After Fitz left Olivia couldn't go back to sleep.
She realized that Fitz got her breakfast so she ate and then woke Ginger up because she wanted company.
She took a shower and started getting dressed. She had a particularly hard time finding an outfit today.
She decided on an ivory turtleneck sweater from donna karan tucked into a pair of navy skinny pants from theory, she didn't feel like wearing heels so she wore her black chanel flats. She threw her cream duster coat over it and headed out. She felt underdressed and dowdy but she wasn't in the mood.
She knew it was going to be a long 10 days.
She was about to open the door, when she heard a knock.
She didn't expect anyone, especially so early in the morning.
She opened the door.
It was jake.
"Good morning Olivia" he said calmly.
"Good morning captain Ballard" she was surprised he knocked, he usually waited until she left the apartment and then he just trailed her.
"You can call me Jake" he smirked.
She thought it was inappropriate.
"I think I prefer captain Ballard." she said flatly.
She walked straight to the elevator, she felt him staring but she ignored it.
It was very awkward waiting for the elevator to come.
She had a pretty normal day, except for the fact that she went to visit her doctor to get cleared to return to all normal activity. Once she got home, she showered ate popcorn and wine and went to bed by 8pm.
She repeated that routine for a week.
She spoke to Fitz every night, but not for very long because of the time difference, he was always about to make a speech or enter a meeting.
Throughout the week Jake was being bold, he said inappropriate things, he stared, he flirted, it annoyed her to no end. She thought about telling Fitz, but she knew he would over react.
As she ate her popcorn and watched the news, she door flew open.
She jumped up.
It was Jake.
"What the hell!" she yelled.
"You left it open." he said nonchalantly.
"You say that like it gives you the right to walk in here and you were suppose to have gone home hours ago."
"Yes, but now I'm here, you seemed lonely the last few days, I thought I could keep you company."
"Look, I'm not sure what's going on here, I personally, think you've lost your mind so need to leave." she said sternly.
"Calmy down, a harmless chat between friends won't hurt." he tried to lighten the mood.
"Were not friends, you need to leave and don't come back tomorrow, I don't want you here." she walked to the door and held it open.
Jake walked out and she locked every lock.
She was so pissed, she turned off the tv and went to bed.
The next morning when she went to the hallway, she was relieved to find that Jake wasn't there at his usual time to escort her to work, so she knew he got the message.
She went to work by herself and it was then that she realized how much she missed being by herself at times.
She was the first person at the office. She got her day work day started and waited for the rest of her team to get there.
Once Huck got in, she called him into her office.
"Hey liv, you called me." Huck said in his usual tone.
"Hi Huck, I Wanted to ask you a favor?"
"Anything." Huck said calmly.
"I was wondering if you could check out my apartment, you know Jake, the guy that's been guarding me for the last month, he's been acting really weird and I just fired him, I want to make sure he wasn't made a spare key or anything funny like that."
"UH, of course, I'll do it right now," Huck said as he started to walk out of the office.
"Huck you don't have to do it now."
"No, I want to, I'd rather not wait.
Huck left abruptly and went to Liv's apartment.
Olivia continued with her day as she normally would, she went to court for a client's case, she grabbed lunch with Abby and tried to finish up as much as she could.
As she was heading out the office, Huck walked in.
She didn't even realized he hadn't come back since their conversation.
He had his hands behind his back.
"Liv I need to see you in your office." he said flatly.
Liv turned back her office and stepped in.
Huck placed a bunch of wires and bug cameras on her desk.
"Someone bugged your apartment, video and audio."
Olivia felt her inside mash up into a ball.
"Was it Jake who did this?" she barely managed to choke out.
She felt sick, the invasion of privacy was too much, especially since she knew fitz had been there every almost night for the past month.
"I can't prove it yet but my based on his behaviour, I would say most likely." Huck said monotone.
"I am going to see how much information I can get from these on my computer, I should be able to access the remote server that this is hooked up to, If i'm lucky I can hack their system and erase whatever they have."
"Huck please, you have to do it as soon as you can." Liv said desperately.
