"Did you girls have a good week at school?"
Rayna and Mackenzie sat across from their dad at the dining room table eating the spaghetti that Mariah, the cook, made for them. Fitz hadn't talked to his girls in a couple days and really missed them.
"It was good. I got an a on my science project," Rayna told him.
"Fine," Mackenzie said still picking at her food.
"What wrong Kenz? You love spaghetti." Fitz watched his daughter pick at her food for the past ten minutes and couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She shook her head not answering him. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"I'm fine, daddy."
"It's getting pretty late, why don't you two go get ready for bed and I'll be up in a few minutes to tuck you in."
The girls went upstairs to their room and brushed their teeth and changed into pajamas getting in their beds.
"Why can't daddy be with momma?" Mackenzie asked her twin.
"I don't know Kenz," Rayna answered her.
"Did we do something wrong?"
"I don't think we did."
"We cleaned our room and we did all our homework. Maybe we did do something wrong but just don't remember."
"Kenzie, I think maybe momma just doesn't love daddy anymore."
"Does that mean she doesn't love us too?"
"Momma loves us. She just doesn't like daddy anymore. She always tells us how much she loves us."
"But if she stopped loving daddy she could stop loving us too."
Fitz stood outside the doorway listening to his girls talk. He felt so bad for even letting his daughters think they did anything wrong. He knew he messed up bad and was trying to make up for it, he never wanted his kids to think they did anything wrong or that they weren't loved. Teddy and Karen went through that with Mellie and there was no way his twin girls would go through that too.
"Ok girls," Fitz walked into the room and saw Rayna on Mackenzie's bed while she silently cried. "Kenzie, what's wrong baby?"
Fitz sat on the bed and pulled her onto his lap.
"Momma doesn't love us."
"Who told you that?" he asked her.
"Momma doesn't love you anymore and she doesn't love us."
"Mackenzie just because your mom doesn't get along with me right now, that doesn't mean that she doesn't love you and she doesn't love me. Momma and I are just not getting along right now. Just like how you and Teddy don't get along sometimes. Teddy still loves you."
Rayna moved back to her bed and laid down turning off her bedside light. She knew that whatever was wrong with her parents had nothing to do with her or her siblings. But Mackenzie had always been a daddy's girl and wanted her parents together the whole time.
"But we can't get a divorce like you and momma can."
"I don't know what's going to happen with me and your mom right now baby, but I can tell you that no matter what does happen, we both love you and Rayna very, very, much. And momma loves you so, so much that she really didn't want to leave you."
"We told her to spend the night with us but she doesn't want to."
"Momma just needs some time away from me. You don't need to worry about any of that. Just know that momma loves both of you more than anything. Come on, time to go to bed."
