Olivia went to her appointment, while Fitz dropped the kids to the air strip.
Karen had been wanting to ask her dad something since the divorce and decided to give it shot.
"Dad, can I ask you something?" she asked timidly.
"Sure sweetie, anything" Fitz smiled.
"Do you think we could go to school here in D.C., I hate boarding school, the kids are mean and I miss you alot." Karen said sadly.
"Gerry, how do you feel about that." Fitz asked.
He really would like it if they came home. Mellie was the main reason he agreed to send them in the first place against his better judgement.
"I wouldn't mind coming to school here at all, I don't have that many friends at boarding school anyways." Gerry said.
"You don't have any friends at boarding school" Karen teased.
"So what do you say dad?" Karen asked hopefully.
"Yea, I think it would be great to have you guys here with me, you guys can keep me company so I don't have to hound Olivia so much." they all laughed.
"Yes" karen screamed.
"So dad, when can we come back?" Karen said beaming excitement.
"I think you guys should finish the school year and then I'll pull you, in the meantime we can search for schools you can attend next fall."
"That sounds so far away." Karen complained.
"I can't just pull you guys at the beginning of the school year, it only november." Fitz countered.
"You could pull us after the semester is over in January." Gerry intervened.
Fitz pondered for a few moments.
"I'll see what I can do guys." Fitz said.
"Great" Gerry said elated
Fitz didn't know that Gerry hated boarding school too, he wasn't as vocal about it as Karen was.
"So dad when is the trip to Paris again." Karen asked.
"I'm not sure, I'll have to ask Olivia because now she was to plan it around when you're out of school.' Fitz answered.
"Darn it, maybe we could go right after christmas break."
"Wouldn't you much rather be with your cool dad during christmas break." Fitz teased.
"Of course not, I'd rather be with Olivia she much cooler, and she dresses nicer too, I want to be just like her when I grow up." Karen said excitedly.
"You want to be just like her huh?" Fitz asked trying to egg Karen on.
"Yea, I want to be smart like her, I want to dress nice like her and be beautiful like her." Karen said proudly.
"Kare you're already beautiful" Fitz said gently.
"I know dad." Karen rolled her eyes playfully.
Fitz and Karen chatted for a few more minutes until they pulled up at the airstrip.
They said their goodbyes and once they boarded the plane, Fitz headed to the whitehouse.
Olivia was early for her appointment so while she waiting in the lobby of the doctor's office, she answered emails. She had already let her team know that she was going to be out so they didn't expect her.
After about 30 minutes of of answering emails and chatting with Abby and Harrison back and forth, the doctor called her in her office.
Dr. Phylicia Conde had been her doctor since she moved to D.C. and was very friendly and was very nurturing , so Olivia loved visiting her.
"It's nice to see you Liv, I know we spoke on the phone but tell me exactly what wanted to do today." the doctor gestured for Olivia to sit, while she spoke.
"Hi phylicia, I want to reverse the tubal ligation procedure I got."
"I see and why have you changed your mind about the procedure." the doctor asked.
"I changed my mind about having children, I want one." Olivia chuckled humorlessly.
"Liv, I told you you should have just gone on a birth control plan, something a little less serious than having your tubes tied." phylicia scolded.
"I know I wasn't thinking straight." Liv admitted.
Phylicia shoved her playfully.
"So you're going to be 33 in december right?" Phylicia asked.
"Yep" olivia confirmed.
"Well the good thing is that you're young, so having it reversed should have minimal to no complications and then you should be able to get pregnant pretty easily afterwards, but I won't know for sure until I run some test." Phylicia said as she made notes.
"Did you eat anything this morning?"
"Nope, nothing, just like you said." Olivia smiled.
"Great, so I'm gonna give you a few minutes to get undressed and put on this gown, I'm going to grab some supplies." Phylicia said a she handed Olivia a standard light blue doctor's gown.
After a few hours of examinations and test, it was afternoon.
Doctor phylicia had been gone for a little while but then appeared in room.
"So Liv, the initial results look good but I still have to send them to a lab to be analyzed, it should take a few days, and then I'll call you with the results, if everything checks out you can schedule you're reversal procedure within the next couple of weeks."
"Thanks phylicia, I'll look forward to hearing from you soon." Olivia smiled.
Olivia was really hungry so when she left the office, she decided to go find somewhere to eat lunch.
When she turned her phone back on, she was several missed calls from Fitz. She pondered whether or not she wanted to be petty and not call him back and after a while decided to not call him back.
She went to gettysburger and bought their underground railroad burger with fries and a drink, Gettysburger was only a few blocks away from her apartment so she grabbed it to go and headed back to her apartment.
Dave, one of the agents from her detail handed her his phone.
"Ma'am, the president would like to speak to you." Dave said monotone.
"Tell him I'm at the doctor's office, bleeding out on the examination chair and I can't come to the phone."
"Sir, Ms. Pope can't come to the phone right now."
