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"What was that Harrison?" Fitz asked as he pulled a chair over for Olivia to sit down before he took his seat next to her.
"Huh? Nothing man." Harrison said looking around nervously.
"It was something..kind of sounded like a you were asking what they were doing here." Fitz said in a menacing tone. "Last I checked this was my house not yours."
"Fitz..relax." Olivia leaned over and whispered into his ear.
Fitz nodded and patted her leg before continuing, "Plus, they are here because you invited them here didn't you? Thinking that they would catch me in a bad spot and you thought you were being sneaky about it too didn't you? Don't look so surprised man I am smarter than you, I've been on to you this whole time, we all have, isn't that right Huck?"
Harrison looked from Fitz to Huck then back to Fitz again. "You and Huck set me up?" Harrison hissed at Fitz.
"You were plotting to break me and Olivia up and that is all you have to say to me right now?" Fitz was furious. "I thought you were my brother Harrison and this is what you try to do to me? What is wrong with you?"
Harrison sunk further into his chair and crossed his arms and stared Huck down. "So you are just going to sit there?" Fitz asked standing up so fast that he almost knocked Olivia out of her chair. He balled his hands into fists, if Harrison didn't want to talk then he would use his hands to teach him a lesson. Before he could swing Harrison jumped over the table tackling Huck to the floor punching him over and over. Everyone jumped up and ran over to the fight but no one tried to break it up. Fitz grabbed Harrison from behind and put him in a chokehold trying to get him to calm down.
"Are you going to chill out?" Fitz yelled into his ear.
"Get the fuck off of me Fitz." Harrison said continuing to fight.
"Fitz let him go and cut it out!" Olivia yelled as Abby held her back from getting too close.
"I will put your ass to sleep right here in front of everyone if you keep it up Harrison. Calm down!"
Harrison finally calmed down and Fitz pushed him onto the ground. "Get your ass out of my house." He said looking down at him as he caught his breath.
"That's it? You are just going to kick me out of the crew for Princess Olivia? For a girl?!" Harrison spat vehemently.
Fitz tried to rush back over to him but Jake jumped in-between them holding him back.
"Yeah you are mad and want to fight me for her but you don't want to fight for our friendship? I've always been there for your Fitz! Who was there for you when Josh died? Jake left, your dad sure as hell wasn't around, who knows where Huck was, but I was there wasn't I, when you were at your lowest. Now you throw that to the side for her and don't even give a shit about what is going on with me, about being a brother to me when I need you! FUCK YOU FITZ!" Harrison said as he stormed out and a awkward silence filled the room.
Olivia wasn't sure what to do so she stood there with everyone else in silence waiting for a sign of what to do next.
"This is over, you all can let yourselves out." Fitz walked over to Huck and patted him on the back giving him an apologetic look before saying, "Thanks for your help, I'm sorry about the rest of this." Huck nodded and Fitz continued upstairs.
"You heard him, time to close up shop." Jake said loudly to the team when no one was moving. "Liv you should go check on him."
"I don't know..maybe I should let him cool down some." She said as she paced, her nerves were bad from all of the commotion and she was trying to calm herself down.
"I know Fitz, he is calm and if he isn't you are the only thing that could help him right now anyway."
"You know he is right Liv, anyway Jacob and I are going out so you might as go on up. We'll be back before curfew so that you and I can go home together." Olivia nodded and hugged her before heading towards Fitz' room. "What, why are you looking at me like that?"
Jake smirked and pulled her to him. "You know I love it when you call me Jacob." He leaned down and kissed her. "Let me clean up here then we can go where ever you want and hey I'm sorry I know you didn't want to be apart of this."
"Never again, I hated playing devils advocate like that. I know we still have Mellie to sort out but you tell Fitz that Liv will need to be in on it or I'm out, I won't play her again." Abby said looking up at him.
"I know but it was for her too not just Fitz. Who knows what Harrison was up to. Thank you though. Go, have a seat and I will handle this." Jake motioned towards the room around him then went to cleaning.
Olivia had been standing by the door leaning on the frame for at least 5 minutes watching Fitz sit on his bed with his head in his hands. She felt awful, if only she hadn't come over with Abby none of this would have happened. Would their whole talk about trust earlier in the day come to the forefront causing him to have doubts again? That was the last thing that she wanted, she sighed and he looked up at her. The look in his eyes caused her to shiver lightly, his gaze was intense, filled with love and…was that regret? She thought to herself, she walked slowly over to stand in front of him, no longer able to admire him from a far.
She leaned down and kissed the top of his head just as he wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her stomach then looked up at her. "Hi." He said giving her a faint smile.
"Hi." She whispered "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come.."
