Fitz stepped out from behind the screen. Olivia was shocked that he would actually come here himself. Immediately after he stepped out, so did 6 other agents.
She immediately felt outnumbered and her defenses shot up. Fitz looked angry, angrier than she'd seen him in a long time. He was tense and coiled like a tiger. She'd never thought he would be capable of physically hurting her but at that moment, she wasn't sure. She felt his guards staring at her, some of the noble ones like Tom stared everywhere except at her but others were blatantly staring at her breast or crotch which wasn't helping since she was only in her bikini.
The tension in the room was thick. All 6 guards stood waiting for Fitz's command.
"Get the car seat Tom, we're taking them." Fitz walked over to the crib and stared down at both girls.
"You are not taking my daughters anywhere."
Fitz completely ignored her. He shifted around the room for clothes for the girls.
"You are not taking my kids," Olivia said a little louder.
Fitz didn't respond. He found a bag with some of their clothes in it and walked back over to the crib and began dressing them.
"Don't touch them."
She grabbed his hand and pulled it away from them.
"Derek," Fitz called, he was still completely ignoring her.
The agent walked over and pulled Olivia away from the crib and wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly so she couldn't move. She tried to fight but it was no use, Derek had at least a foot on her and he was one of the bulkier agents.
"LET ME GO!" she screamed.
It was so loud that both the girls shuffled in their sleep.
Fitz looked at Derek and instantly Olivia felt a hand over her mouth. She tried screaming again but only muffled sounds came out. Fitz got both the girls ready, Luna woke up briefly but went back to sleep. He strapped them in their car seats and began packing a few things for the trip.
Olivia got so frustrated and angry that she started crying. She felt completely helpless and she began to panic at the thought that he was taking them away for good..
Fitz took both car seats and gave them to Tom. Tom took the sleeping babies to the seaplane and prepared to take off with two other agents and the pilot as Fitz instructed. Fitz closed the door and Derek let her go almost simultaneously and headed outside. Olivia walked over to the door and tried to pass but Fitz wouldn't let her.
"Where are you taking my daughters?"
There was something about the way she said 'my daughters' or 'my babies' that always got to Fitz. She said it as if he had absolutely no claim to them. Tonight was the night they were going to hash out everything that was going on between them, that was the only reason that he wasn't on the plane with the twins, they needed to fix it once and for all and if after tonight they couldn't agree to share custody then he made up his mind that he was going to take them regardless of how Olivia felt because he now knew she was capable of running away with them and he worried that the next time he wouldn't find them at all.
"I know you do that on purpose. You emphasize that they are your kids and your babies and your daughters just to remind me how unimportant you think I am."
"You just stormed in here with half a dozen guards and took my fucking daughters. Do you really think I care about how you feel right now?"
"They are not your kids. They are our kids and I wouldn't have had to take them if you didn't run away with them. What were you thinking? Taking them all the way to Central America especially considering Luna is in remission. Are you thinking Olivia? Because this isn't you?"
"I took them because if I hadn't you would have taken them from me. That's what you said, that's what those court papers were for. You think you can just come into our lives and control everything," she cried.
"Wanting to be in my daughters' lives makes me controlling? You know that I wasn't going to take them. All I asked for were the weekends and if you hadn't given me a hard time about that then we wouldn't even be here."
"You just ordered your guard to restrain me and cover my mouth while you had Tom take my kids. There are seven of you and one of me, what the fuck am I supposed to do?You think after everything that happened I'm supposed to trust you? Mellie pissed you off and now you have full custody of Karen. You want me to wait for you to do that to me?"
"I would never do that to you-"
"You just fucking did-"
"Because in the middle of the fucking night you decided to run away with them to another country," he barked. "I didn't want it to come to this, but I'm not going to sit back and let you push me away. If you didn't want me in their lives then you shouldn't have had them."
Olivia shook her head, bewildered.
Fitz sighed, frustrated. "I don't want to hurt you-
"What do you think you've been doing for the past two years?"
