Disclaimer, nothing you recognize from Scandal belongs to me, and no money will be made from this.
UBOnline - I am already back ;) - Just get a room? Ehm, later… ;)
babycakesbriauna - I think that is the person she is, taking in all strays. Loving, caring even up to a point of giving up herself, so a bit self-destructive as well.
Dragon77 - Nope, not a happy camper!
Slone'sTravelDreamer - We are still in the setup…. But I think there will be some fireworks later…. for different reasons ;)
Scandalicious - Yes, I think he is hurt, even so hurt that he is in a way blind to the other peoples hurt around him.
ee123 - Well, at the end there are some comment about a Baby. You are not the only one who wants one, ahm here in this story ;)
chocolate1 - He is and men are such Babies when it comes to there feelings. I think Fitz is a man with deep emotions but was trained to always be in line, so the best place is to hide behind such a line.
juicyj28 - Well Abraham was just a guy I needed at first, but I liked him to much to just send him on his way. So yes more of him as well.
Oops nice Fitz, *goesintohiding*
limepalmtree - At your service !
CWprodigy - As I said before I really like Huck, he is so complex a writers dream to work with not much of him here, but he will be a major player in this I swear!
InspiredtoRead - Talek? Well if you want to call it a talk ;)
MSreadalot2012 - Well in RL I am a funny person, but when it comes to writing I am more the Drama Queen… I always need to remind myself not to kill anaybody… at least not right away hehehe
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Love Is A Shield
- Part 4 -
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"What do you want now?"
She was not sure what she had expected. Did she even have the right to expect anything anymore? He had offered to give up everything to be with her and she had rejected it without even telling him or giving them a chance to talk it over. But nothing could prepared her from the sharp pain when she heard his voice, cold, distend with an almost hostile tone.
What did she want? She knew what she wanted, but also knew what she never could have. She was the fixer, fixing other peoples live, every life but her own.
"Jerry is here." Not sure how to address him, everything seemed to be so different. She decided to drop the bomb and deal with the shockwaves.
The was such a long pause on the other end that if there was not the sound of an engine in the background she would have thought he simply had hung up on her. But form the sound of it he was already on Marine One, so Jerry had been right he was on his way back.
"My son?" And before she could answer. "I swear to you if this is some kind of a sick joke you are playing on me, you will regret it. This is even below your level and I thought you already hit the bottom."
Olivia was at loss for words, he always had the effect on her, one way or the other. This was for sure no conversation they should have over a phone, even over a secure phone. She shot a quick glance at Huck he had his head cocked slightly to the right and his is eyebrows raised. She was sure he had not understood the words Fitz had hurled at her but the yelling was clear to everybody in the room.
Before she could even start to explain a small had came up and grabbed the phone.
"Hi Daddy, please do not be mad at Livi, I took a cab." Jerry had heard the voice of his father and the anger in it, he could not understand why he was so angry at Olivia, he had tried to ask him if they could ask her to come with them to California fro vacation, he really wanted to go back, he missed his friends and the wide open space.
No matter where he turned somebody was there telling him where to go and when to stay away, so his newest hobby became to drive the Secret Service mad, he knew the With House now far better than any of them. It had started because he had been bored to death, Karen was with their mother shopping, even thinking about it he had to roll his eyes. His father had one of his visitors and it just had been a slow weekend. So he had started to explore, the first days they always caught him very soon, but every time he got better. He watched how they worked, they always had the same search pattern, very effective looking for an adult, but not for him, he smiled at the thought how often thy simply walked by in their search cause he had squeezed in a small and tight spot.
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Fitzgerald Grant took the phone from his ear and looked at it, he could not believe what he heard. This had to be a joke, there was no way his son could be in with Olivia in the middle of the night just telling him he took a cab.
He had no idea what to expect when his secure cell for emergency's started to ring, only a handful of people knew this number and one of them was seated next to him. Cyrus's head had shot up from his nap, he was tiered after the long flight and he seemed to have aged a lot over the last weeks. They where far behind their schedule even with his privileges they had been stuck in Rome at the DaVinci Airport due to heavy snowfall and it took them some time to clear the runway enough for a save take up of Air Force One before closing the Airport completely. He had tried to call Jerry as soon as he was in the air, but Mellie had just told him that he was already in bed and he would have trouble going back to sleep after being woken up just for a chat.
When he got his phone on the third ring from his pocket and he saw Initials CB, his heart took an extra leap before his brain was able to catch up. There where no more sweet calls if he was ok, tiered, sad or happy. No more calls where he could simply talk about what had reeled him up all day. No more calls of a simple I love you.
