Two months later.

Olivia stood in the New York showroom for the Elie Saab couture team waiting for them to bring out her wedding dress.

The wedding was only three and a half weeks away. She and David had sent out the invitations over 6 weeks ago, had cake tasting sessions, approved floral arrangements, choose the song she'd walk down the aisle to, approved the decor and planned the reception. She thought they were doing great considering her work schedule and Fitz's work and campaign schedule were so hectic. She was so busy she had only managed to make it to a few campaign events but it was an experience she would never forget (not that she could). The way thousands of people chanted '4 more years' for him was surreal for her. Sally had to drop out because she had a hard time gaining momentum when Fitz was winning all the primaries with Reston behind him in second place.

Abby, Kamaya, Sahara and Elliot were also in attendance at the fitting. She received the sketches from all designers who offered to design her dress by early January, she loved them all but the Elie Saab was more than love it was magic and she decided that that would be what she wore down the aisle, she just hoped it looked the way she imagine it would in person, given that she had only seen sketches and she knew she was cutting it close by viewing the dress for the first time only three weeks before the wedding but she had spoken in detail with Elie and his team about the dress so she felt like she knew exactly what it would look like.

"Okay Olivia," Elie walked out into the showroom, "close your eyes."

"Okay," Olivia said with a smile.

She closed her eyes and hoped she wouldn't be disappointed.

Elie and his team pulled the screen, revealing Olivia's dress and all it's attachments, the maid of honor and bridesmaid dresses and Sahara's flower girl dress. There was a cameraman in the room, recording the entire interaction as requested by Elie and his team, they agreed however, not to release the footage until after the wedding.

"Okay," Elie said, "open your eyes."

Olivia opened her eyes and took in the dress she would wear down the aisle to marry Fitz. It was perfect, the way she imagined it would be.

"Oh my god, can I try it, it's beautiful," she said, totally flabbergasted.

"Absolutely, the fitters will assist you."

"What do you guys think?" she asked her group of friends.

"I love it," Elliot was the first to say, "but you have to try it, I need to see it on you, it's gorgeous."

"Yes," Abby and Kamaya said in agreement.

"Okay."

Olivia went into the fitting room, followed by Abby, Kamaya, Sahara and the fitter to help them put on their dresses.

It took almost 30 minutes to get them all dressed, Olivia's dress had multiple attachments, it took her the longest. Once she was done, the fitters held her train (which stretched several feet behind her) and walked her back to the showroom filled with mirrors. There was a 4 inch block in front of the mirror, Olivia stepped up and then the assistants spread the dress all around her, the way it would fall if she had heels on and then stepped back so she could see herself in the mirror.

"Wow," Olivia said as she looked over her reflection in the mirror.

Her dress wasn't a blinding white, it was a soft ivory color, somewhere in the middle of white and cream. It was strapless with a fitted bodice top that cupped around her breast without revealing cleavage, every inch of the fabric was embellished with pretty white pearls, crystals and beads. The dress cinched at her waist, accentuating how tiny it was and the skirt of the dress, was made of soft, french, silk tulle and was covered in the same dainty pearlescent embellishments as the bodice of the dress. It was fitted around the hips and butt but as it moved down her body it flowed smoothly to the floor where the beaded tulle formed into a beautiful circular train behind her. It wasn't the traditional puffy bridal gown, it was much more subtle.

Her veil was the exact same color, fabric and had the same pattern of beaded embellishments lining the edges of the fabric. It didn't cover her face, it was almost like a cloak, but it wasn't. There was no hood, instead it laid gingerly over her hair, it flowed over her arms and back and stopped just above her butt. The third attachment of her dress stretched 10 feet behind her to form a long, beautifully embellished train. It was draped loosely around her shoulder and through her elbow, (the way you would drape a scarf around your shoulders if it was cold out) and then it cascade behind her into a stream of tulle.

Olivia loved the dress so much that as she stood, gazing at her reflection in the mirror, she couldn't look away. It had a feel of delicate innocence to it that was overwhelmingly romantic, that, paired with it's body hugging silhouette, combined with the drapes of embellished silk tulle and the veiling made it both an opulent and ethereal with a vintage essence.

