Standing was the hardest thing I did all day. My legs felt tingling and numb, but I guess at some point I did make it to the couch.
"Fitz open your eyes please."
"I don't want to. I know I have a fever and I feel like this is a dream and if I open my eyes you will be gone."
"Open your eyes for me and I will lay down with you; Fitz I am here but I need you to be strong for a little longer. I'll take over after."
"Promise?"
"Ill keep this promise. Mellie I need you to go keep people busy please. Cyrus.."
"What do you need Liv?"
"Until I can get him calm, I need you to do this Fitz's way. No back-door dealings unless they are run thru us. Keep the enemy out and don't become one."
"You know that I can still hear you right?" Fitz spoke from under the arm thrown over his face
"Yes, but you are not at your best and I need you at your best sir."
"Mr. President this might be a little pinch, but once the needle is in you should be feeling the effects a few minutes later. I'm going to run this to the lab real quick and see if there is something going inside you. It will be best to move after the bag is done. Ill have a nurse come in and check on you in a hour, if the bag finfishes before that time just call and will take out the needle. I'm sure Miss Pope agrees with me that you should be resting in your bed."
Liv speaks up, "thank you, doctor. I'm sure that I do not have to say this stays completely confidential."
"I like my job Miss Pope and I would love to keep it. But I fully understand what you are saying."
Here was the man I couldn't, shouldn't be in love with falling apart before my eyes. I almost didn't pick up the call from Cyrus, he didn't give me a chance to say anything, 'just said get to the white house quick' and hung up.
I thought the worst but once I got in the hall and didn't see chaos, I calmed a little. Fitz is many things but him like this is breaking my heart even more. I never thought there would come a time where I had to see him like this he was basically begging to be let go without having to say it. It was sad to see him fight like this and the main two people in his life were looking lost but wanted to take his position or play him like a puppet.
"So you just waltz in here and we are expected to follow your orders. In case you don't remember I am the first lady."
"Mellie I am only here because he asked. Just once can you get out of your feelings and be what you want to be, a leader. This is awkward for us all but lets remember I am the one who kept you in this house, I have the all the power to spin stories, fact and fiction."
"I can't believe she is still fighting. Mellie I feel like dying right know, and I called Olivia here because she makes me want to keep fighting. You both schemed to having this next baby and I followed like a lap dog to keep you both happy. I want to be president, but I will not sacrifice being a human for it. I just want to be normal because usually that's what someone does after being shot but oh no you signed my life away the moment you felt Sally biting at the bits. I get it, I do but don't stand there and act like I haven't already written you out of my life."
I stopped talking 'cause suddenly I felt cold Liv saw me looking like this and decided it was time for me to go upstairs.
"Fitz I'm not going to ask you need to go upstairs and lay down in your bed."
"If I go upstairs and lay down in my bed you won't be there and I'm afraid that if you're not there I won't ever wake up."
"That's not gonna happen, you need to fight you are the best politician in the game they try to beat you but they didn't and when we find out who did this we won't just bring them to justice we will end them."
"Have I told you how much I love you today?"
"Every day is implied now come on."
"Well I don't think I can go anywhere until this bag is done so….lets come up with my escape plan."