The next day, on Christmas eve, Olivia left early in the morning to her Atelier. She had promised Fitz she only intended to stay for 6 hours, which would put her back at the house by 2pm, with enough time in the evening to wrap Lily's toys under with tree with him.

After all her assistants left and she was closing up shop, Carter appeared.

"Leave me alone Carter, we're done."

"What do you mean 'we're done'?"

"I mean, we are done, whatever it is that I needed you to do, don't bother. It was a mistake coming to you for help."

"Olivia-"

She dropped the key for her atelier in her bag and headed to her car. She looked over and saw one of her guards whispering something in his earpiece and instantly got nervous.

"Don't call my name."

"You don't even love him, you told me so yourself."

"I lied, and you were stupid enough to believe it. I don't really love the man I have a child with, but I love you, who I haven't seen in years." she rolled her eyes, "okay." she said sarcastically.

She opened the door on the driver's side.

"I love you Olivia, I've always loved you and still you treat me this way …"

"I don't care about your affection, showing up at the christmas party were my daughter was, where my man was, is not okay."

"You said she would be my daughter when we were together! I could adopt her."

"You're kidding me, I don't want you anywhere near my daughter, or me for that matter, stay away, I mean it."

"I love you, I-

Olivia stared in disbelief, "are not understanding what I'm saying. I lied, I don't love you! I never did. I was using you and now, you are of no use to me."

"I don't believe you, you're just saying that. Let me make it up to you, I'll go to Igor, I'll bring him your offer, I'll come through for you, I promise."

"Then go!"

She got in and strapped on her seatbelt then she pulled off. Once she was driving she took a deep breath and tried to clear her head. All her reasons for calling Carter didn't seem good enough anymore. Initially, she'd done it out of fear, after Fitz came home with a gunshot wound, albeit a small non lethal wound, but it made her realize she couldn't stand to sit by and do nothing, so she reached for the first person she could think of. Carter had always been an easy kill and so she knew how easy it would be to get her claws in him, what she forgot, was just hard it was to get rid of him.

She needed to come clean to Fitz, he was so understanding last night and she just couldn't lie to him anymore, she needed to tell him the whole truth and she hoped that he would find a way to forgive her, though she planned on waiting until after christmas, she couldn't ruin their first christmas.

She had a few errands to run, namely picking up Fitz's gift from the Rolex store and purchasing a gingerbread house so they could help Lily to build it on christmas morning.

As she was driving to and from stores, her cell rang, it was Jordanne, her friend from mommy and me class.

"Hi Jordanne, how are you?"

"Hey stranger, how's the christmas shopping going?"

Though they'd all been cleared by her guards, she'd been so busy that they never really saw each other, other than at mommy and me class, and Fitz also disliked Jordanne for 'the spa incident', so she thought it was simply more prudent to keep her away when she could but she didn't want to alienate her completely, she liked having friends.

"Yeah, I'm just picking up the last few things then heading home."

"So, I was thinking that Sam could come over for a playdate with Lily the day after christmas."

"Ooh, I'm not going to be home the day after christmas, so Lily's going to be home with her father."

"Okay, so another day then?"

"Yeah, I'll be home on New Years, if your not busy that day then-"

"Okay, yeah, I'm not doing anything so that's perfect."

"Okay, great, it's a date then. Merry Christmas by the way."

"Merry Christmas." Olivia said before hanging up.

She reached home just before 3pm and grabbed all her bags and rushed inside. She dropped them all by the door and walked over to Fitz and Lily by the sofa were they were watching tv. Zeus was lying lazily on the floor. She sat beside Fitz and kissed him on the lips, then she kissed Lily on the forehead.

"So sorry, I'm late, I had to stop and get your gifts, and a gingerbread house and some pajamas for us to match, so we can celebrate our first christmas in style and it's the first time we're celebrating my birthday together as well."

Fitz smiled, "yes, ready to be 27 years old?'"

"Yes," she said with a smile of her own. "A little older, and I wish I could say a little wiser but I'm not."

Fitz smiled, "I'm not wiser either, it's alright."

They sat in the floor in front of the couch for hours wrapping Lily's presents and watching 'It's a wonderful life'.

Later in the night, Olivia put all of Fitz's gifts under the tree while he showered. She had washed and dried the pajamas and changed Lily into her suit before she put her down for bed.

When Fitz came out of the shower, she was standing in the bathroom, holding up his pajama set.

