It was finally her first day at school. She woke up earlier than usually and readied herself. She stopped at a cafe for a breakfast pastry and a cafe au lait and walked to the school in the cold French morning. She arrived at her school a half hour before it was scheduled to start the first days class and then headed to the teacher's lounge where she was welcomed warmly by the other staff members.

She headed to her classroom, which she had already set up with a few personal things by her desk a few days prior. The children were coming back for the new semester and it was her first time meeting them. She was to teach three classes of 10-15 children, they were all between 5&6 years old.

It was about 10 minutes before class was to begin when the hallway escorts began leading the children into her classroom.

"Bonjour" "salut" "bonjour"

The kids greeted her one by one. She was pleasantly surprised at how well behaved they were. She didn't expect brats but she prepared for that.

Once everyone was seated and they all settled down she introduced herself.

"bon matin tout le monde, je m'appelle Olivia pope."

(Good morning everyone, my name is Olivia Pope)

They all waved and collectively said;

"Bonjour mademoiselle Pope"

(Good morning miss Pope)

" vous pouvez m'appeler mademoiselle olivia."

(You can call me miss olivia)

She introduced herself to the class by telling them a few fun things about herself and then she had each child stand and do the same along with telling her their name.

She had fun with the activity and by the time it was over, the class was over. She did the same thing in each of her three classes for the day. She decided to pick up where their prior teacher had left off the following day and just use her first day to get to know they children. They were very sweet and well behaved but also full of energy. She liked the fact that they kept her very busy because the day went by quickly and it kept her mind of Fitz.

It had been a month since Olivia left. Karen and Gerry moved back to the white house and started their new school without a hitch. Even though Fitz had promised Abby that he would do what he could to find Olivia, he hadn't made any sort of initiative to find her. The idea of finding her a being rejected again was too painful so every time Abby asked, he lied.

He had actually ended up hiring Abby and Harrison to run his campaign with the help of Huck and Quinn, since technically he was a client, Olivia never officially resigned from managing his campaign. The media initially made a big deal about Harrison being an ex-con but when Fitz announced he had no intentions of firing him from the campaign, it died down.

Fitz was far ahead in the polls than any other candidate so this time around the campaign wasn't as crazy. Whenever he and Olivia were off he had the tendency to throw himself excessively into work and this time was no different except for the fact that he was extremely mean. He was easily annoyed and rude and all around not very pleasant to be around mostly with Cyrus and Lauren.

In an interesting turn of events he had formed a friendship with Tom, they began working out together and he began confiding in him about Olivia which helped him to get a lot of pent up anger out of his system.

It took Huck weeks to finally get the footage from the airport, much longer than he had anticipated. When he did search through hours and hours of different footage what he found was a surprise to everyone. He found the footage of Olivia and Jake at the airport. At first he wasn't sure what to think, so he kept it from the team until he could find more information. He needed to figure out why she would leave with Jake. For weeks he gathered as much as he could and then called the team together in the conference room to share what he knew. Everyone had been busy with clients and Fitz's campaign, so it was a true task gathering them in one place for any amount of time.

"Uh hi, I have something I have to tell you."

Abby and Harrison were glued to their emails, Quinn was the only one who gave him her attention.

"Olivia left with Jake."

Quinn was shocked, Abby and Harrison hadn't heard him.

"OLIVIA LEFT WITH JAKE" he yelled.

They finally looked up.

"What?" Abby asked surprised.

Harrison's mouth hung open.

"She left with Jake."

"Did she lose her mind? She left with him after what he did to her."

"I don't know." Huck replied.

"What do you know so far." Harrison asked.

"I've been searching footage for the day she left. Unfortunately her building doesn't have footage anymore, the president cut it off but I was able to track her movements for the day. I know in the morning she went for a walk with Ginger and stopped at a coffee shop for over an hour. There is a traffic camera in front of her building and I saw when Jake went into her building but he had someone with him, someone who has the power to delete flight manifest and disappear someone."

"Who?" Abby asked.

Huck handed her a folder.

