Tom took a private plane to Paris as soon as he finished his conversation with Fitz and had taken care of some business Fitz asked him to tend to, he brought the 3 three agents that came back to the states with him to rendezvous with the others that were left to watch olivia.
He also had the Florence agents fly to Paris to retrieve something Fitz had requested separately. Tom arrived in Paris early wednesday morning and immediately headed to Olivia's apartment.
When they got to her apartment from the airport it was dawn, the streets were desolate. Tom had one of the agents stationed outside of her apartment waiting for when someone came outside of the apartment so they could gain entry. After waiting for over 20 minutes, someone finally left and the agent made his way in.
He let Tom and the 4 other agents in and the walked up the her 2nd floor apartment. The agents made a blockade across her door, Tom knocked, the 2 other agents left downstair pulled the SUV's to the back of the apartment waiting for extraction.
Olivia just stepped out the shower, she was getting ready for work, she had her chinos and a sweater on when she heard the door knock. It was almost 7 in the morning, she was confused as to who would possibly be at her door so early.
She wrapped her robe around her body and went to the door. She looked through the peephole and saw no one. She thought it was weird, maybe it was the wrong door.
"Is anyone there?"
No one answered.
She opened the door to see if anyone was outside and Tom pushed his way in.
"T..Tom?" she staggered back in shock.
She didn't know how to feel on one hand she was sort of happy to see Tom but on the other hand she knew he was going to try and take her and she wasn't prepared for that.
"Good morning Ms. Pope, I have orders to take you."
Tom's face was blank.
"How did you find me?"
"I didn't find you, the president did."
She tried not to panic at the thought that Fitz knew where she was.
"Tom, I can't come with you."
"I have strict orders to take you whether or not you are willing to come."
"Tom, I'm not coming with you."
"If you do not come willingly then I will be forced to restrain you and take you, I really don't want to do that so please just come."
Jake usually woke up around the time that Olivia got up and watched for her to leave for work then followed.
She wondered if it was just some plot by her father, maybe Tom was working with her father and this was just a way to test her. She didn't know if she was confused or paranoid or both. She knew she couldn't out right ask him if he was working with her father because if he was working with her father then he would know she was on to him and if he wasn't working with her father then she would have told him about her father.
"Can I trust you Tom? To take me straight to Fitz."
"Yes Ms. Pope."
"Is he here in Paris?"
"No he is in the states, that is where I am to take you."
She felt the anxiety rise up, she wasn't prepared for Fitz to see her pregnant, maybe if she had more time to prepare but it was too soon, she wasn't sure how she would face him after everything that happened.
She thought maybe if she begged Tom hard enough he would leave her there.
"Tom, please don't take me." she pleaded.
"I don't have a choice, we have to go now."
"Just let him I wasn't here."
"I can't do that."
Olivia realized that there was nothing she could do, she wasn't prepared to struggle and risk hurting her baby so she gave up. She took a few deep breaths and grabbed just her paperwork, her prenatal tablets and other medication and put some snacks in her bag. She was careful not to remove her robe until she could throw on her coat, she didn't want anyone to see her little baby bump.
Tom led her down to the cars while the other agents stayed back to search her apartment for clues for Jake.
Jake readied himself and waited until it was time for Olivia to leave for work, he usually watched through the peephole in his door to see when she left so he could follow her. When he went up to the peephole and looked through he realized her door was open and he saw a man in a black suit in the hallway.
He opened the door quickly and ran over to Olivia's apartment, he wasn't aware that there were more than one agents. By the time he took a couple strides and was in olivia's apartment he was surrounded by 4 agents.
"Who do you work for?" Jake asked, he tried to think of a way to take them all down. The agents didn't answer and before he knew it, he felt a sharp thump on his head and he was unconscious.
Olivia had already pulled off in the 1st SUV and was on her way to the private airstrip, she didn't know that Jake followed in the car behind her unconscious and bound by ropes.
She was tired during the flight but she couldn't sleep because she was so nervous about seeing Fitz. She played over every possible scenario in her head of when she came faced to face with him and none of them were good.
