A/N- WARNING - About halfway through this chapter, there is a retelling about a sexual assault. It is not detailed but this is a trigger warning. I will put another warning before the paragraph below.
The next morning, Olivia woke up on her bed, at their home in L.A. They'd landed at LAX, early the following morning and after a quick drive back to the house, they were home by 3am. Lily slept through the entire flight and drive to the house, as did Olivia.
She had a lot to do: purchase Fitz a wedding band, meet with her team for brunch, pick all the wedding dresses she had stored at a storage facility and hope the one she had in mind to wear still fit her, and a few other things. Now that she was back in L.A, she couldn't ignore her sister for long and though she was nervous, she was hoping to get that out of the way within the first few days, she needed to do it while Fitz was there so that at least he could help break the ice, since he'd interacted with her before.
She got up and showered and brushed her teeth before Fitz and Lily woke. By the time she was finished, Sonia arrived at the house so she got dressed and grabbed her gift for Sonia and went downstairs to meet her.
When she descended the steps, Sonia practically broke into a run to meet her at the bottom of the steps and hugged her.
"I'm so happy you're alright." She hugged her a little too tightly, Olivia winced, even though she was being a hypocrite because when Fitz did it during sex, she had no problems with it.
"Aww...still a little tender," She said, "the ribs."
Sonia let her go quickly. "Of course." She smiled. "You look strong and I can barely see any marks on your face or neck."
"I know, I've been healing pretty quickly, which I'm thankful for,"
"Is my sweet girl still sleeping?" Sonia asked.
"Yeah, she's really tired, we came back early this morning."
Sonia smiled again, "I'm so happy you're okay, I've been praying for you, hoping you would be okay, especially after what happened a the hospital."
"Yeah, the whole twin sister thing right? I'm still processing that."
"I can't believe you didn't know."
"Yeah my mum and dad never told me, they separated when I was really young but enough about that." She said with a sigh. "What I actually really want to tell you is that me and Fitz are probably getting married by the end of this week. I'd love it if you came."
"Well, congratulations and I'd love to come. Why did you move it up?"
"Fitz is going back to the military and so we decided to tie the knot before he left."
"Where is it going to be?"
"I'm not sure as yet but it's going to be at the house, there won't be a lot of people, maybe not even 10 people, it's going to be really small."
"Okay, I'll save the date for whichever date it might be."
Olivia smiled, "Thank you and umm thank you so much for what you did after everything happened. Fitz told me you were the one that even realized something was wrong in the first place."
"No, need to thank me. I'm just glad your alright."
"Well, Fitz and I have a gift for you."
Olivia pulled the check out of her pocket and handed it to Sonia. Sonia took the check and looked at it with wide eyes as her mouth fell open.
"This is twenty thousand dollars, what?"
Olivia smiled, "it's just a gift, from us to you. You were so amazing helpful, throughout everything, I just wanted to thank you."
"Thank you...Olivia...I don't know what to say..I'm in shock my hand is trembling right now."
Fitz walked down the steps with Lily rubbing her eyes and yawning.
"Oh my god Olivia, my dick is so hard."
Sonia gasped when she saw him, erection and wet spot on his boxers.
"Oh shit," He saw both Olivia and Sonia. He turned and walked back up the steps.
"Sorry Sonia," He called out over his shoulders.
Olivia looked over to Sonia, embarrassed. "I'm sorry, he has no decency, he's so uncouth." She ran back up the stairs to him and found him in the bedroom.
"You are so embarrassing."
"I didn't know she was there."
Olivia rolled her eyes. "Okay well, I have a lot of errands to run so you have Lily 'till at least the afternoon. You are in charge of inviting a guests to the wedding."
Olivia walked over and kissed Lily on the cheek. "Good morning."
Fitz looked down. "What am I gonna do about this?"
"You have hands, figure it out and don't do it around my baby."
Fitz smiled.
"I'm gonna invite your sister over tonight, you guys can talk, I'll have the chef cook us some dinner."
"Please don't...I have anxiety about this whole thing and I just need maybe an extra day before we even attempt to tackle that."
"I don't know what you're scared of but okay.."
Olivia took a deep breath.
"Okay fine. Do it, I'm just, nervous. What is it doesn't work out?"
"Then it doesn't work out, better to know now than to drag it on."
She nodded. "You're right, it's not that big of a deal, if we don't get along then it'll just be like it was before, I'll live my life as if I didn't know I had a sister."
"Yep."
She reached up and kissed him softly on the lips.
"I love you, I'll be back in a few hours."
"I love you too."
Se smirked and grabbed his crotch and squeezed lightly before she rab out the room. On her way out, she heard him howl out but didn't look back.
