Hello everyone! I hope you all had a fun and safe memorial weekend! I really wanted to update sometime over the weekend, but every time I attempted something came up. Thank you for all your reviews and I know most of you were upset with Fitz not defending Olivia. Anyway chapter 10 is here and I hope you all enjoy!

The next morning Fitz woke up at 6 a.m. his regular time on week days. He hit the snooze button on his alarm clock, turned over and reached out to hold Olivia. He was met with a cold blanket. Fitz sat up wondering why she didn't come to bed and that's when he remembered they got into an argument yet again. He laid back down being extremely tired from getting little sleep last night. He stared at the ceiling thinking about their argument. He knew he was wrong and felt bad for treating his wife the way he did. As much as he wanted to talk to her, it was still too early and he had to get ready for work.

Five minutes later, his alarm went off again and this time he got up. He took a quick shower and got dressed in one of his work suits. After getting ready, he made his way down the hallway and stopped in front of Nicholas's bedroom door. Fitz entered his room and watched his son peacefully sleep. He felt even worse for treating the mother of his child like crap. She gave him the greatest kid he could ever ask for and he constantly hurt her feelings. Fitz gave Nicholas a kiss on the forehead before leaving his room.

He stood outside the guest room door and rested his head against it. He reached for the door knob, but stopped. As much as he wanted to see her, he decided against it. Fitz backed away from the door and made his way down the stairs and into the kitchen. He made himself a cup of coffee to go before he left his house and headed to work.

"Hello Mr. Grant." Fitz assistant Lauren greeted him.

"Hello Lauren. How are you?" Fitz greeted her.

"I'm fine. Thank you for asking. Mr. Beene is in your office waiting for you and here is your schedule for today." She handed him a folder with his itinerary in it.

"Thank you Lauren." Fitz said as entered his office.

Cyrus was sitting in one of the chairs across from Fitz desk reading some papers, when he walked in.

"Cyrus you never seem to miss a beat." Fitz teased making his way over to his desk.

"Good morning to you too sir," Cyrus greeted completely ignoring his teasing, while continuing reading his papers.

Fitz sat down in his chair and propped his feet up on his desk, "So Cy. What brings you to my office this early in the day?"

"I wanted to talk to you about Sanders' offer. He's willing to give Grant Construction majority of the profits if we agree to merge with his company."

"I don't think you've been listening to me Cyrus. I have said more than once that my company will not be associated with Sanders in any way. My father kept a distance from him and I shall do the same. On top of that the deal is a bust anyway. Do you honestly believe that Sanders will give us majority of the profits? We both know if I agree to any deal of his, I'll be signing a death wish."

"With all due respect sir, Sanders comes with power and power is exactly what we need to keep this company running." Cyrus said trying to convince his boss to see a positive outlook in the deal.

Fitz wasn't having any of it, "We don't need power and the company is doing perfectly fine. In fact since I've taken over, I have improved all areas of this business. I own the largest and most successful business empire in the world right now. So power is the last thing needed, especially Sanders'."

"If you would just give him a cha-"Cyrus attempted to say, but was cut off.

"That's enough I don't want to hear any more about this. Now get out of my office." Fitz dismissed him as he sat up straight at his desk and proceeded to do work.

At about 1 p.m. it was time for lunch and Lauren came in Fitz office to inform him he had a visitor.

Lauren knocked on the door and waited for Fitz to respond. He called her in and she poked her head through the door.

"Sorry to disturb you sir, but you have a Christine Adams here to see you."

Fitz was actually happy to hear that Christine was at his office.

"Send her in Lauren." Fitz said standing up and walking around his desk, leaning on the front of it.

"Hey Fitz." Lauren said walking up to him and giving him a hug.

Fitz hugged her back, "Christine what are you doing here?"

"I came to take you to lunch. I know I should have called first, but I wanted to surprise you. What do you say?"

"I say lunch sounds good. Just give me a minute to grab my stuff." Fitz said packing his papers and folders in his briefcase and grabbing his jacket. Fitz also attempted to call Olivia to tell her his plans, but she never answered her phone.

Meanwhile

Olivia was spending her day shopping and walking around town with James, Ella, and Nicholas. They spent the morning at James' house, where they ate breakfast and talked while the kids played for a couple of hours. By around noon, they decided to go out into town and attempt to max out their husband's credit cards, buying every article of clothing the stores had to offer and a few toys for the kids.

