AN: Sorry for not updating sooner, I just have way too many things to do for school, I swear I'm doing my best. We are finally getting close to bringing command down for good, lets just hope everyhitng goes like they planned it. Thanks for reading! :)
Friday came again and Fitz was exhausted and worried, they were moving forward with their plan faster than planned, fearing that if command called Jake again it would all be over. Huck had gotten more help from the same guy who helped them with Jerry, Parker. Wednesday afternoon he sent Huck an encrypted message and told him he couldn't leave the country undetected and that he was just hiding on small towns and living under the radar, so he might as well help them.
The guy was smart so he knew that whatever they were doing had to be against b613 if they spared his life, due to the drug he didn't know about Jerry, so Huck decided to give him a mission. If Parker got caught he could sell them out but at least Olivia and Jerry would still have a chance.
Parker was keeping tabs on a few guys command had in case he needed to escape, those guys just wait for a call to get moving and even recruit more people if needed. He had also supervised the mercenaries hired to neutralize the small criminals who worked for Rowan's benefit, they caught many of them on friday morning and they decided to keep them caged off the record to avoid Rowan finding out. He didn't keep track of those, but his escape guys were a bit more complicated, he didn't contact them unless he felt threatened in some way. Parker was on the look out for orders coming from command, they were going to wait a few more days before they took them down, unless Jake screwed everything up. Escape agents had to be taken all at once or else one of them could warn Rowan; there were just 8 guys, but it was more than enough to make them worry. After going through all the files, they knew who was b613, the only file Huck hid was Tom's; that way they could get black ops people to help them when the time came, soldiers who were loyal to their president and commander in chief not to Rowan. However Huck suggested holding back on getting the military involved, those files were not up to date, even if it was just for about 6 weeks, it was more than enough time for Rowan to recruit a soldier and they wouldn't know about it until it was too late, Tom tried to keep them updated but he didn't really get that much intel.
The gladiators and been in charge of going through a bunch of soldier files to determine which were less likely to have been recruited to b613 in the past 6 weeks; they worked real hard to find a pattern on the files of soldiers who had turned dark including Jake's, there were a few factors on their psych evaluations and skill set that seemed to be similar in all of them. ODC had many actions on stand by, just waiting for the exact right moment to be carried out, their whole operation had to work in perfect sync, like a swiss watch. Huck told them they had to get everyone who could take on command's reign of terror, repeating it was like a hydra, you cut off one head and another takes it's place. Abby even compared it to marvel's Hydra at one point, there was a lot of people who followed command and were loyal to his wicked ways, leaving one of them free, meant risking it all starting again and causing trouble in the future.
Fitz left his office around 6 pm to go have dinner with his kids and then he went on a meeting with the gladiators. Since Mellie had finally moved to Boston, he was due for another interview, so the people could see the new him as a single dad and great leader; it was just a bunch of pr crap they had fixed already, but it was a good excuse for them to still be hanging out with Fitz. He went to their usual conference room and found them eating diner.
"Good evening guys" he greeted them
"Oh, hi sir, we thought you were coming later" Quinn said with his mouth full, and trying to close the container.
"It's fine, carry on, you guys have to eat at some point, I just had a quick dinner because my daughter was in a rush to leave so she could go to a friends house" Fitz told her "And seriously, after all this, you gotta stop calling me sir, it's just Fitz"
"Yes Quinn, loosen up a little, we have all forgiven your mistakes, and Fitz here is practically family by now" She was stretched out with her feet on the table and she playfully slapped Fitz arm. David looked at her like she had lost her mind, but Fitz really didn't mind.
"Have some respect Abby" David told her
"It's fine, David, and I'm glad you think of me as family, even though I'm a republican" he said to Abby
"Yeah well, you are not so bad" Abby told him "I mean, if you marry Olivia, you will basically become my brother-in-law, I'll have to put up with you anyway" Fitz just chuckled.
"I think that's enough chit chat for now" Huck interrupted their conversation "We can still work even if you are eating"
David agreed with Huck and Abby reluctantly sat up to start working. They were just going through the final details of their plan, and also trying to come up with an emergency one, just in case. Whatever happened their number one task was to get command, dead or alive. They would deal with the rest later even if it was complicated.
Jerry had been begging Olivia to let him go out to the backyard to at least lay on the grass, he was sick of being inside all the time, but she kept saying no, she said it was too risky. He kept insisting since he was bored out of his mind, and that saturday morning he felt like she was about to finally agree.
"Come on Liv, we don't have any close neighbors, and the whole backyard is surrounded by tall trees, I haven't seen the light of day in over a month" he pleaded
"Don't exaggerate, you see the light of day through those glass doors that lead to the backyard, there is no need for you to go out, besides the grass is tall and you are going to get a million bug bites" She told him
"Seriously, bug bites? I'm not a baby, I can survive bug bites, and I can cut it you know"
"I don't think we have a lawn mower"
"We do, I've searched every inch of this house, and I found where your friend put all the tools, he had to fix it when you guys first got here"
"What if the neighbors hear"
"Liv, there's no one near enough and even if there was, I don't think hearing a lawn mower will make them want to visit or call the cops, it's a pretty normal thing to do" Olivia thought about it for a moment, he was not going to let the subject drop, and it actually didn't seem like an unreasonable request.
"Fine, you can go outside and do stuff, just be careful" Jerry walked up to her and grabbed her face to kiss her cheek
"Thank you" He said before he ran off to find the lawn mower.
