So winter storm Jonas has forced me to stay inside all day and cancelled all my plans. Bad for me, but good for fanfiction fan because I had the time to update a second time this week. OMG got my 300th review for this part of my story, thank you everyone for your support. Don't own Scandal or its characters. Please excuse any typos. Happy Reading, and as always reviews are greatly encouraged.
Olivia laughed so hard she almost fell over, "I cannot believe you thought my brother was my boyfriend."
Fitz shook his head "Liv . . . you really are not going to let me live that one down are you."
Olivia shook her head, "Nope . . . President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III."
Fitz just smiled and hung his head, "At least we know what party Lily favors . . . she is always talking about Republican."
Olivia smirked, "but she is always requesting to ride . . . De-mo-crat . . . shows you what party she trust the most."
Fitz rolled her eyes and chuckle, "that is because DEMO is the calmer of the two horses and will let her ride longer."
Olivia shook head, "You really cannot accept your daughter may be leaning to the left huh."
Fitz chuckled, "I can accept it . . . but she is three . . . she has time to go to the right side . . . pun intended."
Olivia just shook her head.
Fitz stopped laughing and took on a serious look, "Uhm Liv . . . I never got the chance to thank you for what you did for Karen."
Olivia stared into his eyes, "No thanks needed Fitz . . . you know I love Karen like she is my own."
Flashback: A few weeks prior . . .
It was a normal night at OPA, everyone was throwing out respective leads they have gotten for a current clients case.
Olivia's phone began to ring and she picked it up. "Olivia Pope"
Karen muttered through tears, "Its Karen . . . I need you to come pick me up . . . oh gosh I messed up Liv . . . I really messed up . . . my dad going to kill me . . . I'm such a screw up." Karen was slurring her words and her voice keep going in out.
Olivia could barely understand the teenager but knew something was seriously wrong. She walked away from her team. "Karen I am going to need you to calm down . . . and take a deep breath and explain to me what is going on."
Karen tried to take a deep breath which proved to be difficult as the room begin to spin. "Liv . . . I don't feel too good."
Olivia's heart began to race knowing something is now seriously wrong, "Karen where are you?"
Karen closed her eyes which made the room stop spinning long enough to talk to Olivia, "I ditched my detail and went to a college party with some friends at a frat house . . . I got separated from my friends . . . but I meant a nice guy . . . at least I thought he was nice."
Olivia did not like where this conversation was going having handled a lot of cases in the past involving sexual assault at college parties.
Karen continued through her tears with her eyes closed. "I seriously only had one drink Liv . . . just one . . . but I feel really tipsy and out of it . . . the guy suggested we go upstairs to get away from the loud music since I was not feeling well . . . we began to make out . . . which was fine he had nice lips . . . but he wanted more . . . I wasn't ready . . . I didn't know him."
Olivia's heart dropped fearing the worse had happen to Karen. She quietly grabbed her jacket and keys.
Karen opened her eyes to look at the scissors covered in blood in her hands. "I told him to stop . . . I beg him to stop . . . oh my gosh Liv . . . I stabbed him . . . I stabbed him with scissors . . . then he slammed my head against the headboard as I keep stabbing him in the arm . . . everything went black . . . when I came to I notice my leggings were tore and he was gone . . . what if he is laying somewhere dead . . . oh gosh my dad is going be so mad at me . . . I am going ruin any chance he has of re-election . . . I flashed him my breast too and he took pictures . . . I am such a screw up."
Olivia wanted to panic hearing the things Karen just disclosed to her but she could not, right now Karen need a gladiator and she was going to give her that. "Where are you exactly Karen . . . I am coming to get you."
Karen looked around, "Honestly Liv . . . I don't know my friend drove . . . we are at frat house near University of Maryland." She began to sob. "I'm in it deep aren't I Liv . . . my dad going definitely send me back to boarding school after this . . ."
Olivia sighed knowing she could not clue Fitz in on this situation right now; he would overreach and probably drop a bomb on the frat house. He just went through impeachment investigation for their relationship, bombing a frat house in Maryland would surely lead to another. " breath Karen . . . I am not going to tell your Dad what is going on right now . . . but I am going to need you press the compass app on your phone . . . you remember the app you Dad made you and Gerry put on your phones in case you got lost."
Karen pressed the app and provided Olivia with her coordinates. "Now honey I need you to get chair and block the door of the room you are in."