"The one and only reason I'm wearing this ugly shit because it's Lily's first christmas, next year, you can't pull this shit on me."

She smiled and jumped up excitedly, "deal." she watched as he dried off and then put on the pajamas she bought him.

It was almost 11, when they got in bed together and cuddled.

Fitz kissed her on the shoulder.

"Am I gonna get lucky tonight?" he asked.

"Yesterday wasn't enough for you?" she asked.

"Of course not."

"Well, you used up about 1 week's worth of sex in one day, that's your fault, I'm not going to spoil you, no sex tonight."

Fitz mouth fell open into a frown.

"You are so dramatic?"

"Dramatic? I was in a public bathroom, on the floor, cumming and squirting all over myself?"

"You should be on your knees thanking me for that, that sounds like a dream."

Olivia opened her mouth in awe and then her lips curved into a smile.

"Well, I'm not, and no sex tonight."

Fitz shook his head, "the funny thing is that I know your pussy is so wet right now, you are such a fucking bullshitter, you love this and you keep pretending you don't. If you were so mad about it, you could've taken the balls out but no, you sat there cumming and cumming…" he leaned over and nibbled on her ear, "and cumming."

Olivia smiled and bit her lip.

"My vagina is dry as a scone. You're little deep voice, sexy talk routine won't work on me."

Fitz sucked on his middle finger and then turned Olivia over on her stomach and pulled her pajama pants over her ass and then he slid one finger inside her. She was so wet that he had to lick his finger after he pulled it out, just to get rid of the access fluid running down his finger.

He shook his head and shoved his finger back in.

"Mmmm…." she moaned as she wrapped her arm around his neck.

Fitz thrusted his finger and forth.

"Mmm? Are you enjoying this?" he asked sarcastically. "I thought your were dry? I thought you didn't wanna have sex?"

"No…." she bit his lip, "...I hate it."

"Then why are you so wet?" he asked as he moved his fingers faster.

"Mmmmm….baby….I hate it….don't stop," she moaned as she closed her eyes.

Fitz smiled and pulled out his fingers.

"This little game is over, I wanna fuck."

"Oh yes?…and why should I let you fuck me?"

"Because you love it."

He climbed on top of her and pulled down his pajama pants. Olivia pulled him between her open legs and wrapped them around him.

"Oh god… you are like putty in my fucking hands," Fitz groaned absently.

Olivia let him go, "what?"

"I mean…"

"Oh, I'm like putty? Okay well let's see you suck your own cock, mr. mastermind."

"I was kidding," Fitz said, he leaned down and kissed her shoulder, "come on baby."

Olivia turned and laid on her stomach and fluffed the pillow under head.

"I love you Fitz, goodnight," she sang.

Fitz laid staring at her, she'd become just as sex craved as him and whatever resolve she'd found to turn him down, he didn't think would last very long, all he had to do was wait.

He spooned her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her against his chest, ensuring that she would feel his erection pressed against her back.

The next morning, she woke early, before Fitz and Lily and went down to the kitchen to get breakfast started. As she made eggs, waffles and bacon for herself and Fitz, she pureed apples and pears for Lily. She liked Lily's food to be homemade, especially with her transitioning from breastmilk to include fruits and vegetables in her diet, luckily whenever she wasn't home, she had a chef and nannies to take over because it was very time consuming.

After she finished breakfast, she plated everything on a large tray and brought it up to her bedroom.

When she walked in she expected to find both Fitz and Lily asleep but they were up.

"Aww," she pouted as she walked to the bed, "I wanted you to be asleep when I brought up breakfast, I had a whole plan for you to wake up to breakfast and now that plan is ruined."

She placed the tray on the bed.

"Happy birthday Livie," he said with a smile.

Her pout curved into a smile, "thank you."

Fitz leaned up and pulled her in by the cheek and kissed her lips, "Lily and I have a little something for you."

Olivia clapped her hands excitedly, "it is my gift?"

"No, it's not a gift...per se...actually….it's not a gift at all."

Fitz stretched out his hand and helped her climb on the bed. She sat in between his legs and took Lily from his lap and kissed her cheek.

"Merry Christmas Rose bud," she said to Lily.

Fitz smiled at the unsuspecting Olivia and leaned over to the nightstand and took out the small black velvet box, opened it and pulled out the 18 karat, white diamond ring. No frills or embellishments, just a large princess cut diamond, floating atop of platinum band.

