Love Lies and Life

A/N: Yessssss, I'm back again my brain won't shut off. Don't worry I will be sleep in about an hour from the time I upload this chapter. Mellie gets no love from the Scandal family. LOL! Caleb is the cutes. Fitz is a lot to deal with. I love Abby and Liv's friendship as well. I also love Tom as Fitz beste. Is Mellie pregnant? Let's find out. Will Liv and Fitz come to and understanding? Don't get dizzy while reading this chapter. The world wind continues. Happy Reading!

Chapter 3

Once Fitz left Liv and Abby gathered Caleb and headed to Liv's apartment. Abby decided to stay with Liv for emotional support. "Are you ok Liv? I know this is hard." Liv sits on the sofa and exhales. "I don't know Abs. I really messed up. He's really pissed off at me. Did you see how angry he was? I so didn't intend for him to find out like this."

"I think he will come around at least I hope he will." Liv drops her head into her hands. "I'm sorry Liv. I know this must be hard for you. But don't start stressing let's just wait until this weekend and see what he says."

"Yeah maybe you're right. I don't start work until Monday so maybe he and I can come to some kind of understanding."

"Hopefully so but girl I must say you baby daddy is still fiiiine as hell." "I know right!" Both women break out in laughter. Liv an Abby hang out a bit more before Abby leaves to head home. After feeding and bathing Caleb Liv retires to her bedroom. She was still worked up over her run in with Fitz and decided to surf the net for more information on his supposed fiancé Mellie. She learns that Mellie comes from a simple life middle class upraising with two hard working parents. She's an only child 25 years old graduate from Yale. "That's it?" Liv says softly to herself. "This bitch don't work why go to college if you're not going to work." Liv continues speaking her thoughts out loud. She studies Mellie's profile trying to remember where she knows her from. Then it comes to her Max.

"Damn this going to interesting if she's feels as entitled as Max was." Liv then pulls up Fitz's profile 25 years old prominent Lawyer for Grant Law an only child of Robert and Edith Grant, Robert a lawyer as well and Edith a retired politician. Even though Liv already knew this about Fitz it behooved her how Fitz was so sweet to her when they met only to read the total opposite about him in media about him being a fast moving ladies' man making a name for himself as a lawyer now engaged. Was he a ladies' man back when she met him? He didn't appear to be. She felt he really liked her until he found out her age. How did he find out anyway? She always wondered this. She felt like she was all his when they were in that room together he had told her as much. They even discuss her going to Yale. Liv ran her hand across the computer screen admiring Fitz standing in an Armani Suit as he posed for the picture. After about another 20 minutes Liv checked on Caleb finding him fast asleep she turns in for the night.

Later that night Fitz is at home going through Liv's Facebook page but there was nothing there. Her social media pages had not been used in over 3 years. Guess she really didn't want me to find out about my son. Fitz thinks to himself. The only thing he can find is that she graduated from Princeton at the top of her class with honors two years early. Wow Fitz thinks to himself. She did this while raising a child. Fitz is impressed but the anger comes back because he could have and should have been there for his son even if they had to keep it on the low as Fitz shuts down his computer Mellie walks in. "Hey honey."

"Mellie, where are you coming from and where have you been its 10'oclock at night?"

"I stopped by my parent's house." Mellie lies. Fitz watches her and she's looking a bit pale. "Mellie are you ok you don't look so good. You look like you're about to barf."

Mellie does her best to compose her nausea. She can't believe she let herself get pregnant. Babies were definitely not her forte or in her plans. She plans to marry Fitz and live life to her fullest while shopping and hanging with the rich and famous. "I'm fine honey I just think it's something I ate." Mellie rushes to the master bathroom just in time to release everything in her stomach. Fitz gets up and follows her to the bathroom. Bending down to hold her hair he can't help but ask the question. "Mellie are you pregnant?" She can't answer right away, but finally says "No I just ate something bad. I should be fine by morning." Fitz helps her get cleaned up and they retire to bed after he feed her some ginger ale.

