Fifteen minutes later, Olivia and David were sitting in the back of the car that was driving them back to the White House. Since Olivia was still seeing red from their meeting with Sally, it was just David looking over the document Sally handed over to them concerning the paternity suit. Olivia knew a calm rational head was needed to review the document and David was in a better position to do it. Olivia stayed silent during the car ride to allow David to review the document in peace. She knew David would give his assessment once they got back to the White House.

When they walked into the Oval, Fitz, Abby, Susan, and Liz were already there. The four of them were in the sitting area having sandwiches as a make shift lunch for a ruined day because of Sally's news report. While Olivia and David were meeting with Sally, Fitz and Abby had been meeting with Susan and Liz to get a debriefing on the damage control calls with the Republican Party and Congress.

"Were you able to get a copy of the documents Sally had?" Abby asked eagerly.

"Better than that. Sally gave us everything. We have the original. Sally doesn't even have a copy. I don't think she wanted it anymore when Olivia convinced her she was holding radioactive material that could hurt her," replied David as he and Olivia took a seat in the sitting area.

"Olivia, what did you say to Sally to convince her to hand over the documents to us?" asked Fitz.

"The threat of her losing her TV show and a personal lawsuit filed by you with me as your lawyer suing for slander and defamation."

While Fitz felt pride that his Livie would be his gladiator but he was also concern Olivia's statement to Sally could cause problems for Olivia in being able to keep her distance from the presidential campaign because she was still on medical leave.

Abby then asked "Was Sally willing to disclose the source for her story?"

"It wasn't much of a source," replied Olivia as she poured herself a glass of water and took a drink. "Someone sent her the document to her office at the studio through a courier service. We could track down who hired the courier to deliver the document."

"What Sally got was a complaint that outlined the points of the claim for the paternity suit. However, I don't think the complaint is legit either. Take a look at the name of the person who is making the suit," said David as he passed the "legal" document to Fitz so he could read it.

After taking the document from David, Fitz looked at the left side of the first page of the document where the name of person filing the lawsuit would be. When he saw the name, Fitz raised an eyebrow and smirked. Fitz then handed the document to Abby to look at. When Abby saw the name, she exclaimed incredulously "Are you serious?!" and passed the document over to Olivia.

Olivia saw red creeping up again as soon she saw the name of the woman filing the paternity suit against Fitz. "Sally must really hate you to be this gullible to think this complaint is real," she said as she angrily tossed the document on the coffee table. Since Susan and Liz had been invited to be part of the meeting concerning the paternity suit, they wanted to know the name of the woman who filed the paternity suit against Fitz. Susan picked up the document and shared it with Liz so Liz could see the name. Although Susan was the only person in the room who didn't have a law degree but even with her lack of legal knowledge, she knew a lawsuit started by someone with the name "Jill Smith" should warrant further investigation to make sure it was legitimate. That is, while the name "Jill Smith" was potentially a real name, there is also the strong possibility it was a fake name as well. After looking at the document, Susan set the document on the coffee table. When Olivia saw Susan set down the document, she immediately reached for it and starting to read over the document.

"Thoughts, David?" asked Fitz.

"I think the suit is a hoax. The question is why. The truth about the lawsuit being fake would eventually come out after spending time and energy digging into it."

"Maybe that's point. If the White House was spending its time handling a possible presidential paternity suit, we wouldn't have time to work what we needed to do during our remaining time in office," chimed Susan. "Liz and I were on the phones dealing with damage control just from the mention of the paternity suit."

As Fitz contemplated Susan's statement, he wondered if someone in Congress felt strongly enough about the legislative agenda and policy initiatives he wanted to work on during the last few months of his term to want to stop it by diverting the White House attention to dealing with a paternity suit. "Who would have enough political motivation to want to do this?" he asked.