"I already went home and hooked up the chip to my computer's, its running right now. I will take you home." Huck offered.
Once liv got home, she locked all the latches on her door.
Huck changed the locks and she had to make a mental note to give Fitz and Abby the key.
She was grateful for Huck, she didn't know what she would do without him.
She called Fitz as soon as she was in the apartment but she didn't get through, she was sure he was most likely on a plane back, which relieved her.
She felt really awkward, like someone was still watching her so when she went to take her shower she waited until she was in the tub to take off her clothes.
She wondered when Jake had the opportunity to plant that many camera's in her apartment.
She took a long shower and put underwear on and wrapped herself in her fluffy white robe.
She tried calling Fitz again with no luck.
She went to her room and put her silk pajama pants on and then she heard her doorbell.
She thought it might be huck but she wanted to be sure so she checked the peephole.
It was a delivery guy.
She opened the door.
"I have a pizza delivery for Olivia." said the delivery man.
"I didn't order any pizza"
"We got an order for this address and it's already paid for through online order." he said agitated.
"Okay fine, I'll take it." Olivia was annoyed as well.
The delivery guy rushed away, he didn't wait for the elevator he took the stairs.
As she took the pizza and was about to step back to use her body to close the door Jake rushed in, bumping the pizza out of her hand.
He closed the door behind him.
"Hello Olivia" he said pleasantly.
She didn't say anything she just kept stepping back trying to put space in between them.
"Would you imagine my surprise when I went home to check footage of you and there was nothing there, nothing being recorded, how did you find it?"
"You're crazy and you need to leave now or I'll.."
"You'll what" he cut her off.
His voice was menacing.
Then it registered to her what he said about the footage.
"Is it to blackmail me and Fitz, is that was this is about."
It made her sick just thinking about it.
"Oh Livie, I'm not that juvenile, I keep those videos for my personal stash." Jake smirked as we walked closer to her.
Olivia kept walking back, she was panicking but she tried to keep calm, she wasn't going to let him intimidate her.
"I fired you, you have no right to be here, get out" she yelled.
She backed up close enough where she could see her phone was in reach.
She knew that if she could just get the 911 operator on the phone, it would scare him off.
"You can't fire me, I don't answer to you, I answer to Fitz"
It annoyed her that he called him Fitz.
"And what do you think Fitz is gonna do when he finds out you been secretly recording me" she retorted.
"He hired me to watch you and that's exactly what I've been doing, I must say you are an amazing woman, no wonder he's so whipped, I see you with him, I see the things you do to him Olivia." Jake had a satisfied look on his face..
He'd been so focused on her face, he didn't realize she had grabbed her phone until her heard the phone unlock. He panicked and grabbed her. She tried calling but he slapped the phone out of her hand. She tripped and then he was on top of her holding her down.
"You were going to call the cops, you bitch." Jake spat angrily.
"Get off of me!" Olivia tried to fight but hand her hands pinned.
"Get off of me or I'm going to tell Fitz" wit that jake froze.
She saw the anger rise in his face.
"Fitz, Fitz, Fitz, always all about Fitz, even when we were in the navy, even his superiors kissed his ass because of all that old money he had, the women soldiers couldn't keep their hands of him, do you have any idea how fucking annoying that is."
"Is that what this is about, you're jealous, oh my god, get out!" she said in disgust.
When she said that he slapped her with all of his strength.
Olivia felt her cheek burning and she tasted blood.
She tried to fight harder.
"I'm not good enough for you, is that it, because I'm not the president, you can't even give me the time of day huh." He seethed.
"You exactly right, I don't want you because you're not the president, you don't even compare to fitz."
She said as the blood ran from her mouth.
She felt his hands around her throat.
He was choking her.
She couldn't breath, he was choking her and he had his bodyweight on top of her. She started to feel lightheaded.
As he choked her he leaned down and kissed her angrily.
She bit his lip.
He eased himself up. She sucked in air, her throat was on fire.
"Owwh" he held his lip as it bled.
He was distracted.