Olivia froze when she saw it because it was the very, very, last thing she expected from Fitz. The only thing he'd ever mentioned about marriage, the very few times it came up in conversation, was just how much he didn't care for it.

"I know what you're thinking," Fitz said, "all I've ever talk about was how much I hated marriage and you're right, but, I also used to hate the idea of having children and then you gave me Lily and everything changed and now I just want you to know how committed I am to you, I never thought I could love anyone as much as I love you, I never thought I was personally capable of that, but here I am, loving you, and asking you to marry me."

Olivia's eyes welled up with water, "are you sure?"

"Yes."

She sniffled and wiped her eyes, "I mean...are you sure after everything that's happened?"

"That's what made me so sure."

Olivia was torn about whether or not to tell him about Carter, it would ruin her birthday and their first christmas together if she did but she couldn't accept his proposal while holding it in.

"Liv?" Fitz said, wondering why she'd gone silent.

"Yes."

"Are you alright?"

"No- I have to tell you something, it's about Carter, he didn't just pop up, I asked him to come."

"You asked him to come where?" Fitz asked.

"To L.A, I've been seeing him-"

"You've been cheating on me?"

"No, no, no," she said quickly, "I've never slept with him. I would never cheat on you, ever."

Lily cooed in her arms and chewed on her fingers.

"I-I-" she stammered. "-I invited him the morning after you got shot. I was so worried that you got involved in this because of me and- then you got hurt that night and I just...I don't know...I panicked and I needed to do something...anything...so I called him and I asked him to meet me."

"Why did you call him?"

"Because I know he could get in touch with Igor and...I wanted to make a deal?"

"What deal?"

"I was going to give him some of the tapes I had of the president and in return he would agree to leave me alone."

"So what? You didn't trust me to take care of this? And why would you give over blackmail material on the president to a Russian criminal?"

"No- I was only going to give them embarrassing material, nothing they could really use to force him to do anything, they'd just feel good having it and I do trust you Fitz but you don't understand, you and Lily are all I have, all it takes is one mistake and I could lose you, or her, or I could lose both of you, I didn't do it because I didn't trust you, I just thought that if I made this deal with Igor and got him to stand down then-"

"-I could catch him by surprise." Fitz finished for her.

"Yes."

Lily bounced up and down in Olivia's hands, oblivious to the serious conversation her parents were having.

"And what about Carter, what did you tell him to make him agree to do this?"

She hesitated, "I told him I loved him, I told him that if he helped me I'd leave you and I'd be with him."

"What did you do with him? You seduced him?"

"Yes," she admitted with low eyes, ashamed.

"How many times did you kiss him?" his voice was unreadable and even, she hated when he did that because she could never gauge how angry he was.

"More than once."

"How many times?"

"I don't know."

"So, if you can't tell me how many times you kissed him then that means you've kissed him alot and if you were kissing him alot and telling him you loved him then that means that you were practically in a relationship with him. So you were either cheating on me, or we were in an open relationship and we could kiss and fuck whomever we wanted and I just didn't know that? It's one or the other. If you were cheating on me, then I'm leaving you, and if we're in an open relationship, then I'm gonna start fucking other people. Which one is it?"

"It wasn't real."

"Is this real?"

She sucked in air and wiped her eyes, "of course it is, I love you so much and I was just trying to help. Everything that's happening, is all my doing, I can't just sit by and do nothing, I had to help and that's the only way I know how and but I know how this must make you feel, if you need time-"

"-I'm not your father, I don't require that you sell yourself for my benefit. What the fuck were you thinking?"

She turned her face away and wipes her eyes. Fitz pulled her face back to him.

"Look at me Olivia."

She looked up at him.

"I've worked so hard to trust you and I thought we were at a good place but all you've showed me is that I'm still blind to all your lies and deceit, just like last time."

"It's not like the last time, I'm on your side, it will never be like the last time."

"THEN STOP LYING TO ME!" He yelled angrily, only to regret it immediately.

Lily frowned but didn't cry, Fitz realized that and ran his hand against her hair, calming her.

He took a deep breath and exhaled. "Don't lie to me Olivia, if you wanna plot and plan, then let's do it together, don't go off on your own and do shit like this and then expect me not to feel like a fucking idiot when you're done."

