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Without really realizing it their lives had gotten rather hectic with the boys, having Ava and Fitz and Olivia had not been able to rekindle or have the alone time they needed to reconnect not just on a sexual level, but on the level they connected at the lake. So after a few tear filled goodbyes they were on their way to Maui for a week.

While on the plane Olivia looked out the window as she felt Fitz's hand on her thigh.

"Are you thinking about Ava and the boys?"

Olivia turned and smiled at her husband because she knew he was thinking that.

"No, I was thinking how far we've come in such a short time. Anyone other than us would think we were nuts. Baby, marriage, four growing boys to care for, crazy ex-wife, and a live in mother-in-law. Even saying it out loud sounds outlandish." She chuckles.

Taking his hand in hers before he can speak. "But I wouldn't change it for the world. I will say that we defiantly are not a boring family at all." They laughed.

"Will it ever calm down? I doubt it. What I do think is that we will only build on the family unit we already have."

"Speaking of family unit. I've been thinking about this a lot and I know we have a lot on our plate as it is, but do you think we can add to our family later? Maybe after I finish medical school."

Olivia could only chuckle at her husband and his thinking. She smiled kiss his lips tenderly.

"With five kids, only you would want more. I should have seen this coming based off of your specialty in medicine. You my sweet, kind, loving man could ask me the world and I would give it to you, and yes I've been thinking the same thing. I wasn't sure if we should wait or try to have another after Ava turns two. I think it would be good for her and the boys if we only waited two more years. I know you will still be in medical school, but we have so much help for us in New York. I know Mom, my brother Tod and his wife will help out too. Not to mention all the friends and connections I have. Babe we will make it work either way we decide."

"How bout we put operation baby in the works on our honeymoon?" He grinned.

"Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III, I will literally cut off your balls if I have two babies under the age of two."

He laughed, "Just think of it Liv we can get the second baby out of the way and then I will get a vasectomy. How does that sound?"

"Like my uterus will not like it one bit. Lets just enjoy our honeymoon and sometime this week, lets really talk about this more in detail. If we can come up with a reasonable time table I'm willing to listen."

"Great idea babe."

Fitz sat back with an evil smirk on his face. He mumbled to himself. "Babe making mission is a go."

Olivia heard what he said and shook her head and laid her head down on his shoulder and went to sleep the rest of the flight.

After landing and renting a car, they made their way to Olivia's old family home. The drive alone was something magical. The warm breeze coming off the ocean and perfect blue sky set above the beautiful blue green ocean. Fitz slowed down to a gate that appeared in the middle of a small forest or so he thought. Olivia gave him the number to punch into the gate and it opened to a long driveway that was covered in tree brush and no sign of the house. After moving through the gates it's sensors closed the gate behind them. The road seemed to drop them down a slope and the house came into view. It was a typical Hawaii design with a tin roof home with beautiful wood interior. Olivia got out and looked around as if she didn't know any better, she felt the presence of her father. She started to tear up. Fitz walked around the car and put his arms around her. He kissed her temple. After she gathered herself.

"I feel like my father is all around me. I can almost smell his cologne right now and we haven't even gone into the house. I haven't felt this loss in some time."

"You said this was his favorite place in the world, so he might just have decided that his spirit would inhabit the house until you or your family returned."

Olivia smiled at the thought. She squeezed his waist.

"Let go inside. You have to see the view from inside."

As the walked into the home the back side of the house was nothing more than bi-fold windows that opened on to a lanai. Olivia slipped off her shoes and Fitz did the same as they moved toward the windows and opened them all to see the expanse of the sea and the waves crashing at the bottom of the cliff the house seemed to be set on top of. Fitz was mesmerized by the site and standing behind his wife with his arms around her waist. This had to be the closes thing to heaven he had ever experienced.

"Come on babe, lets get the bags out and give your mom a call. I think Mrs. Clemons left the fridge full, and she said she would leave us a little something to warm up."

Mrs. Clemons was the home's care taker. They rented the place out to tourist to pay for the property.

After dropping their bags in their room they opened the balcony doors overlooking the ocean, got comfortable on the bed and Face Timed Adrianne.

