Well folks good news this week. I've actually taken a writing holiday away from my apartment to just write for the next few days. So look out for a few chapters, but don't hold me to it. I do not own any Scandal characters.

Fitz was able to take Olivia home later that day. He had Lucas go back to Olivia's house to check her refrigerator and cabinet. By the looks of her, she was not taking good care of herself by how much weight she had lost. Lucas confirmed what Fitz suspected and found a local grocery store and stocked up the frig. He went back to the hospital to pick up Fitz and Liv. After they rolled her out front, Fitz picked her up and slid into the car with her on his lap. He had a heightened sense of protecting her. He had her wrapped up in her quilt as Lucas slowly drove them back to Olivia's home. Lucas had also changed the bedding on her bed, and cleaned up the little dishes that were left in the sink and took out the garbage. Olivia had three bedrooms and Lucas had brought in his and Fitz's bags. He was not sure if he should get a room at a hotel, but he wanted to be close if Fitz and Olivia needed anything. Olivia begged Fitz to help her take a shower to clean up a bit. She said it would make her feel a little better. She could barely hold herself up in the shower. So Fitz sat her on her bench in the shower, while he jumped in with his basketball short and cleaned her up. He dried her off, put her in a sleep shirt. He laid her down and was about to leave the room when she whined that she needed him to keep her warm. She started to shiver and her teeth were chattering.

"Fitz...I'm cold. Can you lay down with me. I need you to keep me warm." She whined.

"Sure fireball. Let me change into my sleep pants and t shirt."

"Noooo, Fitz. Leave your shirt off."

"OK, Livy. Just give me a minute." He smiled.

He got in bed with her and pulled her close as she snuggled as close as she could. She went to sleep right away. Every time Fitz tried to get up she would hold on to him tighter. So Fitz took out his laptop and phone and worked from the bed. Olivia slept for 12 hours.

As the doctor predicted, she got a lot worse before she started to feel better. It took three days before she was able to get out of bed. Huck would come by each day to see if she was OK. He would stay and have coffee with Lucas in order to get to know the people that Olivia would be living with. The crew came by also to meet Fitz and see how Liv was doing. Everyone except Abbey. She had been missing in action for a few days. Huck was trying to track her down.

On day four Olivia was getting a little annoyed by how much Fitz was hovering. She knew she scared him by being that sick, but she was not an invalid and she wasn't even showing yet. They were sitting out on her porch in her wicker chairs that were facing the beach.

"Fireball do you need anything else."

Olivia sucked her teeth.

"Fitz, I love you, but if you ask me if I need anything anymore I am going smother you in your sleep."

He lifted his hands in surrender and sat back and picked up his iPad to do some work."

Olivia huffed because she knew she was wrong, but she needed him to back off just a little.

She quietly said, "I'm sorry. I just feel out of sorts right now. I'm not used to someone being there for me Fitz. I've always taken care of myself."

Fitz leans over and grips her hand.

"Fireball your not going to be alone anymore. You have me and my baby."

She smirked.

"Your baby? How about our baby."

Fitz lit up. "Yes, our baby and me. Why were on the subject are you ready to tell me about your family? I notice that you've never talk about them."

Olivia lifted her quilt and pulled it closer so she could comfort herself. She looked out over the water for a while and stared for a while. She needed to tell him what no one knew about her, not even her team, except Huck. Fitz let her take her time before she spoke. He just waited.

"You remember that I told you that Huck and I are close and lived next to each other. He's more like a brother and when I turned 12 his family became my family. My mother developed cervical cancer when I turned 11. She fought as hard as she could, but ultimately she loss the battle. My father couldn't take watching my mother wasting away, so he started to pull away from us. Which in the long run was a blessing. My mother could see that I would be left alone when she was gone, so she arranged for Huck's parents to adopt me after she was gone. She manged to get my father to sign away his parental rights and he left the next day. He told her he couldn't do it anymore and walked away from us. He didn't even have the decency to say goodbye to me. My Mom brought me into her bed and told me that things were going to change, and part of that was that my father could not deal with what was about to happen. She allowed me to cry, then she told me that was going to be the last time I would cry over my father because he didn't deserve my pity or pain. She made me promise that I would find someone who supports and protects me and is willing to be there for the good and bad."

Tears rolled down her eyes. Fitz stood up and lifted her up and sat down in her chair and pulled her in his lap.

"I'm sorry I brought up so much pain for you, but I hope you know that I'm in this for the long haul. We are meant to be Fireball and if you being pregnant isn't proof enough for you. Then you need to know that I want to get married to you, but I will let you decide. Will we become one before the baby comes or after it's up to you. I will not leave you. The moment you came home with me, I dedicated my life to you."

"I love you so much Fitz. You scare the hell out of me with how much I love you already. Be patience with me. I think I'm starting to get baby brain."

They both laughed.

"And what exactly is baby brain fireball." He smirked

Still leaning on him.

"I looked it up. I'm going to be irritable, forget things, and sometimes irrational."

He chuckled.

"I'll make sure to take that into consideration when your being mean to me."

Olivia smiled. They both slipped back into silence as they watch the waves come in and out.

"I found him."

Fitz's brow crinkled. "Who did you find?"

"My father, sperm donor as I like to call him. He's remarried and he has two kids. He walked away from us and never had a second thought about me."