"I meant it when I said I was sorry. If I could take it back I would but I can't, all I can do is apologize and never do it again," his voice was softer.
"If you really mean that then you won't take them from me."
He walked closer."I was never going to take them and you'd be lying if you said you didn't know that. I just got the court order because I thought maybe it would scare you into letting me see them and if I'm being honest I was a little scared after what you told me about the DNA test, I kind of panicked. I don't want to fight with you anymore Olivia, I just want all of this back and forth to be over so we can take care of the girls together. I feel like we were good for a while and then in these past few months…I don't know what happened…but I want to fix it."
Fitz tried to touch her but she slapped his hand away."Don't touch me," she said angrily.
He moved closer and tried to get her to look at him."Olivia I-"
All Fitz felt was a hand to his jaw.
She slapped him and if she was being honest with herself, she wasn't sure why she did it. Fitz shook his head and chuckled humorlessly. He didn't care that she slapped him, it didn't hurt. He was just tired of her bratty, selfish attitude.
"So I guess we won't be doing this amicably, I'll see you in D.C."
He turned around to leave.
"Don't leave," she cried and walked over to him to try to stop him.
"Olivia I don't know what you want from me, I really don't. I've been trying, I really have but I'm tired of fighting with you, it's draining and it's stressful and I'm done."
The tears started to well up again.
"I know, I'm sorry, okay, just don't leave. I don't know why I'm so angry with you all the time but I'll be better. I'll give you weekends and I'll put you on the birth certificate."
Fitz stopped and inched closer,"And you'll let me pay child support?"
"And I'll let you pay child support," she agreed.
"And you won't change your mind once we get back to DC."
" I won't."
He faced her fully, he tried to ignore the fact that she was half naked as he had been doing all evening and proceeded. Her mood swings were really getting to him, he needed to figure out what her problem was.
"Why are you so angry with me?"
She looked up at him.
"I don't know."
"It can't just be because I left so just be honest with me."
Olivia sighed.
"I'm scared, okay, I'm terrified that the minute I piss you off or make you mad you'll punish me by taking them. I know you're a good dad okay, I know but when you get angry you can be vicious and I don't want to have to deal with that or be worried about that, whether we're together or not I just…" She trailed off but never finished her sentence.
He was about to say something but she cut him off.
"But like I said I'll give you weekends, I'll put you on their birth certificate, I'll do whatever you want."
Fitz smiled but he was actually a little annoyed at her.
"So you've been acting crazy and running half way around the world from me because of this?"
She didn't reply.
"You and Mellie are nothing alike okay, Mellie didn't want custody of Karen, she only wanted some legal custody as leverage and even now that I have her, she doesn't call her, she doesn't visit her and I hate that she doesn't. You're an amazing mother Olivia, the last thing I'd do is take you away from them. I didn't mean what I said about custody or the courts, I was scared and so I reacted but I'm sorry if it hurt you."
"I'm sorry if I hurt you too," Olivia said. "I didn't mean to, I'd just siked myself up so much in the past few months that it got bad."
Fitz nodded, "and you can come with them on the weekend if you want, we can do this together. I think that would be best for them, that way they aren't missing you or me."
Olivia didn't immediately answer and things got awkward. Fitz almost forgot why he came there in the first place.
"Uhm so I'm gonna shower so we can leave or are you gonna leave me here?"
"I had no plans of leaving you here, go shower, I'll have them bring the other plane around."
Olivia ran to the bathroom. Pulled off her string bikini and as she expected her crotch was wet. She showered quickly and threw on a pair of Levi's high-rise jean shorts and a t- shirt and then went to find Fitz.
By the time she finished showering, Derek brought the second seaplane that was parked around the other side of the island to the front of the villa. She grabbed a few things for herself and met Fitz in front of the beach house.
"Have the girls left yet?"
"Yes."
"Can Tom take care of them on a 10 hour flight?"
" Karen's nanny was waiting for them on the jet. She's with them."
Olivia rolled her eyes.
"You thought of everything, didn't you?"