"When I worked with him, I called him Rowan but his real name is Eli Pope. He is her father."

"Her father, I didn't know she spoke with her father, she never mentions him."

"She doesn't, that's the first time in years I can find that she had contact with him, I've been in her emails and she was in contact with him a few years ago but nothing since."

"When did you work with him?" Quinn asked.

"You know how I've said that I used to work with the CIA."

They nodded.

"Well that's not exactly true, Olivia helped me come up with that. I used to work with a spy organization, he was the head of the organization."

"Olivia's father is the head of a spy organization?" Abby couldn't hide the disbelief in her voice.

"Yea, I'm working on believing it too. She didn't tell me but that's beside the point. The point is he's very dangerous and if he is the one who took her away then I'm sure she didn't volunteer."

"So if he took her, how exactly do we find her?" Harrison asked.

"Well 12 private jets left the airport the day she left. 3 left within the hour after she checked in. One left to London, LA and New York."

"How the hell are we going to search three cities for her?" Abby asked.

"I can continue searching for her footprint but we have to do it quietly, her father is very dangerous and I'm speaking from experience."

"But that just doesn't make sense why would she leave with them." Abby asked.

"I don't believe she did it willing, she had no reason to. After not speaking to him for years he visits her once and then she leaves and with Jake.. I also can't find her dog. She brought her back to the apartment but she didn't leave with her, I ..uh.. Think that's weird."

"Okay, I have to get back to the white house, I'll let the president know what's going on."

"No Abby, you can't, if the president was searching for her I'm sure Rowan would find out, do not tell him anything especially the fact that she left with Jake, I've seen how much he hates him and he can be very irrational when it comes to her, it wouldn't help."

Abby sighed.

"Okay okay, I'll keep quiet for now, just please Huck keep me posted."

After that Abby, Harrison and Quinn headed back to the whitehouse.

Things had been good at work for Olivia. She had been working at the school for just around a month, she loved the children and they loved her but she found herself increasingly tired at the end of the day. She didn't know were the sudden fatigue came from, she wouldn't have been worried except for the fact that she had missed her period but she couldn't even fathom the possibility of what that meant right now. She instead was content to blame it on her reversal procedure because the doctor did say that it might affect her first cycle. Even though she had gotten her period the month before and this was her second cycle. She was content to feign ignorance until she had suffered morning sickness for almost a week straight, she knew in her heart that it had happened, she was pregnant but she still needed to be sure so one day after school, she stopped at the pharmacy down the street from her apartment and bought a pregnancy test. She was really nervous because she knew Jake often followed her without being detected but she had been looking over her shoulder the entire time and she saw no sign of him anywhere so she bought the test along with a large amount of other things that had nothing to do with it, just incase.

She had been staring at the test for hours, she couldn't bring herself to take it but after having an inner battle with her conscience, she took the test and waited for what seemed like an eternity only to have her fears confirmed.

It was 10:30 in the night and she sat in the bathroom, trying to think. She loved Fitz more than anything and she wanted nothing more than to have a child with him but now things were so out of control, she had no idea what her pregnancy would mean. The only thing that she was sure of was the fact that she was absolutely going to keep her baby, her father had taken so much from her, she wasn't going to let him take her baby too. She really needed to talk to someone but she didn't have anyone to talk to. She thought about calling Abby but she knew that by the time Abby gave her an earful about her leaving it wouldn't be a good time to tell her, she also couldn't risk Rowan finding out. She had an impulsive thought to call Fitz, after all she still had the number to his private cell memorized. She thought that maybe if she just heard his voice, it would make her feel better. She tried to convince herself not to but before she knew it she was dialing his number privately from her burner phone.

It was almost 5pm and Fitz had been in the oval office reviewing some campaign information that Abby and Harrison had dropped off. In the middle of reviewing one of his speeches, he heard his phone ring. Not his office phone but his private phone, he knew only one person had the number to that phone. He opened the drawer in his desk, pick up the phone and brought it to his ear.

"Hello"

She waited nervously as the phone rang, she didn't really expect him to pick up but when the line connected and he answered the phone she immediately felt the water well up in her eyes.

