It was the day of the procedure. Olivia was in the waiting room, she was a little nervous and fitz didn't help because he kept calling her every few minutes to ask how she was feeling and it only made her more nervous.

Once it was finally time for the procedure, she texted fitz to let him know her phone would be off and headed to the operating room.

When Olivia woke up she was a little disoriented at first. As the minutes passed everything started to come back to her. She has been up for about 15 minutes when the doctor came in and told her the procedure had been successful and to just take it easy for a few days. He told her she could leave in a few hours and if she had someone who could take her home.

She was in the recovery room and was now allowed to use her phone, so she turned it one to see missed calls from Fitz and Abby.

She called Abby first because Abby was the one who was going to take her home, she told her to come and pick her up in a few hours.

She called fitz and he picked up on the first ring.

"Hi"

"Liv, are you okay?" FItz said Quickly.

"Yea, I'm fine, I just woke up."

"How are you feeling?"

"There's discomfort but the doctor said I won't feel any pain until later."

"Do you want me to come get you? I should be there with you."

"Fitz, no, I'm at the fertility specialist, do you know how that would look if you were here with me?"

"Liv, I don't care, I should have never let you convince me to stay at the whitehouse."

"Abby is coming to get me in a couple of hours, it's okay."

"Abby is not your man, I am.'

"I know but she's my bestfriend and she doesn't mind helping me out from time to time and if you really want to be a great boyfriend just be home when I get there and have thai food ready for me okay." she said trying to lighten him up. She knew if she had made her detail drop her home instead of Abby, fitz would have definitely made his way there.

"Okay" fitz sighed.

Olivia was asleep for just over an hour when the doctor woke her up and told her that it was time for her to go home and that Abby was there to pick her up.

Olivia signed her discharge papers and was wheeled to the parking garage where Abby's car was parked.

Olivia realized that she couldn't get in the car herself, so Dave her detail had to lifted her and put her in the car. He also lifted her and brought her back to her apartment when ABby dropped them off. Abby had offered to go to the apartment with Olivia but she assured her that Fitz was there and that she was fine.

When Dave opened the door, Fitz was in the kitchen. Once he realized she was there, he came and took her out of Dave's arms and laid her on the impromptu bed he made on the couch.

"How are you feeling." fitz asked softly as he kissed forehead.

"Very hungry, this bed was a good idea by the way."

"I figured you would want to be in front of the Tv." he smiled

He brought over her food from the kitchen.

"I got you three different types of fried rice, two kinds of chicken and two kinds of pork. Dig in."

"It smells great, thank you baby."

They watched tv and ate together and before Fitz knew it Olivia was asleep again. He took the time to finished up what he was working on from the white house, he had been working for a few hours when he saw OLivia fidgeting in her sleep.

She was holding her stomach.

"Livie baby?"

She fluttered her eyes.

"Are you okay?"

She was awake now.

"No, it hurts" she said in pain.

"What can I do."

"Get me the ibuprofen in my bag."

Fitz quickly went to get her the pills and a glass of water.

She took the pills quickly, she realized she was feeling hot so she pulled the blanket off of herself.

"Livie, you're bleeding." fitz said wide eyes.

She looked down and saw the blood, it was coming from her navel, where they had inserted the tube..

"It's okay, the doctor said it's normal to bleed."

As soon as she said that, she felt a severe cramp in her stomach and she cried out.

"Olivia what's going on?" he asked in panic.

"Cramps." she cried.

"Okay, let me call an ambulance, we have to get you to the hospital." he said as he grabbed his phone.

"No, the doctor said this was going to happen." she grabbed his arm.

"Olivia you're bleeding out and you're in pain, the doctor doesn't know what the fuck she is talking about."

"Fitz please just sit here with me.. please."

He let out a deep breath and relented. He sat at the foot of the couch and held her hand and tried to comfort her as the cramps came and went. After a while, pills finally kicked in and she drifted off to sleep once more, this time she slept peacefully.

When Olivia woke up the next morning FItz was making eggs and bacon for her.

"Fitz" she called.

"One sec liv" he yelled from the kitchen. He when came back he had a plate with eggs, bacon and orange juice.

"Is that for me?"

"No, I didn't know you wanted any."

She looked at him with her forehead wrinkled.

"I'm kidding, it's for you." He joked.

"Thanks, I didn't even know I had groceries."

"You didn't, I had Tom pick some stuff up."