When the call went through all they heard was Ava's wails coming through the iPad. Olivia thought Fitz was going to march back to the airport and get on the next thing smoking out of Maui.

Fitz's mother came into view with Ava. "Calmati mio figlio. She is just hungry and tired. She knows you two are not here and she is fighting sleep."

"Adrianne can you bring her close to the iPad. She likes to be sung to before she goes to sleep for the afternoon. It's our thing we do everyday. Sorry I forgot to tell you."

Adrianne puts the iPad down and Olivia starts to sing Close to you by the Carpenters. Ava stopped the minute she heard Olivia's voice and yawned as she listened to her mother continue to sing to her. Adrianne rocked her to her mother's voice and was out in a matter of minutes.

Adrianne, I'll record my voice later on and I'll send it to one of the boys so you can play it for her tonight before she goes to bed. She shouldn't give you anymore problems."

"Grazie mia bella figlia. I want my granddaughter to feel safe and loved here with us."

"Mama, if you need us for anything please call. Love you, tell the boys we will call them later."

"Breathe babe. She will be alright for a few days. I want her here to, but we need this time to connect."

"I'm sorry Livie, but she look so distressed. I have every confidence she will be fine. It just shook me a little."

"Come on babe, lets get our bathing suits on. There is a private beach section just below the cliff. It's tiny and the size of the love scene from the movie from here to eternity, but maybe we can recreate our first time at the lake."

"Race you!"

True to her word Mrs. Clemons had a lot of things they popped into their picnic basket. Fitz had just put in the last bit of food with Olivia comes out in a two piece blush bikini with a lovely sarong tied around her waist.

"Close you mouth babe, fly might get in." She giggled.

Fitz literally felt himself start to drool a little. Olivia had remain composed herself as she looked at her husband in board shorts and flip flops. She knew he worked out and she saw him every night with his shirt off, but him in those shorts did something to her.

"See something you like?" He smirked.

"Maybeeee." She sassed over to him and pecked his lips.

"Lets go make new memories." She took his hand and led him out onto the lanai toward steps that seemed to be carved into the rocks. She was right the beach was almost the size of a postage stamp, but the tide was low and they could swim and eat for a couple of hours.

"Babe! This is fantastic. I think we should do a little snorkeling while we're here. This place is awesome."

"Glad you like it. Let's eat, I'm starving. You know how cranky I get if we don't eat."

"Don't I know it."

"What does that mean?"

"Just that you turn into a beast until you are fed." He laughed.

"Oh, you are so going to pay for that later."

They sat quietly by each other and just watched the waves and ate their meal. A peace seemed to wash over both of them at the same time. When Olivia finished up her meal. She stood up and dropped her sarong and waded into the water until she was hip deep in the water. Fitz watched her stand there with her face lifted to the sky and her hands skimming the water as it rolled in. In that moment Fitz felt the same thing he felt the first time he met her. Her soul seemed to sing to him like a siren. He got up and moved into the water behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist as he kissed her shoulder.

"How are we going to tell the kids to stay out of the water after eating if you do it." He chuckled.

"Wading and swimming are two different things. Besides you seem to be in the water as well. I won't tell if you won't tell."

"Pinky swear?"

"Pinky swear!" The both laughed.

Fitz lifted Olivia as she wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck as he took her further out into the water until they were floating.

"You are so beautiful Mrs. Grant. Seems like water tends to show me just how beautiful you are. The night I saw you standing there in the lake, it was the first time in a long time that I let my heart choose and not my brain. Your soul called out to me and I answered. We were meant to be together and whether I wanted to believe that night, I knew. I belong to you and you belong to me my love."

Olivia sniffled listening to her husband profess his love for her. She put both her hands on the side of his face and just gazed into his eyes. She watched all the love he had pour into her. She slowly moved her head in and slowly and leisurely started to kiss her husband. It felt like they had been kissing for hours. Fitz pulled away first.

"Lets go break in that beautiful bed Mrs. Grant. I want to take my time with you and feel the ocean breeze on our naked bodies. We have a lot of catching up to do. I've missed us just being alone. It's rare that it happens, but I want to talk about us having more alone time when we get back."