"Liv, don't." He pulled her down to lie next to him on the bed and turned on his side facing her. "You haven't done anything, you think that was about you? Nope, I know Harrison and I will talk to him on a different level when it is just the two of us but you.." He ghosted his index finger along her jaw and across her lips. "You are not the reason. I wanted you to come that is why Abby was in on this from the beginning."
"Excuse me? You want to repeat that?" Olivia sat up on the bed and looked down at him.
"Livvie, calm down, lay back down with me."
"I will not lay back down, start talking." She said as she crossed her arms across her chest.
"Nope, not until you lay down and lose the attitude so that I can explain." Fitz laid on his back looking up at the ceiling and waited for her to lay down.
"I don't have an attitude and I am not laying down. You have two options, one, you start talking or two, I will leave and go find out directly from Abby why she is conspiring with my boyfriend behind my back." He continued to lay there until she went to stand then he grabbed her hand stopping her.
"You know I don't want you to leave, I want to explain but you get so defensive so quickly Livvie and I hate fighting with you..can I explain?"
"We aren't fighting Fitz, I am simply waiting on you to stop avoiding my question." She said in an even voice.
"If we aren't fighting then lay down with me and listen before you say anything..please." He held on to her hand as he laid back on to the bed pulling her with him. This time she didn't protest and he exhaled as she laid her head on his chest keeping their fingers intertwined resting just above his heart.
"This whole thing started when Huck told me the other day that Mellie and Harrison both separately wanted to break us up." She tried to turn around and look at him but he held her close to him and continued. "I told Huck to get some things and tell a few people that I was having a party here tonight but after the bad day I had I really wasn't in the mood.
I had originally invited Mellie and I was going to confront her in front of everyone and embarrass her, thanks to some reasoning I realized that not having you involved with that wasn't a smart idea. It was Huck who gave me the idea about switching it last minute without telling Harrison but we had to act fast. Jake gave Abby a heads up while we were at the mall and that is it. I didn't talk or conspire with Abby about anything behind your back, I would never do that."
"I hear you Fitz but that still doesn't explain why you didn't tell me. Why didn't you say anything to me?" She asked looking up at him. "I don't like being in the dark especially when everyone else is in the know. Here I was feeling like shit about this whole thing like I was betraying the trust and honesty we have built by coming over her and you had your own agenda." She stood up and started to pace.
"There is no real reason except I was a idiot and forgot to mention it. Don't over think this, we are still in the same place we were. I still trust you.." He stood in front of her lazily place his arms around her waist. "I trust you with my life, Do you still trust me?"
She wanted to say no to teach him a lesson, to make him feel the affects of his actions but she would be lying and maybe even overreacting. She didn't want to play games, she knew what it felt like to have someone say something to hurt you just for the sake of teaching a lesson and she didn't want to do that to him. Things should always be transparent between them, she needed that in order to give herself fully to him.
"I do." She said softly. "I need you to remember me though, remember that we are in this together, and we need to tackle anything that concerns us together. No secrets, no guessing, if you feel a certain way about something tell me, I can't read your mind and I don't expect you to read mine. We need to be transparent and clear to avoid any confusion."
"I agree, this was on me and I own that. Are we ok?" She nodded and he smiled. "Can we kiss it out?"
She threw her head back in laughter and he couldn't help but laugh with her, she was so beautiful and filled with life. He wrapped his arms around her a little tight getting her attention and leaned down kissing her lips softly before he sucked them in mouth. He loved her lips, he especially loved sucking on them. She slid her hands up the sides of his biceps to the back of his neck gripping his hair. They kissed for what seemed like eternity before she leaned back a little to catch her breath.
"Mmm..Fitz.." She placed her hand on his chest inhaling deeply trying to get herself under control.
"Dance with me Liv." Fitz leaned back and held his hand for her.
"What?" She was not expecting his request, especially after the kiss they had just shared.
"Come on, don't tell me you want that dress to go to waste..we need to have at least one dance tonight." Before I rip that dress off and throw it across the room, he thought to himself.
"There isn't any music playing."
He motioned for her to take his hand again and when she did he wrapped his other hand around her waist a little tighter and she laid her head on his chest. "Follow my lead, we don't need music when our connection creates something better." He whispered in her ear as he swayed them slowly back and forth. His hand was low on her waist as they moved in sync.
This was so much better than being at the lounge, Olivia thought to herself. Being around him made everything else seem less than, nothing lived up to what they had before he was in her life, he made everything better. She glanced up at him and he had his eyes closed truly enjoying their slow sway and their connection, she leaned up and kissed him keeping their lips connected until he opened his eyes. She mouthed 'I love you' before crashing her lips onto his again, this time it slipping her tongue deep within his mouth pulling him closer by his shirt, she needed him and she could resist any longer.
