Author's Note: I know I usually spoil you all with daily updates but i'm going to be pretty busy this weekend so you won't get the next update until Sunday. (Probably). Also I need a lot of time to write an epic revenge against Jake which the next chapter will detail. Hope you enjoy this chapter plz review I like to hear you guys thoughts. Also this chapter and the next chapter will be the last chapters I write in the past. I will be moving the story back to the present in the twelfth chapter. Plz enjoy.
Fitz goes to open the door and standing on the other side is none other than Olivia Pope.
Fitz tries to close the door but Olivia grabs it and squeezes through the entrance.
"What in hell are you doing here?" Fitz asks coldly.
"I could ask you the same thing." Olivia says just as coldly her arms crossed over her chest.
Fitz doesn't answer and they do a stare-off in the middle of the room until Huck clears his throat and says, "I found the third guy."
Fitz tears his gaze away from Olivia and walks over to Huck's computers to see the third guy.
"Good. Now let's go after him." Fitz says completely forgetting that Olivia is in the room.
"And what exactly are you going to do once you find him?" Olivia questions.
"You're still here?" Fitz asks cruelly.
"Look I know I hurt you but that still doesn't give you the right-"
"THAT GIVES ME ALL THE RIGHT! You didn't just hurt me you betrayed me and your psychopath of a boyfriend and his three thugs beat the shit out of me! Now why you go suck his dick and get THE FUCK OUT OF MY FACE!" Fitz shouts.
Olivia slaps Fitz hard, the sound echoing throughout the room. Fitz and Olivia stand within arm's length of each other, their eyes boring into the others eyes, their panting breathes loud.
"STOP IT" Huck shouts scaring Fitz and Olivia out of their stare down. "I asked her to come here."
"WHAT!? WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT?" Fitz asks.
"She knows a lot of things about Jake that could help us take him down."-Huck says grimly.
When Randal and the guy he was with were discussing Jake, Huck remembered one of them saying that Jake had everyone by the balls. So all throughout the night, Huck had stayed up and using Jake's facebook page, found everyone that Jake associated himself with. Of course there were probably more people behind the scenes but the people that Huck found on facebook all had one thing in common; they were all enrolled at the University of Minnesota. This was interesting to Huck because usually people had a diverse group of friends on facebook. Some people had family as friends as well friends from the same school or job and maybe friends of friends. Jake only had those two hundred friends and most of them were at UM. The others were alumni of UM. Huck knew that the other connection between those people had to be drugs but he wasn't 100% sure. He also knew that Olivia Pope was one of those Facebook friends. He figured she would be the easier one to single out because of her connection to Fitz. He also knew that as Jake's girlfriend she probably knew a whole lot more than anyone else on that friends list. So earlier this day, Huck went looking for Olivia's apartment and left a note in her mailbox telling her to come to Huck's room at 3:00. And that's how Olivia ended up in Huck's room.
"I don't care what she knows. We don't need her" Fitz says adamantly.
"Yes you do. Look there's more to Jake then what meets the eye."Olivia says.
"Yea no shit!" Fitz says.
"Let her speak." Huck says to fitz. "Tell us what you know."
So Olivia spilled everything she knew about Jake, starting with the first time she met him, his drug business, and all the people he has blackmailed.
"Wait how do you know the people Jake's blackmailed?" Fitz asks once she's finished explaining.
"Because he always demands that we all meet in his apartment on a monthly basis to check our drug sales." Olivia replies.
"That still doesn't sound right. From the looks of it he's got two hundred people selling drugs for him and wants them all to meet on the same day every month? Jake is more calculating then that. He wouldn't want all his people knowing each other because then they'll come against him."-Fitz says.
"That's the thing. Not all of his people are here in Minnesota. This is what Jake does. He blackmails people with the worst thing they've done in their lives. And I mean things that will put them in jail or ruin their lives so badly that they can't even be successful. With their lives in the balance people usually choose to do Jake's bidding. Then Jake sets them up to attend the University of Minnesota where they sell drugs for him. When they graduate Jake sets them up in places all over the world were they continue to sell his drugs and report back to him their drug sales. If they refuse to do what he wants, he kills them. "Olivia explains.
"How do you know all this?" –Fitz asks still confused by the information he heard.
"Because he made me the book keeper. At first I sold drugs for him but now he has me keeping track of everyone's sales." –Olivia says.
"So you know all of his people?"
"Yes." Everyone's silent, contemplating what they just heard.
