When Olivia woke the next morning, Fitz was already up and walking around with Noah in this arms. She could hear Noah giggling as Fitz played with him.
She sat up and smiled. She was feeling refreshed and for the first time in a while, cheerful.
"Morning." She called out to Fitz.
She felt something on her chest and looked down, it as the heart monitoring device. He must've strapped it on her during the night.
She shook her head and looked back to him, with a smile.
"Really?" She asked.
"What?" He said with a smile of his own.
"It's okay, if sleeping with this makes you feel better then I will."
Fitz walked over to the bed and sat.
"I slept straight through the night last night. Did Noah wake up?"
"He did but it's okay, I took care of him, fed him a couple bottles from the fridge"
Olivia leaned up and kissed him.
"Last night was amazing."
He kissed her softly on the lips and smiled.
When he broke the kiss and Olivia leaned up, she saw the headline on the tv. She couldn't hear what they were saying, because the tv was on mute but the headline clearly read:
"First lady Olivia Grant storms out of inaugural ball after fight with president Grant."
Olivia gasped. "Oh my god."
Fitz grabbed the remote and turned it off.
"Ignore that."
"I was so mad last night, I wasn't even thinking about how it looked that I walked out. I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry. I've had over a decade of being married publicly where I had to pretend to be so in love with someone I couldn't stand. I'm done with that. I don't want you to pretend or fake anything with me. They'll get over the story, eventually. They always do."
She stood from the bed and slipped her robe over her naked body.
"You're right but I'm actually in love with you so I just hate that I reacted that way, I just wasn't thinki-."
"-Livie, it's okay, I've been through this a hundred times, It'll die down."
She nodded and kissed Noah. He was so big for a 3 month old, she was still amazed he was her son.
"Hi Noah, my gorgeous boy. Good morning papa. Bonjour papa. Bom dia Papai, Zǎoshang hǎo bàba."
"The last one was mandarin right?"
"Right."
She was enjoying him so much she wasn't looking forward to leaving him for work.
"What time are you going to the office?" She asked.
"Late. I just think after last night I just wanted to make sure everything was okay before I rushed off."
"I'm okay, but we can talk in the shower while we shower and ...maybe do some other things too."
"Well, I'm all for doing some other things...umm…" He slightly scrunched his nose. "As long as I wear a condom."
"Wear a condom? Why? I'm on birth control."
"Yeah but I just...I don't want to be thinking about possibly getting you pregnant while we're having sex."
"But I'm not understanding, I'm on birth control, the whole point of birth control is so you don't have to worry about knocking me up while we bone."
"I know that as I'm speaking to you now...but my mind is gonna go there regardless, just so that this is not what I'm thinking about while we have sex, I think it's just better if I wear one."
She shrugged and walked over to the breakfast cart in the room and ate a strawberry.
"If that's what you need to feel comfortable then I'll respect that, as long as we still get to have sex."
"You'll get all the dick you want." He said with a smile, glad she didn't completely shut the idea down.
"But Fitz, I know you know that I want more children right, you wanted more children too"
"There are other ways for us to extend our family, adoption or maybe even surrogacy."
Olivia sighed. "I can't-"
Noah began to fuss in Fitz's arms, drawing both their attention to him.
"He's hungry, he woke a little before you."
She walked to the bed and pulled her robe down from her shoulders.
Fitz laid Noah in her arms and sat beside her as she began to feed him, her breasts were full of milk and swollen.
"Livie, what were you saying?"
"Nothing."
He kissed her temple and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"Hey, come on, let's talk about it."
"I don't know, I guess I just never actually thought that I'd never give birth to another child."
"Don't think of it that way, don't think that you can't, it's just not safe for now, maybe when we figure out what's going on with you and fix it, we can try again but until then, we either hold off or we do surrogacy or something."
She frowned. "Okay? I'm sure we'll talk about this more in the future."
He kissed her again.
"I'm gonna set the bath okay."
She nodded and smiled at him.
