Flashback 3 months earlier

"Fitz you can't keep going like this."

"Mellie what do you want? Please do not act with me anymore, I don't have time. Did you sign the papers?" finally looking up at her.

"I'm not giving you a divorce."

"Alright I'll play your game, why not?"

She looks at him like he just grew two heads, "because I won't. This is just a phase you're going thru and the optics will tank you sweetie."

"I can't believe I wasted your time and mine in this thing we call a marriage. Have the papers on my desk in 24 hours."

"Fitz…"

"You better hurry times ticking," tapping his watch.

"Fitz!"

"You can leave."

Twenty four hours later the papers were delivered to his desk, signed, and once he saw them he told secret service to escort her out of his house and retract her duties as First Lady of the United States. Thru the tunnels to Blair house all she could think that it had something to do with Olivia Pope and without another thought she dials the number that she wasn't suppose to use.

"Charlie…"

"Yep," he say popping his lollipop out his mouth

"I need a favor."

"Depends on how much you're paying."

"It will be big especially what I am asking."

"Lets hear it prom queen."

"I need you to put a hit on someone and blame it on outsiders with no trace back to me."

"What we talking? Kidnapping asking for a ransom, kidnapping and a beating kill and dispose of the body?"

Thinking it over, "kidnapping and beating."

"Done. Name of the person?"

"Olivia Pope."

"Seriously? In that case I want half now and the rest after it's done."

"NO."

"Look she's high profile and I need insurance, so half now and rest later, if not no deal and I take this to someone who will pay me while you get carried away in handcuffs."

"Fine but get this done quickly."

In the Oval (sometime later)

"I have never seen someone this happy that their divorce will be finalized in a day."

"You don't know how good it feels to be free of something that was suffocating me daily," Fitz says grinning over the bottle of beer brought to his lips.

"Come on Gerald," Liv was the only one allowed and who called him that, "eighteen years of marriage and your just not looking back like that."

"Look I learned my faults and mistakes in the marriage. I take my part in the demise of it but people forget that I am human and I deserve to be happy also. President or not I am a man, human. I am allowed to fall out of love, get divorced and try to find out who is truly suppose to be my partner, soul mate, queen. Everyone likes to say no one is perfect but I am held at a perfect standard, which is wrong. I longed for that love that was unconditional, you know?"

"I know what you mean, that type of love that hurts but you know that the person is going to fight and be with you there by your side every step of the way."

They gaze at each other, "when there's so much passion and security you can do anything."

Laughing, "wow we sound like a couple of hopeless romantic, love sick teenagers."

"I resent that I'm all man but a heart of gold baby," sending her a wink and boyish smirk that she loved seeing on him.

"I'm not so sure about that," flirting right back at him.

"Is that a challenge Miss Pope?"

"Depends on how you are going to prove it."

She feels it and hopes he feels it too. They are crossing a line into dangerous territory. They haven't crossed this line since he asked her to go in her room but she asked him to go to his and come back in 10 minutes, which he did. Nothing happened but that was when it went from working friendship, to flirtatious friendship. Now they were leaping in to unmarked territory where flirting could have consequences.

Walking up to her from around his desk he looks her in the eye and gazes at her like she is his prey. Stopping directly in front of her, he unbuttons her jacket buttons. Her breath hitches and her heart starts beating at a faster place. In her head she knows she should stop him but she really doesn't want him to.

"Fitz…"

"Shhh I know. But I need you to know how I would show you."

He takes his hands away from the front of her jacket and glides them down to her waist then up her back and pulling her into a hug flush against him. He knew they had the cameras above and it looked like two friends giving a hug to the outside world but to him it was much more.

Leaning down to her ear he whispers, "do you feel it? This is what you have been doing to me since I laid eyes on you. I wanted you in every way possible but I wanted to do it right. I am a free man as of tomorrow. We have a friendship and I want to let you know I don't need to date other women because the woman I want is letting me hold her in my arms at the moment. The question is does she want me?"

Her knees go a little weak and the inside of her thigh grazes his hard erection.

"Oh god," slips out her lips.

"Shit," slips out of his from her rubbing against him.

Then she is hit with cold air and she opens her eyes and notices he left her personally space and she has to balance a hand on his desk to stay up straight. She looks at him and his face is flushed and she can tell he is trying to calm himself down but it's not working.

"Ummm I need to go."

In a strained voice, "Okay I'll see you later."

Picking up her jacket and purse before walking door she stops, "Fitz…"

"I know. I wouldn't want us to do anything before I am officially on paper divorced. One more day Livvie. I made a promise to myself that when the day came I will try us. Remember that night we got drunk and talked about if we were in another universe we would try, well that universe has become a reality for me. Do you want us, do you want me?"

Keeping her back to him, "yes."

Breathing a sigh of relief, "then it's settled, we try. One more day and I could do everything I wanted to do to you since I met you. But the biggest thing will being able to say three words with eight letters."

At that she turns around and he shoots her with 'I can get you pregnant from over here' smile

"You know you can't do that to a girl."

"I can, I will because you're my girl. No you're my woman."

"Yep I'm leaving on that note before I really get pregnant on that desk."

Sitting back in his chair and throwing his feet on the desk, "so you admit it we are going to have amazing sex."

Closing the door and dropping her hip a little, "Ha funny man you haven't even asked me out yet."

"Oh don't worry about mundane details Liv," he licks his lips.

She stumbles a little and he smirks raising an eyebrow at her fumble.

Opening the door back up and throwing over her shoulder, "just hush Gerald."

Present

That was thirteen days ago. Thirteen days since he has heard her voice, seen her face, or just felt her presence. It's been that long since he has slept, it was the last time he was able to take a breath and have air fill his lungs and heart.

A/N: Its two weeks after she woke up. So the chapter places us a month after her lasting meeting with Fitz. There will be less flashbacks just one or two here and then I will stay in the present from here on out. I just wanted details of what was happening to be shown. Hope your still with me and enjoy.