On the morning of eve of Christmas, Olivia and Fitz left for Aspen and touched down at the Pitkin county airport around 2pm. It was a quick drive back to the cabin.

When Olivia stepped in, she placed Maxime on the ground so he could explore and get familiar with his surroundings.

The cabin smelled like fresh pine, thanks to the huge evergreen tree standing by the fireplace. It was beautifully decorated with christmas ornaments, as was the entire cabin.

"Fitz, I wanted to trim the tree with you, why did you have it decorated already?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know."

"It's okay, whoever did this, did an amazing job."

Olivia kicked off her shoes and unzipped her jacket.

"Time to go skiing," she said excitedly, "you know, I'm pretty sure I'm a better skier than you, I've got mad skills," she teased.

"Please, don't embarrass yourself Liv."

She chuckled, "I love it when you get all cocky."

He wrapped his arms around her waist and picked up then kissed her.

"Fitz, your jacket is cold," she complained.

"Yeah but it's nice isn't it."

"Well obviously, I'm gonna say yes, I bought it!"

He shook his head and smiled.

"Let's go change, there should be a snowstorm tonight so the quicker we head out the quicker we get back."

She nodded, "okay."

They changed into their matching black and white ski suits. Afterwards, they headed straight to the ski resort. They both knew how to ski so they didn't need instructions and they had equipment, all they needed was a slope. Olivia brought Max along because she didn't want him to be stuck in the cabin while they were out having fun but she also couldn't watch him while she skied so she asked her agents to watch him.

Guests at the resort took pictures of them as they strapped on their skis at the top of the slope.

"Are you ready," Fitz asked.

"I was born ready," she said what a smile.

They got set at the top and then took off down the slope. As they skied down the slope, Olivia looked across briefly at Fitz who somehow was 10 feet in the air doing some sort of air trick, she shook her head as his showboating. By the time they reached the bottom, Fitz stopped directly in front of her.

"Technique, execution, follow-through, I might also give myself a few extra points for flair."

"Oh shut up."

He chuckled and pulled off his goggles and gave her a kiss.

"You wanna go again, double or nothing?"

Olivia smiled.

"Deal."

After spending almost two hours out on the slope, they headed back to the resort cafe for hot chocolate. She took Max into the cafe and entertained him while she waited for Fitz to order their hot chocolates. Christmas carols played on the radio, the fresh smell of peppermint filled the air, moments later, Fitz walked over with two cups of hot chocolate and peppermint brownies on a tray, he placed them on the table and then took a seat beside her.

"This smells amazing," she said with a smile as she took a small bite of her warm brownie.

Max sniffed around her brownie but she was careful not to let him get too close because she knew what chocolate did to dogs.

"Olivia I'm sorry, I can't take it anymore, you dress this dog like a freaking doll, what is he wearing?"

She chuckled.

"He's wearing a Kate Spade doggy snowsuit, isn't it cute, I wanted him to be warm."

"He has fur for that," he said with a chuckle.

"Yes but he needs to be warm and fashionable, like his mama."

"Oh boy, poor Max," Fitz said exhaustively.

They sat, drinking their hot chocolate and bantering back and forth for some time until they finally headed back to their cabin.

Once they got in, they both took turns showering and by night time, they settled on the couch under the blanket, watching tv until they both fell asleep.

The next morning when Fitz woke up, the sound of Mariah Carey's 'all I want for Christmas is you," played throughout the cabin. He smelled food, bacon and cinnamon, specifically, and he needed to find it. He quickly brushed his teeth and then headed to the kitchen to meet Olivia. He found her standing by the kitchen island. He stood behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her.

"Merry Christmas," he said with a beaming smile.

She turned around and faced him.

"Merry Christmas," she returned with a beaming smile of her own.

Fitz looked around at the table, there were cinnabons, bacon, belgian waffles, eggs, toast, pancakes, strawberries, blueberries and breakfast sausages.

"This looks and smells amazing baby, how long did it take you to make all this?"