"You're right, I should've told you, I'm sorry but you weren't telling me anything-"

"-Because you told me you wanted normal, I didn't tell you anything because I wanted you get up and go to work and go about your day and take care of our daughter without worrying about what Igor's next fucking plan is, I thought that's what you wanted and if you really wanted to know Olivia," he paused and sighed, "just fucking tell me," he ended in a plea.

She nodded and wiped her eyes.

"Where is Carter now? I know he was at your atelier yesterday."

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"You told me you wanted to handle it, I was letting you handle it."

"I told him to leave me alone, after the christmas party I was so worried you'd find out that I abandoned whatever plan I had and told him to stay away from me. Yesterday, he showed up and told me he loved me. I told him that I never loved him and that I was lying but he didn't care, he said he knew that I loved him and he wanted to prove to me that he loved me so he's gone to bring my offer to Igor."

Fitz chuckled sardonically, "when you've got somebody whipped, you've have got them whipped, I'll give you that."

She heard when he closed the ring box and then watched him open the nightstand drawer and drop the box inside. Another stream of tears rolled down her face. She attempted to get up but Fitz held onto her hands. He closed his eyes for the shortest moment, hoping he was making the right decision.

"All this aside, you didn't answer my question."

"What question?"

"I did ask you to marry me."

He took her ring finger and slipped the diamond ring on.

She covered her mouth as more tears streamed down her cheeks.

"I don't deserve this."

"If everyone got what they deserved, we'd all be dead, me especially."

She wiped her face with her palm.

"And I'm not asking you to be a saint," he continued, "I just want us to be partners, if we're plotting, I want us to do it together, if we're scheming, I want us to do it together."

He lifted her chin up to him.

"I don't care what we're doing, as long as it's together. I'll do anything you protect you and Lily, no matter how cruel, not matter how inhuman. I can't be upset with you for doing the same."

"You forgive me?"

He drew in a deep breath, "Yes. I know in your own way, you did this for me and Lily but next time, please, let's find another way, one that doesn't involve any other man putting their hands on you, because as it stands I have no choice but to cut Carter's fucking lips off, probably his hands too, for touching you."

Olivia smiled as another tear drop came.

"I'm dead serious and look, we're not gonna let this ruin our Christmas and your birthday, dry your eyes.

She sat Lily on the bed and kissed Fitz on the lips and then hugged him tightly.

"You can do whatever you want to him, and I promise, I'll never do anything behind your back again. I love you so much, I-"

Suddenly, they both heard a crash and looked over to Lily. The second, she got a free moment, she dived for the whipped cream on top of the waffle.

"Oh my god, Lily!"

Olivia picked her up from the tray and took the cloth napkin and wiped the whipped cream from her face. Some of the hot chocolate that Olivia made had spilled.

"Come here peanut," Fitz said as he took Lily from Olivia. "Mommy and daddy were conversing, but we're done now, you've got all our attention now."

Lily smiled and sucked whipped cream from her fingers.

"She must be hungry," Olivia said as she lifted her pajama shirt and then wiped her red, wet, swollen eyes, she was smiling this time. After she wiped her face, she took Lily and nursed her on her breast. Lily drank hungrily.

Fitz stared at her breasts.

"The bright side of this is that I'll probably be eligible for makeup sex for the next two months," Fitz said casually. "Wherever. Whenever. I don't wanna hear shit."

Olivia blushed and shook her head then she looked at the ring on her finger. She was still shocked that he proposed, even more shocked that he didn't withdraw his proposal after her confession about Carter.

"It huge, this has to be like 17 or 18 carats-"

"18."

"It's beautiful."

He gave her a small smile and reached across the bed and took a piece of the waffle and then bit into it.

"Mmmm mm m, did you make this from scratch?"

"I did."

He took another piece.

"So, now that you've spilled your guts, did I cut your head off and drink the blood from your veins?

She blushed from embarrassment. "No, but you will do it to Carter."

"Damn fucking straight, don't even say his name."

Olivia held up her palm, "I won't, ever again."

They sat eating until Lily finished nursing and then Olivia fed with her apples and pears

and then they headed downstair to the christmas tree.

"I think Lily should open her gifts first," Olivia said as she sat under the large tree.

"Alright." Fitz searched through the heap of gifts and pulled out a few that were Lily's and placed on infront of her.

"Come on peanut, open it."

Lily giggled and sat tapping the box in between her legs as if it were a drum.

Fitz chuckled, "I figured."

