The next morning when Olivia walked out of her room, Fitz stood in front of her door waiting for her with his great dane Zeus by his side.

"Can I have my scotch back?"

"You mean the scotch you gave me last night as a gift after my first mission, no you can't. It was delicious by the way," she said as she kneeled and petted Zeus, "hey handsome, how is it that you manage to look so much better than your owner."

Fitz chuckled and rolled his eyes.

"Good fucking joke…but I didn't come here because I thought you were funny, I came because we need to talk?"

"About?" she said as she walked down the hall and he followed.

"Us, we've had this weird thing going on between us for the past few months where we seem to always be in a fight or have some weird animosity, it's been mostly my fault, I'll admit that but I think that if you're going to be apart of the team and accompany us on missions, we'll at least need to be cordial."

Olivia shrugged, "Alright."

"That's it, just 'alright'?"

"Well, here's the thing, we've been here before, you tell me you want a clean slate, you act nice for a day or even for a few hours and then you realize you're being nice and you turn into a complete arsehole and then we stay away from each other for a few days or weeks and then we do it all over again so you feeling like being cordial today doesn't really change anything."

He sighed.

"Look I've actually thought about it, at the risk of sounding like an... as you say it, 'arsehole' while being completely honest, I was standoffish because I didn't want you to confuse my being friendly for anything romantic, Mellie did when she first came here and we actually went there and now she hates me so I'm actually doing you a big favor."

"You don't want me to confuse your being friendly for anything romantic, yeah sure, that was a really friendly kiss."

"Yeah, I guess I probably shouldn't have kissed you, that's not helping is it?"

"No, not really, but you felt like doing it so you did, I'm not complaining about the kiss but I'm still a little confused as to how you just assume that I want you, you don't even know if I find you attractive, I certainly think you're pretty disgusting, especially after watching you suck those girls throat out in that shady bar and doing whatever you did in the bathroom. They're sisters, isn't it like...incest, they did it with the same guy at the same time, bloody gross."

Fitz shook his head, he completely ignored her comment about the twins and focused on what caught his attention.

"What do you mean you don't know if you find me attractive'?"

She smiled realizing she struck a tender spot, as she intended.

"You just assumed, don't get me wrong, I see you standing there and you look good but you're just not my type and also, you're an asshole, you said so yourself, I try to stay away from guys like you."

"I'm not your type? I'm everyone's type, are you blind?" He said it jokingly but she could tell he genuinely wasn't used to hearing that,

"I can see your aren't used to rejection so I'll give you some time," she said slyly

She turned around and continued to walk.

"Wait, hold up," he said as he followed her, "I call total bullshit, if you aren't attracted to me then why were you staring at me at the lake."

"If his majesty Prince Charles was naked in front of me I'd stare, it doesn't mean I find him attractive," Olivia smiled, "you know who I actually find attractive, your friend Jake, he's quite the looker."

Fitz didn't respond he just turned and walked away.

"Was it something I said?" she asked innocently.

She continued walking to the gym, she got on the treadmill and ran for 20 minutes. There were other deltas in the gym getting ready for the team's morning workout session that was set to begin in a few minutes.

After her run, she climbed on the beam and did a perfect split against the flat surface, she pointed her toes and stretched out her arms in front of her and held the position.

Abby walked in shortly after and headed straight to her.

"Okay, you have to teach me."

Olivia smiled and stood up on the beam.

"Come on, get up here. Take your trainers off and your trousers, do you have tights under?"

"Yeah, I have leggings."

Abby did as she was told and took her sneakers and cargo pants off and then climbed up in the beam beside Olivia.

"Oh shit, this is narrow," Abby said as she stood up.

"Well, that's what makes it fun."

Olivia hopped off.

"Walk across."

Abby did as she was told and realized that was about as much as she could do, she jumped off.

"Yeah, this probably isn't gonna work, I'd much rather watch you do it."

"You're giving up? But we just began."

Fitz, Scott and Zeus entered the room. Zeus ran over to Olivia, she stooped down and patted him.

When Fitz realized what Zeus did, he whistled and called him back over. Olivia rolled her eyes and turned back to Abby.