"Not very long, I was just about to wake you, I thought since this is our first christmas together, I'd make us a special breakfast, I won't make dinner though, I do not cook turkeys."

Fitz smiled.

"It's okay, I've got dinner all set, they're dropping it off around 3 or so in the afternoon."

"Okay, perfect- wait- who the heck is working on christmas, if they don't have too?"

"The owner of this diner in town, I've known him for years and he's just sending some of his family dinner over for us."

"Aww that's really nice."

Fitz was about to take a strip of bacon when Olivia swatted his arm away.

"No, no, no, where is my gift?"

He chuckled.

"Okay, I'll go get it."

"And I'll get yours as well."

They both turned and headed in different directions and moments later, convened in the den. They both had several gifts.

"Me first, I really hope you like it," Fitz said nervously.

He handed her a large, flat wrapped felt like a picture or portrait of some kind.

"Can I get a hint before I open it?" she asked.

"Nope, just open it."

"Okay."

She pulled the small tabs of tab off the side and tore the wrapping paper, "I think it's a picture, you know how much I love art," she said excitedly, "how did you even get this here?"

"I had it shipped before we came."

It was rather large, Olivia leaned it up against the wall and continued pulling off the paper until it was completely off and her gift was revealed to her. It was a portrait, a large oil painted portrait, of her. She almost couldn't believe it was her, it was so ethereal and beautiful that she was at a lost for words.

"Do you like it?" he asked.

"Oh my god, yes!" she jumped and clapped her hands excitedly, "I can't believe that's me, did you paint this?"

"Of course not, I can barely write."

Olivia giggled and covered her face shyly.

"Now I feel bad about my gift, I got you an XBox console and a Grand Theft Auto Game, I thought it'd be a great way for you to relax, you know, you could have sex with prostitutes and rob liquor stores and kill people, you know, I bought you a bunch of other games two but I've heard that one is the most fun."

Fitz smiled.

"That's actually a perfect gift."

"Really?"

"Yes, really, can I open my gift to see for myself?"

"Yes," she said with a smile, "wait, can you take a picture of my beside my portrait - no, that's selfish, I should let you open your gifts first."

"Olivia stand beside the portrait so I can take your picture," he instructed playfully.

She smiled and walked over to the huge portrait leaned against the wall.

"Say, my fiance is better than your fiance," Fitz said.

"My fiance is better than your fiance," she said with a smile.

Fitz took the pictures and then handed her, her phone back and then he sat on the couch and opened his gifts, he started with the biggest box first, the xbox console and almost 20 individual games to go with it.

"Liv, we have to set this up now, I wanna play, I've never had this before."

"Okay but you have to open the other gifts first."

"You have other gifts too you know,"

"I know but I just can't stop looking at my portrait, I wonder where I'm gonna hang it?" she asked herself.

Fitz opened his second gift, it was a diamond Bvlgari timepiece.

"Liv, I love this, you know I hate it when you spend a lot of money on me, you don't have to."

"Blah, blah, blah, get over yourself and try it on, I think it's fabulous."

"Please don't use the word fabulous," he said jokingly.

"Fine, it's manly, oh so manly, it's still gorgeous though, try it."

As Fitz tried his watch, Olivia opened another one of her gifts. It was a beautiful, extravagant white diamond cuff bracelet, it resembled a mariposa only instead of wings, there were stems of diamonds that protruded from the bracelet. She tried it on her arm and loved it, she was used to Fitz buying her expensive gifts so she didn't complain she just thanked him. They called Gerry and spoke to him briefly and then Olivia texted her friends just to wish them a Merry Christmas as Fitz called a few people of his own.

After opening all their gifts, they headed back to the kitchen to grab their food and bring it to the den while they set up Fitz's new XBox and played as they ate.

Later in the afternoon, when they knew dinner was on it's way, they showered and then sat on the couch, watching 'It's a wonderful life,' as they waited for their delivery.

"It sucks that it's your time of the month," he said randomly.

"Why, because you're horny?" she teased.

"So horny."

She smiled.

"What's my rule?"

"Please don't make me say it?"

