Olivia and Fitz sat down in the couch opposite to Kimberly and her cameras. She angled her body slightly towards Fitz and rested her hand on his knee. Cyrus and staff didn't need to coach her on how to behave with Fitz, if anything, they tried to coach them not to be too affectionate because it might come off as inappropriate on camera.
"Thank you for tuning into our interview with President and First Lady Grant." Kimberly began. "Today seems like quite a busy news day, but before we get to that, I want to know and more importantly America wants to know, how is baby Noah?"
Olivia smiled.
"He's amazing, he's healthy, he's happy, he's chubby, he's just this amazing little person that I can't believe that Fitz and I created."
"We're enjoying him so much," Fitz added with a smile.
"This is your first joint interview since you welcomed baby Noah home but it was a pretty rough delivery, the entire country saw you fall on that stage First Lady Olivia, we heard the president begging you to wake up, to breathe. How do you feel looking back at that?"
"I don't remember anything after a passed out and I never watched any footage of the moment because I knew it would be took painful, to see Fitz so scared. Looking back, I don't know how to feel, I guess I haven't really processed it yet, it was so random but out of that 'incident' I guess I don't know what else to call it- our beautiful son was born, I'm just grateful that we both made it out alive. Fitz always tells me he doesn't know what he would have done if things had gone different, I don't know I think he's more scared for me than I am for myself."
Kimberly nodded sympathetically.
"How terrifying was that for you, Mr. President?"
"I had an easier time getting shot in my head than I had waiting for the doctors to tell me that my wife and my son were okay."
"Fitz, don't say that." Olivia gently scolded with a smile.
"She hates when I say that." Fitz joked.
"You haven't officially introduced Noah to the world, there are no pictures of him except for a few paparazzi pictures that barely reveal his face, is this on purpose? Are you uncomfortable with revealing your son to the world."
`"Well in a word, yes. We just want to protect him from the world as long as we possibly can."
"How is your other son Gerry dealing with the new baby?" Kimberly asked.
"Well, he's not my other son, he's just my son and he's been doing really great with Noah, he really likes to burp him, everytime he knows Noah's been fed, he shows up to burp him. He loves it."
"How does your son feel about the news against his mother today, I mean merely the accusation that his mother tried to kill his father must be difficult."
"With respect to my son's privacy, I won't go into that."
"Your ex-wife was charged with attempted murder, what was your reaction when the charge were announced sir?"
"In the interest of our son, I have nothing to say publicly about the charges filed today."
"Did you know the charges were coming?"
"No, I did not."
"There are reports that you knew that your wife was involved in your assasination attempt. Do you have any comments?"
"I have no comment on rumors."
"If Mellie Grant is found guilty, will you pardon her?"
"I think that entirely premature and given that the trial hasn't started yet it's not something I have given consideration to nor do I plan to."
Kimberly turned to Olivia slightly so she was facing them both.
"Fresh off your inauguration Mr. President, rumors are swirling about your marriage after a clip surfaced of First Lady Olivia Grant walking away from your after what seemed like a heated exchange on the floor of the inaugural ball?"
Olivia smiled a fake generic smile just to hide how much the question annoyed her even though she was prepared for it, Cyrus warned her not to react but she couldn't help it.
"So I guess I take issue with your framing of that question.." Olivia began. "There was no heated exchange-"
"-You two seemed to be discussing something." kimberly said slightly cutting Olivia off.
"So discussing something, isn't the same as a heated exchange and I didn't storm away, I didn't cause a commotion, there was no fight."
"What were you two discussing?"
"I don't know that it's anyone's business what we were or weren't discussing. I don't know know...it's just hard for me to understand, it really is, people seem to feel this entitlement to inappropriate personal details about our lives, outside of what I think it acceptable."
"What do you believe is acceptable, first lady Grant?"
"How is your marriage, Kimberly?"
Fitz fought a smile off the corners of his lips.
"I don't know that that's an appropriate question." Kimberly responded.
"You're a public figure, not the first family but you are a household name and even so, my question was inappropriate."
"I understand your point but with the job of the president, comes a different level of intrusion by the press."
"Just because something is normal, doesn't mean it's right.
