A/N- Hi guys. Thanks for all the reviews last chapter, I really got an idea of what you all liked, needed to learn more about, Etc, so I wanted to just brush you guys up on a few things I learned that maybe you misunderstood or brushed over from the past chapters.
Who is Elia? - Elia was the young daughter of a terrorist that killed the commander before Fitz took the position. Fitz shared the story to Olivia about how he'd killed Elia in a brutal way even though it wasn't on purpose and for that reason, he never wanted to have a child of his own because he feared someone might kill his child as well.
Fitz never had a major relationship before Olivia, so the reason he behaves that way isn't because of heartbreak.
Fitz mentioned to Olivia that he was always very careful sexually, she's really the first person he'd been so careless with only because he knows she was a virgin so he didn't have to worry about any diseases, pregnancy though... is another thing.
They laid quietly in bed for hours until Fitz got a little restless and stood up. Olivia sat up and draped the sheets over her body, she kept quiet, content to watch him intently as he stood staring at nothing because she knew it was going to be their last moments together while things were calm.
Fitz reached into his nightstand and took out a joint and then realized that he couldn't smoke around Olivia since she was pregnant, whether or not she planned on keeping it he decided to play it safe, so he dropped it back in the drawer and then walked to the bathroom and closed the door behind him.
Olivia had the urge to follow him but decided to give him some space. After a while, she heard the shower go off and it wasn't until almost an hour later that Fitz stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist, water dripping down his chest and back; he walked over to the couch and sat down, then propped his legs up on the coffee table and leaned his head back and closed his eyes. Realizing that he probably wasn't going to move anytime soon, Olivia got up from the bed and walked over to the couch with the sheets wrapped around her and sat beside him.
Fitz turned to her before she could speak.
"I'm sorry I hurt you." He pulled her on his lap and wrapped his arm around her waist tightly,"I was wrong and I won't ever hurt you like that again." he paused, "I missed you."
"I missed you too," she said as she kissed him softly on the lips and then laid her head on his shoulders.
"Do you want to talk, I know how much you love him- so if you want to talk-I'm here."
"No."
She picked her head so she could see him.
"Are you hungry, can I get you something to eat?"
"I'm not hungry?"
Olivia sighed, she wasn't sure what to do.
"Just sit here with me," he said after a moment.
"Fitz, you can't just pretend-"
"Liv, there's nothing I could possibly say that would express to you how I feel right now."
Olivia sighed in frustration.
"I know but I just want to make sure you're okay, I can't know if you don't tell me how you feel or what you're thinking, what's how I feel secure- when I know what's going through your head."
Fitz didn't respond at all and realizing he didn't plan to Olivia decided to give it a rest and laid her head against his chest and curled her legs up on the couch. After a while, as they sat in silence, Fitz kissed her forehead and began to stroke her hair gently in the comforting way that would put her to sleep if she didn't have so much on her mind. First and foremost,, what she needed to do was to find a way to get away. She couldn't be caught there once they found out what really happened to Scott.
They both laid awake until the early hours of the morning when Olivia finally drifted off to sleep leaving Fitz awake, staring into nothing the entire morning as he listen to her sleep and reminisced about his time together with his brother.
In the morning when Olivia woke up she was alone on the bed. She sat up and noticed a pile of her clothes on the bed, then she looked on the ground and saw that her ripped underwear and pants were gone.
She got up and showered quickly and dressed and then she went back to her room to brush her teeth and take care of a few things. Her only goal was finding a way to leave the base and with that in mind, the first thing she did once she was finished was search for Fitz, the first place she thought to look was his office but he wasn't there. As she walked back out to the deck she saw Huck.
"Huck, have you seen Fitz?"
"Haven't you heard?" Huck asked.
"Heard what, did something else happen?"
"His father was found dead at their ranch in California."
She cleared her throat uncomfortably.
"Do you know where he is?"
"No."
Earlier in the morning.
When Fitz's alarm went off at 5 in the morning, he carried Olivia over to the bed and laid her down. He dressed, brushed his teeth and cleaned up the clothes off the floor then he went to Olivia's room to get her a change of clothes and left it on the bed for her before he left.
