Fitz walked back into the room with Huck and Anton. They noticed the blood on his face but said naught, Huck made a mental note to send someone to clean up the mess in the cell.
"Get Akio on the phone," he said as he sat down.
Anton quickly dialed Akio and put him on speaker.
"Commander?"
"Where are you-"
"New York sir."
Fitz slammed his fist against the desk, "why the fuck are you in New York when that bitch and her father are in D.C."
"-I think you should hear the tape before you move forward," Huck interjected, "I don't think she'll be with her father, I think she's going to run."
"What?" Fitz asked.
"Yes Fitz, I listened to it and I agree-" Akio added through the phone, "I don't think she'll come to New York but I have been trying to look through her apartment to try and figure out her next move, maybe she has a safe place she goes to hide, that's what I'm trying to find."
Fitz sighed, "fine, play it."
Huck nodded and pressed play on the small media box on computer screen and stepped back.
...
Fitz listened intently until the tape finished playing. Looking back at every moment they'd spent together it was clear that everything was a lie. She lied so easily, so smoothly and it hurt to know she'd been making a fool of him the entire time.
"What do you think?" Anton asked.
Fitz sat silently thinking for a moment, he didn't believe she was on his side. There were many things he found disturbing about the call, mainly her relationship with her father but he wasn't prepared to give her any empathy.
"I think that little hooker is smart, she's been here, she knows how we operate and she's willing to throw any and everyone under the bus to save her ass, I think she knew we'd be listening and tracking her once she left, I think that as we speak she is haul assing from D.C. to the middle of -fucking- nowhere to hide and I think the sooner you find her, the sooner I can slit her fucking throat."
"Okay, so how do you want to do this?" Huck asked Fitz.
"Akio, find her and bring her to me," he turned to Huck, "I want you to monitor the father's office via satellite, I want to know about every single move he makes and I want information of all of his associates, I want identities, addresses, a list of family members, bank accounts, I want everything."
"On it," Huck replied.
"When do you plan to go get him?" Anton asked.
"I don't want to get him now, I want to wait, I want him to feel comfortable, to be off guard, and I want to find Olivia first, I need both of them but in the meantime I need you to come up with a plan in case we need to pick up the father right away."
Huck and Anton nodded, Akio who had been on the line hung up after hearing his orders.
Fitz left the room without another word and went back to his room, slamming the door behind him so hard that it frightened Zeus. He was overwhelmed, hurt and angry, most of all heartbroken. It's not that he loved her, or at least he didn't think he did; it was that he'd grown to trust her, understand her, care for her while all along she'd been lying; every kiss, every smile, every touch, every orgasm was just a means to an end for her. It was all fake. He'd found himself fantasizing about what would happen if she decided to keep the pregnancy but now he didn't believe she was actually even pregnant, that too must've been a sham. She stayed with him for months, laughing with him, fighting with him and in the end crying with him just to have known all along how it would end. Apart of him wasn't looking forward to what would happen when they found her, she would have to pay for what she did, his brother was dead and she knew all along and did nothing, there was no forgiving that.
He laid for a while, unable to sleep, then he paced back and forth in the room and then he took Zeus out for a walk and then he went back to his room. Anxious, edgy and unable to rest, he alternated between lying down, sitting and pacing until his morning alarm went off. He showered, brushed his teeth and dressed then he went to the kitchen for coffee to keep him alert and then he headed to his office.
He had a lot to do, arranging Scott and Gerry's funerals which he'd already decided he was going to hold in a joint ceremony just so he could suffer through it once and get it over with. He spent the morning on the phone with military officials and his father's staff listening to the plans they made for the funeral; where it would be held, who would be invited and other details.
Midway through the day, Huck and Anton came into his office as he was on the phone.
"Can I call you back-" Fitz said moments before he hung up. "What have you found?"
"We have satellite of the father's office, surveillance at home in D.C. and her apartment in New York. Everything he says is coming straight to us and it turns out he really fucking hates you for sleeping with his daughter," Anton said.
