A/N: Hi hi hi! I'm back. Thanks a million for your reviews and pm's! They mean so much to me, so thank you! So, like I said in the last chapter, therefore will be a time jump which we will see here.

I'm excited about where I want to take this story. I've noticed there are many Mellie haters. I'm sorry guys, I'm not a Mellie hater. I love Mellie and I love Bellamy Young so this story won't be negative on her part. There isn't much Mellie in this story but when you do see her, it won't be in a negative light. Mellie has decided that she would sign those papers. That drama is over. So with that being said, here's the next chapter.

It had been a month since Mellie decided to sign divorce papers. She had moved into Blair House, much to staffers delight, and surprisingly cooperated with everything amidst her. Cyrus was rather shocked with Mellie's attitude toward the situation but decided not to fight her on it. After all, it was helping him a great deal.

Lizzy was adjusting pretty well. Much to Olivia's surprise, she wasn't negatively affected by the seclusion that came with living in the White House. A lot of that had to do with her going over to Cyrus' every now and then to hang out with James and Ella.

Gerry and Karen were ready to leave the White House. The summer would be ending soon and they had to start school which meant they would have to go to their grandma's in California until Olivia and Fitz officially left.

The public still didn't know about Olivia and Fitz's relationship but White House staff was well aware. Luckily for them, everyone was more than happy for them.

Fitz, especially was enjoying Liv's close proximity to him. Knowing that he can walk down a hallway, hop on an elevator and have her in his arms or vice versa made him grin from ear to ear.

Olivia, too, wasted no time in taking advantage of their closeness. She often strolled down to the oval when she got tired of sitting up in the residence with Molly.

"Hello." She said in a sing song voice walking through the doors smiling.

Fitz looked up at her and matched her smile, "Hey, stranger." He said as he got up and moved around his desk toward her. He pulled her into him once he reached her and snaked his arms around her waist, "I missed you."

"I missed you too," Olivia responded as she fiddled with his lapel, "White House living is so boring." she said with a pout that caused Fitz to chuckle.

"Hmm, well, what can I do to fix that." He smirked inching closer to her face so that his breath tickled her skin.

Olivia met his lips in a tender kiss. She moved her hands down from his chest to his mid center in which he instinctively moaned into her mouth. He tried to deepen the kiss but Olivia pulled away before he could, completely wiggling out of his arms.

"What the heck was that?" Fitz said a little louder than intended, obviously annoyed.

"I'm not going to do the nasty with you in here, at this time." She shrugged

"And why the hell not?!"

Olivia chuckled at his frustration, "You're so touchy pre coffee. How about I pretend to go get you some and not come back." And with that she scurried out of the door giggling leaving Fitz too in love to stay upset.

He looked down at his pants and groaned, "This woman is going to be the death of me!

Cyrus and James' relationship too was doing exceedingly well. James often visited the White House, mainly to have lunch with Olivia but he would always stop by Cyrus' office to see him.

"So, our neighbors are having a little get together that they want us to attend. Then, next week, Ella has a ballet recital. I think it would be so fun if Lizzybug could come along. She'd love that, the both of them would. Of course, thanksgiving in Vermont with Olivia and Fitz-" James went on and on.

"Wait, thanksgiving in Vermont?" Cyrus asked

"Yeah, apparently it was Fitz' idea. He decided that he wanted everyone to spend Thanksgiving at their house since the presidency will be over." James explained

"Oh, that should be fun. I didn't know that."

James shrugged. Before he could respond, Olivia walked in, "How's my two favorite men?"

Cyrus chuckled, "Don't let Fitz hear you say that. He's grumpy today."

Olivia moved to sit on his desk, "Don't I know it." She rolled her eyes.

"Hmm, I don't know. I thought he seemed a lot happier since you moved in." James added.

"He does, but something definitely has him in a nasty mood today." Cyrus explained

"He's just stressed. He's worried about optics. How he's supposed to leave the White House. He doesn't want to leave with Mellie and I won't let him leave with me so he's been stressing."

