Did you all see Scandal? SAAAAY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! Okay you will hear my thoughts after I finish this chapter, no you won't because I'm going to get pissed all over again. SR stays playing with my Olitz fixation and I'm tired of it. Moving forward, I again have updated later than I said I was, but honestly when I tell you I have been swamped with work, I am so not lying. From now on, I just won't make promises about timing, but just know I will get it done. LOL.

It was all or nothing, Jake couldn't do it anymore. The gun was pointed in the faces of two people he thought he could trust; his fiancée, well ex-fiancée Olivia, and his best friend, well ex-best friend Fitz. The two people he loved would go behind his back and show their passionate love for one another in uncompromising positions. This made his stomach twist and turn in the worst disgust his body would allow.

This is why Olivia stopped having sex with him, this is why she always turned him down or thought of some silly excuse as to why she couldn't participate in any sexual activities with him, she was too busy getting what she needed from a different man, a better man. Plus the ring he held in his vacant hand made it that much worse.

Olivia stood next to Fitz, trying to look as unmoved as possible which was definitely not an easy thing to do because the inside of her was an emotional catastrophe. She stared into the barrel of the gun that was only a few feet away from her face, any wrong move and it may be the end of her life. She glanced up at Fitz whom had his arms crossed, and he just stared at Jake, almost as if the largest smile would plaster over his mouth at any minute, she didn't understand how he could be so undeterred at a time like this- Oh yeah, he was a cop! He knew better.

Not only was he a cop, but he just had enough sense. What was Jake going to do? Shoot them? Sure no problem, kill them out of rage and then later lose everything and then think about his consequences while serving his life behind silver bars and talking to the outside via telephone and glass. In other words, he was doing this for a show, just to show them he was so much bigger than they were- according to Fitz's thinking.

"I don't believe this, Olivia how could you?" Jake said, he wasn't yelling but the disappointed tone in his voice made Olivia's skin crawl. Jake held the gun up inches higher, his index finger patiently resting on the trigger.

"Jake, let me.."

"Explain what!? There's nothing you can say to me, your oh's and ah's told me everything. I should have expected this outcome, that 'hoes to housewife' cliché still remains true to this day." Jake said heartlessly.

"Have you lost-"Fitz charged at Jake, only being stopped by Olivia's hold on his arm.

"Fitz, wait a minute let him finish."

"Yes, my man, let me finish since you didn't a couple of minutes ago. So Olivia tell me, was he better than me? Did he go down on you? How much did he ask you to pay him?"

Fitz charged at him again, his blood boiling at him reducing Olivia down to some toy, he was not going to let him disrespect the love of his life like that. He'd be damned if he does that. Olivia grabbed his arm once again; Fitz rolled his eyes and snatched his arm out of her embrace sighing heavily.

"Olivia are you okay? I don't understand why you are letting him get away with this lack of respect towards you." Fitz shouted.

"Fitz, let me handle this okay." Olivia said in a serious tone, Fitz threw his arms up and stepped back allowing her to take control.

Olivia walked up closer to Jake no longer affected by the gun's presence, she stared up to him, perhaps the nastiest and hardest stare he had ever seen from her, she let the frightened side of her disappear it was time for her to stand up for herself, she was through being the a timid little puppy when it came to him.

"If you would like me to answer your questions, I suggest you get that damn gun out of my face. We all know you aren't man enough to shoot anybody in here, and besides let's not forget about the drug habits Mr. Ballard. Did you forget that I'm an attorney? I could rake you over the coals, it's your choice." Olivia said in a harsh tone, Fitz stood behind amazed at her words it was about time, it didn't make sense for her to keep everything bottled up inside she has been doing that for way too long, and it needs to end- right here, right now.

Jake looked down at her, the smirk he had on his face had long vanished. His whole demeanor had changed he was no longer the woman in charge the one that stood in front of him was. He lowered the gun from her face and put it back into his pocket. When Olivia saw this she fixed her mouth to finally answer the smart questions he had asked earlier.

"You asked me; 'was he better than you?' you are absolutely correct. You asked me; 'did he go down on me?' Oh yes many times. You asked me, 'did he pay me?'-that depends, did you mean in terms of money or satisfaction? I will let you figure that one out."

Jake had never felt more disgusted and upset in his life; she was going too far right now.

