Olivia felt like someone was watching her in her sleep and she opened her eyes to see Tabitha standing a few feet away with Lana and Luna in her hips. A wide smile burst across her face and instantly Olivia was flushed with embarrassment. Fitz stretched and sat up only to see Tabitha as well. They were naked under the sheets and it was obvious.

"Titi," he said, surprised.

"Looks like you two had fun last night. Are you making more babies to hide from me?"

Olivia covered her face with the blanket and hid.

"Breakfast is ready," Tabitha said with a smile.

Lana giggled and clapped as Tabitha walked them out of the room and closed the door.

Fitz laughed and pulled the sheet from Olivia's face.

"Good morning," he said as he kissed her.

"Oh my god, I can't believe she saw us."

Fitz shrugged. "Don't worry about it, it's just Titi."

Olivia chuckled and sat up."Lana was laughing at us too."

Fitz laughed. "Yeah, she's a little troublemaker."

"I didn't freak you out last night, did I?"

Fitz yawned and stretched and stood up from the bed. "Do I look freaked out?" He asked.

Olivia smiled and reached for him and pulled her up and they both walked to the bathroom. She stepped in front of the mirror and looked over her appearance which wasn't too bad, she had bedhead and a few love bites by her clavicle. Fitz turned on the faucet in the shower and then walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her and kissed her shoulder.

"Your hair looks crazy," he teased.

She chuckled and rolled her eyes.

"Well look who's talking?"

His hair was disheveled as well and he also had a few love bites of his own.

"I'd take crazy hair over the blue balls I've had to struggle with for the better part of two years."

Olivia laughed in agreement."You have no idea...Well maybe you do."

He kissed her shoulder again. "Yes but I was fine being patient."

Olivia smirked, "and you didn't think to just be with someone else?"

"I couldn't stand being in another pussy," he whispered in her ear. "I only wanted you."

Olivia shivered and Fitz smiled.

"Come on, our kids are waiting downstairs and I wanna have sex with you in the shower before we go."

She laughed as he pulled her into the shower and kissed her as he held her under the showerhead. Once they were both soaking wet he backed her up against the wall and turned her around. She braced herself as he slipped two fingers in to make sure she was wet enough and then entered her. She squealed in delight because the feeling of him inside her brought her absolute ecstasy and she couldn't hide it. Fitz cupped her breasts and bit her shoulder as he thrusted from behind and before she knew it they came together braced against the wall.

After their quickie, they showered, brushed their teeth and dressed then headed downstairs to the kitchen. It was just Tabitha, Luna and Lana and a spread of breakfast with the house chef working around the table to replenish the food.

When Lana and Luna saw them they both started screaming.

"Mama!"

"Baba!"

"Hi babies," Olivia said with a smile.

They walked over to Titi, Olivia took Luna, Fitz took Lana. Titi smirked at them both as if she knew what they'd just done.

"Where's Karen and her friends?"

"She took them to show them her horses."

"Oh okay," Fitz said with a shrug.

He kissed Lana and sat with her by the kitchen island.

"Morning baby girl," he said as he kissed her stomach. Olivia sat beside him with Luna.

"So Thomas, what is your plan?" Tabitha asked.

"What do you mean?"

Tabitha took a sip of her tea and sat opposite them on the island.

"Well, no one knows about the twins, you can't keep them hidden forever, I can't believe you kept them from me for so long, I didn't get to see them when they were born, I didn't get to see Olivia when she was pregnant, I mean I just can't believe you'd do that," she scolded.

Olivia was about to say something but Fitz stopped her, he got the sense she was gonna no to fess up to the fact he didn't know about them but that wouldn't help and he knew Tabitha would get over it sooner or later, especially if they had another baby she could get consumed with.

"I'm really sorry Titi, I don't know what I was thinking."

"I don't know what you were thinking either."

Although the conversation was uncomfortable, Olivia appreciated the fact that Fitz was taking the fall for her but apart of moving forward meant owning up to her faults.

"It was my fault."

"What?" Tabitha asked, confused.

"Liv-" Fitz protested. "It wasn't you."

"No, it was me, Fitz didn't know about the girls until they were almost 4 months old."

Tabitha was surprised."Why did you do that?"

"Uh…we weren't together and we weren't in touch so I didn't have a chance to tell him," Olivia confessed.