"He has to leave with Mellie. That's the only way." James said.

"I keep telling him." Olivia shrugged. "You ready? I'm starving."

"Yeah, let's go." James responded getting up.

The pair linked arms as they prepared to leave, "Have fun." Cyrus says waving.

"Will do." James responded.

Once out the door James looked at Olivia, "You're glowing." James watched her intently, "Are you-"

"No." She firmly responded, "Just really happy." Olivia smiled thinking about Fitz.

"Well, despite his pissy attitude, he seems really happy too. But you need to handle that stress, girl! What're you doing?!" James exclaimed half jokingly.

"Don't worry about me honey. You need to worry about that one in there." Olivia said pointing in the direction of Cyrus' office.

"Oh, I handle mine." James said.

"Ahh, I don't know. Cyrus' hair is thinning."

James smirked, "Exactly."

Olivia looked at James confused at first but eventually caught on, "Oh my God, you're so disgusting."

They both broke out into a fit of giggles and made their way out to lunch.

Cyrus waltzed into Fitz' office in hopes to brighten his mood. He had found out that one of the interns, Michael Wallis, dad was in the Navy during Fitz' stint. Turns out, Fitz and his dad were really close friends however, they had lost contact after the navy so Fitz had never met any of his family.

"Sir, guess who I ran into!" Cyrus exclaimed walking into the oval with his hand on Michael's back.

Fitz looked up from his briefings and squinted his eyes, "Hi? I'm sorry, you are?"

Cyrus motioned for Michael to introduce himself and he did, "Michael Wallis, sir. It's a pleasure to meet you." He said extending his hand.

"The pleasure is mine." Fitz said taking the younger man's hand in his. Still not entirely understanding why Cyrus brought this man to meet him, Fitz raised his eyebrow at Cyrus.

Cyrus finally spoke up, "You remember your second stint in the navy?" Cyrus asked. Fitz nodded and he continued, "You had a friend, Robert Wallis. He dated that skimpy nurse."

"Okay?" Fitz said massaging his temples.

"They had a baby." Fitz' eyes shot up, "This is his son. Michael Wallis." Cyrus finished.

Fitz hadn't seen or heard from Robert in over twenty years. "Wow, hi! I'm sorry, how are you? Wow. Where's your dad? How is he? Your mom?" Fitz fired off questions. Fitz didn't notice the hint of sadness in the man's eye at the mention of his father.

"My dad? My dad died four years ago in a car accident." Michael said.

Fitz felt a wave of emotion wash over him as he learned about the death of his old friend. "Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. Your dad was good friend of mine. I'd go to hell and back for the man. I really admired him." Fitz said genuinely.

The young man nodded, "He admired you too, sir. When you won your first election he threw a party. I believe his exact words were 'That old devil is my commander in chief, I can't believe it!'" He said laughing at the end.

Fitz and Cyrus, too began to laugh. After their laughs subsided Fitz wanted to know, "Where is he buried? Is he in Arlington?"

"No, unfortunately my family didn't have the money. He's buried in my home town of Cleveland, Tennessee."

"Wow, I'm going to have to make it out there one of these days." Fitz said mostly to himself.

Michael nodded, "Well it was an honor getting to meet you, Mr. President."

"Likewise, son." Fitz said shaking the young man's hand once more.

Once Michael and Cyrus left the room, Fitz was left alone with his thoughts. He moved to an end table and poured himself a scotch. He then, walked over to his desk and plopped down on his chair with a sigh.

Olivia had been back in the residence for about and hour. She was just getting ready to clean up Lizzy's mess from lunch when Karen walked into the kitchen.

"Hey, Liv." Karen said as she plopped into a chair grabbing a chocolate chip cooking on her way.

Olivia smiled and turned to look at her, "Hey Kar, what's going on?"

