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It's been two months since Olivia had seen Fitz, he never came back to the office, and she never begged him to. She often looks for him hoping that today might be the day that he returns for her, that he comes back for her. This was her doing, she pushed him and pushed him to leave until finally he got the picture and left; in many ways she wanted this to happen, she told herself that he would leave her and when she got what she wanted she was left with nothing- but sadness.
Sitting in the living room in Abby and Stephen's house she drinks her glass of wine as she plays with the invitation in her hand.
"How is he Stephen?" She asked never taking her eyes off the invitation
"Why are you asking like you care?" Stephen hissed
"Stephen" Abby warns
"No, Abby I need to say this."
Olivia looks at Stephen readying herself for the slaughter
"I was always on your side, before the accident I didn't think Fitz was good enough for you; that he deserved you…but now I see it is you that don't deserve him. Fitz is many things a liar, a cheater, an asshole, but the minute he woke up he changed…I didn't believe it but he said he was different man; "a man who has plan". Stephen shakes his head remembering Fitz in the hospital
"When Fitz told me he was going to find you and marry you; I was TOTALLY against it. But every day Fitz would call me and tell me about the "Olitz chronicles" and how he was staying late just to watch you. The old Fitz I know lived and breathed at Grant Corporation…he would never let me do anything, the company was his baby and life, but now …you're his life or you were his life. He lets me run the company while he stays here and works for you… You broke his heart, so you don't get to ask me how he is doing."
She stares at Stephen mystified; tears welled in her eyes as she heard what Fitz has done for her "I'm sorry Stephen." She whispers
"Don't be sorry to me…do you want how Fitz woke up from his coma? When you left he woke up screaming your name…not my name, or his dad's name, but yours. He woke up looking for you, they had to restrain him because he knew you had left him…Fitz calls you the love of his life and you turned your back on him…" Stephen stopped talking as Abby patted his back soothingly seeing that her husband was upset, getting what he wanted off his chest he walks out the living room leaving the girls to talk.
"Abby…" Olivia whispers looking at her friend to comfort her as silent tears come down her face.
Walking to her friend she hugs her tightly as she hears Olivia sob in her shoulder crying.
"I didn't know… I didn't know he looked for me…" she murmurs as Abby rubs her back
"You know you have to go."
"I can't see him Abby…"
"Liv, he invited you, it's the least you can do." Abby says softly
"Okay…" She says softly while her eyes remain focus on the invitation.
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The party is in full swing, the room is filled with champagne bottles and men and women dressed to the nines. The room screams money and lots of it, there is chatter and gossiping as she moves from one group to the next, everyone a piece of her time. Finding her table she smiles and hugs Abby
"It's crazy here." Olivia said looking around the room
"Liv, you look beautiful." Abby said looking at her friend up and down Liv wore a white Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein
Sitting down next to her best friend she smiles at her "Thanks so do you." Liv stood out from the crowd, nothing compares to her beauty and grace, if she was being honest with herself she wanted to dress her best…she wanted to look nice for Fitz, that though she is far away from him, his eyes would be on her- she wants to feel like she is the only person in the room.
"Where is Stephen?" Olivia asked noticing Stephen was not seated with them.
"He had to go talk to Fitz, and he is busy running the party and talking to everybody."
Nodding her head she looks around the party everyone is starting to find their seats, but she has yet to find Fitz- the one she has been looking for all night.
"Sorry I'm late." Jake says out breath sitting beside Olivia kissing her on the cheek. Olivia doesn't respond instead she keeps her eyes moving looking for the man with the heartbreaking smile.
"I thought you couldn't make it." Olivia said never once looking at Jake's direction, annoyed at his presences
"I'm here now."
Everyone is at their seats; Stephen finally comes back to the table never once saying hi to Olivia or Jake. Since the explosion at his home Stephen has kept his distance and Olivia has as well, whenever she and Abby would go out it would be at her house or at a restaurant, she can't blame Stephen for being mad at her; he is looking out for his best friend and she understands.
The lights dim as she watches Fitz walk onto the stage, the light is shining on him- everyone knows him, he looks at crowd from side to side waving and smiling. She watches him amazed, dazzled, the way he looks at the crowd-he is so magnetic and charismatic. All eyes are on him like he was born to be on this stage in front of all these people – they hang on to his every word, as he fills their heads with fluff and Olivia is included, she doesn't hear Jake asking her why Fitz Black is on the stage.