First she stopped at the storage facility and collected her dresses, then she met up with her team for brunch and then she went shopping on Rodeo drive for a wedding band for Fitz. She'd already measured his finger and had been looking since the proposal, she already knew what she had in mind, she just needed to buy it. She went to the Cartier store on Rodeo Drive and picked him up a simple platinum band. She knew if she got anything more extravagant than that, Fitz wouldn't like it.
When she was finished, it was almost 2pm. The entire morning as she drove around, she had delta bodyguards, following her around. There were three of them that she could see and she was sure there were more than we invisible to her. They dressed like law enforcement and their guns were visible. This time though, she couldn't complain, not after what she went through less than a month ago.
She arrived at the house, a little after 3pm. Sonia was doing Lily's laundry, Linda arrived a little later and was doing light house chores, Greg was prepping all his ingredients for dinner later on at 6.
It took her a few trips to carry all 15 wedding dresses up to her closet. Fitz and Lily were fast asleep and she didn't want to wake him to help her.
After she carried all the dresses to her bedroom, she took his wedding band and hid it among her jewelry and then she called Sonia to help her sort through the wedding dresses and try the roughly five dresses she had in mind for the wedding. There was one of them that she really loved, one that was her dream dress, she waited last to try that one and it fit her perfectly. She was ecstatic and took it off immediately and begged Sonia to drop it off to get dry cleaned. When Sonia left with the dress, she dragged the rest of her dresses to her fabric room and left them there for the time being.
This wasn't the way she imagined her wedding. There was supposed to be a lot more planning and effort that went into it but as is it stood, she was happy it was going to happen sooner rather than later, even if she didn't have a wedding planner. Or maybe she could? She decided to look it up. She grabbed her laptop from her suitcase in the bedroom and began googling well-known wedding planners. She got a few numbers and sat on the couch as she called them.
The first number she dialed was that of a famous planner, who'd worked with many celebrities, she was a little hesitant to go for a person like that but she thought that they would probably have the means to plan a wedding, as small as it might be, on such a short notice. She invited her team, she'd grown close to them, that alone was already 10 people, (she didn't invite the interns) and she would invite Jordanne and her family and Lucky and mom and brother and sister and the staff in the house would be invited as well, that was 20 people, easily.
Olivia sat on the couch, waiting for the person she dialed to pick up. After a few seconds, his assistant picked up. She explained to the assistant her situation, vaguely and the assistant told her he'd have the wedding planner call her back in a few minutes.
Almost 15 minutes later, the planner called her.
"Hello?" Olivia said.
Her loud ringtone woke Fitz.
"Yes, Francis, it's Olivia Pope...yes...yes...my issue is that the wedding is in 4 days, it'll only be roughly 20-23 people, I wanted to have the ceremony in the garden in my home, it's quite big….yes, well, I do understand that it's very short notice-"
Fitz stood from the bed and walked over to Olivia and laid in between her open legs with his face planted in her crotch.
"-it would be very simple, sort of rustic aesthetic, I want a lot of flowers, white roses, white everything."
Fitz pulled up her dress and kissed her inner thigh.
Olivia shuffled a bit but otherwise ignored him.
"..I you are unable to accomplish in the allotted amount then that's fine-"
Olivia rolled her eyes as she listened to him and could get a word in edgewise. Fitz opened her legs a little wider and pulled her underwear to the side.
"I will pay you twenty thousand dollars to plan me a spectacular, intimate, simple wedding, in 3 days-"
Fitz licked over her clit and began nibbling on her lips, barely before she gasped and grabbed into his hair and tore his face away. She needed to focus.
"Thank you, 10am tomorrow sounds wonderful…."
Fitz tore from her grasp and licked her again. She tried to push him away but he wouldn't budge this time.
"Oh..my..god." she moaned as she bit her lip and threw her head back. "My...ummm..…" she cleared her throat. "..oh my god...I have to call you baaack-" she hung up quickly.
She dropped the phone on the carpet and pulled up her dress to her waist and the pulled Fitz on top of her, while Fitz simultaneously pull her underneath him so they were square in line. She reached down and pushed his boxers down to his knees and she couldn't get his penis in her vagina quick enough. She had no idea where the sudden maddening hunger came from...maybe the slight foreplay or maybe his erection that she'd been thinking about all morning.
Once she managed to hold him and guide him inside her, she sighed in relief.
"Ohhhh...yes...deeper." she whimpered. "...come on baby."
She spat on her finger tips and reached down and massaged it up and down his length, so it was easier for him to go fully inside her. When she was satisfied with his...reach, she wrapped her legs around his waist and grabbed unto his ass as he began thrusting, to guide his movement to the tempto she wanted.
Fitz leaned down and licked her lips and then sucked on her bottom lips before he kissed her. He held onto the back of the couch with one hand and with the other he held the arm of the couch, to steady himself.