"How do we know we can trust you? You have a track record of deceiving people?"-Fitz says.
"I've been imprisoned by Jake for so long I'm not even me anymore. The only reason I do what he says is out of fear that he'll kill the people I love. But I'm tired and I can't keep living like this. What can I do to gain your trust? What can I do to earn your forgiveness?" Olivia asks earnestly.
"You know what you can do, use your book keeping skills to try to ally everyone who works for Jake. Then have them to meet at Reginald's gym on the east side of the city by Friday. If you can do that then maybe I won't be so mad at you anymore. You got four days. You best get to it." Fitz says.
Olivia leaves the room and starts on the task at hand.
"What are you planning?" Huck says.
"I'm still figuring that out. But if we can get Jake's minions to side with us, then he'll have no one to protect him once we come after him."
"Except his dad" Huck says. "This doesn't sound like Jake's business but his father's. By going after Jake we might as well go after him too."
"How? I've never even seen his dad"-Fitz explains.
"Yea but Randal has. He told that guy he was talking to."
"Yea but Randal's dead. Dead men tell no tale Huck. Wait a minute. Maybe the third guy that beat me up knows. You said you found him right? Well let's go get him" Fitz says excitedly.
"There's one problem with the third guy. He's in jail.
"What? What did he do?"
"According to this website, Peter Walker, that's his name, was arrested December 15th 2008 for rape."Huck says matter of factly.
"So we have no way of connecting with Jake's father. This sucks."
Olivia on the other hand had a huge task to complete. She already knew the names and locations of everyone that Jake had blackmailed into doing his dirty work. The problem was getting them to go against Jake. It's not like those people liked Jake, as a matter of fact they all hated him. The real issue was getting people to sacrifice their lives and their loved ones lives for Fitz's plan which Olivia didn't even know what it was. Olivia didn't even know why she was risking her and Abby's life anyway. Or did she. She had really missed Fitz. He was her kryptonite. Every time he was around her she couldn't think straight especially since it was the first time she had really spoken with him since their fight at the hospital. She wanted to get back in his good graces and she had faith that whatever he planned to do to Jake would destroy Jake and protect them all. So Olivia got to work. She made hundreds of phone calls to everyone Jake blackmailed. Olivia thought that Jake might be monitoring her calls so she used a burner phone to contact everyone. She worked hard and even lied to get some people to make the meet up.
Meanwhile Jake was reading in his apartment when he had received a phone call from Officer Daniel Juarez telling him that Randal was killed. Daniel is a police officer for Minneapolis. Jake found out some dirty things about Daniel and of course blackmailed Daniel to be a body guard for the Ballard family. Daniel was also the man that had arrested Carlos and the man who spoke with Randal about Jake before he was killed.
"What do you mean he was killed?!" Jake asks incredulously.
"Randal's body was found burned in the back seat of his car. The only reason I knew it was him was because it was his Camero that he was found in." Juarez says.
"How did it happen?"
"The police who investigated the scene blame the fire for his death but there was another car burned at the site."-Juarez says. "However," Juarez continues, "there was no traceable evidence on the second vehicle. It was almost as if someone had planned to kill Randal."
"Well Juarez I suggest you find out who that person is because if you don't then you'll find yourself burned up in the backseat of a car." Jake says angrily before he disconnects the call.
Juarez signs heavily. He and Randal weren't the best of pals but they definitely weren't enemies either. The only person that could help Juarez find Randal's killer was sitting in a penitentiary because he fucked a prostitute. This is going to be a long night Juarez thinks as he heads to Minnesota state penitentiary where Carlos was being held.
On Friday night Fitz, Huck, and Olivia all stood in the large basement of Reginald's gym waiting for the others to show up. They were all anxious and after thirty minutes of no show, Fitz became disappointed and he felt played, again. He actually thought Olivia would help out this time and once again she blew it.
God I can't believe I wasted my time with that-
Fitz's thoughts are interrupted by the sound of footsteps as several people enter the basement area. After another twenty minutes everyone Jake had ever blackmailed was standing in front of Fitz, Huck, and Olivia.
"Hi everyone." Fitz says. "I called you all here today because together we're going to go after Jake Ballard."
"Yea and how exactly are we going to that?" One person shouts ouit
"Yea?" a few say.