Fitz walked to the bathroom to set the bath. Olivia reached for the remote and turned the tv back on along with the volume.
"-Grant just might be the most unlucky man in the woman department, for such a handsome man, his first wife tried to kill him- allegedly- and his second wife is some ghetto baby mama who can't control her temper enough to behave herself at a public event."
"How dare you speak about Dr. Pope that way, one of the smartest, if not the smartest person in the world. First of all, none of us know exactly what happened. All we've seen is footage of her walking away from the president, we didn't see any sort of fight or argument, everything I've heard so far is pure speculation, fit for a tabloid magazine and not a news channel."
When Fitz walked back into the room she muted the tv but he'd already heard it.
"Are you watching this? Really?"
"Apparently I'm ghetto and you are unlucky to be married to me."
"Not true. I'm the luckiest man in the world."
"If Mellie stormed out of an event, they wouldn't call her ghetto, they'd ask what you did to upset her."
"Very true." He said as he sat beside her once again.
He fixed the pillow behind her back so it wasn't so uneven.
"And while the entire world spent last night dissecting our relationship and parsing 5 seconds of footage, we were in bed, making love."
Olivia chuckled.
"Can you grab the breast pump, I have to get some of this milk out of me."
"Sure, I'll be right back."
Fitz went down to the kitchen to grab Olivia's breast pump and then headed right back. He sat with her as she pumped her milk into one bottle and then when she was finished they cleaned Noah up together, dressed him then brought him to his nursery so they could shower and begin their day.
As Fitz was about to follow Olivia in the bathroom he realized he didn't have a condom, because they'd never used one together before. He stopped.
When Olivia felt him stop she stopped and turned around as well.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't have a condom."
She chuckled.
"It's okay, we can buy some later but I mean we're still gonna have sex right."
"Yeah, I'm just gonna steal some from Gerry."
"Fitz seriously, you don't have to go and steal your son's condoms, I'm on birth control, I'm fine with us using a condom but come on, you're being kind of ridiculous."
He sighed when he realized she was right.
"Honestly, you're right." He said as he continued walking and stopped in front of her and swept her up honeymoon style.
"I'm annoying baby, I know."
Olivia chuckled as he walked her into the bathroom and sat her on the counter and then opened her legs and stood in between them.
He opened her robe and pulled it down her arms and lifted her slightly so he could take it off then he stepped back and pulled off his shirt and underpants.
He pulled her to the edge of the counter and spread open her legs then slowly slid his cock into her wet folds. He pulled her body closer to his and rested his forehead against hers and closed his eyes just to relish in the feel for the briefest of moments before he began thrusting into her.
He thought he might cum as soon as he gave her the first stroke. When he stared down at her he realized that for the past three months, he'd really been ignoring her, not intentionally but he was so worried about her health that he wasn't able to focus on anything else. She was right and he finally saw it.
He held her by the chin and brought her face in for a kiss.
"I missed you." He whispered softly.
"I missed you too."She whispered back.
Fitz smiled and scooped his arms under her legs and then lifted her off the counter and began thrusting into her.
"Oh my god….shit." She moaned as she secured her arms around his neck.
Her body raised up and down with every thrust.
"Mmm...Fitzzz."
Fitz closed his eyes, he was close already.
"Shit...Livie….I'm gonna cum."
"Mmhmm...yess..yess...yess...oh god."
She grabbed him tighter as she felt her inside swell and liquid begin to gush from between her legs.
"Fuck!" She screamed.
Fitz thrusted harder and backed her against the wall as they both orgasmed. When he finished he pulled out and let her down to the ground. His cum dripped down her thigh as he leaned over the counter to catch her breath.
Fitz leaned over and kissed down her back.
"Spank me." Olivia said with a sly smile as she leaned over the bathroom vanity counter.
Fitz pressed his hand on the small of her back and then used his other hand and spanked her on the ass, not hard, with just enough force for her to feel it.