Zeus slept in Akio's room for the night after Fitz had chased him out his room after he came back from viewing Scott's body. By the time Fitz collected him and brought him back to his office he got the news about his father to which he apathetically replied, "too bad."
For most of the morning he'd been fielding calls from the president, senators, congressmen and women and military officials, calling to offer their condolences for Scott and Big Gerry. Once he got a break from calls, he gathered all the mission control personnel to the war room. They all took a seat around the table, Fitz began by pointing to one of the officers, closest to him.
"Okay, what do you have so far?" he asked.
"I'm sorry sir what?" he replied.
"Can you stand- what's your name?" Fitz asked impatiently.
The man stood up.
"My name is Greg, sir."
"Okay Greg," Fitz said, trying his hardest not to lose his temper on the poor officer, "what have you been doing since yesterday afternoon when you found out my brother was murdered."
"I-I've been waiting for orders sir."
"From who? Me?" Fitz said, pointing to himself.
"Yes sir."
"And what exactly were those orders suppose to be?"
It had gotten awkward and quiet in the room.
"To find out what happened?"
"So if you knew those were the orders why did I need to tell you to do them, I thought it would've been obvious."
The man didn't reply.
"You're forensics right?"
"Yes sir."
"Okay well, you're done here, so pack up your personal belongings and wait to be transferred back to E-1, now get out, leave. Get the fuck out."
Fitz turned to the rest of the room.
"Did anyone else not know what they should've been doing for the last 24 hours?" he asked loudly.
No one said a peep.
"Good, you beside him," Fitz pointed to the man next to the officer he just dismissed, "what do you have?"
The man stood, "sir, I've been able to create a timeline of events leading up to your brother's murder, I've gotten his phone records, I'm preparing a list of everyone in attendance that night, who he arrived with and when he disappeared, I'm waiting on a few last details and I will have it prepared in a brief for you."
Fitz nodded, "next."
Another man stood.
"Sir, I have two forensic analysts scouring the club he spent the night and the dumpster they found his body in for anything they can find to help us."
"Next?"
"Sir, I'm coordinating with the LAPD detectives working on the case, whatever they know, we'll know."
"What do we know? I keep hearing about what we are going to know, what do we know now?"
Another man stood up across the room.
"Sir, I know they used a sledgehammer to crush his skull and I know they used a army knife to carve his chest, it was a very specific knife, it's not common, we tracking it down now based on the residue from the blade, it originated in eastern Europe and they're are only a few in the world, we'll find the owner."
"Okay, what about my father?"
"Sir, you're father's death was staged to be an accident but it wasn't, it was actually a very poor attempt to hide it, they held him down, forced him to drink vodka until the amount of alcohol in his body was at a lethal level and then they threw him off the balcony of your ranch. The local police are investigating and I think they will come to this conclusion as well."
Fitz nodded, "you'll need to handle them, I don't want it getting too crazy on that front."
"Yes sir."
"No one stops working until we find out who killed my brother," Fitz said loudly.
There was a knock on the door, Jake walked in, "Fitz General Pershing is on the phone for you, he's waiting."
Fitz sighed and walked back to his office quickly to speak to the general, he got another dose of condolences and small talk and then he was finally able to get off the line.
In his office, he was surrounded by Jake, Akio, Huck and Anton.
"More condolences?" Anton asked.
"The next time someone calls just tell them I'm unavailable- I cannot take another 'sorry for your loss' call."
"So I've been going over the footage from the airport, when Scott arrived, there was a black sedan sitting in the que for about half an hour before he walked out of the airport, no one got in the car but as soon as he left, it did too, I hacked into the traffic cameras and as far as I can tell, it followed him for about 15 miles from the airport," Huck said.
"So someone was waiting for him at the airport?"
"Yeah," Huck replied.
"So that means someone told them that he was going to be there, the only people who knew Scott was leaving the base was delta team 1 and 2 members, mission control and...he also said it in the doctor's office when we were talking to Mellie."
"Should I go get the doctors so we can question them?" Jake said.
"Not everyone is guilty, we should be careful how we treat them," Akio said, standing at the far side of the room, leaned against the wall, staring at the ground as he spoke.