"Hello" his voice was smooth and exactly how she remembered it.

She felt the tears flow, she opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out.

"Hello?" he said again.

Fitz said hello and waited for a response but there was none. He silently cursed himself for hoping that it was her. He said hello for a second time and waited but when there was nothing he decided it was time to hang up. As he was about to hang up he heard a sniffle over the line, like someone was crying silently.

"Livie?"

As soon as he said that the line went dead. He checked his call history to see if he could call back but it was a private number.

He waited to see if she would call back but she never did.

He wasn't sure how to feel about her calling him and the fact that she was crying troubled him all the more. He decided it was fully time to find her so he called Tom. Tom had become his confidant but Tom was also an excellent agent and he couldn't think of anyone else he trusted to help him find her.

Shortly after he paged Tom, Tom walked into the room.

"Tom, I need to talk to you."

"Anything Sir."

"I need your help finding Olivia."

Tom walked closer to the resolute desk.

"Sir, I remember distinctly a few week ago you made me swear that if you asked me to help you find her, I should tell you no." Tom chuckled lightly.

"I know but it's different now, I love her Tom, I can't help it" Fitz chuckled back.

"Wow you told me you would say that." Tom laughed.

"Tom you are privy to how important she is to me, I have been talking your ear off for the past month, you're the only one I trust to find her. You don't have to do it personally, I wouldn't expect that from you but I know you must know some really good security guys, maybe you can reach out to them and have them search for her."

"Okay sir, I'll find her."

"Thank you Tom, I really appreciate it and if you could keep it under wraps that would be great."

Tom nodded and headed out.

Fitz abandoned working on the campaign document, he couldn't think about anything except for Olivia for the rest of the evening. When he had dinner with the kids, he barely heard what they were saying because even after having spoken to Olivia hours earlier, he was still pretty worried and confused about the call. He was pretty sure it was her because she was the only one who had the number to that phone, what he couldn't understand was why she called after all this time ad why she was crying. He tried to wash the thoughts of her being hurt out of his head, if he dwelled on it he would lose his mind, instead he focused his attention hoping that Tom could find her.

A couple weeks had past, Huck was having a really hard time pinpointing Olivia's location. He had three cities and within those three cities, there was no trail of her. He was at a stand still in his search for her, which frustrated him beyond measure and cause him to lose sleep because he had been staying up till early morning, trying to find clues.

Tom had also been unsuccessful in his search because he too could find no trace of her or clue as to where she had gone so he decided to tell Fitz. when Tom walked into the oval office, Fitz was on a call. Tom was going to excuse himself but Fitz signalled for him to stay. A few minutes later, Fitz was off the call.

"Hey Tom, what's going on?"

"Sir, I'm having a hard time with the search, I've got guys looking everywhere for a trail of her but they can't find anything, I've been to her apartment to look for clues and I can't find anything."

"Why would she just leave without a trace?" Fitz asked himself out loud.

Tom pondered.

"Sir is there anywhere that she told you if she had the chance to go she would, somewhere she really liked."

Fitz knew the answer to that question.

"Yea, she really liked Paris, she wanted us to visit there together one day. She also really liked Florence"

"That's good sir, that's something I can work with, it might not be where she is but there is a chance and it's a start."

Fitz could see optimism in Tom's eyes which in turn gave him hope.

"Hire as many people as you need to Tom."

Tom nodded.

Tom hired around a dozen private investigators, he sent half to France and the other have to Italy along with basic information on Olivia and a picture then set them to task.

Three months had passed. Olivia was now 4 and a half months pregnant. The worst of the morning sickness had passed but she still had a really hard time keeping anything down which made it hard for her to gain weight. She had been going to a women's only clinic which was the only way she could think of keeping Jake from following her inside. She doctor prescribed her prenatals as well as a bunch of vitamins and minerals since she was having trouble keeping food down. That way she could have all the nutrients she needed to be healthy. Apart from the sickness, he pregnancy was going fine, the baby was healthy and right on track. Her stomach was pretty small for where she was in her pregnancy, if she wasn't naked, no one would be able to tell that she was pregnant but the doctor told her not to worry because a lot of women carry a small belly when pregnant and she was also only 4 and a half months along, she had plenty time to swell.