"Well said." Kimberly said.
"And with all that said, I would still like to say this; I love my husband. I am in love with my husband, irrevocably, consumingly, wholeheartedly. The feeling I get when I wake up everyday, besides the love of my life isn't a feeling I even knew existed until I met Fitz."
Olivia turned and looked at Fitz.
"The feeling I get when I see his gorgeous smile with his perfect teeth." Olivia said with a smile.
Fitz chuckled and shook his head.
Olivia turned back to kimberly.
"There is no trouble in our marriage, the rumors are false."
"Thank you for clearing that up."
"Our pleasure." Fitz responded with a smile and before Olivia could react, she felt pain and grabbed her temple.
Fitz stood up quickly and pulled off his jacket and put it over Olivia's head as he laid her down on the ground.
"Is she alright Mr. President?" Kimberly asked in a panic, "what's going on?"
Fitz didn't answer, he just sat beside Olivia, holding her. They agreed that while she had an episode, she would squeeze his hand so he'd know it was she was conscious without freaking out and checking her pulse every second.
Cyrus knew the drill whenever Olivia had a migraine, he walked over to the camera crew and quietly began taking them out of the room, shushing them and ignoring their questions as they went and then he turned off the lights in the room. What they didn't know was that the camera crew left the camera on and recording.
Fitz sat rocking Olivia gently, he couldn't see her face because his jacket covered her but her body was especially rigid.
He wanted to tell her it would be okay, that she was strong and it would be over soon but the sound would only hurt her more so he moved his jacket slightly from her forehead and kissed her.
After a few minutes, she wasn't squeezing him so tightly but he but felt her gag. He looked to for a waste bin and found one across the room, he laid her head flat and quickly grabbed it and brought it back over to her. When Olivia realized she had a bucket beside her, she vomited in it as Fitz rubbed her back.
She leaned up and took a breath after she finished throwing up, Fitz reached into his jacket and used his handkerchief and wiped her mouth and then kissed her.
"Are they getting worse, because it looks like it's getting worse."
"It's not getting worse." She said softly.
"Livie please be honest with me?"
"I'm being honest, it's just that after what happened, now I'm scared, I used to just let it happen but now I have to fight it because I feel like if I don't fight it, it'll kill me."
"Oh my god." He began.
"Stay calm Fitz, I'm better."
He sighed and palmed his face.
"Fitz, just- I'm fine okay baby, I'm fine."
She kissed his cheek.
"Can you help me up."
She still felt dizzy.
Fitz stood and then took Olivia's hand and helped her up.
"Where did everyone go?"
"Cyrus knows the drill, once you were down we got them out of the room so they didn't disturb you plus I don't really want them to see that."
Olivia nodded.
Fitz took up the waste bin with her vomit in it.
"No, Fitz I'll take that, it's disgusting."
"Olivia." He scolded.
"Fine."
They both headed to the door. Fitz held it open for her and then walked out behind her. Cyrus was in the hallway with the camera crew and staff.
"Liv, how are you feeling?" Cyrus asked.
"It's passed, I need to go lay down."
When Fitz heard that, he handed the waste bin to Cyrus and swept her up into his arms, honeymoon style.
"Fitz, I'm okay?"
He kept walking with her in his arms back to the residence. She rested her head against his chest as they walked and closed her eyes.
When Fitz got to their bedroom, he laid her on the bed and took off her shoes.
"Can you bring Noah please." She asked.
Fitz nodded and walked across the hall to the nursery and brought Noah back to her and laid him beside her on the bed.
He heard a knock on the door.
"Now is really not a good time." He said loudly. He was looking for the heart monitor to attach it to her chest.
"Dad?" Gerry called.
Fitz sighed.
"Come in Gerr."
Gerry opened the door and walked in.
"Dad, I saw your text and I was calling you."
"Sorry, we had an interview and then Olivia got a migraine, my phone was off."
"What's going on with mom..I mean...did you know this was gonna happen?"
"No, I found out right before I texted you."
"So, what are we gonna do?"
"There's nothing we really can do, except wait and watch this unfold."
"Did you speak to mom?"
"No."
Gerry walked closer.
"Olivia, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I just needed to rest."