Fitz shook his head, taking into consideration what both Jake and Akio advised before he made his decision, "no fuck it- round them all up, - lock the whole base down, no plane or submarine is leaving this base without me giving the okay, throw the doctors in the cells in sublevel one and since no plane is leaving, we won't need mission control, bring them down there was well. Anyone that needs medical attention can call Darius, he used to be a doctor, I'm sure he'll know what to do. Anton, Huck, I need you to revise every call made and to where. I want to know who is the mole."
Olivia had been standing across the deck when she watched Fitz, Jake, Akio, Anton and Huck head into his office, she immediately went after them.
Her nerves had been bad the night before, now that it was daytime and she watched all the Delta's running around, trying to find out who killed Scott she felt like she was on the cusp of having a nervous breakdown.
She walked quickly to Fitz's office, as she neared the open door she could hear what they were saying.
"-find out who it is now, I don't have time to waste, find out who and then bring them straight to me-"
She knocked on the door, trying to break up the confab. Everyone turned around and looked at her as if she had 4 heads.
"We'll meet up in 20 minutes; Anton, Huck, do what I asked."
They nodded and then everyone headed out. Olivia felt awkward as they walked past her but she kept her cool and once they were out the door, she walked into his office and closed the door behind her.
Fitz walked behind his desk and took a seat.
"How are you?" she asked.
"I hate it when you ask that."
"Sorry."
"No, I don't want you to apologize, I just-I never know what to respond."
"I'm sorry about your father."
'Please, that son of a bitch should've kicked the bucket years ago, it's the only good news I've gotten today, believe me."
She walked a little closer in front of his desk, she gave off the demeanor of a child being called into the principal's office; standing nervously in front of him, rubbing the back the back of her shin with her foot. Fitz was a little put off by it, that was her goal.
"I've been meaning to speak to you about something."
Fitz didn't respond, he assumed she was going to tell him she was pregnant so he stayed quiet and let her continue even though he thought the timing was horrible.
"I need to leave the base."
"No, no one leaving the base."
"I have to go to the doctor and I can't use the doctors here, they are no gynecologists here, my birth control has been making me sick, I think I have to change to another method."
"You're going to the doctor to change your birth control?" he asked, knowing she was lying.
"Yes, it's just, I've obviously never been on birth control before so- this method isn't working, I have to try another."
Fitz leaned back in his chair and cleared his throat.
"You seem fine, how has it been making you sick?"
"I've been getting really bad cramps and…" she could tell he wasn't convinced so she decided to step it up a notch, "I've been spotting as well…"
"Spotting?" he asked, confused.
"Bleeding."
"Oh."
"Yes, so I need to go."
"Are you sure you're not going to the doctor because you're pregnant?"
"-Because I'm pregnant-no-why would-wait- what are you talking about?"
"I said, are you sure you're not going to the doctor because you're pregnant. After your fight with Mellie, I came back to your room when you were asleep, I saw the pregnancy test in your bin in the bathroom."
Olivia felt like with Fitz knowing about the pregnancy, everything came crashing down, she had no plan, no scheme, no strategy, she'd been improvising and now the one thing she knew was that she needed to get away from him and fast, so she went to her last resort.
She covered her face and started crying.
Fitz saw that she was crying and quickly walked over to her.
"No-no-no-no- why are you crying? Is it me or the pregnancy hormones?" Fitz asked cluelessly.
"No- it's not that-," she moved her hands from her face, "it's just- we know how you feel about me being pregnant that just makes everything so much harder."
Fitz sighed and Fitz wiped the tears from her cheeks away with his thumbs.
"I shouldn't have said that and I won't say it again, at the time it was hypothetical, now your actually pregnant."
He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her.
"Stop crying," he whispered in her ear, "I don't like it."
Olivia chuckled softly.
Fitz smiled sadly and stepped back.
"I don't know what to do," she said.
He sighed, "look, I don't know either but whatever you decide- just do what feels right for you and then we can work it out together after."
That was the last thing she expected him to say.
"Really, I thought you didn't want children?"
"It doesn't matter, you're pregnant, it's not about what I want anymore, and hey- maybe it's not the worst thing in the world, in case you haven't realized, I'm running a little short on family members at the moment." he said softly.
