Okay hoped you liked the last chapter like this one. We get more flashbacks.
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When Olivia got home that night Lily was already in bed so she said goodnight to Quinn before she left and Liv took a seat on the sofa. She grabbed her phone from her purse ready to called her mother but she couldn't help to think about the last time she had called her mother. To tell her she was pregnant which turned out to be one of her worst decisions. EVER.
**FLASHBACK, 6 years ago**
Olivia nervously grasped her phone in her hand and entered her mother's number. Earlier that day she had an appointment with Addison. Olivia had her suspicions that she was pregnant so she decided to see Addison to confirm it. She was already two months pregnant and she couldn't have been happier. She and Jake both wanted kids but haven't been trying. She had told Jake during her lunch, she just couldn't wait to tell him and he was so happy.
Once she pushed the call button she waited until her mother answered.
"Libby" her mother said when she answered the phone.
"Mom, I have news." Olivia nervously but happily.
"Oh, what is it?" Her mother asked and Olivia takes a deep breath before telling her.
"I'm pregnant." Olivia says and she hears her mother sigh.
"What's wrong?" Olivia said. She knew her mother didn't like Jake but she thought they were over that. She had been married to him for two years now, she hoped that her mother would at least be happy to get another grandchild.
"And is this bad news?" Evelyn said and Olivia sighed.
"No! Why would this ever be bad news." Olivia said clearly upset.
"Your having a baby, with Jake." Her mother said angrily.
"And what is wrong with that?" Olivia said on the verge of angry tears. Ever since that argument their relationship changed. They didn't talk as much, ignored each other and Olivia hated that. She just wanted to be able to talk to her mother without a fight or argument.
"I don't like Jake." Her mother said and rolled her eyes.
"I know that, why is what I'm not understanding." Olivia said.
"And I won't like anything that comes from him." Her mother said and Olivia is speechless.
"I don't think you should have a baby with Jake, have you thought about abortion or adoption." Her mother says into the phone and Olivia is furious.
"How dare you say I have a abortion. This is my child, our child, the one thing I've always wanted . I would expect at least a bit of joy to have another grandchild but no. I get this hateful woman who only cares about herself and I will not listen to you belittle me or Jake." And with that she hung up the phone and burst into tears.
**End of Flashback**
She entered her mother's number and listened to it ring before her mother answered.
"Hello." Her mother said.
"Mother."
"Libby, how are you?" Her mother says and Olivia sighed. She just wanted to get this over.
"I'm fine, I just wanted to tell you that Doctor Shepard said he can and will do the surgery. You can tell you doctor and you'd have to fly to Seattle for the procedure." Olivia says cutting straight to the point.
"Oh. Thank you." Her mother says not really knowing what to say.
"Okay, I guess you can call me when you get here so I can schedule the surgery with Doctor Shepard." Olivia says ready to hang up.
"Liv?" She hears her mother say right before she was going to push the end button.
"Yes"
"I'm sorry. I was just..." her mother starts but she cuts her off.
"I know but it really doesn't matter any more. Jake is dead, gone there's nothing for you to worry about. No more delinquent children as you would say. It's over." Olivia says hanging up the phone. Olivia didn't want to go back through the past and she was done with apologies. She needed something to cheer her up so she decided to call the only person who could make her smile now.
Fitz had just gotten back from the firm. He had a tough case and there was little chance he was going to win it. All of the kids were with Mellie for the weekend so it was just him. As soon as he stepped out of the shower his phone started ringing. When he looked at the screen it was an unknown number but he still answered.
"Hello?" he said
"Hi" and he instantly knew who it was. It was funny how he could like someone so much and not even know her first name.
"Hi. Is this who I think it is." he says and she laughs.
"Well who do you think it is?" she counters.
"I think is Doctor Pope." he says and she smiles.
"You guessed right" she says and then she realized that she never told him her first name.
"You don't know my name, do you?" she says and he chuckles.
"Not a clue." he says.
"Olivia." she says and he's just amazed at how her name fits her so well.
"Beautiful." he says not really thinking and now she's blushing.
"I meant..I mean your name is beautiful" he says, flustered and she laughed.
"Well, umm I think I'm ready for that coffee." she says and he smiles.
"So when do you want to get it?" he asked.
"Now" and he's confused. Did she just say now, it was almost 10 P.M.
"Now?" he asked
"Coffee tastes so much better at night." she says half-joking and he laughs.
"Sure." he says
"Oh...I was just kidding." she says a little embarrassed.
"Why not. We're already talking."
"I can't. My daughter is sleeping and I can't leave her alone." Olivia says but Fitz wasn't giving up.
"Then how about I come over for coffee." and she laughs expecting it to be a joke.
"You're serious?" she says after she realized he wasn't laughing with her.
"Yea. What? Do you not trust me because if I must say so myself I am very trustworthy." he says
"I bet you are but I don't know you." She says.
"Well, what do you want to know?" he says and she laughs a little.