"What's going on with you two?" Abby asked.

"Nothing, he's just a butthole."

Abby laughed, "oh my god, I love your accent, say that again."

"Butthole," Olivia said with a chuckle.

"Okay everyone, let's get in position," Fitz announced.

They did their usual workout and then everyone went their own way until it was time for their midday intelligence briefing. After their briefing, Jake walked over to her.

"Hey," he said with a wave of his hand.

"Um hello."

"So, I'm just gonna get to it, Fitz told me you had feelings for me and that you maybe wanted to go out with me? I was thinking I could take you out for dinner?"

Olivia cleared her throat.

"He said that?"

"Yeah."

Olivia peeked over Jake's shoulder and saw Fitz smirking behind him.

"Can you pardon me a moment," she said as she walked over to Fitz.

"Uh sure."

When Fitz saw her walking towards him and turned and walked out the room. Olivia walked quickly to catch up to him, as Fitz felt her getting closer to him, he began laughing.

"Did you set up your first date?"

"What?"

"You see, I'm not an idiot, I know you can't stand Jake, especially after you found out about the bet that they made about sleeping with you, don't ask me how I know, but since you wanna play games, I figured I'd play too. Have fun, I told him you're in love but you like to play hard to get so don't expect him to give up soon."

"You sneaky-"

"Toodles," Fitz said with a smile as he turned to walk away.

Olivia followed him.

"What if this backfires, what if I actually start liking him."

"Who Pete? You know that's his real name right? He may be my friend but I actually know the guy and you'll last about 15 minutes on a date before you wanna strangle yourself, so... have fun."

Fitz walked off, "two can play at this game Liv," he yelled once he was a comfortable distance away.

She laughed and turned to head back to the briefing room for her sweater and to finish her conversation with Jake. When she walked back to the room, Jake was standing with her sweater in hand. He handed it to her and placed his hands in his pockets.

"So, I was thinking-"

"Thank you for grabbing my jumper but I think you might have been misled by what your friend told you, so you might have to work that out between the both of you but I'd rather keep our relationship professional, I'm not interested in anything more than that."

"So you aren't interested?"

"No, not at all, I don't know why he told told you that."

Jake stormed off angrily, he didn't seem angry with her, he seemed angry with Fitz. She followed him.

She felt bad about coming in between them but her instructions were to divide and conquer. Unfortunately that was harder than she initially thought. She spent her first month studying the relationships between Fitz and his team and the one thing she realized was that they were so loyal to Fitz that there were only a few people she could split from him, Jake was the main one. Even though they were friends, they had an unspoken rivalry between them and she was going to take advantage of that. Scott was his brother so there was no way she could get between them, Akio was a loyal ninja who barely spoke and he was very quiet so she knew he was an observer, he'd see her intentions from a mile away. Jake was the third best fighter after Fitz and Akio, Jake had a few deltas that were loyal to him, if she could split Jake and Fitz, she could possibly create a chasm.

Jake stormed over to Fitz, who was standing outside his office going through something on his phone. Fitz smiled when he saw Jake storming towards him because he could tell he was pissed.

Olivia ran up just in time to see Jake punch him square in the jaw, with so much force that Fitz stumbled back against the wall.

He didn't seem shocked that Jake punched him, instead he chuckled and he flexed his jaw and stood up.

Jake unzipped his sweater, pulled it off and threw it to the ground and balled his fist ready to fight.

"Did you think that's funny?"

"Of course I did, why else would I do it?"

Jake lunged at Fitz and grabbed him by the waist, punching him in his stomach. Fitz seemed to allow him to do it a couple times before he used both arms and slammed him in the back and then kneed him in the stomach.

"Stop it," Olivia screamed as if she hadn't orchestrated the entire confrontation.

Fitz uppercut Jake and blood spewed from his mouth then Jake slammed Fitz against the wall. It was brutal, they were fighting like gladiators. They went toe to toe for about a minute and then Fitz started to decimate Jake. He had Jake on his knees with a hand full of his hair to hold up his head as he punched him in the face.

