Olivia was fiddling with the radio, trying to find something other than country. She was about to make a comment about Kansas radio when she looked up and realized Fitz wasn't headed the right way. Rolling her eyes she thought 'this is why I should have drove!'

"Fitz you need to make a U-turn and go the other way on this street." She tried to maintain the illusion of patience.

"This is the way to the mall right?"

"Yeah, wait why?"

"You want to swim, but you don't have a suit."

"Bee it's October in Kansas, they're not going to have any. It's fine."

"No, it's not. It helps you relax and blow off steam and you need that right now."

"I really…" He interrupted her.

"Livvy we're going, you're going to get distracted by looking at impossibly high heels, you'll buy some and wear some tonight and drive me crazy. In the mean time I will buy you the smallest bikini I can find. Deal?" She glared at him, hating to not get her way, but she can't exactly disagree with his plan. "You might as well stop glaring at me because it's going to happen and if you keep looking at me like that people will think I kidnapped you." She finally leaned back into her seat.

"You are such a mess." She said laughing.

"I'm your mess. You're stuck with me." He grabbed her hand and gave it a sloppy kiss. She leaned back into her seat, he was determined to take care of her, like always she would let him. She really did want to put in some laps, and a new pair of heels would be nice too. He caught her attention as she was thinking about what she could get away with wearing tonight.

"Is this the right way?"

"Yeah, wait how did you know that?"

"Google maps." He gave her a proud grin.

"You were planning on handling me this whole time weren't you!" She gave him a dirty look, realizing this was his plan all morning.

"Not handle. You handle, I take care of you. Someone needs to, besides shoes and a bikini was for good news, the book store was for bad."

"Fitz you don't have to do this. I am sure you're as shell-shocked as I am if not more. I always knew this was a possibility, you didn't."

"For now I'll focus on you, I'll worry about processing everything else later."

"What if when you process you realize what a selfish person I am?" He was shocked. He thought about pulling over the car so he could look her in the eyes, but they were in traffic. He pulled into a parking lot and unbuckled his seat belt and hers. He pulled her into his lap despite the console and steering wheel.

"Is that what you're worried about? Livvy, this whole time all you've thought about is me and your siblings and your parents, the one person you haven't worried about is yourself. I've been watching you drive yourself crazy, I don't think you're selfish. No one does. Michael and Claudia have been jumping to help you in anyway they can because they love you. I've been trying to take care of you because I love you." She shook her head at him, he didn't understand.

"You shouldn't be here."

"There's no where else."

"Having you here its…"

"What tell me? Because right now you know what I think Olivia," he was getting angry. He thought she was going to run, go back to living in Kansas, follow her father's plan. He thought she was going to leave him. "I think you don't want me here because it would make it easier for you to go back. Do what your father wants, be with Stephan, run the business! Whatever his plan is, it would be easier for you to deal with if I wasn't here."

"What?" That's not what she meant at all, it killed her that he thought she would run from him, after everything they had been through even before the shooting.

"You heard me Olivia, is that what you want? Because I didn't think it was, I thought you love me, but you're pushing me away, you're sitting over there thinking and you don't talk to me."

"I want you Fitz. I love you. I don't ever want you to doubt that. When I tell you I'm being selfish, its not because I don't want you here or I want to go back. I couldn't make it through this without, I wouldn't come back, I wouldn't stay in school, I would shut down. I would leave and hide and I would lose myself. I am selfish because even though every fiber of my being tells me that this isn't safe and you could get hurt, hell you already have gotten hurt, I still want and need you here. All I've been thinking about on this car ride is what I'm going to wear tonight, well that and why the radio stations here are only country. I swear to you Fitz, we are in this together, here and back home. I know I don't say it enough, but I love you." She held his face in her hands needing him to know exactly what she was feeling and thinking and letting him look into her eyes was the best way she knew to do that. Fitz exhaled finally. She was desperate for him to say or do something. He pulled her into his chest and just held on for dear life. After both had calmed down he picked his head up from the top of hers.

"So your outfit tonight…"

"I was thinking very short." She gave him a glance that promised to drive him insane. A smile lit up his face and he ran his hands down to settle on her ass.

"Good thinking. But first I want to get you into the pool, and definitely the hot tub after that." His hands started roaming her legs. She reveled in his touch a little longer before she placed herself back into her seat. He gave a moan when she got up, she reminded him they had some shopping to do before they could follow through on any of their plans. He started the car back up and headed to one of the larger stores in the mall.

"Where's the Bloomingdales?"

"We don't have those here."

"Oh okay, how about Saks?"

"Nope."

"Niemen Marcus?" He was concerned now, those were really the only department stores Olivia went to.

"Negatory."

"Seriously? Where did that shoe obsession of yours come from and where do you buy stuff?"

"Man sometimes I forget you grew up in a country club, just park at Nordstrom's. We can go in through there." Fitz directed the car to where she pointed but gave the store a wary look.

