AN: Behold chapter 8. Sorry it took so long to update, school is crazy, I should actually be doing school stuff now, but I really wnated to get this out. I did a fair amount of research for the medical stuff even though it's not that much, I guess it's the part of me that almost went to med school. Thanks for reading, really it means a lot to me :)

Fitz woke up on zombie mode, Teddy had been waking up all night and he insisted on taking care of him. He was dreading talking to Cyrus about the files, and he was also thinking he had to get the rest of Olivia's team in with the plan; after all it was just two people, and he knew that even if more people knowing was risky, they needed the help of people they could trust. The previous night, he had agreed with Huck and David to use his divorce as a cover for them going so much to the White House, and David would have to watch from the sidelines during the day because he had his job and it would be weird if he suddenly just decided to be a gladiator full time. They had found it would be harder than they thought to get to command. He had a lot of people loyal to him, in and out of b613, they had to act very cautiously to get the people from outside down, but without anything involving Rowan or b613 so he wouldn't catch them. As for the people inside it was a whole different story. They were going to work their butts off to solve everything as soon as possible, he was desperately hoping that after they did, Olivia would finally come back to him.
Fitz stretched in bed and finally mustered the strength to get up. He got in the shower to get ready for work, after he was done getting dressed he went to get breakfast. He found Karen already there, but still in her pajamas.
"Not school today either huh?" he said to his daughter as he approached her. He placed a gentle kiss on her head before taking a sit next to her.
"No, I'm still not feeling so good" she replied with a faint smile.
"That's ok, just get better" he reached for her hand and gave it a soft squeeze. "I have to catch up on work today though, or Cy will have another heart attack, but call me if you need anything".
She nodded at him and continued eating her cereal. The had breakfast mostly in silence, he ate fast and left for the office. Cyrus was waiting for him already.
"Morning sir, you look like crap" Cyrus greeted him
"Well, thank you, I spent the night taking care of my ill toddler" he answered. "Hey, Cy, there is something I need to talk to you about, and also I want to call Olivia's team, we can't let that matter go unattended, time goes by quite fast and and don't want it blowing up in my face. Mellie is already moving her stuff out of the residence"
"I suppose you are right, and fire away what do you need to talk about?" he inquired
"Hmm not here, come on" Fitz got up from the couch and headed outside the oval, he knew a place right outside where there were no cameras.
"Sir, we need to get to work, can't this wait?"
"No, this is actually very serious, and it can't wait"
Cyrus saw how serious Fitz was, and he rarely saw him that way, he figured they might as well get it over with so thy could work. Fitz had decided there was not time like the present, and he wanted to get Cyrus on board so they could start planning with the gladiators later that day.

