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We learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts

"You're being an idiot." Leo called out as he pushed the door to Fitz's apartment open. He hadn't bothered knocking or checking to see if Fitz was home. He'd just shoved his emergency only key into the lock and let himself in. In all fairness, though, this felt like an emergency to Leo. Particularly since the situation had Abby overly worried. An overly worried Abby was not a good thing. He may not have known her that long, but he was certain that if her emotions got even slightly off-balanced it would end badly for everyone within her firing range. Literally.

Fitz stood in the middle of his living room, sweatpants hanging low on his hips and his chest damp with sweat from a long run. "You're right, I am, I should've never given you a key to my apartment. You can't just come barging in here whenever you damn well please."

Leo ignored his comment, "So tell me, did running five million miles help? Do you finally not feel like shit for breaking up with Olivia over something Jake told you?"

Fitz's eyes narrowed, "How the hell do you know about that?"

"Because I'm dating Abby Whelan!" Leo rolled his eyes with a huff, "And don't pretend like you don't know about it. And Abby said that Olivia is miserable and upset and isn't sleeping and is working herself to the bone and the two of you are being so completely stupid right now. You don't honestly think she's out to ruin your career do you?"

Fitz capped his water bottle and threw it into the sofa, "Yes, I do. Just like she thinks I'm stealing information off her computer when she's not paying attention."

Letting out a long groan of frustration, Leo shook his head, "She doesn't really believe that. Not truly. I mean come on! How is it that you two are some of the smartest people in the world, yet you believe those two former spy idiots who have nothing but supposition and paranoia to back them up?" He asked.

"Jake doesn't give out any information without proof. Of course he has proof. He just"

"What?"

"Hasn't gotten it to me yet." Fitz defended lamely.

Leo stared at his friend for thirty seconds before bursting out into a round of fresh laughter, "You are such an idiot. How is it you graduated from Harvard at the top of your class? How is that even possible to be this stupid when you managed to earn that degree?" He paced in front of Fitz, "You and Olivia are running yourselves ragged."

"Good, maybe they'll lose then." Fitz snapped.

Leo's eyes narrowed, "Mark my words, when I get my hands on Jake and his so called 'proof' that he hasn't gotten to you yet, I'm going to strangle him with it." Turning on his heel, Leo slammed Fitz's apartment door on his way out.

SCANDAL

"Billy!" Sally called out from her office, "Come here, please!"

Billy glanced up from the packaged he'd just received via courier and nodded, "Coming, Sally." He tucked the small envelope in his jacket pocket and nodded to the intern who'd handed it to him before moving down to his boss's office, "Yes?" He asked.

"Close the door, Billy." Sally motioned to the door and Billy swallowed hard, nodding. "Have a seat." She motioned to a vacant chair, moving to sit opposite him. "I think we have a problem." She murmured.

"A problem?" Billy echoed.

Sally nodded quickly, "Yes, something's wrong with Fitz."

Billy's eyes widened and his shoulders visibly dropped, "What do you mean?"

"He's acting like a man possessed, now I want to win this campaign just as much as the next gal, but this obsession of his is just borderline unhealthy. I need you to do me a favor." She requested.

"Anything, Sally." Billy waited patiently for her request.

"Take him out. Get Leo and Jake and just take the evening off. Go have a drink. Find out what's bothering him so much that he feels he has to drown himself in work. That's what he's doing, I can tell. He was happy and now he's not. It's as if he just ended a relationship or something. He's so down it has me worried." She admitted quietly.

Billy nodded, not having noticed a change in Fitz personally, but he was more than willing to pretend he had if it would please Sally, "Of course, I'll take care of it." He stood up, pausing with his hand on the door handle, he faced her, "We're so blessed to have a boss like you who cares about us." He sent her a wide grin that had her smiling in spite of herself.

"I'm the blessed one, Billy." She called back as the door swung shut behind him.

Heading into the break room, Billy found Leo quietly talking on his phone, "He says Jake has proof." He paused, "Well obviously it's a load of bullshit, but what can we do about it?" He nodded his head, "I don't think that will work." He scoffed, "Because I'm not going to be the one to go up against Jake. I mean he was former whatever scary guy who can kill me just by thinking about it and no way, not happening. You're on your own, babe." He cringed, "Yeah, I did just call you babe. Is that weird? It's weird isn't it?" He chuckled, "I'll see you both tonight and we'll come up with something." He hung up and tapped his fingers against the countertop, seemingly lost in thought. Billy took that moment to slowly back out of the room without being noticed. He did wonder who on earth Leo was talking to.

SCANDAL

"Don't be a pussy." Abby taunted, "Just talk to Jake. Or go snooping through his stuff."

"That's what we're planning on doing." Quinn piped up before taking a sip of her wine. "It's going to be awesome. We're going to out spy the spy." She giggled.

Leo stared at her, "You're an idiot too. There are so many idiots." He muttered.

"Oh please, it's not like Huck's going to hurt us or anything if we get caught." Abby scoffed. "Look, just try to find out what Jake knows. I want to know two things: why they got involved to begin with and what proof they have that Liv and Fitz were manipulating each other. That's it."

SCANDAL

With a tired sigh, Fitz threw his beaten up body onto the sofa. He'd spent nearly three hours at the gym running himself into the ground all because Sally sent him home far too early for his liking. It was weird sleeping without Olivia now. It was something he wasn't used to and he didn't know how to feel about it. He'd thought about going out in search of a one night stand, but the thought of actually being with another woman made his stomach churn. She wouldn't be Olivia. And that unsettled him more than anything.

Letting his eyes slip shut, he tried to think of anything, but her.

He groaned as her lips followed her hands in mapping out the contours of his chest. Her fingers flicked over his nipples and he tightened his grip on her waist, "Fuck."

She chuckled against the hollow of his throat, her teeth scraping over his collar bones, "That's the idea." She murmured against his skin. He dipped his head down, his tongue flicking out over any patch of skin he could reach. She tasted like heaven and sin all at once. He could only imagine how good it would feel to be inside of her.

She let out a mewl as she rocked above him, coating him in her arousal. She was still slick from her first orgasm. She'd tasted amazing, sweet and tangy and he was anxious to feel her wrapped around him, "Fuck, Liv, you're so wet." He pressed himself up, latching onto her ear and tugging, "Going to feel so good." She let out a longer moan at his words as his lips moved down her throat.

"Fitz, need you." She murmured.

Reaching between their sweat-slicked bodies, Fitz lined himself up at her entrance.

Fitz jerked awake at the incessant ringing noise by his head, "Fuck." He groaned, glancing down at his gym shorts. He was rock hard thanks to his very vivid dream of their first night together. "Damn it." He muttered, snatching his phone up, "What?"

"I think I made a mistake."

SCANDAL

XOXO

MAS