He took the wrapping paper from the gift and unboxed the toy and handed it to Lily. Olivia took pictures of Lily and Fitz as they opened her gifts and then after a few gifts, Fitz handed Olivia a shopping bag and thus, they began exchanging gifts.

Lily fell asleep after tiring from playing with her new toys close to noon. Fitz brought her to her nursery, instead of Olivia's bedroom. He took the monitor back with him and when he walked back to Olivia's room, she was sitting on the edge of her bed, staring at the ring on her finger.

"Lily is knocked the fuck out," he said, breaking her train of thought as he walked over towards her.

"You brought her to her nursery," Olivia said, "will my vagina survive whatever you have planned for me?"

Fitz didn't answer.

"What are you thinking about?"

"I just want to be sure that you still want this, I know I caught you off guard with everything that I told you and I understand if you changed your mind."

"Have you ever know me to do something that I don't want to do?"

"No, you're pretty stubborn."

"I was once tortured for 3 whole days Olivia, and they only wanted to know my name, not any state secrets, just my name and I wouldn't tell them."

Olivia covered her mouth and laughed and then leaned down and kissed him.

"I love you so much."

Fitz smiled, "I love you too, and look, we could get married in 10 months or we could get married in 10 years, it doesn't really matter to me, I just want you to know that were in the this together okay?"

She smiled and kissed him again, "okay."

"Okay."

"I'm so happy."

"Not as happy as I'm about to be."

Fitz pulled off his shirt.

She chuckled, "what are you going to do to me?"

Fitz didn't respond as dropped his pajama bottoms to the ground and then climbed on the bed.

"Come on," he called.

Olivia stood at the edge of the bed and slowly pulled off her pajama top. She then pulled off her pajama bottoms and panties and then climbed on the bed and kneeled in between his legs.

She looked up at him before she began.

"Are you okay?"

He seemed relaxed to her as he nodded.

She spat on the tip of his penis and massaged him up and down with her hands before she took him in her mouth, sucking hard.

"WAAAHHH!" Fitz yelped.

Olivia looked up and smile and then bopped her head back down and kept sucking. She sucked him so hard that her jaws felt numb when she was done and then she let him cum on her stomach.

Before he could move, she got up, turned around and eased herself down on him, reverse cowgirl style.

Fitz sucked in air through his teeth, "oh shit baby, that's tight, be gently with me," he breathed out.

Olivia smiled as she steadied herself.

"Poke your ass out for me."

She arched her back.

Fitz slapped her ass, harder than he'd ever done before, it stung.

"Mmmmm," she moaned, biting her lips.

He spread open her cheeks as she rode him. As soon as he felt his orgasm burgeoning, he flipped her over on all fours, widened her legs and entered her again, pumping into her jaggedly and unevenly.

"Mmmm," Olivia moaned wildly, "cum in me baby, I'm yours now, cum in me."

Fitz reached around and pressed his fingers against her clit and immediately felt her tightening around him.

"Fuck….." Fitz groaned as they both came. "Jesus christ."

He pulled out and dropped on the bed beside her. He penis began spasming again, which it had been doing lately after sex sometimes.

He pulled Olivia up in front on him and then he spread her legs apart. He knelt between her legs and threw one of her legs over his shoulder and then he enter her. He stroked her deep and slow with punctuated thrusts.

"Fitz…" she pressed her hands against his stomach and eased herself off of his penis. "I'm-" she took a deep breath, "I need a second to catch my breath."

"What about what I need?" he asked, slowly entering her again as he pinned her hands to her side.

"Mmmm...I'm gonna-" she bit her lip but didn't finish her sentence when she felt liquid gush out of her.

"Good girl," Fitz whispered, "come on baby, more."

Olivia closed her eyes. More fluid came running down.

Half of her, wanted to jump out of her skin, it felt so good but so overwhelming, but the other half wanted to stay and take the slow, deep stroking he was driving into her gut.

She stayed and took everything he gave her until she came, screaming and clawing into his back, for which she was sorry when she realized she'd scratched him.

After the high had worn down, she rolled over to him and laid her head on his chest, content to get some rest until Lily woke from her nap.

Later in the evening, a little after 7, they pulled into Fitz's old house where Lucky and his family had been staying since he was threatened.

Fitz had moved out all his cars, clothes and other personal belongings and left the house and furniture for Lucky.

Fitz parked beside his garage and then hopped out and took Lily in her carseat from the back, she had fallen asleep during the drive over. Olivia took her Lily's diaper bag and her purse and then followed Fitz to the door and rang the bell.