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Olivia got up early that morning and showered to make sure she was awake; she got herself ready to face Jerry and fix everything that needed fixing. She was wearing comfortable clothes, she got her hair up in a ponytail and gathered the needed supplies. As she approached the door of his room she tensed up, fearing he could throw another tantrum, but she she opened the door she found him asleep. She walked up to him and touched his shoulder to wake him.
"Hey, good morning" she said softly. He opened his eyes and adjusted to the light, when he finally registered his surroundings he moved a little too fast and tried to sit up, Olivia got a bit startled and took a step back; then everything came back to him at once and he settle back on the bed.
"I'm sorry, I guess you were right to leave me tied up" he said through gritted teeth.
"I wanted to let you sleep, but I figured you would want to start getting rid of all the wires as soon as possible" she told him.
"Yeah you are right about that, so how do we proceed?" he asked
"I am going to remove the needles from your arms, then the other one" she said awkwardly
"Ok, better get it done cause I am seriously starving" Jerry told her
Olivia had many of the things she needed int he room already, like trays, containers, bags, and also a fridge with the different drugs and the feeding solution. She went to the bathroom and washed her hands thoroughly, she had sterilized towels and had placed them in sterile bags like in a hospital, so she could use them to dry her hands. She had all she needed on a table by the bed, she put on gloves and started unhooking the tubes from the solution bags. Once she was done she discarded the gloves she was wearing and put on new ones, then she started working on his left arm.
"Ok, now I'm going to get the cannula out" she began to explain.
"I don't need to know the details, just do what you need to do" he told her.
Olivia nodded and continued with her task in silence. She was nervous, because she was no medical professional, but she had payed close attention to Huck and Kim, and also she had spent every single moment of all her newfound free time, reading medical books. She removed the cannula of his left arm without problem, he did felt some pain, but pushed through it. Olivia cleaned the site and applied antibiotic ointment on it, along with sterile gauze, before placing a waterproof dessing over it.
"I will remove the one in your right arm now"
He just nodded and turned his head the other way. Olivia proceeded almost the same way as the other arm, the difference was that they only used that arm for drugs, not feeding so it wasn't so delicate. She also put a waterproof dressing over it just in case. Before she went ahead and removed the urinary catheter, she grabbed something from the table and held it in front of him.
"What is that?" he asked, even though he had a pretty good idea what it was.
"It's just that, you have been using the catheter for a little while, and it takes the body some time to adjust" she explained
"You want me to wear a diaper" he said, annoyance clear in his voice.
"Just for a few days, to avoid any accidents, until you adjust"
"Fine, whatever, it's not like I'm going out or anything"
"Ok, so now I will have to" Olivia began to explain again but Jerry interrupted her.
"No explaining please" he asked her again
She had changed her gloves already and had moved the table to be near her, she pulled down the bed rail and removed the blanket. He finally saw there was a tube coming out of under his gown and the strap he had across his midsection, as well as the ones on his ankles. Olivia got closer and pulled the gown up all the way to the belly. She started wiping around with cotton and antibacterial solution. She cut the valve off the balloon port of the catheter and waited for the water to drip out, once that happened it means the balloon inside the bladder has deflated. She started pulling the catheter out afterwards. He winced, because it hurt a little and it was very uncomfortable, Olivia tried to be as gentle as possible while pulling it out. When she finally did, bolt of them let out a breath they didn't know they were holding. She finished cleaning the area and then threw away all the medical waste.
"Is that it?" Jerry asked her
"Yes, but there are still a few things I need to tell you" she replied
"Ok, but can you untie me now? and could we do it while eating?" he said to her hoping she'd agree. "You have to a lest get my feet free to put on the diaper"
Olivia nodded to him and went to free his feet from the straps, then she started sliding the diaper up his legs.
"Whoa there, I thought I would get to do that" he exclaimed
"Maybe the next one, but I can't let you do any effort for now" Olivia continued pulling the diaper up until it was in it's place. Then she started taking the strap of his midsection away, he was surprised, but she just figured there was no point in keeping it if he was to start living "normally" again.
"Just wait here, I will go get you something to eat"
"Wait, no" She turned around waiting for him to continue "I just… I'm kinda sick of this bed, could I please come with you and eat somewhere else?"
She knew he had a point, but she was afraid of getting him out of bed because he was going to be weak for a while and she had just unhooked him, but he looked so scared and sad, she decided to take a the risk.
"Ok, but you have to be aware that you are going to feel weak and tired for a while, I am going to help you out of the bed and to go tot he living room" He nodded and she got closer to the bed to help him sit up. She pushed one of the buttons and the bed started bending to have him in a sitting position, then she pushed another one and lowered the bed. Jerry started moving his legs and realized what she was saying, it was taking a huge effort for him to do it, he was sitting up and he had to move his whole body to get out of bed; she knew what was going on and grabbed both of his legs and slowly pulled them on the side of the bed. Then she put her arm around his midsection and told him to put his right arm around her shoulders. His feet were almost touching the ground since she had lowered the bed, Olivia realized he had no shoes and went to find his slippers, she put them on his feet and started to get him up again. Once he was on his feet he got really dizzy and nearly fell back to the bed, but she was holding him tight.
"Are you ok Jerry?"
"Yeah, just, you were right, I do feel weak"
"Ok, lets just take it slowly"
She started moving very slowly and he moved his feet. Each step was small and he felt like he was running a marathon. The house wasn't too big, and huck turned the office/tv room into Jerry's hospital room downstairs; they made it to the living room after a while, and she helped him sit down on the couch. He was feeling very dizzy and tired. Olivia went to find a blanket and placed it on his legs, then she went back to the room and came back with a zip up hoodie. She helped him put it on. Once he was settled she walked to the kitchen and go a yogurt and a spoon and gave them to him. He looked at it and a smile threatened to appear.
"Strawberry cheesecake flavor, it's my favorite" he said happily
"I know, your dad told me. Lets see how you feel eating that and then we see about more food"
"How about, you start telling me how the heck this happened while I enjoy my yogurt"
She sighed and started thinking where to begin, she decided it was best to start with how they found out.
"Your dad made this plan to take down command, and put someone else on the job, and it seemed to have worked, but I knew my dad too well so it just seemed weird to me that he was so easily defeated so I had Huck keep an eye on him"