Karen managed to get to her feet but the room began to spin like she was on a rollercoaster ride. She blocked the door and made her way back onto the bed, "I'm so tired Liv . . . "
Olivia shook her head assuming the little jerk drugged Karen, "No Karen . . . K . . . I need you to stay up with me . . .sing for me . . . you have such a beautiful voice . . . please stay up and sing for me."
Karen began to sing, somewhere over the rainbow. Her voice was shaky but it still sounded amazing. Karen had always had an amazing voice and has recently started to write songs to deal with the hurt Mellie caused her.
Olivia put her Bluetooth in so she can still hear her. She walked into the conference room and her team immediately knew something was wrong. Olivia quickly explained the situation about Karen to the team. "Harrison I need you to take Lily to the White House to Fitz." Olivia looked over at her 3 year old happily coloring. "If you take her to the White House . . . the secret service detail assigned to her will follow you to the White House, which will give me the space I need to retrieve Karen without alerting Fitz."
Harrison frown slightly, "I think I can handle a more serious task then taking Lily to the White House."
Olivia nodded, "You have the most important task Harrison, you are creating an distraction to buy me and team time . . . if the President knew about this it would be serious consequence . . . I also need you to track down Karen detail . . . according to protocol he will be out looking for her but will report her missing status to Fitz in less than an hour . . . I need you to buy me time and convince him to not go to Fitz right away . . . you are the best on the team at persuasion."
Harrison nodded, "Got it." He picked up Lily and her bag and walked out of OPA. Lily's detail Peter followed the pair.
"Huck and Quinn, take Huck's car and follow me to the party . . . I might need muscle and some tech expertise."
All three of them made it to the frat house a few blocks from the University of Maryland. They walked inside and saw a typical frat party full of drunk and high college students dancing around and making out. Everyone was so out of it, the team made it through the party undetected. They made it upstairs and found the room Karen was in.
Olivia talked into her phone, "Karen . . . we are here you can open the door."
Karen made it to the door and opened it. She could barely stand as Olivia wraps am arm around her to keep her up.
Karen muttered through her tears, "You came. . . "
Olivia shook her head, "of course I came . . . I would always come for you . . . now tell me who this boy was."
Karen hung her head, "I cannot remember his name . . . I am such a screw up."
Olivia nodded, "did you take any pictures with him." Olivia asked known 9 times out of 10, there was always pictures since this generation took a selfie every five seconds.
Karen nodded her head, "we did take an usie earlier." She handed the phone to Olivia.
Olivia handed the phone to Quinn, who looked confused, "what's an usie?"
Huck answered, "It's like a selfie but you take it with more than one person."
Both women looked surprised Huck kept up with the Instagram terminology.
Quinn found an picture of Karen with a tall man in his early 20s with dark brown hair taken an hour ago. "Is this him?"
Karen nodded her head, "Yeah I think that is him."
Olivia nodded her head, "handle it . . . I need to get her out of here."
Quinn and Huck nodded and left immediately to locate the college guy in the picture.
They spotted the college guy talking to yet another underage girl at the party. He wrapped the button down shirt he was wearing earlier around his arm as a bandage and bragged he cut his arm stealing a keg from a rival frat house.
Quinn smirked, "I got this." She pulled her dark brown hair out of the ponytail holder, and removed her jean jacket. She next removed her button up shirt to reveal a tank top and removed her bra under the tank top. She hand the article of clothing to Huck and pushed up her breast making them look bigger.
The corners of Huck's mouth turned up slightly knowing exactly what Quinn is about to do.
Quinn walked up the guy and smiled flirtingly at him. "You hot want to go somewhere private."
The other girl was not impressive by Quinn, "He is busy . . . go talk to some other guy."
The guy looked at the girl he was originally tried to drug, she was average built for a teenage girl and had a decent face. He turned to look at Quinn and saw a woman, a woman he did not have to drug and was willing and ready to give it up to him. He turned to Quinn, "yeah let's go somewhere more private . . . beautiful."
Quinn smirked and grabbed the college guy's hand leading him outside of the house and into the darkness of the side of the house.
The college guy smirked, "Uhm outside . . . I have never done it out in a yard . . . first time for everything I guess."
Huck came up from behind and pitched a nerve in the college guy's neck.
The college guy gasped for air and smacked his chest feeling it tighten immediately.
Huck appeared in front of the guy, "You have exactly five minutes to tell me everything I want to know or you are going to run out of air . . . you heart will stop . . . and you will die."
The college guy began to panic as he tried desperately tried to breath.
Quinn looked at her watch. "4 minutes 35 seconds."