Olivia tried to step back a little further but Fitz pulled her forward and held her against his chest.
"Yesterday after I saw Scott's body and went back to my room, the only person I could even stand the thought of seeing was you- I only wanted you, I was too proud to come to you but I was praying you'd come me and when you did I was relieved, I have no idea why I was so angry at you. In hindsight, I think I was angry at myself, after I hurt you I kinda expect you to punch me in the face and run away from me."
"It's a good thing I didn't, that's what you wanted wasn't it-why do you hate yourself so much-"
Fitz stepped back, "I don't hate myself." he tried to step back further away from her but she wouldn't let him escape, she walked closer to him and when he couldn't go any further because he was blocked by the desk she stopped in front of him and hugged him, trying to hold back tears because...she knew the dark places he would go mentally and emotionally once she left, she knew what he would think of her and what he would think of himself and that it would change him for the worse.
"Fitz, I care about you-"
"Why are you crying?" he asked softly as he pulled her back, trying to wipe her cheeks.
"I just want you know that."
She hugged him again, consciously, she remembered that she needed to go and with that in mind she decided to steal one last kiss. She held his cheeks and kissed him softly on the lips, closing her eyes as she held her lips against his for as long as she could manage, she ran her hands through his hair once last time before she finally pulled back and wiped her wet cheeks.
"I should go."
"With everything that's happening I'm not comfortable with you leaving right now, can you wait a few days?" he asked.
"No, I've been waiting a few days and I can't wait any longer."
Fitz was at a conundrum, he couldn't leave the base because so much was going on but he also didn't want to chance anything happening to her.
"I'm sending you with Akio, he'll keep you safe."
"NO, not the ninja, I'll never be able to get away from him," Olivia said to herself.
"I can keep myself safe."
"So could Scott."
She sighed.
"Are you sure, doesn't he need to be here with you?" she asked.
"It's better if he's with you, just be as quick as you can and come back."
Olivia nodded.
"I'll see you soon."
Fitz ignored the strange feeling that he had and went to call Akio to fly Olivia to New York.
As soon as Fitz got off the phone with Akio he knocked on the door.
"Wow that was rather quick," Olivia said mostly to herself.
"He must've been walking by or something," Fitz replied.
Fitz opened the door and let her out then watched them walk across the deck.
"I need to go to my room to get my bag, can you give me a minute?"
Akio nodded without saying a work. Olivia hurried off to her room that wasn't too far away from where they'd been standing. She quickly grabbed her bag, which already had everything she needed packed in it and then headed back to Akio. She guessed they would search her room once they knew who she really was but there was nothing to find in there. She tried not to seem rattled or like she was rushing to get away, Akio was very perceptive and she didn't want to give him a reason to be more suspicious of her than he probably already was, given the circumstances under which she joined the deltas.
Once they boarded the jet and took off she calmed down, although she knew at any moment Akio could get a call or signal and turned the jet around, she tried not to think on that. However, what she couldn't stop thinking about was how Fitz would feel once he found out, he'd feel hurt and betrayed but most of all he'd feel angry and no matter what she felt about him, she wasn't stupid enough to get herself caught on the other end of his rage. She also had to worry about her father's, she was still trying to figure out why he would kill Scott, their plan was that he would wait to hear from her before moving forward with any action against the deltas.
When they touch down at JFK airport, it was almost 1pm. Once Akio showed his specialized military id, they went straight through customs and headed out to the taxi pick up area.
"I need to run to the bathroom," Olivia said to Akio before they reached the glass doors to the outside of the airport gate.
He nodded, "I'll be right here."
"Alright, I won't be long."
Olivia turned and tried to look around quickly, she saw a crowd of people awaiting the passengers of a flight arrival then she looked in the opposite direction and saw the bathroom.
She walked forward and little and then bent down to the ground and re-tied her shoelaces, Akio was about 20 feet behind her, she looked back and saw him pull out his phone, she knew it was to call Fitz and let them know that they'd landed. She waited until he started dialing the number and then she walked into the crowd of people just in time for the new wave of travellers to emerge from out of the baggage claim section. She pulled her hoodie over her head, not looking back to see if Akio was watching or what he was doing. She walked through the crowd of family and friend greeting each other, some with welcome signs and balloons. It quickly got loud with voices speaking on top of each other. She walked past a Starbucks and Dunkin Donut and then stopped behind the shop wall where she was hidden. She was right beside the exterior door but she knew she couldn't go outside as yet so she waited until they first wave of people were headed through the exit and then joined in with them and got into the first taxi she saw.