"It took us two week to embellish the train," the designer said, breaking her from her train of thought, "the beads were imported from India, the jewels from Spain."

Olivia turned around.

"I love it, it's everything I imagined and more, I need to hug you," Olivia said with a smile.

Elie walked over and gave her a warm hug.

"Olivia you look so beautiful, that dress, it's just… magical," Elliot said.

"I know," she turned back to the mirror, "I love it it couldn't be more perfect."

"Yeah, that dress is amazing," Abby said.

"Quick question Liv, when it's my turn to get married can I borrow this?" Kamaya asked.

"Nope," Olivia said as she chuckled, "I mean, this is not even a dress, it's more than that, it's a whole costume, it's just amazing."

"What about shoes?" Abby asked.

"No one is going to see my shoes, although in a dress like this, it definitely needs to be something high so I can look tall and show off my dress," Olivia responded.

"Well, we designed some special shoes for you," Elie said as he gestured to his assistant to bring them to him, "

The woman ran over bringing over a silk pair of platform shoes with a pretty jewelled ankle strap attached.

"Those are so cute."

"I'm glad you like them,," Elie said with a smile.

The assistant strapped it on her feet and then stepped back.

"They feel good, they're comfortable."

"What about jewelry?" Abby asked.

Elie designed simple, white silk strapless gowns for both Abby and Kamaya to function as their bridesmaid dresses and for Sahara, he designed a sleeveless tulle dress with a bow wrapped around the waist, a typical flower girl dress.

"This dress is enough, Elie and I already discussed jewelry and he said just my diamond earrings would be good."

"Okay yeah, I think that works out great."

Olivia took a deep breath, "wow, this is it, it's perfect, thank you so much, you went above and beyond anything I expected."

"You're welcome," Elie replied.

"And I want to thank your team, you guys are amazing."

They all applauded, mostly congratulating themselves on their work. She hung around for awhile, had Abby take a few pictures of her in her dress and then went back to the fitting room to change. Once she was finished, Elie and his team assured her they would ship the dresses to D.C. within a week.

She spent the day in New York, mostly at David's office going over last minute details in regards to the wedding and reception. She flew back to D.C later in the night. Fitz was at a campaign rally and wouldn't make it back to D.C. till midnight or later so she went to bed by herself.

A week and a half later.

Olivia had been waiting on her period for almost two weeks. She had such an irregular menstrual cycle that she couldn't really count on her period to indicated if she was pregnant or not but after two weeks, she was ready to take the test.

Fitz was away, in South Carolina at some event so she didn't have to worry about him walking in on her again as he had done on the prior two times she took a pregnancy test.

She found herself sitting on the toilet once again, waiting to hear the ding on her test. It felt like forever had passed and then she finally heard the test ding and picked it up slowly and looked at the screen.

"Oh my god," she said as she jumped up, "yes!"

Olivia had been on the verge of going to see a fertility doctor because she was beginning to think that something had to be wrong because they had been trying for three months but finally, it happened. She wanted to be sure so she went into the cabinet and took another test and when it was positive once again, she was sure she could start celebrating. She didn't know what to do first, she wanted to call Fitz but she didn't want to tell him over the phone, she wanted to see his face when she told him so as much as it pained her, she was going to wait until he came back from the campaign trail later in the night. It was early in the morning, around 8, the usual time she got ready for work but she couldn't fathom being able to focus on work, and she also really needed to know how far along she was so she decided to take a half day off from work and set up and emergency appointment at her ob/gyn.

She rested both hands on her stomach and took a deep breath, still trying to process the good news. It couldn't have come at a better time, with the wedding less than two weeks away, everything seemed to be falling into place perfectly.

She shower quickly, dressed and then stopped by the kitchen and picked up breakfast to take to the doctor's office with her. Once she got the car, she pulled out her cell and called Fitz.

"Good morning," she said cheerfully.

"Morning baby, you heading to work?"

"Yeah, I have a busy week because, I'm preparing to take some time off for the wedding and honeymoon. I need to get stuff done before that."

"Yes, I still can't believe you're marrying me, how did I get so lucky."

"You know, I'm not sure," she teased.

Fitz chuckled.

"It's early, are you still at the hotel?"