"Not much really. Just coming I say hey to my two faves." She shrugged referring to Olivia and Liz. "Where is Liz by the way?" She wanted to know.

"Upstairs," Olivia responded, "Lizzy! Come down here for a minute."

As soon as Lizzy saw Karen her face lit up like a Christmas tree. It warmed Olivia's heart to see them bond. She often wondered why Karen never brought up the subject of having a new sibling but never really dwelled in it.

Karen's face mirrored Lizzy's as she opened her arms for a hug, "Hi Lizzy!"

"I want to show you something that I made at Uncle Cy's for daddy, I'll be right back." Lizzy scurried up the stairs to retrieve her artwork before Karen could respond.

"Daddy?" Karen furrowed her brows and looked at Olivia. Olivia was confused at Karen's confusion.

"What?" Olivia said.

"I didn't know you had a boyfriend? What about dad?" Olivia was entirely taken aback by the conversation that was starting.

"Oh, I get it, never mind. Why did you and her dad break up?" Karen continued when Olivia didn't respond.

"Karen, I-" Olivia started but couldn't get words out. "I-I'm not understanding?"

"Okay, I'm confused. Lizzy's dad? Are you dating him? I thought you and dad were a thing?" Karen said.

"We are a thing, I suppose. I am kind of dating Lizzy's dad. We have been broken up before but we are good now. You know this." Olivia said.

Karen just stared at Olivia, completely confused. Finally it registered and Olivia could see it in her face, Karen had no idea that Lizzy was in fact her sister.

"Oh my God, you didn't know." Before Karen could say anything Lizzy came rushing down the stairs. "Got it! Got it!" She exclaimed waving the paper in the air. Karen just looked at her at first as tears pooled her eyes. She eventually got up and left. Leaving Olivia in complete shock and Lizzy utterly confused.

Olivia walked slowly into the oval with her head down. Fitz was actually happy to see her considering he hadn't seen her since the morning and that encounter didn't go as well as he would have hoped.

However, he noticed that she didn't seem like herself. Her movements were slow and her face was furrowed as if she was in deep thought, "Liv?" He called out.

"Karen didn't know." She responded still not looking at him.

"What are you talking about?" He asked trying to move to embrace her but she backed away.

"Karen didn't know." She looked at him. "She didn't know about Lizzy. She didn't know you were Lizzy's father. She didn't know."

Fitz didn't know how to feel. He could've sworn Karen knew. There were hints that maybe she didn't know but he wasn't really prepared to tackle it head on. "I should talk to her."

Olivia nodded her head, "You should talk to her."

Karen just sat on her bed in her thoughts. She felt so conflicted. On one hand she was ecstatic that she had a sister. She adored Lizzy. If she was being honest with herself, in such a short time Lizzy has become her pride and joy. On the other hand, however, she didn't want to be pushed to the back burner when it came to her dad. She was so used to be his little girl and now he had another little girl and that bothered her. She didn't want to seem selfish or spoiled but she loved her dad and all her life he was only her dad.

She heard a knock on her door that brought her out of her thoughts. "Come in." She said.

When Fitz peeked his head through her door she smiled, "Hey."

"What's up, stranger?" He said as he moved to sit on the edge of her bed.

"Not much, just thinking about stuff."

"Stuff huh?"

"Yeah,"

"How are you feeling?" Fitz asked trying to shift the conversation to where he needed it to be. "About Lizzy?"

Karen rolled her eyes slightly which didn't go unnoticed by Fitz, "Hey c'mon don't be like that, you love Lizzy."

"I do, you're right. I don't know, I'm just being silly." She said

"You're not being silly. Talk to me." Fitz responded smiling

"I don't know, I just don't want to be forgotten I guess. I mean, mom already uses as pawns. I really don't want to lose you t-" Karen started as a lone tear escaped her eye.