Fitz said something to the agent and then he held out the phone to her again.
"Ms. Pope, please." Dave facial expression didn't change, but he sounded as if he was begging.
Olivia sighed and took the phone.
"What?" she said impolitely.
"I've been calling you all day, why haven't you been picking up." Fitz asked.
"It doesn't feel so good does it."
"You're being petty." Fitz said annoyed.
"Like you were all last week, anyways I have to go." Olivia hung up the phone.
She enjoyed annoying him, since she knew he was probably taking her serious.
When she got to her apartment, she enjoyed her burger thoroughly and then dozed off on the couch.
She woke up at 6:30pm.
"Shit." she cursed.
She had only meant to sleep for an hour at most, she planned on working for the rest of the evening but now it was too late. She decided to take a hot bath.
Once she was done, she put on a silk kate spade polka dot shorts set and knee high socks and plopped herself on the couch. She wanted to catch up on the news.
She saw some clips of fitz at the airport base with the kids, the press managed to snap a few shots of him sending them off.
Olivia heard keys jingle, she knew it was Fitz so she quickly pretended to sleep.
Fitz took his shoes off and walked over to the couch.
He leaned over her and he saw her eyes flutter.
He knew she was faking, he quickly slid off his coat. He rolled up his sleeves and started tickling her sides. She burst out laughing.
"Fitz, stop." she laughed and squeezed her hands to her side, to try and stop Fitz from tickling her.
"Pretending to sleep, come on?" Fitz shook his head.
"Uhm, I was actually sleeping." she countered.
"With your eyes fluttering, really." he said as he sat beside her on the couch.
"I didn't know you were coming over tonight." Olivia said with an attitude as she sat up.
"Yes you did." Fitz retorted.
"Well I'm not talking to you, so you can sleep in the guest room tonight." Olivia said as she headed to the kitchen.
"Guest room?" Fitz said offended.
"Yep"
"I'm not sleeping in the guest room, I am going to take a shower and I am going to be right beside you in the bedroom, if you have a problem with that you sleep the guest room then."
"Fine, I will." Olivia yelled from the kitchen.
"What's your problem, I thought we were okay." Fitz said as he got up and walked to the kitchen.
"Oh so because you decide to talk to me again, I'm just suppose to be okay and be here waiting for you. I'm not a toy you know, I'm an actual human being you can't just ignore me for a week or I don't know - 7 months and just expect things to be okay, I already have enough abandonment issues that I'm dealing with and I don't need you making it worse."
"If it bothers you that much next time I'm angry with you, I'll just stay here and be angry with you." Fitz smiled.
"You're not taking me seriously Fitz." She said annoyed.
"I am, I just don't wanna fight anymore." He wrapped his arms around her.
"Fine, I'm going to bed." Olivia said as she pulled out of the hug.
Fitz threw his head back in frustration.
"Olivia what do you want me to do. You said you're mad at me for leaving, I said I wouldn't do it again, now what are you mad about?" Fitz asked as he pinched the bridge of his nose.
"I'm not mad, just leave me alone, I'm tired, I'm going to bed" she said as she headed to the bedroom.
"You are not tired Dave told me that you've been asleep all afternoon and woke up at 6:30, so no, you're not tired." Fitz said annoyed.
Olivia stopped.
"You have Dave spying on me?" Olivia accused.
"No, I was calling you, you obviously weren't picking up, so I asked him to check on you, he said you were sleeping, I told him to call me when you woke up."
"Whatever" Olivia said dismissively as she walked to her bedroom.
Fitz sighed and waited until she was in the bedroom to head to the bathroom.
He wanted to take a long cold shower. He didn't rush, he kind of hoped that by the time he was done Olivia would have fallen asleep because he didn't want to argue anymore.
Once he was done showering, he threw on a pair of boxers and a white t shirt and headed to the kitchen to see if he could find something to eat.
He rummaged through the cupboards and refrigerator only to find canned food that he had nothing to cook with. He ended up asking one of his agents pick up a pizza for him.
He tried to watch to watch the news, but every channel was reporting on whether or not he was running for reelection and he didn't feel like listening to it, so he watched the encore of a football game.
When his pizza came he ate most of it, he didn't realize how hungry he was until the pizza was in front of him.
About an hour after he finished eating the pizza, he decided he couldn't stay up anymore so he headed to the bedroom.
He saw that Olivia was on her side of the bed and had her back turned to him, he thought she must be sleeping. He pulled back the sheets and got in.
He laid still trying to sleep but then he heard sniffling.
"Liv, are you up?" He said as he turned to her.
She didn't answer.
Fitz sat up and gently rubbed her arm.
"Liv are you crying?" He asked.
Once he leaned over closer he could definitely tell that she was crying.
"Livie baby please don't cry." He said softly as he hugged her tightly.
He could hear her sobbing softly.
"I'm sorry baby" he whispered.