While walking past various stores, the group passed a restaurant where Nicholas spotted his father and the woman from yesterday sitting at one of the tables.

"Mommy look Daddy." Nicholas said eagerly pointing to the window of the restaurant.

Olivia looked in the window and sure enough Fitz was sitting at one of the tables laughing up a storm with Christine, who had her rested on one of his biceps. James stood next to Olivia and watched Fitz with the mysterious woman as well. He could tell that Olivia was pissed at the sight in front of her.

"Do you know that woman?" James asked.

"Yes, that's Fitz ex- girlfriend." Olivia responded through clenched teeth.

"Mommy I want to go see Daddy." Nicholas said oblivious to the entire situation at hand.

Before Olivia could reply James cut in, "Liv do you think that is such good idea? I mean I can tell that you're upset and I don't think you going in there is very wise."

Olivia looked at him and gave him a reassuring smile, "James relax. I'm only going in there to take Nicholas to see his father and say hi."

"Okay Liv but if you need back up, I got you girl."

Olivia chuckled, "That's why I love you James."

All of them made their way inside of the restaurant, to where Fitz was sitting.

"Daddy!" Nicholas excitedly yelled while running towards Fitz.

Fitz turned around at his son's voice and all the blood from his face drained. He could see the fire coming from Olivia's and he knew if looks could kill, he would be dead right now.

"Hi Buddy. I missed seeing you this morning. How's your day going so far?" Fitz gave him a hug and a kiss on the forehead.

"Good Daddy, I'm having a good time playing with Ella." Nicholas said waving Ella over.

"Hi Uncle Fitz." Ella said walking up to him, standing next to Nicholas.

"Hello there my little El bear. It's been some time since I last seen you. Come here." Fitz opened his arms up, giving Ella a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

Olivia and James walked closer to the table and stood behind their children. Fitz gulped when he saw Olivia giving him a death glare.

"Hello Fitz, it's good to see you again. How are you doing?" James extended his hand out for Fitz to shake it.

Fitz shook his hand while responding, "Hey James. I'm doing fine, thanks for asking. How about you?"

"Oh I'm doing great, thank you." James said with a smile.

Fitz nodded and finally turned his attention to Olivia. "Hi Baby. You look beautiful today." Fitz said nervously. He gave her pleading eyes when they made eye contact. She ignored them and turned to James.

"James can you do me a favor, can you take Nicky home with you for the evening? I always keep a bag packed for him in my trunk."

"Of course Liv."

She handed him her car keys, "Thank you James."

"It's no problem at all, Nicholas is an angel. Nicky say bye to your Daddy so we can go home."

Nicholas gave his father a huge a hug, "Bye Daddy, I love you."

Fitz smiled as he returned the hug, "Bye Sport, I love you too."

Ella waved goodbye to Fitz, "Bye Uncle Fitz."

Fitz waved back, "Bye sweetheart."

After all the goodbyes were said and done with, James left the restaurant with Ella and Nicholas with him and made their way to the car. Back in the restaurant Olivia stood in front of the table, staring down at Fitz and Christine. Everything about that scene was frightening and awkward.

It was clear that Olivia didn't want to say anything and Fitz was too nervous to say anything, so Christine decided to speak up. "Hello Olivia, it's good to see you again. I want to apologize about yesterday. We got off to a bad start and I have been feeling bad ever since then."

Olivia smiled at Christine and said in the most sarcastic and sweetest voice, "You have some nerve trying to be nice to me while you're on a date with my husband."

"Livvie, Baby it's not what it looks like." Fitz said knowing what Olivia was thinking.

Olivia nodded her head. She picked up his ranch dressing covered salad and dumped it on his head. Then, she picked up his glass of scotch and poured it on his head too. Fitz sat there covered in his lunch. Although he had a clenched jaw, he was more embarrassed than mad.

Olivia looked at Christine, "He's all yours." With that she turned on her heels and strutted out of the restaurant.

Fitz sat in his chair for a brief minute before throwing a generous amount of money on the table and storming out of the building. He looked around for Olivia's car, but it was already gone, so he quickly rushed to his own and whipped out of the parking lot.

By the time Fitz got to the house, Olivia was already there. He ran inside the house checking all of downstairs and with no luck he made his way upstairs. Fitz immediately went to the master bedroom, where Olivia was packing her suitcases. She didn't pay attention to a single item she threw in her bags. Anything that looked like hers, she threw in her suitcase. He grabbed a towel from one of the drawers, doing his best to clean his lunch off of him.