Within no time, she could feel her orgasm coming, she stopped him.
"Stop." she whimpered and pushed him off.
Fitz stopped and leaned up, he knew Olivia and so he waited for her to switch positions, he knew sometimes she like him to finish in her in the doggy position. She turned around and braced herself against the arm of the sofa and slapped her ass for him to see.
"Come on," she challenged.
He climbed up behind her and slowly entered her again and began pumping into her.
"Fuck…." he said as he sucked in air. "Fuck...you know…"
"I know..what?" She moaned as she spread her ass open with her hands.
He drew in a roughy breath. "I-can't-last."
"Mmmmm...what?"
"Fuckkkkk….uhhhhh." He groaned as he came.
"Yes...yes...yes-" she said before she too rupture in orgasm. Holding on to the couch as if she she'd fall off if she didn't.
They were stuck in the position for a moment, catching their breath. When Fitz shifted she stopped him.
"Careful...I know a big load when I feel it." She joked.
Fitz chuckled. He slowly pulled out and cupped his hand underneath her and waited for the cum to drop into his palm. He could have just fixed her underwear in place to stop them cum from dripping in the couch but he decided to do it the messy way.
"You are so suck a perv." She teased as she was bent over the couch, waiting for the cum to stop dripping out of her vagina and into Fitz's palm.
He planted a kiss on her ass.
"I like what I like."
When the cum stopped running he leaned up and walked to the bathroom and washed his hands and face them went back to Olivia in the bedroom.
"Okay so what do I hear about a wedding planner?" He asked, fixing his underpants.
"Yeah, I actually have to call him back. Once sec,"
She fixed her dress and underwear and grabbed her phone from the floor.
She called the wedding planner back and finished discussing the details of the meet up. He was set to meet her at the house at 10am the following morning. He was a lot more excited, now that she'd dangled $20,000 in front of him.
Once Olivia hung up she turned to Fitz.
"Just a planner to deal with all the annoying little things that go into a wedding while we have sex and hang out with our baby."
"I love you."
"Of course."
"So," he said with a sigh, "How was your first day with the deltas following you around?"
"Good, except for the fact that a man bumped me in rodeo drive and the almost pulled their guns on him. I'm not complaining though."
"Of course not." He said sarcastically.
"Anyways, please tell me you forgot to call my so-called sister."
"You know, saying "so-called" doesn't make her any less your sister."
Olivia rolled her eyes petulantly. " I know."
"And I didn't call her, I told one of the guys to bring her over for a meeting at 6."
"What's Greg cooking?" Olivia asked.
"Meat."
Olivia looked at him with scolding eyes.
"I'm serious, I just told him to cook meat."
Her countenance softened and she chuckled.
"Okay, I'm gonna go bathe and get ready, we only have like an hour and a half left. When did Lily go down?"
"Maybe an hour and a half ago, she was really tired. She played and played and then she ate some chicken and went to bed."
"Chicken? Fitz? Please tell me you didn't give my baby chicken."
"I was eating chicken and she wanted some. I cut into into ridiculously small pieces and squashed it out, she ate a lot of it. Olivia...she is 10 months old she can eat a little chicken, some 10 month old babies are eating burgers."
"Yes but not my 10 month old and anyways...I'm being a total hypocrite because I gave her some salmon I had for dinner the other day, that's salmon though, it's way softer and easier to eat than chicken."
Lily sat up in the bed and began fussing.
Fitz walked over to her and picked her up, he immediately smelled her diaper.
"Jesus Christ,"
Olivia chuckled.
"That one is all you."
"Her shit smells like my shit and I'm a grown man."
"She's your kid."
"You smell like a grown man Lily."
"Leave her alone." Olivia bellowed from across the room.
Erin stood in her hotel lobby, waiting for her driver to come pick her up. One of her guards told her she would be meeting Fitz and her sister for dinner. She was nervous and excited.
After waiting for almost 5 minutes, one of the hotel attendants walked in the lobby from outside.
"Ms. Erin, your driver is here."
"Um..thanks." Erin replied.
Her ribcage hurt but most of her bruises had healed. She walked quickly to car and got in the back seat. It was a 15 minute drive, the car pulled up to the gates of Olivia's house. It was larger than she'd imagined. After the drive down the very long driveway, the driver stop in front of the very large white mansion. When she stepped out of the car, she could hear music inside.
She walked up to the door, the driver walked ahead and opened the door for her. She stepped inside and the driver closed the door behind her.
She stood waiting for almost a minute before Fitz walked down the steps with Lily.
"Hey…Erin," he said. "Thanks for coming."
He moved so easily, it seemed like he was gliding and he was so handsome. It was weird for her because she knew he was her sister's fiance but she found him so attractive, not that she intended to do anything about it.
