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Chapter Ten: King of Anything

All of my life I've tried to make everybody happy

While I just hurt and hide waiting for someone

To tell me it's my turn to decide

Who cares if you disagree you are not me

Who made you king of anything

So you dare to tell me who to be

Who died and made you king of anything

- "King of Anything" Sara Bareilles

Karen Michelle Grant was born at 5:29am this morning and weighs 7 pounds and 29 ounces and is 32 inches long. The hopeful First Couple took a picture of their adorable family and uploaded it onto their blog, Grant For President.

She's a beautiful, healthy girl. The Grants look ecstatic. What a beautiful family.

The birth of America's Baby gave Grant a bump in the polls. He's going to give Sally Langston a run for her money in the bid for the primaries. He's also projected to show well against Reston in the general election.

November 2007

Olivia let out a long yawn, "I forgot about the sleepless nights." She murmured as she curled up next to Fitz in their bed at 2:30am a week after she and Karen had been discharged from the hospital.

Fitz pulled her close, "Next time it's my turn."

"If I let you, you'd take all the turns." She muttered. "I want to spend time with her too." She paused, "Even thought daylight hours are more appropriate."

"I can take,"

"If you finish that sentence I'm gonna smack you."

"I like it when you smack me." He murmured drowsily in her ear as he flipped them so she was underneath her, "Particularly when you smack my ass."

She laughed loudly, "Is that your way of trying to dirty talk me into sleeping with you?" She questioned, "Cause we're not allowed to do that yet."

He let out a huff, "I forgot."

"And you'll forget a few more times before the six weeks are up I'm sure." She pressed a tender kiss to the underside of his jaw. "I love you, sweet baby." She murmured.

"I love you too. We have the perfect family." He whispered. "Thank you for it."

"You gave it to me just as much as I gave it to you." She reminded him.

SCANDAL

"Primaries are in January, we need you back with us." Cyrus protested. "Particularly now, we need to make sure we stay ahead of that Bible thumping Puritan."

Olivia let out a long sigh, "Cy, I want to spend time with my babies. Jer's back in school and Karen was just born two weeks ago and I just don't want to be on the trail right now." She paused, "Karen's too young to take out there on that bus and I don't want Jerry to spend all his time with the Gladiators and Eleanor. I want him to spend time with me, too."

"Liv, I get that, I really do, but"

"No more buts Cyrus." Olivia and Cyrus both turned at the sound of Fitz's voice. "Olivia is taking time with the kids. You have me. I'm the candidate after all, so that's nothing to scoff at. We will be find handling this from a distance until December."

"But,"

"I said no more buts. In December, when Jerry is on Christmas break, the three of them will join us back on the road until he has to go back to school, but for now we will continue traveling until Thanksgiving. When Thanksgiving comes around I am coming back to DC where I will spend it with my beautiful family. We would love for you to be a part of that."

"You and James." Olivia amended.

"I'm not,"

"Whatever you say, you can invite him. We're going to invite everyone major in the campaign anyhow." She stated flatly, "We want to make sure everyone has a place to go to, a home to go to." She corrected.

"That's flattering, but I do not want anyone to think"

"That you're gay and we all know it?" Fitz rolled his eyes, "You act like we care, Cy. All we care about is that you're happy. We don't care if you like men or women or some combination of the two. You're part of the family."

Cyrus looked down at his loafers and blushed. The Grant family, well this part of the Grant family, really had welcomed him with open arms. Even with all of his cantankerous, mean, back alley, old ways. They cared for him, and contrary to what Big Jerry could think, he cared about them as more than political chess pieces for becoming one of the most powerful men in the country, in the world. "Thank you, Fitz, Liv, I'm just not ready."

Olivia reached out and grabbed his hand, "Whenever you're ready we're here. We'll always be here for you. You may want to let James know that you're not ready yet. He's young and wide-eyed, Cy, and he doesn't know exactly what's going on with you two. Just tell him where you stand. If he really cares about you he'll take it as fast or as slow as you need him to. I am inviting him to Thanksgiving though, he can't go home to his blood family so he's going to spend it with his campaign family."

"You're good people." Cyrus told them honestly, "Frustrating as fuck, but good people nonetheless."

"We love you too, Cyrus." Fitz laughed as he took Olivia's hand, "So everything's settled then?"

"Of course." Cyrus muttered, before slamming his way out of their home.

Olivia burst into laughter, "He is a piece of work."

"That's an understatement." Fitz held out his hand to her, "Come on, let's go meet Nana and steal our kids back. I was thinking the park? It's such nice weather out."

"How about I pack a picnic lunch to go with us? Eleanor shouldn't have fed Jer yet."

"Perfect." Fitz placed a kiss on her lips and watched as she swayed into the kitchen.

SCANDAL

"So we hit the road again tomorrow." Cyrus announced to the headquarters, "We're heading out west this time." Cyrus held up a stack of papers, "The itinerary until Thanksgiving."

"Thanksgiving, Liv and I want to invite everyone to our home for a Thanksgiving dinner. I understand not everyone can go home, so if you can't make it there we'd love to have you all at our home." Fitz began, "Now for the bad news, you all probably figured this was coming," he looked over at Olivia who was rocking back and forth as she held sleeping Karen in her arms, "Liv is not joining us on the trail until Jerry is out of school for Christmas Break." A chorus of negative responses followed that had Olivia blushing and looking down at her feet. She strove to make sure she knew all of the campaign workers and cultivated solid relationships, even friendships, with all of them. She was loved by them all. "I know, I'm disappointed too; however, we will have Abby and Stephen joining us for a little bit to help keep things moving and lend an extra hand where they can."

"Don't worry though," Olivia spoke up, "I'm not handing the reigns over, I'll be back just as soon as Karen's a few weeks older and Jerry's done for the holidays."

"Okay, back to work everyone. Don't forget to grab an itinerary." Cyrus waved them off, "That was horrible." He muttered.

"Aw, Cy, they took the news well." Fitz told him, "Besides, I'm supposed to be the most sad. She's my wife after all."

"She's Olivia Grant, sir, we all need her." Cyrus patted her arm and pressed a kiss to Karen's forehead before moving off to the side to find Abby.

"He loves us." Olivia cooed.

"He does. Let's hope he settles things with James." Fitz kissed her cheek and then Karen's head, "I'm going to grab those poll numbers from Abby."

SCANDAL

"Billy!" Billy Chambers turned wearily at the sound of Senator Sally Langston's voice. As the Chief of Staff for her campaign, he was used to hearing her Georgia accent screaming his name in frustration, particularly when it had to do with the Grant campaign.

"Yes, Sally."

"Have you seen the latest poll numbers?" She snapped. Of course he had. He made a distinct point of throwing them in the trash can. "He's up. And all of the talking heads say he's going to take the nomination. It is not in God's will that I lose that nomination, Billy." Sally snapped.

"You're not going to lose, ma'am." Billy assured her.

"Well at this rate I am. I hired you to fix this. Find out everything you can about Grant and his campaign staff. Find out everything and fix it before the primaries start in January." She stalked off leaving Billy with the numbers on the doomed campaign.

SCANDAL

XOXO

MAS