She used her knee and hit him in his balls as hard as she could.
He howled in pain.
She tried to get up and run, as she managed to get off the floor, he grabbed her leg, she tripped and hit her head on the edge of the coffee table.
She could feel blood in her eyes as everything became black.
The next day.
She woked up. She was a little disoriented.
She could feel throbbing in her head and when she reached up, remembering that she hit her head, she felt a bandage on her forehead.
Her whole body felt sore.
She sat there for a few moments and then the doctor walked in the room.
"Ms. Pope?" he asked just to confirm her identity.
She nodded
"Hi I'm doctor Lang, you were brought in last night, you have a pretty severe concussion and you lost a small amount of blood. You'll need plenty of rest, so for right now you need to take it easy, you might have a few side effects such as; migraines, dizziness and irritability. But for the most part, you'll be okay."
"Doctor Lang, how did I get here." Olivia was confused.
"You were brought in by your neighbor last night, I'll send him in." the doctor said with a smile.
"Thank you doctor Lang." Olivia tried to smile but it didn't reach her eyes.
She was still trying to figure out what was going on.
Once the doctor exited the room, Jake stepped in.
Her heart beat sped up.
Unfortunately the monitor was hooked up, so Jake could see her reaction.
"Calm down Olivia, no need to panic." he said smugly.
"Haven't you done enough." she choke out.
"I have, after all, if I didn't take you here out of the goodness of my heart, you would still be on the floor in your apartment bleeding out. A little gratitude would be nice." he came and sat on her bed.
She was speechless.
What Jake did to her brought her back to when her mother had died and her father started abusing her. It was something she tried very hard to forget and now it was all she could think about.
She sat on the bed, with her head down.
Jake loved the look of defeat on her, it turned him on, seeing how scared she was of him.
Jake saw her staring and decided to bring her back to reality.
He grabbed her upper thigh and she jumped.
"Sorry, I just needed your attention." he smirked.
Olivia still didn't say anything.
"So the president is on his way." he said annoyed.
Her heart sped up, and so did the monitors.
"You're excited about that aren't you." he said in disgust.
She didn't reply she jus scowled.
"Here's the thing, when he comes, I have a few rules that you're going to have to follow." he said flatly.
"Rules?" she asked.
"Don't worry livie, I don't have many."
"Don't call me that." she said without looking up.
"Anyways, here's what you're going to tell him, when he asks why you're in here. I mean I told him already, but I'm sure he's still going to ask you."
He paused.
"You're going to tell him that when you came home yesterday, you were so tired you innocently forgot to lock your door, someone broke into your apartment randomly, they hit you right there and they choked you right there." he said pointing to her face and neck.
"You put up a fight, but he was just too strong. Luckily before you had me leave for the night, you asked me to get you a box of pizza, (which me being the nice guy I am did without complaint.), when the burglar heard me knock the door, he got frightened and ran out, unfortunately I couldn't chase him because, I saw you unconscious on the floor and went to aid you instead. Memorize it livie, because that is what you will tell him." Jake couldn't hide the amusement in his voice.
"Why do you want me to tell him that, so he won't kill you." Olivia said defiantely.
"You know what Fitz did when he felt the navy?" Jake asked but Olivia didn't answer.
"He moved back to his huge ranch in ranch in california and became governor."
Olivia wondered what that had to do with anything.
"You know what I did, when I left the navy?" he paused.
"I went undercover, I became black ops, I trained and fought and killed. If you tell him what really happened, I will kill every single person that works at O.P.A, even the lady who scrubs you're floors. I will do it without thinking twice and then I will go somewhere where they will never find me. So you have a decision to make, I suggest you get to it, whether or not, the minute he walks in here, I will be heading out the building." he sighed and smiled.
"You know, as black and blue as your face is right now, you're still beautiful, it's a shame we didn't get to have any fun last night, I've been looking forward to it for quite some time now, after seeing how good you treat Fitz and all." he kissed her cheek and walked out.
He didn't leave, he stood guard at the door.
