"Liv, your hair looks great. Wait until Blake sees you," Abby told her.

"I highly doubt Blake will notice anything about my hair. Guys don't see that, do they Fitz?"

Fitz locked eyes with her from his seat in the hotel room where the girls were all getting ready. "You look beautiful, Livie. He should notice your hair."

"You only noticed it because you heard us talking about it," Abby said.

"Even if you hadn't said anything… I notice everything."

Ella came over next to him and sat down playing on her tablet she got from him the Christmas before. The bridesmaids were trying to get their dresses all zipped up so they could go ahead with makeup and hair. Fitz could see the evil eye Abby was giving him and decided it was best to do it now.

Getting up, Fitz followed to the dresser where Liv was trying to find her makeup bag. Without saying anything to her, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her to the balcony of the room. For a full minute he just stood staring at her with her hair pinned up and the robe she got to get ready in. Her usual makeup she had on was light but would be enhanced within a few minutes. He closed the balcony door and moved towards her.

"You look stressed out," she commented seeing the anxiety in his face.

"You can't do this."

"Can't do what?"

"You can't marry Blake. He's not what you want. He's never been what you wanted. It's always been you and me. It will always be you and me. This… Livie you just can't marry him. You don't know him. You have no idea what he is capable of or who he really is."

"I know everything about Blake. Fitz, him and I are good together. The train for you and me left a long time ago. We had our chance and we missed it."

"There's never not been a you and me since we met. Even when we were arguing there was always and you and me. He has secrets, Olivia. He has a hidden agenda that will put you in harm's way. I want to protect you and this is the only way to do it. You can't marry him. You don't know him."

"What don't I know? You obviously know something I don't."

"He has a son. And an ex-wife."

Olivia crossed her arms and sat down on the bench on the balcony. "I know about Jacob and Ashley. And technically, Ashley is his wife. I've met Jacob before. He's a good kid."

"You know about them? How are you going through with this wedding if he's still married to her? Why would you let yourself do that?"

"It's a marriage from Saudi Arabia. The United States doesn't recognize their type of marriage. Even though their marriage here is legal and is legal over there, there's just some minor details that they are married."

"And you were still going to marry him today?"

"Yes. I love him. He's what I deserve."

"He is not what you deserve. Far from it. He's petty and vial. You do not deserve him. He is so far beneath you," Fitz told her.

"I love him. I made myself love him. I'm going to fix the issue of his marriage to Ashley and work on getting him custody of Jacob and being a good stepmom to him. I know he's going to hate me, most kids do, but I'm willing to risk it. I'm the one breaking him away from his mother."

"You wouldn't do that. I know you."

Fitz moved to the bench beside her. "But if Blake wants custody of Jacob then I'm going to help him get that. Hopefully not by destroying Ashley in the process but I am a fixer and will do what needs to be done."

"There's another thing you don't know about him."

"Try me."

"He's only marrying you for your money. And once he has full access to your accounts he's going to kill you. He'll have no need for you after he has your money." Fitz looked up at her seeing her face. "And you knew all that already, didn't you?"

Liv nodded. "I told you I know everything about him."

"Olivia! What the hell is wrong with you? You knew all this and you are still going to marry him? Where is the Olivia Pope I know? Where is my Livie?"

"I told you I deserve him. You have no idea about the things that I have done. And not just the things I have done for you. But the things that I have done for him, for the country, for clients. It's all too much. But I am putting my trust in him because I do love him. I love Blake and I don't believe that he will actually go through with hurting me. He might try to take my money but there are security sanctions up. It would take him over a century to take all my money. And I believe that he will do the right thing for Jacob. All he wants is to have his son back. Ashley is a minor detail that can be taken care of in a matter of a phone call. She doesn't mean anything to him. She's only still breathing because she hid Jacob from him. My safety is not an issue but the safety of Jacob is a major problem. For all I know, Jacob could be back in Saudi Arabia being hurt. I am going to help Blake get his son back. And I know none of this is making sense to you because it barely makes sense to me. But either way, at six o'clock tonight I will be marrying Blake and we're going to be husband and wife for the rest of our lives. I need you to understand that that is going to happen."

Fitz looked stunned at her. He couldn't believe that she was going to risk her life to a man she thought she might love but was going to kill her soon.

She stood up ready to walk away but he grabbed her hand.

"I am begging you, Olivia. Don't marry him. For your own safety, don't do this."

"I am not in danger, Fitz. I'm going to marry him."

He stood up in front of her blocking her path to go back in. "Why did you want me here? Why did you call me to come to this wedding?"

"Because I want you here. You are important to me and I want you here."

"I am not that important to you. You called me because you wanted this to be goodbye. This is how you wanted this to end? For me to see you with someone else and know that you were over me."

"You are the most important person in my life and don't you dare try to say otherwise. And I am over you. We've been done for years. We've only been friends."

"That was not my choice, it was yours! You distanced yourself from me and never wanted to be more than friends. I wanted you to come back to me and we could start over but you never wanted that. Even after I was done being President, you still never wanted to come back to me. No matter how many times I begged you to come to visit, or come to Vermont, or just to pick up the damn phone, you still never wanted anything more. I gave that to you, I gave you what you wanted and now it's my turn. You owe me that."

"I owe you that? I have done so much for you that you don't even realize it. I have risked lives for you. You think this is really what I want? You honestly believe I really wanted you to be my man of honor? What the hell does a man of honor even do? I have no idea but I wanted you here to tell you goodbye, just in case it does so happen that he wants to kill me. But I do love Blake and I am going to marry him tonight."

Olivia side stepped him and went back inside the room.

"So what happened?" Abby asked coming out to the balcony.

"We're going to a wedding at six."