"My mother used to say Nordstrom's was for new money, I've never been in one."

"Well it's the nicest department store in the state so you'll have to buck up, trust me. I spent many an afternoon in this store as a teenager. I mean most of it was spent trying to sneak off to the bookstore without Claudia or Grams noticing, but I still broke in my first credit card pretty well. We used to love driving the sales women crazy. They would assume we were just kids messing around, than I'd pull out a wad of cash and they would be ready to kiss our feet." He laughed at her story thinking about what his Livvy must have been like as a teenager, such a force, refusing to take crap from anyone.

"As long as we can find you a swim suit it'll be my favorite."

They walked into the store hand in hand, again taking advantage that they didn't have to hide. Olivia immediately walked in and found the shoes; sales women quickly swarmed them. They started flirting with Fitz, Olivia had gotten used to it. In the beginning it would annoy her or make her worry, especially since they had to keep everything a secret, but she quickly saw how uncomfortable it made him and she started to enjoy watching him squirm. After a few minutes she took pity on him,

"Hey Fitz?"

"Yep!" He was relieved.

"Did you want to run off and get those swim suits while I find something for tonight." He didn't really want to leave her side, but she was giving him an out and there were a few things he wanted to pick up for her before tonight.

"I'm on it." He gave her a quick kiss and walked away as fast as he could. She laughed as she saw the women's faces fall and they wandered away.

Immediately she searched out the sale rack, not that she had to, but because she was just too logical to not look for a bargain. She found a pair a few pairs she liked and brought them over to the counter and went up stairs to find something to wear on her date. She was trying on a cream colored Burberry trench coat when she saw Fitz coming up behind her with a big goofy grin. He wrapped his arms around her from behind and met her eyes in the mirror.

"It looks beautiful." He told her before he wrapped his arms around her waist.

"It is isn't it?" she was smoothing out the invisible wrinkles on the sleeves. He watched her and he knew she loved the coat, but would never buy something so extravagant without thinking about longer.

"So is this the size you want?"

"Yeah…" she said a little dreamily, "wait what no." She immediately started taking it off. He knew she never used her father's money and wanted to never have to. She had a huge college fund that she didn't end up using due to an academic scholarship. She paid for her car and apartment with it and used her inheritance from her Grandparents for everything else. He knew her family had money even before he knew how, but she always said she wouldn't take money from her parents, it was just one more way for them to control her, she would tell him. He took the coat from her, put it on the hanger and threw it over his arm.

"This stuff yours too?" Fitz pointed at several bags near her feet. Olivia looked down and grinned a little sheepishly.

"Yeah, I figured I don't really have to worry about over packing, plus it was all on sale!" He laughed at her, knowing she was enjoying them being out together and shopping without being nervous.

"Exactly so what's one more?" He gestured to the coat.

"Because that coat cost nearly what some people would pay for a car. Stop being a bad influence! Besides I see you're empty handed, no luck."

"Plenty but I put the stuff I got back in the car so that I had my hands free." He winked at her as he grabbed her bags with one hand and grazed her ass with the other.

"Patience Fitz!" Olivia's neck was getting a little red as she looked around to make sure none of the uppity customers or sales women noticed. He pulled her in closer,

"I'll stop if you let me buy you that coat."

"I don't want you to stop, I just want to relocate." She grinned up at him. Fitz was distracted by what the gleam in her eyes promised, the dropped the coat. He pulled her in and kissed her. She threaded he arms around his waist and worked them up into his curls. His hand wrapped around her neck and pulled her closer to him. They were both smiling between kisses, Olivia let out a small giggle when she felt his hand working down her back to her ass. They broke apart rather quickly when they heard someone cough and clear their throat. Olivia was bright red, but Fitz was grinning down at her. They looked over and saw the woman that made the noise. She was older and clearly annoyed by their behavior.

"Do you plan on buying that?" She asked them with an attitude, given that the cream colored coat was on the floor near their feet, her tone wasn't completely unprovoked. Fitz jumped to answer before she had the chance to say no.

"Yep, we will take it!" The sales woman walked away to begin ringing it up, clearly less irritated than before.

"Fitz!"

"I dropped it all over the ground I cant expect them to sell it now can I?"

"Oh such a boy scout. Fitz it's too much!"

"I am! And its fun to buy you something since you always fight me, especially something you look so beautiful in." She was still glaring at him. "Besides I can't wait to see you in it and nothing else." He whispered in her ear and gave it a quick nip. As soon as he made contact with her ear she melted. She no longer cared about the coat all she wanted to do was get him back to their hotel room.

"Deal!" Fitz did a fist pump and she started laughing at him. "You're shameless!" He had to agree. He was shameless when it came to her. They walked to the check counter hand and hand.

He wouldn't let her look in the truck when they made it back to the car.

"I still have a few tricks up my sleeve for tonight, even if its your turn to plan the date."