"Take me to penn station please," she said to the taxi driver.
She first took the train from New York to Trenton, New Jersey and then she withdrew a few thousand dollars from her bank account and paid a taxi driver $1000 cash to drive her to Washington D.C., she turned off her phone as well, she wanted to give herself some time before they were able to find her.
She arrived at her father's office building when it was almost 10pm. She entered the code for the door and walked past a swath of his guards without saying a word. When she opened the door to his office, she found him talking with a group of his closest associates, people she'd known most of her life, his fellow criminals, she once thought of them as her extended family but now she looked at them with disgust, as if she hadn't done the same things they'd done.
When they noticed her presence, the room fell quiet. She walked up to the front of his desk and stopped a few feet away. Her father's friends were all standing around his table and he was sitting, it was as if they were all having some sort of village council meeting and she was the subject of it.
She stood for a while but didn't say a word.
"Everyone leave," Eli said.
All the men and women walked out of the room, leaving just Olivia and Eli inside.
"If I'd known that was all I had to do to get you to come back, I would have done it months ago."
"You did a very stupid and reckless thing," Olivia said, breaking the silence in the dimly lit room. Her voice was void of emotion but it wasn't hard to tell she was angry.
He pulled out a folder from the drawer underneath his desk and slammed it on the table and opened it for her to see. He was seething.
Olivia looked down at the photos of her and Fitz, naked and having sex on her bed, in her room. They were very explicit. He was laying behind her, with his hands around her neck, holding her leg open in the air and that was only the first picture, there was a pile of them in the folder and she didn't need to look through them because she remembered everything that happened that night.
"Which one was stupid? Killing his brother or his father, I enjoyed both with equal measure..and when I find and kill him, I'll enjoy that too, I'm not sure how I plan on killing him but I promise it will be poetic." Eli stood up.
"You can try."
"What?" Eli asked as he walked closer.
"I said, you can try, you see, killing his brother and starting a war before I was able to tell you that you are hopelessly and pathetically outmatched, shooting down a plane without knowing whether or not your daughter was on board, that, is stupid."
She paused, she wasn't sure if he had been the one that shot down her and Fitz's plane but now that he wasn't denying it, she knew.
"It's amusing watching you get so angry that I slept with him. You've had me seducing men since I was what? 15 and that was alright but when I slept with someone, because I wanted to, that's wrong. If I were you, I'd save the anger and the contempt, I don't care."
Eli lurched towards her and grabbed her upper arm and pulled her close to him.
"Remember who you're talking to." he yanked her closer. "I sent you to do a job, instead you were rolling around in the sheets with some…man," he said with disgust and then he let her go. "No matter though," he said as he tried to calm down, "I'll kill him soon enough."
Olivia rubbed her arm where he'd grabbed her, "you won't kill him."
"I will," Eli replied calmly.
"I'll tell him."
Eli chuckled, "no you won't, you know how I know you won't? Because you're afraid of him aren't you? I bet you never want to see him again. The minute you found out I killed his brother you started plotting your way out of there because you're smart and because know once he finds out, you'll be on his kill list, just like me but don't worry, I intend to get to him before he gets to us."
"Us? There is no- us- Daddy, I'm done with you, I'm done with this life, I'm done putting my life in danger just to get you whatever new shiny object you decide you want."
Eli chuckled, mostly to hide his panic, "after everything I've done for you, you've completely turned your back on me, I expected it from everyone but my own daughter. I've protected you, I've given you a privileged life, you've never wanted anything because I've given you everything, you went to the best schools, wore the best clothes and now that you've had your fill, now you're done."
"Protected me? Two years ago, I almost died, I've lost count of how many times the men you sent me to have tried to force themselves on me, I've been kidnapped, held ransom and beaten. You don't protect me, I protect myself. You've done nothing for me except sell me off to men, everything you have is because of me, without me, you'd be nothing."
