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Fitz sat at his desk, it was late, and although he couldn't go over to Olivia's apartment, their nightly phone call was what he'd been looking forward to since he last her saw her that afternoon. He picked up the phone and asked for a secure line, but just as he was about to dial her number, the office door pushed open and in walked a silk robe clad Mellie. She had an open jar of her Daddy's Hooch in her hand.

"You're a little underdressed Mel," Fitz said as he put the phone back down.

"Well, according to your baby mama, no one is going to care what I do soon, I'm just getting a head start," Mellie said as she took another drink and swirled around the room. "Do you know what she said to me? Olivia, I mean."

"I told her to say it," Fitz replied, he might not have said the exact words but he definitely agreed to them.

"I should have known," she said slightly pursing her lips. "What happened to us?" Mellie asked as she sat down on the sofa. "We used to be a team. We used to be in this all together," she said waving her hand around the room.

"We haven't been a team for a very long time," Fitz said standing up from behind the desk and walking around to sit across from his wife. He poured himself a glass of scotch and took a sip. "Olivia and I are the team now," he continued.

"You don't think I know that? She's been ruining my life the moment she waltz in that campaign meeting after you bombed Iowa. Since then I never stood a chance," Mellie replied.

"If you think Olivia is the reason we have problems, then you've been drinking too much," he laughed and took a final sip and placed his glass down.

"What I want to know is- why am I the bad guy? You're the one that broke your vows, you're the one the knocked your mistress up, and you're the one who threatened my career," Mellie asked, even though she knew she wouldn't get an answer that would satisfy her. "But of course you're a man, and men can do no wrong," Mellie said blaming the patriarchal society.

"Let me remind you, you threatened Liv first," Fitz said, Liv would have tried to be civil to Mellie, if not for that fact. "And don't ever call Olivia a mistress, she's more than that and you know it. Now is there a reason you came in here?" Fitz asked trying to put Mellie into her place.

"I don't even know anymore," she replied rubbing her head.

"Then maybe you should go to bed," Fitz pushed, wanting her to leave.

Mellie rolled her eyes and sighed before standing up. "Of course, I interrupted your midnight phone sex," she said and walked to the door. "And Fitz, find a different room to sleep in from now on," Mellie said, and Fitz laughed at the extremely appealing offer.

Fitz watched as his wife walked out the door, and waited until he could no longer hear her footsteps in the hall before he stood and walked back to his desk. He picked up the phone and asked again for a secure line. Within two rings Olivia answered. "Hi," Fitz said.

"Hi," Liv answered. "Have you received any backlash from Mellie?" She asked only guessing that the First Lady wouldn't be happy about their conversation earlier.

"She came to visit. Didn't say much, and even if she had I wouldn't have cared," he said honestly. He felt a little bad for Mellie, but he also believed she bought it on herself going at Liv last night the way she did. "But enough about her, how are you now you're out in the open?" Fitz asked, hoping that nothing had changed since she left the White House. He hadn't heard anything but that didn't mean something couldn't have happened.

"Surprisingly quiet, I think the press conference really worked wonders. There's no professional public link between us anymore, and no one's put anything together, and shouldn't be able to until at least after the election. No matter what you say, going to Vermont worked out," Liv answered, she was definitely more than relieved that there had been no fall out.

"Might have worked, but that doesn't mean I liked it," Fitz replied.

"And you think I did?" Liv asked rhetorically. Aside from the space and the freedom, she hated being away, being alone, and feeling like she was a dirty little secret. It was not something she wanted to go through twice. Though she knew she'd never get that type of privacy again. Not once the news was out.

"Let's just stop talking about Vermont, unless we're talking about the future," Fitz requested. He didn't like thinking about the three months he lost, and knowing that she was hiding out in the house he had built for her was not easy to comprehend. He loved the symbolism, but he also hated the fact that if he only went up there sooner than he would have had Olivia back in his life all the more sooner.

"Agreed," she nodded. The future they had dreamed of felt like it was only a short arms reach away. And although that was comforting, knowing that once all the controversy had blown over then they would be free to lead the life together they had so greatly been waiting for, it was also terrifying, knowing they hadn't even begun going through that storm yet. And Liv knew that would be the largest storm of her life, if she wasn't Olivia Pope, she would have needed Olivia Pope to handle it.

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The next morning Olivia sat at her desk looking over some numbers, she was pleased by them, and she should have been, her candidate was in the lead after all. But it was still a few days shy of that oh so important Tuesday.

Olivia heard her name being yelled and she raised her head and saw a look of terror on her friends face. "Turn on the news," Abby ordered.

Not questioning her, Olivia picked up the remote and switched the television on. And she wasn't all that surprised to who she was seeing, but that couldn't be said about what they were saying.

"Now, we've all heard the rumours," Leo Bergen said at a press conference. "And if they're true, then I want to be the first to congratulate the happy couple, but this ladies and gentlemen, is not the type of person we should want for the President of the United States. A man who not only has an affair but also spawns a child from said affair and then doesn't own up to it. Is that the type of man we want leading the people? I think we can all agree we're sick of seeing Fitzgerald Grant and Olivia Pope in the headlines."

O-oh! Shit just got real

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