Fitz was surprised by her aggressiveness but he quickly caught up as he moved them to the bed, kicking his shoes off and moving on top of her. His hands roamed her body starting from her ankles up he rubbed his hands slowly up her thighs lifting her up a bit gripping her ass tightly before flipping them over. "You can't ever go out without me looking this damn good.." He said looking up at her, his voice deep with need and eyes low. "Take it off so I can see whats mine."
Olivia smiled down at him and leaned down kissing his neck, moving to his chest as she unbuttoned his shirt. She would take off her dress but only once he was completely naked beneath her. She took his shirt off and moved her hands to his jeans, "Lift up." She said tugging at the waistband. He did and she pulled his jeans and boxers off at the same time. Admiring him from the edge of the bed she started to slowly unzip her dress.
"Wait," He said sitting up and pulling her to straddle his lap. "Keep the dress on." He slid his hands up her thighs moving the dress to above her waist, in no time he tore the thong she was wearing off and threw it on the floor, gripping her sides tightly he lifted her above his hard member and slowly guided her down on it. "Mmmm.." They moaned in unison. Holding her in place with one, he used the other to slide them to the back of the bed to the head board.
She allowed him to work her hips and control their rhythm while she attached her lips to his neck kissing and sucking lightly trying not to leave a mark. He rotated her hips and hit a spot he hadn't hit before and she felt herself crumbling in his arms, she threw her back in ecstasy, the faster he moved her hips the faster she felt herself falling apart. "Oh God.." She breathed out when he used his thumbs to massage the inside of her thighs.
"I know." He said as he leaned forward and started sucking her neck.
"Mmm..stop.." She panted pushing his head back.
"No.." He moved his head back to her neck.
"Marks..babe..no marks.." She forced herself to pull his head back by his hair before she got carried away and said screw it.
He stared at her as he let go of her hips, placed his hand on the back of her ass, lifting up and moved forward until she was on her back and he was in-between her legs. He pulled out, grabbed her dress from the bottom pulling it up and off of her dropping it next to the bed. He sucked his way down her body until he got to her stomach, he alternated between sucking and biting until he was satisfied with the marks he had left there.
"So good." He smirked licking his lips as he moved back up her body, her legs were shaking and gripped her thighs spreading them wide before moving back inside of her. Her walls were clenching him tight and he knew she was ready, he stroked her hard and fast as he tried to catch up with her causing her to scream out loudly and he loved it. She pulled his head to her mouth and their tongues wrestles for control and eventually he won out, or she gave in as her walls began tighten around him and she sunk her nails deep into his back. After a few more thrusts he was finishing with her.
"Wow..what came over you?"
"You." He pulled out of her and rolled on to his back pulling her to lay on his chest. "The answer is always you."
"Oh yeah?"
"Always." He said smiling.
They laid in silence for awhile enjoying the comfortable silence between the as they came down from their explosive sexual encounter. Fitz looked over to the clock on the side of the bed and noticed that it was getting late. He didn't want to ruin the moment but he didn't want to face her mother if she showed up past her curfew because of him either.
"Livvie, we have to get up now if you want to take a shower before you leave." He said as he rubbed her back.
"Ok." She said getting up and holding her hand out for him to grab. "Lets hurry before Abby gets back and starts banging on the door."
He grabbed her hand and let her feel like she was helping him up when really he pushed himself out of the bed. "You are getting strong Livvie." He teased her as they walked into the bathroom.
"Shut up dork." She said laughing and slapping his arm.
"I am going to kill you." Olivia said as she chased Fitz around his room in a towel.
"Livvie, stop playing around." He said laughing and jumping up on his bed in his boxers.
"Fitz you have my stomach looking like I'm some sort of cheetah." She said climbing on the bed after him.
"Hey, in my defense, the way you were moaning it didn't seem like you minded-" He started before she pushed him up against the wall.
"Shut up, that isn't the point."
"You are so sexy when you are upset baby." He said in a low seductive voice as he hovered in front of her lips.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"Hey love birds it is time break that shit up!" Abby said as she continued to bang on the door. "Hurry up and get your asses down here."
"This isn't over." Olivia said as she pushed him into the wall again before she jumped down, grabbed her dress and went to get dressed in the bathroom.
He leaned his head back on the wall and smiled. "God I love her little feisty ass." He said to himself before climbing down and getting dressed.
"Finally, I thought you died in there." Abby said dramatically when they entered the kitchen.
"Yeah, whatever Abby. Are you ready? We 30 minutes before we have to be home." Olivia said sitting down next to her.
"Am I ready?" Abby scoffed, "I have been waiting for you woman."
"Let's go then." She grabbed Abbys face and kissed her cheek. "You big crybaby."
