A/N: Merry Christmas guys! I'm so grateful for you guys! I hope y'all had a wonderful day! Sorry…..I'm a little buzzed on champagne lol….But I wanted to give you guys something for Christmas soooo…..MERRY CHRISTMAS!

When Vanessa got home Fitz and Olivia were sitting in the living watching a movie. She was hooping to sneak past them, but as she was heading upstairs Fitz voice rang out.

"Hey sport, can you come to the living room?" Vanessa sighed and entered the living room.

"What's up dad?"

"What the heck happened today? First of all why were you sitting the whole game? Second of all I'm pretty sure your mother and I did not teach you to act like that in the game!" Fitz was frustrated because he didn't know what going on with his daughter anymore.

"Woah, chill out! Why are you yelling at me?"

"Vanessa Grant that is not how you talk to your father! Apologize!"

"No! I won't because there was no reason for him to attack me like that!" Vanessa was taking out her frustrations on her parents and she knew it, but continued on.

"I am not trying to attack you sport, I just want to understand what's going on…." Fitz told his daughter.

"Well you can't so stop dad!"

"I can't stop when you clearly upset about this new coach and your behavior. What are you going to do when you go pro and there's a teammate or a rival who gets to you like Coach O'Ryan does? I know there's two sides of the story, so what could you do better to help your relationship with your coach….?"

"Seriously? Seriously? Your taking his side? Are you fucking kidding me?" Vanessa yelled.

"VANESSA ELIZABETH GRANT! I will take a lot of things that you throw at me, BUT I WILL NOT TOLERATE YOU CURSING AT ME!" Fitz was getting upset now. He doesn't recognize his daughter right now.

"Oh I'm so scared." Vanessa said not even faced.

"What's going on with you sport? This isn't like you…..I'm just trying to help honey….I hate seeing you like this….You are becoming this monster…." Fitz was about to continue when and correct himself when Vanessa cut him off.

"A MONSTER? A MONSTER? THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK I AM? I ACT UP A LITTLE BIT AND YOU THINK THAT'S WHAT I AM? Well dad I wasn't a drug addict who fucked different women left and right. AND my personal favorite overdosed on drugs! Now who's the real monster Fitz?" Every word that came out of Vanessa's mouth hit Fitz like bullets flying towards his heart.

Vanessa knew what she said to her really hurt her dad, but she was really upset and needed a scapegoat.

"I hate you…..I wish my real dad was here" She murmured and left the living room. Fitz was just frozen. Absolutely frozen and couldn't move. His past has come to haunt him. He heard Olivia talking to him but was not processing anything. In the back of his mind he always had that thought that he wasn't good enough to be a dad to Vaness and Izzy. Here it was the truth. How his daughter really felt. He'll always come second to Sully. Who was he kidding he's a terrible role model. His thoughts were getting the best of him and he felt like he couldn't breath. Fitz didn't even realize he was crying and that Olivia was hugging him like she would lose him.

These past years he tried so hard to be the best dad and guess it wasn't enough.

"Fitz….baby…..please…..Come back to me…..She didn't mean it…..You are the best dad our kids could ever ask for….Baby…." Olivia was desperately break Fitz out of his trance. In the next room Izzy and Jerry had heard everything and felt so bad for their dad. Granted Vanessa is going through a tough time, but that was no excuse to say those awful things to their dad. Izzy and Jerry looked at each other and went to their dad.

They both joined into the hug and squeezed hard to let Fitz know that they were there.

"We love you dad…..We are so lucky to have you as a dad….No matter what Nessa said she didn't mean it….I promise dad…." Fitz finally came out of his trance, but the damage was done. Fitz hugged them back and just nodded.

"I'll be in my office…." With that he put his hands in his pockets and went upstairs. Olivia felt absolutely terrible about what Vanessa said to her. She marched up to Vanessa's room and pounded on her door. Vanessa had her powerbeats on blast so she couldn't hear her. Olivia finally gave up and decided she would deal with her daughter later. Her behavior was unacceptable.