"Stop it, you're gonna kill him," she screamed, she realized that it had gone too far but Fitz continued punching, "stop it now," she screamed again and he finally stopped and let Jake go.

"Ooo Ouch," Jake said as he fell to the floor.

Fitz stumbled back and wiped blood from his mouth. Jake laid still for a moment before he managed to raise himself on all fours. Fitz walked over and tried to help him up but he pushed him away.

"Fuck you," Jake said angrily.

"Fuck you too then," Fitz said just as angrily.

He huffed and walked into his office and slammed the door.

She knocked his door, hoping he'd respond but he didn't so she left hoping she'd see him later in the day but she didn't.

Later in the night as she sat in her room, going through the events of the day and decided to visit Fitz, she was feeling conflicted about what she'd done but she also needed to cover her tracks.

She threw on some shorts and headed to his room with the bottle of scotch she'd taken from him the night before. She knocked on the door and waited for a response.

She heard Zeus barking as she stood waiting, she heard footsteps and then the door opened.

"Oh my god," she covered her mouth when she saw his face. He had a bruise on his cheek from where Jake punched him and he also had a cut over his eye.

"Well, well, well, look who we have here?"

"Can I come in, I brought your scotch back as a peace offering," she said with a small smile.

The guilt from what she'd done earlier now what she saw Fitz's face washed down on her suddenly.

He stepped aside and let her in. Zeus ran over to her and knocked her to the floor and licked her face.

"Zuzu," she said as she petted him.

"I have no idea why he likes you so much and please don't call him Zuzu, it sounds feminine."

He wagged his tail and then ran over to Fitz's bed and laid on the blanket.

"I swear he gets bigger every time I see him. In a couple months, he'll get bigger than me."

"Yeah, he's eating a lot a kibble and steak, like his father."

Olivia chuckled and handed him the scotch as she stood up from where Zeus pushed her down on the ground.

"How are you? I'm really sorry about what happened earlier?"

"I'm fine, I've been in a a lot of fights, I've come out way worse, trust me."

Fitz walked over to his bed and plopped down beside Zeus. Olivia looked around his room, it was not what she expected. Everything was neat and minimal, there was a huge flat screen tv mounted on the wall with a video game system attached which was the only sign of him. There was nothing else personal about his room, it looked like a hotel room, no pictures, no sign of his personality, nothing.

"So, how's Jake?"

"Alive."

"I was so worried you were going to kill him. You black out, I called you but it was as if you didn't hear me."

"I heard you, I just didn't care and I would've written him a great eulogy, had he died," he said with a chuckle, "but I had no reason to kill him, he's my friend, we fight all the time, this is no different, just a little fist fight."

It was time to cover her tracks. She expected them to talk about their fight soon, if she told Fitz what she said then he wouldn't be suspicious about why she lied to Jake and if he knew that, then once they had the conversation it would be about Jake's reaction towards Fitz and what that meant about their friendship and less about Olivia's lie.

"I feel terrible, I was so embarrassed that he thought I liked him, I told him I had no idea what you were talking about and he got so angry, I should've just let it go."

Fitz chuckled.

"It's fine."

She pulled the chair beside his bed and sat.

"How are you feeling, how's your eye?"

Fitz felt his cut with the tip of his index finger and winced.

"It's not as bad as it looks, I was icing it earlier but I got annoyed so I stopped."

She chuckled and shook her head.

"Well if it makes you feel better, you still look pretty."

"Ah ha, so you admit it."

"I've never denied you were handsome, that would be a lie, I still think Zeus looks better, but you're a close second."

His eyes widened as he sat up and rested his hand against her forehead then her neck to check her temperature.

Her skin was so soft.

"Wow a compliment, are you okay, you feel a little warm."

She swatted his arm away playfully.

"Don't make me take it back."

He leaned back against his pillow.

"Well, you're an absolutely beautiful woman, I've always thought that."

She blushed and turned her face briefly.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She joked. "You aren't complimenting yourself."

"Yes, I'm fine, I do occasionally take time away from fixing my own hair to compliment others."

She needed to change the subject, "can I get some ice for your eye, or your cheek."

"No, I'm fine."

