"Liv, Livie, please wake up!" Livie please wake up!" Fitz was frantic.
By the time the second bullet hit Olivia, she lost consciousness.
Tom instructed the agent that was driving to go to James Madison hospital.
Fitz was in such a panic, that he barely realized he was shot as well.
"Tom, what the fuck just happened.?" Fitz yelled.
"Mr. president, sir, please calm down, you were shot."
"I don't care Tom, she's hurt, get us to a hospital now!"
"Sir we are en route to James Madison, we will get her help." Tom said trying to calm Fitz down.
Fitz barely heard Tom.
"Livie, what were you thinking, you will not die for me, you hear me, you will not die for me." Fitz said as he rocked her in his arms.
They pulled up to James Madison hospital, Fitz ran with her in his arms into the emergency room and called for help.
A few Secret service agents had already gotten to the hospital and prepped for Fitz's arrival.
The doctors took Olivia and put her on a stretcher and began to check her vitals as they rushed her to the emergency room.
"Patient is going into Hypovolemic shock, patient is not responding, prep the paddles…." they said as they hurried down the hallway.
Another team of doctor scurried over to Fitz to treat his arm, but he would let them touch him.
"I'm fine, don't touch me, go make sure she is alright, go help her." He was yelling
"Mr. president, please you're injured, we need to remove the bullet."
Fitz wouldn't calm down. He kept yelling at the doctors to go take care of Olivia instead.
They had been trying to calm him down for several minutes when Cyrus ran down the halls.
"Somebody tell me what the hell is going on." Cyrus screamed
He saw Fitz causing a scene and screaming about Olivia.
He ran over to him.
"Tom what happened?"
"Sir, he was shot in the arm and he won't allow any other the surgeons to remove the bullet and Ms. pope was shot as well, she is unresponsive and in surgery. Sir we have to calm him down."
Cyrus walked over to Fitz and kneeled beside him.
"Fitz you need to let the doctors treat you, you need to calm down, you're not helping, she's strong, you know that, she'll come through this, but you need to let the doctor treat her and you need to let them treat you." Cyrus said softly.
"Cyrus she jumped in front of a bullet for me after everything I did, if she doesn't make it I don't know what…"
Cyrus cut him off.
"Don't not think like that, she's strong, she will make it." Cyrus patted him on the back.
"You have to let the doctors treat you." Cyrus said again.
With that Fitz let the doctor begin treatment on him.
He really only had a flesh wound, a bullet was lodged in his bicep. It took the doctors a several minutes to remove the bullet, stop the bleeding and stitch him.
Olivia's team had arrived.
"Where is she? is she okay?"
Abby cried as she ran down the hallway.
Cyrus greeted them.
Fitz sat in a chair, staring into space, the medication they gave him to calm him down was in full effect.
"I'm going to need you guys to get on top of this, we need to let the American people know that everything is under control." Cyrus instructed.
"That's our boss in there, we will do everything to make sure that when she makes it out of this, everything is alright." Harrison said.
Abby was still crying.
Brittany kagan the press secretary died.
So Cyrus asked Harrison to take her place until they got things under control.
Huck sat quietly.
Cyrus started talking out loud.
"How did this even happen, how did she know that was going to happen?" He asked himself out loud.
"I called her and told her" Huck said quietly from the corner of the room
"How did you know" Cyrus asked
"The girl I was dating, Becky, she called and told me that she was going to kill the president tonight and that I would never hear from her again. That was the last time we spoke, I've been calling her but my guess is that she threw away the burner phone she was using, now I'm also pretty sure that her name wasn't Becky. The only solid thing I have of her is a picture, which I'm sure she had probably cut or dyed her hair by now and gone into hiding."
"Tom get that picture and start a manhunt pure and simple, before she can go too far."
"Huck I think you can be of great help if you help find Becky, start with Hollis Doyle I'm pretty sure that she's his girl, she has to be, the timing is to convenient."
Cyrus said.
"Anything for Olivia." Huck replied as he walked to go with Tom to start the search for Becky.
The rest of team along with Cyrus and Fitz sat in the waiting room.
When suddenly they saw doctors running down the hallway to Olivia's room.
One doctor screamed.
"Code blue, code blue, get the paddles."
"Oh my god liv"
Abby started crying.
Quinn tried to calm her.
"It's going to be okay, she's strong she will get through this okay." Quinn repeated over and over again.
It was a long night for them.
In the morning the head physician Dr. McCarthy came to update everyone on Olivia's condition.