"Good, I'll be sure to give him details when I see him, what else?" Fitz replied.
"We're compiling the info on him and his associates, most of which are in D.C. with him, they seemed occupied with finding her as well."
Fitz cleared his throat.
"And Olivia, where is she? Do you know?"
"We're still searching, Akio is now in D.C., she left the night that the tape was made and Akio found footage of her at a bus station, he also learned that she has a cabin in Aspen, she paid cash for it in 2002, he found a certificate of ownership in a safe at a storage facility she owns so we sent a team of deltas to surveil the cabin if she shows up, they're waiting on Akio."
"Tell them not to make a move without my okay."
"Got it, we'll let them know," Anton replied.
Fitz sighed, "we're going to bury Scott tomorrow in a military cemetery outside of Santa Barbara along with my father, we'll leave at 6am for an afternoon funeral, gather all the deltas and give them the information, tell them everyone should be in military uniforms, the president, senators, congressmen and women and a lot of members of the military will be there and they need to look presentable, there will be cameras."
Huck and Anton nodded and turned to leave.
"Do they know?" Fitz asked.
"No, we haven't told anyone, not unless you want us to, the investigators have been pretty tight lipped," Huck responded.
Fitz chuckled humorlessly, "I don't suppose they'll be pleased once they do."
"They don't have to know," Anton said, "we can take care of this threat ourselves without involving them, me, you, Huck and Akio, we can keep it tight and quiet and as for Olivia, Akio can take care of her quietly, it will be quick, she doesn't have to feel pain."
Fitz raised an eyebrow, taken aback, "I think your laboring under the delusion that I feel any sort of empathy for Olivia after what's she's done, I can guarantee you that you are wrong. Tell them, tell all of them and let them feel however they want to feel about it, I don't care."
Huck and Anton nodded.
"Anything else comes up, we'll let you know," Huck added.
"Mhm," Fitz replied.
They both nodded and left.
Fitz spent the rest of the day secluded in his office, not looking forward to the next time he had to face his team knowing he'd been made a fool of by Olivia and her father and that his brother was dead because of it. It was approaching the second day since he'd last eaten anything substantial, alternating between coffee to keep him up and Scotch to keep him calm.
After another long night where sleep wouldn't come, he began getting ready for his brother funeral at 4am. He showered, brushed his teeth, combed his hair and dressed in his military uniform and waited until it was exactly 5:50 am to head out to the deck to meet the other deltas gathered by the plane. He ignored the stares, mostly from embarrassment but also because he knew if anyone said a word to him about Scott or Olivia, he wouldn't be able to control his outburst.
They flew in uncomfortable silence. The only audible sound was the sound of the plane engine and air conditioner. There was over 30 men and women on the plane and none dared to say a word, not even Mellie. Scott's body had been sent to the funeral home the day earlier so it could be prepared for burial.
When they landed at a small Santa Barbara airport, there was a group of black suv's waiting to transport them to the funeral that was an hour's drive away, Fitz had a vehicle reserved for himself, he didn't want to ride with company. On the drive, Fitz became more and more anxious as he neared the destination and after a long ride, the procession of vehicles finally stopped in the cemetery; everyone exited, except Fitz. He realized he might have made a mistake by attending in the first place because he couldn't imagine getting through the entire funeral. He looked through the dark tinted window and saw scores of guests dressed in black, gathered by the gravesite, waiting for the commencement of the funeral. The media was there, with cameras set up to broadcast the funeral of California's long serving senator and governor. He was dreading all the 'sorry for your loss' and 'at least they're in a better place' conversations we was going to have to endure while the media watched.
He sat in the car until the presidential motorcade pulled up and the president and his entourage exited then he finally made his way over, when he was sure everyone had arrived.
The funeral planner ran over to him to moment he walked across the pavement and stepped unto the green grass.
"Mr. Grant, we've been waiting for you, we need you at the front."
Without a word, Fitz followed the woman to the front of the funeral and stood at the front of the crowd, just feet away from the coffins of his father and brother.