After a really long flight she landed. She wasn't sure where she was because the pilot hadn't announced their location. No one would tell her anything no matter how many times she asked, she was on the tarmac and when the plane stopped she looked through the window, she recognized outside, it was the airstrip in D.C. She waited nervously for them to take her off the plane but to her surprise they just sat on the airstrip. The plane door opened and the agents that were at the back of the plane began to exit, she realized that two of the agents were propping someone up, as they walked closer down the aisle she realized it was Jake.
"Tom what the hell is going on?" she looked over to Tom who was at the plane door.
Tom didn't answer.
She started to panic, if Fitz agents knew they had Jake, then Rowan would know. She didn't think through the consequences of letting Tom take her.
"Oh my god Tom, you need to let me speak to Fitz." her voice was shaky.
"I'm sorry he's unavailable at the moment."
"He's unavailable?" she was getting angry.
"Tom I want to talk to him now!"
Tom didn't answer.
"Tom I am speaking to you! Don't act like I'm not right here" she yelled.
Tom still ignored her.
She leaned back in her chair and tried to take deep breaths, she felt angry and afraid at the same time. She didn't know if it was her hormones that were making her so shaky.
Tom spoke something into his earpiece and then the plane door closed and within a few minutes, the plane was off again.
This time it landed in a little after an hour, she was still confused as to where she was until she saw a chopper waiting for her and then she realized she was in Vermont. After the short chopper ride, she was at the house. It was beautiful, all the fresh spring flower hand began to bloom and yard was full of freshness and color. There were hydrangeas, roses, hibiscus', tulips and lilies.
Tom walked her into the house.
"Is he here?" her heart was beating a mile a minute.
"No Ms. Pope, he is not."
She sighed in relief.
She dropped her Goyard tote to the floor and sat on the couch. She was exhausted from travelling and once found a comfortable position on the couch, she fell asleep.
Tom stayed on the premises but made sure he was out of sight. Tom was the only agent there with her.
Fitz was still livid from what he had learned. He had cancelled all campaign events for a couple days, he didn't have it in him to walk around and smile and greet strangers when he was so angry. He didn't get an ounce of sleep in the night, he had to skip dinner with Karen and Gerry, he lied and told them he couldn't get out of work.
Early in the morning Abby and the team, had come to try and convince him to go to at least one or two of the campaign events he cancelled but he wasn't trying to hear it. He actually considered telling them that Olivia was on her way back but he decided against it. He didn't care to hear what they had to say about it.
He sat and waited patiently in his office as Tom reported to him everything that happened as the picked up both Olivia and Jake. He had given Tom instructions prior to drop Jake in D. to take Olivia to Vermont.
When Jake landed in D.C. and Fitz got the called he headed to meet him right away. Tom's guards brought him back to the pentagon and Fitz had been waiting for his arrival in an interrogation room, prepped and ready for Jake. Fitz waited callously as they hauled Jake into the room and strapped him to a chair.
Jake was gagged and Fitz sat looking at him in utter disgust for sometime.
He had asked Tom to do something that was definitely illegal, which was to acquire Potassium chloride for him before he left to get Olivia. Tom of course came through with it and when the agents brought Jake in, one of the agents handed him a small package. The labels were in French so Fitz assumed that they must have gotten it in France ad not in the U.S which was smart of Tom.
Fitz had no time to trade hits or insults with him, he just wanted him dead. He opened the package and took out the syringe filled with Potassium chloride, he grabbed Jake by his hair and bent it to the side in order to have full view of his neck. He looked carefully for his Carotid artery all the while Jake screamed and tried to wrestle himself out of the binds. Once he found the vein, he stabbed it with the syringe and injected the entire solution into his vein. He stood and watched as Jake struggled in his chair, he mouth frothed and foamed at the mouth.
What scared Fitz was the fact that he didn't feel an ounce of guilt or sympathy for him. This was the second person he killed because of Olivia and he knew it was getting out of control but he didn't care.
There was no way he was going to let him live after what he did to Olivia and then had the nerve to run away with her. He needed to know what it was that Jake could have possibly said to Olivia that would have made her leave him for Jake and he needed to hear it from Olivia.
