"Where the hell do you think you're taking me?" Olivia screamed.
"Ma'am we are just following orders." Tom told her.
"His orders? Let me out now!"
Tom had taken her to a mental hospital under Fitz's orders. "Ms. Pope I am very sorry about this. He just wants to make sure that you are alright. He said you were out of control this afternoon. And he wants to make sure that you mental state is fine."
"My mental state is perfectly clear. He can't do this to me! I have to get home. Tom please, I really need to go home. I can't explain it to you. Just take me home or let me out and I'll call a cab."
He was sympathetic with her. Tom and Daniel both knew that Fitz was stepping outside his bounds of authority but it was for her own safety. If she was too stressed out from work then she needed to stop. They didn't want to take her but it was their orders. "Ma'am when the doctor gives you an examination and gives you the all clear we can take you home. Please, we are only following orders."
"That's what they said at the Nuremburg Trials too. They still were punished. Daniel, Tom, I promise you that my mind is clear. I cannot explain to you because he cannot know. Just let me go."
Daniel turned around to look at her from the front seat. "Ms. Pope, just two hours. Two hours from now you will be back at home safe and sound. I promise."
The doctor came in and gave Olivia a psych evaluation. When she was done, the doctor discussed her mental status with Liv. "You seem fine. I'm not sure why they hauled you in here to begin with. With your job, it seems to be as much stress as usual. You're free to go, Ms. Pope."
Tom and Daniel drove her back to her apartment in the morning. She finally had the chance to look at her phone. Huck had called her a dozen times and sent her several messages. James had called to ask if she knew where Cyrus was. So did the White House.
She called Huck back. "What did you find out?" she asked him. She could hear Cyrus screaming in the background from pain.
"He hired Charlie to take Reagan anywhere. He gave him two million dollars to take care of him until he called to say bring him back."
"But where are they?"
"I'm looking at Charlie's bank account right now. He bought two plane tickets to the Bahamas yesterday. One way tickets. He might still be there."
"Good job Huck, take Cyrus over to the White House, he's late for his meetings."
"I'm going to the Bahamas and I'll make sure that Reagan comes home. I promise Liv, I won't let you down."
They hung up and Olivia decided to stay home until Reagan was safe in her arms. Huck dropped Cyrus off on the corner of the White House. When Cyrus came in Fitz was immediately worried. Cyrus had cuts on his arms, face, and chest. His clothes were all cut up and he had a black eye.
"What the hell happened to you?" Fitz asked.
"Don't worry about it. I just got jumped."
"On your way to your office someone jumped you? Aren't those the same clothes you had on yesterday?"
"Fitz, don't get involved with this. I just got jumped."
"Huck did this to you?"
"How do you know Huck?"
"He helped on the campaign for a few days. And she calls him any time she needs something. He protects her. He did this?"
"Unofficially yes. Officially no."
"And that means?"
"Don't concern yourself."
"How can't I concern myself? My Chief of Staff comes in to work and looks like he just got the living shit beat out of him, which seems something that I should concern myself with. You got slapped yesterday but the woman I'm in love with…" he cut himself off.
"What?"
"I'm in love with her. I'm still in love with her. After all the shit we've been through, I still love her."
"But you won't say her name. You won't let anyone say her name around you."
"She hurt me. Deeply hurt me. She betrayed me and so did you. But I trusted her with my life. I trusted her with everything and she betrayed me."
"She won't forgive you though. You called her a mistress. She felt lower than she has ever been when you said it. You made her shut down. Olivia will never forgive you. And not only that. You fucked her in the closet after my daughter's christening. She will not forgive you for any of that. Olivia was weak after that. She shut down and she stayed in bed for over a week. You will never be forgiven for that. Olivia Carolyn Pope will never forgive you for any of that."
"Well she hates me even more now."
"Why?"
"I had Tom and Daniel take her to a mental hospital."