He stood with his arms by his side, staring into nothing as they began the service. The priest delivered the eulogy for both Gerry and Scott, the president said a few words, so did some of his father's closest friends and colleagues.
He'd been suffering through it rather well until they began lowering the coffins into the grave and the military rifle tribute went off. The first shot was utterly agonizing, all the shame and humiliation he felt for being fooled by Olivia came to a head. He felt so much sorrow, regret, shame and stupidity for not being able to have saved his brother or see through her facade because he was too busy lusting after her.
When the second shot went off, he couldn't stand there any longer, his eyes filled with water and turned away from the service, drawing the attention of everyone as he did so, and walked back to the car. As he was feet away from the car, he stopped and stooped in front of the car, he took a breath, stood up and then opened the door and once he got inside he locked the door and rested his head against the back of the seat and took deep breaths to calm himself as he covered his face with his hands.
His brother was the only person he considered family, they'd been close ever since they met, they always had each other's back, right or wrong, he could count on Scott and now his brother was gone because of a lapse in his judgement. He made promises to protect him, to be there for him and he failed in both respects.
Moments later, Abby opened the door on the opposite side and sat on the seat beside him on the seat.
"She fooled us too you know, she fooled me too, I thought she was my friend, she's good, it wasn't just you."
"I'm gonna kill her," he choked out, barely able to mask his emotion.
Abby sighed and rested her hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him.
"Don't touch me," he said just above a whisper, "get out, I came here to be alone."
Abby pulled back, she felt a little embarrassed and quickly opened the door and let herself out.
He sat back on the seat with his eyes closed, waiting for the funeral to end and for the vehicles to pull off but his surprise there was another knock on his door. This time it was the president, asking him to speak with him.
He opened the door and stepped out.
"I'm very sorry about what happened to your father and brother, son."
He'd been debating whether or not he wanted to talk to the president, given that he was the one who sent Olivia to him in the first place but he figured he could get some answers.
"What did Olivia and Eli Pope have on you, why did you order me to admit her into my base?"
The president looked over to his guards and signalled for them to give him privacy.
"Can we walk?" the president asked.
Fitz signalled for him to go first, so the president headed in the direction of the grassy meadows and Fitz followed.
"Can I trust you?" the president asked.
Fitz didn't respond; taking his silence as permission, the president continued.
"Olivia Pope is vicious manipulator if there ever was one. I met her at a campaign fundraiser for your father. She was young, beautiful and wealthy by the way she dressed. One conversation turned into two and then three and then I couldn't get enough of her and I found myself having to call her every night just to hear her voice so I could get some sleep. She's subtle and didn't know how deep she had reeled me in until she had tapes of us."
"Tapes of what?"
The president hesitated, "I don't think you wanna know son."
"I do need to know, you dumped them on me, I need to know the type of people I'm dealing with."
"If those tapes ever saw the light of day, I'd be the laughing stock of the world, once she had the tapes, that's when she introduced me to her father and I've been dealing with him ever since."
"So you just sent her to me, with no thought to the national security threat she would pose?"
"I did what I had to do to survive politically, if they released those tapes I would never be able to show my face again, I'd lose my wife, my family; even if I had resigned the presidency, I'd be disgraced forever so I did what I had to do."
"Did you two have sex? Is that what she has on tape?"
Fitz wasn't sure how she might have faked being a virgin but now he had a hard time believing she was, which was ridiculous because he felt it when they had sex but now he was questioning everything about her.
The president hesitated once again, "no, she liked to play hard to get so we never actually did anything."
"What do you mean you never actually did anything, what does she have tapes of?"
"Look, she let me feel her up a few times, she has tapes of us having phone sex, my voice is very clear and she has pictures- look, I've known you and your father for a very long time and-I'm ashamed, this is not what I want to be talking about at your father and my friend's funeral but looking back, she was 40 years younger than me, I should've known and I was stupid but you're not, which is why I sent them to you, just keep an eye on them until you can get rid of them."
"He wants to take over the deltas, that's why he sent his daughter. What do you think he's going to do if he gets control of the deltas, he has blackmail material on you and you've already proven you have no backbone and are willing to do what he wants?"