"And what are you Olivia, tell me? Do you think you're the most beautiful woman in the world? You're not. Do you think you're the smartest? You're not. The most cunning, clever, most attractive? You're none of those things? I am the only person in this world that's ever loved you for what you really are: nothing. You are nothing, you are not special, you are not exceptional or unique. You are nothing Olivia and if you think that there's ever going to be anyone to love you- or protect you or give a damn about you the way that I do then you are a bigger fool than I imagined."
Olivia closed her eyes. It hurt. No amount of self esteem could hold up to hearing her father say those words but she knew how it was going to play out. He'd say things to hurt her, belittle her or disrespect her. She'd believe him because that's what he'd been telling her her entire life and then she crumble back into his corner and do whatever he wanted until they started to disagree again. It wasn't the first time he said it and it wouldn't be the last time, she was ready for a face off but she couldn't afford to be caught between Fitz and her father's blood match, she had a child to protect, she felt like the only way to really escape her life and start over was if she kept her child, it would give her something to fight for other than herself, something to be a better person for, she wanted to keep her child and she also knew that when Fitz found her, which she was sure he would...eventually, the only thing that would probably stop him from killing her would be the pregnant belly in front of her, she decided to play it safe and pick her battles, she could save a fight with her father for another time although she was sure she probably wouldn't have to, if her planned worked they way she thought it would.
Eli started laughing, "did you think Fitzgerald Grant loved you? Is that why you're acting like this because: love? Stop embarrassing yourself, he's doesn't love you, he never will. He played you and you fell for it, I mean- what is there to love?"
"Nothing," Olivia answered.
She covered her mouth and sobbed on cue. Eli walked over to her and wrapped his arm around her, pulling her into a hug.
"I love you. I'm the only one that loves you and no matter how many times you betray me and turn your back on me, I will still love you."
"I'm so -sorry daddy-"
"Shhh- I forgive you. You're the most beautiful daughter a man could ask for, not to mention smart and capable so let's forget this unfortunate conversation ever happened, in fact, I'm sorry, I was harsh, sometimes I just get so protective of you and I love you so much that I let my anger get the best of me, I'm going to work on it okay sweetie now let me see a smile."
Olivia wiped her eyes, it was hard to smile but she did, she couldn't wait to get away from him.
Eli kissed her forehead and rubbed her on the back then let her go and stepped back.
"Now I need you to tell me everything you learned about him while you were there."
Olivia nodded, "okay."
Eli walked out and invited everyone back into his office.
"Okay Olivia, what do you know? What's he saying about his brother and father's death?"
"He doesn't care that you killed his father he hated him and he never really considered his brother a real brother."
"I heard that he loved his brother, that's why I killed him." Eli responded.
"Not from what he told me, he looked at his dead brother body and he just walked away, he never shed a tear. He is angry though, he feels slighted because of the way you did it, that's the only reason he wants revenge."
"What about the other deltas, what do they feel?"
"They didn't really like Scott, they didn't feel he was good enough to be there, they mostly thought he was there because of his brother but if Fitz orders them to avenge him, they will."
"My source inside has been quiet since he sent word that the brother was going to be a California-"
"You had another person on the inside?"
"Yeah, one of aviation guys, I gave him a few hundred thousand and promised him a lot more and he's been an informant for a couple of months the only useful thing he's told us was where the brother would be."
"Oh, I didn't know but he's probably quiet because he wants to play it safe, when I left the base, everything was normal."
"So, is he as great a fighter as they say? What should we expect? Is he erratic, calculating, what's his style." Eli asked.
"He's erratic, he improvises, he doesn't really think things through, he's great with guns but he's not a great close combat fighter, they just make it seem as if he is."
Rowan wondered if Olivia was lying to protect Fitz, to make him underestimate him so Fitz had the advantage, "are you lying to me Olivia, the things I've heard about him- make him seem like the greatest fighter that's ever lived, he's been running the deltas for a few years and he's been doing so successfully, you're telling me he's just been winging it."
"I'm not lying," she lied, "he's good with guns but he can't fight, they're all good at something, they're all trained so when they all fight it's hard to beat them."