Fitz had been so deep in thought he practically ignored the second have of Jake's suffocation and by the time he looked back at Jake, he was dead. The agents had prior instructions to stage a suicide so that when the guards found him, they wouldn't be able to detect foul play, not that they cared, they would just brush him off as another prisoner who died.
Fitz left the bowels of the pentagon so that the agents could take care of Jake. He headed back to the white house, he avoided Karen and Gerry at all cost. There was no way he wanted to see them after what he just did, instead he showered and threw on chinos and a tee shirt and a light coat and then left a message for the kids that he would be out of town for a couple of days. He headed back to the airstrip and boarded air force 1 to Vermont.
Olivia woke up late in the night. She was starving and she slept really bad on her back so it was killing her. She slowly got up and looked around to see if anyone else was in the house with her, when she fell asleep all the lights were off because it was still a little light out but the light in the kitchen was on so she knew someone was there. She eased herself carefully out of the couch and walked to the kitchen.
"Hello?"
No one answered.
She looked around and saw Tom walk across the lawn outside in the moonlight, she figured he must've turned the light on.
She was sweaty under her coat, it really wasn't as cold in Vermont as it was in France but she still didn't feel comfortable taking her coat off. She looked in the fridge for something to eat but there was nothing. She went back over to her purse to see if any snacks were left and she found an apple which she devoured and took a few vitamins with it.
She headed upstairs to take a shower. She thought that maybe she should call Fitz's private cell to see what was going on but she knew that if he took Jake that means that he probably thought she ran off with him which also meant that he was very angry with her and she wasn't ready to deal with his anger because she was already mentally preparing herself for her father's, who was worse. When Fitz was angry with her he had the tendency to say very cruel things but that was as far as he would go, when Rowan was angry all bets were off, he went for the jugular and he didn't care who is it. She knew she needed to warn Fitz of Rowan but if there was a way for her to reach out to Rowan first and see if she could make a deal she would much prefer that route the only problem is that Jake was her only way to contact Rowan, she didn't have his number or any way to reach him.
She filled the bathtub with barely warm water, she remember the doctor told her never bathe in hot water the way she used too. She looked around their master bedroom as the tub filled up, she went into the closet to see the same clothes that were there the last time she had been there then she realized that Fitz hadn't been there since her birthday.
She went back to check on the tub, it was half full so she added suds and epsom salt and undressed as she waited for the tub to fill up a little more then she turned it off and got in.
She rest her head back and closed her eyes and she focused on soothing her back soreness which the epsom salt was helping with tremendously. She rubbed her belly in gentle circles and before she knew it she dozed off.
Fitz finally arrived at the Vermont home after a flight and chopper ride that couldn't end soon enough. He stepped off the chopper and saw that the kitchen light was on as he walked up the path to the house. He greeted Tom at the door.
"Sir."
"Hi Tom, I think you should take the rest of the week off, I can't tell you how much I appreciate everything you've done, I know a lot of things I asked of you I shouldn't have but you helped me regardless."
"What are friends for plus you're a good guy."
"No I'm not, I killed Jake Ballard today."
"Trust me when I tell you if I were in your position I would've done the same thing, I know what if feels like to love an incredible woman, I also know what it feels like to lose an incredible woman and I wouldn't wish it on anyone so I don't blame you for fighting for her."
Tom embraced Fitz, in a sign of understanding and then let go.
"If it makes you feel any better, according to my guys they didn't live together, when we went for her, they actually found him in the apartment next to hers."
Tom paused.
"Take it easy on her she seems afraid."
"Thank you Tom."
Tom nodded and then headed to the chopper so he could get back to D.C.
Fitz walked slowly into the house, he didn't see her anywhere downstairs so he headed upstairs. He looked around and saw the master bedroom light on and headed over there. He looked around again and then saw the bathroom door open and the light on. He walked in the bathroom and saw her clothes all over the floor. He looked over in the tub and saw her, she was sleeping and covered up to her neck in soapsuds.
He stood looking at her for a while and she must've felt his eyes on her because shortly after they fluttered open and she was awake.