Lucky's mother Esmeralda answered the door with a bright smile.

"Felix Navidad," she said cheerfully.

"Merry Christmas," Olivia returned,"thank you for inviting us over." Olivia handed her a gift bag with wine and a new purse, she'd just taken a brand new one from her closet because Fitz had only told her they were going over for dinner the day before christmas and she didn't have time to actually buy a gift.

"Of course."

Esmeralda stepped aside and allowed them in and then looked over at Lily in her carseat.

"Oh she's so precious, when did she fall asleep?" Esme asked.

"On the ride over."

"Oh no, hopefully she wakes up soon."

Olivia pulled off her coat and hung it on the rack and took Lily so Fitz could do the same then they headed to the living room for dinner.

Everyone was already seated, some on the couch, some on chairs they'd brought from the dining room.

"Fitz, Liv, feliz navidad," Lucky said with a smile.

"Merry Christmas," Olivia returned with a smile.

The rest of Lucky's family greeted them both as they took a seat on the chairs beside the couch.

"Wow," Carmen said as she walked out from the dining room, "looks who's here? You're in my turf now so if I wanted to kick you out, I could but it's christmas so I'm gonna let you live."

Olivia looked to Fitz and smiled, Fitz smile too.

"Your turf?" she asked.

"Yes, this is Lucky's house, he bought it."

"Is that what Lucky told you?" Olivia asked as she looked to Lucky who pretended to not hear the conversation.

Olivia cleared her throat for Lucky to hear.

"Alright fine, it's Fitz's house, okay," Lucky admitted.

Olivia turned back to Carmen and smiled.

Esme walked in, "dinner's ready so everybody grab your plate in the kitchen and then we can watch the football game."

As Olivia stood and removed her hand from under her jacket, her diamond flashed in the light and caught the attention of Esme.

"Olivia what's that?"

"What?"

"On your finger?"

"Oh," Olivia said as she blushed, "ummm…" she looked to Fitz.

"Did he propose?" Esme asked.

"Yes."

Esme screamed excitedly and ran over to Olivia and hugged her , "congratulations, I'm so happy for you." after she hugged Olivia she took her hand to look at the ring.

"Ay Dios Mio, beautiful, it's so big."

"Thank you, I love it so much."

Lucky walked over to Fitz and pat him on the back, "you son of a bitch, never thought I'd see the day. Are you even he same man?"

Fitz stood up and wrapped his arm around her waist and kissed her temple, "she's the only woman for me," he said with a smile.

"By the way, did Fitz get you a gift?" Lucky asked, "cause he didn't get me anything and he's never given me a gift, not for birthday or christmas."

"It's a grown man giving another grown man a gift, it's weird," Fitz said, chiming in.

"Mind your business," Lucky said to Fitz, "what did he get you?"

Olivia smiled, "He got me the entire Louis Vuitton spring collection, an Hermes Birkin snakeskin bag and diamond earrings."

"Wow," Lucky said shaking his head, "and what did you get him?"

"A black diamond rolex and-"

"That's enough, I don't wanna hear anymore," Lucky said.

Olivia chuckled and shook her head.

"Come on, everyone, let's eat."

They all went to the kitchen and took turns fixing their plates then headed back to the living room to eat.

After dinner, to Olivia's surprise, Esme walked out of the kitchen with a birthday cake with lit candles on top.

"What?" Olivia said as she smiled.

"Fitz told us it was your birthday today and had this cake delivered for you yesterday. So come on, we're gonna sing you 'happy birthday' and you can make a wish."

They sang her a happy birthday and she blew out her candles and then she kissed Fitz and thanked him. He kept surprising her, from being a better father to Lily than she ever dreamed to being a better partner to her than she'd ever imagined.

She didn't get cake in her system before Lucky and his cousin began encouraging her to do shots.

"Come on, one birthday shot," Lucky said.

"No, I breastfeed, I can't."

"Lily's a big kid, she's good."

Olivia looked to Fitz, "tell him I can't."

"One shot won't kill you, she has milk in the fridge, she can drink that or formula."

"You're not helping Fitz," Olivia scolded.

He chuckled and shook his head.

Olivia thought to herself for a moment and then gave in, "fine, one shot, it should only take a few hours to leave my system."

"Yesss," Lucky said as he poured the tequila in a shot glass and passed it to Olivia.