"Olivia!" He hollers finally breaking her trance
"What" she hushes refusing to take her eyes off him
"What is Fitz Black doing up there?"
"Do you know why we are here?" she asked
"No"
Moving closer to Jake so that he can hear she speaks "We are here because that man on that stage is not Fitz Black, but the Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III." Olivia says proudly she never once took her eyes off him, afraid that if she does that will be the time that he looks at her-notices her.
"Are you fucking kidding me, that asshole is a fucking billionaire."
"I know"
"And you knew all along, and you never told me, instead you let me insult the man."
"That is why you need to be careful of what you say. Because you never know who you might hurt." Olivia says sadly. As he was talking he never looked at her or in her direction- she was no longer his favorite girl.
"We gather this evening to the start of a new beginning, the people have spoken and they have made it clear that they want change yet everything remains the same. I promise you tonight, today, and the years to come that this time it will be different." Fitz says proudly as he looks at the crowd, putting every face, every smile to memory.
He felt her eyes on him the moment he walked the stage, yet he did not look at her or meet her stare with one of his owns. As he talked on stage he saw that saw was not looking at him, his eyes focused on her as he watched her from across the room as she nursed her drink. Cutting his eyes away from her without her knowing; The crowd cheered and nodded with agreement as he spoke of the future
"For many years I have lived under my father's shadow- that will be no more, starting tonight, today, at this very minute. I dedicate myself to bringing integrity back, responsibility back, loyalty back, and I as walk through the halls I will remind myself and the people of this company that we have a sworn duty, a sacred obligation to not just pay lip service but to actually finally and definitively do better, so I leave you with this promise, at this time, at this date, with this man, it will be different."
The crowd jumps to their feet, clapping and cheering as he looks around the room, he puffs his chest; he smiles as he looks his at friends, his companions, his comrades.
Through the crowd he spots her, she smiles at him proudly, clapping enthusiastically as she watches him come off the stage and is met by a swarm of reporters.
He finally made it to the table until one report stopped him.
"Mr. Grant, what made you decide to change?"
"I wanted to change, I saw my life and this company, and I didn't want that for myself anymore, we have started a new chapter, we are going to expand this company by the end of this year we are going to hire over 100,000 people, and this company is going to be about the people and for the people. I have made changes in my life and I want to make changes for this company."
"What type of changes in your personal?"
"Though only thing I will say is that I am a man in love with an incredible woman." His eyes drift towards her and for a moment time stops moving, she stares at him, her mouth softly opens as they look at one another softly communicating.
With the reporter gone he hugs Stephen and kisses Abby on the cheek he makes his way; he smiles at her politely and brings his hand out for her to shake; Olivia looks at his hand shocked that he would offer her his hand after what she thought was a declaration of his love for her, looking back and forth between the hand and him she finally shakes it.
"Hello Mr. Grant"
"Hello Ms. Pope." He says softly , he checks her out and she knows it; their hands stay connected longer than what is normal, but she can't help herself, it feels good to touch, to be in his presence.
"Hello Fitz." Jake says effectively breaking the moment between Olivia and Fitz, removing his hand from hers; Olivia takes the moment to gather herself together.
"Yes Bastard." Fitz said turning his body towards Jake, glaring at the ass.
Jake laughs at Fitz's joke hoping to come off as being playful
"What's funny?" Fitz asked
"Nothing, you just called me Bastard- you and I always have this love-hate relationship."
"I think it's just hate" Fitz said
While Jake just smiled though he was dying on the inside, having to suck up to Black.
"But then again as you said I am the help and poor so maybe that might be the relationship you are referring to?"
"No, I didn't mean it like that." Jake said
"But you did; you see this is why I keep my identity a secret, so that when asshole's like you treat people like shit well…you never know whose ass you are going to have to kiss."
"Fitz I was just playing."
"Oh you were, you see this whole time I thought you hated me?" Fitz said mockingly pretending that Jake had hurt his feelings
"Never"
Fitz smiles and pat's Jake on the back "You are my vagina lip bitch, and if I ask you to jump you are going to say how high, if I ask you to wipe my ass you will say front to back, and when I ask you to jump off a bridge all I should hear is splash…I told you made the biggest mistake of your life crossing me, and if you want to keep your job I think you should leave right now." Fitz said
Jake glared at Fitz, his nose flared he moved an inch towards Fitz but decided against it, he looks at Olivia knowing that is the one thing that Fitz doesn't have "Come on Olivia" Jake said
"Actually, Olivia is going to stay." Fitz said looking at Jake moving closer to him
"Olivia is not for sale."