"Stop right there." Fitz said moving closer to her and pulling her into him. He wiped the year off of her cheek and continued, "You're not losing me. I'm not going anywhere. I'm your dad. I always will be. Even when you're old and grey and wrinkly and nasty," Fitz said as he tickled her sides causing Karen to giggle. "Even when I'm dead and gone, I'll still be your dad. Having another daughter doesn't mean you stop being my little girl. Just because I love Lizzy so much doesn't mean I love you any less. Both of you are everything to me. Even your stinky brothers. I love all four of you. You have to remember that if you don't remember anything else. Okay?"

Karen looked at her dad and smiled, "Okay."

Fitz kissed her on her head as she rested her head against him, "But just between you and me, you're my favorite." He said playfully causing them both to laugh.

Gerry walked in on the moment and said, "Wow, I didn't know we were having a family reunion. I'm slightly offended." Fitz chuckled and Karen blurted out,

"Did you know Lizzy is our sister?"

"What?" Gerry said

"Lizzy. She's our sister." Karen repeated.

Gerry turned to look at his dad with an emotionless face that worried Fitz, "You and Olivia Pope have a baby together?" Gerry said in a tone that rubbed Fitz the wrong way. Gerry never called Liv by her first name let alone her whole name.

"Uh, y-yeah." Fitz said. He so desperately wanted his children to love each other and the thought of them not, terrified him.

Gerry just stared at his dad before finally breaking out a grin, "Right on!" He said giving his dad a high five. Fitz let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding and chuckled.

"Both of you are disgusting." Karen said and they all roared with laughter.

Mellie hated being in Blair House. Sure she agreed to the divorce but it was times like this that she wished she hadn't. She had rarely seen her kids. They were always with Olivia doing something, much to her displeasure. Teddy even enjoyed hanging out with Lizzy more than he enjoyed being with her. She wasn't necessarily lacking anything on an emotional level due to the fact that her kids didn't spend much time with her. However, her pride couldn't take not getting any attention.

The phone rang loudly causing Mellie to groan. She picked it up, "Hello."

"Melody!" Her mother practically yelled in a frantic voice.

"Mom!? What's wrong?" Mellie asked concerned.

"Did you hear?" Jake was found dead. Apparently it was a suicide."

Mellie was stunned silent. "What?"

"God, his mother is devastated and rightfully so. I couldn't even imagine!"

"Yeah, me neither." Mellie said still too shocked to pay full attention to her mother.

Carol caught on her to her daughters silence, "Please tell me you had nothing to do with this." When Mellie didn't respond she sighed, "Melody Sinclair you have got to stop! When will you learn? You play these games with people's lives and you don't even realize it!" Carol felt beyond guilty for raising the woman that was behind the killing of her friend's son.

"Mom." Mellie tried

"What did you do?" She said in a tone Mellie had never heard before. It terrified her to hear her mother sound so much like herself.

"I didn't want him to die. I just asked him to get Olivia's mind off of Fitz. I didn't think he would kidnap her or get himself killed." Mellie tried to explain.

"Great. Now, I gotta clean this up. I gotta go." And with that Carol was off the phone to trace and clean her daughter's steps.

Fitz strolled into Cyrus's office much to his surprise.

"You're in a better mood." Cyrus observed.

Fitz just strugged, "Do you think you can schedule me a press conference for 6:30 maybe?"

"Uh, I'm sure but why?" Cyrus inquired.

"I want to speak about Robert and I want his son by my side when I do it." Fitz said "I want his family to know that they have my condolences and my apologies for not asking about him sooner."

"I can do that, sir. It will be good for you image." Cyrus approved.

"This isn't about my image, this is about my friend. So, 6:30?" Fitz asked

"6:30." Cyrus confirmed. Fitz was definitely going to walk out of office leaving an exceptional legacy behind.

Karen, finally emerging from her room, searched the halls of the residence for Olivia to no avail. She slumped onto a nearby chair and thought. Where could she be? That's when it dawned her that she had looked everywhere but the master bedroom.