"Anything" she says.
"Well, I grew up in California, I have three children, two boys and a girl. I am divorced. I'm a lawyer and went to Harvard." he said.
"Wow, I feel like I know your whole life story." she says teases and he laughs.
"That was my plan." he teases back.
"Well how about tomorrow at one. The Starbucks right next to the hospital." she says.
"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." he says and she smiles.
"See you tomorrow, Fitz" she says knowing that it will shock him before hanging up.
"See you tomorrow Fitz" he hears her say before the line goes dead. He cant help but to look at his phone. She just called him 'Fitz' and it sounded amazing coming out of her mouth, angelic even. That night Fitz fell asleep with a huge smile on his face.
**The next day**
After Liv got Lily to school, she went straight to the hospital. She got an early start on all of her patients and made sure the intern on her rotation, Brooks, knew everything if anything bad happened. When it was about 12:55 she left the hospital and walked across the street to Starbucks and saw Fitz sitting at a booth.
"You're late" he says with a smirk.
"Actually, you're early." she says with a smile. After they both got their coffee and sat back at he booth he started asking her questions.
"So, I told you about myself, its time for you to tell me about yourself." he says.
"Well, I went to John Hopkins to become a surgeon. I grew up in Maine but moved to Seattle. I have one daughter. I love popcorn and wine." she says with a laugh. She carefully avoided the subject of her dead husband.
"Popcorn and wine? Really?" he says with a chuckle and she nods.
"So, you're a lawyer, what made you want to do that?" Olivia asked, taking a sip of her latte.
"I honestly have no idea but I do enjoy it. What made you want to become a surgeon?" Fitz asked back.
"Well, I think to have the ability to know how to save a life is just amazing and then to actually do is just...there's like this high afterwards when you know you saved someone." She says happily and Fitz saw a light in her eyes as she talked and it just made him smile.
"Why are smiling?" She asks.
"You had this light in your eyes when you talking." He says and she blushes. They were both smiling at each other when Liv's pager went off.
"Damn it" she muttered and looked down to see that it was 911 from Callie. "Couldn't Arizona handle it" she thought and looked back to Fitz when she had another page and it was from Meredith.
"You have to go don't you" he said and she nodded.
"I'm so sorry." she says.
"It's fine, go save those lives" Fitz says as she get's up ready to walk back to the hospital.
"Wait!" he says.
"I was wondering..if.. you would like to uh..go out on a date?" he asked and she flashed a small smile.
"I'll think about it" she said before walking out of the Starbucks and back to the hospital, straight to the E.R.
"What did you need me for?" she said as she approached Callie and Meredith, putting on her gloves.
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"I'll think about it" she said before leaving Fitz there in the Starbucks. He was just...he had no words to describe her. She was just amazing. For the rest of the day it was like he was on cloud 9, well that is until she who shall not be named showed up at his door.
"Mellie" he said somewhat annoyed as he opened the door.
"Why hello to you too Fitzgerald." she says taking it upon herself to enter his home.
"Why are you here?" he says rushing her and she smiles coldly.
"I want Jerry and Karen to come with me while I campaign for senate." She says.
"No" That wiped her smile clean off her face.
"Excuse me, what do you mean 'no'" she says angrily.
"One, they have school. Two, I have full custody and you have visitation rights. Which obviously you aren't using properly if your here when your supposed to be with them now. So three, I can deny you anything you want. Four, I already asked them if they wanted to go with you on the campaign and they said no. Five, I am not going to let you use our children, my children as pawns for your political gain. Any other time you could care less about our children, so why start caring now." he says and she just stares. She was so speechless that she just got up and left. Fitz wasn't going to let anything ruin his day.
Three days later:
Olivia had scheduled the surgery with Doctor Shepard and her mother was supposed to fly in today. Since Liv was the bigger person she was going to pick her mother up from the airport and allow her to stay in her guess room for day until her surgery. The problem was explaining to Lily who she was because the first time Evelyn met her granddaughter was not the best introduction. It really wasn't any introduction to begin with.
**FLASHBACK, 2 Years ago**
Olivia took Lily with her to visit Henry. They were the closest out of all of their siblings, Henry was always there for her and hide versa, and Henry adored his only niece, spoiled her rotten.
"Uncle Henwy" Lily squealed as he tickled her.
"What are you doing to my daughter." Olivia said standing in the doorway.
"We are playing tag." Henry said picking up Lily.
"Tag, mommy" Lily said happily and Olivia smiled. Suddenly there was a knock at the door.
"Let me get it." Said Henry bringing Lily with him. He walked out of the living room and opened the front door.
"Henry, I hope you didn't mind me...who is this?" She said referring to Lily who was hiding her face in Henry's shoulder.
"Um...she is..."