"Mmm.." She moaned and bit her lip. "Again...harder."
Fitz spanked her again, just a little harder. He began pumping his shaft when he felt his erection coming back and as soon as he was hard, he slowly slid himself into her again.
Sensing that she wanted a little rough roleplay, he decided to play along and pulled both her arms behind her and held him in place as he fucked her hard against the counter.
She loved it.
"Fuck..baby…" She screamed.
He spanked her again.
"Shit...your pussy is so good."
He pulled her back against his chest and kissed her slowly as he continued fucking her.
"Mmmm…" She moaned against his lips.
She could feel her insides swelling up, she could feel her orgasm coming.
Fitz reached around his free hand and groped her breast.
"Shit-"
Olivia raised her leg and propped it up on the counter so Fitz had a better angle to thrust deeper into her and within seconds, she was squirting all over the marble tiles in the bathroom.
She broke the kiss as she rode out her orgasm and then she felt Fitz let go of her arm and pulled out quickly. He turned her body around quickly and kneeled her on the ground and began jerking himself until he came on her breasts.
She smiled as she watched him close his eyes and throw his head back. The look on his face was one of complete ecstasy. He'd never been so free during sex, not since she came back from her trip.
She softly kissed the tip of his penis as the last drops of cum dripped from his tip and when his orgasm passed, he opened his eyes and looked down at her with a smile.
"Wow."
He lifted her off the ground and wrapped her legs around his waist.
"That was kind of amazing."
"Ya think." He responded with a smile
She chuckled.
He lifted her higher so he was laying over his shoulder and walked over to the bathtub and turned on the faucet. Olivia slid off his shoulder and stepped into the bathtub.
"Come in, the water's fine." She said as she sat down in the tub with water from the faucet still flowing.
Fitz stood and climbed in behind her.
"What time is it?" Fitz asked absently.
"I don't know, I lost track." Olivia said with a chuckle.
She laid against his back. Fitz wrapped his arms around her and when the tub filled up, Fitz used his foot to turn the faucet off.
They laid quietly for a while.
"You know baby, that the first time we had sex and I felt like you weren't treating me like I was gonna break...I mean, you still did a little but it was less than you ever have since I came back. I think you really enjoyed it."
"It's not on purpose, I don't know...I'm just so over-protective of you and I know it has to be annoying for you but I just can't help it….as we were having sex I looked at you and I realized that I missed you. I've seen you everyday for three months since you gave birth to Noah but it doesn't feel like it and that's because I spend so much time worrying about you that I'm not able to enjoy you, I'm not able to enjoy being your husband, I'm not able to enjoy Noah."
Olivia leaned up and turned around so she could see him.
"I know it's hard for you, I understand or at least I try to understand what it's like to be with someone like me who probably at any moment could have a migraine and go into cardiac arrest-"
"Are you trying to help cause this speech isn't helping."
She chuckled.
"I just meant that your fear is real, but you also have to remember that your wife is pretty fucking tough, I'm not leaving you or our baby or Gerry, I will fight as hard as I can no matter what happens, whether it's with my body or anthing else."
Fitz smiled and leaned up and kissed her softly on the lips.
"I love you."
Olivia blushed and smiled.
"I love you too."
"I wanted to take you out tonight..on a date."
Olivia raised her eyebrows.
"A date? Where are we going?"
"A nice dinner, just us."
"Sounds good." She said as he leaned in a kissed him one more time. " I'm actually kind of excited, we haven't been out, just us for a while."
"I know, I'm sorry, I told myself after we got married that I still wanted us to go out and have fun, especially after Noah but in the past three months that kind of gone to hell."
"A lot has been going on, especially in the last three months, with Noah and the election, you don't have to apologize."
Fitz nodded.
After their bath together, they dressed together though Fitz went to his office after and Olivia went back to their bedroom for a scheduled conference.
As she sat on the couch on her makeshift office with the tv on mute, listening to her lab assistants, from the corner of her eye, she saw a headline flash on the screen.