"Who in his team doesn't like him? "
"A lot of them don't like him and there's a lot of infighting, the ninja wants to take over, his friend Jake is jealous of him, he's slept with all the women there and then dumped them so they can't stand him as well, they obey him though but if you pick them off one by one, make them a deal they can't refuse, I don't know, maybe you can get them on your side, it will be hard but not impossible."
Eli smiled, "I thought I had a plan before, I assumed I'd have to fight them all but if I can isolate the general then that makes things easier for me," Rowan remarked. "What's his weakness?"
"He has none, not that I can't tell."
Eli cocked his eyebrow at her and Olivia realized she needed to be a little more convincing.
"Daddy, you killed the last two family members he had, he's secluded in a base at the bottom of the world, he has billions of dollars to fall back on, he knows you can't touch him because he has protection and he has hundreds of people fighting for him, some of them may not like him but they follow his orders, he has more guns, planes and equipment, he has no real weaknesses, none that I could find, I think you picked a fight you can't win."
Eli hated when people doubted him, he felt the need to overly prove himself and Olivia was counting on that.
Eli sighed, "I already started a war, I plan on finishing it."
"Daddy, I really think you should think about it-"
Eli turned to Olivia, "do you want to stay at the apartment with me tonight?"
"No, I think I'll go to my apartment, I'll take a cab back to New York."
"That's a four hour drive, don't be ridiculous, stay at my apartment tonight and you can leave tomorrow, I'll send you with some guards just to be sure you're safe."
"Okay," she said, knowing it didn't matter because she had plans of her own, none of which included staying around for when Fitz came looking for her father.
She walked down to the lobby and dropped her cellphone in the trash as she walked out of the building.
Just moments after Fitz got off the phone with Akio letting him knew they landed safely he got another call from Akio telling him he couldn't find her.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T FIND HER?" he screamed.
"She asked to use the bathroom and then she disappeared, I've been waiting for 20 minutes, I checked all the bathrooms I can find, she's gone."
"Do you think someone took her?"
"No, she left, I was watching her, she waited until I was distracted then she left."
"Find her, go to airport security, do whatever you have to do to find out where she went," he said evenly, trying to control himself.
Fitz didn't know what to think about Olivia leaving so he stayed calm and didn't assume anything.
An hour later, Fitz got another call from Akio telling him Olivia left in a cab more than an 90 minutes earlier, 30 minutes later he found out she was at penn station and now it was 8 hours later and no one knew where she was.
His first thought was that she probably ran away because of the pregnancy, that was the only thing that made sense until Anton and Huck called him into the war room almost 12 hours later.
He'd been locked in his office since he found out that Olivia had left, he made Huck run point of all the different investigations that were going on and told him only to disturb him when he found out something important.
When Fitz walked in, he watched Anton close the door behind him and he also noticed one of the base investigator that he'd tasked to investigate Olivia months earlier sitting at the table.
"Where is everyone else?"
"I think you should hear this before you decide whether to let any of the other deltas know."
"Hear what?"
"We found the mole, he was one of the mission control aviation officers, we have him detained in a separate cell in the lower deck."
"So why are we here and not interrogating him?"
"Because we know who sent him."
Fitz leaned back, "as far a shitty goes, it's been a pretty good week for that so why don't you just say what you need to say, I'm assuming by all the secrecy that Olivia's involved."
The investigator stood up and carried a folder over to him.
"Yes sir, I've been looking into her for months, as you ordered, I cleared her because, there was nothing I found on her beyond circumstantial that I could prove was in any way nefarius, she was clean. Most of the work her father did was classified as contract work for the government and clouded in secrecy so the only thing we knew about her father was that he was shady."
"This is what you told me in your conclusion months ago, what's new?"
"Remember how you told me to keep my eye out for anything-" he opened the folder and placed it in front of Fitz.
The first picture he saw was Olivia, her hair was curled up old hollywood style with huge diamonds around her neck and a huge diamond ring on her ring finger, she was wearing a fitted white dress with red lipstick. She was hugging an older man that looked middle eastern in descent, he seemed to be in his forties and was wearing a suit.
"That's the Emir of Catan, they were engaged for a month before she called it off, he's an oil billionaire who's bankrupt now," the man said.
