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 drama for Olitz. This will feature Charlie, Teddy and Hannah Grant from my other stories "Hang in There" and "All that is expected"

Hello guys! Happy Monday to everyone! So I battled myself about whether to make jake and Liv allies. I changed this a few times, to tell you the truth, I'm still not so sure.

Anyway I hope you enjoy!

I don't own Scandal

Chapter 7: keeping it low.

Karen looked beautiful in white. She reminded Fitz of his mother, and Mellie too. This was it, his little girl was getting married. The first one out of the bunch to begin a new life. Olivia stood next to him as they both watched Karen show off her dress. She and Mellie had picked it up, and it was beautiful. It made Karen look like a princess. "Dad?" He had not realized he was too focused on Karen to see tears build up in his eyes. "Don't cry, it's not even the wedding" Karen blushed. She knew her father, a former pilot and president of the United States was a sensitive man, maybe way too much. She walked up to him and kissed his cheek. "Well how do I look?"

"Stunning" was all Fitz breathed out. "I'm..."

"Stunned?" Karen smirked. "Don't worry daddy, the road doesn't end here, we still have the actual wedding." Karen smiled. She then said she'd be going upstairs to get out of the dress. After all, she was going out with her friends. Fitz was grateful it wasn't a bachelorette party. Or so he hoped. After Karen left he was quiet. Liv had been called to the office so he was alone with the kids. He often wondered what was better. Ever since stepping out of office years ago, he had put all his energy on his children, and Liv of course. On his image and his good deeds. But to tell the truth, he sometimes missed the excitement, the rush of being more than mister mom, he would never admit it to Liv or anyone else. It was one of those things he was to keep to himself to preserve his sanity. Specially now that his children were growing up. God, he prayed Hannah didn't grow up as fast, even though he knew she would eventually get married too, he was over fifty now and he only hoped to get to see her baby girl get married.

Liv came back to find him face glued to the computer in bed, he wore one of his navy blue shirts and boxers. Liv did her best to ignore how sexy her husband looked and she headed into the bathroom. "How was work?"

"Okay" she said. "Let's just say senator Peterson better watch what he says While drinking" Liv came out a moment later. "You never for have that problem, thank goodness" Fitz smirked.

"Sometimes you underestimated how good a politician I was" he told her stealing a kiss.

"Politician or not you didn't do a very good job hiding from Karen" Fitz lowered his face. "It's okay to be sad babe, but I bet you made her more nervous"

"You think?"

"She told me" she said Calmly. "She said she'd be more anxious about how you feel, because she's sure she loves Robert" Liv bit her lip. Fitz was looking at her with those sad puppy eyes. Behind those dorky glasses he was wearing.

"I want her to be happy, It's just gonna take me some time to get there" Fitz said. Olivia smiled and leaned to kiss him. "Now that I think about it, you might be able to help me" he went on to her like a predator to his prey.

"Jake" Liv had not expected to receive a call from Mellie's husband the day before the wedding. She was civil to him, she even liked him. He was the only one who could put a stop to hurricane Mellie, most of the time. "To what do I owe this surprise?"

"I'm hurt you didn't say pleasure" jake smirked into the phone.

"It depends then on what you have to say next" Liv was siting in her office. It was quiet. The only thing heard was Hannah's laughter. She had come to work with her mom because it was Friday, and on Friday, Huck usually went to meet with Cyrus for whatever he had scheduled for the next week, Olivia knew that there were quiet weeks, other quite crazy. Even though sally was president now, Fitz's presidential duties were far from over.

"I call you as a courtesy because you are my friend. And so it's Fitz" jake pulled her back from her thoughts.

"Are you going behind your wife's back?"

"Maybe" jake felt a rush of guilt washing over him.

"So this is about Mellie?" Olivia assessed.

"I just want Karen's wedding to go without a hitch"

"You should tell Mellie that, not me, she's the one who isn't steeping out of the spotlight. She craves it" she heard him sigh. "Jake? What's this really about?"

"Mellie wants to have a baby" he let out. Olivia almost fell off her chair. "She wants to adopt" Jake really respected Olivia because instead of freaking out about it, she asked him if he was okay with it. Jake liked kids, he enjoyed having Teddy over. And the aspect of having a child of his own with Mellie had never crossed his mind. Mellie was after all, not the baby type of person. And Liv knew that before hand.

"I guess it never crossed my mind. I still think we shouldn't."

"And so this call was to warn me, right?"

"Yeah, just don't tell Fitz"

"I don't keep secrets from my husband" Liv said quickly.

"I think you do" jake bit his lip. "So he doesn't get way over his head."

"You are talking about your best friend"

"And so I know him, come on Liv, just until after Karen's wedding"

"Fine" Liv said exhaling. "For Fitz and Karen"

"Yeah" Jake smiled. "Thank you Liv"

"I don't know if I should thank you"

She was right in thanking Jake, but keeping secrets from her husband wasn't something easy for her. He could read her like a book. She just prayed that Mellie kept the adoption on the low until after Karen's day. In fact she had asked jake to urge her to do the right thing for her child and so later, screw her and Fitz over wouldn't be so hard. After all, they knew how to handle her.

Oh Liv! You know better than anyone that dirty little secrets come out eventually, and Mellie gets burned on her own as well! So get ready for that, next chapter is the wedding! Crazy it's about to get lose, and this also means that this story almost reaches its end.

Thank you so much for reading! And don't forget to review if you can!