Huck looked at the college guy, "Give me your cellphone."
The college guy quickly removed his cellphone from his pocket and gave it to Huck.
Huck plugged a chip inside the phone to obtain information on everything the college guy has done in the last 12 hours with this phone. He quickly finds the pictures he took of Karen topless deleted them and the ones the college guy send to his cloud. He also made sure the picture was not sent to a third party, thankfully they were not. "Hmm seems to me you like taking pictures of girls you drug without their clothes on?"
Quinn shook her head, "You are sick . . . make a copy . . . we may want to use those later."
Huck nodded his head and made a copy to give to Olivia. He then tossed the phone onto the ground after wiping the hard-drive and cloud, and stepped on it.
By this point the college guy started to turn blue in the face.
Quinn looked at her watch, "42 seconds."
Huck balled up his fist and punched the college guy straight in his chest. This undid the nerve pitch he did earlier but also resulted in the college guy vomiting everything in his stomach.
Quinn and Huck turned to walk away.
The college guy muttered through his vomiting, "Who are you people?"
Huck stopped and turned slightly, "Your worst nightmare."
Meanwhile . . .
Olivia managed to get Karen into her car after she parted ways with Quinn and Huck. She received a text from Harrison saying he bought her four hours with Karen's detail before he has to go tell Fitz.
Karen was quiet as Olivia drove. Olivia rubbed the teenager back with her right hand as she drive with her left.
Karen looked up at Olivia, "are you taking me to the White House?"
Olivia shook her head, "No I am going to get you medical attention."
Karen began to cry, "We cannot . . . I am recognizable . . . it will get back to my Dad if we go to a hospital."
Olivia nodded her head, 'I know that is why I am taking you somewhere to get medical attention that will not ask a lot of questions." Olivia pulled up to an woman's health clinic.
Karen looked out the window and read the sign above the door, "Pope Memorial Woman Clinic . . . you own a clinic Liv?"
Olivia shook her head as she helped the teenager out the car, "No, the nonprofit my mother started in the memory of my father gave a lot of money to this clinic and they decided to name it after him."
Once inside the clinic, Olivia signed Karen in her the name Kacey Baker. A nurse came out and called for a Kacey Baker. At first, neither Karen nor Olivia moved until they realize that was the fake name they used.
Both Karen and Olivia stood up to follow the nurse. The nurse stopped the pair, "Oh I am sorry only family can come back with a patient . . . clinic policy."
Olivia without hesitation said, "She is my daughter."
The nurse looked at Olivia, an obviously African American woman and then at Karen a white teenager with dark blonde hair and blue eyes. She found it hard to believe these two were mother and daughter.
Karen narrowed her eyes at the nurse, "Have you never seen a multiracial family . . . I want my mom to come back with me." Karen grabbed Olivia's hand and intertwined her fingers with hers.
The nurse nodded her head and allowed the pair to proceeds to the back. Once in the examine room, the doctor ran a head-scan, which came back clear for any major head injury. The next part was more difficult; she asked if Karen would permit her to do an inspection of her body given her torn leggings and the circumstances that brought her there.
Karen was nervous being a virgin; she had never even had an gynecologist appointment before. She looked over at Olivia for guidance.
Olivia squeezed the teenager's hand, "everything is going to be alright K . . . the doctor just going to give you a quick examine to make sure you are okay down there." Olivia's voice was warm and motherly, it put Karen at ease. In truth, Olivia was panicking inside, she hated the idea that Karen's first time may have been with a person she did not chose and at time she was not ready.
Karen nodded her head, "You can do the examination."
Olivia smiled at the doctor, "K . . . look at me, let me tell you a funny story about your sister . . . so she decided to become a vegetarian after your father let her watch some children movie about a pig . . . that lasted a hour until I told her that means she couldn't have your famous bbq chicken finger."
Karen chuckled remembering every time she makes them for her little sister her entire face and a most of her curly hair would get covered in bbq sauce, "Yeah butterfly loves my chicken fingers . . . one time dad tried to make them and trick her . . . she knew immediately they were not my famous bbq chicken fingers."
The doctor smiled listening to the mother and daughter exchange about the young sister. "All done."
Karen looked surprised, "Wait that was it . . . I didn't feel a thing."
The doctor nodded, "I didn't see any bruising, bleeding, or any signs of disturbance so I didn't need to do a full examine . . . I am of the opinion you were not assaulted . . . given what you have told me you are very lucky . . . I have examine many young woman who similarly put themselves in serious potential dangerous situations that had not been so lucky."