She knocked first but when she received no answer she entered herself. "Olivia? Lizzy?" She called out. She heard giggles and barking from the balcony and decided to walk out.

When she got onto the balcony she saw Olivia standing on the other end watching Lizzy and Molly run around the lawn with the biggest smile on her face. She immediately felt horrible for walking out on Lizzy earlier before she could show her the artwork.

"Hey," Karen said making her presence known.

Olivia turned to face her and offered her a warm smile, "Hi there."

Karen walked towards her and said, "I'm sorry for walking out earlier, I guess I just needed some time to process everything."

Olivia extended her hand out to Karen and she took it, "Don't mention it." They both watched Lizzy and Molly play as Karen rested into Olivia's embrace.

Soon, Lizzy noticed Karen and her mood shifted. She walked over to Karen in hopes that Karen would show some sort of affection. When Karen pulled her in for a big bear hug, Lizzy was seemingly happy again.

"You never got to show me your artwork." Karen said smiling.

"Wanna see it, still?" Lizzy responded with the brightest smile.

"Yeah, of course." As they were getting ready to walk back into the residence Molly rushed passed them prompting Olivia, Karen, and Lizzy to take off after her.

Somehow, Molly had gotten down to the west wing and by that time Gerry and Teddy had joined in on the action. When they reached the press room, Olivia was the only one who knew of the dangerous territory they were in. As Molly zipped through the doors of the press room, Olivia grabbed Teddy and Lizzy pulling them back before reporters caught glimpse of them or her.

Fitz stopped mid sentence in complete shock as Molly jumped on him almost knocking him over. Cyrus glared at Olivia as she tried to hold onto the two children and suppress her laugh at the same time. Karen and Gerry just looked at the crowd of reporters and back to their dad surrounded by secret service agents. Fitz looked over at Olivia and she mouthed 'sorry' to him causing him to chuckle.

Once everyone regained their composure Fitz tried to lighten the mood, "Well, the secret's out. My kids have a rather enthusiastic dog that likes to crash press briefings. Everyone meet, Molly." The crowd laughed as they all made funny noises and showered Molly with love. Molly flipped over on her belly and Fitz bent down and rubbed her causing every lady in the room to voice their "Awe's". Not only was the president the United States gorgeous, he had a soft spot.

Cyrus discreetly moved out of the room towards Olivia, "You almost got us in trouble." He said as Olivia let go of Teddy and Lizzy.

"In my defense, I didn't know she would take off like that. Besides, it seems like every reporter in their got a shot of the sweet family oriented president. You should be thanking me mister." Olivia and Cyrus both chuckled.

Fitz walked into his office and plopped into his chair. As he started to close his eyes his phone rang, "What?" He said, his voice full of irritation.

"Now, that's no way to talk to your mother is it?" Elizabeth Grant spoke waking Fitz up.

"Mom?"

"Hi, dear. Who is she?"

"What?"

"The woman you're seeing. I watched that press conference. Everyone else might've saw you staring in a corner at nothing. But I saw you staring in a corner at someone. Not to mention, Randolph called me damn near in tears because you kicked Mellie out. Good job on that by the way. Also, your face turned red as a tomato when you saw whoever she was. Would you like me to continue?"

"No ma'am." Fitz responded

"Good. Now, who is she?"

"Mom." Fitz said hoping to get off of subject.

"Fitzgerald, sweetheart. You forget I birthed you."

"Okay, you're right. There's someone."

"I know I'm right, you idiot! I want to know who she is, darling."

"Well, she's black." Fitz said bluntly.

"It's about damn time!" Elizabeth said shocking Fitz

"What?"

"Fitzgerald, I knew you were in love with Olivia Pope since the day you laid eyes on her. I was wondering what was taking you so long." She explained.

"Wow, Gerry wasn't kidding. He warned me about you." Fitz said

Elizabeth chuckled, "Your father warns everyone about me. After all, I'm the great Elizabeth Grant." She said proudly.