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Three weeks before
Huck walked into Olivia's office with a very concerned expression on his face. He paced the room a little bit, before he calmed and stood in front of her desk.
"He is going to do something Olivia, something bad" he finally said. Olivia knew who he was talking about and gave him her undivided attention.
"You know SSA Tom, he is dirty, he is one of us, I came here to ask you for permission to interrogate him"
"Tom! I think that is crazy, and you know we could get in so much trouble, he is Fitz' closest guys" she answered shocked, but then it hit her, who was better to spill to his father that the man Fitz trusted the most; also she knew Huck was rarely ever wrong. She brought her hands to her face and stayed like that for a while, trying to decide what to do.
"Huck, are you sure about this?" he nodded "What do you suspect he is planning?"
"I think he wants to hurt someone from his family, since hurting the president would be too complicated" Huck explained.
"Ok, do what you have to do"

Huck got to Tom on his free day, he used his special skills on him until he spilled. Tom told him command had everything planned all along, that he had orders to kill Jerry with meningitis on his dad's last meet. Tom knew Huck was b613 too, he told him there was no way to go against command, that he would just get rid of him and find a different way to kill Jerry. Command had been plotting for a while, to take revenge on Fitz, and guilt Olivia into leaving him, and that the whole deal with her mother had actually turned out to be useful for him, since she would be the one blamed for it. Huck decided to call Olivia and figure something out with her. Olivia got there and had to try her best to ignore the evidence of Huck's interrogation methods, when she arrived Tom was already dressed and looking unharmed while tied to a chair.
"Your dad is going to kill Jerry Grant" Huck told her "He says, if we do anything, he will end up dead and your father will just find some other way to torture the president" he said to her pointing at Tom. "He is right Liv, your dad always gets what he wants."
Olivia's head was going a thousand miles a minute, there had to be a way for them to save Jerry and still keep her dad pleased.
"What if he does succeed" both men turned to look at her like she had grown another head. "What if we make him think he succeeded" she cleared
"You mean like faking it" Tom said.
"I suppose we could do it, but you know, he can't know" he said about Fitz "He has to think his son is dead, or your father will know."
Olivia looked at him feeling panic, she would have to put Fitz through the worse pain a parent can experience, but it was better than the option of him losing his son for real.
"Also, you know that if he doesn't know, we can't just steal the boy, and also it would be near impossible to cheat the doctors cause it's the presidents kid, they will be extra careful"
"What are you saying?" Olivia asked him confused.
"He means, someone else has to die, there has to be a body" Tom piped in.
Olivia was beginning to panic, she found it so wrong to just take someone else's life, even if it was for the child of the love of her life. Tom started thinking on how to make her come to terms with it, the truth was that he never wanted to be traitor, but you can't say no to command; he thought maybe he did have a chance at redemption after all.
"We could find someone on b613 kill list that could pass for Jerry" he suggested
"Height, hair and eye color, body type… oh and also blood type, I guess it's possible" Huck added.
Olivia was just standing there unable to utter a single sound, maybe they weren't planning on killing an innocent citizen, but still, they had no right. She knew that someone on commands list wasn't necessarily a bad guy.
"Liv, I know you don't agree with this, but it's the only way we can save him, and keep command at bay" Huck told her "He has to believe his planned worked"
"He already knows you want to bring down b613, he will let you do it so you can't get your mom and he can blame her for Jerry's death, then you will feel guilty and finally leave Fitz, and he will volunteer to catch her and have Fitz give him back his power officially" Tom explained to her. She stayed quiet a while longer trying to decide hat to do, it was just a little too much for her to handle.
"You are saying that, we have to keep going as if nothing had happened, even with our plans, and then kill someone to save Jerry, and I have to leave so he thinks he succeeded" She finally spoke.
"We also have to make Jerry sick with something, because he is supposed to collapse in public" Tom added
"On top of all, we do have to risk Jerry's life" Tom simply nodded. Olivia was losing it with that plan, but she tried to calm down and think clearly. She knew the reason she was panicking, was because part of her had already agreed to the plan. She loved Fitz, and she couldn't let her father murder his son.
"All cylinders go people, we have a lot to do" she voiced feeling defeated.

