A/N) Glad you liked the last chapter. I just loved writing that Liv and Derek flashback. I hoped you like this chapter. There's a bit more about Fitz in this chapter.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN SCANDAL OR GREY'S

"How bad is it?" Liv barely got out. She didn't know why exactly why it hit her so hard but it did. Not because her mother might die but because they might never get to fix what happened between them.

"Liv..."

"Derek just tell me how bad it is!" She was close to yelling, making a scene for the nurses to gossip about.

"It's wrapped around her brain stem pushing on her cerebellum, also the tip of her frontal lobe and it's growing rapidly. There's absolutely no way I could get it all without cutting something important. Her speech, her memory, vision." He said apologetically.

"So there's nothing you can do?" Liv asked.

"There might but there are no promises. I might even have to call Amy." Derek said

"Okay." She said calming down and her pager went off. 911.

"I'll talk to you later, Derek." Liv said running off to the elevator.

Xx***xX

"He clearly could not have raped this girl if he was across town with his friends playing basketball, your honour." Fitz argued in court before sitting back down. He listening to the prosecutor's case before the judge left it to the jury. Luckily after that he was done until tomorrow. He headed straight home to find Karen, Jerry and Teddy playing a board game.

"Hey!" Fitz said as he entered the living room.

"Did you win the case?" Jerry asked

"It's up to the jury." Fitz said sitting on the couch. He watched as they finished the game before turning on the TV.

"So what do you guys want for dinner?" Fitz asked them. After they all agreed, he ordered the pizza.

"Hey dad?" Jerry said awkwardly, walking up to him in the kitchen.

"Yea Jer?" Fitz responded looking at Jerry. He was almost taller than his father but looking like his mother. He had dark brown hair and his mother's eyes and smile.

"Why did you and mom ever get together?" Jerry asked and Fitz tensed up a bit. He wasn't really expected that question on a random Thursday. "I mean we know why you guys got a divorce but why did you get together in the first place." Jerry continued.

"Well, both of your grandfathers pushed us together, we were supposed to be great together and at first it was okay, we were friends but as we got older we didn't go well together, we loved each other but we were never in love." Fitz tried to explain the best he could.

"So you were forced to marry mom? It was arranged?" Jerry questioned

"Yea." Fitz admitted.

**FLASHBACK**20 years ago**

"Fitzgerald!" He could hear his father shout from upstairs. His older brother, Daniel and his younger sister, Charlotte looked dead at him, knowing what he had did wrong. He broke up with Mellie the week before. He couldn't stand it anymore, the awkward tension, being forced to go out with each other. Mellie was actually okay with it, he could tell she didn't want to be with him. Fitz felt like they were back in the 1800's, arranged to get married. Fitz took a deep breath before reluctantly walked up stairs to his father's study.

"Yes." Fitz reluctantly answered as he entered the study.

"So, why is it that I hear you and Melody are broken up!?" Big Jerry yelled, his voice echoing through the house. Fitz was done with being controlled by his father, he was a grown man not a ten year old boy.

"Because it's true." Fitz replied. Fitz could see the vein in his father's head popping out.

"I did not give you permission to break things off with her!" His father yelled and Fitz felt his bold boil.

"I did not think I needed your permission! I am an adult and I can make my own decisions!" Fitz yelled back angrily. He was tired of being belittled, used for his father's personal game. "We both agreed it would be best to end it" fitz continued.

"I don't care about what you think, boy. I am you father and you will obey me!" His father shouted.

"I'm not a little boy you can control anymore. I don't obey you anymore." Fitz shouted back and his father got closer.

"You do obey me because without me you would be nothing. You can't do anything without me. I do not care about your feelings or hers. You WILL get back together with Melody." His father yelled as Leigh-Anne enters the room.

"Is there something wrong?" Leigh-Anne asked. Fitz's mother was the voice of reason between him and his father but somethings she just could not fix.

"No, Anne, we're fine." Big Jerry said in the most demeaning tone and Fitz wanted to punch his father right in the jaw. He hated the way his father treated their mother, he didn't know why she hadn't left yet. Big Jerry glared at him before leaving the room.

"What was that about?" Leigh-Anne asked and Fitz shook his head.

"Mellie." Fitz responded before leaving the room.

**END OF FLASHBACK**

"Dad!" Fitz heard Teddy call coming into the kitchen.