"Hey-hey, wait now- I did what I had to do, now it's your job to keep him and his daughter at bay. Since your father is no longer the head of the company, I assume you'll take over, that's what he wanted, so get your number 2 up to line so he can take over and deal with them."
Fitz found himself getting more upset, and needed to end the conversation, he found out everything that he needed to know, "thank you for your condolences, Mr. President."
Fitz stepped back without another word and walked back to the car leaving the president standing in the middle of the grass meadow. He locked himself in the car and waited, until all the other deltas finished their small talk and headed back into the vans to take off and head back to the base.
Fitz had a lot to get done, he had to deal with the business of his inheritance and his father's company but he couldn't think of any of it until he avenged his brother.
Once back at the base, he again secluded himself in his room. His plan to wait to attack Eli seemed less and less feasible as the hours passed.
Olivia lodged in Aspen after travelling by bus for four days, staying at a small cabin she'd purchased many years ago with cash, just incase she ever needed to get away.
She found herself seriously wondering if she made the right decision by betraying her father, she knew it was what she had to do to take control of her life but he was the only family she had and she worried that if her father so happened to go up against Fitz and win, he'd know what she did and then she'd have to deal with his wrath but on the other hand if Fitz won and came after her (which she knew he would) she wouldn't have anyone on her side, she'd have to go up against him alone. She was counting on the fact that she was carrying his child would stop him from actually hurting her but as days and hours went by, she was less convinced. She just didn't know what type of mental state he would be in when he found her, she didn't know if the more time she let pass would be better or worse for her.
It wasn't the first time she'd been in an impossible situation, it was only that this was unique because she didn't really see a way out. She couldn't run for long nor could she hide forever. She'd been trying for days to anticipate what was going to happen next, how Fitz would go after her father, and her, what she would do when that happen; she needed a plan A and B, C and so on and so forth but she was coming up empty.
She had been at the cabin for just a couple of hours before she turned on the tv and saw footage of Scott and Gerry's funeral, she saw Fitz and how hard he seemed to be struggling to hold it together. She saw him practically running from the coffin as they lowered it into the ground when the rifle salute went off and it brought her to tears. She turned off the tv and got under the covers hoping that sleep would come soon.
Eli sat in his office watching the footage of the funeral, it was clear to him by Fitz's body language at the funeral that what Olivia had told him wasn't true and it wasn't a coincidence that Olivia had disappeared since their conversation.
He had all of his associates gathered, trying to go over different strategies to anticipate and combat Fitz's next move and he also had his guards trying to find Olivia.
They'd been debating for just under an hour when Eli stopped the conversation, realizing that it just too quiet. He heard no cars outside honking, he didn't hear his guards chatting in the lobby as usually and subconsciously he realized that he hadn't seen any guard or worker in his building appear on his video feed on the screen in his office.
He picked up the phone and called his guard desk, it rang for a few second before the line picked up.
"Jim, what's going on out there?" Eli asked.
"Guess who," Fitz said right outside of Eli's office door.
Eli dropped his phone and grabbed his gun from under his desk, he immediately recognized Fitz voice from hearing it on tape with Olivia; he jumped up, ready to protect himself, his associates did the same, ready for a fire fight.
Fitz and 30 other deltas stood just outside Eli's office door in full military armor.
"It's open," Huck said as he stepped back from the passcode accessible door, he'd just hacked into the system and broke the code.
Fitz twisted the door handle, opened the door and walked in casually, followed by 30 men and women. Eli sat stood in his office with 12 people and only 8 of them were armed.
Fitz didn't draw his gun, neither did any of the other deltas, there was no reason to, bullets couldn't penetrate their armor.
Eli and his associates had guns pointed, all the deltas faces were covered with black bulletproof metal masks which made it impossible to tell who was who.
Outnumbered and outgunned, Eli held his stance.
"Anyone that drops their weapons and surrenders now, will be taken into custody, if you do not drop your weapons in the next 3 seconds, you will be killed," Fitz said.