The following morning Fitz wakes up to an empty bed. Mellie has already left. He showers and dresses and head to work. After about an hour of being there he decides to leave because he can't get his mind of Liv and Caleb. After looking up Liv's address through a private source he drives to her home. He waits until he sees someone coming out and walks up and catches the door before heading to her apartment. He knocks on the door. He hears Caleb yell to his mom that someone's at the door. Liv then appears and is frozen. "Fitz." She's says in a shaky voice "How…what…why are you here you said we'd talk this weekend it's only Thursday?"

"I couldn't wait. We need to talk now." "Hi daddy." Caleb says as he joins his mother at the door. Fitz smiles and his heart melts. "Hey Caleb." He scoops him up and walks right past Liv without being invited in. Liv just closes the door and turns around but continues to stand in the same spot. Dam he smells good. She thinks to herself. She watches him play with Caleb as if he hasn't just met him yesterday and Caleb not needing to warm up to him just laughs and talks to Fitz as if he's known him all his life. Well at lease I did something right she thinks. "Do you want something to drink?" She asks Fitz. "Yeah sure what do you have?" She thinks "Wine, juice, water…milk." Fitz looks at her "Water is fine." Liv goes and retrieves a bottled water and returns handing it to him.

"Mommy can I show daddy my room?"

"Maybe later baby right now mommy and daddy needs to talk. Can you go play in your room for a bit?" Fitz chimes in "How about I see it after I finish talking to mommy?"

Caleb smiles and says ok taking off running to his room. Fitz looks around Liv apartment and walk over to her sofa making himself comfortable. "Have a seat Liv let's talk." Liv sit on the love seat across from him. He can't help but to admire her natural beauty and the desire that is building inside of him for her. "Nice place, kind of small but nice." Liv takes his comment as a dig. "Everybody don't come from money like you do. I like my apartment it's just enough for Caleb and I and since I know you didn't come her to talk about my small…nice apartment just say what you came to say or ask what you came to ask.

"Did you do all this on purpose?" His first question "No."

"Where you really on birth control?" Second question "Yes."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Liv shifts in her seat "I was scared also I made a promise to you to never tell a soul about our encounter and I didn't want you to go to prison. I figured if people manly my mother found out who you were she would go through with her threat to have you charged with ra… having sex with me."

"So does anybody else now I'm Caleb's father?" She looks up at him after shifting her eyes to the floor embarrassed that she was that naïve and she's cause all of this to happening.

"Just Abby." Fitz looks at her and then sits back on the sofa "How did you keep your mother from reporting me or finding out who I am?"

"I ran away." Liv bites her lip and Fitz internally groans. "Not just because of the pregnancy but because my mother's boyfriend tried to rape me while she was laid out drunk."

4 Year ago….

"You little fast ass wench done went and got yourself knock-up. Your ass gonna tell me who the boy is you been fucking running yo fast ass around her like you grown. You lucky I'm not in the mood to deal with your ass tonight but tomorrow yo ass going to the clinic and you gonna tell me who this boy is. Now get yo ass in your room and you better not come out or sneak out this house. If you do you better not bring yo ass back here and I mean that." Rich walks up "Baby I went to the store to get us more to drink. I know you gone need one after finding out she done went and got herself pregnant. Here baby I fixed you a drink." Candice takes the drink and gulps it down while Rick watched ready to refill her glass. As they walked back downstairs Rick looks back at Liv with a smirk as he licked his lips sending a chill down Liv's spine.