Olivia decided to call Huck once Jerry went outside, she didn't want to call while he was there, she wanted to ask how the plan was coming along and she didn't want for Jerry to get his hopes up, in case they had to wait for longer. She went to her room and made the call, it ringed a few times before he answered.
"Lucy" Huck said
"Randy" Olivia answered
"What is it?" He asked
"I just wanted to know how everything is going" Olivia told him
"We are moving forward, it might be done sooner than we thought, the weasel made us hurry"
"What happened? Should I be worried?" Olivia was worried already
"Not yet, that's why we are moving faster, your dad called him and he seemed off, we worry another call could make everything go bad, but we are handling it" Huck explained
"Are you sure?" She really wanted to be prepared
"For now, yes, I will let you know if something goes wrong, so you can escape" Huck was not very reassuring.
"Ok, how is Fitz doing" Olivia asked
"He's ok, don't worry, I need to go now, I have things to do" Huck hung up the phone
Olivia was grateful for him and all he had done, but sometimes she wished that her only contact with DC had better people skills. She went to her closet and started packing a suitcase just to be ready, she would go to Jerry's room later to pack him a bag too.
Fitz had breakfast with both of his kids, he wanted to talk to Karen, to explain her a little bit of the whole Olivia and command mess, since he was going to make her stay in the white house until after they caught command. He was not taking any chances
"Hey kid I need to talk to you" They were watching tv in the living room so he turned it off to have her full attention.
"What's up dad, is something wrong?" Her voice full of concern considering recent events
"Not really, I just… This is hard to explain" he started "There is this secret off the record spy organization that they work to protect our country, but you see, they don't really have to answer to the president, at some point since it exists the guy in charge of it gained too much power. So by the time I became president there wasn't much I could do"
"Ok… and you are telling me this because? are we in danger?" Karen asked him. Fitz took a deep breath.
"Well, it's just that, out of all the evil masterminds who could run the thing, it's Olivia's father" he let that sink in for a moment. "and he hates me for dating his daughter, he is the one responsible for your brother's death" he figured he better just tell her the truth
"What" Karen was shocked to say the least.
"But, look, honey, Olivia has nothing to do with that man ok, actually she left because she was trying to protect us, command Rowan wanted her to leave so she did, that way he would let his guard down so we could catch him" Karen nodded "We are getting close, so I need you to stay here until all this is over, I don't want anything to happen to you, I know you get bored here, but it's just for a little while" he explained to her
"Yeah, I guess that's okay" she was looking real shaken up by Fitz words, so he was concerned
"You know you can tell me anything right?" he told Karen
"Dad, it's just that, it's her father, like, do you trust her? and why didn't she do anything?" Karen was very upset and had started to doubt Olivia, the whole thing was just a little to much to handle.
"I do trust her, one hundred percent without doubt ok, she had nothing to do with it, she's a victim just like the rest of us, we talked about it because I just found out about it recently and I was mad her for not telling me, but she was just trying to protect me, they had been estranged for a long time and she just liked to pretend she didn't have a father" Karen looked at him worried, she still was sure what to think.
"Karen, it's not her fault her parents are evil, actually the reason she's hiding is because she did something to help me catch him and he would kill her if he knew, it doesn't matter that she's his daughter, he would kill her if she got on his way" he tried to explain
"He would kill his own daughter, and why did you say parents, is her mom evil too?" She asked trying hard to keep it together.
"Yes, that's how evil he is, he would kill his own daughter, and" he sighed "her mom is evil too, she supposedly died in a plane crash, but she was just caught by her father and locked up since Olivia was twelve, the woman is a terrorist" Fitz told Karen
"That is so messed up" she said after a while "So, you guys got past that and then back together after the whole… you know" Karen was trying to not say defiance, if they were talking, she wanted to know the rest of the story she didn't hear when they first talked.
"Yes, and no" he paused to gather his thoughts "we had a bit of trouble after I went back to your mother, we were together, but it was not ok, then your mom realized I would not win unless I was ok with Olivia so she asked her to come back for my reelection campaign. She was going to, but then" he stopped, he didn't feel ok talking about shooting down that plane "This also very serious and you can not repeat it" she held out her pinky just like the last time, he complied and then continued talking "When I was in the navy I was ordered to shoot down a plane, there was a bomb in it, the thing is that, it's the plane were Liv's mom was "killed"" he made air quotes "so when she found out she was mad at me for not telling her, but I couldn't really talk about it with anyone, she refused to listen to me and I also want dot know about her father" he paused for a moment thinking about Vermont "We worked things out anyway, and we kind of got back together, but everything was a mess because I tried to bring down her father and it seems like I only made it worse, then her mom was on the loose and I couldn't leave your mom in the middle of the reelection campaign, then I thought it was all over since I was going to loose, but your brother died and I won then she left and I the whole catching the bad guy thing is going on"
"So, so, messed up" Karen repeated "Like so many things happened, and you guys can't catch a break" Fitz chuckled at his daughters expression, Karen sat there in silence for a little while after that, he had to go, but wanted to make sure she was alright. "I guess you are hoping to finally get that break once you fix everything" Fitz nodded "That's ok I guess" He was relieved to hear she didn't have any problem with Olivia after all she heard.
"Just be careful dad, I don't want anything to happen to you either" she said as she moved closer to give him a hug.
"I will, everything is going to be ok" he kissed the top of her head and told her he had to go take care of some stuff. They were workin non-stop to move up the final part of their plan to ealry that week, they were almost ready and couldn't afford to take longer than needed.
AN2: I know this chapter may seem uneventful, but Karen was still in the dark about many things and Jerry already knew everything. Let me know what you guys think :)