"No, what's my rule."

Fitz sighed.

"Your time of the month is your sacred time to bask in your femininity and appreciate your womanhood, that means no sex during your period."

She kissed him then smiled.

"Be glad mine only lasts two days on average, some woman last an entire week."

Fitz chuckled.

"I'd give you a blowjob but that's breaking my own rules," she teased.

There was a knock on the cabin door.

"I'll get it," Fitz said.

He quickly went to the door and grabbed the food and then brought it back over to Olivia.

"Dig in."

They laid on the couch, covered under a blanket and ate dinner together, watching christmas movies as it snowed outside and the heat and light from the fireplace filled the room. It was perfect, the way Olivia always imagined it would be.

One week later.

They were back in D.C., in the thick of it, still planning a very large wedding, still trying to get pregnant only now, Fitz was going to be in full campaign mode.

It was the day after New year's, Fitz had mentioned to her that they would be having a special guest over for dinner though he was sketchy on the details, she figured it was important so she made it a point of duty to get to the residence on time for dinner.

She first went to the bedroom to drop her purse and laptop and checked her hair and makeup before heading to the dining room. When she walked in, her chin almost fell to the floor, Fitz and Daniel sat opposite each other, conversing and laughing as if they were the best of friends, it was all fake of course, the body language gave them both away. When Fitz saw her he immediately stood up and greeted her with a sweet kiss on the lips before pulling out her chair so she could sit directly beside him, opposite to Daniel who was on the other side of the rectangular table. She was so shocked that she couldn't react, she just took a seat.

"Bonjour Olivia," Daniel greeted.

"Uhm, what's going on?"

Fitz chuckled.

"It's my fault Daniel, I didn't tell Olivia you were coming, I hoped it would be a pleasant surprise but I guess…not" Fitz trailed off.

"I see," said Daniel.

"The servers will be here at any moment," said Fitz, "but if I recall, you were telling me something about MIT?"

Daniel cleared his throat, slightly embarrassed Olivia greeted him so coldly.

"Ah, yes, so professor Confessore told me about a brilliant young scientist, he said he thought we could help each other, I came from a family with a background in mechanics and Olivia was an expert on the field I was studying, we thought we could help each out, so to speak."

There was a knock on the door and the servers entered with trays of food and placed them all around the table and left. Daniel and Fitz grabbed their forks and napkin to eat, Olivia didn't.

"Daniel please," Fitz gestured towards him, "finish the story."

Olivia sat and watched as Fitz and Daniel conversed, laughing as if they were the best of friends, Fitz was so convincing that she believed that Daniel might have thought he was harmless, even friendly but she knew Fitz and he seemed a little too smug, it was bothering her.

"-and so of course you know I come from a rather wealthy family-"

"-You've mentioned that several times but I also know that your rather wealthy family filed for bankruptcy 10 years ago, but that's neither here nor there, I apologize for cutting you off finish the story, it was getting pretty good," Fitz said nonchalantly.

There it was, that's why he was so smug, Olivia knew him too well, he was setting the lamb up for slaughter.

"What?" Daniel asked.

"Nothing, just forget I mentioned it, finished the story."

The room was silent, the only audible sound was the sound of Fitz eating his dinner, either completely oblivious or completely ignoring the death stare Daniel had directed towards him.

"Is that why you brought me here, so you could tell her."

"I could've told her whenever I wanted to, I just wanted to see your face when I did it but that's not why I brought you here. I brought you here so the french police could search your lab and all your other properties without you disturbing them. Since we've already established that you've been broke for the past ten years the next question is how exactly you've managed to fund your rather extravagant lifestyle?"

Fitz let the question hang in there air for a few seconds before answering it himself.

"Chinese triad money. You've been laundering it through your lab for years now, millions of it, which is criminal and being the president of the united states and leader of the free world and all, you can see why I would take exception to that and don't worry about the lab, the french government seized it and they've agreed to hand over the cell accelerator to the U.S. government as gratitude for our aid in handing over documents that were crucial in your indictment, it will be in Olivia's hands and I'm sure she will take great care of it."