As cocky as Jake was he knew that if Fitz found out what really happened, he would definitely have him killed, he also knew that even if he managed to get away, he would have to hide forever.
On top of being a very wealthy man with resources, Fitz was president and he knew he had the ability to find him.
Jake tried not to panic. He didn't mean for last night to escalate so badly.
She just kept saying things that were getting to him and he lost his temper.
"It was her fault" he thought to himself.
He looked back in the room and saw her crying.
He opened the door and went back in.
"I'm going to need you to stop the crying, okay" he was annoyed.
She ignored him.
He could feel himself losing his temper.
He tried to breathe deeply to calm himself, then out of the corner of his eye he saw a man in a black suit, instantly he knew it was secret service doing a sweep.
He walked out the room and locked the door.
Soon they were about a dozen secret service agents.
When she saw all the agents, she knew Fitz was coming.
She tried to calm down, she wiped her eyes and breathed in and out a few times.
It had been a few minutes and she wondered where he was.
The doctor came and removed the monitor and the drips she was hooked up to. He told her that she would be able to be discharged by noon.
As soon as doctor Lang was leaving the room, she saw Fitz.
Happy wasn't the word she would use for how she felt when she saw him, there was no word.
Fitz was really excited on his way back from the trip, he couldn't wait to see Olivia.
It was really long flight, once he landed and got some reception, he saw how many times Olivia called him.
When he called her back, Jake answered the phone.
He told him what happened, he tried to get to the hospital as fast as he could, but the traffic from the highway by the airstrip where he landed was very hectic.
Once he got to the hospital, he rushed to see her.
He was shocked.
She had a very defined purple hand prints around her throat, she had a purple bruise on her cheek. Her eyes were red and puffy like she had been crying. She looked scared and frail.
"Livie" he said as he rushed into the room.
When she saw him, she started to cry.
He came over to the bed and kissed her forehead.
"Oh liv, I'm so sorry" he said softly.
He wiped her eyes and kissed her cheek.
"It's my fault, you told me you had a bad feeling and I still left and look what happened. I'm so sorry baby." Fitz voice was full of emotion.
"It's not your fault, you had to go." she sniffled.
"No , I shouldn't have left" he said apologetically.
"I don't know what I would do if I lost you." his voice was sad.
"I'm just so happy you're here, I've really missed you." she felt a fresh wave of tears coming on.
"Livie don't cry" he wiped her tears.
They was just something about Fitz and his protectiveness that always made her feel safe with him.
"How bad does it hurt." he asked as he inspected her wounds.
"My face doesn't hurt, it's a little bit hard to swallow and my head throbs every now and again." she said softly.
Fitz caressed her cheek.
"Jake said a burglar did this to you? I find that odd since your building has security."
Olivia froze.
She didn't know what to say to him.
Fitz noticed her reaction.
"Olivia, what happened last night?" he asked seriously but his voice was full of concern.
She didn't answer.
"Olivia, what happened to you?" he said softly this time.
Her eyes began to fill with water again.
"Olivia baby you're scaring me." he paused.
"Please talk to me." he begged.
She didn't know what to say she was afraid of Jake and didn't know if she should lie to Fitz or tell him the truth. She wanted to tell him the truth but she didn't want to risk her team getting hurt.
Fitz saw that she wasn't going to answer.
"Okay baby, let me get Jake in here to go over what happened again." Fitz was about to get Jake when she grabbed his arm.
"Don't" she whispered.
Jake saw when Fitz was headed to him and a wave of panic washed over him.
When Fitz walked in, he told him to wait for him because he needed to speak to him after he finished seeing Olivia, but he knew he couldn't stay there any longer.
When he saw Fitz turn around and face Olivia, he headed to the stairs.
"Olivia, what's going on?" Fitz was worried by the way she was acting.
She sat up and tucked her hair behind her ears.
She didn't let go of Fitz hand. He pulled him to sit beside her.
"Olivia you need to tell me.." she cut him off.
"Jake did it." she said barely above a whisper.
"What?" Fitz choked out.
"Jake did this to me." she said softly.