Before anyone could come up with a possible individual, the intercom on Fitz's desk buzzed. He got up from his seat to answer the intercom. "Yes, Charlotte?...Oh, all right, send him in." Fitz returned to the seating area and said "Leo Bergen is outside. He's here on behalf of Sally."

When Leo entered the room, he hoped it was just him meeting with Fitz and Abby with David joining them, if necessary. However, when he saw Olivia sitting in the Oval, he knew there was only so much he was able to do to save Sally from her folly. Leo knew Sally's anger and resentment towards President Fitzgerald Grant III for usurping what she felt she should had been her destiny – sitting in the Oval Office as POTUS - would eventually catch up to her and she would do something reckless.

"Mr. President, thank you so much for meeting with me," said Leo smoothly. Even though Sally hired him to be her "fixer" for the mess she got herself into, Leo was smart enough to tread lightly with the White House, especially it was the White House team provided him safety and refuge after he got kidnapped and was taken to Santa Barbara.

"Not at all, Leo," Fitz responded back with his charming Grant smile.

Leo didn't know if it would be Abby in her capacity as White House Chief of Staff or Olivia as President Fitzgerald Grant III's protector to ask him what Sally wanted. It was Abby who spoke first. "Leo, I take it Sally hired you to deal with damage control for running with the story about the paternity suit without properly checking it first," she said as she stood from her seat in the sitting area.

"Yeah. She was pretty rattled after her meeting with David and Olivia. She is hoping we can work something out so that all of us can maintain face since both she and the President are victims in this hoax lawsuit…"

When Olivia heard Sally thought of herself as a victim, she immediately got up from her seat while still holding the document that claimed Fitz fathered a child from a one-night stand and said "Leo, tell Sally that the President will be in touch with her after he has considered his legal options. After all, we wouldn't be dealing with damage control if Sally hadn't been so irresponsible with her reporting in the first place."

Olivia hoped Fitz and Abby would back her up and have Sally "stew" for a while. Fitz took the cue and said "We'll be in touch. Thanks for coming in, Leo."

"No problem. I'll let Sally know," said Leo before leaving the Oval.

After Leo left the Oval, Olivia said "I don't think the hoax paternity suit is politically driven. It's personal," as she moved away from the sitting area.

"What makes you say that?" asked Fitz.

"Gut feeling. I'm going to have Quinn and Charlie check on some things to confirm. I'll let you know."

Olivia left the Oval leaving Fitz, Abby, David, Susan and Liz to finish their lunch and to get the rest of their work day back on track after dealing with hoax paternity suit. She took the elevator up to the Residence and as she walked passed the Residence kitchen, she heard Karen's and Teddy's voices emanating from the kitchen. She back tracked and went into the kitchen. She saw Karen and Teddy sitting at the small kitchen table having some lunch.

"Lib, you're back!" said Teddy in a loud happy voice. "Karen made me a peanut butter-strawberry jam sandwich for lunch."

"Do you like it?"

"It's yummy," replied Teddy before taking a bite out of quarter sandwich triangle.

While Teddy had a peanut butter-strawberry jam sandwich with a glass of milk, Karen decided to have yesterday's leftovers for her lunch. She had a plate covered with a little bit of everything – chicken, meatloaf, salad, mashed potatoes, and peas and carrots.

"Is everything ok? Dad came up earlier to talk to me about what was happening…"

"It's going to be fine, Karen," said Olivia in a reassuring voice. With that, Karen got up from her seat and gave Olivia a hug, taking care not to hug too hard because of Olivia's broken arm. Even though Fitz told her there was no basis for the paternity suit, hearing from Olivia provided Karen the assurance she needed.

After Karen separated from Olivia, she asked "Are you hungry? Dad's schedule got messed up because of Sally's story and felt bad he couldn't have lunch with us. I told the kitchen not to bother to send anything up since it was just Teddy and me and there was already plenty of food."

"I am hungry but I need to make a few calls before I eat."