"Oh okay"

She ate and after a while began to wonder why Fitz hasn't left for the White House.

"Fitz aren't you going to the White House?"

"It's 2 in the afternoon livie, I think it's a little too late For that."

"Fitz you need to go to work I can take care of myself."

"Olivia I'm not leaving so just forget about it okay."

"Alright fine, I'll drop it."

"Great, now relax and let me take care of you."

Olivia was home for a few days before she left like she could handle going to work, the after effects of the procedure hurt a lot more than she anticipated.

Once she was back on her schedule, she felt like the two weeks went by really quickly and before she knew it, it was the countdown to christmas.

She had been busy hammering out the final details of the trip with Abby, Fitz was on an emergency trip overseas and she was sort of happy because she needed a little more than two weeks to get her libido back up after the procedure.

She booked their rooms at The Four Seasons George V Paris, it was the best hotel in Paris and had a perfect view of the Eiffel tower. She had spent a considerable amount of time bickering with Abby about what exactly they were going to do once they actually got to france. Abby decided that since everything was going to be free, she only wanted to visit boutiques, but Olivia thought they should fit some sightseeing into the trip, for Karen's sake. They met each other halfway and Olivia even managed to fit a wine tasting session in at the end of the trip.

It was the night before the trip and Fitz was scheduled to arrive late night. She had everything in order,she planned to hire a dog sitter for Ginger but Fitz insisted on keeping her, he begged so hard she relented. It was approaching midnight when Fitz came home, to his surprise she was up and waiting for him, most nights when he came home that late, she would fall asleep without him;

she was in the bedroom, when he walked in.

"Fitz, hey, I didn't hear you come in." she jump on him and hugged him tightly around the neck. She was almost a foot off the ground when he lifted her up to him for a kiss.

"Hey livie" he said lazily.

She just realized how tired he looked.

"Fitz when was the last time you slept, you look terrible?"

Fitz gently let her down and took a step over to the bed and plopped himself down.

"It turns out when you have half of the leaders in the western world calling you for a conference 24 hours of the past 5 days, there isn't much time for sleep." he yawned.

"Okay well let me get you out of these clothes and then I'll give you a nice warm bath and then you can come back here and get some sleep, how does that sound?" she smiled.

"That sounds like the best thing I've heard all week." his voice was still low and lazy.

Olivia grabbed his and pulled him to the bathroom. She began undressing him, first removing his jacket, then his shirt and undershirt. When she got to his pants, she felt a bulge and not the kind she usually got excited about, something was in his pockets. She reached into his pockets and pulled it out. It was a red lace thong, Olivia felt a wave of panic rush over her.

"Do you want to tell me what this is?" her voice was even but filled with anger.

"It's underwear." he answered calmly.

"I know it's underwear, do I look like an idiot, who's is this and why is it in your pocket.? She yelled.

"It's yours"

"It's mine. What do you take me for. Have you been fucking some prostitute down in south america, is that why you're so tired from you trip." she was panicking.

Fitz let out a huge sigh and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Do you remember the night I came to that french restaurant, you were on your little date with senator Shaw."

"What so you cheated on me to get back at me for a date I went on almost a year ago. Oh my god, I can't believe you." Olivia was frantic and started crying.

"No! In the morning after I spent the night with you, didn't you miss a pair of red lace thongs?"

He waited for her to calm down, he could see the realization in her eyes after she went over the events of that night and morning.

She covered her mouth with both her hands in a flush of embarrassment.

"So wait why do you have them?"

"I always have them, good luck charm I guess. Why? Would you rather it be someone else's, maybe that south american prostitute I love to fuck so much." he smirked.

Olivia was mortified.

"I'm so sorry fitz, I shouldn't have said that." she was glad he seemed to not have taken her seriously.

"Don't be, I think I like jealous Olivia." he teased

"I love you."

"Yea you say that now, you were ready to rip my head off a few seconds ago, so fickle you are."

"Gosh, you're never gonna let this go, are you?"

"Not a chance." he laughed

She finished stripping him down and set the bath.

Once he got in, she grabbed a bath sponge and began to lather it

She didn't join him in the tub, she knelt at the side of the tub and began to run the soapy sponge all over his body.

"Aren't you gonna join me?" Fitz asked slightly perplexed.

"I don't think so, if I get in there with you we are going to have sex and I don't want to." She said hesitantly.