"Umm...thanks."
When he descended the staircase, he stopped in front of her. He was wearing navy blue chinos and a white t-shirt. She looked at Lily, Erin had remembered her name because she thought she was the most beautiful baby girl she'd ever seen.
"Hi Lily."
Lily leaned forward and it was almost as if she sniffed her and her smell was off so she leaned back and clung to Fitz.
"Olivia's gonna be down in a sec...matter of fact, why don't you just have a seat in the dining room, Greg should be coming out with the food shortly and I'll go get Olivia."
Erin nodded.
"The dining room is down the hall on your left, you won't miss it."
Fitz turned and headed back upstairs to find Olivia in her bathroom, sitting on the vanity counter.
She sighed.
"I'm not going down there."
"Because you don't want to?"
"Just tell her that something came up and I'm busy."
Fitz walked closer to Olivia and Lily stretched from his arms and grabbed unto Olivia. Olivia took her from Fitz and sat her in her lap.
"Fine. I'm gonna tell her you're up here shitting your guts out."
Olivia rolled her eyes. "It's not funny."
"I'm gonna tell her you've got shit running down your leg, you barely made it to the toilet."
Fitz turned and walked out of the room.
"Fine." She called from the bathroom.
She hopped off the counter with Lily and walked to Fitz in the bedroom.
"Fine." She said again, exasperated.
She followed behind Fitz down to the dining room.
"Why are we eating in the dining room again? It's way too intimate."
"You choose the dining room."
"Oh yeah….why did I do that?"
When they arrived at the entrance of the dining room, Olivia stopped.
"Come on," Fitz urged as he took Lily from her.
Olivia took a deep breath and then walked into the dining room. She saw Erin sitting by her place mat at the table. It was so surreal to see someone who looked like her mirror reflection. She was definitely her twin, she hadn't been convinced, up until now.
She walked quietly over to the seat on the opposite side of the table from Erin, Fitz sat in between them both, at the head of the table.
"Hi." Olivia said, softly.
"Hi." Erin responded.
Lily looked at Olivia and then she looked back at Erin and then back at Olivia and she clung to Fitz and screamed, hiding her face in his shirt.
"Lily, it's okay, that's just mommy's sister." Fitz said to Lily.
He ran his hands down Lily's hair, calming her.
Olivia didn't say anything and she looked everywhere except at Erin. it was awkward.
Greg walked into the dining room pushing a trolley with three plates and a 6 glasses of beverage. He served them caesar salads and a glass of water and a cocktail for each of them and then he left.
Fitz began eating his salad, as did Erin. after her first few bites she stopped eating momentarily.
"The salad is good." She said to Olivia.
"Yeah...thanks" Olivia sighed. "I'm sorry, I'm just still shocked, I never in a million year thought I had any family left, let alone a twin sister."
Erin chuckled. "Yeah, me too….I'm glad you're alright."
"I'm happy you're alright as well."
Olivia was quiet for a while.
"You never met my mum did you?"
Olivia realized she said her mom after the fact and decided to correct herself.
"Our mom..." Olivia said.
"No. Never. Eli told me she'd died during labor." Erin responded.
"Not true."
"When did Eli die?" Erin asked.
"Year before last October."
"Ohhh."
Lily turned around and snuck a piece of lettuce from fitz's plate. He caught her before she could shove it into her mouth.
"No, you can't eat that." He said as he took her from her tiny fingers. He used his fork and took a piece of avocado from his plate and fed it to her.
"You can eat avocados though." Lily held unto fork and ate the avocado off the tip.
"She's such a pretty little girl." Erin said.
"Thanks...she takes after me mostly, but don't tell Olivia." Fitz said.
Olivia slapped his leg. Erin laughed.
"Where do you live?" Olivia asked Erin.
"I've been staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel, thank you by the way."
"No, I meant where do you live? Not where you're staying."
"Oh...I'm don't have a home right now." She said. "I used to live at a shelter but I haven't been back there for almost two months, I'm sure they gave my spot to someone else."
"Why are you homeless?" Olivia came off a little more snobby than she intended. "-I'm sorry, that came out wrong."
"No….it's okay...it was just a temporary thing, I just ran into some hard times and I was saving up to be able to go out on my own again." Erin lied, she'd been mostly homeless for a long time, but Olivia seemed like a snob to her, like she would judge her and she didn't feel like being treated like a charity case.
"In fact, I think it's time I leave the hotel."
"Why?" Fitz asked.
"Nothing...you've been very generous to me but I think it's time that I go."
"Don't be silly, you can stay there as long as you need to." Fitz said as he fed Lily another piece of avocado.
Moments later, Greg returned with the main course, which consisted of pan fried lamb chops and roasted broccoli, carrots and mushrooms. He made a special dish of pasta and mashed butternut squash for Lily,
After greg served the food, he headed back to the kitchen.
