma or aunt to leave.
"It's ok Ari I promise you'll see me again." Kayla assures her trying to calm her down.
"I don't want you to go." She manages to get out through her sobs.
"I know Ari but we have to go now." Kayla tries to hand her niece back to Olivia, but the toddler tightens her arms around Kayla's neck.
"Maybe grandma Susan and aunt Kayla can come back over tomorrow and hang out it'll just be you, me, Grandma Susan and Maya, and aunt Kayla. We can have a girl's day out just the five us, how does that sound good?" Olivia asks looking at Susan for confirmation.
Susan nods her head and Arielle starts to calm down a bit.
"But in order for your grandma and aunt to come back, you have to let them go home so they can go to sleep and have energy for tomorrow." Olivia compromises.
Arielle loosens her arms from around Kayla's neck and looks her in the eye.
She sniffles and asks Kayla, "Do you promise to come back tomorrow?"
Kayla smiles and holds up her right hand, "I promise."
Arielle nods and gives Kayla a final hug for the night. Kayla hugs her back and kisses her red and wet cheeks from crying. Arielle then reaches out for her grandma.
"Are we all good now?" Susan softly asks rubbing her granddaughter's back.
"Yes."
"No not all us. What about me, what am I supposed to do tomorrow?" Fitz asks.
"I'm sure you'll think of something Ritz Bitz Fitz." Kayla teases with a smirk on her face.
Olivia and Susan laugh with Kayla and at Fitz.
"Really Ritz Bitz Fitz? How long did it take you to come up with that one?" Fitz fires back.
Kayla shrugs, "Just came up with it. Good huh?"
"Hell no it's corny, call me it again and I'll hang you from your underwear on a flag pole." He says both playfully and seriously.
"Fitz!" Both Susan and Olivia reprimand him for his language in front of Arielle and for threatening his little sister who he's supposed to protect not harm.
Fitz ignores them and goes back to his earlier thoughts, "How about I join you ladies tomorrow since I have nothing better to do."
Arielle turns to face her father and points a finger at him, "No daddy you're a boy, only girls allowed and you were mean to aunt Kayla." She says sternly and makes her best mad face at him.
"Wow you guys even got my own daughter to turn against me. I see how it is; I'm really feeling the love." He says sarcastically, which only made the girls laugh harder.
"I'm glad but it's getting late and we should really be heading home now. Arielle it was a pleasure meeting you sweetie and I'll see you tomorrow. I love you." Susan says as she places a soft kiss on Arielle's forehead and gives her hug before handing her over to Olivia.
"I love you too grandma." Arielle replies.
"Bye Liv." Kayla says as she gives Olivia a hug goodbye." And bye Fitzy bear!" She calls out as she runs out the door knowing Fitz will chase after her and Fitz does exactly that. He chases her around the cars a few times before she jumps into her mom's car and locks the door. Fitz calls a truce and gives her a proper hug and kiss goodbye. He then walks his mom to the car and gives her a hug and kiss and tells her to drive safe.
"Alright Fitz I'm going to take Ari upstairs and give her a bath before putting her to bed, can you help my parents clean up down here?"
"Yeah sure babe." Fitz says and goes into the living room first which is spotless and has everything in its place.
He then goes into the dining room where he sees Maya collecting paper plates and cups and stacking them at the end of the table.
"Hey Maya can I help you with anything?"
"Hey Fitz and yeah can you throw out this garbage for me?" She asks handing him the garbage pile.
"Of course." He takes the trash out of her hands.
"Thanks Fitz." Maya says now wiping the table off.
"Yep."
Fitz walks into the kitchen and disposes the garbage in his hands in the trash can. Eli is also in the kitchen putting away leftovers in the refrigerator.
"Hey Eli can I help you with anything in here?" Fitz asks walking over to the kitchen counter and leaning against it.
"Uh no I think everything's good in here." He replies looking around to make sure everything is clean and in place.
"Ok." Fitz says as he goes to walk out of the kitchen.
"Wait Fitz!" Eli calls out just as Fitz exits the kitchen.
Not a second later Fitz is walking back in, "Yes?" He asks going back to his spot at the counter and leans against it.
"I was wondering if you were busy tomorrow."
"Um no I'm not busy tomorrow. Why?"
"I was wondering if you would join me and my friends tomorrow at the field. Every Sunday we play a football game at the field and my team is in desperate need of a quarterback since our quarterback just broke his shoulder at work two days ago. I know that football is kind of a sore subject for you and you haven't played in years but the game tomorrow is super important and I wouldn't be asking you if I knew someone else who had an arm like yours. You see every other month or so my team and the other team make a bet for $500. If my team wins we get the money and if the other team wins they get the money. My team lost the last five times and it's honestly because we had a sucky quarterback who couldn't throw an accurate pass if his life depended on it." Eli says.
"So let me get this right every Sunday you and your guys play football and every other month you bet $500 that your team will beat the opposing team. You lost five times in a row because your quarterback is ass and now he's injured, so you want me to fill in for him." Fitz states.
"Yes but only for this game, afterwards I can find someone else to be the quarterback for my team." Eli assures him.
Fitz takes a couple of minutes to consider Eli's offers before giving his answer, "I'll do it. Just one thing aren't you guys sort of old to be playing football? I mean wouldn't it be unfair to have someone as young as me play?"
Eli laughs, "No we are not too old and there are guys your age who play on both my team and the other team, so you have nothing to worry about."
Fitz nods, "Ok just making sure."
"Thank you Fitz for doing this." Eli says sincerely and gives him a hug.
Fitz hugs him back, "Anytime."
"Did she go down easily?" Fitz asks when Olivia walks into the room.
"Yep as soon as her head hit the pillow she was out like a light." Olivia replies while stripping off all her clothes and undergarments slipping on her nightgown, completely oblivious to the set of eyes that are burning holes in the back of her body.
Olivia throws her clothes into the hamper and joins Fitz on the bed where he is lying on his back above the comforter. Fitz immediately pulls her on top of him causing her to burst out in laughter. Fitz lips instantly connect with Olivia's and he wastes no time plunging his tongue inside her mouth. His hands slide down her body and rest on her backside where he grips and squeezes it. Olivia lets out a soft moan which entices Fitz to squeeze her bottom harder. Wanting to have complete dominance over him, Olivia removes Fitz' hands from her ass and places them above his head. She breaks this kiss and Fitz groans.
"What are you doing?" Fitz asks breathlessly and confused.
"Well Ritz Bitz Fitz I'm on top but you are acting like the dominate one and I can't have that. I think I need to put you in your place." Olivia says with an edge to her tone.
"Olivia I don't allow my sister to call me that what in the hell makes you think that you can?" Fitz asks slightly annoyed at Olivia's shenanigans.
Olivia puts her finger to his lips silencing him, "Shhh Ritz Bitz Fitz is the slogan that has the name of my favorite snack in it." She says seductively as she slowly cascades down his body.
Fitz gulps hard and watches her intently as she licks a trail from his chest, to his stomach, and all the way down to the waistband of his boxers. She slowly peels his boxers off of his body and throws them somewhere behind her. She looks up at him with lust filled eyes and a devilish grin on her face. Fitz knows what's about to come next and before he can take a deep breath to calm himself-
"Fuck!" He violently throws his head back as Olivia fully takes his rock hard member in her mouth.
She releases him and says, "And it just so happens you're my favorite snack."
Author's Note: I was planning on going farther with this chapter, but I got tired so I'm ending it here. Anyway next chapter you get to see… well read… Fitz in football mode. Any thoughts on what kind of quarterback he is now compared to his high school days? I hope you enjoyed!