Fitz and Eli join the rest of the family in the living room, amidst teams being picked for trivial pursuit, sports edition. The night proceeds with great fun and laughs. A truly relaxing and family oriented evening. As the women beat the men 4 to 2, essentially just adding up to bragging rights.

By the time the last game ends it's after 1 am and everybody is ready to turn in. Olivia and Fitz and Abby and Harrison head to their rooms for the night. While everyone else heads home, opting to return tomorrow to spend time together again, and finish the holiday cooking before thanksgiving, in two days.

When Fitz and Olivia make it up to their room it's almost 2 am. They're both tired and ready to sleep, but they both feel like there's more to be said. After preparing for bed, they lay down together cuddling as always. He kisses the top of her head after he yawns, and says, "Tonight was fun." She agrees as she replies, "Yeah. It was. We kicked your butts." He laughs as he says, "True. But we shall see tomorrow when we play a redemption round or two. I'm confident without alcohol we would've done a better job."

Olivia grins as she replies, "Then we'd better play early, because around here after noon, the holiday drinking starts." They both laugh together and share a kiss. When their kiss breaks he says, "So do I have to ask? Or are you just going to tell me?"

At first she thinks to play coy, but it's too late for that. She decides to simply spill it. But, clarifies first by saying, "I'm assuming you're wanting to ask about Huck's call." He nods as he responds, "Yeah. I am." She replies, "According to what I read in the voice to text messaging, I was right to be concerned about the call." His curiosity is peaked as he prods, "What did he say?" She braces herself for his reaction, as she replies, "In a nut shell, Huck thinks Taylor, Edison and Edgar are working together on a revenge play."

Fitz sighs as he replies, "What did he find?" She responds, "He found the kill folder Taylor developed on me right before he got arrested. Apparently he wasn't waving empty threats, so it's good I took him down when I did. The folder had information about my parent's death, my NDA with Edison, and information about my mental breakdown, and my general anxiety disorder diagnosis." He interjects, "The NDA and medical information is confidential Liv. Nobody should have those details without you signing a release."

She agreeably says, "Yes. But you know as well as I do Fitz when the right palms are greased, anything can be done or undone." He now feels himself getting angry and she can feel the tension building in his body too. She touches his face as she says, "Babe, I know it's upsetting. But I don't want you to worry about this. At least not right now. We are on vacation and we are committed to making our time about family, right?"

He hears her but says, "Liv, come on. You know this isn't something we can just push to the side. Are you mocking my request to just be with family during the holidays, no work?" She sits up to look at him as she says, "Of course not. What kind of accusation is that? I'm just trying to uphold our agreement to focus on us and family. And, I don't want to stress our baby." Instantly, he realizes how unfair his he's being, and quickly apologizes.

He leans forward, touching her shoulders and leaning his head on hers as he sits up behind her, and says, "I'm sorry Liv. I was wrong to be accusatory against you. This whole thing has my head swimming. I feel like it will never be over with these assholes. Why are you so willing to be calm about it?" She takes a breath as she replies, "Because despite the fact that I know them working together to come after me is a problem. I also know, I am not going to be able to fix it by stressing about it, and I have the best people possible working on my behalf. Huck already said he's on it, and when he has more to offer he will let me know. He just wanted to give me a heads up, because he knows the inmate transfer is likely to be in the news soon."

He can't refute her response, she did agree to not stress about stressing and worry only about what she can control. But still, he'd be lying if he didn't expect her to be more upset. He then thinks to himself, no way is he about to have a disagreement with her about her not being more stressed about something. In his head he says, that's stupid. Let it go.

Following his thought, he says, "I'm glad you're taking the reduced stress approach as promised babe. Thank you." She replies, "You're welcome. I really am trying here Fitz. Gwen and Aunt Reva was telling me about the possible affects me wigging out could cause for the baby. And it scared the hell out of me. I don't want our baby to be colicky and nervous simply because I couldn't keep my emotions balanced. I won't let those jackasses affect our child's development or overall health."

He takes his wife into his arms as he says, "I love you." She replies, "I love you too. We will be okay. I know it. I can feel it in my gut." He nods as he says, "I know. I believe that too. And to help out I will also do my best to keep my emotions more in check. It's not fair for me to lose it, but expect you to be calm. We're in this together." She grins at him as she replies, "Yes we are. You are stuck with us Mr. Grant." He nods as he places his hand on her tummy as he says, "Damn right. And I wouldn't have it any other way Mrs. Grant, and baby Grant."

They share a sweet kiss, she appreciates his willingness to join her in her efforts to work through his emotions better. This is just one more reason she's all in with him. He's always got her back no matter what, and she never feels alone when anything comes her way.

When their kiss ends they both yawn, and laugh together. He says, "Damn, I guess we're done for the night." She nods as she replies, "I think you're right." They kiss once more and get settled in bed. As they get comfortable she says, "I'm glad my blood pressure stabilized." He kisses the top of her head as he says, "Me too. Love you both babe." She smiles as he rubs her tummy, while holding her in his arms as they drift off to sleep. And she responds, "We love you too babe."

Thank you for reading this fanfiction tale. Well, Liv was rescued once again by her husband. And we now know what Huck's phone call was about. Despite those jokers being locked up, they're still trying to cause trouble. We know what they know, but we don't know yet what they're going to do with the information. It's always something in fanfiction land, right?"

Next installment we find out what Huck learns about the plot to take down Olivia, and what ideas if any they derive to combat it. We also learn more about the process of Olivia learning to accept her disorder as being a part of her. And, we continue to see how she and Fitz both mature in their marriage. All this and more in the next installment of Love and Marriage.