A/N: Next chapter will be up in a few hours! Reviews, PLEASE! And tell me what you want to read in the next few chapters, and if you think Fitz deserves to be forgiven yet ;)
Fitz had come to Blair House in the late afternoon, and both him and Mellie were convinced that they had made some progress. At first, Teddy still refused to talk to his father, especially after what had happened the day before, but eventually, he slowly warmed up to him again. The three of them had watched Finding Nemo, played with cars and Teddy's Play-Doh, and Fitz and Teddy helped Mellie cook dinner. After they all ate together, Fitz and Mellie gave their son a bath, and now they were watching cartoons until Teddy's bedtime. When the show was over, Mellie looked down at Teddy. "Hey, Teddy Bear, how about you let daddy put you to bed tonight? I'll come in and give you a kiss after he gets you tucked in." Mellie looked down at the little boy in her lap, running her hands through his wet hair.
Teddy looked up at Mellie before looking over at Fitz, unsure of how to answer his mother's question. "Both of yous?" He suggested, resting his head against Mellie's chest. She decided that that was acceptable, and stood up, carrying her son to his room with Fitz following after them. She set Teddy down on his bed and he looked up at his mother as she got his pajamas out of his dresser. She handed them to Fitz and although Teddy was a little unsure about his father dressing him, he let him since Mellie was standing right there. Once he was dressed, Fitz laid their son down and pulled his blanket over him, handing him his teddy bear.
"Sing?" Teddy questioned, yawning as he laid his head down on his pillow. He looked up at both of his parents, who were looking at one another. Mellie had been singing him to sleep recently, and she knew that he wouldn't go to sleep if she didn't sing to him. She was slightly embarrassed about singing around Fitz, but she figured 'what the hell', and started singing quietly to her son.
"For you, they'll be no more cryin'. For you, the sun will be shinin'..." Mellie watched as Teddy smiled and slowly closed his eyes. She ran her hand through his hair as she sung, and she had actually forgotten Fitz was standing there, watching them, until he kneeled down and started to sing as well.
"And the songbirds are singing, like they know the score. And I love you, I love you, I love you, like never before." They sang together, and Teddy's smile got even wider when he realized that both of his parents were singing together. His eyes stayed closed, but his smile didn't falter until after he was asleep, and quietly snoring. But even after they knew that their son was asleep, Mellie and Fitz didn't stop singing until the very last line. "And I love you, I love you, I love you. Like never before, like never before, like never before."
Mellie leaned down and kissed the little boy's head, and Fitz did the same once Mellie was finished. Mellie found her way out of Teddy's room before old feelings could come to the surface, and she closed the door behind her after Fitz was in the hallway. "Thank you for coming. I think it really helped." She told him, and he just nodded, knowing that he wasn't the only one who was dwelling on their relationship after what had just happened. It wasn't much, but it was little moments like that, that had always made their marriage so happy in the beginning.
"I guess I should get going." He didn't want to, but he knew that it would be best if he did. Mellie just nodded, and he grabbed his coat off of the couch. The two of them said goodbye, and he left, going back to the Residence. He didn't even bother going back to his office, he knew that he wouldn't get any work done. How he felt right now was far worse than he had ever felt. Even when him and Olivia weren't together and he was missing her, he had never felt this terrible. He never thought that he would miss Mellie so much. He never thought that he would be so lost without her, so broken. Even though she was there and he saw her almost everyday, it still wasn't the same. It was almost harder seeing her everyday and having things be as if they weren't married, as if they hadn't been together for over twenty years. He never realized how much he needed Mellie, how much he relied on her, and how much he really did love her. He had gone the last few years thinking that there was no love left in his heart for her, when the complete opposite was true. He loved that woman more than anything in the world, and he couldn't believe that he didn't realize that before now. He couldn't believe that he had gone the last few years treating her the way that he did, and not only convincing her that she didn't matter, but also convincing himself. It was no excuse, but after she had refused to let him touch her anymore, and her attitude toward him had changed completely, he had believed that she had fallen out of love with him, and he tried to do the same. When he couldn't, he tried his hardest to convince himself that he didn't love her, and once Olivia came along, things just fell into place, the way that he believed they needed to be. But that wasn't how they needed to be.
He got in the shower, spending as much time as he possibly could in there before the hot water just became too much for him. When he got out, he didn't even get dressed before he found his phone and scrolled down to Mellie's name. He typed out a long message and erased it as soon as he was done writing it, replacing it with three words. "I love you." He didn't give himself a second to debate it, and he found himself staring at the screen until he saw that Mellie had read it, and was replying to it. His heart was pounding as he waited for a response, and he wasn't even sure what to expect. As he anxiously awaited the reply, he regretted sending the message, deciding that the only reason Mellie was taking so long to type out a message and reply was because she was going off on him. After what seemed like hours, Mellie finally replied, and Fitz stared at it for a while, reading through it over and over.