Olivia, Abby, Kamaya, Elliot, Harrison and Huck all made their way to the private booths at the back of the restaurant. Olivia sat in the middle of her group of friends and made herself comfortable.

"I'm so glad you drove up here, I've missed you so much. She left me you guys," Abby began.

Olivia rolled her eyes playfully.

"I'm here aren't I," she giggled, "and I'm starving."

She picked up the menu and glanced through.

"Planning this freaking party has been so hectic and you know the funny part, my bad ass daughter doesn't even seem to care," said Kamaya.

"Hey, don't talk about my goddaughter," Olivia joked.

They all chuckled.

"So how's it been in D.C., how's the president's son?" Harrison asked.

"He's good, he's almost walking."

"When are you gonna start working again?" asked Huck.

"I don't know, I'm taking things easy, I've always been working and right now I don't feel like traveling and taking on cases, I really am not looking for any high stakes situations right now although I do think that maybe it's time to work on a new project, a new medical breakthrough maybe, I've had some ideas floating around in my head and I've been thinking maybe that I could move my office down to D.C., with all the lab and research equipment, it's not like I'm using it here."

"If you move the office, what would I do, I practically run that place?" asked Harrison.

"I'd give you a salary until you found a new job or you could come to D.C. and help me with my research."

"No way, you're not taking Harrison to D.C. too, you already have Stephen down there," Abby said adamantly.

Olivia laughed.

"Geez okay, Harry you can't come, Abby said so."

Harrison laughed.

"Thanks mom."

"You're welcome," said Abby.

They all laughed and bantered and proceeded to order their meals. As they waited for their meals, Olivia decided to take some pictures.

"Come on guys, let's take a group shot."

"That sounds like those porno scenes where all the guys cum on that one girl's face," said Abby.

They all erupted in laughter.

"Oh my god, you're right," Olivia said as she laughed, "but still, let's take a picture, we haven't been out in forever."

They scrunched together and smiled for the selfie that Olivia took then they all took turns taking separate picture until the food came.

By the time they finished dinner and stood outside the restaurant on the curb, they began brainstorm things they could do instead of going home.

"Why don't we go to 1 Oak," Elliot suggested.

Elliot was another co-worker of Olivia's from her Columbia days. He was her old medical assistant. He was flamboyantly gay and always seemed to be the life of the party.

"Hell yeah, let's go," said Kamaya.

They all agreed and called an uber to to drop them to the club. Her secret service agents weren't far away, they always seemed to be in the corner somewhere watching her. When Olivia got in the car, she decided to call Fitz just to check in for the night before things got crazy.

"Hey babe."

"Livie what's up?"

"Nothing, we just finished having dinner, we're going to go out for drinks now."

"Where are you?"

"I'm in the back of a cab," she chuckled, "we're all crunched up, I'm sitting in Elliot's laps."

"Who the hell Elliot and why are you sitting in his lap?"

Olivia giggled.

"Don't worry, he's gay."

They all laughed.

"Let me guess, he doesn't want you in Elliot's lap," said Abby.

Fitz heard Abby's comment.

"Tell Abby I said shut up."

Olivia smiled.

"He said shut up."

Abby scoffed and smiled.

"Well it sounds like you're having fun."

"I am, what are you doing?"

"I'm going over my speech for my meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau tomorrow."

"It's late, you should get some rest, I'm sure whatever you have in front of you is fine."

"Okay momma, I'm almost done, I'll go to bed right after."

She smiled.

"Okay, I love you, get some rest and call me tomorrow when you wake up."

"Okay, I love you too bye."

Olivia hung up.

"Lover boy doesn't want you in my lap huh?" said Elliot, "when are we gonna meet him?"

"Yeah," said Kamaya in unison.

"Mind your business you guys, you'll meet him when it's necessary."

They started laughing, even Huck who'd been his usual quiet self.

"What?" Olivia asked in a whiny voice.

"Nothing," said Harrison laughing.

They arrived at the 1 oak shortly after, they mostly spent their time at the bar, drinking and dancing. Olivia only danced with her friends, she was still paranoid about strangers even though she could see her guards standing by the entrance.

