Chapter 20

Olivia had gone back to OPA furious. Mellie had intruded on their idyllic afternoon and ruined it. Fitz had divorced her ass. She had no rights to him anymore. He was hers. Teddy wasn't hers though, Teddy who should have been hers. She had no one to blame for that fiasco but herself. Fitz had impregnated his wife because Mellie had insisted that they needed a pregnancy to distract the nation from the fact that she had accused him of infidelity on national television. And fool that she was, she had agreed. Of course Fitz loved the little boy to death and so did she for that matter. Privately she believed Fitz was sorry for the way Teddy was conceived, to save his Presidency. Thus he showered the little boy with so much love. It was a good thing though. It was a beautiful thing.

However today Teddy had looked at Olivia and said "Why does mommy hate you Livvie?" She couldn't speak it hurt her so badly. Teddy who should have been hers asked her a question and she didn't have the guts to say the truth. She just stood there with eyes brimming with tears. Fitz had stepped in immediately and surprisingly he didn't sugar-coat it. "Your mommy can be really mean sometimes Teddy you know that right? Your mommy and I are still friends but we don't love each other anymore. You know Livvie and I are friends right? Well we now love each other too and your mommy is mad about it. It's okay though because guess what buddy? We all love you!" He diffused it for Teddy but she was devastated.

She left the White House in a huff. She shouldn't be mad at Fitz but she was. He had wanted everything out in the open years ago. He had wanted to divorce Mellie and leave the White House. He would have given it all up for her. She didn't want to be known as the other woman so she nixed it. She had fallen in love with Fitzgerald Grant taken him into body and heart because she couldn't help herself. Yet she was mad as hell with him because he couldn't control his wife.

Wait a damn minute she was his wife. She was Mrs. Fitzgerald Grant, not Mellie! She was being ridiculous being mad at Fitz. He was her husband and she should tell Mellie and the world so. Plus she was late and she suspected she may be pregnant. She laid her hand on stomach and she smiled. She wouldn't tell Fitz until she was absolutely sure. But in her heart she was sure her potent husband had knocked her up. It was what she wanted, Fitz and her belly filled with his babies. She should march her ass back to the White House and apologize. No, she would go to her place tonight and see him tomorrow.

She finished up what she had planned to do on her most recent case and asked her team into the conference room. "I won't be in until tomorrow afternoon. I have some business at the White House tomorrow morning. So you have your assignments and I will see you probably around twelve or one okay?" She left Pope Associates and went home. Scratch that, she has gone to her apartment; home is where her husband is. And it is where she would spend her nights from now on, with her husband.

Olivia showered and put on her pajamas laid on her bed and promptly fell asleep. Her plan was to take a little nap get up and get dressed and go home to her husband. She tired easily these days. It was another reason she felt sure she was pregnant. She would go to her husband and apologize for her tantrum and then make sweet love to him. She was dreaming. Fitz was calling her name trying to awaken her. "Livvie wake up baby, I don't want to frighten you. It's me Fitz."

She opened her eyes and saw her husband sitting on the edge of her bed. "Fitz what are you doing here? I fell asleep...

"Shhhh baby, you don't have to explain anything. Olivia I don't plan on us sleeping apart again, we are married. I know you are angry and I am so sorry Mellie showed up and ruined our day! You are my wife Livvie, I will protect you from Mellie or anyone else. I love and cherish you. You are Teddy's stepmom and my wife. You have a right to be at the White House whenever you want. I want to honor the six months you asked for Liv but it is not right. We shouldn't have to hide our love or our marriage. I want your permission to tell Mellie and a few intimates like Tom, Cyrus and Charlotte. I have started explaining to Teddy and I plan to have Karen brought down within the next couple of days to tell her. I promised you six months and you will get it. But Mellie must be told. I won't have her disrespect you again in my presence!"

Olivia looked up at her husband and said,"You are right of course. I was going to talk to you myself tonight. I over reacted. I am your wife and I don't care who knows it. I do need a couple more weeks to knot some things over at OPA before we make our announcement." Olivia believed she was two to three weeks along. She had done nothing to confirm her suspicions. But she wanted to wait until she was at least eight weeks along to tell Fitz. For now it was her most precious secret!

"Whatever you want I will honor. Just come home with me Livvie. I don't sleep well without you. Will you come back with me?"

"Look at your feet Fitz, my bag is packed. I assure you I was coming to you tonight."

"Good, Let's go home Livvie. Come as you are. Where are your keys I'll have Hal drive your car to the tunnel."

Olivia reached up and pulled her husband into a delicious kiss. When they broke apart both gasping for air, she said, "Take me home Fitz and make the sweetest love to me. Make love to me as only you can."

"You have only to ask, Mrs. Grant," he whispered in her ear. And the first couple of the United States of America went home.