Karen hung her head, "I know I made a huge mistake and majorly screwed up tonight." In truth, going to a college party and drinking was not who Karen was normally. She came across an old voicemail left by her mother months ago about Karen needing to do well in school, keep up with her exercising to avoid getting fat and associating with people from the right social circles. It reminded Karen that all Mellie cared about was appearances and Karen wanted to show that she was not her mother's perfect doll anymore. So against her better judgment she ditched her detail to go to a wild college party with the intention of drinking and making out with the first guy who asked.
Olivia nodded, "Don't worry doctor I will ensure my daughter does not sneak out to a party and put herself in harms way again . . . she knows she is very important to me and I would not know what to do if anything ever happened to her." Olivia and Karen told the doctor she was 17, went to a high school party where she was drugged and might have been assaulted.
Olivia and Karen left the hospital.
Karen cuddled into Olivia side as she wrapped an arm around her as she drove.
Olivia had her Bluetooth in her ear, "Call Jennifer Wilson." The phone began to dial the number connected to that name, "Hello Jenn, I am sorry to bother you at such a late hour, but I just took a client to the clinic and I need you to destroy any sign of that visit . . . the name is Kacey Baker . . . Thanks."
Olivia made another call as they made their trip from the clinic. "Call Quinn Perkins" The phone began to dial the number connected to Quinn's name. "Hey Quinn . . . Hmmm . . . Ok wow . . . yes search through all the pictures of his other victims and find the identity of the other girls . . . we are going to make that little punk pay big times."
Olivia received a call from Harrison as she pulled into the gates of her apartment. She had no problem bring Karen inside since she had gotten her cleared weeks ago to visit with Lily there. "Hey Harrison . . . I know my time is up and the detail is going to Fitz . . . tell Fitz Karen is with me and have him call me."
Olivia sat up the couch for Karen and gave her a Georgetown University t-shirt and a pair of sweat pants. Olivia looked at the teenager in the clothes she gave her and for once tonight she looked like the 14 years old girl she is and not the much older woman she was trying to be tonight.
Karen laid across the couch, when Fitz called Olivia.
Olivia took the call in the other room, "Hello Fitz"
Fitz sighed. "Hello . . . Liv why did my daughter ditch her detail and apparently is with you."
Olivia spoke in a hush voice, "I don't want to go into much detail because she wants to talk to you about it herself, but Karen got into a situation at a party she was attending and I handled it."
Fitz shook his head, "situation . .. at a party . . . Liv . . . what is going on . . . is Karen hurt . . . did someone hurt her . . . you have to give me more information Liv . . . I am losing my mind."
Olivia sighed, "Fitz do you trust me . . . do you trust me to be there for Karen?"
Fitz sighed, "Yes I do trust you Olivia . . . of course I trust you with Karen . . . it's just . . . I am worried . . . is she really okay?"
Olivia responded, "She will be fine . . . she is sleeping at my place and tomorrow she will be in a better head space and will be able to talk to you . . . just promise me no matter what you will not be too hard on her . . . she is beating herself up enough about tonight."
Fitz leaned back in the office chair he was sitting in, "Why do I feel like you did something major for Karen tonight . . . and I probably should be thanking you?"
Olivia smiled slightly, "because I did . . . but you don't need to thank me . . . I love Karen like she is my own."
Olivia ended her phone call with Fitz after telling him to give Lily a big kiss for her. She returned to check on Karen and to make sure she does not need anything. She sat next to the teenager and Karen placed her head onto Olivia's lap.
Karen muttered, "I never really knew what you did at OPA . . . at least never saw what you did up close like this . . . I know you have helped my Dad become President and all . . . but I never seen you in action until tonight . . . it's amazing what you and your team do . . . how you help someone on their worse day get through a situation they thought was hopeless." Karen looked up at Olivia with tears in her eyes.
Olivia softly brushed the tears away. "Yes, me and my team like to be gladiator in suits for our clients . . . but Karen you are not a client . . . I was so afraid for you tonight and it nearly broke my heart to think something bad had happen to you . . .. I just wanted to make sure you were protected and safe."
Karen looked deeply at Olivia's eyes, "It's nice . . . "
Olivia smiled at Karen running a hand through her hair, "It's nice?"
Karen nodded. "Yeah it's nice to have a real mom."
End of Flashback . . .
Recap: Poor Karen, We got to see OPA gladiators in actions, Olivia and Karen's relationship have evolved
Preview: Is it time for Fitz to date post-divorce?
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