"You save me all the time." Olivia stared at Fitz for several minutes in silence. "Every time I have a bad day or Cyrus is on my ass about something I just think about what you're doing." Fitz pulled out his phone and showed her his favorite picture of them together. It was a photo taken of them on the campaign trail before his father died. They were sitting on a bench in the park discussing his next speech when someone snapped the picture. "I look at this and think of what you're doing and it makes my day so much better. I wanted to call or talk to you some way before now but I was too upset with you. Then Cyrus explained everything about Defiance and I wasn't angry with you anymore. But I was too angry with myself. I asked you to wait for me and turned around and called you…that. I would never let anyone else call you that and it's exactly what I did. And I didn't do it so say you weren't. I wanted to hurt you. Because you hurt me. And I wanted you to feel as much pain and betrayal as I did. I knew it would hurt you too. I called you that and…"
"Stop being a wimp and man up. You called me a mistress! I want to hear you say it."
"Liv," he started but she cut him off.
"No, say it. You were man enough to call me it to my face and now it's just 'that'? No, I want to hear you admit it. Say exactly what you said. You wanted to hurt me and get my attention then. Well you got it. If there was one person I would never expect to hear being called a mistress from would be you. You scream at Mellie when she says, you nearly want to kill Cyrus when he does, but it's alright when it comes out of your mouth."
Fitz went to her and kissed her hard. He missed her lips so much. They were just as he remembered though. "It's not okay. I hated myself for calling you that since I said it. You were never and will never be a mistress. You are the love of my life and I should have treated you so much better. Even though I was angry with you, we still could have worked through it. We have always gotten through everything together. Because we are in this together. It's supposed to be you and me against the world. My world is crashing down. I need you beside me to hold up the walls. I can't do it anymore if I don't have you. I wanted to drink so much until the pain was gone for so long. I finally had to see you though. I need to know what's been going on with you. You've been at the hospital every day for the past two months until last week. Then that stunt at the White House. I'm concerned about you. The agents said that that's the only place you had been going. But no one knew why. What's been going on with you? Are you sick or is it something with the baby?"
Olivia could feel herself caving into him. She was beginning to realize that he was actually worried about her well-being. But she couldn't talk about it now. "Why is your world crashing? How do you want me to fix it?"
Fitz rolled his eyes and sat on the couch. "I don't want you to fix it, you can't anyway. I found out some news that I didn't ever expect to hear but I know now and it's going to get better."
"There's nothing I've come across so far that I can't fix. Do you have a plan?" Olivia sat on the other side of the couch and listened to him.
"I do have a plan; it's actually in the works as we speak. Mellie's moved out," Fitz said. He watched Olivia for any kind of reaction. "She's moved back to California to the ranch and has been living there for several weeks. Almost a month. I found out a few months back that she and I don't have children together."
Olivia's jaw dropped when he told her. "What? That can't be right, you have three kids. Jerry looks just like you."
"Jerry isn't my son; he's my brother," he told her. He felt weird just thinking about it. Fitz had been raising his brother instead. He saw Liv trying to work it out in her mind. "Big Jerry raped Mellie when I was running for Governor. Karen, we still aren't sure who her father is but we have an idea. And Teddy, well, I couldn't, you know. He's actually my friend Andrew's son. My Lieutenant Governor had been screwing my wife for quite some time now. It appears that every time Mellie has gone on some sort of trip even while First Lady, she's been hooking up with Andrew. Your son is the only son I have."