"I can make a plate for you while you make your calls…"

"Actually, I was going to make myself a peanut butter-strawberry jam sandwich…"

"Let me make your sandwich while you make you calls."

Teddy gave Olivia a big smile when he heard Olivia wanted a peanut butter-strawberry jam sandwich for lunch. "I'll help Karen make your sandwich, Lib."

"Thanks, Karen. Thanks, Teddy."

Olivia left the kitchen to head to her guest room. After setting down her handbag, she pulled out her cell phone and called Quinn.

"What do you need, Liv?" Olivia loved the fact Quinn was always ready to spring into the action. "Do you need us to track down…"

"No need, Quinn. We think the suit is a hoax."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes. Sally only got the complaint outlining the paternity suit claim. Nothing has been filed with the court and Fitz hasn't been served. The name of the woman who is suing is "Jill Smith". Anyway, Fitz has been assured by an extremely reliable 3rd party source he hasn't fathered anymore children so there is no substance to the lawsuit."

"So we don't need to do anything?" asked Quinn with a slight disappointment. Quinn had hoped to be doing some real OPA work.

"We do. We need to find out the source for the fake paternity suit story. Sally said she got the complaint delivered to her by a courier service. We need to find out who hired the service. I'm going to text you the name of courier service and you and Charlie can start digging to find out who hired them. Also, can you ask Charlie to send an encrypted and coded email to Huck to get intel on Jake?"

"You think Jake is involved with planting the story of the fake paternity suit?"

"I do. Even though the name of the woman in the lawsuit is fake, there's detailed information in the complaint with dates about when Fitz slept with this woman that coincide with the time Fitz got carried away with his sex life. Whoever has this information had to know what was going on inside the White House. Jake is NSA Director working in the White House so he would have been able to find out."

"Why would he do it?"

"To get me to come back to him. I think his plan was for me to get hurt thinking Fitz was having a baby with another woman and I would come back to the campaign to salve the wound. Olivia then said "While Huck is gathering intel about Jake from the campaign trail, you and Charlie can dig to find out if Jake has made any big payments. He would have had to hire someone, a lawyer or a law student to prepare the complaint and would have had to pay big money get someone to write a fake lawsuit against the President."

"I'll have Charlie contact Huck but you know they are at end of the trail and will be back in DC in a few days. Mellie and Jake, along with your father are in Alaska now. Mellie and Jake have the hunting trip scheduled with the Governor."

"I forgot about the hunting trip." When Olivia was still Mellie's campaign manager and planning with Mellie on various campaign trail activities, Mellie insisted on accepting the Governor of Alaska's invitation to a hunting trip. She wanted to show anything Fitz could do, she could do better, and in this case, Mellie had the right to boast since she had a better shot than Fitz.

Olivia continued on "Ask Huck to get much as info as he can while they are out there and we'll put the pieces together."

"If Jake is responsible, what are we going to do?"

"I'm not sure. Right now, I need confirmation that's it Jake and not someone else. Fitz is worried the fake lawsuit might be politically motivated. If it is Jake, then it is personally motivated."

"All right. Charlie and I will head over OPA to start digging into Jake's financials and we will deal with the courier service tomorrow. Charlie can also get in contact with Huck when we at OPA."

"Good. Thanks, Quinn."

"No problem. I'll report back once we have info for you."

Olivia ended her call with Quinn. As Olivia thought about what Quinn said about her father and Jake scheduled to be back in DC in a few days, Olivia wasn't feeling anxious or scared about it. She knew her father let her go. Even though Jake was trying to get her to come back but if his tactics of trying to separate her from Fitz involved her questioning her relationship with Fitz, she was now on alert and would be better prepared when he made his next move.

Olivia proceeded to make her next call. When the call was answered on the other end, she said "Yes, it's me, Cyrus…It has been a long time…I'm all right. On the road to recovery from the accident and surgery. I still need to be in an arm cast for a few more weeks…I'm going to cut the chase, Cyrus. I need a favor from you…"