"So you are proud of being a- you know what? I just have one question, and one question only, why? Why would you-"

"Becaaaauuuuuuse." Olivia dragged out, moving annoying strands out of her face to behind her ears as she walked even closer to Jake, her lips practically inches from his.

"Fitz is a man- a real man. He has satisfied me in ways you never could; he respects me, he's loyal to me, and he pays me a great deal of attention, another one of your lacking areas. He doesn't control me because he loves me, he doesn't belittle, and more importantly [Laughs] he makes me feel like a woman, oh God; he makes me feel so special."

Jake's jaw started clinching at her words that were lake daggers to his ego and to his soul, how dare she. Olivia didn't know what came over her she usually wasn't so blunt with her words especially when it came to private matters, it probably was from the wine she had earlier, who knows? All she knew was that it felt so good telling him the truth.

"So that's what you do Olivia? Because I'm not the perfect man you go and open your.."

"Yes! I go and open my legs for him, and each and every time I do that, hmmmmm, he reminds of why he's not you, and that's a very good thing."

"What an interesting monologue." Said a familiar voice as all three of them in the room turned to look at the entrance to see Mellie standing there. Olivia brought her hands up to her face and shook her head; did she hear every word she said?

Fitz knew he should have stopped Olivia when he had the chance, but the truth is out now.

"Mellie, I'm sorry." Olivia tried to reason with her friend; of course her sorry wasn't going to do much of any fixing.

"No, no sweetheart, don't apologize to me- I'm not mad at all." Mellie smiled at Olivia.

"How much did you hear?"

"I have heard enough that's all that matters." Mellie went towards Jake and rubbed his back letting him know everything was going to be okay. Jake faced her direction and grabbed her cheeks with his hands and plunged a heavily wet kiss onto her pouty lips, tasting them- devouring them. Mellie didn't pull away but her hands instinctively went to the back of his neck.

Olivia and Fitz simultaneously dropped their mouths at the scene. Olivia didn't know what to think or how to feel. Should she be mad that her best friend was with her man? But that would be hypocritical because she was doing the exact same thing. Or should she feel happy? That she shouldn't feel bad about the whole ordeal because they all got what they wanted at the end. Or should she feel wasted, all the heartache she caused herself thinking about the pain she could be causing Jake and Mellie and yet they were in the bed with each other. Instead Olivia just kept her mouth shut, because it was just time to. Scratch that, there was still more that needed to be said.

"Is this some sort of sick joke?" Olivia practically yelled interrupting the 'passionate' kiss between Mellie and Jake.

"Do you hear a laugh track in the background Ms. Pope?" Mellie answered with a slight attitude.

"Excuse me?" Olivia folded her arms taken aback by her tone of voice.

"Olivia baby girl, don't play the victim, you saw it coming." Mellie said while tussling her fingers through Jake's hair.

"Saw what coming? That you were sleeping with my fiancée?"

"Correction-Ex-fiancée, Olivia for you to be so intelligent you are the most naïve woman I have ever seen. Back during that Christmas party, are you honestly standing here, looking me in my eyes and saying that there was no indication that anything was going on between us, nothing?"

"Yes! I can honestly say that bec-"

"That's right! You were so busy paying attention to my boyfriend, how could you notice! Forgive me that was stupid on my part. But oh, what about those days when he doesn't call you, those days he hasn't been by to see you? We have all been off work for some time due to our holiday vacations, so where else could he have gone?"

"Wow." Olivia in disbelief shook her head.

"Wow? No what was 'wow' was that you guys ad left and then came back what twenty minutes later? I didn't know where you guys went but I'm sure it involved you getting naked because one- your dress was obviously inside out. I could have told you but I didn't want to embarrass you, you did a good job of doing that on your own."

"You are one vindictive bitch."

"Indeed I am, but I'm that vindictive bitch with your man."

That was the draw, Olivia could no longer stand there and be the mature one, nobody was to come in her territory and lash out of her, letting her know of her faults is one thing but to repeatedly insult her? That line of sanity for her was crossed and out of reaction she had to do it.

It was like a reflex, it happened without her thinking about it, she ran to Mellie cupping her face with her hand, the sudden weight of Olivia caused Mellie to tumble backwards as the two rolled around on the carpet. Olivia was on top and with one strong draw back of her right hand she swung it forward coming into contact with Mellie's face. Her face turned forcefully from the impact of her hand. Mellie grimaced as she tried to do the same thing with her hand, but the gentlemen were already trying to break the two women apart lifting them both off the ground.