Fitz doesn't answer right away and this causes a person in the crowd to say, "See I knew this was a waste of time. Depending our lives on some college kid." And crowd slowly starts to walk out of the basement when Fitz shouts,
"Hey I know I'm just some college kid but so are half of you in this room. Look everyone in this room has one thing in common and that is that Jake Ballard is blackmailing us to do whatever he wants us to do." This gets the crowds' attention and everyone looks up to hear what Fitz has to say. We can't let Jake control our lives and hold our loved ones at gun point. We have to fight back and if we fight back together, then Jake will surely lose. So what do you say? Do you want to fight Jake and get your lives back or do you want Jake to continue to use and control you? It's your choice."
For moment everyone is silent. Huck is ready to kill just in case someone tries to pull something. Fitz is anxiously hoping that everyone agrees and Olivia is hoping that no one kills them all. After another beat of silence a man in the crowd steps up and says, "I'll join you." And one by one they all step up and pledge their allegiance to Fitz's cause.
"Ok" Fitz says relieved. "So here's what we're going to do."
Daniel finally makes it to the Minnesota state penitentiary. After showing his police badge, he is escorted to a visiting room where he is told to sit and wait for Carlos to be brought in. After a short while Carlos is brought in and chained him to the chair which was across the table from where Daniel was sitting.
"You look like shit. Daniel says observing Carlos who is dressed in an orange jump suit.
"I'm in prison dumbass. There are no shopping malls here." Carlos retorts.
"Relax I'm not here to talk about your appearance."
"Then why are you here?" Carlos asks.
"You said that two guys attacked you. Do you remember what they look like?"
"No". Carlos shrugs. "They were wearing black mask that covered their face."
"Come on Carlos there has got to be something that you seen about those guys that can be traceable."
"Nope." Carlos shrugs again and Daniel sighs.
"But", Carlos says. "They did ask me if I beat up some kid last year."
"Wait what kid?" Daniel asks.
"Jake had three of us pummel some college kid in a locker room last year." Carlos replies.
"Do you know his name?"
"Nah. But we beat him up pretty bad. I'm sure he checked into a hospital somewhere."-Carlos says.
"Did this kid go to UM?"
"I think so."-Carlos says.
And that was all Daniel needed as he quickly exits out of the penitentiary. Usually when people enter a hospital with assault injuries, the attending nurses and doctors are required to document that information to the police department. All Daniel had to do was look though police department database and find case files from 2008 that consisted of college kid with assault injuries. This search lead Daniel to two cases. The first case was of a UM girl who was sexually assaulted in December 2008. The next case was of about a 19 year old student who was assaulted by unknown attackers in the University of Minnesota's boy's locker room. Who was this boy, Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III.
"Found ya." Daniel says happily.
Olivia had made it back to her apartment late that night after the big group meeting with Fitz. She was exhausted and her body was crying out for sleep.
"Hey. Somebody was out late." Her roommate Monica says as Olivia enters the apartment.
Olivia's relationship with Abby had grown distant. Olivia was always scared that spending time with Abby would put her in more danger with Jake so Olivia limited her time with Abby. This caused a strain that was so bad that now Olivia and Abby barely spoke to each other. At the beginning of junior year when Olivia was first registering for her apartment Monica had approached her and begged Olivia to become her roommate. Monica had just transferred from Iowa Sate for reasons she never disclosed and desperately needed to start fresh. At first Olivia said no. She did not want to worry about any more people getting sucked into that black hole that was Jake Ballard but Monica was desperate and Jake allowed Monica to share an apartment with Olivia. But that was only so he could screw Monica who actually didn't want Jake. It was now March and Monica was still refusing Jake's advances.
"How is my favorite roomie?" Olivia says cheerfully.
"I'm your only roomie remember?"-Monica replies.
"Sure" Olivia says and they both laugh.
"So guess whose dick I was sucking on the other day?" Monica says.
"Whose?" Olivia asks chuckling at Monica's bluntness about her sex life.
"That sexy hockey player Grant."
"Grant? I don't think I've heard of a Grant." Olivia says contemplatively.
"Well I don't think he heard of me either. He probably calls me the red head or something."
Olivia sighs and says "Well I'm going to take a shower and head off to bed. Goodnight"
"Goodnight"-Monica responds back.
Grant? Olivia thinks to herself as she showers. She probably hooked up with some freshman.
Once Olivia is done with her shower she gets on her pajamas and wraps herself in her covers. Before she doses off to sleep a thought occurs to her and she realizes why the name Grant is so familiar to her.
Because Fitzgerald fucking Grant that's why. That redheaded slut fucked Fitz. Olivia thinks to herself. And suddenly Olivia is no longer tired.