A/N - Chapter 22 is missing. I haven't been able to find it in my drive so if anyone has a copy of it and can email it to me then please reach out via private message. I'll re-insert into the story. I'm honestly not sure how I managed to delete the chapter from the story in the first place.

Olivia began sifting around her apartment, she had so much she needed to get done. She needed to leave Bonnie severance money since she wouldn't have a job anymore, she needed to let her team know that she would be leaving. If she was honest with herself, she wasn't exactly sure how long she would be able to hide from Fitz on her own but there was one person he was sure that could disappear her, one person she couldn't stand but if asking him for help meant she got to keep her daughters then that was what she could have to do. She debated whether or not she really wanted to involve him but there really was no choice and after some time she finally dialed him and waited for him to pick up. He picked up on the first ring, as if he knew she would be calling.

"Olivia, I thought you said you never wanted to see or hear from me again?"

She could hear his sardonic chuckles over the phone."I need your help."

"You do?"

"Rowan, if you aren't going to help me don't waste my time."

"No, I'll help you but if I do then you have to agree to start accepting my call again."

"I'll do whatever you want."

"What do you need?"

"I need to disappear, can you help me to do that?"

"It depends, from who?"

"Someone who can find me if I don't do it right."

"How soon do you need to go?"

"Tonight."

"That's not much notice Olivia. Are you in danger?"

"No but I have to leave as soon as I can. It's important."

"Fine. There will be a car in the garage of your apartment tonight."

"Rowan, I have two other -"

"Oh you mean my sweet granddaughters, I know."

Olivia was surprised that he knew but she didn't show it.

"What time?"

"8pm and pack as light as possible."

He hung up without another word.

Abby walked into the living room, "who was that?" She asked.

"No one,"

She went over to her computer to cancel the flights she'd booked, there was no need for them now. The girls had been up for some time now, thankfully Abby was keeping them busy so she could take care of a few things. She wrote Bonnie a generous severance check, she took care of a few legal matters in regard to OPA and who would be at the helm since she was leaving, she packed two weeks worth of clothes for all three of them . All her nice things would have to stay back, eventually she'd ask Abby to pack them up and put them in storage or send them to wherever she was depending on whether or not she thought it was safe to do so.

It was almost time for her to go, she had two duffel bags packed for her and the girls. She had all important documents in her handbag, she usually kept about 10k worth of cash in her apartment, she took that with her as well, along with all her cards and banking information. Five minutes before the car was scheduled to arrive, she headed down.

Exactly a 8pm, a car entered the garage, an all black Suv with tinted windows. The door opened and she threw the duffel bags in and carefully placed the car seats inside and then entered as well. Rowan sat on the opposite side from her and the girls.

"Hello Olivia," he said.

Olivia nodded but couldn't get a word out. He flipped in the light in the back of the car and inspected the girls. "I can't believe you've been keeping my gorgeous granddaughters from me."

"Rowan, I'm really not in the mood."

"You agreed you'd talk to me. I'm trying here. I know you're upset about what I do- but I can't help that. It's been long enough. The least you can do is have a conversation with me."

"Fine," Olivia said.

"What are their names?"

"Luna and Lana," Olivia said.

From then on, silence enveloped them. Rowan stared at the girls intently until about 45 minutes later, the car came to a stop.

"Where are you taking me?"

"Off the coast of Costa Rica, there is a small private island, you can stay there, San Jose is an hour away and the island is 25 minutes away by speedboat. The workers on the island will take care of you and my granddaughters, when they are old enough to go to school, if you still need to be hidden then we'll talk."

"You have a private island?" She asked, a little surprised.

He nodded.

"There is a jet waiting on the runway for you."

"Why are you being so nice to me? After all this time, why are you helping me?"

"I screwed up with you, I'll admit that and after all these years I'm just hoping I can get a chance to be better with my granddaughters."

"So you've known about them all along?"

"I have, yes."

"And you know who their father is?"

"I do, yes."

Olivia was perplexed."So no speech?"

"No. Just promise me you'll think about giving me a chance to get to know them."

"As long as you do the work that you do, I don't want you around them, when you retire or quit, I'll be more than happy to give you a chance to be in their lives."

He helped her out of the car and onto the jet.

Tom walked into the Oval Office. It was still a mess from earlier but the aide did their best to make it look a little more decent.

"Sir, she left the apartment an hour ago."

Fitz looked up from the documents he was reading. He'd spent the entire day making sure everything was prepared for the girls to be able to stay.

"She got on a private jet with your daughters."

"She what? And you let her go?"

"She was accompanied by guards, I didn't want any confrontation with your daughters involved? I have the FAA tracking the flight, once it lands we'll know where she is."

Fitz calmed down.

"Okay thanks Tom," Tom nodded and made his exit.

Ten hours later Olivia landed in hot and humid San Jose. A car was there to drop her to the oceanfront and once she got there, a boat was ready to take her to the island. She briefly thought about what impact changing environments would have on Luna but justified it because she would be secluded from most people. It was a smooth ride to the island, it lasted less than half an hour just as Rowan said. The girls were asleep again, they had woken up in the plane and played and screamed and giggled until they fell asleep. The island was beautiful, the sand was white, the water was blue and the air was clear. Banana and coconut trees were abundant. There was a beach house, a modern one, the front was mostly made of white concrete walls. The man who waited for her at the marina took her bags off the boat and then took the car seats off the boats and brought them to the porch with two sleeping girls inside them and then he came back and helped her off. She wasn't sure if he spoke English so she decided to thank him in spanish.

"Hola"

He looked back and nodded.