He flipped to the next picture of Olivia posing beside a stocky build man with scruffy facial hair, "he ran the russian mob, he's dead now."
The man flipped to the next picture of Olivia with another man, "he runs the international monetary fund, he's in jail now."
There were a substantial amount of pictures in the folder, the man stopped at the third on a spread the pile of pictures across the desk.
"It took me a while to find these and this isn't all of them but at first I didn't understand, how would a young college student know all these men and there was no similarities with any of them, one was a mobster the other was a banker, another was a prince, tech company executive or senator- I just didn't understand, so I took her out of the equation and started looking into the men and what I found out is that from the point that she meets them to the point that she leaves them something substantial happened to each and every one of them," he paused,"for example," he picked a picture of Olivia sitting with a young, skinny, white male with glasses wearing a hoodie, they seemed around 20 years old at the time. "This guy, nerdy as he may look, started that company, I'm pretty sure you've heard of it; Rumble?"
"Yes," Fitz replied.
"He wrote the code to secure phones conversations and texts, so no one can tap your phones etc, the company boomed for six months until he dated her and during the period of him dating her, his codes for his software was stolen, she left him right after and then months later, the code is being used to secure phones for the Russian and chinese mob, Taliban, al-Qaeda- Boko Haram." He took another picture and showed Fitz, "same with this guy, dated her, his company secrets were stolen and sold. This one, was in the chinese mob, he dated her and then he was found dead. There's a pattern, each and everyone of these men either die, get beaten, became bankrupt, lose their company and then magically, her father's offshore account, which it took me forever to find, has millions more added-"
"I don't care about these other men- what did she want from me?"
"It's not what she wants, it's what her father wants- he wants to command the deltas-he sent her here to get close to you."
"Who killed my brother?" Fitz said calmly.
"Her father ordered your brother killed, the mole he planted in mission control told him he'd be leaving the base and he made his move. He found dna of one men that's a known associate of his at the dumpster where Scott's body was found," Huck said.
"Where is he? Her father. Where is he?"
"In Washington D.C., she's there too."
"How do you know that?"
"Her phone, when she first came and you had her detained until we vetted her, I put a chip and a mic in her phone to locate her if need be and listen to her conversation as well. Nothing she's said since she got her gave her away, I mean, she was very careful."
"We've been looking for her for the past 10 hours, why am I just learning that you knew her location?"
"Her phone was off for a while so it took some time for me to get the signal once it came back on and it's been recording everything she's been saying until an hour ago when it stopped, I think you should hear it."
"I don't want to hear anything, I just need to know where they are."
Fitz stood up.
"Where's the aviation officer?" he asked.
"In cell 1342 in sublevel b."
Fitz walked through the door and walked slowly and calmly down the the cells until he reached cell 1342. He entered the code and walked in and saw the man sitting on the floor with his back against the wall.
Once the man noticed Fitz, he jumped up.
"Commander."
Fitz closed the door behind him and walked slowly towards him, he pulled his dagger from his thigh holster as he walked.
"Wait-w-wait- I'm a member of the united states navy, I-I deserve a trial from the military court," the man said backing up into the corner shakily.
Fitz kept walking, still without a word until he was inches away from him and then he grabbed him by his hair and kneeled him on the ground.
"Now you care about justice? What happened to justice for my brother?"
"P-please-I'm begging you-just give me my life please-lock me up-"
"-I've been too nice," Fitz stooped down in front of him, still holding his hair "I know that now," he brought the tip of his dagger up to the man's throat "I won't let that happen again."
Fitz stabbed him, first in the stomach.
The man grabbed Fitz's arm but he stood up and jammed his foot against the man's throat and stabbed him again and again and again and again, he felt blood splatter on his face but he didn't stop, not until the man stopped moving then he stood up and looked at his work. The dead man lying in a puddle of blood with about 40+ stab wounds across his chest, lower torso and neck and somehow he still didn't feel satisfied, he kicked him and then kicked him again then stomped his boot against his face. Nothing he did made the rage he felt dissipate, even a little, he stepped back and took a breath then he wiped the blood of his blade on his pants and slipped it back into his holster. That was just the first person on his list, he had many more to go.