They left early morning, Olivia and Abby went home and everyone else went their separate ways to meet later in the day for Sahara's party.

Later in the morning when Olivia woke up, she checked her phone and saw that Fitz texted her good morning and told her to call him once she was up.

She got out of bed and brushed her teeth and then called him. The phone almost went to voicemail before he picked up, there was a lot of background noise and she wondered what was going on.

"Fitz, it's really loud, what's going on?"

"One sec."

She heard him take a few steps and then the background noise became less audible.

"Yeah sorry, it's a little crazy today, I can't talk for long but I wanted to tell you that Gerry is walking."

"What? That's great. When?""

"I know, he just woke up this morning and started walking. He walked right into my bedroom so casually. It was insane."

"Why didn't he call me?"

"I told him you were probably sleeping, it was pretty early in the morning."

Olivia smiled.

"Well, I'm so happy he's walking again. That's actually how another patient of mine started walking, he just got up on day and walked but it took him longer than Gerry though but he was older of course."

"Well this is all thanks to you-"

"Fitz we need you to practice your opening remarks!" Cyrus screamed.

He laughed.

"I'll call you later okay, Cyrus is calling me."

"Okay, baby, I'll talk to you later."

Once Olivia hung up with Fitz, she dialed Savannah.

"Morning Savannah, I'm still on for my 11am right?"

"Of course Liv, 11 o'clock is wide open for you."

"Great we have a a lot to talk about."

"Good, see you then."

Olivia hung up and quickly showered and dressed herself and then headed to Savannah's office. She sat in the lobby and waited until Savannah came out and greeted her with a hug.

"Liv! Finally, it's feels like forever."

Olivia returned the hug.

"I know."

"Come on in."

Olivia followed her to the office and took a seat on the couch.

"Coffee, tea, cookies?"

"Uh tea, thank you."

"Sugar?"

"No sugar, um, maybe one sugar."

Savannah chuckled and poured her a cup of tea and placed it in the coffee table in front of her and then sat opposite Olivia.

"Let me start by saying you look happier than I've ever seen you, I am a little mad at you for not calling me for our usual phone appointment for the past few days but you are here now so lay it on me."

Olivia smiled.

"Well, I'm sorry but I knew I was coming here and I figured I'd just talk to you in person because a lot has happened."

Savannah nodded; encouraging her to go on.

"Gerry is walking again, he started walking this morning and I'm really happy about that."

"That's great news, I think you did an exceptional job on working with Gerry considering you were going through such a difficult time."

Olivia smiled.

"Thank you."

"Since Gerry was a success, do you see yourself going back to your practice?"

"Not right now, Idon't want to feel- honestly, I just don't feel like I'm ready, I don't want to feel the pressure of a 12 hour surgery right now, but I've been thinking about it a lot and I think I can go back to the drawing board and come up with a cure for something," Olivia chuckled, "invent something, I don't know, I'm still thinking on it."

Savannah smiled.

"Good, that's really good. What about the fight you had last week, we haven't spoken since then, what happened after that?"

Olivia took a sip of her tea.

"When I called him he was really calm, he wasn't upset or anything. I apologized to him over the phone and then later in the evening when he came over, I apologized again and we had sex afterwards."

Olivia paused and waited for savannah's commentary.

"What caused you to have sex with him that night versus other nights where you had expressed to me that you didn't feel comfortable taking that step as yet? Did you feel like you owed him that because of the incident?"

"Honestly, I was horny and on top of that I just wanted to feel connected to him and to feel sexy and yeah I did feel bad about hitting him and that might've played a part but I didn't feel like I owed him, he's never made me feel like I owe him sex, in that moment it just felt right."

"Have you been intimate since that night?"

Olivia laughed.

"Have we? It was a long night Savannah and then a long morning and afternoon and night. My libido is higher than ever, so much so that I had to stop by his office yesterday to 'relieve myself' before I left for New York."

Savannah smiled.

"So you feel like your sex life is normal."

"My sex life is perfect."

"Good, I was wondering where this glow came from."