They all went back to their lives, while also getting their plan on track. They had to fire out where to keep the sick Jerry until he could travel, and find the patsy. They didn't have much time and also couldn't trust more people to help. Finding the patsy was easier than she thought, and it didn't matter he wasn't like a lost twin because meningitis that strong caused severe swelling so his face would be unrecognizable once the symptoms worsened. They still needed someone else to help, to play a paramedic in the ambulance they would use for the switch, but it couldn't be any of them. Tom found the solution for that, there was a guy, Parker, that was b613 and on command's death row. He made a mistake on a mission while Jake was in charge, and he gave Parker another chance, but that was unacceptable to Rowan. Tom still had to do jobs besides betraying Fitz, because Rowan didn't want any of his agents to loose the hang of it; he approached the guy who was to kill Parker and traded him the job he had saying it was personal. Those things happened so the other guy went his merry way without questions. Tom told Parker he would spare his life if he helped him, no questions asked, and then disappeared forever.
They seemed to be on the right path, Olivia would pick Jerry's outfit, that way they would know just what to put on the patsy, she made sure to know what Jerry kept in his pockets so every detail would be taken care of. Their real breakthrough though, was when Huck read the file on his wife and learned that she had become a nurse. If Kim agreed to help them it would solve a huge problem, she was trustworthy, no one would think she'd help them, and she had was a healthcare professional.

When the day came they had everything planned, Huck would hijack the ambulance he knew had to respond to a call from Tom, just before the call was made. He would give the paramedics a nice shot of midazolam. Midazolam served two purposes, it would knock them out until their ambulance was returned to them and they would forget any events that happened an hour prior to the hijack or even more if they were sensitive to the drug. It was a beautiful thing called anterograde amnesia.
It seemed like luck was on their side that day, Rowan got stabbed, meaning he wouldn't be breathing on Tom's neck about his plan. It was hard on Olivia, but it did make their plan easier to carry out. Tom got a very strong type of pneumonia for Jerry, along with the appropriate antibiotics to treat it. Huck tricked the patsy into thinking he was part of some plan against b613, he had to cooperate, any bruising, or drugs would show up at the hospital and it would make it possible for them to realize it wasn't Jerry.
Huck waited with him near the ambulance, they got the paramedics together, when he was in the ambulance with him he was given the shot of meningitis. When he was unconscious Huck changed his clothes. and drove to the event, he picked parker up along the way. Tom insisted to be the one going not the ambulance.
"Sir please, he can't go without a detail, and neither can you, and the space in here is limited" Tom pleaded with Fitz. "It's for the safety of both of you, someone could try and take advantage of the situation, I can take care of him"
Fitz finally agreed, also he wanted to be there for both Karen and Mellie, they were both really shaken up.
Once in the ambulance Tom started giving Jerry the antibiotics and then they switched him with the patsy. Parker and Tom both did everything according to procedure to "save" the life of the other guy. They arrived at the hospital and carried the gurney in side. The doctors took over; the swelling was really bad on his chest and face; his limbs had a bad rash, there was no way to tell if that was not actually Jerry Grant, and there was no reason to think it wasn't. He was pronounced dead.
Huck and Parker left immediately, they put the paramedics back in their ambulance and erased the entry of the call. They put Jerry on an SUV, and before he left he administered a dose of Midazolam to Parker. Since he didn't know what the mission was about before, he wouldn't remember Jerry or anything; all he would know was that there had been a plan and he had to leave to save his ass.
Huck took Jerry over to Kim, they had set up all they needed on her basement. She placed a central line on him and made sure he got all the drugs he needed. Huck left him with her and left to avoid suspicions. Jerry's care was in Kim's hands now, and the best he could do was stay away. Olivia carried on Like nothing had happened, Fitz put her father back on b613, he would get her mother and she had to leave. She made Jake believe they were leaving together so he would spill b613 secrets, it was Huck's idea. After ditching Jake she would stay with Fitz, until Jerry was well enough to be transferred to their safe house in Louisiana.