She took a deep breath and downed the shot in one gulp. It burned her throat like fire. After 5 minutes, she felt good enough to take another shot and then 5 minutes after her second shot, she took a third one and even though she knew she shouldn't take a fourth, she did.

"GOALLLLLL!" Lucky and his cousins screamed when Real Madrid scored a goal against Manchester United.

Lily woke up from her sleep, frightened and screaming at the loud, harsh sound. Fitz kneeled in front of her carseat and slid her pacifier in her mouth and rocked her back to sleep.

Olivia rushed over in her drunk state, "is she alright?"

"Yeah," Fitz whispered, "she's tired, she's going back to sleep."

After a few minutes of Lily was fast asleep once again.

"She's out like a light," Fitz said, he took her carseat and brought it up to his bedroom which was off limits to Lucky and his family, so she could have quiet as she slept. Olivia stumbled behind him, holding on to the back of his shirt as she followed him up the steps and to his bedroom. Once Fitz laid Lily's carseat down, Olivia plopped down on the bed.

Fitz sat beside her and laid her head in his lap.

"You need some water?" he asked.

She shook her head and closed her eyes, trying to sleep.

After a few minutes of laying down, she jumped up and bolted to the bathroom when she felt the contents of her stomach coming back up.

Fitz followed behind her as she ran to the bathroom then kneeled in front of the toilet and vomited. He held her hair back and rubbed her back.

"This is what happens when you don't drink for almost two years and then you take four shots back to back."

Olivia started crying, "I'm such a bad mum."

"No, you're not," Fitz said smiling, he'd never seen her drunk.

"No, I am. I've been working so much, I barely get to spend time with her even though she's with me all day and now I can't ever breastfeed again."

She threw up some more.

Fitz tapped her back, "let it out, you can breastfeed, once it's out of your system."

"I'm sorry Lily," she mumbled, crying.

"Stop being so dramatic," he teased.

"It's not funny!"

She wiped her mouth and flushed the toilet and then laid flat on the ground.

"Do you want some water now?"

"Mmhmm."

He went to the kitchen for water and when he returned Olivia was sitting on the bathroom counter.

He walked over and handed her the opened bottle of water.

"Drink."

"No."

"Just a little…"

"Okay."

Fitz tipped her head back and poured water in her mouth and then closed her mouth.

"Gargle."

She gargled.

"Alright now spit."

She leaned over the sink and spat it out then she grabbed her face and pulled him in for a kiss but Fitz stopped her.

"There's no way I'm kissing you with your vomit breath," he said, laughing.

Olivia pouted, "please, I wanna have sex," she mumbled.

"You're very drunk."

"No, I'm not, I'm- I'm...horny."

"Yes but you're still drunk."

"I am?"

"Yes."

She chuckled, "no, I'm not. I'd know if I were drunk." she slurred her words slightly as she wrapped her hands around his neck and pulled him into a rough, tight, hug.

"I love you so much."

"Is that so?" he said in jest.

"Yes, so much, you're so beautiful, I don't deserve you. I'm sorry."

"Okay, drunkie."

Olivia chuckled.

"Come on, let's go, let's get home."

She stumbled off the counter and Fitz held her up as she walked.

"Can we have sex when we get home?" she asked.

"Maybe….if you behave yourself on the drive home."

At the rate she was going, she would be passed out by the time they got to the house.

"Okay daddy."

He went to the bedroom and took Lily then they headed downstairs together to say goodbye.

"Are you gonna take Olivia's cake?" Esme asked.

"No, she's not gonna eat it...I'll see you guys later, she's really drunk I need to take her home.

By the time Fitz drove home and laid Lily in her crib and then washed his face and changed his clothes, Olivia was passed out on the bed.

In the morning, Fitz spoke with a group of his mercenaries about how exactly they would proceed to deal with Carter. While he had a measured response to Olivia,

because he loved her so much and because he was trying to be mindful of his anger and how he was in the past, he was hurt to know that while he was planning on

proposing to her, even when he didn't actually like the idea of marriage, she was trying to seduce Carter but her reasons helped him understand and mostly forgive her,

even though it still lingered in his mind. Carter wouldn't be afford that courtesy. Regardless of whether Olivia had initiated the 'relationship' Carter was going to have to

pay the price. He thought about killing him, but he'd realized that his bloodlust had been getting out of control in recent months as he tangled with Igor and he was

trying to control himself but as it stood, he wasn't sure he could.

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