She got up and went to the mini fridge on the other side of the room, she opened the freezer and took an ice pack and brought it back over to him. She leaned against the side of his bed and rested the ice pack against the cut above his eye. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Olivia looked down at him as he laid with his eyes closed, she gingerly touched his bruised cheek.

When Fitz felt her hand against his cheek he opened his eyes, reached up and caressed her cheek. He looked into her eyes and she wondered if he was able to tell what exactly was going through her mind, the panic she was feeling about what was going on. She was straddling a line between doing what she was sent there to do and feeling affection towards Fitz that was causing her to feel increasingly guilty about what she was doing and what was to come in the future.

She had been attracted to him from the moment she arrived, it was hard not to be, but attraction she could overcome, it wasn't enough to change her mind from what she had to do, however, her attraction to him was morphing into something new and deeper and more intense. He was ruthless and cruel and borderline sociopathic but she didn't know if she was much different.

"Liv?" Fitz asked, he noticed her eyes went out of focus so he knew she was deep in thought.

She shook her head, "he's just another man, don't get distracted, do your job," she said to herself.

"Kiss me," she said softly.

She watched a small smile tug on his lips as he pulled her face down and gently pressed his lips against hers. Just like the first time, just the feel of their lips together was exquisite, only now he stepped it up a notch, first locking their lips in between each other's, Olivia sucking on his bottom lip, Fitz sucking on her top lip. Fitz then slowly slithered his tongue inside her mouth which she had opened slightly to let him in. With every slick motion his tongue made inside her mouth, she could feel her lips tingling, both the ones between her legs and the ones on her face. It was electric, magnetic, euphoric and most importantly, new.

She was masterful at faking it. So many men fell for her charm. She knew how to be timid at times, fierce at other times, endearing...coy but not too coy. She mastered the art of seduction from an age that most people would deem inappropriate but it worked so well that she never had given anyone much more than a kiss and some teasing before she had them wrapped around her fingers, that was how she learned secrets of the world's most powerful men, that's how she set them up, bribed them, blackmailed them and sometimes, maneuvered them straight into her father's arms for him to do as he pleased; sometimes, they would end up dead.

She pulled back and touched her lips where'd he'd kissed her as if it stung. She sat still and smiled briefly and then realized that she was smiling and stood up.

"Umm, I better go."

"Noooo," Fitz whined.

"I'll see tomorrow, goodnight."

He decided to let her go and watched as she walked out his door. He smiled once she left, he just couldn't contain his emotions, he was actually excited and that was new for him and it was because of her.

After a long night of weird adrenaline and tossing and turning during what barely qualified as sleep, she woke up, showered and dressed for training. She headed to the training room and began stretching on a yoga mat in the corner. One by one, deltas entered the room, she was surprised when she saw Fitz dressed in a dapper military uniform. He walked over to her in the corner and stooped beside her. His bruises were just as bad as the night before but he still looked handsome.

"Are you okay, you know from last night?"

She stood up.

"I'm alright, I'm sorry things ended so awkwardly last night?"

"That's okay, I've been known to make a woman or two go mad."

"Mad with rage?" She quipped.

Jake walked into the room and eyed them both. Most of his face was swollen and purple, he had a bandage around his nose.

"Oh my god," Olivia said as she covered her mouth.

"He attacked me, he's known me for years, every fight ends the same way, he'll be fine."

Olivia turned her attention back to Fitz.

"Where are you going?"

"Brussels, I have a meeting with the NATO supreme allied commander and Secretary General and President at the NATO summit."

"Wow sounds really fancy. You'll be in Germany again, are you gonna go visit your twins?"

"No," he said matter-of-factly.

Olivia looked over his uniform.

"You have a lot of stars and badge in your uniform, care to explain?"

Fitz looked down at his uniform and smiled.

"Oh nothing, just saved the world a few times."

"Really, in that case I want to hear all about it when you get back."

"It's classified, and so is this ass, you'll never get to touch it."

"Oh I can't touch it but those twins can, what kind of classification is that?"

Fitz laughed.

"You've got a point there, but I actually have to get going, my meeting is in a few hours."