Present day

Jerry looked at Olivia in utter shock. It was way to much to process, he just couldn't believe how all that had happened. Both of them stayed quite for a long time, he was doing his best to process what had happened.
"I got pneumonia?" he asked
"Yes, you did"
"That's why I remember feeling so sick"
She nodded "That's why you actually still have to take antibiotics, and we have to be very careful with your health"
"Someone had to die so I could live"
Olivia nodded again, that was the worse part of their plan, she still had trouble with it.
"Why did you do all this, I mean, your father is a nut job, you and your friend, you guys are risking your lives for me" Jerry said.
"Because I love your father more than anything and he loves you, I would have never been able to look him in the eye again knowing I did nothing to prevent your death" Olivia explained. She left out that she also did it because she still hoped they could be together and be a family, and if Fitz was her family, so were his kids.
He nodded and pondered about his next word, he had decided to trust Olivia, aside from dating his father, she had always been a stand up person, and she seemed to really care for him and his dad.
"Ok, I will trust you, and wait for all this to blow over, so I can be with my family again"
Olivia smiled at him and took his hand, she was thankful it seemed like her life with Jerry was not going to be so difficult.
"Now I need to tell you about the special care you need now" Jerry nodes and smiled at her. "You need to be really careful with you arms and not do much of an effort with them, you veins took a hit with those IVs and we don't want you to form clots. You also have to be careful with your chest, a central line had to be placed, because you can't be fed through your arm veins for too long, the catheter in your chest was placed by Huck's wife, but she removed it before the trip, that one is far more delicate and It would've been to risky for em to remove it. I already told you about the diapers, so I think that's it" she explained "And also the fact that you will be feeling weak for a while, but you are young so you'll get your strength back"
"Did I loose weight?" he looked down at his body.
"Yeah, like 15 pounds"
"Guess I have to eat up" he said with exaggerated cheer. "How about we eat, and talk about serious things later, I think this was enough for now"
Olivia smiled at him and went to the kitchen again. She started cooking up some things for breakfast, like toast and oatmeal. He hadn't had any solid food for days so he had to take it easy, cause even being careful there was a big chance of him throwing up or getting diarrhea. Olivia was still really worried, he was basically like her son at the moment, she was fully responsible for him; but at least they were finally getting along.

AN2: Like I said in the previous chapter, this seems far fetched, but most things are on this show. Seriously, I researched meningitis, it takes at least like 3 days to get you dying it it's severe and you can still make it with proper care.

Also I decided to make Kim a nurse cause I wanted to make it believable within the habilities of the people involved; Jerry's condition was serious, so I didn't want to make his treatment to simple, and Olivia is no healthcare professional so there were things that she wouldn't be able to do. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed, and I will write as fast as I can to get the next one.
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