"Olivia STOP! Let go of her hair!" Fitz yelled at Olivia who had a handful of her hair in her tightened Fitz, it was like those middle school fights and the administration is there to break them up but instead of doing that they repeatedly blow their whistle as if that would allow them to stop.

"Mellie come on now."

Finally, the two women who were just at each other's throat were separated. Jake holding Mellie, and obviously, Fitz holding Olivia.

"Jake, let me go! I am fine, should have expected this." Mellie said out of breath, trying her best to fix her hair that was completely ruined and static- like.

"She can't control herself and she defin-"

"Mellie that is enough! Just shut up! You have said more than enough, and I'm tired of it!" Fitz said holding Olivia while looking at Mellie, she obliged and didn't say a word. She instead just went looking for her heels that came off in the middle of the fight.

"I have to agree, the bickering was childish." Jake butted in the conversation.

"You have no right to enter this conversation Jake, this coming from a man who couldn't control his emotions and threatens us with a gun!" Fitz said bluntly.

"Did you honestly think I was going to use it though? I'm not stupid enough to lose my life for you."

"Don't talk to me about losing your life when you are only minutes and a heart attack away from a drug intervention."

"Says the one who backed me into a mirror the other day,"

Fitz would have continued the argument, he truly was but he felt Olivia's weight shift in his arms as if she was going to fall, but he caught her just in the nick of time. Her head slumped over and her eyes that were struggling to stay open finally shut. Fitz swore he was seeing things but wiggled her harder and harder and she wouldn't wake up.

"Olivia?...Olivia!" Fitz called out, but she was unresponsive. He scooped her in his arms and carried her over to her couch and laid her down. He listened to see if she was breathing and luckily she was but with a very faint pulse. Mellie and Jake looked along as they saw Fitz working with her. CPR was useless because she was breathing fine on her own; there was only one thing left to do. The sight of her being unconscious broke his heart, but he didn't dig too deep in his feelings she would be fine. He knew she was going to be fine.

"Somebody call an ambulance now!"

Fitz rushed into the emergency room yelling for help with Olivia in his arms, the medical staff nearby came rushing to his aid. There was no way in hell he was about to wait ten to fifteen minutes for a lighting up truck to appear, he worked in the system he needed her to be helped ASAP. He was thankful that they acknowledged him and didn't ignore him. A bed was rolled in within seconds; he placed her on the bed, and an oxygen pump was attached to her face. Her eyes were still closed, her body was limp, and her skin was less vibrant.

The qualities that were showing up from her were those of which Fitz hoped he would never have to see, he wasn't sure if he could take it. The staff rolled Olivia down the hallway to the OR and Fitz was right behind them, one of the nurses stopped him in his tracks, Fitz looked at her as if she had two heads.

"Get the hell out of my way, I have to be there with her!" Fitz snapped.

"Sir, listen to me she is going to be in the greatest care, she's going to be fine! Just have some patience we cannot let you beyond these boundaries. Sir have a seat in the waiting room and we will update you with any information as soon as we can." The nurse said calmly as possibly.

What was Fitz to do? What could he do? He smacked his teeth and walked over to the waiting room he sat down and buried his face in the palms of his hands, angry and frustrated with himself, he felt like everything was his fault. He should have backed off of her the day he found out she was married, but he couldn't something told him to be persistent, this was no ordinary woman, this was his woman. Her engagement ring to Jake be damned.

Speaking of which he called Jake on his cell phone wondering what was taken him so long to get here, him and Mellie. If they wanted to go elope on the 'prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire,' that's fine with him but they could have at least been here to show that they still cared, no matter how this played out she was still a human being with a heart.

The first two times he caught the voicemail and on the third time he finally answered. Not even waiting for Jake to greet him as soon as he heard the line pick up he spoke into the phone.

"Where the hell are you? Olivia is back there fighting for her life the least you could do is just show up and be there for her, Mellie as well- that's her friend!" Fitz answered through clenched teeth.

"Look Fitz, I'm not going all the way up there for them to tell me she is going to be fine and wait for them to fill her a prescription, besides it was her that said she had a man- a real man which I'm sure she was referring to you. So be that man she thinks you are. Tell me if she's okay though."

The line disconnected and his phone went back to its normal settings. He couldn't believe how cold Jake could be, the fact that he didn't care. It hurt him and he even felt the hurt for Olivia, she deserves so much better. However, karma will come back and bite him in the 'you know what' and it won't be anything pretty.