"So...Olivia, what do you do?" Erin asked.
"I'm a designer, I have an atelier downtown where I work. I was actually supposed to showcase at New York Fashion Week but I missed it because of the whole incident."
"Oh wow, I'm sorry, that sucks."
"Yeah...my mother was a designer too? She used to work in London on Bond street."
"Really. Is that why you decided to become one?"
"Yeah."
"Wow so I have a sister that's a designer and a mom that was a designer. That's cool. What do you do Fitz?"
"I own a global aerospace, weapons and technology company." Fitz said in between stuffing his face with lamb chops.
"I feel very unsuccessful." Erin joked. "umm...Olivia do you have a picture of our mother."
"Yeah, it's in my things, I can show you when we're done here."
"Okay, thanks. What was her name?"
"Maya."
Erin nodded and smiled and began eating her food.
They all sat eating quietly for a while before Erin spoe again.
"Can I ask you something Olivia?"
"Sure."
"When your mom died, was that the first time you met Eli?"
"Yeah, he umm showed up a few days later."
"Days? Who did you stay with after your mom died?"
"Child services, they took me from the hospital."
"Oh." Erin said.
"Yeah."
"Why did Fitz kill Eli?"
Olivia shook her head. "I don't really want to talk about that. I'm- sorry, it's just really hard to talk about that and it's been so long ago, we just want to leave it behind us."
"Please, I think I deserve to know how he died." Erin said.
"Can we just drop this."
"Did he suffer?"
"Yes." Fitz answered. He'd been quietly observing both their demeanor.
"Good. That bastard had it coming." Erin said angrily.
"Why do you hate him?" Olivia asked, just as angrily. She didn't know where the sudden burst of anger came from.
"I'm sorry, maybe he was a good dad to you, but he was terrible to me."
"Is that your excuse, he was terrible to you so that's why you're a homeless ex-convict who looks like she just beat a drug addiction. Spare me the sob story, okay."
Erin shook her head slowly, so angry and hurt that the tears just burst out.
"You never would have survived what I survived!"
"I guess we'll never know because you're leaving, aren't you Erin?"
Erin took a deep breath and wiped her eyes and then stood from her chair and dropped her napkin on the table. The conversation went so south, so quickly.
"Cancel the hotel room, I'll find somewhere else to go."
"Good." Olivia said.
Erin took her jacket from behind her chair and left the room.
A few seconds later, they heard the front door slam shut.
Fitz stood up from his chair without a word and left the room with Lily as well. He walked out into the yard and saw Erin walking quickly down the driveway. Rather than run to catch up with her, he pulled out his cellphone and called one of the guards at the desk and told them to follow her wherever she went.
Fitz went back to his bedroom and began preparing Lily for bed. It was still pretty early and he knew she wouldn't sleep right away. He changed her out of her clothes and turned on the tv to cartoons and laid in bed with her, 45 minutes later at 8:30, she was out like a light. He laid her in the middle of the bed of the large california king bed, so she could roll of because she was a terrible sleeper. He lost count of how many time he woke with Lily's feet or hands on his face. One time, it was her wet diaper.
He left her in the bed and walked down to the kitchen for a cold beer. Greg had packed all the dishes in the dishwasher and left for the night since they'd ended dinner early. He didn't know where Olivia was and he wasn't really interested in finding her. The fact that she sat at the table in front of him and essentially defended her father after everything he'd done to both of them, made him angrier than he could ever remember being angry at her since the whole incident with her father took place but he tried not to lash out or say anything stupid, in fact, he didn't plan on saying anything at all. She couldn't have really meant it.
After he took a beer from the fridge, he threw on a sweater and some shoes and headed outside. Once he was outside, he realized one of the cars were gone. He took out his cellphone and called the gate guard.
"Did Olivia leave?"
"Yes, 10 minutes ago, we have a team behind her, she's looking for her sister."
"Do you know where he sister is?"
"A bus stop, I'm getting to location for you right now...she's at...the Clark Street stop at the foot of the hills."
"Thanks."
Seeing that Olivia wasn't in the house as he assumed he went back to his bedroom and laid in bed with Lily while he drank his bear and flipped through the tv to find something to watch.
When Olivia reached the foot of the hills, she drove to the first bus stop she saw and Erin was there, sitting on the seat by the bus sign.
Olivia drove over and pulled up in front of the bus stop and got out of the car.
When Erin saw her she chuckled and shook her head, wiping the tears from her eyes with the hem of her shirt.
"If you came here to beat me down some more then just leave, I heard you loud and clear, I'm a bum."
As Olivia walked closer to Erin, she stood and folded her arms, attempting to walk away but Olivia stopped her and hugged her tightly.
