"Olivia!" Claudia shouts, but Fitz doesn't hear it. All he hears is air rushing through his ears as he cradles her head so it doesn't hit the floor. What probably is only seconds feels like hours as he waits for her to open her eyes. When she does she clutches her stomach and he lifts her off the floor and into his arms. Without thinking he heads to the garage to take her in the car to the hospital, despite her protests otherwise.
"Don't wanna go, bed please." She mumbles against his chest as Claudia follows him.
"Wait, we need a plan you can't just take off in the middle of the night." Claudia says thinking rationally even though she's freaking out.
"Here is the plan, I take her to the hospital the fix her!" Fitz snaps at her.
"Scarlett cant be left alone, she will be scared Fitz." Claudia softly explains to him and his face falls. He opens the back seat door so that he can set Olivia down, but she clutches his hand.
Claudia sees Olivia holding on to him and makes a plan.
"Okay, you take her, call me and let me know everything. I'll stay with Scarlett and make sure she understands that Liv isn't her Mom; she's going to be okay. I'll wake everyone and tell them to get down there once we know more. Got it?" With a nod Fitz agrees and speeds off with his hand still extended to the back seat holding on to a semiconscious whimpering Olivia.
Fitz parks easily, and carries Olivia into the ER. He always sees people on TV frantically calling for a doctor as soon as they walk into a busy ER, and Fitz always found it a ridiculous thing, now that he's the one carrying the love of his life into a hospital it doesn't seem to absurd. Luckily the ER isn't busy and nurses meet him at the door with a bed, he lays her down on it and they wheel her away. Her fists are gripping his t-shirt so tightly that as they pushed her into a room, he was dragged along with them. Unfortunately a nurse pulled him out of the room as they worked to wake Olivia and get her vitals to ask him about her history. He answered as well as he could, given that Olivia was generally healthy. The last time she was sick she had a cold that only lasted a few days, and Olivia categorically denied she was sick, while he pumped her full of cough drops and Gatorade.
"Could she be pregnant?" the nurse asked, apathetic, almost with disinterest. His heart stops and suddenly it makes sense, before he can be excited he realizes she must be having a miscarriage. He blames himself. How could he have let her move all those boxes today?
"Sir, could your wife be pregnant?" she asks again.
"Uhm no she's… Livvie and I aren't, she's my girlfriend, she could be, we… yeah I guess." Fitz tells her watching through the glass, and suddenly the nurse gives him a pitying look.
"I'm sorry sir if you aren't family you can't be back here. You'll have to wait in the lobby. Does she have any parents or family close by?" She asks leading him away from the window, away from Olivia.
"Wait no I have to stay, I am her family. We live together, I love her!" Fitz says firmly fighting her.
"Sir I will call security, unless you're blood related or legally, I cannot let you back in that room, it's the law." He gives he a look that tells her, she will have to call security to get him away from the window.
"Fine you can stay here, but you cannot go into that room and we cannot tell you anything about her condition, so as long as she remains unconscious, we need an emergency contact." Fitz glares at the cold nurse, and pulls out his phone to call Claudia.
"You need to come down, she's still out and they wont tell me anything."
"What the fuck are you talking about, find someone and make them talk!" Claudia yells and the nurse can hear her through the phone, she immediately thinks it would have been better if she pretended she didn't know the couple was unmarried.
"Claudia, wake up Cammie or Abby, have them stay with Scarlett and come down here right now!" Fitz tells her and hangs up, he's desperate. He just needs someone to tell him that she's going to be okay.
He sinks to the floor outside the room and sits there. Its only fifteen minutes before Claudia makes her way to him. The nurse returns and suddenly is forthcoming with information; Fitz doesn't hear anything he just stares at her through the window. She's got IV's going into her arm and wires coming off her chest. They took off the pajamas she was wearing, his Brown shirt and silk pajama bottoms, and replaced it with a blue hospital gown. The bed looks too big for her and too small at the same time. She is asleep on her back and he can't help but think how uncomfortable she must be, she never sleeps on her back.
"Fitz did you hear that?" Claudia touches his shoulder and it abruptly halts his train of thought.
"No, is she…" he doesn't even know what to ask.
"They're taking her up for surgery she's going to be fine." He breaks down at the words she's going to be fine, his eyes become glassy and his nose bright red, but he smiles for a second.
"She lost the baby though right?" Fitz asks exhausted, already mourning for something he didn't know he had.
"What? Fitz, she's not pregnant. He appendix burst. Didn't you hear the nurse?" Claudia asks concerned Fitz is having some kind of breakdown. He places his head in his hands and sinks back down to the floor. Not sure what to do Claudia sits down next to him and holds his hand.
"We are going to take her up to surgery, we have some forms and things for you to fill out but we need to take her up as soon as possible. I have no idea how this girl was standing all day, let alone made it this long. She must be very stubborn." The doctor tells and them finally Fitz laughs.
"She is the most stubborn woman on the planet." He tells the doctor, who smiles and fills the in on what they will do and recovery times. This time Fitz pays attention to what the doctor is saying. At least until he hears her voice.
"Fiiiiitttttzzzzy Bear! Come in here! I miss my Bee, come over here and get in this bed with me!" He raises his eyebrows as the doctor laughs and Claudia looks a little scandalized.
"We gave her some morphine for the pain, I assume that isn't her normal behavior?" The doctor asks. Fitz and Claudia laugh and shake their heads no.
"Fitzgerald Thomas Grant the Third get your sexy ass in my bed before I come get you! God why is your name so long? Its almost as long as your…" Before she can say something she will regret and will mortify him he answers her.
"Okay I'm coming, one second Livvie."
"Not yet but you will be!" She replies and Claudia almost falls on the floor. The doctor laughs but he's heard the same and worse from patients fairly often.
When he walks in she tries to reach for him and cant so he leans down to be closer to her. He kisses her on the cheeks and lips, but pulls away when she tries to deepen things.
"Calm down Livvie you're in a hospital, we cant get nasty in a hospital room." He tells her jokingly.
"I'm not in a hospital, because I hate hospitals and if you brought me to one I would be so pissed off at you, since I'm not pissed off at you I'm not in a hospital you see." Olivia tells him with a crinkle of her nose and he grabs her hand and brings it to his face.
"God I was so scared Liv, I love you so much, and they wouldn't let me in. I'm so sorry I left you alone.
"Why wouldn't they let you in?" Olivia asks playing with his curls in childlike amusement.
"I'm not immediate family, we would have to be married."
"Oh that's dumb well we should just get married then because I don't ever want to be away from you and your pretty curls and my best friend and his little friend." Olivia slurs slightly on her words, but still Fitz hears a marriage proposal the oddest one on record and he can't help but think that maybe there is a part of her that would one day marry him.
"I don't ever want to be away from you either Livvie." He kisses her wrist and watches her in amazement.
They talk for a while longer and Fitz can tell she's getting tired from whatever meds they've given her. She's in the middle of talking about how big her eyes are when she stops and looks at him with her owlish eyes.
"I mean they're all brown like a puppy, but big like an owl. An Owl dog. Is that a thing? Maybe it should be a thing. I'm sleepy Fitz."
"I know Livvie, they're going to take you to surgery and make you feel better."
"Okay, I luh yo…" She slurs again before falling asleep.
He holds her hand until they take her up to surgery, she's asleep when they take her away so Fitz kisses her forehead and says
"Goodbye Mrs. Grant." Softly in her ear.