For the last three month she had been thinking of how exactly she would deal with Rowan, she knew that eventually he found find out, she also knew that he would be beyond angry. She was afraid of what he the consequences would be for her but more so for her child. She had no intention of subjecting her baby to his anger so she knew she needed a plan for when he found out. She knew she had a couple of months of time left before Jake would definitely know. It was spring so she could still hide behind coats but the closer summer came, the less time she had. If the best option was for her and the child to disappear then that was what she would do if it kept them safe.

She had been so busy, lost in her thoughts that she almost forgot to tune into the white house correspondents dinner. She was streaming it online, she knew how uncomfortable the dinner made Fitz and she couldn't wait to see the look on his face when they started cracking jokes at him.

She turned up the volume on her laptop as she laid in bed waiting for it the comedian to begin his spiel. This year it was Jimmy Fallon who was hosting, she knew Fitz particularly picked Jimmy because he had been on his show many times and they were friends, so Fitz thought he would take it easy on him.

It was finally Jimmy's speech and she focused all her attention to the computer.

"Good evening Mr. President, members of the senate and congress and the press, thank you for inviting me to the nerd prom, I promise you by the end of the night, you'll regret hiring me as a host." he began.

"First off, I just want to say let's have a round of applause for our president. Come on everyone give it up."

The crowd applauded.

"I've been thinking about it and how lucky are we, I mean isn't he handsome, if he weren't a republican I'd date him and I'm not even gay."

The crowd laughed.

"No, I'm serious, I can't think of a president more handsome...except for JFK"

The crowd erupted in laughter, the camera panned to Fitz, he was laughing too.

"I can't think of a president richer than him...except for JFK"

Laughter again.

"I can't think of a president the people liked more...except for JFK."

"I mean he's just the best, second best president, ain't he."

Olivia was laughing pretty hard.

Jimmy went on and on making fun of congress, senate, Sally langston and the press until he made his way back to Fitz.

"Security here is tight tonight, which is good because considering that fact that the president has been shot and tackled within the last year, I was going to suggest hiring rent- a -cops, I think they would've done a great job of getting you shot and tackled for way less than you pay the secret service."

Fitz didn't laugh and Jimmy realized that.

"It's okay sir, I understand that you can't laugh at the secret service jokes."

The crowd chuckled.

"But seriously I'm glad you didn't die, because then we would have vice president Sally Langston and god knows that woman is crazy."

The crowd laughed.

"No seriously, god knows, he told me to stay clear of her which worked out great because she isn't here tonight which means she's somewhere beating a baby with a bible."

The crowd laughed, Fitz couldn't laugh but he wanted to.

"I mean we are lucky though, think about it, this is the first single president we've ever had in the white house, can you believe that. He's attractive, isn't he ladies? I remember when he first announced his campaign I thought 'jesus, where did they pull this guy out of; an old spice commercial, get him out of here!'."

Jimmy turned to face Fitz who was laughing.

"Look at him, ladies and gentlemen this man right here is a player, the hair, the tux, he's just waiting to break people's hearts, mine included. I think the only president that has been more of a player than you sir is of course - JFK. In fact if you look up the word player in the dictionary you'll see a picture of President Grant… but if you look closely, you'll see that President Grant is actually holding a picture of...JFK."

The crowd crackled loudly.

"All jokes aside, thank you for having me here. If you ever get tired of being single just give me a call and I'll take you to dinner, seriously, I'll uhh...ditch my wife."

The crowd roared

"It's okay, It's okay, I can joke like that, we're friends. Vote Grant in November! "

Jimmy yelled as he left the mic.

After after Fitz shook Jimmy's hand, he went to his seat, Fitz did his spiel and she knew he didn't write the jokes but they were still really funny.

Watching the correspondents dinner was actually the most fun she had in awhile and she was so tired from laughing, she fell asleep soon after.