Thanks for the reviews…the parents are despicable in this story….we'll be back in the present in about 2-3 chapters…


Olivia ran up the stairs to her bedroom, blinded by tears, her heart breaking, feeling like it been ripped out by Fitz himself and thrown against the wall then stomped on by him and Mellie, laughing and joking about how stupid she'd been to think he would want her.

Rowan heard her come in as he sat in his study, a glass of scotch in his hand, he tossed the scotch back as it burned down his throat. He listened to her cry herself to sleep after about an hour.

"What'd you want?" he hissed at her, knowing she was in the shadows watching him.

"Did it feel good to break her heart?" Maya asked him.

"Of course not, I'm human, but it was what needed to be done, she is better off without that boy," he looked at her with disgust.

"Olivia and I will be leaving first thing in the morning for the summer before she goes to college," Rowan said, pouring himself another scotch.

"What makes you think she'll go with you?" Maya challenged.

"Because the last time you spoke with her, you fought and I will tell her the truth about you and your affairs if you dare to challenge me on this," Rowan threatened, daring her to cross him.

"Fine, have it your way, but one day the truth will come out about what we've done and she will hate us," Maya said.

Rowan took a drink of his scotch and ignored Maya. She faded back into the shadows, he heard the door close on her way out.


Fitz woke up in the middle of the night, the last thing he remembered was having a celebratory drink of Scotch with his father. That had been just before Olivia was going to come over. He looked at his bedside clock, 1:34 a.m. Where had the time gone? He looked down at his body, he was only in his boxers.

He stood up and walked over to his window, he looked at the house next door, wondering why Olivia hadn't come over. Rubbing his head, he wondered if maybe she'd been busy with her dad and it had been too late. It still didn't explain why he had slept for so long, he felt spaced out.

Shaking it off, he crawled back into bed and fell asleep.


Next door, Olivia had woken up, still in the haze from a deep sleep, she rolled over and then she remembered.

Seeing him with her, that bitch laughing at her. No one made a fool out of Olivia Pope. She wanted to just disappear for the rest of the summer. Rolling back over, she fell into a broken sleep where nightmares of Fitz and Mellie laughing at her haunted her all night.


The next morning, Rowan knocked on Olivia's door early, just after seven. She opened the door, her eyes red rimmed and puffy. "I know you just graduated, but I was thinking we could go out of town for the summer, spend some time together, go visit Grandma Rose, she hasn't seen you in over a year and I know she'd love to see her Livvie," he waited, hoping she'd fall for it.

"That would be great, just let me take a shower and pack some clothes," she said.

"Just take a shower and get dressed, we'll pick up some breakfast on the way and buy you some new clothes once we get to Grandma Rose's," Rowan leaned down to kiss her forehead.

Olivia nodded and shut her door again. Once the shower was on, Rowan walked down to his wife's bedroom, knocking on the door, he opened the door.

"Make sure you write it and give it to him when he comes knocking," Rowan told Maya.

Nodding, Maya pursed her lips in the semblance of a smile.

"I will send you divorce papers, once I get settled at my mother's, you may keep the house. I never liked it anyway." Rowan nodded at her and shut the door.

Rowan packed some of his belongings, he heard a soft knock on his door, "I'm ready when you are, Daddy," he heard Olivia's soft voice through the door.

Rowan was zipping up his suitcase when he heard the doorbell at the front door. Before he could rush downstairs to answer it, he heard Olivia answer the door, "I have nothing to say to you," her tone was devoid of emotion.

"Liv, please what happened between the last time I saw you and now, we were so happy," Fitz looked at her, wondering what made her so emotionless to him.

"Please leave me alone, nothing would have worked between us, you're the golden boy and I'm the nerd, now just go," her eyes wouldn't meet us, she was like a robot, looking at a point somewhere beyond his shoulder.

He reached out to touch her chin, she shrunk back from him, "Leave me alone, you have no right to touch me, not after what you did." She slammed the door in his face. Turning, she stopped as she saw her mother standing there.

"What?" Olivia challenged her mother to say something.

"Nothing, would you like some eggs and toast before you and your father leave?" Maya walked into the kitchen.

"No." Olivia walked up the stairs and sat on her bed in her room. She packed a suitcase with some of her treasured belongings. She looked around her room and had a feeling she wouldn't be coming back.


Fitz walked back into his house, shocked at how Olivia had treated him, the last time they'd been together was yesterday morning. He ran through everything that had happened in his mind and could come up with nothing that would give reason for her to act like she was now.

He thought about it a bit longer and wondered if someone else had had something to do with it. Mellie.

He walked out the front door of his house and saw Olivia and her father getting into a Range Rover. He stopped and watched her for a minute as she answered something her father said to her, her shoulders were hunched and she seemed sad. He wished he knew what had made her look that way, what had broken her spirit.

She got into the passenger side and she looked over and saw him, he lifted a hand to wave at her and she looked right through him. Undaunted, he continued to stare at her, knowing that if he'd known that was the last time he'd see her for quite a while, he would have chased that vehicle until his lungs or feet gave out.

But he hadn't, so he just stood there like an idiot, watching her and the vehicle until it was gone.


He'd gone over to Mellie's but she had sworn up and down that she hadn't seen Olivia since she was at the hospital the night before last.

Getting back into his Jeep, he'd driven home, by now, it was late afternoon, and he didn't see any sign of the Range Rover. He walked over to Olivia's house and knocked on the front door.

An older version of Olivia opened the door and Fitz assumed this was her mother. "Is Olivia home?" he asked.

"She won't be coming back this summer, she asked me to give you this," handing him the note, she shut the door.

Fitz waited until he got back to his room, shut the door and opened the note.

Fitz,

The night we had was incredible, but it just wouldn't work between us, we're going to different colleges and we're at different places in our lives. I wish you all the best in your future.

Olivia

Fitz looked down at the note and didn't really think it sounded like Olivia, but maybe she did feel that way. He was going to Yale. He had no idea what school she was going to, but he was going to find out.

Grabbing his yearbook, he flipped through it, till he saw her grad picture, she'd been on the Yearbook Committee, he flipped to that page and saw a list of other people. He was going to find her again, come hell or high water.


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