"Hey, don't you be giving away my kisses." Fitz said playfully as he pulled her away from Abby. "Come on, we will walk you out."
They said their good-byes and Olivia headed towards their house. The ride was silent and the air felt weird between them, Olivia knew what was probably on her mind so she spoke first.
"It's ok Abbs, you didn't have to tell me if Jake asked you not too I know it was last minute and it probably caught you off guard. I do hope that next time you will remember that I am your best friend and give me a heads up."
"I'm sorry Liv, I really am. It will never happen again, I feel awful about the whole thing." Abby relied sincerely.
"It's ok, it really is. No hard feelings ok?" Olivia said giving her a small smile.
"You promise?"
"Promise."
Olivia pulled up to her house and parked in her usual spot. After telling Abby good night she switched to her flats and carried her heels in her hand as she unlocked the door and went inside. The living room light was on and she knew it had to be one of her parents staying up to make sure that she made home safely.
"Hey Livia." Her mother said from the couch. "Come have a seat."
"Umm..I'm pretty tired mom, I think I am going to just head to bed." Olivia said trying to push the image of what she saw earlier out of her head.
"Livia, come have a seat." She repeated motioning towards the couch across from her.
Knowing her mother wouldn't give up she walked over and sat down on the couch. Her mother held her glass of wine out for her and Olivia stared in shock.
"Go ahead and get your sip now and don't act like you weren't going to fix your mouth to ask me anyway."
Olivia laughed and took the glass. "You are right about that." She took a long sip and handed it back to her. "So what is up?"
"About what you saw earlier." He mother started.
"Eww, no mom. I don't ever want to talk about that." Olivia scrunched her face in disgust and shook her head at the thought.
"Chile with all the sex you are having? Grow up." Olivia gave her a shocked expression. "I am not dumb Olivia. Anyway, about earlier I thought you should know that your father and I are trying again."
"You are trying what?" Olivia asked confused to what her mother was referring to.
"For another baby."
Olivia felt like the wind had been knocked out of her, she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "What? Why, why now?"
"Why not?" Maya replied.
"How about the fact that you are too old or about the fact that you have always said one child was enough. All of those time I begged you for a sibling now you want to have one when I leave? When I won't even have a chance to get to know them. That's it isn't it? You are trying to replace me? Is that what you are doing?" Olivia asked angrily.
"Oh please with the dramatics Livia. Everything is not about you." Her mother said sternly.
"Nothing in this damn house is about me, it never has been! Everything was about you and daddy about your goals, your ambitions, what you wanted for me and never have you considered my feelings!" Olivia huffed. "Wear this Livia, act like this Livia, participate in this Livia like I was some damn rag doll now you tell me not everything is about me? My life to this point has never been about me. You want to have another baby, go ahead, I feel sorry for them already."
"Are you finished?" Maya asked, when Olivia refused to respond she continued. "You think I don't know that we may have pushed you a little too hard Livia? I am not proud of that but I am proud of the young woman you have become despite the way we pressured you. I'm sorry, I really am but you are almost grown and it is too late to go back in time and do it over, to do better. I want a second chance, a chance to do better myself," She got up and sat next to Olivia. "Not to replace you baby, you will always be our baby and we will always be proud of you. We love you honey, you do know that don't you?"
"I know mom, I didn't mean to imply that I didn't. I just wish you had had this epiphany about the way you raised me before you forced me to be something I didn't want to be." Olivia said sadly.
"Me too and I didn't really notice how bad I was until this afternoon when I went off on you about shoes. When you went upstairs I realized that I being completely outrageous and closely mirroring your father in some ways. So, from now on you are on your own. I won't interfere with your choices anymore, you will be an adult in a month or so and as hard as it is for me to accept the truth is you're not a baby anymore." She tucked a piece of hair behind Olivia's ear. "Can we start over?"
"Do you really mean that mom?"
"Yes, Livia. With all of my heart." She said genuinely.
"Then yes we can start over." She embraced her mom in a hug. "I'm sorry for going off, I really am happy for you if this is what will make you happy."
"It will and thank you it means a lot sweetheart." Maya said hugging her a little tighter.
They broke apart and Olivia grabbed the blanket from the back of the couch covering their legs as they continued to talk about baby names, school, Fitz, girl drama and all of the things that they hadn't had time to catch up on in forever. For the first time in a long time Olivia felt like she had her mother back, the one that didn't always work late or half listen when they talked, no this was the woman that she had been missing, that she had been longing for since she switched schools and she was thankful that she was back.
A/N: I was going to mention the episode that came on last week but then that would take another 5,000 words and that isn't what you are here for lol I will say that there are one or two chapters left before a time jump not too far ahead but a time jump nonetheless. Let me know what you thought about this chapter. Thanks for reading..Til next time.