"No, she's being generous. I was being an ass and having a temper tantrum so I made sure she didn't have a way to contact me. I didn't know she was pregnant but still it's not her fault she couldn't tell me. She had no way to reach me."

"Well you still had seven months when you knew about them to tell me. I blame you Thomas but I think it's noble you didn't out your girlfriend, I raised you right."

Fitz laughed."So does this mean you'll stop chastising me?"

"No, I never got to see them fresh out the womb, I'm still mad about that."

"Olivia has pictures."

"Oh yes that's right, where are they?"

"I have a bunch of them on my phone."

Olivia reached into pocket and pulled out her phone then proceeded to show her a few pictures of her newborn daughters.

"So, how was it, taking care of twin girls on your own, you know, since deadbeat Thomas over there wasn't present."

Fitz sighed."Titi come on," he whined.

Tabitha laughed and so did Olivia.

"I wasn't exactly alone, my best friend Abby was there with me practically everyday, she's their godmother and she took that role very seriously. I had a baby nurse for the first month and then my nanny Bonnie helped out but I loved it. When I took them home from the hospital, I thought it was gonna be overwhelming to have two, I had never even changed a diaper before I gave birth so I had no idea what to expect but it was amazing. The first month, I completely took off from my firm to just to stay home with them and bond with them and learn how to take care of them and then after the first month I worked from home and then when they were 3 months old I went back to work which wasn't easy, it is not easy being working mom."

Tabitha and Fitz laughed.

"How much did they weigh?"

"5 pounds each, they were born at 35 weeks and a half."

"They came early, was it a good delivery?"

Fitz listened intently, these were all questions he never got to ask

"Oh no, it was terrible. I was under the impression that it wouldn't be that bad, let me tell you, it was worse than I imagined possible. I got the epidural as soon as I could."

Tabitha chuckled.

"Who was born first?"

"Luna, just a few minutes before Lana. They came out quickly but it still hurt," Olivia turned to Luna and kissed her, "isn't that right pumpkin."

She reached over to Lana and pinched her cheeks.

"Lana is my younger sugar muffin."

Lana giggled and clapped her hands.

Tabitha cleared her throat and shifted her position.

"Why is Lana's hair so long and Luna's isn't?"

Olivia and Fitz looked at each other, they hadn't told Tabitha about Luna's battle with cancer. She watched to see what Fitz was going to do.

"Luna got diagnosed with leukemia at almost 5 months, she went through treatment and she's in remission now," Fitz said.

Tabitha's mouth fell open but she didn't say anything for a while then she walked over to Olivia and took Luna and kissed her.

"Oh my poor sweet baby."

Luna giggled and wiggled out of Tabitha's arms and stretched to Olivia.

"Nope, you're staying with me, little baby."

She walked back to the other side of the counter with Luna. Olivia expected Luna to fuss but she didn't, she clapped and switched her pacifier around in her mouth and did little things to keep herself busy.

"Tell me everything," Tabitha demanded.

Olivia looked to Fitz who gestured for her to go on, she knew he was going to leave her to explain it on her own.

They sat together for almost an hour while Olivia detailed everything that happened leading up to Luna's diagnosis and after. She got the sense that Tabitha wasn't happy but she was very subtle about her disapproval.

After the very awkward and gloomy conversation, she decided it was time to get away.

"Fitz, do you wanna take the girls for a walk with me?"

Sensing that she wanted to get away, Fitz agreed.

"Yeah, sure, let's go."

He got up from his chair with Lana and followed Olivia out to the porch.

"Are you okay," he asked as they walked down the trail.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I just wanted to talk about what we're going to do next, Tabitha made some good points. I haven't watched the news yet but I'm sure they must have pictures from yesterday, floating all around."

"Well, I've been thinking, we conceived the twins a month before I filed for divorce from Mellie but they were born at 35 weeks instead of 40 weeks like a regular pregnancy so that gives us a month of wiggle room to play with the dates, we could say we conceived them after I filed for divorce which isn't perfect but it's better than saying it was before the filing and no one would be the wiser because they can't really prove that the twins came early."

"I've been thinking about that as well and I think that's good but what about the entire secret relationship, I mean they're about to be a year old, that's gonna be a hard pill to swallow."