"I'm so sorry."
Erin didn't return the hug.
"Don't touch me."
"I'm sorry." Olivia cried. "I should've never said that to you, it was cruel. He was horrible to me too, so I understand."
"No, you don't understand-" Erin cried.
"-I do."
"Then why were you defending him?"
Olivia let her go and stepped back so she could see her.
"I don't know...I was just so anxious about you but….that's not me. Please come back with me, you can stay at the house...we can talk..and not superficial small talk, we can actually talk about everything...I've never really had anyone to talk to about him and now that I know maybe we had the same experience with him...maybe it will help us to talk about him with each other." Olivia said as she wiped her eyes.
Erin wiped her eyes and took a deep breath but still didn't move from her spot.
"Please." Olivia said. "Give me another chance, I really want to get to know you."
Erin sniffled and nodded, "okay."
"Okay?" Olivia asked.
"Yeah." Erin said with a nod.
Olivia smiled. "Okay."
She walked over and opened the car door on the passenger side for Erin and once Erin got in, she walked over to the driver side and got in as well and pulled off.
After a quick, quiet drive, they were pulling into Olivia's driveway.
Olivia parked the car in front of the entrance to the house and got out, Erin as well. Erin followed behind Olivia up the steps and into the house. She slipped off her shoes once again and took off her jacket and hung it on the coat stand.
"Do you want anything to drink, I have wine, beer?" Olivia asked.
"Wine."
"Yeah, I like wine too."
Erin followed Olivia to the kitchen and sat at the kitchen island. Olivia opened a fresh bottle of wine and poured two wine glasses full and then sat it on the counter to breathe.
"You didn't finish your dinner, Greg packed it up, are you still hungry? He also left dessert."
"What dessert?"
"Chocolate mousse cake."
"Yeah, I think I'll have the desert, it sounds good."
"Okay, it might be a little cold." Olivia said as she went in the fridge and took out two pre-cut slices of cake."
She grabbed two forks from the utensils drawer and placed them on both plates.
"We can sit here and eat or we can go to the living room and maybe watch something."
"We can go to the living room." Erin answered.
"Okay, grab the wine, I'll take the cakes."
Erin nodded and grabbed the two wine glasses and followed behind Olivia with the cakes. They sat on the couch and placed the wine on the coffee table. Olivia turned on the t.v.
"Anything you wanted to watch?"
"No, not really, I'm really not that up to date on current shows or anything."
"Okay."
Olivia settled on a x-men movie that was half way through the run time.
Erin began eating her cake.
"The cake is really good."
"Yeah, Greg is the best, I don't know where Fitz found him."
At the mention of Fitz, Erin remembered she'd meant to ask her a question earlier at dinner but never go the chance to.
"How long have you and Fitz been together...is that something I can ask?"
"Yeah...of course...it is a little complicated though, when we conceived Lily, we weren't actually dating...not really… we were just having sex and hanging out together, and then we broke up for about almost a year and then we got back together when Lily was 3 months old."
"I would've never guessed that, you guys seem like you've been together way longer."
"Yeah...he was actually the first guy I'd ever been with...I think I got pregnant with Lily from that time."
"Really?"
"Yep." Olivia said with a nod. "Enough about me, what about you? What do you like to do?"
"What about me?" Erin said with a chuckle.
"Why don't you have a home, the real reason?"
Erin leaned over and took her glass of wine from the coffee table, she took a couple of sips and then leaned back on the sofa.
"I can't remember the last time I had a home, probably when I was 16 and living with Eli, before I ran away."
"You ran away?"
"Yep."
"why?"
Erin eyes filled with tears as she shook her head and tried holding them back.
WARNING - MENTION OF A SEXUAL ASSAULT BELOW.
"I'm sorry, I just haven't really talked about this."
Olivia scooted closer to her and hugged her.
"Don't be sorry..and don't cry." Olivia said with fresh tears coming for her as well.
Olivia held her for a moment then let go.
Erin took another sip of wine, so did Olivia.
"I don't know if you know what he does?" Erin asked.
"I do, trust me, I do."
Erin sniffled, "well when I was 15 he asked me to go out with his guy's son, I really didn't want to do it but he made it seem as if it was no big deal so I agreed. First it was a cute little first date, we went out for ice-cream and after the first date Eli wanted me to go on a second date and then a third, and after a few dates the guy asked me to be his girlfriend, I was 15, I mean... I thought he was cute but I didn't really like him, he was a jerk."
Erin sighed.
"Anyways, one evening, we went out to the movies. His dad had dropped us to the movie and after the movie, he came to pick us up. Instead of dropping me home, like I thought he would, he drove me to the middle of nowhere, where his son held me down while he raped me and when he was done, he held me down while his son raped me."
"I...I don't know what to say. I'm so sorry Erin."