He allowed flashbacks to run through his mind from the day he first met her.

"…She is the one. She's intelligent, sexy, and takes care of her man."

Fitz started to laugh a little thinking back how funny Jake was and how into her he seemed.

"Hi."

"Hi."

"Wow what a gentleman"

The first words they have ever exchanged the minute he was taken away by her graceful beauty.

Now look at where they were, their friendship had basically died, but at least he had got what he wanted out of all of this, the love of his life.

"I was so worried about you."

After about two hours Olivia was fine, she was awake and well the doctor would be in the room shortly to discuss all of what happened.

"I'm fine, I'm just ready to get the hell out of this bed, a woman has things to do." Olivia bolstered.

"You need your rest." Fitz laughed at her certain energetic state, that morphine obviously doing her a nice trick.

"Rest is for the weak and feeble, but where are Jake and Mellie?"

Fitz's hart dropped as he tried to gather the right words to say.

"They uh.."

"Let me guess, they were no-shows?" Olivia had it all figured out.

"Olivia I'm sorry."

"Don't be Fitz, you can't control their repulsive actions, I just thought they would at least check on me and see if they were okay, if not a phone call would do plenty. If this were to happen to them I would be there in a heartbeat; no questions asked. But I guess reciprocity is just too fucking much to ask for."

Olivia's voice started to break; she sniffled as her eyes turned a bright red. The brewing of fresh tears stung her eyes as she blinked furiously determining not to let them fall, she didn't want Fitz to see her in such a weak state.

Fitz saw her failed attempt at trying to remain happy, he sat at the side of her bed and held her close, she buried her head into his burly chest, and she fell apart. The tears fell down her face like a waterfall, she has held so much in and it was time for her to go through some sort of cleanse. With each weeping sob Fitz held her closer and closer. He kiss the top of her head and through his actions let her know that it was okay to trust him with her emotions, it was okay to lean on him for support, he wasn't going anywhere.

Her sobs were enough to cause him to shed a few tears himself but he had to be strong, if not for him for her, for them.

"It's okay Olivia, let it out! You have been holding on to this pain for a long time."

Olivia was so appreciative to be in a presence of a man like Fitz, he was there. That's all she needed was someone who was going to be there through thick and thin, they didn't end up here through the 'correct way', but it didn't matter they were there now.

Olivia was not a crier it felt so weird and unfamiliar to her but she just couldn't stop, it seemed that with every tear drop the weight that pressed on her soul felt lighter and lighter. She noticed Fitz starting to rock her, and this calmed her down some she listened to his heartbeat familiarizing herself with its rhythm.

The doctor noticed the door was slightly opened and the couple shaving a private moment but he decided to do a light knock before he entered.

The knock caught their attention, Olivia quickly dried her eyes the best he could and Fitz stood up to make sure that the doctor could do what he needed to do.

"How are you doing Ms. Pope.?" The doctor asked coming over next to Olivia. She had a unique heavy Brazilian accent, but was as jovial is ever.

"I'm fine doctor, when can I go home? And when can I take these God awful wires off?"

"She's a feisty one I see, how do you put up with her?" She giggled as she looked at Fitz completely oblivious to their current situation.

"It takes a lot of patience but nothing too overwhelming." He shared a wink at Olivia.

The doctor used her stethoscope and blood pressure tools on her and she was finally normal, so there wasn't anything that was keeping her there.

"I have good news and bad news, tell me of which you would like to hear first?" The doctor asked, and Olivia couldn't help but laugh at her remarkable accent.

"I think I would like to hear the bad news first."

"Alrighty, bad news is you were here today because you were very dehydrated so dehydrated that your blood pressure level dropped significantly, and through our records the drop seemed unexpected because it seemed as if you had high blood pressure before."

Olivia was pretty sure that her blood pressure rose due to the earlier altercation, but she's never really had a problem with dehydration and blood pressure before she was usually healthy as possible.

"Okay but doctor where is the dehydration and low blood pressure coming from?"

"That's the good news."

"Huh?" Olivia truly didn't understand how having horrible conditions were good news. She looked at Fitz to see if he had any idea and he shrugged his shoulders indicating that he was just as clueless as she was.

"You're pregnant."

I apologize soooooo much for my long extended break but I should be definitely updating a little more frequently, I hope this was a good one.