"I think we can work something out along those lines. Now lets go inside."

Fitz slowly walked them out of the ocean to their towels. They kept giving each other kisses as they dried off. Olivia couldn't wait to get her husband out of those board shorts. She could tell he was already excited to get out of them himself. They gathered up all their stuff and made the long walk back up the stairs. They got into the steam shower to wash off the salt, but they couldn't wait to get clean before Fitz was on Olivia. He pushed her up against the tiled wall hoisted her up as he slowly eased her down on to his very prominent erection. He didn't want to rush, he wanted to explode as soon as he balls deep in her, but he wanted to savor every moment they would have together. Olivia thought she would loose consciousness from how deep he was.

"Open you eyes Livie. I need to see your eyes baby."

Olivia struggle to open her eyes and she was surprised at what she saw when she did. His eyes were the color of the ocean outside and for a split second she felt she was in the middle of that ocean. Fitz started to stroke ever so slowly as their breathing began to sync up the closer they got to release. Olivia let tears fall down her face as all the emotion she felt for her husband started to rush in. Fitz stopped thinking he was hurting her, but she caressed his face to let him know he wasn't hurting her. When they finally came together they just froze in place as the feeling they had for each other that night came flooding back to both of them.

Fitz finally pulled out of his wife and set her down on the shower floor as he grabbed the shampoo to wash her hair. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the care her husband was giving her in that moment. After cleaning her hair he cleaned her body with the same amount of care. Olivia reciprocated the same amount of love and care to her husband, then they both got out of the shower dried off, put on robes and laid down on the bed. Fitz spooning Olivia.

"Did I hurt you?"

Olivia moved her hand up and down his arm.

"No. I was just overwhelmed with how much I really love you. You say that I changed your life, but you've given me a life I could have never imagined. For a while I thought that my life was over and after agreeing to live again, you sailed into my life with our boys and now Ava. Do you remember the story of Job and how he lost everything, but because he had faith God not only restored everything to him but doubled it. That's how I feel about my life now. I lost my son, and I gained four, plus our little miracle Ava. I lost my marriage and I have you now. I nearly lost my soul, but you brought it back to me."

Fitz started to tear up a little hearing his wife describe how she felt about her life with him. He pulled her closer and kissed her cheek.

"I am so grateful for my second chance at this life and I am doubly grateful that I'm going through it with you."

"Thank you Livie for sharing that with me, you have no idea how much you mean to me."

They were going to take a nap, but they needed to call the boys before it got to late.

Their week long stay in Hawaii consisted of swimming in the heated pool in the morning. Afternoon spent on the beach, and nights in the love seat lounger on the lanai looking at the stars. Making love in between. Fitz was not kidding about getting Liv pregnant again. He made love to her like a man on a mission. If it was left up to him, Ava would be born in California and their new baby would be born in New York.

They did mange to get into town for a day to buy gifts for the boys, Ava, and Adrianne. They were grateful for the break, but they were really excited to get back home to see everyone. Really it was Fitz wanting to get home to Ava and the boys.

As Fitz was loading the last few things in the car, he let his wife have a moment in the house alone.

"Dad if your out there. Thank you for everything you were in my life. I hope that I carry you and this feeling home with my new family. I love and miss you Daddy everyday."

Olivia closed the door as she wiped away her tears. Fitz went to her and hugged her and kissed her on her temple.

"Do you think your Dad would have liked me?"

Olivia chuckled, "He would have loved you. Your both alike in always having a positive outlook and making me feel safe."

Fitz smiled at her admission. "Lets go Livie. I promise that we will bring the kids with us the next time. This house is built for a bunch of rambunctious kids."

"Let come next summer. Ava will be walking and the boys will love to learn to surf here. I think Pope family rules apply when were here."

"Pinky swear?"

"Pinky swear."

Fitz opened the door to their rental car and Olivia just stared at the entrance of the house as he pulled away. In many ways being there in the house with him had put to bed another demon she had. The joy she always had for that place had come back.