Olivia chuckled.

"On Saturday, as we made love he revealed to me that he still had fears about losing me, I mean, I could tell he was scared-"

"You seem surprised? Does he not usually open up to you?"

"He does but not like that. When I had the night terror, I said some things to him that worried him."

"What did you say?"

"I basically told him that I needed him and he wasn't there, you know, while I had been held hostage but I was disoriented when I woke up, I felt like I was back in Iran, I really didn't realize I had been rescued which was why I said that and it definitely hurt him, he already blamed himself so much for what happened and that didn't really help. I told him that wasn't how I felt now but I don't know how much that helped so I suggested that we speak with you together and he agreed."

"You want to have a joint session with me?"

"Yeah, what do you think?"

"I think that if you agree to do that, you should be prepared to be honest about what happened in Iran because I think that you haven't been open about that, not even with me and you'll have to be willing to speak about that."

"I've told you enough."

"You've barely told me anything about what happened there."

Olivia closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself.

"I'm not ready to talk about what happened there, actually I'm lying, I'm not going to talk about what happened there."

"Then you are not ready to have a session with him. If you are just going to tell him all the things he knows already then it makes no sense."

Olivia took another deep breath.

"What am I supposed to do. Do you have any idea how humiliating it is to be tortured and brutalized and starved for months, I'm sorry Savannah I'm not about to sit here and give you every lurid detail about what happened there, I'm just not. If anyone found out I don't know what I'd do."

Savannah could see Olivia was getting aggravated and there was something new that she sensed about her.

"It's makes you angry thinking about to what they did to you. It makes you angry that other people may find out what they did to you. According to you, everyone who participated in your abduction was arrested or killed during your rescue so how would anyone find out?"

"Why are doing this?"

"Olivia as your therapist, I can't always agree with you especially when I sense that you are holding back. I'm not going to always tell you what you want to hear."

"I have to go, I need to help out with my goddaughter's birthday."

Olivia stood up and grabbed her purse.

"Olivia getting upset and running from this won't help."

"I'm not upset, I told you I'm not gonna going into details about it and that's final, I'll tell Fitz that it's not a good idea for us to see you together right now."

"I never said it wasn't a good idea to have a joint session with me, I said it makes no sense if you weren't going to be honest."

"I can be honest, I've been honest, about my feelings, about my fears but Savannah I'm not telling anyone what happened there, I'm sorry, I'm not."

She was starting to get emotional and she really wanted to end the conversation. Savannah stood up and grabbed and tissue and handed it to her. She wiped her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Let's have the session together, you don't have to talk about what happened in Iran, we'll work through some things and see where it goes and who knows maybe you'll change your mind, maybe not."

Olivia nodded.

"I'm gonna give his secretary your card so she can schedule a meeting."

"Okay," Savannah smiled, Olivia was still really upset, "can I get a hug from my favorite patient?"

Olivia smiled and gave her a hug.

"You're only saying that because you think I'm mad at you."

"No, I mean it, you're very self aware, it's amuses me sometimes."

"Thanks... I think," Olivia smiled and headed out.

She took a moment to compose herself on the side of the street and then hailed a cab to Kamaya's apartment to help with Sahara's party. Abby, Kamaya, Harrison, Elliott and Sahara's nanny Simone were getting everything ready to take to the park and set up. When she walked into the apartment, Sahara had been running around destroying all the decorations and trying to take the party favors for herself.

"Sahara, come here baby, did you miss me?" She said as she walked through the door.

Sahara stopped as soon she heard Olivia voice and turned around and sprinted to Olivia.

"Va!" she screamed.

Olivia picked her up and kissed her.

"Happy birthday my little princess."

Kamaya ran over to her.

"Please Liv just watch her, she is driving me and Simone crazy."

Olivia smiled.

"Okay you got it," Olivia turned to Sahara, "come princess, let's go find something to do."

Olivia took her to the living room where everyone was gathered, busy completing their respective tasks.