"I tried to."
"Before we leave here Liv, is everything okay between us?"
She turned to face him.
"I think it will be. I'm really sorry about keeping them from you, I never thought I'd be one of those moms but it turns out I'm no better."
"No, you are a great mom, just promise me that next time you're feeling like this, you'll come talk to me and not talk yourself over the edge."
She chuckled.
Derek signaled that the plane was ready. Fitz took her bag as they walked down the beach to the plane. Derek stood on the shore waiting for them to board. As Olivia was about to step onto the plane she stopped and punched Derek in the stomach.
"That was for holding me back and covering my mouth. Do not ever touch me again, I don't care if Fitz tells you to, I don't even care if God tells you to. You got it?"
"Yes ma'am."
Derek seemed unfazed by the punch but Olivia was just happy to get her point across. It was a quick ride back to the private airstrip where AF1 grounded.
The flight back was quick, as quick as 5 hours could go by with all the sexual tension and awkwardness that was between her and Fitz. Once they touched down in DC., And got into the car Olivia realized they still needed to talk about a couple of things.
"So I'm guessing the girls are at the White House?"
"Yes."
"So, how does this work? It's not the weekend so do you drop them back to me or?"
"Considering the fact that I haven't seen them in over two weeks, I think I can have a few extra days till the weekend."
"That wasn't part of the deal."
"No but I think it's fair and you're free to join us."
"It's fine, I guess it's fair. Just call me and let me know what's going on with them okay."
"Thanks and I'll call you an annoying amount of times."
"Alright."
"Oh and before I forget, I rented out six flags for a day as a treat for Karen. Since school is out, I was going to fly her and her friends out to magic mountain next weekend and I wanted to take the girls with me and I wanted you to come. Is that something you'd be up for?"
"You rented out a theme park?"
"Yeah, Karen's been asking for months and I think she deserves it."
"But if she went with her friends and a dozen guards you wouldn't have to rent the entire thing."
"I know but she wants me and the twins to be there so I figured it was better to be safe than sorry."
"Okay."
"Are you gonna come?"
"Yes, I'll come, my babies aren't going all the way to California without me."
Fitz eyed her.
"Our babies, I'm sorry it's the protective momma bear in me, it's not on purpose."
He eyed her again.
"At first it was on purpose but now it's not. Quit interrogating me and take me home."
He chuckled."Alright."
They rode silently for a while. Olivia had a few things to get off her chest. Fitz was staring absently through the tinted window. He looked so handsome that she stopped and stared at him for a while.
"Fitz there are a few more things we have to talk about."
He turned and faced her."Oh yea."
"Yes, you have two twins at the White House, the press is gonna find out pretty soon, they'll speculate at first but when I show up to six flags next week then they'll know."
"So let them know, they'll figure it out soon enough."
"People are going to say horrible racist, bigoted and downright cruel things about me and them. The press is going to hound them, they won't be able to live with me anymore, not if I want them to be safe. They'll have to be at the White House, so where does that leave me?"
"When you decided to have them you knew that everyone finding out was a possibility but you wanted them more, right?"
"Right."
"People will find out, their mine Liv, there is no denying that and I don't want them to be a secret, I don't want you to be a secret. You have no idea how grateful I am that you gave me the gift of two out of three of my beautiful daughters." He paused. "This is my life. I want them to be a part of it. It'll be hard at first, it's gonna be the only thing the press will talk about for weeks, maybe months but once it's done, it'll be done. We'll settle into a routine and then we can raise our daughters together."
"You make it sound so simple."
"It won't be but I don't want our daughters to grow up thinking I don't love them or that I was hiding them. it's better to get it out the way now when they are young and won't know what's happening."
He held her hand in his and kissed it.
"Well face this together, it'll be okay."
"What if they try to impeach you?"
"For having kids after I was divorced with someone who doesn't work at the white house?"
Olivia chuckled."I guess your right."
"Have a little faith Livie, it'll all work out and anything you need from me, I'll give you, just tell me, okay?"
"Okay."