Olivia sat in the waiting room with Katherine at the doctor's office. She was 20 weeks pregnant and was going to find out the gender of the baby. Liv was even more upset than usual since she was going to find out today. She really wanted Fitz to be there when she found out but there was no way that he could be there.
The nurse called her in and Katherine followed her. She took Olivia's weight and temperature going through the usual checkup. Liv sat on the table ready for the doctor to come in.
"Do you want to know, Liv?" Katherine asked flipping through a magazine.
"Yes. Wait, no. Yes I do. No. Not until Fitz can know."
"You know that's not going to happen, Olivia. Fitz isn't going to know about the baby."
"Have you talked to him? Has he said anything about me?"
"I have told you a hundred times since I arrived yesterday, I haven't talked to Fitz. And I don't know when I will. You and I are going to figure this out together. We'll work it out. Now, I want to know what color I need to paint the nursery."
"Katherine, I already told you that I'm going to get another job and raise the baby myself. I can take care of the baby on my own."
"And how do you expect to do that? Who's going to watch the baby? How are you going to finish school?"
"I'm not going to finish school. After May I'll be done with school. I'll have enough of a degree to get a job."
"Absolutely not. You are going to finish school and get that degree that you wanted all along. There's no point in fighting me Olivia. You and I both know that I will win."
"Fine! Fine, you win. I don't know how this is supposed to work."
"We'll figure it out."
The doctor came in and set up the ultrasound.
"There's the arm and leg and…" the doctor paused and looked at Olivia. "Do you want to know the sex?"
Giving a quick glance at Katherine, she nodded.
"It's a girl."
"Really?" Liv asked looking at the ultrasound. "Katherine it's a girl!"
Katherine looked at the picture of her granddaughter and smiled.
"There's her lips and her ears. And here's her heartbeat. She can hear you a little now. You can talk to her and she'll be able to get to know you're voice."
Without thinking Katherine bent down to Olivia's stomach. "Hey baby girl, it's grandma! I can't wait to see you sweetie. You've gotta stop giving momma heartburn though. It makes her really grouchy. I love you baby."
"Don't listen to grandma, angel. She's just a bit off today."
Katherine rolled her eyes and sat down smiling at Olivia. The doctor moved the ultrasound away and printed off a picture and gave her a disk with the baby's heartbeat.
Olivia got off the table and got ready to leave. Katherine took her out for lunch before Olivia had to go to class.
"So we can paint the nursery pink," Katherine said.
"Pink and yellow. I think it'll be cute."
"What about names?"
"I don't know. I think I'll wait on that. There's enough about the baby being a girl today."
"Alright, you think about names and I'll get the nursery ready."
"Katherine, you have no idea how helpful you've been. And that you want to take care of everything. I really appreciate it."
"But?"
"I have to do some things on my own. Fitz isn't going to be around but I'll need to take care of her myself."
"You cannot take care of her yourself. Liv, you're going to need help. There's going to be a lot of sleepless nights and bottle feedings and diapers to change. I want to help you and you're going to need help. Just let me help you. You'll move back to California and move in with us. Tom and I have already discussed it and he agrees that you'll need us. Eli isn't talking to you. So he's not going to be useful but you still have us."
"I know and thanks for that. I just really wish that Fitz would talk to me so I could tell him about our daughter."
"I know you do."