Fitz chuckled, "That you are." As he listened to his mother laugh, it dawned on him that she still didn't know about Lizzy. "I have a daughter." He blurted out.

"Um, well duh. Tell me something I don't know. I've known that for the past 13 years."

"No, another daughter."

"Fitzgerald, what are you talking about?"

"Olivia had a baby, she's mine."

"What?" She whispered

"I have a three year old daughter." Fitz said

"Oh my God,"

"You know, before Olivia and I called it quits, I would talk to her about you all the time. She knew how much you meant to me. She even named her after you. Elizabeth. Elizabeth Kennedy."

"Oh my God," Elizabeth said again, this time in a whisper.

"I know, it's amazing isn't it." Fitz said smiling

"Fitzgerald, marry that woman."

"Oh, momma I plan on it."

It was now going on 9:00 at night and Olivia was coming out of Teddy's room where he and Lizzy were playing. Her personal phone rang and she rushed to pick it up, "Hello."

"Molly is famous." Her brother Harrison said.

"I know, isn't it just great. We're gonna be rich." They both laughed

"So what's going on with you, brother?"

"Not much, sister. I started seeing this girl."

"You're kidding."

"No, seriously. Her name is Gloria. I really like her, if I'm honest with myself."

"Awe, Harry's in love." Olivia teased in a sing song voice.

"I didn't say all of that." He responded in an exaggerated tone.

"Ah, whatever." She laughed

"So tell me, how's everything on your side?" He inquired.

"Good, I guess. We're happy. Lizzy is happy. But man I had a scare today. Ka-" Olivia was interrupted when she heard her Aunt Verna yell something.

"Harry, I ain't playin' wit you now, get out here and fix this hea' faucet." Olivia chuckled at her aunt's accent. Olivia was from a small town in Louisiana and her family was full of southern, heavy accent carrying people.

"Who's dat you've on that phone der'?" Verna said snatching the phone out of his hand. "Who's dis?"

"Hello Auntie Verna." Olivia said smiling.

"Livia, chile is dat you?"

"Yes Auntie it's me." Olivia chuckled.

"Oh Lordy Jesus somebody get Harold. This chile must be sick or somethin'!"

"No, just checking in on y'all."

"Girl have you lost your cotton pickin' mind? You's checkin on me now? No, you's need to be checking on that presidente of yours. Mmm mmm, honey chile he's a sight to see." Verna said causing Olivia to laugh.

"Oh my goodness, Vern what're we gonna do with you?"

"Luh me chile, please I's need some lovin'. Das all." As she said that, Fitz walked into the room.

"Liv, do we have anymore of those chocolate chip cookies you guys made yesterday?" Fitz said not realizing Olivia was on the phone.

"Oh my stars, was that em'? Oh my God! !" Verna got louder and louder. Fitz put his hand over his mouth and Olivia put her hand over the voice piece of the telephone.

"I love you Auntie, so much but I have to go now." Olivia said hurriedly as she dropped the phone.

Olivia bent down to grab the phone and heard, "Chile! Olivia! Don't you dare hang this hea' phone up! Olivia! Presidente! Mr. President! Olivia! Fitzger-" Olivia hung up and just looked at the phone and then to Fitz.

They both doubled over in laughter after a while of silence. "Oh my God, she's so not gonna drop this."

Fitz still laughing gets out, "Presidente?"

"That's my auntie for you." Olivia shrugged as she and Fitz made their way to each other.

"Well, I can't wait to meet her." Fitz said wrapping his arms around her. "I can't wait to meet your entire family."

Olivia smiled, "I can't wait to meet yours."

Fitz kissed her on her nose and rested his head on hers and she leaned into him, "Soon, my love, we're at the finish line."

A/N: That's it! Thoughts? Do you guys like Aunt Verna? Yes, old lady Verna. Our two are progressing well. Next chapter we'll be out of the White House so that should be good. Right? Just tell me what you think. Please, I want to hear all of your opinions!

Love you guys lots :)