She walked into the house with the car seats on both arms. There was a huge open space, everything was light and open. There was a huge bed in the middle of the room. She took the girls out of their car seats and laid them on the bed. She would have to figure out a way to get a crib for them but for now the bed would have to do. Lana was a wild sleeper so she would have to watch them carefully. She put pillows at the sides of the bed just in case. When she was finished, she took a look around the house. Her cabinets were stocked with food but nothing appropriate for babies so she made a mental note to take care of that, luckily she packed all the baby food she could manage to carry with her so she would be okay for a while. She was tired from all the traveling and pretty soon, she was right beside the girls in the bed, fast asleep.

Fitz sat in his chair laughing uncontrollably. He couldn't help it, his life was hilarious. It was funny when he heard Olivia ran off with his children, it was even funnier when he found out she went to Costa Rica and now that it was five days later and Tom still couldn't tell him where exactly in Costa Rica she was, it was absolutely hilarious.

"Sir, we know she is in San Jose but I just need a couple more days to find her exact location, my guys are doing their best."

Fitz decided that after 5 days of screaming at him, it wasn't helping.

"Thank you Tom, keep me posted."

"I will sir," Tom nodded and headed out.

Fitz was getting frustrated, it had been almost a week and still no sign of her or the girls. He felt a defeated and sad that Olivia would just skip town with them but also angry that she was being so immature and selfish. He had no desire to keep them away from her, he just needed to actually have a serious conversation with her. He had hoped if nothing else, after he served her court papers she would take him seriously and try to mediate but it did the complete opposite.

The next evening when he was on his way to the residence, he heard someone jogging behind him and turned around. It was Tom.

"Sir we found her."

Fitz stepped back.

"How?" he hadn't expected to hear that anytime soon.

"I had an arrangement with the head of police in San Jose, for an undisclosed sum of money, he gave all his officers a copy of her photo and told them to keep an eye out for her. A squad of officers found her at the marina a few hours ago. I warned them not to engage but to follow if they found her and they did just that. She's staying at a private island 35 minutes off the coast of Costa Rica."

"Who else is on the island?"

"Just local people, from what the officer reported, they seem to be handy people who work on the island."

Fitz took a moment to think.

"Tom, I'm going there tomorrow to get my children, can you make the proper arrangements?"

"Absolutely sir, I'll get everything in order, I'll try to keep everything under wraps as much as possible."

"Thanks Tom, I really appreciate everything you've done to help me."

Tom gave him his usual nod and took off.

Fitz let out a sigh of relief. He knew he wouldn't be able to sleep so he turned straight around and headed back to the oval. The trip to Central America was going to take him off schedule for at least two days so he figured he could try to take care of as much work as possible.

He dozed off around 1 in the morning in the oval and woke up at 3:30. He went to the residence and showered. He threw on some khaki chinos and a t- shirt and waited on the balcony for one of his guards to come and get him.

Olivia dressed the girls in their matching bathing suits. She wore a white string bikini. Lisa, one of the helpers on the island, was going to take her on a walk around the island. The island wasn't exactly as small as Rowan had made it out to be, it was huge for a private island. There was a small hill in the middle of the island with a waterfall that flowed into a small pond. When Lisa told Olivia about the waterfall, Olivia immediately asked for a tour. She wondered how Rowan could afford an island of this size but she knew every time she asked him questions, she didn't like the answers.

She walked the island with Lisa and her son Roberto. Olivia carried both girls on her hips with Lais occasionally switching the girls between them when Olivia couldn't manage. They stopped by the coconut trees and Roberto stopped and chopped coconuts for them so they could drink the water inside. Luna loved the coconut water and Olivia ended up having to ask Roberto to get her another one. They walked up the paved path on the hill and stopped again when they reached the banana grove, the trees weren't that big so Olivia was able to reach up and pick bananas for her and the girls. They walked further up the hill until they reached the bottom of the waterfall. Olivia was awed by how beautiful it was. It was something out of the stock photos you found online. There lychee trees, mango trees, strawberry, blueberry and raspberry trees scattered all around the pond. She sat by the pond and held Lana and Luna so their feet were in the water. They played and giggled and kicked their feet in the water. She was careful with Luna, even though she allowed her to put her feet in the water, she kept it away from her face. The doctor gave her the okay to return to normal activities but she still needed to be cautious, especially since they were in another country and she hadn't found a replacement doctor for Luna as yet. She let them suck on mangoes and bananas as they played and soon they were both asleep in her arms.

"I think it's time to get back," she said to Roberto and Lais.

"Okay, go back," Lais said in her thick accent.

She walked over and took Lana from Olivia and Roberto helped Olivia up from the rock she was sitting on.

They made their way back down the trail. As they were walking Olivia heard the sound of either a plane or loud boat, she wasn't sure but it sounded very close.

"Did you hear that?" She asked both Roberto and Lais.

"Yes, airport close." Roberto answered.

The airport was close and she heard planes flying over all the time but that one was just a little louder. She pondered and decided to let it go.

The walk on the trail wasn't very long, especially when they were going down hill. She was back down by the beach within half an hour. The first thing she noticed was a seaplane parked on the shallow water. She thought that there was no way he could've found her, it had only been a week. She turned to Lais and pointed to the plane. Lais shrugged and shook her head signaling that she had no idea why it was there.

She took Lana from Lais and thanked them for a fun day then told them to go home.

She told herself it could just be Rowan but she knew exactly who it was. She hoped she was wrong and that it was anyone else in the world except for him. She walked up the porch with both sleeping toddlers in her arms. She left the front doors open when she left for the hike earlier and they were still open. At first glance nothing seemed different, she didn't hear any noise indicating that anyone was inside the house. She walked over to the crib she bought for the girls days earlier and placed them inside. She quickly and quietly removed the bathing suits and left them in diapers. She turned around to check to see if anyone was in the house but before she could move Luna laughed in her sleep. It was loud and immediately she heard footsteps coming her way from the back of the house.