"Yeah, I have a little work to do and then go out on the trail, I'll be home by maybe 8 tonight."

"Okay, I was thinking I could have Gregory cook us up a nice dinner, we could eat together in the dining room instead of the bedroom like we usually do."

"Oh are we having someone join us?"

"No, just us."

"Okay, I like the sound of that, I'll try to get back earlier, if possible-"

"No, 8pm sounds perfect."

"Okay then I'll see you at 8 and I won't be late like you usually are, in fact, I predict that I'll be there before you."

She chuckled.

"Fine, we'll see who get's there first."

"Okay, well I have a meeting to get to so I'm gonna run, I'll talk to you later okay."

"Okay, love you."

"Love you too," Fitz replied.

Olivia hung up and ate her breakfast as she headed to her doctor. She spent the morning thinking of how exactly she would break the news to Fitz, she wanted it to ooze pomp and circumstance, it was their first child, it was a big deal, especially after waiting three months for the news.

When she got to her doctor's office, she entered through the private entrance, the way she always did and sat in a private room waiting for her doctor and after waited for a few minutes, her doctor walked in and greeted her.

"Dr. Pope," she said as she walked over and greeted Olivia.

"Please Dr. Connor, call me Olivia."

"I know, it's a habit," she said with a smile, "come on back, let;s take a look at you."

Olivia followed her back to the private office and took a seat. Her doctor sat by her desk.

"Okay Olivia, why did you want to see me today, what was so urgent," she said with a chuckle.

"I'm pregnant, I wanted to take an ultrasound to see what's going on in there, I also wanted to start taking prenatals as soon as possible."

"Wow, so that's why you didn't want to tell me over the phone, well first, congratulations, when did you find out?"

"This morning."

"Wow, and is this the first time you've been pregnant?"

"Yes, it's my first time, I am very excited, if you couldn't tell by how quickly I ran here after taking the test," Olivia said with a chuckle.

Dr. Connor nodded in agreement, "I can see you're excited so, you know the drill, just lay on the table and lift your top for me, I just need a few seconds to get some equipment."

"Okay," Olivia replied.

The doctor left and Olivia climbed on the doctor's exam table and waited. Her doctor came back moment later. As she set up the ultrasound machine, she spent a few minutes asking her essential questions. Once the machine was up and running, Olivia raised her shirt to reveal her stomach and smiled when the doctor spread gel across her stomach.

Moments later the images appeared, she looked at the small pea on screen and smiled.

"Wow," she said in amusement.

"Based on the date of your last period and what I'm seeing here you look to be 5 weeks pregnant."

"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing."

Her doctor moved the transducer around her stomach.

"Do you mind giving me a copy of the ultrasound picture?"

"Sure, I'll print it for you right now."

She spent almost an hour at the office, after the ultrasound, she collected her prenatals and then headed to work.

Later in the evening, she got back to the residence a little late but it was on purpose. She headed straight to the dining room, as quickly as her legs could take her and when she opened the door she found him sitting by the table, sipping his glass of scotch.

"Hi," she said nervously.

"Hi," he returned with a smile, "you're late."

He stood up and pulled out the chair directly beside him for her. She walked over to him and greeted him with a soft kiss and then placed a gift bag on the table.

Fitz sat down and she took a seat beside him.

"Whose gift is that? Is it mine?"

Olivia smiled, "yes, open it."

Fitz raised his eyebrow, "okay."

He opened the gift bag and pulled out a rather large wrapped box. He pulled off the gift wrap and inside the box, he found another wrapped box.

"Seriously?" He said with a smile.

"Come on, keep going."

He smiled and tore off the wrap and found another box inside it.

"Keep going," Olivia said again.

Fitz continued unwrapped the gifts.

"I can't believe you wrapped all of these."

Olivia watched as he continued opening the gifts. He finally got down to the last box, she covered her mouth and smiled as he opened the box.

Fitz's mouth fell open and stayed open when he saw the ultrasound picture. He stayed like that for a moment and then looked up.

"Are you-"

"-Yes, I'm pregnant."

He grabbed her and practically threw her in the air.

"YES! YES! YES!"

She squealed and wrapped her arms around his neck. He spun her around.

"I'm 5 weeks."