"Livvie." Fitz said hoping to get her attention, but she ignored him and continued packing.

"Liv." Fitz said a little in a firmer tone. Olivia still ignored him and kept packing her bags.

"Damn it Olivia. Would you just stop and let me explain?" Fitz was now standing in her path, keeping her from going past him.

"Move Fitzgerald and I mean now." Olivia replied coldly, trying to push him out the way.

"No. I want to talk to you about what you saw back there."

"You don't have to explain I saw everything I needed to see. And I suggest you move now before I take away your chance of ever have kids again."

Fitz used one of his hands to cover his crotch. "Olivia I swear if you kick me in the balls all hell is going to break loose."

"Then move."

"No. Will you just give me a chance to explain?"

"I have given you more than enough chances Fitz. You have done nothing but disrespect and humiliate me. I can't anymore with you."

"Fine then… go. But you will not be taking my son with you." Fitz took a step to the side, so she could pass.

"Oh really? You know if we were to go to court I could automatically get full custody of him because of your infidelity right?"

"Here we go. We're back on that again."

"That's the catalyst to all of our problems."

"You have some nerve saying that. And there is no way in hell you're taking my son away from me. I mean you have to have a stable home and money to care for a child anyway."

"Honey I have money." Olivia said matter- of- factly.

"Correction I have money. All the money in your bank account belongs to me. You're credit cards I pay for. The building where your firm will be is mine. When you got with me, you barely had a penny to your name. Your father was struggling trying to get you through college. It was my money that got you

through college and paid off all your student loans. It was my hook ups that got your father a job at The Smithsonian. I am the reason why both you and your father are no longer struggling financially." Fitz countered.

Olivia rolled her eyes, "I never asked you for any of that."

"You didn't have to. I did that because I love you and what's mine is yours. Livvie please sit down and let me explain about what you saw." Fitz said in a defeated tone. He sat on the couch and patted the spot next to him so Olivia would sit down. She placed her bags on the floor and walked over to the couch. When Olivia sat down, she made sure to leave space in between them.

Fitz turned to face her, "I'm sorry for everything I said last night. You were right, I should have defended you. I just felt that I owed her something because she allowed me to be with the love of my life. But last night I had time to think and truth is I owe her nothing. She made the decision to let me go without a fight. She could have told you that her and I were still together at the time or try to sabotage our relationship in some way, but she didn't. And for that I'm grateful but I don't owe her. You're my wife and I owe it to you to be a faithful and supporting husband."

"Fitz I'm glad that you are apologizing and taking ownership for your mistake, but that still doesn't explain why you were having lunch with your ex. And why didn't you inform me?"

"If you would have answered your cell phone earlier, you would've known. Christine came by my office around 1 and invited me out for lunch. I agreed to go to lunch with her only to confront her about the way she treated you yesterday. I explained to her that her behavior was out of line and childish. Although, you not shaking her hand and giving her attitude was childish as well. Anyway I told her that today's lunch was the final time she would be seeing me. I know how uncomfortable you felt with her being around me because I felt the same exact with you and Jake. I would be a coward if I started talking to Christine after flipping shit about you talking to Jake." Fitz said while moving a little closer to Olivia.

Olivia noticed what he was doing and scooted closer to him. "I'm sorry too for just assuming, but I saw you two were laughing and I just jumped to conclusions."

Fitz wrapped an arm around her shoulders, "We were laughing because I was telling her about the time Nicholas peed on me when I was in the middle of changing his diaper." Olivia looked down ashamed of her actions from earlier. Fitz gently grabbed her chin and tilted her head up to look at him. "I don't blame you for feeling the way you did. I know that I have broken your trust, but I am doing everything in my power to regain it back completely."

Olivia rested her head on his shoulder, "I know, but we can't go on like this. It's obvious that we have insecurities that need to be faced."

"What do you prefer we should do?"

"I think we should go to counseling. How about you?"

"I will do anything if it means repairing our marriage."

Fitz and Olivia sat in the same spot and held each other for what seemed liked hours. They both knew that they had a long road of healing ahead of them, but were willing to give it their all if it meant being with the one they loved.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading! Please leave reviews on your thoughts. Next chapter Olivia and Fitz go to marriage counseling, that should be interesting. Do you think Fitz was right for having lunch with Christine? Was Olivia childish for dumping food on Fitz? Is their love really strong enough to save their marriage? Let me know what you think. I hope you enjoyed reading!