"Okay, I'll walk you to your chopper or whatever you're going to ride there."

He chuckled and nodded, "okay."

She walked him out the aircraft deck. She was surprised when a group of suited men surrounded him to get in the aircraft as well.

"Don't worry, that's just my security detail."

"Oh, I wasn't aware you had one."

"Yeah, I run the most lethal military force in the world, I have a detail even though I don't really use them unless I'm traveling by myself. I'll see you in a few days."

"It's more than one day?"

"yeah, I'll be in Brussels for three days actually."

"Okay well I'll see you in a few days."

Fitz smiled.

"Bye."

Olivia used the days away from Fitz to regroup and figure out how she was going to move forward. The time away from him gave her some perspective and though she couldn't exactly pull back from him because getting close to him was her entire reason for being there, she decided to thread a little more carefully for a few reasons, one was because Fitz was a dangerous man, she learned that after watching his first mission, she'd been in the company of many dangerous men but they mostly let other people do their dirty work but Fitz was not most men, he did his dirty work all on his own and she always had to be mindful not to get too comfortable around him or get distracted and make a mistake because that could cost her her life.

When Fitz got back late in the night, he went to his room showered and dressed himself. He laid in bed for a while and debated whether or not he should go see Olivia but his resolve broke and he went to go see her.

He knocked on her room door and got no immediate response, he knocked again and there was nothing. It was pretty late so he figured she might have been sleeping. He went back to his room and took one of his joints from his stash and then headed back out. As he walked through the halls to and passed the workout room, he heard the soft thud of feet against a hard surface coming from the workout room. He stopped and headed into the room to see who was in here and of course, it was Olivia, in mid air, doing a flip.

He walked over to her by the beam and stood on the mat. She stopped and turned to him.

"You're back."

"Yep, and I see you're still doing those flippity flips."

She glanced at him and smirked then she walked to the end of the beam, pointed one foot in front of the other and did three perfect back handsprings across the beam and then look at Fitz again.

"Okay fine, a little more complex than flippity flips."

She smiled and then sighed, Fitz could tell something was bothering her, she seemed unsettled.

He held up his joint.

"Do you want to smoke this with me?"

She tilted her head and smiled, he was infectious, she just couldn't resist.

"Lighter at the ready?"

"I have no idea what that means."

She hopped off the beam.

"It means do you have a lighter ready?"

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a lighter.

"Follow me," he said as he turned and walked out.

She followed him to the railing where she caught him smoking the last time. There was only one chair.

"You can either sit on my lap or I can sit on yours, either way I'm sitting," Fitz said.

"Just sit," she said as she leaned against the railing.

He took a seat and sparked his lighter to the end of his joint and took a draw.

"So, what's been going on since I've been gone?" He said as he blow the smoke through his nostrils and leaned back in his chair.

"I've had fun with you gone, I can't say I missed you."

Fitz chuckled, "asshole."

She smiled and stretched for the joint, Fitz handed it to her and watched as she took a draw. She looked so relaxed as she threw her head back, closed her eyes and blew the smoke through her nostrils. She handed it back to him. After two good puffs she was relaxed enough to plop down on his lap and leaned back against his chest. They took turns smoking in silence, enjoying each other's company. After a while, when Olivia was at the apex of her drug induced bliss she began laughing.

"What?" Fitz asked.

"Nothing, I'm-" she couldn't finish her thought because she didn't have one she just continued laughing.

Fitz began laughing too.

"What?" He asked again.

"Nothing, I'm totally serious, I'm done, no more laughing," she said as she massaged her cheeks to stop herself from laughing.

She was serious for a moment and then they both burst into laughter together. They laughed until they both calmed down and Fitz wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed the blade of her shoulder. He didn't realize how intimate it was until he'd done it. He waited to see if her demeanor would change or she'd get uncomfortable but she didn't move, she just laid lazily against his chest.

They stayed there for a while, Fitz didn't realize Olivia had fallen asleep until she shifted her body and yawned.

He picked her up and carried her to her room and tucked her into bed. He kissed her cheek before he turned off all the lights and left.