Fitz reached into the nightstand and took out the heart monitor and attached it to Olivia's chest.
"Livie, I'll be right back, I'm gonna go talk with Gerry."
Olivia nodded as both Fitz and Gerry walked out of the bedroom. She turned and kissed Noah as she got comfortable in the bed.
Once they were in the hallway, Fitz closed the door.
"How are you feeling with all this news?"
"Dad, honestly, I don't care, if she did it then she should go to jail, it's not like I'm gonna miss her."
"I know how you feel about your mom. I know how you've always felt about her, I understand." He pulled him in for a tight hug and kissed his head. "But whenever you change your mind, if ever you change your mind, there's no shame in reaching out to her."
Gerry chuckled.
"Probably won't happen but I'll keep an open mind dad."
Gerry gave Fitz a small smile.
"Maybe I'll visit her in prison….or wait you're not gonna pardon her, are you?"
"Probably not...unless that's what you want. Honestly it would be your decision."
"Yeah...no."
Fitz chuckled.
"I guess we have our answer."
Gerry wondered why Fitz seemed sad.
"Dad why do you try so hard to make me like her?"
"Because Gerry, I spent most of my life hating my father. Of course in the end, he deserved it but all that energy hating him and resenting him, it took more out of me than it did him."
"Mom is kind of a monster, don't you see that? It's just because she's a woman, if it was my father who tried to kill my mother instead of the other way around no one would be asking me to give him a chance."
"Gerry, I think I'm more so trying to raise you with compassion, that's the only reason I'm taking it easy on your mom, it's just because of you. I don't want you to see me being horrible to her but…." Fitz said with a sigh. "Maybe that ship has sailed, you're old enough to understand how complex this situation is."
"Yes I am and I'm on your side dad, if mom had her way, I would have lost you and then I would have been stuck here with her and I bet she would have still ignored me."
Fitz nodded.
"Lucky for us Olivia was there that night to save my ass huh, both of our asses."
Gerry chuckled.
"You picked good dad, Liv's the best."
"Of course you think so after she gave her Mercedes for your birthday."
"I still can't believe that you won't let me drive it." Gerry said with a frown. "Liv is the best though."
"Don't tell her that too much, she might finally realize it and leave me." Fitz said with a chuckle.
Gerry laughed again.
"I'm coming to hang out with Noah later."
"Okay."
Fitz watched as Gerry walked down the hall, unfazed by the Mellie situation. He turned back into his bedroom and saw that Olivia was asleep on the bed. Noah was still up, kicking and cooing.
"Hey buddy, mommy fell asleep and left you."
Fitz loosened his tie and pick Noah up from beside Olivia and kissed his chubby cheek.
"Hey chubby butt."
It was Olivia's nickname for Noah and he'd found himself calling Noah that name as well. He brought Noah back to the nursery so he could take care of Olivia. He cleaned her face with makeup wipes to remove her makeup because he knew she always did that before sleeping and then he took off her jacket and pants.
As he was removing her pants, Olivia shifted slightly and opened her eyes. He didn't realize until her heard her chuckle when he pulled her pants off.
She reached up and felt her face and realized he wiped her makeup off as well.
"You take such good care of me." She said as she blushed.
"How are you feeling?"
"Good...fine.. I guess. You brought Noah back to the nursery?"
"Yeah, just now."
She sat up against her pillows.
"Are you gonna go back to the oval?" she asked.
"You know I can't, not even if I wanted to, Cyrus is taking care of everything though."
Fitz folded her pants and then sat on the bed beside her.
"How are you feeling, are you tired? Hungry?"
"Both but I don't really want to sleep anymore, I just want to grab something to eat?"
"What do you want?"
Olivia took a moment to think.
"A bacon cheeseburger, you know the one Randy makes with the mozzarella cheese and avocado. The one I ate almost every other day when I was pregnant?
Fitz smiled and nodded and picked up the landline and dialed down the kitchen.
"Can you tell Randy to whip up that bacon cheeseburger Olivia likes….yeah...same way she always takes it…..Livie baby what do you want to drink?"
"Umm...I'd love a beer but I can't so I'm gonna just to lemonade with the strawberries that he does."