"MELLIE GRANT INDICTED FOR ATTEMTPED MURDER OF PRESIDENT GRANT, CONSPIRACY, AND 10 OTHER CHARGES."
Olivia closed her eyes and sighed.
"I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to call you guys back."
She hung up and immediately, and saw an incoming call from Fitz.
"I saw it." She said quickly.
"Can you come to the oval."
"Yeah, I'm on my way."
She closed her laptop and walked quickly to his office. When she arrived he was pacing while Cyrus, Esme and a few other staffers stood around him.
"Fitz?" Olivia called.
"This is a shitshow." He said, exasperated.
"Hello?" A man said through the phone on Fitz's desk.
"Yeah Bob, I'm still here, Olivia is here too," Fitz said, "Everyone but Vice President Beene leave."
Olivia walked over to Fitz desk.
"Liv, you remember my lawyer Bob."
Olivia nodded.
"How exactly didn't we get a head's up about this Bob? How the hell did New York Times know before we did."
"The prosecutor kept a tight leash on his team, I mean I thought the investigation was gonna last a least a year, I didn't get a single request for information-"
Someone knocked on the door.
"Who?" Cyrus asked.
"Sir, it's Rebecca, I have a copy of the indictment you requested."
"Come in." Cyrus said.
The young intern walked in and quickly handed cyrus a thick stack of papers.
"Livie baby can you read this, and tell me what it says." Fitz asked.
Olivia took the stack of papers and began flipping through. Fitz's lawyer had his team going through it but Fitz thought Olivia would be faster and a more reliable source to condense the information.
"Bob, I'm gonna call you back when I'm done here and I'm gonna need you to have a little more information for me, I need to know what's going on."
"I here ya, I here ya, we're working on it."
Fitz hung up and stepped over to Olivia.
"Come on baby, sit down."
"Okay" Olivia said as he walked over to the couch with him.
"Lauren!" Fitz called.
His assistant ran in seconds later.
"Can you get a spread of food up here, I'm starving."
"Yes sir." She said before she left.
"When did you find out?" Olivia asked as she read.
"A few minutes before I called you." He responded.
She nodded and continued reading for a few minutes longer then she was finished.
"I'm done."
"What?" Cyrus said. "Already?"
"Yeah..um...you're individual number three Fitz and based on what I read, Mellie is in pretty big trouble, they really know all they need to know to prove she's guilty of everything they accused her off."
"What about you, did it say anything about you?"
"No, nothing. Do you think they'll care about when we got together?"
"No, I mean it was after the shooting, whatever we did should have nothing to do with this." Fitz answered.
He leaned back against the couch.
"I really don't need this right now." He said mostly to himself.
"Did you speak with Gerry?" Olivia asked.
"No. He's in school, I texted him."
Cyrus paced by the resolute desk.
"I think you two should do an interview. After last night and now this, I just need you guys on camera eye fucking each other so the American people can know you two are solid."
"We are solid." Olivia responded matter of factly.
"I know that but they don't know that."
"We're going on a date later, I think that should shut them up about our relationship."Fitz replied.
Fitz desk phone rang.
He got up and answered the phone.
"Lauren put him through." He said into the phone. "What's up Bob, what do you have for me?"
"Hello Mr. President, so first let me say that I just confirmed that you and Olivia will be called to testify by both the defense and prosecution."
"Great, that's what I was worried about."
"Yeah but I after speaking to the prosecutors I know for a fact they know that you knew that she was involved in your assasination."
"That wasn't in the indictment."
"Yeah I know but they know for sure and it's going to come up at trial."
Fitz sighed.
"Okay, well you need to get over here with your team because phone tag isn't working for me, we need to discuss all this in person."
"Yes sir, I'll be there as soon as I can, I just need to be by the phone for a few more calls and then I'll be on my way."
Fitz hung up and walked back to the couch with Olivia. "So apparently they know that I knew about Mellie's role in the assasnation."