"I'll admit that, so I guess we just have to weigh our options, politically it won't be good not at first, reelections are coming up but depending on how this plays out that might be off the table. I could resign but it would come out anyways and in that case I wouldn't want them to feel like I'm ashamed of them and I resign in disgrace once they're old enough to understand all this, I'd rather them know that I loved them and their mom and when all this came out, we faced this together but if I have to resign I'll do that, if we stay and fight through this, I'll do that too, just tell me what you think?"

Olivia sighed.

"I don't know, this was sort of what I struggled with when I found out I was pregnant, it's difficult either way and you're right, I wouldn't want them to feel like they were the center or some sort of big shame swirl, you know."

"Definitely not."

"What if we," Olivia paused, thinking to herself before she began again, "we could tell them that we remained close friends after I left the Whitehouse, after you filed for divorce, we had sex and I got pregnant, you didn't tell anyone because, well, I guess we could say I hid it from you, it takes the blame off you."

They stopped under a large willow tree and sat on the grass under the shade. They both let go of the girls and allowed them to move around in the thick, short blanket of grass under the tree.

"Liv, I'm not letting you take the blame for anything, we're in this together all the way. I'd be more comfortable with telling them that I've always wanted another child and as a close friend of mine for years, we spoke casually about our desire for children, after I filed for divorce, we decided, we could tell them it was rash or planned, but we decided to get pregnant. They'll ask why I kept it a secret or why we kept it a secret and we'd tell them it was a private matter."

"Do you think that'll work?"

"I think, it'll make us seem in control of the situation, people could disagree with our decision to have children out of wedlock, they could disagree with our timing being that it was so soon after the divorce, they could disagree with our decision to keep it a secret but it was our decision, no laws were broken, no conflicts of interest, you don't work for the government, I think that's the best we could hope for. People could be angry and vote me out of office but honestly, I'd be okay with that because being president doesn't compare, not even a fraction of a percentage to the immense amount of joy it brings me to see our little girls everyday, and to know we conceived them out of love and when it got tough, you decided to keep them and love them and nurture them, in my absence, regardless of why I wasn't there."

Olivia smiled.

"You have to kiss me now."

Fitz chuckled and held her face and gave her a wet kiss.

"I think I picked a good baby daddy."

Fitz smiled and looked over to the girls who were crawling around on the grass.

"We have some gorgeous girls," Fitz said casually.

"I know right," Olivia agreed, "I think it's a good plan, do you think we should talk to Cyrus and see what he has to say about all of this."

"I guess so, although if he's negative and starts lecturing, I'll lose it."

"I think he's a changed man."

"Maybe, you can never be too sure with him."

"That's true," she agreed, "I'm not looking forward to all the craziness that's going to ensue in the next few months, at least they're babies, they don't have to go to school and deal with other kids, we can keep them them locked up in the whitehouse but what about Karen?"

"I think Karen will be fine, her school is really good about stuff like that."

Olivia nodded.

"How do you think this will be on you?"

She smiled, "you mean if I'm gonna freak out and become manic again. I don't think so but I can't be sure."

He nodded, "can you tell me more about it?"

"Yeah," she said. "I was 19 when I was diagnosed after I had my first manic episode. I'd had a hard year in school that year. My father decided that he wasn't going to pay my tuition anymore and cut me off then refused to give me my social security card so I could get a job. That's how I ended up singing that year and I hated it which is why I can't sing anymore, even now over 10 years later. Anyways that year was really hard and by the time I made it to the end of the spring semester so much had happened, my boyfriend at the time was sabotaging my birth control. I was on the pill and I'd take them out of the packet and put them in a pill case. He was switching them out with vitamin d tablets for almost two months before I found out. He was also poking holes in the condoms and so at that time for like a good three week period I was terrified of being pregnant. I was still stressed about my tuition because I didn't make enough to pay it and that's when he decided to show up. I hadn't seen him in over a decade at that point and all he had to say to me were horrible things- at one point he told me I didn't deserve to have my mother's face."

"You look like her," Fitz said.

Olivia nodded. "I could barely hold it together after that. I cried in bed for three days and then that Friday night as I was getting ready to go sing I sat in front of the mirror doing my makeup like I usually did and I just started screaming. There was so much I was feeling and I felt like if I kept it in any longer it would kill me. The next thing I knew I was throwing myself in the mirror. I didn't know it at the time but one of my ex-friends was hiding in the closet and he came out and held me back but I'd already done it twice at that point and I was bleeding all over. They had to check me into a hospital and they held me for 5 days. I was manic for 4 and diagnosed with bipolar 2 disorder."