"You have no idea how happy you've made me, I don't know what to do with myself, I'm so excited."

He kissed her, over and over again, before she got the chance to respond.

"When did you find out?"

"This morning I took the test and it was positive and I wanted to be sure so I took another one, you know I have like 20 of them in the cabinet and that one was positive too and I wanted to tell you right away but you were all the way in Carolina and I didn't want to tell you over the phone so I decided to wait and I wanted to go to the doctor just check things out and make sure things were okay and everything's perfect."

"Of course it is," he said as he gave her another kiss, "I love you, so much."

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

He finally let her down the ground. He kneeled before her and kissed her stomach then he nestled his face against her stomach, he heard a loud growl and jumped back.

"Sorry I'm hungry."

He chuckled and stood up and cleared her path so she could sit and then he sat beside her. He pulled the dome off the plates, the food was a little cold but Olivia didn't care, she dug in. Fitz was still too excited to eat.

"So, I mean, did you get morning sickness of something, is that why you took the test this time?"

"No, my period just never came and at first I didn't want to rush and take it because I have an an irregular period so I wanted to wait a couple weeks to see if it would come but when it didn't I had to check."

"The doctor gave you prenatals right?"

"Yeah, I start taking them tomorrow."

"Perfect, I want to make sure both you and my daughter are healthy."

She laughed and shook her head.

"We don't know yet and I think it's going to be a boy."

"It's going to be a girl, I'm going to keep saying it until it happens."

She shoved a piece of chicken in her mouth and chewed.

"What about your bachelor party, what's going on with that?"

"I've been married before, I don't need a bachelor party."

"Well I'm having one, Abby has like 3 strippers that are coming."

Fitz couldn't focus on anything but the news she'd just given him.

"Can I come to your next doctor's appointment, I really want to go."

"Of course, you can come to as many doctor's appointments as you'd like but we have to be careful because I don't want anymore finding out until after the wedding."

"So you haven't told anyone?"

"No, I wanted to tell you before anyone else with the exception of my doctor."

He smiled.

"If it's a girl can we name her Juliet?"

She chuckled.

"I like Juliet it's pretty, but I really love Amabella, ever since you told me that was your grandma's name, it's so pretty and if it's a boy Logan, I really like that name."

"Logan, Jesse, Adrian, Riley, Casey, Jordan, Drew, Tyler and probably mostly Avery are all names that could be girl names, why don't we just cut to the chase and call him Isabella, that way people won't be confused."

Olivia laughed.

"Fair point, what about Arthur?"

"I like that but do you remember the 'name game': '"Art-Art-bo-Bart, Banana-Fana-fo-Fart."

She shook her head and laughed.

"I like Jack, it's a solid name," he suggested.

"I like that too, what about John."

"John Grant sounds like the sort of name they put on the fake cards in the credit card commercial."

"I think we're going to have a lot of fun coming up with a name."

He smiled.

"Me too."

He finally took a bite of his food.

"Quick question, you haven't felt movement or anything- you know what- it's too soon, don't even answer that. I'm pretty sure that's not possible."

"It's way too soon, at five weeks the baby is the size of a sesame seed, which you should've learned in high school," she teased.

"I'm a lawyer not a doctor, I don't remember that," he said, laughing.

"Do you remember what it was like when Mellie was pregnant?"

"No, she completely shut me out, however I did help her with delivery though, which now that I think about it I can already picture you giving birth."

"Don't remind me about that part," she joked.

They chatted as they ate and once they were done, they headed back to the bedroom. They showered together and then joined each other in bed afterwards. As Fitz laid flat, Olivia got on top of him and straddled him.

"You've been gone for two days and I've really missed you and other parts of your body."

"I thought you said no sex until the honeymoon, that's so cliche by the way."

"I did say that but it's been two weeks and I'm ravenous- no-no-no, I can't break my own rule."

She got off him and laid flat beside him.

"You can break your rule on top of me anytime you want."

"Stop," she said as she slapped his arm.

He pulled her close and spoon her.

"Have I mentioned to you how much I love you and how happy you've made me."

"Only...alot," she said with a smile, "I love you too."

She turned around so she could face him and took her time kissing him until they both settled in a comfortable position and fell asleep a little while later.