"H, bring me my daughter!" Olivia shouted playfully from the living room and he could see his mother cringe at her voice. Her whole demeanor changed and her eyes lost light they had before. Ever since the argument, the tension was heavy. Every time they had to be in the same room together it was awkward. Evelyn would just glare at Olivia as if she was her enemy. Olivia never brings Lily around Evelyn because she was protecting her.
"Oh, its Libby's daughter." Her mother said coldly.
"Yea, her name is Lily." Henry said uncomfortably and then he hears foot steps meaning Liv was coming.
"Damn it" he thought.
"Henry what's..." Olivia started but stopped when she saw who was at the door.
"Libby, well isn't this a surprise." Her mother said in an icy tone but Olivia didn't respond. She refused to talk to her mother. Lily looked over Henry's shoulder and smiled.
"Down pwease, Uncle Henwy" Lily said and he set her down and she ran straight to her mother.
"Can we sees lion now?" Lily asked.
"We'll watch 'Lion King"' in a minute pumpkin, go wait in the living room." Olivia told her daughter and Lily began to run to the living room.
"No running" scolded Olivia.
"Otay, mommy."
"So are you going to let me in or what." Evelyn said to her son and he moved so she could enter.
"Olivia" Evelyn addressed her daughter in a cold tone and Olivia ignored her, not even looking her way.
"Wow, its been five years of the silent treatment. Can you believe that someone can go five years without talking to their mother." She said to Henry but mostly to herself.
"So...would you like something to drink mom?" henry said uncomfortably.
"Um..water would be fine Henry." She said and he quickly left the room leaving the two women alone...together.
"Mommy!" Olivia turned around to see her daughter running up to her.
"What did I say about running." Olivia warned and Lily began walking.
"I sowwy, mommy" Lily says and Olivia bends down to her height.
"What did you want, sweetie?" Olivia asked.
"Can I have someting to dink?" Lily asked.
"Sure, go into the kitchen with uncle Henry." Olivia told her daughter.
"Tank you mommy." And the four-year old walked off to the kitchen.
"So your just not going to say hello." Evelyn says and Olivia scoffs.
"Your daughter is..." Olivia wouldn't dare let her finish her sentence.
"Don't say another word about Lily." Olivia hisses.
"Fine." Her mother says and takes a seat in a chair in the living room. Then there was a crash from the kitchen.
"What's going on?" Olivia said as she entered the kitchen and saw the floor covered in broken glass.
"What happened!?" Olivia says picking Lily up so she didn't cut her feet.
"She accidentally dropped a cup, that's all Liv, I got it." Henry says calmly.
"I sowwy." Lily says and Henry smiles.
"Its fine, Lilybug." He said.
"Pwomise?" She said while Henry grabbed the broom and dustpan.
"Pinky" he said and Lily giggled.
"Come on, let's get you out of the kitchen." Olivia said walking out of the kitchen .
"Who the lady at the door?" Lily asked and Olivia sighed.
"She is my Mom." Liv says.
"I not know you had a Mommy." Lily says with curiosity.
"Well, you never saw my Mommy before." Liv says standing right outside the living room. She wanted to finish answering these questions before she went back in there.
"Is she nice?" Lily asked.
"Not really." Olivia says, finding the best way to answer that question and Henry walks up with a glass of water and a plastic cup of juice for Lily.
"Here you go" he said handing Lily her cup of juice.
"Tank you." Lily says before drinking some.
"So are you gonna go in there?" Henry asks Liv in a whisper.
"I don't know. I wanna protect her from the scrutiny that is her grandmother." Olivia whispers back.
"What can mom possibly do?" Henry says.
"A lot." Olivia says before they both walk in and Olivia set Lily down on the couch.
"Here you go, Mom." Henry says as he hands her the glass of water.
"Thank you, what was the problem in the kitchen?" Their mother asked.
"Oh nothing, just a broken glass." Henry said.
"Your little girl broke it I assume." Evelyn said in a rude tone.
Olivia felt her blood boil. She was trying her best not to talk to her mother but this she was not letting go.
"What is that supposed to mean?"Olivia says angrily but not loud enough for Lily to hear.
"It means you don't know how to raise a child." Her mother said bluntly and it takes everything in Olivia's being for her not to lunge at her mother.
"That's enough! Mom it's time for you to leave." Henry says, clearly upset. He was not going to stand there and let his mother insult Liv or his niece.
"Henry?" Evelyn says.
"I will not let you disrespect Olivia or Lily in my home, so would you leave." Henry Says firmly and Evelyn stands. Henry shows her back to the door and says goodbye before she leaves.
*End of Flashback*
So here Olivia was, driving to the airport to pick up her anything but approving mother. Once she got there, she found a parking spot and entered the airport. She looked around for a moment until her eyes spotted her mother. Apparently her mother saw her too and rushed over to Liv with tears in her eyes.
"Libby" her mother said letting go of her suitcase.
Let the drama begin.
Okay, that was the next chapter and I hoped you liked. Fitz is making his move and nothing will get in his way. Tell me what you think in a lovely review.