For a short time he had been happier than he could remember, maybe even happier than the moment he got elected. She had been with him in the Oval Office not more pretending no more running and no more hiding, he was so sick of hiding.
To be President had been first his fathers dream for him, but it became his, he wanted to change things to make life better for everybody if possible.
Yes, he had made a mistake, a huge one, he wished he could have blame it on the Scotch, but he had been to sober at that moment. It had been Karen's birthday and he had a huge fight with Mellie and Amanda just had been there. He had used her, and he had felt sick and disgusted at himself afterwards. Not the right moment to go there now while starring at the phone.
He had to steel himself before picking up, she had left him not only once but twice he would be dammed if he would let her get so emotionally close again, just to be left for third time.
Maybe she needed a favor for her new best Buddy Rosen.
So when he picked up the call all his anger was still present and to make matters worse Cyrus was awake and fully alert, he knew a call on that phone meant trouble.
"What do you want now?"
It sounded strange to his own ears when all he wanted was to go back to the moment when she told him he would be so lucky to have her. She had been so right at that time, he knew it than and she proofed it more than once.
After she did not answer right away he got ready to shout at her about her sick games and that she should stop calling him except there was an real emergency, maybe giving her a lecture about using the proper channels., but her next words hit him totally unprepared.
'Jerry is here!'
Here? Where here? At the phone? Where was she anyway? Had they been kidnapped? But why those two, he felt as wave of panic rising. but with this even more anger, there was no way somebody would be able to get the two most important people in his life in one place and kidnap them. How had she been able to pick Jerry up. Why would she pick up Jerry?
Before he could think about it rationally he did the one thing he wanted to do to her for weeks now, simply yell at her, hurt her at much as he could so she would feel a fraction of the hurt he had felt when he walked into that room where Mellie and she had presented him their plan, not even pretending he had a say in it.
He loved kids and he would love to have more, but not with Mellie not after what she was putting Jerry through. How did she even came up with this plan, he thought she at least liked Jerry.
So he simply shouted at her, and form the way everybody around him jumped it was loud enough that he would not have needed a phone at all.
It did not matter what he said, or if would make any sense he just needed to get his frustration out of his system
Hal and Tom just starred out of the window like the darkness over Washington was the most interesting thing in the world. Normally he liked them both and he also knew they liked him, not only as a job description, he head heard the tone when they spoke about him when they thought he was out of earshot, going on about his crazy ideas and it always held a fondness and that was when he knew he could really count on them no matter what. But right now he wanted them out, he wanted everybody out.
Most of all Cyrus, he was not only openly starring but even leaning in to may hear even the other part of the conversation.
Cyrus had changed so much since the election, he had been always the man for the dirty work, like he called it, but over all he had been always a friend not afraid to speak what was on his mind. He still did, but what he had seen and how he acted sometimes he feared the power they held would corrupt him, make him do things he would before not even have considered or had turned his head in disgust.
Before he could get enough air just to go on he hearted the pleading voice of his son.
"Hi Daddy, please do not be mad at Livi, I took a cab."
It was a simple statement like when he was finished with his home work, but hearing his sons voice the realization sunk in. Not that he ever really thought Olivia would play such a game, but than on the other hand did he really know her? He once thought so, but her last actions made him doubt that.
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Before Olivia could grab the phone back Jerry had ended the call.
He held the phone out to her with a small smile.
"He will come", was the only explanation he gave before trying to snuggle back in a comfortable position.
Taken aback Olivia just grabbed the phone and without thinking she swung both legs onto the sofa so the boy could lie down completely. Before she had finished arranging the blanket new around them she felt the child going limp against her body indicating that he was already asleep.
"Any word on Harrison and Quinn?" Olivia asked Huck. But he only shock his head, this where good news so far, no news where good news. Well if this would be only be valid for Stephen as well, but here she had a really bad feeling.
It had been a more than simple task, one he did countless of times, but he was not gone for 2 days for something that more than a couple of hours but for over two weeks and even Huck could not find a trace of him.
"Abby?" This time he just pressed his lips together. Abby took it hard, Olivia knew for a long time that Abby felt more than only friendship for Stephen and she suspected that everybody else knew it as well including Stephen. She had never been really sure about his feelings for Abby, but three had been indications that he felt the same way.
She looked over to Abraham, who's eyes wandered uncomprehending between her and Huck back and fort, she could literally see the wheels in his head turning.
Time to make some decisions.
TBC
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Some have demanded a Baby (O/F), not sure if this would fit in here right now. If you really want I can work on that …. well but there will be a Baby sort of… well …
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