Hey guys, I trust you all had a great Easter break. Because I certainly did. Again i'm sorry i didnt update in the last two weeks, but this was my first real time i've had to write since then.

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Olivia froze, she wasn't even able to close the peep hole. How was the First Lady currently outside her apartment? And what did she know? Did she know that Olivia was pregnant, or just that she was merely back? How could she get Mellie to leave without letting her in? She had to think fast, if there was any way to stop Mellie finding out she needed to do it quickly.

"Mellie," Olivia said in a tone that feigned happiness. "It's good to see you, but unfortunately I was just about to go to bed, can we do this some other time?" She said, but even as she did, she shook her head knowing how unbelievable that excuse would be.

"Please, we both know my husband will be here in an hour," Mellie said looking directly into the peep hole and into Olivia's eyes. And although Mellie didn't say it, Olivia could read a look on her face that said 'I know'.

Olivia tightened the tie of her dressing gown over her belly and then began work on each individual lock. Liv pulled the door and reluctantly watched as Mellie walked into the apartment and stopped just shy of the sofa. "How did you-," Olivia said as she folded her arms across her chest.

"Know?" Mellie finished as she turned around to face Olivia. "It wasn't too hard to work out where my husband was sneaking off to, or to whom he was spending his nights on the phone with," Mellie explained as she rolled her eyes at the seemingly, albeit the pregnancy, familiar situation. "Though the baby, that was a new twist. That took me a little longer to figure out," she said pointing down to Olivia's stomach. Mellie would never admit that she needed a secret service agent's help to be able to connect the dots on that point.

"We didn't want you to find out this way," Olivia said, not sure what else to say.

"Well of course you didn't. You wanted to wait until after the election, or until after his inauguration, or I'm sure you would have never wanted me to find out. You both probably thought you could play house and we'd just keep up this charade for another four years," Mellie said knowing she had stumbled onto their plan. Olivia didn't have the heart to say that wasn't the case at all, and if it were up to Fitz, Mellie would be out the door as soon as the votes were counted, or really beforehand.

"We never expected it to get to this," Olivia replied. It was the truth. There was no way that any of them would have guessed that this was where they would be six months ago.

"It's funny, because since I found out that you were still expecting, I didn't know who to hate more. Fitz for so blatantly lying to me when I first found out, or myself for stupidly believing him. But then I remembered- I can see through any lie that Fitzgerald Grant has the audacity to tell me. So I figured that he wasn't lying to me. What he said, he truly believed. So it was you. You lied to him. You betrayed him. You broke him," Mellie explained, she had spent a lot of her time in the last week thinking about this. Especially because she wanted to know exactly what she was going to say before coming over to her formidable opponent's apartment.

"I-" Liv began but Mellie held up her hand to stop her.

"You wouldn't hurt him unless it was absolutely necessary. You couldn't do that. Not to him. So I was wondering what was worthy of breaking his heart and crushing his spirit. And then it came to me. The only thing we saw eye to eye on. His Presidency. Is that correct, Olivia?" Mellie asked, though she already knew that answer. It was the same answer as it was 4 years ago in Defiance. For Fitz to win they would do almost anything.

"Yes," Liv answered. There was no point denying it, though she would not go into details. Olivia was interested in seeing where this was going, she knew Mellie wasn't stupid enough to come over if it were just a theory.

"That's what I thought. Unfortunately for the both of you, I no longer care as much as I once did about his re-election," Mellie said. She'd been scorned too many times by Olivia and Fitz's relationship in the past, and the pregnancy was the last straw. "So, if you do not leave, I will. But we both know that he will not win without me. Not a week out. And to make sure of that, I will go on national television and besmirch the name of Fitzgerald Grant and I will enjoy doing it. I will burn this White House to the ground. I will bury you both in the sand. I will no longer stand by and watch as you two continue this perverted fairy tale. This is the end," Mellie said, her nostrils flaring and her top lip turned upright. "I will give you until tomorrow evening to make your decision, be sure to make the right one."

Olivia stared at the First Lady, her mouth hung somewhat open. Did she really just hear those words come out of Mellie's mouth? "Okay," was all that could roll off Liv's tongue, and she hated that she didn't say more, but right now she didn't know what else to say. She wasn't expecting anything that had happened in the last five minutes. She was definitely shell-shocked.

"I don't know if it's the fact you've been away for two month or your hormones, but you're off your game. You've lost your edge. I came over here expecting a fight. But as always you're quite the disappointment," Mellie said as she walked to the door to leave.

But Mellie was wrong. Liv was not off her game. She just wasn't ready to go up against Mellie tonight. You can't win a fight when you are not prepared. And Liv knew there was no point in trying to win this round. It was easier to let Mellie show all the cards in her hand, before Liv laid down her own. The only problem was that now Olivia didn't know what they were.

"Oh, and Liv," Mellie said quickly turning back. "Can you please remind my husband that our children will be returning from boarding school tomorrow morning and I'd hate for him to be with his whore when they come home," Mellie said before walking out the door.

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Olivia sat on the sofa as she watched the second hand on the wall clock tick slowly around. Fitz would be knocking on her door any minute now. Liv kept fighting with herself. She didn't know if she should bring up Mellie's visit to Fitz, mostly because she knew exactly what he would say when he found out. But also because she didn't want to let on that the conversation with Mellie sent her mind wandering again, and for the hundredth time in this pregnancy she didn't know what to do.

She hated that she was put in this position again. It was her own fault. If she'd stayed in Vermont then Mellie wouldn't have found out and she would have never been given the ultimatum she had been.

Upon hearing the knock on the door, she stood up to let Fitz in. This time it had to have been him. All she wished was that she'd been able to come to a decision of what to do before he arrived. But maybe it was better that he was here, maybe they could work through this all together, like they agreed they would from now on.

Liv held the door open as Fitz walked into the apartment. He turned around to greet her once the door was closed, but he could tell this wasn't the same Olivia he had been seeing recently. "What is it?" He asked seeing the glum expression plastered across her face.

Oh what will Liv do? What will Mellie do? And what will Fitz do if or when he finds out?

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