Everyone dropped their guns to the floor immediately except Eli.
"Kill them," Fitz said.
The deltas pulled guns and shot everyone, leaving Eli standing alone with his gun while all his associates and friends dropped to the floor, dead.
Eli looked around at all his close associates dead on the floor, now it was just him against 30 armed men and women.
"Let's talk," Eli said, holding his gun and arms in the air.
Fitz finally stepped forward, distinguishing himself from all the other deltas.
"Take him."
Anton, Jake and two other deltas ran over to Eli and slammed him against the desk, not before Eli tried to shoot at them but the bullet ricochet against their metal armor and before he could shot again, he had four men slamming his head and body against his wooden desk, rendering him unconscious.
When Eli woke, he found himself tied to a chair in the middle of his large, rectangular office. All the furniture had been moved toward the walls and a white tarp was spread of over the floor. He looked around and saw all his dead associates piled on the floor, unceremoniously.
He looked up and saw Fitz, he had removed his mask, so did all the other deltas that were in the room.
He looked down at his body, his was nude except for his underwear.
"I underestimated you," Eli said.
"Wait-one second," Fitz said. He pulled his knife from his holster and stabbed it into Eli's thigh.
Eli screamed in agonizing pain.
"I wanted you to be awake when I did that," Fitz pulled it out and stabbed him again, in the same spot. "It's a special kind of knife, it pulls out flesh with the serrated edge." Eli screamed again and bit his lip, angrily grunting trying to fight the pain.
"If you're gonna kill me just do it," he yelled.
"Not until your daughter gets here to watch, then we'll begin."
As Olivia twisted and turned in her sleep, she felt like someone was watching her. When she opened her eyes, she saw someone standing over her, dressed in a black from head to toe, including a mask fully covering their face and eyes. Before she could scream or panic, Akio pressed a folded cloth over her face and held her down and that's when she went into full panic mode. She didn't know if he was trying to suffocate her or render her unconscious, she didn't know if she would wake up after she lost consciousness so she had only one option: fight.
She couldn't scream so she kicked ferociously, he had her hands pinned together with one hand and he used his other hand to hold the cloth against her face. She tried to pry her hands from his as hard as she could as she wiggled her face free and kicked him all at the same time. After a few seconds of struggling, she managed her get her face free from the cloth and took a gasp of air.
Akio had been cautious, he was really trying not to hurt her unnecessarily but she was giving him a hard time and considering everything she'd done, he didn't think she deserved his concern so he pinned her arms again and got on top of her and then he covered her face once again, so forcefully that she couldn't move at all. She struggled until she began to fade.
Once she was unconscious, he bound her arms and legs then he carried her outside to meet three other deltas waiting by the plane.
Fitz stood by the window looking outside when his phone chimed. Akio texted him letting him know they were only minutes away.
"She's almost here," Fitz said as he turned to Eli who was across the room.
Fitz sent most of the deltas out of office to get rid of all the bodies of the guards and workers that they'd left all in the hallway and rooms in the building. The only person he had in the room was Huck and Anton.
"What are you going to do to my daughter?" Eli asked, drowsily because he'd lost a substantial amount of blood from where Fitz had been stabbing him on the same spot of his leg for the past few hours.
Fitz was too busy trying to mentally prepare for Olivia's arrival to hear what Eli asked him.
"I said, 'what are you going to do to my daughter?'," Eli asked louder.
Fitz turned around, "you'll see."
"I'll do whatever you want, ju-just leave her alone," Eli said frantically.
Ftz hadn't been engaging in any conversation with him for the past few hours. He didn't want to go down the rabbit hole of trading insults and getting riled up but now seemed like a good time to start talking, seeing that Olivia was almost there.
"I'll do whatever you want, I'll give you whatever you want, just spare my daughter. She's young, she does what I tell her, it's not her fault, blame me for your brother's death."
"I do blame you, at least we agree on that but your daughter knew exactly what she was getting herself into so spare me please with your little maudlin act or might have to kill you sooner than I planned just to put me out of your misery."
