A/N: Annnnd we're back. This chapter was sort of hard to write I'll admit. I lost my muse I think : ( I hope you enjoy it though, as always Enjoy , Review, & Follow : )
Huck was alarmed to say the least when he saw Olivia walk in with Fitz. For the first time ever he was panicking. They were never supposed to see him at the same time. When James Novak hired him to gather information on Olivia he was told to be very discreet. Now he had to think of a way to explain why Fitz knew him as Diego instead of Huck.
He thought he had struck gold when he met Abby and Olivia one day as they were ordering coffee. They quickly formed a semblance of a friendship, which he planned to take full advantage of. They would sit and talk for an hour on some weekends. Two years in, he knew the nature of her relationship with Fitz and how it ended, as well as how she came to be a foster child. Then a year after they split, shortly after Fitz opened his own crisis management firm he jumped at the opportunity to get close to him as well. He'd take whatever he could get when it came to information on Olivia. All he had to do was form a bond with Fitz and get him to open up about the heartbreak somehow.
Olivia and Abby never knew the nature of his real job, no one did, but they knew enough to know that it was top secret. That fact is the only thing that kept Olivia from speaking her mind to Fitz. But she needed to know what was going on with Huck. Without stopping to think, she sent him a reply: Ok, when?
Huck was relieved when she replied. He fully expected her to ignore him or worse, tell Fitz that he wasn't who he said he was. He typed a quick reply: One Hour, Coffee spot.
She didn't know how she could convince Fitz to let her out of his sight. Whatever he knew surrounding her safety was enough to keep him glued to her hip the past few days. She had to admit, it was kind of annoying at times but she was quickly learning not to fight him on things like this and to trust him. Since she was trying to trust him she figured the least he could do was to try and trust her as well.
"Fitz, do you think you can drop me off at that coffee shop near your house? I'm not trying to run, promise. I just wanted to do something that I usually do. I know you said we aren't normal but… I don't know. It's somewhat of a ritual for me whenever I have free time and since I have a lot of it now I figured—"
Surprisingly he agreed. "I can sit outside. I don't want you to feel like I'm holding you against your will so if you occasionally need a little space to breathe then that's fine. Just tell me. We have to be able to trust each other right?"
"Well technically you sitting outside isn't exactly trust but I'll take it," she said happily.
"Hey, baby steps," he laughed. She just didn't seem to understand that she brought out his very protective side. He couldn't help himself when it came to her sometimes.
She sent a text Huck to let him know that Fitz would be outside of the coffee shop when he got there. She wasn't too sure why she was even warning him in the first place. Maybe because despite her gut feeling she wanted to believe that Huck was really a good guy underneath it all.
When they got there she flew out of the car. Fitz wrinkled his brow at her as he tried to figure out what she was so antsy about. She couldn't be that excited about coffee. Ever since meeting Diego she had been acting kind of strange. He wasn't going to push it though. He decided to surf the web on his phone while she was inside.
As soon as Huck saw that Fitz was preoccupied he got out of his car and slipped inside the shop. Looking around, he spotted Olivia in a back corner. He walked up undetected and took a seat across from her.
She looked up and silently regarded him. "Huck?"
"Don't, okay," he said.
"You don't even know what I was going to say," she said.
"Does it matter? So I gave you a fake name. I give everyone a fake name. You never know who you can trust in my line of work. It's best when people don't know who I really am. I'm working…undercover. But you cannot tell Fitz. It could endanger him if certain people knew that he knew what I was up to or even suspected it," Huck warned.
"You can trust me Huck," she assured him. Inside he felt so much better knowing his cover might not get blown. If it did he was a dead man. If he managed to get out alive then he would have to run. He was tired of running. That's part of what drew him to Olivia when he first met her. He could tell that like him she spent a good part of her life running. It almost made him feel bad about the fact that he had to set her up. She would be ruined. She might even run again. It frustrated him but he didn't ask questions, he just delivered results.
"You can trust me too Olivia, you know that," he grabbed her hand and held it in his as he said this. He could see in her eyes that she believed him. It was so easy sometimes. Women like her who wanted to believe that everyone had some good in them. It was sad that she couldn't see when those around her weren't what or who they said they were. "I have to go. I just wanted to make sure you understood and were okay with everything."
She watched as he got up to leave. She might as well get what she claimed she was there for so she went up to the counter to order a grande French vanilla cappuccino. Walking out, she tried to see if she could spot Huck in the parking lot but he had already left. She got in the car and Fitz drove them home.
He noticed she seemed to be acting more like herself now. Maybe she just needed her caffeine boost since she didn't have the adrenaline from the emergency room to fuel her. Her little impromptu vacation was going to screw things up a bit for Huck though. He needed her at work for his plan to work. Olivia had unknowingly spared herself and her reputation a few weeks, a fact she would later be thankful for.
P.S: Sorry that this chapter isn't as long as the others. I'll do better next time.