"I figured." Olivia responded.
"Also we're both gonna be called as witnesses for the defense and prosecution."
Olivia was quiet for a moment before she responded.
"If defense wants us in the stand, it's to question us about our relationship."
"Yep."
Fitz reached over and held her hand, "we'll figure this out baby, I'm sorry."
She'd been a little despondent since she walked into the office, it wasn't hard to guess that she was upset about everything that was happening.
"This is not your fault and honestly, I don't know why you're so worked up, you didn't do anything wrong. It'll be annoying to have to go through all this, especially if they find out about us but I wouldn't worry about that because they can't prove anything, even if they say you visited me at my apartment, even if they have phone records, they can't prove anything more than a friendship and if they do find out who cares, we're married now."
"She's Gerry mom."
"Who tried to kill you or at the very least, was complicit, if she was successful, I would've never met the love of my life and I would've never given birth to our gorgeous baby boy and Gerry would've been stuck with that monster and left without you."
Olivia leaned up and kissed him softly on the lips.
"She deserves everything that's coming to her."
Fitz nodded and gently stroked her cheek.
"You're right, I just, I feel like if I throw her to the dogs then I'm a shitty dad."
"You aren't, you're an amazing dad, to Gerry and to Noah."
"I'm also trying to be careful about how I treat her because I wouldn't want you to think if anything ever happened between us and we weren't together anymore that I'd ever treat you that way."
"I don't think that and I never will, you've been very kind to her considering everything she's done, it's kind of annoying."
Fitz chuckled and let out a breath of air.
"Okay, so I mean I'm still not excited about us being called to testify but...uhh...I'm sure we'll be fine."
"We will." Olivia said in agreement.
Fitz took her hand and kissed it, then seconds later a kitchen server walked in with a trolley filled with food. The server laid the delectable brunch food on the coffee table in front of the couch and then excused himself from the room.
"Mmm..this looks delicious." Olivia said as she grabbed a slice of avocado toast.
Fitz reached over and grabbed a strip of bacon.
"Cy, can we have the room." Fitz said as he ate his bacon.
"Oh god, please before you two start just tell me if you're going to do the interview, please, do it, I'm begging and I never beg."
Olivia thought it over for a few seconds and decided to do the interview.
"We'll do it."
"We will?" Fitz asked.
"Yeah...I mean I do feel bad about walking out of your inaugural ball last night so maybe this will make up for it."
"This morning and last night made up for it...not that I was mad at your or anything." Fitz said with a smile.
Cyrus rolled his eyes.
"I'll book it and I'll have Esme back with talking points for the interview."
Cyrus headed to the door then stopped.
"I think it's time you showed Noah to the world, he's america's baby and you haven't officially showed him off."
"No." Olivia almost screamed.
"Come on Liv, he's a cute baby, he's the perfect distraction to all this Mellie drama."
"My baby will not be a political sideshow for you, I'm not putting my baby out there so that creeps online can take his picture and make memes and say nasty things about him, that's not gonna happen."
"Yeah, I agree with Liv." Fitz said as he poured himself a cup of orange juice and grabbed a belgian waffle from the platter on the table.
"You always agree with Liv." Cyrus said snarkily as he left the room.
Olivia rolled her eyes and smiled as she reached over to the table and grabbed more food.
"I have to go breastfeed Noah in 28 minutes, my breasts are filling up." Olivia said as she gently squeezed her breasts to feel how full there were.
"I'll come with you, I don't know, I kinda miss him already, usually I don't miss im this much until lunch time."
Olivia chuckled and shook her head.
"I think you might be worse than me."
"Olivia no one is worse than you, you and that baby are like telepathic twins, you always know what's going on with him, you're like a baby whisperer. It's weird but...I couldn't have asked for a better mother for Noah."
He leaned in and kissed her softly and smiled.
"You make me so happy Olivia and I'm glad we're at a better place, it feels like things are back to normal with us and normal with us has always been amazing."