She thought maybe she could keep Sahara busy with cartoons so she took her over to the couch and turned on the tv, it was on the news and Fitz and prime minister Trudeau were in the Rose Garden holding a press conference. She decided to see how long Sahara would let her watch it without fussing.

As she sat watching the news conference of Fitz and Trudeau side by side, out of nowhere she heard Kamaya; "damn, I'd like to be in the middle of that sandwich, look at them, I can't even hear what they're saying, look at those jawlines, they could cut glass."

Abby and Harrison started laughing.

"They have to be the two most attractive men to lead the world," said Elliott.

Olivia smiled but she didn't turn around.

"Which one would you rather?" asked Abby.

She knew Abby only asked that to annoy her.

"Well let's see," Kamaya began, "they are both really good looking, Grant is taller but he's also a republican, I hate republicans, Trudeau is liberal which is definitely a plus, I wonder who carries a bigger stick below the belt?"

"Olivia operated on president Grant, she might know," said Abby.

Olivia turned around and gave Abby the side eye.

"Yeah Liv, what's Grant packing down there?" Elliott asked.

"It's disappointing, it's really tiny, embarrassing if you ask me, you don't want Grant, you want Trudeau," Olivia said with a straight face, she wasn't about to tell them what her man had under his pants.

Harrison started laughing.

"That's disappointing but he's rich and Sahara's father is a dead beat so I guess I'd do him," said Kamaya.

"Well I'm throwing my ass in a circle for Trudeau then," said Elliott.

Olivia laughed.

"I'm sure his wife would like that."

"She can join us if she wants to," replied Elliot.

Sahara started fidgeting so Olivia changed the channel to cartoons so she could quiet down.

After hours of getting ready for the party around 3 in the afternoon the party commenced.

Olive spent most of her time running behind Sahara, who everyone seemed content to leave in her care. Even Simone, her nanny pretended not to see Sahara running around like a crazy little juggernaut.

Later in the afternoon, they cut the cake and sang Sahara a happy birthday before handing out the party favors and ending the party.

The next morning Olivia took Sahara to Chuck E. Cheese to spend the day with her since she wasn't able to do it on Monday and then by the afternoon, she drove back to D.C as planned.

By the time she got to her apartment. It was almost 8pm, she took a nice warm shower and threw on some underwear and one of Fitz's t shirts and headed to the kitchen. She wasn't hungry but she felt like snacking so she grabbed some fruit from the fridge and plopped down on the couch to watch tv as she ate.

Fitz had texted her letting her know he wasn't sure when he was going to finish working so she didn't expect him to come by so she sat on the couch watching episodes of The Boondocks until she retreated to her bedroom and fell asleep.

Fitz didn't get to the apartment until early morning. Usually he wouldn't come around that time but he really wanted to see her.

He'd called her a couple times but she didn't pick up so he knew she was asleep. He let himself in with his keys and headed straight to the bedroom to check on her. She was sound asleep, covered to her neck with a huge white comforter. He smiled and kissed her on the cheek and then went to take a quick shower.

After he finished showering, instead of getting dressed, he wrapped a towel around his waist and headed straight to the kitchen for a glass of scotch and drank it in one hard gulp and then headed to the bedroom.

As much as he wished he could just get dressed and go to bed, he couldn't, he was on edge after a long day and all he wanted was Olivia but she was asleep.

He laid on the bed, staring at the ceiling deciding whether or not it was a good idea to wake her up just because he was horny and wanted to have sex.

He'd really been playing it by ear when it came to her, she didn't reveal a whole lot about what happened when she was taken so he had no idea what would trigger her.

He turned his head and faced her, most of her face was covered by the blanket so he moved it and tucked the few stray strands of hair that fell on her face; behind her ears.

He gazed at her for a while before he planted the first kiss on her lips and then a second and a third and soon he felt her join in on the kiss and he was glad she did.

He pulled the blanket off her and threw it to the floor. He noticed she was only wearing a t shirt and sexy little lace panties and found it quite delightful.

She was laying flat on her stomach but said nothing, he was careful to read her body language, trying to sense any resistance as he kissed over her shoulder and down her back. When he kissed down the small of her back and reached her underwear she raised her hips for him and that's when he knew she wanted it as bad as he did.