"Olivia pope's family" she called in the waiting room.
They all looked up.
"Yes" Abby answered.
"What is your relation to Ms. Pope." The doctor asked.
"I'm her sister" Abby said.
The doctor wrinkled her forehead but decided to let it go.
"Ms pope was shot twice, once in her upper right back and another in her lower back with the bullet entering her rib cage.
"We managed to removed both bullets, unfortunately the bullet that hit her rib cage, was a little bit more tricky to removed because it cracked a rib and left splinters. She also lost about 40% of her blood mass, we had to give her a transfusion. She flatlined twice but we managed to bring her back shortly after both times so her brain didn't lose much oxygen. She has a hard time breathing in her own so she is on oxygen and she is in a coma. It is my belief that she will make it through, she just needs some time to heal because her injuries were very traumatic. Once she comes back from the coma she will be in a lot of pain so we will keep her on a steady dose of morphine. I'm sorry I didn't get your name?" The doctor asked.
"My name is Abby."
"Okay Abby, we will keep you updated on her progress." The doctor said with a small smile.
"Can we see her doctor" Fitz asked from the corner that was the first time he said anything since last night.
"Of course Mr. President" the doctor replied politely.
When they got to her room, Fitz was the first one to go by her bed.
He noticed how pale she looked. He kissed her forehead and took her hand in his.
She had tubes going down her nostrils and throat. She also had a few different drips hooked up to her arms.
Fitz pulled the chair that was a couple behind him right by her bed and sat.
"Livie, can you hear me honey?"
He whispered.
"Livie I love you and need to get through this and wake up so I can tell you what a stupid, stupid thing you did. What were you thinking jumping in front of a bullet for me." He said as he kissed her hand again and this time he kept his lips on her hand.
Quinn's eyes opened wide. She still didn't know about Olivia and Fitz. She was going to ask Abby but she decided that it wasn't the right time.
They all sat in her room for several hours. After a while Quinn decided to go and get them food since no one had eaten since the night before, she went to Gettysburger.
Cyrus went back to the White House to keep thing under control because he knew there was no way Fitz would leave the hospital.
As he walked down the hallway he say mellie who looked like she stayed up all night.
"Cyrus why the hell have you been avoiding me, the agents won't let me go to the hospital, do you know how bad the optics look, my husband just got shot and I'm not at the hospital." Mellie said.
"Please you don't care that he got shot and plus it was just a flesh wound, he has it bandaged up and everything, until we find the shooter it's best you stay here, we can say the president doesn't want you to visit because he'll be out by the end of the day, that should take care of the optics and by the way mellie, get used to saying ex husband."
Mellie stormed away.
Cyrus sighed.
"Harrison talk to me"
"Sir, as long as the president is in the hospital and not in front of a camera the American people don't believe he has a flesh wound, they think he's seriously injured because based in the footage it looks like he got shot in the chest."
Cyrus took a deep breath he knew fitz wouldn't want to leave liv's side for any reason.
"Okay Harrison, let's go see if we can get him to make a statement."
They headed back to the hospital.
Once they got to the hospital they saw everyone sitting in liv's room.
"Hey how's she doing" Harrison asked.
He was tired he had been working all night.
"She's a fighter, she's doing great" Abby replied.
"Fitz I need to talk to you." Cyrus said lowly.
Fitz looked at him, urging him to go on.
"Sir the American people are panicking, they don't know how you're doing and they believe the injuries are worse than we a reporting, we need you to make a statement, telling them you are fine." Cyrus scratched his forehead.
"Cyrus I'm not leaving"
"Fitz we…"
Harrison cut him off.
"You don't have to leave, we'll do it here, we can get in an empty room put you on a bed, sitting up, you tell them everything is fine and you're just waiting for the doctors to discharge you, all they really want to do is see your face. Really quick, it'll only take a few minutes and you can calm the country."
"Okay, I'll do it" Fitz replied.
Once fitz put out the statement, most of the country calmed down.
It had been a week. Olivia's was showing a lot of improvement. Fitz left the hospital a few times to take a shower and handle business at the White House after a lot of convincing from Cyrus and Harrison.
Abby and Quinn hardly left except to take showers, buy food and feed Ginger.
Huck had been back a few times to check on Olivia, but he was mostly trying to find Becky.
Fitz, Abby and Quinn were all on one side of the room talking about Olivia's progress when they thought they heard her shuffle.
By now the doctors had removed all the tubes from her nose and mouth because she was breathing on her own.
Then suddenly she flung her eyes open and shifted her head side to side