Just then, Akio walk through the door with Olivia thrown over his shoulder. He walked her over to the white tarp and laid her on the ground in front of Eli and Fitz.
"What happened to my daughter?" Eli asked.
Fitz looked down at Olivia, she laid unconscious on the floor with her mouth gagged with a piece of cloth.
"Put her on the chair," Fitz ordered.
Akio picked her up and sat her on the chair then he tied her feet to the foot of the chair and tied her hands behind the chair.
Eli had been watching Fitz's reaction carefully but he couldn't read it. Olivia had betrayed him, that was clear but, if he were in a different, less dire circumstances, he'd want her to pay for that but not at the cost of her life, she was still his daughter, he was going to die but she didn't have to.
"Huck?" Fitz said, snapping Eli from his train of thought.
Huck nodded and walked over to Eli and stooped in front of him. He pulled out a small packet of blades and laid it by Eli's foot.
"Let's talk," Eli said again.
He'd been trying to get Fitz talking for hours but he wouldn't talk, all he did was stare through the window and pace.
Huck pulled one of the blades from the packet.
"Are you really going to carve up an old man?' Eli said, "I think we can work something out, I can't even begin to express how sorry I am about your brother but I think we can move forward, we can work together, I didn't know the kinda man you were before, now I know, you mean business and I like that, we can work together."
"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that," Fitz said, cocking his ear.
"What do you want me to do beg, fine, please, let my daughter go and let's work this out."
"It wasn't long ago that you expressed your desire to kill me in a manner in which you were still debating because you wanted it to have certain amount of flair or what was the word you used- poetry, now you want mercy. Where was your mercy for my brother, who you killed even though he never bothered you."
Fitz looked at Huck, signalling for him to go on.
"Hear me out-"
Huck took the blade and began at Eli's cuticle and slowly began to peel the top layer of his skin.
Eli bellowed in gut wrenching, unmitigated anguish as Fitz watched, somehow not fully satisfied. It took Olivia a while to regain consciousness, it wasn't until Huck had peel a few inches up Eli's foot that Olivia finally woke.
At first, everything was foggy, she heard screaming and it sounded close, she slowly recognized the voice. As she looked down, she saw blood on the floor, that's when she snapped her head up and saw her father. He was mostly naked, she recognized Fitz's knife stuck in his leg as he screamed and then she looked down and saw what Huck was doing to his foot.
She tried to yelp but she couldn't because of the gag. She started sobbing, feeling paralyzed with fear, she looked around frantically searching for Fitz, she couldn't believe he would let Huck do to her what he was doing to her father.
"OLIVIA! RUN. GO." Eli screamed.
Fitz was standing right behind her. He tried not to feel guilty about what he was doing to her, after all, she'd done the same to him, she stood by while he kneeled over his dead brother's body knowing the role she played in his death and she said nothing.
It went on until Olivia couldn't watch anymore, she held her head low so she wouldn't have to see, all the while, Eli never stopped only thing more terrifying than watching her father getting peeled alive like a dead animal was the fact that she had every reason to believe she was next.
After an hour, Huck had finished peeling up to his knee on both legs, Eli was no longer screaming, he was in hypovolemic shock from all the blood loss and just sat trembling in a fugue like state. It was an eerie thing, looking at the raw flesh of her father's skinned feet, she would never be able to forget it.
"Huck," Fitz said, standing behind Olivia.
She stiffened when she heard his voice and did not move.
Huck stood up and turned to Olivia and that was when Olivia began sobbing uncontrollably, thinking she was next. Fitz turned to Anton and Akio signalling for them to leave the room, Huck followed and once they were alone closed his eyes and took a breath to calm down.
He stepped in front of her with his knife in hand.
"No, no, no," she shook her head, the words came out as a gargled cry.
He brought the knife down to her feet, she closed her eyes, bracing for the pain. She screamed and cried as loud as she could, shaking and trying and failing to remind him she was pregnant, not that she believed he forgot, the pregnancy was suppose to save her life, now it seems that he didn't care.
