A/N Just wanted to check in to make sure the changing voices in the fic isn't hard to follow and confusing? Please let me know in the reviews.
I don't know what to do. I've really gotten myself backed into a corner and I'm running out of time. I'm so engrossed in my thoughts that I don't see Andrew until I've run into him.
"So sorry." I say looking up at him as he holds me to keep me from falling to the ground.
"It's fine, you were really in your head just now." I smile at him as the pieces start to fit together. I pat his chest before stepping away.
"Thank you for saving me." I know he's wondering what I'm talking about, but I just smile at him and keep on my way. I am feeling much better about this day.
I've been in my office all day planning my next steps. I quickly glance over at the clock and know that if I'm going to do this I have to do it now. Fitz is away, but will be back tomorrow night and I know once he's back I won't have a moments peace.
Finally I've gotten through all of my duties and I rush to the residence. Once I'm ensconced in the residence I can have a moment of privacy without agents breathing down my neck. I walk into the closet and look through my dresses. I pull out a curve hugging red dress with a low cut neckline. I shower and make sure to perfume myself before shimmying into the dress. I call down to Andrew's office and am notified that he's still there.
I dial his cell and he picks up immediately.
"Mellie" I hear the question in his voice, he's wondering why I'm calling him on his cell.
"Andrew I….I was wondering if we could talk?"
"Mellie I don't think that's a good idea."
"But I'm just so lonely. I don't have any other real friends and you said we were still friends."
"OK" I hear his faint sigh. "What did you want to talk about?"
"Not on the phone Andrew. Come up to the residence."
"Mellie….."
"Please." He pauses briefly.
"Ok I'll be up in ten minutes." I hang up the phone smiling triumphantly. True to his word Andrew arrives ten minutes later.
"You know he'll find out I was up here and have a hissy fit."
"I don't care what he does. He went to see Olivia." Andrew nods at me regretfully. "He claims it wasn't for sex, but of course I don't believe him." Andrew sits on the couch as far away from me as possible. I slid next to him.
"Mellie…" I lean close to him.
"Yes Andrew?" He blinks a few times and looks away. I bend down and my lips brush his jawline. My hand slowly runs down the front of his shirt until I reach his waistband. He turns to me and captures my mouth. The kiss intensifies as Andrew begins to unzip my dress. I know it's risky what we are doing, but it's absolutely necessary. He begins to kiss down my neck as his hands run along the exposed skin of my back.
I start to feel a familiar sensation and I shut my eyes trying to will it away. My mouth begins to water and my entire body quakes with what it knows is coming.
Please not now please not now.
I have an internal mantra going. Andrew oblivious to my current plight begins to move his hands up my thighs and underneath my dress. I can't concentrate on him any longer as my body begins to betray me. Finally matter wins over mind and I have to push him away.
"What's wrong?" I can't answer him as I run to the nearest trash can and empty the contents of my stomach in it. I dry heave for another five minutes before I am able to compose myself. When I straighten up I notice that Andrew is looking at me strangely.
"Must be something I ate." He doesn't look convinced.
"Have you told him?" I can tell that he's trying to probe me for information.
"Told him what?"
"Mellie….I'm not really sure what to think right now. I'm trying not to think about what I believe you were planning here, but I can't help to wonder."
I grab a Kleenex and wipe my mouth before pouring myself a glass of water and taking a sip trying to rinse the taste of bile out of it.
"Andrew I was planning on seducing you because I wanted to have sex with you."
"This isn't about me at all? This is you trying to get back at your husband. I won't be a pawn in whatever game you have going with Fitz." I walk over to him and grab his hand.
"Andrew you know that I care deeply for you."
He snatches his hand away. "But you love him and you're carrying his child."
"Andrew I just ate something bad."
"Stop Mellie don't lie to me like this. Were you going to have sex with me and try to pass his child off as mine?" My eyes widen not at the absurdity of his words, but that he has figured out my plan.
"Andrew I'm sorry. I just can't do this."
"You think an alternative is to lie to your husband and to me?"
"If he thinks you are the father he'll let me get the divorce and then once it's final I can tell him, but he won't be able to make me stay." He looks at me shocked and disgusted.
"I know that Fitz hasn't been the best husband and I know that he's hurt you, but you can't play with people's lives like this."
"How did you figure this out?"
"Just a gut reaction. Thought I'd throw it out there and you didn't deny it." I look at him truly regretful for the situation we are in.
"Do you hate me?"
"No I could never hate you, but I can't be involved in whatever is going on in your marriage. It's not fair to me, it's not fair to any of us." I nod and step to Andrew.
"I'm sorry." I am truly sorry for involving him in my drama. I wrap my arms around him and hug him tightly.
"What the fuck is going on here?" I close my eyes not believing my luck. I step away from Andrew and come face to face with a very angry Fitz.
"I was just leaving." Andrew turns and makes a move to leave, but Fitz blocks his path.
"I asked you two a question!"
"Mellie was upset so I came to comfort her." Fitz's eyes turn into slits and he looks like he's ready to pounce.
"Stay the fuck away from my wife."
"Maybe if you took care of her she wouldn't need to find comfort with me." I'm shocked at the turn of events. I can't help, but to wonder if Andrew is going to help me out after all.
"I take care of my wife just fine. Don't worry about our relationship."
"Oh you're taking care of her when you go see your mistress?"
I look over at her not believing that she told Andrew about my visit to Olivia's. I wasn't supposed to be back so early and I caught them off guard. I notice Mellie is wearing a form fitting dress that leaves very little to the imagination and a pair of come fuck me heels. I am certain that this is retaliation for whatever she thinks I did with Olivia, but it doesn't make me any less angry.
"Andrew maybe you should go." He turns to her and nods before eyeing me down one last time. Andrew walks out of the residence and I set my eyes on Mellie.
"I don't even know what to say to you right now."
"Good because I'm not interested in hearing anything you have to say."
"You actually brought him up here to fuck him? What were you thinking Mellie? Anyone could have walked in and found you two."
"I was just doing what I learned from you."
"Just stop it. You aren't a fucking angel so stop acting like I'm the only one that has done something wrong in this marriage. Yes I cheated on you, yes I thought I was in love with another woman and I didn't treat you like you deserved, but you have certainly not been innocent in this thing and I think it's unfair to try to judge which one of us has committed the biggest sin against our marriage."
She laughs and shakes her head.
"That's your way of not taking responsibility for your actions."
"No it's not, this is my way of trying to move forward. We aren't getting a divorce Mellie. You can try to bring Andrew into this to make me angry, but we are in this and that's final."
"We aren't getting a divorce as soon as I would have liked, but we will get a divorce Fitzgerald. I'm done with it all."
"Ok Melody whatever you say." I'm tired and I'm not in the mood to fight with her tonight. I walk to her and kiss her on the cheek before stepping away. "I'm going to take a shower and then I'm heading to bed. I'm glad I'm home and it's good to see you. I missed you." I smile at her but she turns her back to me. "I'll see you in our bedroom." Mellie doesn't say anything else and she keeps her back to me.
I let out a deep sigh once he's left the room. I realize what a fucked up place I'm in right now. I had really thought my plan A would work and I don't have a plan B, but telling Fitz is not an option, at least not at the moment. I have to get him to sign the divorce papers first.