In his office Fitz just started to do work. He decided he going to fly out to Jordan tomorrow and scoop out the sight that they are going to be shooting in. Fitz decided that it was best if he removed himself from Vanessa's presence right now, because he doesn't want her to hate him. He called his team of directed and advisors to let them know they would all be traveling tomorrow. They were all shocked about the abruptness, but he is the boss so they all agreed. Fitz was so busy making all of the arrangements that he lost track of time.

When Fitz woke up it was 2am in the morning. He got up from his chair and got ready for bed. In the bedroom Olivia was asleep and Fitz smiled at the sight of her asleep. She was an angel. His angel. Fitz climbed into bed and pulled Olivia close to him and fell asleep. All night he tossed and turned all night. Around 7 in the morning Fitz got up and got ready to leave. About an hour later he was ready, all he needed was his passport, phone, wallet and a small bag. It was a Saturday so he knew his family wouldn't be up until around eleven. Honestly he just needed time for himself and work was the best option. He told Stephen what happened and Stephen was going to tag along on the scouting because he didn't want Fitz to do something he'd regret. He wrote Olivia a note about what he's up to and kissed her on the forehead. Then he leaned down and kissed her growing belly. After that Fitz headed to the boys room and kissed them goodbye.

Then he went to Izzy's room and kissed her on the forehead. Last was Vanessa's room. Fitz went to open the door and it was locked. So Fitz let out a breath and wrote her a note saying that he will always love her no matter what. He placed the note in front of her door and left the house. When Olivia woke up it was strange because Fitz wasn't by her side. Usually on the weekend she's the one who woke up first. Then she saw a note on her nightstand.

"Dear Livvie,

I have decided to go to Jordan to scout out where is best for us to shoot. I know this is last minute, but I just feel as if Vanessa needs a break from me. I don't want her to hate me….I can't have her hate me…..I'll be back in a week. I'll call you when we land. I love you so much and take care of our kids while I'm gone. Please don't be harsh on Vanessa, she was upset and I deserved it.

~Fitz"

Olivia decided to teach Vanessa a lesson. She went down and just started cooking breakfast. When the kids came down for breakfast they were surprised that their dad wasn't there.

"Money….money...wheerrr izz daddie (Mommy, mommy...where's daddy?)" Jesse asked in concerned voice. Vanessa shot up her head and realized her dad was missing.

"Daddy had an emergency come up from work and had to go tend to it baby…" Olivia smiled and kissed her son.

"Hoiii….Me miss daddie (oh, I miss daddy)"

"I know baby….I do too…." All throughout breakfast Olivia did not give Vanessa much attention and she knew why too. But Vanessa being the strubbon girl that she is didn't say anything. She knew she had to apologize to her dad, but he usually calls so she'll just apologize then. She also picked up that her mom was giving her the silent treatment. Throughout the week Olivia barely said anything to Vanessa and it was killing her. What was worse was that he dad had not called her.

Olivia's been talking to Fitz and he didn't sound too well and she knew Vanessa's comments hit him to the core, but he wants to talk to her personally. Olivia missed her husband terribly, but he was coming home in three days and that's all that mattered. It was a Tuesday morning the day Fitz was supposed to be flying back from Jordan with his team. He hasn't called in two days, but Fitz did say they were scouting a remote place so the connection was going to be terrible. So Olivia waited, she waited until it was Wednesday morning. By then she was panicking. He told her he'd be back on Tuesday and was no here. Abby couldn't get a hold of Stephen either. Olivia did not know what to say to their kids because she herself did not know what was happening. By the evening Olivia was straight out panicking. Abby came over to try to figure out what was happening. Soon Cyrus and Harrison was over as well. As they were making phone calls and gathering information Olivia's phone started to ring.

"Liv…..Something….terrible has...happened…." Olivia her Stephen say over the phone and she heard his raspy voice and the beeping of a heart monitor.

"I'm so sorry Liv….." Stephen cried and at that statement everything went dark for Olivia.