Fitz cut the rope that Akio tied around her feet and then stood and cut the rope that bind her arms behind her back then he loosened the gag around her mouth and threw it to the ground. She quickly wrapped her arms around her stomach protectively.
"Please don't hurt me, please don't- please- I'm pregnant."
He walked back in front of her and stopped.
She looked down at the ground, covering her face, still crying.
"Look at me."
She kept her eyes fixed on the ground, "please don't kill me."
"Olivia, look at me."
She didn't move, except to wipe the tears from her eyes.
"Please."
"Look. At. Me."
Olivia finally looked up at Fitz, who was just inches away from her. His eyes told her everything she needed to know about what he was feeling, the only thing left for him to do to make it any more obvious how much he was hurting was to burst out in tears.
"I'm sorry," she grabbed him and squeezed him tightly, "I'm so sorry."
He let her hold him just for a few moments because he needed it so badly and once he composed himself he pushed her off.
"I can't decide how I want to kill you."
"Fitz-" Olivia started crying again.
"I haven't been able to sleep for the past four days because I've been thinking about it so much but I was pleased to know that Akio found you sleeping so peacefully, I haven't had that luxury."
"You would kill the woman pregnant with your child."
"Let's pretend I believe you're actually pregnant, let's pretend that this whole pregnancy wasn't just a way to save your ass-"
"-I didn't plan this, you saw the test, I didn't fake it, I didn't force you to sleep with me," she said as she wiped her eyes.
Fitz stood up.
"When you first came to the base I told you that if we're lying about who were or if ever did anything to hurt any one of my soldiers, I would kill you."
"Fi-"
"My brother is dead Olivia, should I just let you walk away. Everyone else has suffered and lost but you would get to walk away unscathed. I lose my brother," Fitz turned around and looked at Eli, "god knows I'm not done with your father, his associates and everyone who even knew about his plans are dead, the deltas lost a team member and you, you lose nothing."
"I lose my father."
"The father you set up to die in the first place, you haven't look at him once since we started conversing, you don't care about him. You don't care about anyone, you only care about yourself."
"I care about you- I didn't know about Scott, I didn't know he'd go after him, If I had-"
"What would you have done? Would you have told me?" Fitz asked.
"I would have stopped it."
Fitz sighed, "I wish I could believe you...but I don't so what should I do?"
He let the question hang in the air
"I've done terrible things so I guess I can add this to the list."
He pulled out his gun and aimed it at Olivia.
"Don't do this."
He walked closer.
"Fitz-" she started crying again.
He stepped right in front of her and then brought the gun up to her head and cocked it.
Olivia closed her eyes and waited, hoping it would be quick and there would be no pain. Moments passed, and when nothing happened she opened her eyes. Fitz was still standing in front of her but his gun was back in his holster.
"Go."
"What?"
"You win, you're pregnant with my child, I can't hurt you, you get to walk away scot free."
She was too staggered, too dumbfounded to move.
"Go," he said again.
She stood up, wiping the tears from her face.
"You were never going to do it were you?"
Fitz didn't respond to her, he walked over to her father and checked his pulse, he'd been unconscious for some time but he was still alive, then he turned back to Olivia who was still standing in the same spot.
"You need to leave Olivia, go through the left door behind your father's desk, take the exit downstairs and pray to god none of the deltas see you."
She walked over to the door, looking over to her father one last time and then to Fitz, there was so much left unsaid between, even still, she disappeared through the door.
Fitz watched Olivia disappear through the exit, not looking back. He pulled out the flask of gasoline from his pocket and poured it on the carpet, he pulled out his lighter and lit the room on fire then walked over to the door. He stopped to watch the flames spread around the room and once Eli was surrounded by fire and he could smell the burning flesh of his associates, he left and locked the door behind him.
A/N- Oh my gee. This was such a hard chapter for me because I kept changing my mind about the direction I wanted to go in and just how dark I wanted it to be. Hopefully, you guys like it and stick around to see what's coming up next. Let me know your thoughts below.