Ftiz hugged her tighter. "He's not a man or a father fireball. Your mother was right. He doesn't deserve your tears or pain. I want him to be a tale of what not to look for in a man. I think that is the lesson your mother was trying to convey to you."

"She wrote me letters."

"What kind of letters?" He whispered

"Milestone letters. My first everything or everything she could think of. Huck's parents were wonderful to me, I don't know if I could have survived if it wasn't for them. They made my tragedy a win for them. It was just me and Huck and they lavished love on both of us. I still miss my Mom. It's times like these when I want to tell her I met someone and she's going to be grandma." Tears still rolled down her cheeks.

"I know fireball. But I have a feeling she knows. She wouldn't leave you completely. She's here and we are going to be OK." He tightened his grip on her.

Tired of this sadness she said, "so what's for lunch? Peanut and I are starving."

Fitz raised his eyebrow. "Your using that already?"

"If it gets you up and into the kitchen, then yes." She smirked.

Fitz rolled his eyes got up and was about to put her down.

"No. Me and your baby want to watch you cook. Fitz smiled and carried her into the kitchen where they talked and he made her and baby lunch. The cloud lifted from their conversation.

It had been a week and a trip to the doctor told them that they were about six weeks along. They knew then and there that they made the baby the first time they made love. Olivia met with the last few of her clients, she had to sooth their concerns about her moving to Europe. The last bit was Abbey. She had gone underground and the word on the street was she was offering up her skills to the highest bidder. Olivia and Huck got together in the office to try and track her down. Abbey out all of them was probably the most talented outside of Huck and Olivia. They thought if they worked together they could track her down. She was a master of misdirection on the web. Her laptop could show she was in Russia, but she was sitting next to them in Seattle. So it was going to be a task to find her.

It took them about a day and a half to track her down to a warehouse upstate in Bellingham. She would choose a hippy community to exploit her skills to the underground. Fitz refused to let her or Huck go up there without security and him. He hired a few guys to make sure the warehouse was secure. Huck and Liv walked in to find her set up in the middle of the warehouse with 20 computer screens. An apartment set up to the side. It was obvious she hadn't been anywhere in a while.

"It took you long enough to find me. I left you plenty of clues."

"Sorry Abbs, but I was sick for a week. So do you want to tell me what your doing? Or what it will take to have you come back home?"

"You drop that chump outside and come back to the office."

"Not going to happen Abbs, but try again."

It had always been best to just go straight at Abbey with anything."

She smirked, "thought I'd try."

Olivia and Huck sat down at her desk and faced her.

"Is this who you want to be? Hanging out in dingy warehouses waiting for the feds to bust in?"

"I have to admit it's the most fun I've had in a while."

"If fun is what you want, then I have a proposition for you?"

"Lay it on me Liv."

"I've been in contact with NSA for a few months, and they wanted us to assist with tracking down malicious hackers that have put our military at risk during high level missions. They've actually lost a few people to these hackers. They need a digital tracker. I gave them your name. You would be on loan for a while, but I thought it would peek you interest in going head to head with some of the best hackers in the world. Can you handle that?"

Abbey smiled which was rare for her because even though she was wrong with the way she handled Liv's news, she was still looking out for her.

"Well Mama bear you never disappoint. I'm in, and for once in my life, I need to apologize to you. I was wrong to treat you this way over what you should do. Thanks for keeping me out of prison and looking out for me, I won't forget it."

And that was the end of it. Abbey was never one for words, but that was out of this world amazing. She had come a long way.

The ride back to Seattle was really peaceful and not mention beautiful. Liv had Lucas take the Chuckanut Drive back to the city. It was a scenic trail that skirted along the coast.

"That was intense." Fitz said.

"I know it seemed that way, but I've known Abbey for a long time. Boredom is her Achilles heel. She needs to have her adrenaline pumping at all times to function properly. It was going to be a matter of time before she got bored with us, so I made a few inquires to friends in the government space and they told me about this new program they were starting up."

"Wow fireball you really are one who anticipates well."

"You have to in this field. What is going to be the next hack, what will be the next Trojan. It's kind of artistic when you think about it, what kind of imagination you have to have to come up with code that can bend and adapt so it can infiltrate an organization."

"I never thought of it like that. We should talk more in terms of my company and where we can be more secure. Most of our navigational systems are digitized now. I don't want to imagine what could happen if someone got control of one of our ships."

"I'm way ahead of you. When I couldn't sleep I spend most of my night coming up with security code for your shipping group and headquarters."

"Fireball! That is possible the sweetest thing you could have done for me. When can we start testing it and what is your rate so we can pay your company?"

"Consider it a wedding present."

Fitz sat her up and looked her in the eyes in the back seat of the car.

"Does this mean that you've decided on when we are going to get married?"

"Yeah. I want us to get married here before we leave. My family is here and I want you to get your parents here to witness it. I know your Mom is not happy with us being together, but if my Mom was alive and missed our wedding she would be so hurt. You are her only child and she is about to be a grandma whether she likes it or not."

Fitz thought his heart was going to beat out of his chest he was so happy. He leaned over and kissed his soon to be wife and hugged her close.

"We can have a big reception in Sweden when we get back for my family and friends. It will sooth a few bruised ego's and we can get free stuff for our new home." They chuckled.

"Looks like we have a wedding to plan."

"Looks like it fireball."