Liv quickly goes to her room and closes and locks her door. Panic is starting to set in. Something in her gut tells her to get the hell out of dodge she quickly text Abby sharing with her today's events. She and Abby continued to talk for over three hours before Liv finally lay down afraid to go to sleep. But before she could fall asleep she hears the handle of her room door. "Olivia what did your mother tell you about locking this door unlock this door this instant." Liv jumps up from her bed. "Rich get away from my door or I'm going to scream and tell my mother." The door rattles more. "Just open the door Olivia I just want to check on you." Liv begins to text Abby 911 which is the emergency code they set up if Liv needed to get out fast. "I'm fine Rick please get away from my door?"

It goes quiet for a moment then the sound of the music becomes loader. Liv jumps from her bed and puts on her shoes and goes to raise her window to climb onto the roof when she hears Rick hit the door with force scaring the living shit out of her. "Olivia opens this dam door or I will break it down." Liv doesn't respond she's scared shitless. Abby text her letting her know she's on the way and to meet her at the usual corner. Suddenly she hears what sounds like Rick picking her lock moments later her door flies open and a drunk Rick pushes into her room. "So you giving away pussy even let some boy knock you up well I think you should give me a taste." Liv doesn't hesitate she jumps onto the roof and takes off losing her balance almost falling to the ground. She catches herself on the rain gutter and hangs on for dear life. She sees Rick at the window when he suddenly disappears back inside. Liv is losing her grip as the rain gutter bends under her weight. Liv tried to prepare herself for impact. To Liv it looks like a long way down when the drain snaps and Liv falls to the ground hard but not hard enough to keep her down. She jumps up and takes off in a sprint only to run smack into Rick. "Yeah you thought you could get away you little slut." Liv screams and Rick covers her mouth as he attempt to drag her back into the house Liv struggles and fights with all she has it didn't seem to be enough to get her out of this situation. Suddenly Liv feels him release her and she falls to the ground. She looks back and sees a boy with Rick in a choke hold and she feels pure relief. The boy chokes Rick until his body goes limp. He looks at Liv and says "Abby sent me I'm Huck now let's get you out of here." Liv doesn't ask questions she just takes off running with this Huck guy to meet Abby. Once they reach the end of the block she sees Abby's car and runs and jumps inside. "Thank you Huck I knew I wouldn't get here fast enough Liv are you ok?" Abby asks as she sees Liv break down and cry like the child she is. She drops Huck off on the next block thanking him again. Something inside of him vowed to always protect Liv from this day forward.

Present….

"I didn't know what else to do. My father is in prison because of my mom, I don't have any family left I couldn't abort him he was all the family I had. So I went through with the pregnancy. But I kept my promise I never told another soul about you and me.

"What do you tell people when they ask about his father?" She looks him directly in the eyes "I don't let people get close enough to me to ask me about my personal life. Plus it's no one's business who my son's father is." Fitz resolve is somewhat falling. "So you raised him by yourself while attending college and getting your degree?" She smiles proud of her accomplishments "Yes with Abby's help of course."

"How did you pay for college?"

"With my brain I'm very smart you know. I also had grants and student loans that I'm currently about to start paying back." Fitz is impressed to no end and very turned on but he refuses to act on it and maintains control. "How many men have you had around my son?" She frowns at him "Fuck you Fitz." His anger returns with a vengeance why didn't she answer the question why get defensive the thought of Liv sleeping with another man or having another man around his son pissed him off and angered him with a rage like reaction. "No fuck you Liv I really don't give a fuck cause I'm getting a DNA test and then I'm taking full custody of my son…Fuck me yeah alright we'll see." Fitz says with a raised voice

Liv is shocked to silence. Her mouth falls open "What…why would you do that I never tried to keep him from you?"

"Oh really then why has it been four years and I'm just now finding out about him accidently at that?"

"Whatever Fitz get out of my house."

"You mean this little rinky dink ass apartment. My son deserves better than this."

"GET THE FUCK OUT FITZ!" Liv yells

Fitz stands and walks towards the direction on Caleb's room finding him daring Liv to stop him to say goodbye. "Hey little man." Caleb is sitting on his race car bed covering his ears with tears in his eyes. His mother and father's yelling scared him as Fitz tried to approach him he takes off running around him into his mother's waiting arms. Fitz is left feeling like an ass. Yelling and not taking into account his son was in the next room. Fitz watches his son cry into his mother's neck and decides he's done and said enough for today and leaves apologizing to his son on his way out.