Erin shook her head sadly.
"They'd threatened me to shut up but when they took me home that night, I told Eli, I told him I wanted to call the police, I wanted to go to the hospital because my body hurt but he wouldn't let me. He didn't want anyone to find out, he had some doctor visit the house and prescribe me some pills, including the morning after pill and some sedatives to help me sleep. That wasn't even the worst part, the worst part was that it as if it was a slight against him, as if I was his property and he was only upset because he didn't give them permission to have sex with me. My consent didn't matter, my feelings or pain didn't matter, only his. He gave me his credit card and to go shop to make myself feel better, as if that could somehow make up for the fact that I was raped. I didn't really know what to do and so I did but I actually felt worst and the icing on the cake when when a few weeks later, he thought he could set me up with another guy. I told me him no and he accused me of being ungrateful because he'd bought me all those nice things, he'd given me the best schools and the best life."
Erin paused, shaking her head angrily.
"I decided that I would die before I let him put me in that position again, but I didn't want to die and why should I, so I did the only thing I could think of: I packed my shit and decided I was going to run away but before I could do that, he found out, told me I could leave but if I did I couldn't take anything he bought for me with him, I told him I was still going to leave, and so he literally took the clothes off my back and kicked me out of the house naked. He wouldn't even give me my birth certificate or my social security card, nothing. He withdrew me from the fancy private school I used to go to."
"How did you manage?" Olivia asked.
"I went to the police station that night, told them what happened. They gave me clothes and kept me at the station while they when to question him but by the time they got there, he was gone. They placed me in emergency foster care where I stayed till I was 18 then they kicked me out. After high school, I tried to go to college, I could barely afford it but I got financial aid to help a bit, I wasn't smart enough to get a full scholarship, I couldn't really afford rent but I lived with live 5 other people so we made it work. I worked a fast food job but eventually I started selling drugs to make extra cash, I got caught and I was arrested, they gave me 7 years even though it was my first offense, I served 4 years because of good behavior. I got hooked on heroin in prison. When I was released I was a homeless, ex-convict druggie, no one would hired me except for the shelter where I slept. I was there for a while before those guys with...Igor, I think Fitz said his name was- kidnapped me and brought me to Los Angeles and well here I am now."
Olivia was silent for a while.
"I shouldn't have said those things to you."
"It's okay, I've been called worse, trust me."
"You never saw him again?"
"A few times after I turned 18, none of them good, he'd get me caught up in his drama, one time I got kidnapped but I wasn't hurt. Looking back now one of the guys had mentioned the name Olivia a few times but I assumed they had my name wrong."
Now it was Olivia who reached for her glass of wine and began drinking gulps.
"I don't know what to say." Olivia said softly.
"Don't feel sorry for me. I've always wondered what my life would be like if everything had gone right and maybe this would be it." Erin looked around the huge mansion. "A huge house, a career that I actually like, a pretty little baby and a fiancé hat looks like freaking captain America. I'm proud of you."
"This isn't what life looks like when you've done everything right. I certainly haven't. At least you stood for something, even though it meant you'd lose everything, a roof over your head, a good education, I stayed and put my life and my body in danger for his benefit time and again. You were brave, I wasn't. I threatened to leave, a few times I actually did but I always went back. No matter how many times I got beat up or assaulted. I was lucky I wasn't raped, but a guy did hold a gun to my head and try to force me to suck his dick."
Erin finally chuckled, humorlessly.
"Men." She said, utterly disgusted.
"Tell me about it."
"How did he die?"
"The last...excursion...he sent me on was how I met Fitz. Fitz was in the military, his dad was a senator, he wanted to get to Fitz and so he sent me-"
"I knew something was up."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, when I was at the hospital, the types of questions he asked me, it seemed like he wanted to know them so he could actually go get you himself, now that I know he was in the military, it makes sense and he was a little terrifying."
"Yeah...um he sent me there to get to Fitz, I fell in love with him instead, got pregnant and while I was there he killed Fitz's dad and younger brother."
"Oh my god."
"So Fitz killed him, flayed him and the burned him alive."
"Wow."
"Yeah, it's a lot to digest."
Erin was quiet for a while and then she spoke.
"So he wasn't upset...you know..that Eli sent you."
"He was, but he forgave me."
They were quiet for a while until Olivia let out a deep breath and stood.
"Come on, let me show you to your room."
Erin nodded and followed her to the kitchen, with two plates of mostly uneaten cake, along with two empty wine glasses. Olivia placed the plates and glasses in the sink and then turned off the lights in the kitchen.
They went upstairs past her bedroom and past Lily's nursery to her closet.
"Let me just get you something to sleep in." Olivia said.
"Okay." Erin agreed.