"Who said I would pay?" Fitz said knowing he was pissing Jake off "Besides Olivia is not property, if she wishes to go with you I will not stop her although I would like for her stay."
"Why?"
"A bastard like you would never understand it's so advance for you."
"Black"
"Bastard, don't think for a second I forgot about you hitting me, and if my memory serves me right you punched me first; now I can very easily call my friends, and you know I have a lot of friends, so if you are smart I suggest you leave now."
Jake walks away stomping but turns around and sees that Olivia is not behind or beside him instead she is with Fitz, she never moved inch- angry he walks through crowd.
"What did you want to talk to me about?" Olivia asked softly, she wasn't going to bring up the argument Fitz just had with Jake; she doesn't want to say anything that would make him leave.
"Stick around" He says before walking off to chat with some people
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"Where and the hell are we?" She asked noticing that they were driving up to private air terminal
He says nothing
"Fitz, where are we going? You said you wanted to show me something but where is it?"
The driver opens the door for him and he exits quickly walking up to the private jet greeting the pilot warmly. He turns around and see's that Olivia's door is open but she has yet to come out. Fitz excuses himself from the pilot and walks back over to the car
"Where is she?"
"Still in the car sir." The driver says meekly
"Go, I'll handle her." The driver moves away
"Get out of the car" He says softly
"No"
"Get out of the car" his patience was running thin
"No, and I don't appreciate you taking me to some place where I don't know where they hell we are going."
"Get. Out. Of .The. Car." He stays at her, his teeth clenched
"Why so you can kidnap me?"
"Get out of the damn car Olivia" Fitz yells before walking back to the plane this time he walks inside and doesn't look back.
Jumping out of the car, she walks inside the plane quickly and sits beside him.
They say nothing as the plane takes off, she looks to her right and sees him staring at the sky; there is something special about flying at night- it's calmer, peaceful. He looks at the sky and she looks at him.
"Fitz, I don't have any clothes."
"There are clothes in the bedroom at the back of the plane, open the closet and you will see everything."
She wasn't expecting that, but she looks at him and walks to the back of the plane where the bedroom is at, it's beautiful. Fitz has never squandered his money, often time's people would never expect him to be a billionaire, but he is and the most humble and selfless man she has ever known.
She changes into blue jean and a light silky blouse, she looks at the warm inviting bed, and decides to lie down, she grabs the pillow and it smells of Fitz, closing her eyes she drifts off to sleep.
He watches her sleep, she had been in the bedroom for a long time and he walked in to check on her only to see that she is asleep. Walking up to her he pulls the covers up and softly caresses her cheek before walking out the room.
Her eyes flutter open as she tries to wake up; she turns over in the bed and looks around the room seeing that she is not home but on a plane with Fitz. Sitting up quickly she looks around and fixes herself up before walking back out, she was only supposed to change not fall asleep, but she did and she slept like a baby.
"Hi" She says softly moving to the table he was sitting at.
"Did you sleep well?" He asked looking up
"I did" She says grabbing a muffin and seeing that it was morning now "How much longer?"
"We should be landing soon." He says looking at her smiling
"What?" She asked seeing the look on his face
He takes a sip of his orange juice and smiles at her; Olivia zooms in on his lips as they are still wet from the orange juice "I have never seen you look more beautiful." He said softly
She blushes at the compliment; he always knows how to make her feel beautiful. "I don't have any makeup."
"You don't need it."
She plays with her muffin, slowly picking at it and rubbing it turning it into a ball before she puts it in her mouth.
"You still play with your food, something's never change." He says jokingly
"I am not playing with my food; this is how you are supposed to eat it."
"Says who?"
"Says Olivia Pope" She says smirking at him
"Well if the formidable Olivia Pope says it, then it most certainly is true."
"Where are we going?"
"I can't tell you." He says taking a bit out of his muffin
"Why?"
"Because it will ruin the surprises."
"I hate surprises."
"All the more reason."
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