"There are different bipolar disorders?"

"I only know about 1 and 2. Bipolar 2 is kind of centered around depression, when you're manic you feel extremely low and even when you aren't manic you're still depressed but mania makes it so much worse. So where bipolar 2 is fighting between low and lower. In Bipolar 1 when you're manic you feel extremely high, like your invincible until the mania is over then you feel low. So it's kind of like your fighting between highs and lows."

"How many episodes have you had?"

"More than 5 but definitely less than 10. I had another 1 year later but it wasn't surprising. I'd spent the first year after my diagnosis with crippling depression and being prescribed every antipsychotic, antidepressant, ssri and mood stabilizer possible until we found the one that worked."

"What does it feel like? When your manic?"

She smiled, "it's hard to explain. My emotions are on overdrive and they're either switching back and forth or they're all melted together and I can't distinguish them. Even when I was fighting with you- you were saying one thing to me but I was reacting to whatever scenario I'd made up in my head. More important is the depression and grief, when I'm manic it truly feels like whatever I'm dealing with will be the worst thing that could happen and that it will probably kill me. I'd been worried about how we would share custody for months before but when I'm manic, worrying about sharing custody turns into thinking that if I let you get them for a minute I'll never see them again and then I intensely feel all the emotions associated with that and I react to that."

"That explains a lot," he said.

"When did you figure out we were manic?"

"Maybe the morning before you came. My emotions were switching rapidly and I knew something was wrong. I convinced myself that you were the problem and so once I got away from you I'd be fine but I wasn't."

"So if it ever happens again what should I watch out for and what should I do?"

"Thanks for asking that," she said. "I don't want you to think that every time we have an argument or every time I get emotional it's mania. I'm naturally a very dramatic person so you'll have to factor that in."

Fitz laughed, "I'll be sure to."

"My emotions will switch quickly and they'll be erratic. They won't make sense. I'll sleep a lot less but I won't be tired," she said.

They sat out under the tree for a while as she explained the details of her disorder to him until the girls began to get cranky because it was time for their nap. They took them back to the house, fed them then put them to bed in Fitz's bedroom.

Karen and her friends came back from horse riding around 1pm but they didn't linger, they just grabbed lunch and then went back out to explore the ranch. Karen was so occupied with entertaining her friends that she didn't bother to look for Fitz and Olivia who were back in the master bedroom. The twins were fast asleep on the large king sized bed and Fitz thought it was the perfect opportunity to get a good midday quickie in before the twins woke up. He walked up behind Olivia who was leaned over on the bed, checking the twins to make sure they were comfortable in their sleep. He pulled her back and wrapped his arms around her body.

"I think they're fine."

He kissed the crook of her neck and turned her around so she could face him and then he kissed her on the lips as lifted her in the air and she wrapped her legs around his waist. He then walked her over to the couch on the opposite side of the room and leaned her over against the back of the couch. He pulled her dress off and threw it on the floor and then pulled down her underwear quickly because suddenly there was an overwhelming sense of urgency for them both. They weren't all the way off before he gave up and started undoing his pants and pulled them down as well.

"Hurry," Olivia said as she spread her legs a little wider and waited to feel him inside her.

Fitz chuckled, he was moving as fast as he could, he didn't realize Olivia was that aroused. She was wet for him, even before he pulled her off the bed and brought her to the couch. From the minute she realized it was time to put the girls to bed she was thinking of how she was going to spend their free time together. Once Fitz had his pants down he slid his cock in slowly.

Olivia was beside herself, she couldn't describe how good it felt to experience him that way again. They both came way too quick for their liking but the combination of excitement and want was just too strong for them to hold out.

After they'd made themselves decent, they both laid on the couch waiting for the twins to wake up.

"When do we leave?"

"At 3."

She sat up.

"What?"

"Yeah, it's Sunday, I have work tomorrow. Camp is almost over for Karen and her friends so they'll just be running around in her room and then I think they will go home on Tuesday, I have to ask Karen."

"Oh okay, we have an hour till we leave then. The girls should be waking up in a few minutes. Who's getting Karen and her friends ready?"

"The Nannies."

"Okay Richie Rich," she teased.

"Do you wanna babysit Karen and her friends?"

"Of course not."

Fitz laughed.

"That's what I thought."

She laughed and they laid together until the girls woke up and shortly after feeding them, they gathered their belongings and headed back to D.C.