When they walked into Olivia's closet, Erin was taken aback, it was like a small boutique, way too much clothes and shoes and bags and jewelry than one woman could possibly wear. Olivia alone had about 40 pairs of sunglasses, about half of them still new.
Olivia walked to her wardrobe and opened a few drawers with sleepwear inside and took out a pair of pajama bottoms and a sweater. They still had tags attached.
"Were you just gonna change or did you wanna take a shower or something, I have underwear if you do."
"Yeah, I think I could use a shower."
"Sure." Olivia said.
"She opened another drawer full of underwear and took out a couple new pairs of panties.
"Do you need a bra?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Oh wait, what size are you?"
"32DD."
"Oh, me too." Olivia said with a chuckle. "I swoll up a little after Lily but I'm back down now."
She grabbed a couple pairs of bra.
"Let me show you to your room and then I'll show you the bathroom."
Olivia handed her all the clothes and then they headed out of the closet and walked to the next room, which was an unoccupied bedroom.
It was large.
"So this is where you'll sleep."
Erin walked around the room, looking around at the space.
"The tv remote and the air remote is in the nightstand. The bathroom is over there," Olivia pointed to the door in the other side of the room. "There a towels, bath towels and toothbrush and all that stuff in there. It's pretty easier to get the shower to work it's all automatic."
Erin nodded. "Thanks."
"I can't really think of anything else...just make yourself at home. Do you have a phone?"
"No."
"I have an extra phone and a laptop if you need to use it, do you want it tonight or tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow is good, I think I'll just hang here."
"Okay. Good night, I'll see you tomorrow."
Olivia waved goodnight and headed back to her bedroom, knowing well that Fitz was angry with her.
Erin plopped down on her bed and stared at the ceiling absently. Olivia's house was not where she thought she would end up at the end of the night but she was so happy that they could talk, so happy that someone could understand her relationship with her father. It felt so good to have family even though they'd started off rocky.
After a few minutes of sitting in the bed, she went to bathroom and undressed to take a shower but when she realized it was a bathtub, she decided to take a bath instead. The last time she could sit in a bath and relax had to have been when she was back living with Eli and that has over a decade ago.
She filled up the tub with warm water and looked through the cabinet and found bubble bath soap and poured it in the water until it became soapy and then she got in, sat back and relaxed.
After Olivia changed into her nightgown, she walked back to her bedroom and found Fitz sitting up in bed, on the phone.
She crawled into the bed and sat beside him, waiting for the conversation to end. She could tell he was annoyed with her because usually when he was on the phone and she came over, he would end the call and give her all his attention, now he just sat talking. He was very vague but she could tell it wasn't Lucky. After a couple minutes, he ended the call and placed his phone on the nightstand.
"I'm sorry about earlier."
"Why were you defending him, is what I don't understand, forget about me, after everything he did to you, how could you not sympathize with someone who went through the same thing?"
"I apologized to her."
"That's the least you could have done." He said flatly.
Olivia turned her face away from him and started to cry.
Fitz was determined not to let it get to him, but it only lasted a few seconds until he wrapped his arms around her pulled her against his chest on the bed.
"I'm sorry," Fitz said softly.
Olivia shook her head as she laid against his chest.
"Don't apologize, you're right, I don't know why I said those things, I think, apart of me always told myself that maybe he was just like that to me because he wanted teach some sort of lesson about life and even after everything I secretly believed that and….it's not true, he was just horrible...to me...to her...to everyone." She said, sobbing softly. "I think I always knew that, that's why I didn't want him anywhere near Lily."
Fitz kissed her forehead softly.
"He wasn't trying to teach you any life lessons by forcing you into unsafe situations, he was just selfish and cruel and it's fucked up that you had to deal with that for so many years. It's even more fucked up that you have to suffer the consequences of his actions but I'm glad you at least have someone you can talk to, I know there's stuff you don't tell me and that's okay, you'll have your sister to talk to now."
She wiped her eyes and smiled.
"Yeah, I'm kind of excited, she seems so sweet but I'm also a little scared because I don't know her that well and I don't want to get my hopes up for our relationship and then maybe it doesn't work out."
"Don't think like that...just keep an open mind and take it slow."
"Yeah, I don't want to over think it, we talked tonight and it was good...it's just….he was so horrible to her and it ruined her life."
Olivia began crying again.
"It's okay." Fitz tried to console her.
"And I just keep thinking that I have a sister now and your brother is gone-"
"-Olivia you didn't kill him."
"-I wish I hadn't been so afraid, I should have said something."
Fitz hated when the conversation drifted to Scott.
"I'm sorry, I know you don't like talking about it." She wiped her eyes, "I'm fine, I'm done crying about it."
"You can cry as much as you want."
Olivia leaned up and kissed him on the lips softly and then laid on his chest once again.