"Not its not you, I'm just being an over emotional mess right now." She sniffled.
"What's going on, you have to talk to me." He said softly.
Olivia took a deep breath and decided to tell him how she was feeling.
"Did I ever tell you how my mom died." She asked quietly.
"No"
"My dad killed her." Olivia uttered.
Fitz opened his mouth slightly in shock but he didn't say anything so Olivia continued.
"He was pretty abusive, one night they were having a big fight about me, my dad wanted to send me to boarding school in Switzerland, she didn't want me half way around the world, she wanted me at home. Anyways, they argued until my dad started hitting her. They were fighting in the kitchen, I'd never heard it get that bad before, I heard my mom scream, so I ran down from my room and he had a knife at her throat. I ran over to try and stop him but as soon as I got close enough to try to stop him, he stabbed her, once, in the carotid artery, she bled out in the floor and he made me watch and then made me pack my stuff and sent me off to Switzerland. I didn't even get to go to her funeral, I don't know show he covered it up, I don't know anything. I was 12, I didn't see him again until when I was almost 19, when I left surval montreux, he dropped me to Princeton and didn't speak to me again until after I left college and started working at my old firm, he just showed up at my door step and demanded that I have weekly dinners with him to 'catch up'. That's was almost 5 years ago. Apart from him, all my other family members are either dead or I don't know them. I blame myself, if.."
"Don't you dare blame yourself. You didn't kill her he did." Fitz said sternly.
"If I hadn't made such a big deal about going then my mom wouldn't have been arguing with him in the first place." She said quietly
"When you're mad at me and you ignore me, it really bothers me and I didn't realize how mad I was at you until you came here tonight." She rubbed her eyes.
"I didn't know you felt like that, I love you Livie, a whole lot and I promise I won't do it again okay."
"Okay, I love you too." She said as she sat up.
"Uhmm what did you have for dinner, I know there is no food here." She asked.
Fitz sat up as well.
"I ordered a pizza."
"Do you have any left?"
"Yea, I have a few slices left, why?"
"I'm starving" she said as she headed to the kitchen to find the pizza, Fitz followed.
Olivia found the pizza and heated up a slice in the microwave.
"You heat pizza in the microwave"
"Only when I'm hungry" she said as she took the pizza out of the microwave and headed to the couch.
She turned on the tv and switched it to the news channel, where they were talking about whether or not Fitz was running for reelection.
She took a bite of her pizza.
"Fitz, you know you're going to have to decide soon right."
"I know"
"And whatever you decide I'm gonna support you, you know that right?" She asked.
"What do you think?"
"I think that you've been a phenomenal president so far, your approval ratings are sky high, you've gotten a lot done, the country loves you and I'm pretty sure you'll win the next election by a landslide no matter who you go against, so if you want the job for 4 more years you should do it and if you don't then you shouldn't because after everything you've done for the country so far, you don't owe them anything" Olivia said as she squeezed his hand tenderly.
"If I did choose to, would you run my campaign?" He asked hesitantly.
Olivia pondered for a moment.
"If you begged hard enough." She joked.
"It's just that, you know what happened last time, you're the only one I trust to do it, I want to win on my own."
"I know baby" she said as she coddled him.
"But if I do this, me and you go public."
"Fitz"
"Don't Fitz me, that's the deal."
Olivia decided that they could hammer out the details about going Public later.
"Deal" she saw the widest smile spread across Fitz face, it made her smile.
"Guess what"
"What" Fitz asked.
"Vogue contacted me about doing a photoshoot"
"They did, that's great" she could hear the excitement in his voice.
"I don't think I'm gonna do it" she said
"Well,why not?"
"You know the first thing they're gonna ask me when I show up,'what's your relationship with the president' how am I supposed to answer that. I think it would be a lot of fun, but they're going to want to know why I would jump in front a bullet for you and I don't know what to tell them so I told them I would think about it but I'm gonna tell them no."
"I really think you should do it, I'm sure you'll come up with something you think you can tell them or you can tell them the truth, either way, I would like it if you did it. It's a big deal being in vogue.".
"I'll think about it" she said coolly.
"Did you know that Karen and Gerry hated boarding school?" He asked randomly he didn't expect her to answer.
"Yea, why?"
"You knew." Fitz said half shocked.
"They told me they wanted to tell you themselves, I can't tell you everything they talk to me about." Olivia teased.
"When did they tell you this?"
"Everytime we speak on the phone"
"You guys call each other."
"All the time." Olivia said nonchalantly.
"Wow, I didn't know that, they told me that they wanted to go to school here, Gerry suggested I pull them after the first semester and I want them here so I'm gonna do it."
"That's great, that means that Karen will be able to keep me company when you decide to ignore me again" Olivia joked.
"Not funny" Fitz rolled his eyes playfully.
He loved how close Olivia and the kids were.
They chatted for hours until they both fell asleep cuddled up on the couch.