"Is that why you and daddy don't live together anymore?"
"Because Aunt Abby is pregnant?"
"Yeah."
"Well… that's part of it baby."
Olivia laid in bed with Rayna keeping her home from school and watching Cinderella movies with her all day. Rayna had kept quiet for hours until she decided she wanted to know what was going on with her parents.
"So it's Aunt Abby's fault?"
"It's all our faults, Ray. I made a mistake and so did daddy. So did Aunt Abby. And it changed things. We can't be a big happy family right now like we were before. We might not ever get that again, okay?"
"But I liked things the way they were! I don't like spending time with you then with daddy. I want you both to be spending time with us."
"Some things have to change, Rayna. You will get used to the idea of us being separated and then you won't even remember what it was like when we were together."
Fitz sat in the examination room with Abby waiting for the doctor to come in. With everything in him, he was silently praying that Abby was not going to have his baby. Things with Olivia would be so much better if Abby was having another man's child. He knew she would be able to forgive him with time if he only slept with Abby and not got her pregnant. She might not be able to forgive Abby but she would forgive him at some point.
"Ms. Whelan, how are you feeling today?" the doctor asked when he stepped in.
"Morning sickness is annoying. I hate throwing up all the time."
"My wife had it with all our kids. It's not pretty," the doctor mentioned.
"Doctor," Fitz started, "We need you to do a DNA test to find out if I am the father."
"First, let's find out how the baby is doing. How far along are you, Abby?"
"About eight weeks. That's when I took the pregnancy test and it was positive."
The doctor started up the ultrasound and prepped Abby's stomach with the gel. "Are you ready to see your baby?"
Abby smiled and nodded, excited about the first sight.
"Momma!" Mackenzie ran inside the apartment after Fitz brought her home from school and ran into the kitchen grabbing her mom's leg.
Olivia handed her a peanut butter cookie and kissed her cheek.
"How was school?"
"It was great, we played soccer in gym class today. Rayna missed a lot! I made four goals."
"Good job, Mac." Olivia high fived her and sent her into the living room to start her homework.
Fitz stood on the opposite side of the counter from her eating a cookie he stole from the plate.
"You're going to spoil your dinner," she told him.
"Mac gets a cookie and I don't?"
"To you 'a' is at least ten."
Fitz smirked, since she was right. "How's Rayna?"
"She'll be fine. She's in my bed right now watching the last of Cinderella. Rayna is really not happy about this whole Abby situation."
"We need to talk about that too."
Olivia saw the seriousness on his face of this situation. His stone expression was one that she knew all too well. This was going to be a very long night and a very unpleasant conversation.
Turning around she went to the fridge unable to look at him anymore.
"I need to get dinner started before Mackenzie's ballet tonight. You should go."
"Liv, I'll take you and the girls out to dinner before she has practice and when the girls go to bed we can discuss this. It honestly is not what you think."
"I think you slept with my best friend and got her pregnant. How is that not what I think?"
"I really believe we should have this conversation when the girls are asleep or somewhere else. This isn't something that they need to hear or worry about."
Olivia started to pull things out of the fridge but put them back. "I'm only agreeing to go to dinner with you and the girls because there's no food in the fridge. Got it?"
"Understood. It looks exactly like you had the fridge before we were married."
"I… I'm going to go get ready. Will you check on Mackenzie please?"
"Goodnight girls, sweet dreams," Fitz quietly told the twins when they were finally asleep.
Olivia sat on her bed with her full glass of wine waiting for Fitz to come in. She already changed into her pajamas and was comfortable there.
She handed him a glass of Scotch when he sat on the bed by her feet.
"You have some of this here?"
"For the really difficult days at work." She stayed quiet for a moment waiting for Fitz to start talking but he didn't. "Well, let's talk about this. What are you and Abby going to do? How are you going to handle this situation?"
"Abby and I aren't going to do anything."
"You honestly expect me to help you raise a baby that you had with my ex best friend?"
"No, not at all. Abby is not pregnant."
"She lost the baby?"
"Livie, Abby was never pregnant."
"She lied to me! She caused all of these problems between us because she wanted you! What the hell is wrong with her? How could she do this to me?"
"Abby took a home pregnancy test and it was positive. But the doctor did an ultrasound and saw that Abby was never pregnant. She didn't have a miscarriage because there never was any baby. The test was wrong."
"And she didn't go to a doctor?"
"Not at all."
"So Abby isn't pregnant. You didn't get her pregnant." Fitz shook his head no and waited for her to continue. Olivia put down her wine glass and came closer to Fitz and kissed him. Without thinking, Fitz kissed her back moving her to her back and climbing on top of her kissing Olivia like his life depended on it.
