"She had a meeting with Mr. Beene in the park this afternoon, Sir. Around noon during the break between meetings," Tom told Fitz handing him a file containing pictures of Olivia in the past couple of hours. "After that he came back here."

"I figured that he was with her during the lunch break," Fitz said to the Secret Service agents while taking a drink. In the weeks since he found out about Defiance, Fitz had gone back to drinking Scotch every free moment of the day. "I want to know what was said. Who said what? Did she seem upset or what? Tell me something more. Don't tell me just that he saw her. I'm not stupid! I know that they were together at lunch." Fitz looked at the pictures that he had the agent following Olivia take. He stared at the photo of Liv smiling with Cyrus on the bench in the park.

Tom looked at Daniel for some idea of what to say. "Mr. President, we didn't ask the other agents what was said. I'm not sure they were close enough to hear everything. But one of the agents said that she seemed a bit down. But from what the agent following her says, she seems like that all the time."

"I've been summoned?" Cyrus asked Fitz when Tom hauled him into the Oval Office. Cyrus was just sitting in his office preparing for the next day's meetings when Tom came in to take him to Fitz.

"How is she?" Fitz asked not bothering to at him. He stood next to the window staring out at the Rose Garden.

"She? Who is 'she'? I am nowhere close to being a mind reader. Be specific. How is who?" Cyrus played.

"Don't play dumb Cyrus, it doesn't work with me. You know exactly who I am talking about. You were with her today. How is she?"

Cyrus was getting a bit upset. Olivia had been deduced to being a pronoun these last few weeks since Verna's funeral. "The royal 'she'? The 'she' that you can't say her name? The 'she' that every Congressman or anyone of high power has on speed dial? The 'she' that you say you love? The 'she' that you refuse to say her name? The only 'she' that you won't let anyone say her actual name? Is that the 'she' we are talking about?"

Fitz could sense Cyrus's anger but ignored it. He had no right to be angry. After what he did to get Fitz to be President, he was lucky. "Yes, that 'she'. How is she?"

"Don't you worry about her. You can't even say her name so what gives you any right to even ask about her?"

"She betrayed me. For that matter, so did you and Mellie and Verna. But she betrayed ME! You and Mellie, I would expect that from. But Verna, I didn't think was capable of. And her, the betrayal from her. I never in a million years would have thought that she could do that to me."

"So Liv was right. You do know, Olivia said you found out. Though she wasn't sure how. Hell, I don't even know. We all swore you wouldn't know."

Fitz finally looked at Cyrus. "Do NOT say her name. Of course I found out. As a dying declaration, Verna told me. That's why she hired someone to shoot me. I don't know why she just couldn't tell me. Verna could have told me herself, she didn't need to have someone shoot me. That went a bit to the extreme."

"OLIVIA had no part of shooting you. OLIVIA wasn't even part of Defiance until Hollis brought it to the table. OLIVIA was against it from the beginning. OLIVIA said that you could do it alone. OLIVIA said that you didn't need any help. But OLIVIA was bullied into it. We all bullied OLIVIA into it. We had OLIVIA do it."

"STOP SAYING HER NAME!" Fitz screamed.

"I will say OLIVIA CAROLYN POPE's name all damn day if I want to. This is a free country that OLIVIA helped you to get this position to keep this a free country. I will not stand here and listen to you reduce OLIVIA to a simple 'she'. I will not stand for it. Olivia deserves better than that. Olivia deserves better than you. And if I have anything to do about it. I am going to make sure that she finds someone better than you. Someone who can treat her the way she deserves. Someone who can give her what she wants and to be wonderful to her. Because you sure as hell are not the person that she and I thought you were. You do not deserve her."

Cyrus started walking towards the door to leave. "Just tell me, how is she?" Fitz asked before he walked out. Cyrus turned back to look at him. Fitz met his gaze holding it.

"You called her a mistress. How do you think she is? Stay away from her." Cyrus walked out and slammed the door closed.