"Take them off baby," she said just above a whisper.

Fitz slowly pulled the soft lace fabric over ass and down her legs and threw them on the ground. He pulled his towel off and positioned himself squarely behind her, straddling her. She kept her legs locked together and arched her back, giving him the perfect angle to enter her from behind.

He leaned over and kissed her.

"I missed you," he whispered in her ear as he entered her.

She could smell the scotch on his breath.

It was a new position for them and he didn't expect it to allow him to penetrate her so much deeper than before. Olivia seemed to love it too, she had her face buried in the pillow and a grabbed a fistful of sheets in both hands and every stroke resulted in a loud, muffled gasp.

He had both hands planted firmly on the small of her back as he stroked her long and deep and listened to her moans fill the room, they were soft and melancholic but it wasn't the first time Olivia got emotional during sex.

As Fitz felt his climax building and Olivia tightening around him so he knew she was close as well, he raised her hips up a little higher and then wrapped his arms around and grabbed onto her breasts and a few hard thrusts later, they both came in rapture.

Fitz collapsed beside her and tried to catch his breath. He could see Olivia smiling with her face buried in the pillow as she tried to catch hers as well.

"I missed you too," she said with a smile.

He smiled and pulled her closer so she was laying on his chest.

"Why do you get so emotional during sex?"

It was something he'd thought about on multiple occasions but never asked, he figured now was a good time.

She looked up at him and smiled and then rested her head back on his chest.

"I'm sorry if getting a good dicking from the man I love makes me emotional, what was I thinking, I must be crazy," she said sarcastically.

Fitz chuckled.

"That answer works fine for me."

"I bet that's what you wanted to hear, didn't you."

"A little bit yeah," he sighed and smiled, "how was your trip?"

"Fun, I have pictures from Sahara's party, she was so bad and they just left her all on me, even her nanny, it was the funniest thing."

He chuckled.

"Did she like her gifts?"

"She loved them, I'd show you the pictures on my phone but it's sooo far."

"Where is it?"

"On the nightstand."

Fitz looked over on the stand that was only a couple feet away and saw her phone.

"Really Liv?"

"I'm tired, I was sleeping you know."

He chuckled and stretched for the phone and handed it to her so she could unlock it and show him the pictures.

The first picture was of Sahara posing in her birthday outfit with the biggest smile on her face.

"This is her cute little birthday princess outfit, isn't she just the cutest."

"She is, is it weird that she kinda looks like you?"

"I've heard that before, every time I take her, people just assume she's my daughter."

Then Olivia skipped to a picture of her placing the birthday crown on Sahara's head as she stood ready to blow out her birthday candles.

"That's a nice picture."

"Thanks," Olivia said with a smile.

She flipped through a few more pictures then she shut off her phone and placed it back on the nightstand.

"Did you speak with your therapist?"

Olivia cleared her throat softly.

"I did, we talked for awhile, she doesn't think we should see her together as yet, she says I still have some stuff to work through."

Fitz didn't question it.

"Okay well whenever she thinks it's okay just let me know and we can fly her down here."

"Okay."

Olivia decided to change the subject before she started to feel guilty about lying.

"I'm gonna go get some water, do you want anything?"

Fitz jump up.

"No, I'll get it for you, I'll be right back."

He walked completely naked to the kitchen and grabbed her a bottle of water and then hurried back. When he walked into the room Olivia smiled.

"Turn around," she ordered.

"Why?" he said as she turned around.

"Nothing, I just wanted to see your tight buns, can you flex them for me?"

Fitz laughed and turned back around and walked over to the bed and handed her the water.

"I'm not gonna flex my ass muscles for you, I'm not a gigolo."

"I blow you like a maniac, you better be my gigolo."

Fitz gave her the side eye and smirked.

"Agreed."

She laughed and took a sip of her water and placed it on the nightstand.

Fitz picked up the blanket and threw it over her then joined her on the bed and pulled her close and gave her a soft peck on the lips.

They laid together, chatting about mundane things until they both drifted to sleep.