"Oh okay"

"It's not that I don't want to.."

"Livie it okay, you don't owe me an explanation."

"I know but I still don't feel back to normal after the surgery so I need a little more time."

"Liv, take all the time you need, there's no rush, you don't owe me sex, you've been telling me that for years." He chuckled.

"I know but back then it was different, now you're my man and I want to make sure you are always taken care of."

She started stroking him with her hand.

"You know for someone who doesn't want to have sex, you are awfully frisky." he teased.

"Like I said, I want you to be taken care of." she began running her hand up and down his shaft faster.

It felt good but fitz could help the need to provoke her, he couldn't believe he was going to sacrifice an orgasm just to get a rise out of her.

"Are you sure because I could just get my south american prostitute to do it." he smirked.

Olivia stopped and stood up and let out a huff.

"Everything is a joke to you huh, I'm tired of you and your little jokes, give yourself a handjob." she about face and walked out the bathroom.

Fitz was amused and had been laughing uncontrollably at her brattiness.

"Livie come back" he laughed.

"Whatever" he heard her yell from the bedroom.

Olivia wasn't really upset, she had actually been in the bedroom laughing to herself, she loved when fitz made fun of her, it felt; normal.

Fitz hurried up and finished himself off and rinsed off one more time before getting out the shower.

When fitz came into the bedroom Olivia was sitting upright on the bed, she seemed to be going over some paperwork.

"Work?" he asked as he dried his hair with his towel.

"No, it's the fax from lauren with the flight information; by the way, did you have fun in there all by yourself."

"I wasn't by myself, I had my south american prostitute with me." fitz held up his hand.

"Wait? Did you just name your masterbating hand that."

"Yea, I did."

Olivia rolled her eyes and laughed.

"Don't be so happy, she's giving you serious competition, I'd watch out her her." he plopped down on the bed and let out a sigh, he almost forgot how tired he was.

"Yea, well I cut people, so let her know that."

Fitz chuckled.

"So, are you gonna be okay without your favorite girls for a few days?"

She place the paper on the nightstand and turned of the night light, she cuddled up tightly on fitz's side.

"I'll have gerry Here with me so it won't be so bad and it will give me time to get your christmas gifts without worrying about you finding out what it is."

"Fitz, I think this trip is a great christmas gift, I don't need anything else."

"Not gonna argue about this livie." fitz sang.

"Okay but nothing big."

"You like fast cars right." fitz said slyly.

Her eyes opened wide.

"Fitz. If you ever."

"Good night livie" he smirked.

She sighed.

"What am I going to do with you?" she said mostly to herself.

"You can let me love and take care of you the way you love and take care of me."

"Fitz.."

"Livie you jumped in front of two bullets for me, you just had this very painful procedure done so you could have my kids and you wouldn't have even had to get your tubes tied in the first place if I hadn't been selfish and gotten you pregnant while I was married in the first place and messed up you're state of mind."

"Fitz I didn't save you so I could hold it over your head or so you could owe me for it. I did it because I would have rather died than watch you get shot."

Fitz a pang in his chest at the mention of her dying.

"See, and I haven't been able to give you anything or do anything for you."

Olivia didn't know he felt that way and she was digesting it as he was saying it.

"Fitz you give me everything just by breathing, by waking up everyday, healthy and happy, that's all you have to do to make me happy, no matter what."

"You say stuff like that and expect me not to want to give you the world. I hate you." he whined.

"I hate you too." she chuckled.

Olivia pondered for a moment before giving in.

"Fine. Fine fine fine fine fine." she said like a petulant child.

"You can get me whatever you want for this christmas and my birthday, that's it... By the way, don't try to pass of any chirstmas gift as my birthday gift since my birthday is only a few days after christmas, people have been doing that to me since I was a kid and I hate it. That's my compromise."

"Well what about anniversaries and valentine's day etc."

"Shit. I didn't think about that. Let's just get birthday and christmas out of the way, then next year we will reevaluate. Deal?"

"Seal it with a kiss?" Fitz smiled his charming smile that would melt Olivia into his hands like putty.

She blushed quite visibly and tilted her head up so he could kiss her.

The kiss was slow and soft and sensual.

"That was god kiss." she said once they broke contact.

"Always is." he said smugly.

"Ugh, go to bed."she ordered and soon after, they were both asleep.

A/N

Serious angst coming up guys, sit tight.