"Strawberry lemonade." Fitz said into the phone.
"Actually, just make two ...yeah...of everything...fries Livie?"
"Yeah, with the rosemary and olive oil."
"Yeah, the rosemary fries ...thanks."
He hung up and then laid beside her on the bed. Olivia got up.
"I'm gonna get Noah."
Fitz jumped up. "It's okay, I'll bring him back."
Fitz went and got Noah and brought him back beside Olivia on the bed. She loved to lay on the bed with him for hours, just watching him.
Once Noah was in between them, Fitz kicked off his shoes and finally relaxed.
"I think it was a mistake running for reelection."
"Fitz…"
"Liv, I can't focus on anything but you, I don't want to be at work. I can't believe I signed on to do this another 4 years, I should've followed my gut and not run again. When you came back from Iran and you were in the hospital and I wanted nothing more than to be with you every single second of the day but I somehow kept getting pulled away for meetings and briefings, I knew that didn't want to do it anymore."
"Fitz you can't quit your job just to babysit me all day, what will you do when I go back to the lab?"
"Go crazy." He said with a chuckle.
She leaned over and kissed him.
"I think you're right where you need to be, I can understand why you feel that way, I have mixed feelings about going back to work when I have Noah here."
Olivia looked down and smiled.
"My widdle chubby wubby bubby."
Noah laughed and kicked his legs.
"Why are you so cute Noah, why are you so handsome? Mommy and daddy and your big brother are obsessed with you."
Fitz chuckled.
"I spoke to Gerry earlier."
"Yeah? How is he feeling?"
"He could care less and I honestly don't know how to feel about that."
"I think that he's emotionally intelligent and you should trust his feelings and let him work through them himself. Depending on what happens at trial, we'll know how to move forward."
"Yeah, I just don't want him spending all his energy hating her like I did big Gerry because we all know how that worked out."
"Yeah, that's not good but don't pressure him either."
"Yeah, I'm not, I don't really want to influence him either way so I probably won't bring it up again, I'll wait for him."
"Yeah, that would probably be best."
They waited in bed together, entertaining Noah until the food was delivered by on of the kitchen staff. After they ate together Fitz had to go back to his office to take care of business.
He was gone for a few hours but when he returned, Olivia and Noah were still in bed, though now they were both changed into pajamas.
"You guys bathed without me huh?" Fitz said as he pulled off his jacket.
"Well, I bathed, I just gave Noah a little wipe down, we don't want to try out his skin with too much bathing at his age."
Fitz chuckled.
"Okay, you guys look comfy, let me wash off then I'll join you."
"We're waiting for you daddy." Olivia said with a smile.
"Don't call me that, you know what it does to me. I'm slightly embarrassed."
Olivia chuckled.
"Go!"
Fitz walked quickly to the bathroom to shower.
"Don't watch the interview without me!" He yelled as he stripped and stepped into the shower.
Fifteen minutes later, Fitz was dressed and joined her in bed.
"Okay, let's watch this bullshit."
Olivia rolled her eyes and turned on the TV to the first news channel she could find.
Just then, their landline rang.
"If it's important, they'll come and get me." Fitz said as he made himself comfortable against the pillows.
"What's going on?" The sound came from the tv, it was kimberly's voice.
The headline read.
They both watched the footage of Fitz rocking Olivia silently on the floor.
"They left the cameras on?" Fitz asked aloud, though it wasn't really a question.
"Oh god, here we go."
Olivia sat up.
"They got all of that?"
The landline rang again, that's when Olivia finally picked up, she knew it was Cyrus who was still for all intents and purposes functioning as Fitz chief of staff even though that was no longer his job.
"Cyrus, we're watching it now, I didn't know they got all of that."
"Those bastards left the camera recording. Where is Fitz- can you get him over here?"
"Honestly Cy, it's not that big of a deal, Fitz is staying here in bed with me and Noah, just do whatever you want to do to deal with it."
"Liv-"
"Goodbye Cyrus."
Olivia hung up.
"It's honestly not the end of the world."
Fitz sighed.
"I know, I know."
Olivia turned off the tv and turned to face him. Noah was sleeping and snoring so lightly it was almost inaudible.