"You say normal but at my next doctor's appointment, you'll be acting like a crazy person again." She joked.
"I swear, I'm gonna be better."
He held both palms up as he surrendered.
Olivia kissed him again. "Baby steps."
They sat eating until it was time for Olivia to breastfeed Noah. Fitz followed her back to the residence. They took Noah from the nursery across the hall from their bedroom and brought him to their couch to feed him.
As Olivia undid her button down shirt and unhooked the front of her bra, Fitz placed a bib around Noah's neck and then laid Noah in her arms.
Olivia looked down at him lovingly as she slipped her nipple in his mouth and he began drinking.
"He's so perfect."
"Yes, he is." Fitz said as he gently stroked Noah's hair. "Yes, you are Noah, oh yesh you are."
"Do you think I'm right to not want to show him off?" Olivia asked.
"I think there is no right or wrong, it's just what you think is best and if you think that not showing him is best for him then you are right."
"Do you think it's best."
"I think you're trying to protect him so yes, they barely have pictures of him, in fact I haven't really seen any at all of him in the press."
"Even without pictures of him, I go online and they call him a half-breed, and a mongrel - as if we're in the fucking 1700's or something."
"You know better than anyone to ignore that stuff."
"It's easy when it's me but when it's my sweet, innocent little baby...well..it's a little harder to ignore even if rationally I know that I should."
Fitz chuckled.
"Mama bear, I like it."
"Yes well I don't know, being a mom is nothing like I expected but everything that you said."
"So I was right?"
"To love someone in such an intense way, like it's your heart outside of your body, I thought I couldn't love anything or anyone more than I love you and then I got him, it's not more love, it's just a different type of love, it's like it's more unconditional both ways I want to protect him, I want to be everything he needs, I want to make the world better for him...I don't know..it's kind of-"
"-consuming?" Fitz answered with a smile.
Olivia reached over and held his hand. "Yes, consuming and sometimes I wonder if I'd love him this much if he weren't your child, like my love for him is because he's apart of you."
"No, it makes you human, if I had a kid with a random woman right now, I wouldn't feel the same way I did about that child, the way I feel about Noah because well we conceived Noah out of love. I remember being so excited when you took that iud out that I wanted to burst even though the flu had knocked me out that week and then when we started trying-" Fitz stopped mid sentence reminiscing on the memory.
"It was amazing, wasn't it." Olivia said as she blushed at the memories.
"And then watching him grow inside you and seeing your body change and feeling him kick and then seeing how much you went through to bring him into the world."
Olivia squeezed his hand gently.
"How much we went through baby, we."
"We." Fitz corrected.
Olivia switched Noah on to her other breast.
Fitz's cell phone rang and he answered.
"Cy, I'm with Livie and Noah, when I'm done burping him I'll be right there."
Fitz hung up.
"Are you ready for this interview, first with us both since Noah was born."
"Yeah, I'm ready."
After feeding Noah, they dropped him back to the nursery and went to the oval office to begin prepping for the interview Esme had scheduled in a few hours. When they were finished prepping, Olivia went back to their bedroom to finish her conference call while Fitz had a few public events on his schedule he had to attend.
A little later in the afternoon, they met in the Lincoln sit room in the residence, after Olivia had done her hair and makeup and changed her clothes. She wore a fushia pink pants suit nude pumps and she wore her in a slick, high ponytail.
When Fitz saw her, as usual she took his breath away, it was something he could never get used to. She was such a rare beauty, he never seen a woman who looked like her, with her combination of features, her big eyes, her high cheeks and her full sexy lips. She was perfect.
"Livie, baby...you look beautiful." He walked over to her and kissed her on the cheek as he grabbed her ass discretly. "It's fucking on tonight." He whispered in her ear.
She blushed. "Stop Fitz, people are gonna see."
Kimberly Mitchell walked over to Olivia and Fitz and shook both their hands.
"Thank so much for sitting down with me, President Grant and First lady Grant."