Old Habits Die Hard
When all rivals clash and hard feelings are thought to be over, all can change in a matter of hours. At Karen's wedding Mellie, Olivia and Fitz try their best to act cordial but old habits seem to die hard.
Okay guys so hard to kick this off my mind, fluff and some dramajw for Olitz. This will feature Charlie, Teddy and Hannah Grant from my other stories "Hang in There" and "All that is expected"
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chapter 2: The rehearsal dinner. Personal space.
Personal space. When you loved as much as Olivia and Fitz did that wasn't an option, not of course until they saw Mellie come in. Karen had promised not to sit them together, hell that'd be crazy! Fitz glanced towards one of his best friends from his Navy days. Jake Ballard, the guy that Mellie had picked up after been on the chase for years, Jake had powerful connections and so she craved this power.
"Mom" Karen went on to hug her mom and Jake.
"Oh we are so sorry we are late honey... we ran into a situation." Mellie shot a look at her husband. One that Fitz knew too well. The blaming face.
"That's okay" Karen smiled. "Everything is fine though?" She asked Jake. He gave her a reassuring smile. Mellie caught Olivia and Fitz sitting at a table from the corner of her eye. She shot two glances to the baby in Fitz's lap who seemed to want to squeeze the life out of his cheeks and Charlie, who tried to get out of his then walked up to them.
"You are staring" Olivia whispered to Fitz.
"She is too" He answered toting Hannah to the side.
"Fitzgerald" Mellie smiled at them both
"Mellie" Fitz played with Hanna's hand while trying to make eye contact with his ex wife.
"I suppose I still get Teddy this weekend?" Mellie asked staring down at Charlie. He gave her a soft smile.
"That's the plan" Fitz said with a smirk. Mellie didn't like that. "Mellie?" she was about to turn away when he called her. "I expect we all do our best to be civil, for Karen's sake" she nodded, took a glance back towards jake . Fitz laughed.
"Does everything have to be a competition?" Olivia asked. Fitz rolled his eyes. It had been, ever since the moment they had fallen in love Mellie and Liv competed to death for the man. Mellie for power. Liv for love. Two dangerous motivations. Fitz rolled his eyes and stood up from the table. "I'm going to go find Cy, you got her?"
Hannah fussed a bit "daddy!"
"I'll be right back princess" he stole a kiss from Olivia.
"Hey" Liv turned around to see Jake Ballard. Hannah fussed against Liv. She did not like Jake
"Jake" Olivia smiled softly.
"How are you?"
"Fine, life has gotten busy but I guess that's just because of the kids"
"Right, tell me about it, whenever we get Teddy to stay with us, he can be quite a handful. Girls are better right?" He tried to reach for Hannah but she pulled back.
"Mama!" Charlie and Teddy came running toward them. "Can we have something to eat?"
"Please Liv!" They then noticed Jake.
"Hi boys" jake said with a dashing smile. Charlie pulled back a bit. "So Teddy are you Excited about your birthday?" Teddy nodded. But this was more complicated than it seemed because they all had to be there. There were cold stares and cold exchanges between both couples. To tell the truth Olivia had nothing against Jake. He seemed to really care for Mellie.
"Dad said we are going go Kart racing" Teddy told jake.
"That I did" Fitz said from behind jake. "Mellie won't like it though" Jake stood up from the chair.
"True. It will be fun" Jake eyed Fitz for a moment. "I'm going to go now"
"You do that" Fitz Winked at him and Olivia had to laugh.
"You know I can tell when you have your jealously voice on?"
"Oh?" Fitz leaned on to kiss her neck "really?"
"Urgh!" Teddy winced. "We still here guys!"
Olivia and Fitz laughed taking Hannah from her. "Yes we know"
"I think I'm not hungry anymore" Teddy said. Liv rolled her eyes and winked at Charlie.
"Tell you what?" Why don't you go find uncle Cy, he was looking for you"
"You mean Ella was?" Charlie smiled. "Yes!"