"Let's talk about something, anything." She began.
"Umm...I think we should start figuring out where we want to live after I leave the whitehouse so we can buy our first home together."
"That's a great idea, I know you're a california boy but I'm a new york girl, so what do we do?"
"I'll live whereever you want me too, it's not like I'm gonna be doing much after I get out of this place anyway."
"I think for work, New York would be better for me. We could buy a nice penthouse apartment with a nice view of central park and that could be our life for a little while."
"That almost sounds quaint." Fitz teased as he leaned over and kissed her.
"Ready for your doctor's appointment tomorrow?" Fitz asked.
Olivia smiled.
"I knew you were gonna start. I'm ready and I'm going back to work next Monday. I need to get back in there. I was thinking that I should bring Noah with me? What do you think?"
"I don't know, don't you think it's better to have him here at the nursery, how will you focus if he's there with you?"
"I won't." She said with a chuckle. "It's hard being a mom, I have to get back to work but I don't want to leave him."
"What are you going to do about the lecture Mit wants you to conduct?"
"I really want to do it but I don't know, I don't want to put too much on my plate."
"Well, I'm not thrilled about you being all the way in boston because if anything happens to you I'll go crazy but I also think you'd really love it."
"Yeah, I like lecturing, everyone is so fascinated with me and they hang on to my every word, it makes me feel special."
Fitz chuckled.
"Ahh so it's all about your ego huh?"
"A little bit yea."
He leaned over her and kissed her neck.
"Mmm.." She chuckled and bit her lips.
Fitz stood and gently took Noah from in between them and laid him in his bassinet then kissed his cheek and went back to Olivia.
"Where were we?"
Olivia pulled him in between her legs.
"You were doing something with your mouth on my neck, I can't really remember though, jog my memory a little bit." She teased.
He smiled and leaned down and kissed her neck, sucking and nibbling just enough to make her moan.
She began pulling down his pajama pants and then unbuttoned his flannel shirt and pulled it off his arms.
"You are so fucking hot." She said in between kisses now. "You're perfect. Everything is perfect."
Fitz took her hands and pinned them above her head and kissed her again then stopped.
"Are you sure you're okay to do this?"
"I'm more than okay."
She opened her legs wider.
"I just want my husband to make love to me. That is all I want."
Fitz reached under her silk nightgown and just slightly pulled her panties to the side. He rubbed his thumb gently over her clit and then slipped his index finger inside her to feel how wet she was. When he removed his finger, he dipped down between her legs and began licking her pussy.
"Fuck!" She said with a gasp.
He pulled her legs open wider and flicked his tongue against her clit.
"Right there, right there, right there-" She sucked in her breath and closed her eyes. "Fitz!" She moaned.
"Mmmm.." Fitz hummed as he licked and sucked her.
Her legs trembled around him as she grabbed into the sheet.
"baby-I'm cumming." She said breathlessly.
He kept pace and continued as he rode out her orgasm. When he leaned up and looked at Olivia, she was laying with her eyes closed but she had the most blissful smile on her face.
He chuckled and leaned down, she still had her legs spread open with her beautiful vagina in full view. He kissed her right there in between her legs and then kissed down her thigh.
"Fitz?" She called.
He crawled on top of her and slowly slipped his penis into her vagina. He wrapped his arms around her tightly, holding her as he kissed her and thrusted. Olivia wrapped one arm around his neck and with her other hand she cupped his cheek.
"I love you so much…" She moaned in between kisses.
"I love you too ...you are my entire life."
They came together and then Fitz collapsed on top of her, breathing heavily to catch his breath.
"Fuck." He said exasperatedly as he eased off her.
Olivia chuckled, his cum was slowly dripping down her butt.
Fitz pulled her against his chest and spooned her then he stomach growled.
"Are you okay?'
"Just hungry, I ate the bacon burger but that was hours ago. Did you eat anything while I was gone?"
"Yeah, rosemary lamb chops. It was really good."
He sighed and sat up. "I need it."
"I'm going to bed."
She turned to her side and closed her eyes.
Fitz grabbed his clothes from the bed, got dressed and headed down to the kitchen for food while Olivia laid in bed almost asleep.