Liv refuses to cry in from of her son so instead she comforts him and apologies to him for yelling. Once Caleb stopped crying she tried to go back to cleaning but Caleb refused to allow her to put him down. Every time she tried he would cry louder and pull at her clothing holding on to her for dear life. She felt so bad for losing her temper and yelling seeing how it has affected him scares her with more fear than she felt the day she found out she was having him. So she sat with him on her lap until he finally fell asleep. She was too afraid to lay him in his bed thinking he might wake up afraid she laid him with her in her bed as she called Abby to update her on the latest events staring Fitzgerald Grant III.

Fitz is pissed off to no end. He refuses to accept the fact that he has feeling for Olivia. The thought of another man in her life in his son's life brought out his jealousy which he refuses to acknowledge. He does realize he may have overreacted and shouldn't have threated Olivia with a promise to take Caleb. He wasn't that stupid. That meant courts and people looking into his past and the possibility of Liv's age at the time of conception. He wished he could take back what he said to her about taking Caleb now he may never get to see his son and he would have no way of fighting her on it because she had the upper hand when it came to that. So he picks up his phone as he parks in front of his home and sends her a quick text that simply said I'm sorry. He places his phone into his pocket and exits the car and sees Mellie car in the driveway. She left early without informing him she was gone and now she's home. He takes his phone and checks it to see if he's had any missed calls from her and sees he hasn't. He continues inside calling out to her. "Mels." "Up here." She answers

He finds her in their bedroom just getting out of the shower trying to make her way to the bed. When she sees him she tries to stand upright and walk as steady as possible. "Mellie are you alright? Why do you look like you're in pain?"

"Oh honey it's just cramps my period started and it's a bit heavy this month." Fitz helps her get into bed but something in his gut is telling him something is not right with Mellie. "Are you sure?"

"Yes what are you doing home why aren't you at work?"

"I had court today and decided not to go back to the office. Can I get you anything?"

"No Fitzgerald I'm fine, but I just want to rest can you close the door behind you on your way out." Fitz tucks her in then leaves closing the door behind him. He goes downstairs and goes to the kitchen to find himself something to eat. He checks his phone again to see if Liv sent him a reply but there was none. So he sends her another one. Please call me if this weekend is still good, I didn't mean what I said about taking Caleb. Just as he put his phone down on the counter it chimes. He picks it back up and read the received text hoping it was from Liv but instead it was Tom.

Tom: Are you busy?

Fitz: No, what's up?

Tom: Can you come out I'm in your driveway?

Fitz: OMW

Fitz places his phone in his pocket and walks outside and gets into Toms car. "What's up man, what happened?"

Tom starts up the car and drives off. "Did you talk to Mellie yet?"

"About Caleb? No you advised me to wait. What's up Tom talk to me?"

"I always told you I didn't trust Mellie but out of respect for you I accepted the relationship."

"Don't do that Tom just tell me. What did you find?"

"Mellie was pregnant."

"What do you mean was?"

"Today she was at the women for women's clinic I tappd into their system. She had and abortion today. She was 7 weeks pregnant. I have been tracking her. Sorry bro I just didn't want her to continue to play you buy holding shit over your head."

"Pull over." Tom pulls over the car and Fitz gets out and begins pacing back and forth trying to maintain his hurt and anger. Tom steps out of the car but does not approach Fitz as he watches him try and hold himself together. Fitz begins to swing at the air violently yelling profanities. Tom thought he might have even heard him said the word bitches but he couldn't be for sure. What he did know is that he couldn't allow Fitz to go back home until he calmed down.

Sorry I have to stop here sleep calls to me. Until next time….