Fitz checked his watch.

"If I timed it right and I think I did the FBI should be downstairs right now, waiting for you."

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in," Fitz called.

Tom entered.

"Mr. president, the FBI-"

"Oh boy I'm good," Fitz said, complimenting himself, "It's okay Tom, tell them he'll be right down."

Fitz smirked and took a sip of his scotch, he was enjoying himself.

"I don't know why you're still here, the FBI is waiting on you in the lobby."

Daniel stood up and slammed his hands against the table.

"You did this because you are threatened by me, the only way you can feel secure is if you lock me away, I will hire the best lawyers-"

"Your assets are frozen, how you gonna do that" Fitz paused, "unless I pardon you from all the crimes committed on U.S. soil and retract the evidence given the french authorities, then I suppose the case would die, I could do that, I mean, I have the power to but I don't want to."

Fitz stood up.

"Tom?" he called loudly.

Seconds later, Tom entered the room.

"Show him where the lobby is."

Fitz took Olivia's hand, he realized she'd been unusually quiet the entire dinner and figured they could talk about it later on, he expected a scolding from her. He helped her out the chair, as he did so Olivia looked at Daniel who was tense with anger, he seemed to be deciding whether or not he wanted to beg for a pardon or fight.

Fitz didn't give him a chance to, the guards entered seconds later and he took Olivia and led her out of the dining room and into their bedroom. They could hear Daniel screaming, trying to resist arrest but they didn't stick around to watch. Once they stepped into the bedroom, Olivia turned and faced Fitz.

"Okay, what just happened?"

He smiled.

"Wow," he said mostly to himself, in satisfaction of how he'd handled Daniel.

"Fitz-"

"When he decided to pay you a visit for your birthday, I decided to have him looked into, found out about the open case against him in France and surprisingly our treasury department's financial crime unit had an open case against him too, I gave France all the evidence we had and in exchange, told them we'd want the cell accelerator when they seized his properties and they agreed, turns out his lab was mostly funded by mob money. It took a little planning to time everything perfectly but I think I did alright and I knew you'd be a little annoyed about the whole arrest thing but since you get the cell accelerator, I know you've always wanted it, I figured you'd give me a pass."

She smiled.

"You thought right, oh my god, I can't believe it's mine, I'm so excited."

"Not right away though, they have to go through the whole process of charging him and his family, trial and all that then, they'll formally be able to hand it over."

"I don't care, it's still mine."

Olivia walked over to the wall where her portrait hung and gazed at it in admiration.

"I feel like I'm on top of the world, I can't explain it, it just, it feels good, like everything is falling perfectly into place."

Fitz chuckled and walked over to her and stood behind her with his hands wrapped around her waist.

"Are you ever going to stop being obsessed with this portrait?"

"No, I can't, it's so beautiful."

"I'm glad you like it."

"I'm glad I like it too."

He kissed her shoulder.

"Since Daniel is no longer a problem for us-"

"-He was never a problem," she interjected

"Well, either way he's gone now."

"Don't you feel a little… bad?"

"Nope, not even a little bit and technically, he was going to jail regardless, I just sped up the process."

"So you're just gonna mow down anyone who comes in your way?"

"No, not everyone, just the people who try to mess with you," he said, not even feigning remorse.

She sighed.

"Okay well, I'd be a hypocrite if I said I didn't like it when you go all darth vader for me," she said with a small chuckle.

"So you admit it huh," he teased.

"Yes but no more talking about him, I still feel bad and I don't wanna dwell on it, why don't we go to the kitchen, I didn't really get to eat because I was too busy watching you gloat so now I'm starving."

"Okay, I'll cook you something."

"Hell no, what are you, tryna poison me."

Fitz laughed.

"Harsh," he said with a chuckle.

She pulled off her shoes and then walked barefeet with Fitz down to the kitchen to find something other than her dinner to eat.

A/N - Sorry if the chapter ended weird and felt quick, I didn't want to drag it out and I really need to move the story forward so it will be a two chapter day.