"Take your sister" Fitz told he boys. "Be careful!" He said once each boy took one of Hannah's hands. Olivia and Fitz watched as the Boys tenderly led her down across the lawn.
Just when they were about to pick up what they had left off Karen went to find them.
"Hey kiddo" Fitz patted the chair next to him. "Where's Robert?"
"Dealing with his family" Karen sighed. Liv could see Karen was tense. "Does that mean you are dealing with us too?"
Karen smiled. "Nah, you are easy, my dear little brother on the other hand... Why can't he grow up?" Karen ran her fingers trough her face.
"Because he's Gerry" they both said in unison. "But you don't worry about him, he'll find his way" Olivia said. "It just takes boys longer to figure out what they want" Olivia kissed Fitz's cheek. This made Karen smile.
"Why do I feel like you're not talking about Gerry anymore?" Fitz joked hurt.
"Boys are so slow!" Karen said. "But I love you either way dad"
"Well thanks for that" Fitz kissed her cheek. There was a moment of silence and Fitz took it as his cue to find his dynamic duo of troublemakers. "I love you sweetheart"
"I love you too daddy" she closed her eyes like a little kid when Fitz kissed her forehead. Fitz then turned to Liv and whispered something in her ear. Karen shot them an annoyed glance.
"You Know you are worse than teenage kids don't you?"
Cyrus Beene had never been the children kind until he had Ella, after her and her constant pleas and of course James's they had also adopted a baby boy, Daniel, he was about Hanna's age and he was her favorite playmate. Fitz had found the kids all gathered around Cy who was telling them a story, James had Daniel in his arms, on Liv's request Cy had been seated with Mellie so he could keep an eye on her, not that it mattered much anyway but still. The first one to spot Fitz was Hannah.
"Daddy!" He swung her up with one swift move. "Uncle Cy is telling tories!"
"I can see that" Fitz walked up to the others.
"Sir" Cy gave Fitz a hug. "Where's your better half?"
"Having a girls talk with the bride" Fitz told him.
"Oh and is Mellie there too?"
"always trying to play with fire, aren't you Cy?"
"Well you know me sir, I'm never not doing so"
Olivia had left Karen off to Roberts family when the rest of her family arrived. The OPA team. Huck had come solo leaving his wife and children at home. Harrison and Quinn had come as each others date which they called Pathetic and Abby had come with David.
"So where's that man of yours?" Abby Asked Liv taking a seat.
"Being super dad" Liv smiled.
"You are so cheesy" Abby told her. "A woman eternally in love"
Olivia rolled her eyes at her.
"Huck, where's is Kim?" In the last few years, Olivia and the team had made their mission to have Kim and Huck reunite, it had been hard but they had handled the best way they could and it seemed to be doing okay since they were having another baby. The third.
"Bed rest" Huck said. "She called some friends to stay with her plus she has the boys"
"How much can a 2 year old help?" Abby joked. Olivia shot her a killing look.
"Just wait until you have one of those" Olivia said.
"Not gonna happen!" Abby turned to David. "We'd rather be the cool aunt and uncle that make them fake Ids and stuff"
"I think Huck can do that better" Quinn smiled.
"There is one thing" Harrison said. "Liv vowed she'd never have one and now she has a whole bunch" Abby smiled.
"Yes but" she giggled teasingly at David. "Have you seen her man?"
"Thank you for that Abby" David took a sip of his drink " As if I didn't have enough superiority issues with the man"
They all broke into a laugh.
Suddenly they heard a Loud crash from behind them.
"I'm afraid to ask" David glanced at Olivia. She was too.
"This has Grant written all over it" Harrison said as they all headed towards the incoming voices.
Olivia sort of knew it too, her boys were after all, fireballs. She only prayed Mellie had not being anywhere near the mess but all of that was crushed when she saw a sauce covered Mellie staring down at two pairs of blue eyes. Fitz was nowhere to be seen.
Okay guys I just want to thank everyone for reading! Kuddos to director Mr Tony Goldwyn for the amazing Episode we got!
Until next time!