"Yes?" Fitz responded.

"The pizza is here" Teddy said and Fitz nodded exiting the kitchen. He grabbed his wallet before opening the door and paid for the pizza. After they ate dinner Fitz let the children continue playing board games and he went into his office. He was finishing some paperwork before going back downstairs to play games with the kids. When Fitz was about half way through his phone rang.

"Hello?" Fitz says.

"FITZY!" He hears his sister say loudly through the phone.

"Charlotte, Hi."

"Really all I get is a 'Hi'." Charlotte said.

"Well, I haven't heard from you in three years since.."

"Since dad died, I know but I was coming to Seattle and I wanted to stop by and see you and my niece and nephews." Charlotte said.

"When are you coming?" Fitz asked. He and his sister had always been close no matter what but ever since big Jerry died they had been distant. Their older brother Daniel was always on Big Jerry's side being the one their father favoured the most.

"Next Saturday." Says Charlotte.

"Fine. I will see you next Saturday." Fitz said.

"I'll see you Saturday and tell Melody I said hi." Charlotte said, the end of her sentence sarcastic.

"Mellie and I got a divorce almost two years ago, Charlotte." Fitz stated.

"Wow, you finally grew the balls to divorce that wench." Charlotte said with a laugh.

"Charlotte.." Fitz warned. Everyone knew that Mellie was a difficult subject for him, everyone but his father.

"I know. So have you found a new lady." Charlotte asked him teasingly.

"That is none of your business." He said.

"Oh, so you have." Charlotte said.

"Goodbye Charlotte, I will see you next Saturday." Fitz said.

"See you next Saturday Fitz." Charlotte said before hanging up. Fitz finished the last of his paperwork before joining his children in a game of Monopoly.

Xx***xX

"You ready?" Derek asked her as they prepared to enter her mother's hospital room to tell her the bad news.

"Yea, I'm fine." Olivia said taking a deep breath as they enter the room.

"Hello . I'm doctor Shepard, I'm the head Neurosurgery." Derek said with a smile.

"So you're the best of the best that every other Neurosurgeon wants to be." Evenly said and Olivia just looked on. She really had nothing to say, she shouldn't even be in the room but there she was. "So what is the news?" She continued.

"Well, it's not so good. The tumor grew and stretched through your brain." Derek started using the same voice that all surgeons use when give bad news. "It would close to impossible to get all of it out without cutting into the area where your speech and memory are located." Derek continued.

"So there is nothing you can do?" Evelyn asked and Olivia could hear the fear in her mother's voice.

"Well there is something I can do. I would have to carefully cut small pieces of the tumor out. There's no guarantee that this will work permanently but I am the best." Derek reassured her and Olivia heard her mother let out a sigh of relief. Derek finished explaining the rest of the procedure and the risks before leaving.

"Well, I have patients to check on, so I will be back later to check on you." Olivia said awkwardly.

"Liv!" She heard her mother call her as she tried to exit the room.

"Yes" Olivia responded.

"Can we talk, please?" She could hear the pleading in Evelyn's voice.

"About what? That you waited until I was engaged to tell me you despised Jake. That you weren't there when I picked out my dress, his mother was. That you refused to see me walk down the aisle at my wedding. Or how about when I told you I was pregnant you told me to think about abortion. What is there to talk about?" Olivia said frustrated. She was angry that it took her mother so long to want to talk, to apologize to her.

"There is a lot to talk about Olivia. All I'm trying to do is apologize to you, we haven't been able to actually speak to each other in close to seven years." Evelyn said sitting up in the bed.

"Yea and whose fault is that" Liv said sarcastically. It hurt her that it took her mother almost dying to talk to her, apologize to her.

"I know that. Why won't you listen to me!" Evelyn said

"Because you didn't care until now, until he was dead, until your sick. Why now?" Olivia said back.

"Because I have a reason now." Evelyn said.

"Because your youngest daughter's happiness wasn't enough, you only granddaughter wasn't enough." Olivia said and was met with silence.

Well then there's nothing to talk about and I have patients to check on." Olivia stated before leaving the room, pushing her tears back.

A/N2) Okay I know its short and please don't shun me. I know I promised an Olitz date but I decided to wait until next chapter. I knew I have taken way to long and wanted to get something out there for you guys. I already the next chapter half written so it should be up sooner. As always leave a review because they make me smile! :)