Hiya Fabulous humans, I know the last chapter was a little too much Mellie, but hope that wasnt too bad, and I hope you like this one a little more than the last one :)

Also Big thanks to those who started reading my new story 'Afire Love', it means a lot!

Fitz knocked on the door to Olivia's apartment. He hadn't been allowed over in what felt like forever, but really had just been over two weeks. He didn't care what the press saw anymore, and neither did Olivia that much. The election was over, they were going to come out in about two months so getting caught out now didn't seem like as much of the end of the world as it did the last few weeks. Though that didn't stop them from still wanting to keep the paternity of the baby secret.

Liv opened the door, and as Fitz passed her, he brushed her cheek with his lips. Seeing Liv already in her pyjamas, he made his way to the bedroom and not the sofa. It was hard to believe that they could actually spend the night together, it was almost back to how it was before everything became messy and confusing. Olivia slid the chain back into its place and followed Fitz to her room.

"Has Mellie decided what she wants to do yet?" Liv asked sitting down on her side of the bed, as Fitz unbuttoned his shirt and took his shoes off.

"What do you think?" Fitz asked as he rolled his eyes as he thought about the person who was unfortunately still his wife.

"She's still dragging it out, we need to give her timeline. Agree by a certain date or all offers are off the table. The closer the divorce is to the birth the worse we'll come out looking," Liv said as Fitz sat down and pulled the covers over the both of them.

"I know. But I don't even want to speak to her let alone see her. She's being so hostile about all of this. She never knew how to make things easy. Everything has to be full of drama and hate with her," he said as Liv leaned into him and he place his arm around onto her opposite shoulder.

"Which we already knew. We need to come up with something that's too hard to say no to," Liv added. She was exhausted, she could have fallen asleep at the snap of her fingers. The last week she felt like she had expanded beyond possibility, so much so she couldn't imagine what it would be like in two months' time. The extra belly made doing all her regular work and everyday tasks all the more difficult and it was taking its toll at night.

"Yeah, but what?" Fitz asked hoping Liv would pull something out of her head that would solve all their problems.

"I don't know, she's your wife," Liv replied half-heartedly as her eyes began to close.

Fitz looked down upon hearing a response that wouldn't usually come from Liv, only to see she was close to being dead to the world. Fitz smiled upon seeing the women that he loved asleep on his chest. He began to look around the room, seeing if anything had changed since the last time he had been there. And weirdly something had.

"Ah Liv," Fitz said as he tried to wake her, a task not too difficult. When he saw her eyes open and staring at him he continued. "What is that?" He asked as he gestured over to the wall they were facing.

"What's what?" She asked, before looking over to where he was looking. "Oh," she breathed out after realising what he was referring too. "It's a box with a crib inside," she answered and then reclosed her eyes.

"I can tell what it is, but why is it here?" Fitz asked.

Olivia opened her eyes, and let out a sigh knowing that she wasn't going to be getting sleep like she had hoped. "The baby's going to need somewhere to sleep," she answered.

"But why is it here?" he asked again.

"Where should it be?" Liv asked while sitting up properly. She had been agonizing over making this decision and finally she had, she didn't want to be made to feel bad about it too.

"The Residence," he answered very matter of fact.

"Do you know what most expectant mothers are doing at this stage in their pregnancy? They're choosing out what colours to paint the baby's room, and what furniture should go in there. They're nesting. Do you know what I'm doing? Anything but. I'm waiting around and hoping for your wife to sign divorce papers. I'm wondering where I'm going to be living when the baby's born. I'm wondering if I should be looking for a bigger place. Or continuing to have faith that everything will all work out. We're anything but normal, and I wanted to do something normal. So I bought a crib. So no matter where I am, when our child comes, it will have somewhere to sleep," Liv said, and she watched the reaction on Fitz's face as she did.

Fitz didn't say much at first, he was mostly just taking in what she was saying. He knew everything she was saying was true, but that didn't mean that he had to like it. It was sometimes difficult to see when Liv was taking something harder than normal. She was always so strong and not forthcoming, making her extremely tough to read a lot of the time. He just wished that everything she had just said wasn't the case. From the moment he realised he loved Olivia he wanted her to be his wife and have children together. And although they were on their way to getting that half done, it was bittersweet. For one they were doing it in the wrong order. Mellie was meant to be completely out of the picture and they were meant to be making all the choices concerning the baby together. But at this current time that wasn't possible.

"You will be moved into the White House before the baby is born," Fitz said trying to soothe her fears and worries.

"But what if I'm not? There comes a time when we have to start thinking about all the possibilities. And we've reached that time," Liv stated.

"I don't want to start thinking like that yet. We're still two and a half months away from the due date, so much can happen during now and then. For all we know Mellie will sign the papers tomorrow, and we can start the ball rolling straight away," Fitz said, though knowing his wife that wasn't going to happen.

"You can continue to think like that, but I'm going to remain realistic. And if that means I'm going to be buying baby supplies by myself, I'm going to do that. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is," Liv said, shutting Fitz down. "Now, I am exhausted and I'm going to sleep, will you join me?"

"Yeah," he sighed, he knew there wasn't going to be any more discussion on this topic, not tonight anyway.

...

Liv woke to the alarm she had set for Fitz to get back to the White House, as she hit the snooze button, she slowly rolled over, only to find the bed empty. The vast amount of space in the bed confused her. Sure they had had a disagreement, but she couldn't believe he left without letting her know. She picked up her phone to see if she'd been left a message, but her notification bar was blank.

Feeling the need for a glass of water, she put her robe on and headed down the hallway. Maybe if she asked the guard dog stationed outside her apartment then he could tell her exactly when and possibly why Fitz had to leave.

But as Olivia made her way to the living room she came across a sight that was unexpected. Fitz sat asleep on the ground, his head resting on a couch cushion. And the now assembled crib in front of him. Liv was stunned. She made her way over to the sleeping President, careful not to stand on any of the tools that were scattered on the ground.

"Fitz," she said gently giving him a nudge awake.

Fitz blinked open his eyes a few times, and smiled when he saw it was Olivia waking him up, he would never get used to waking up to her beautiful face. He then realised he was still living room. "I was going to come back to bed, but…" he trailed off.

"You built the crib instead of sleeping," Liv said, her eyes wide with admiration.

"I realised you were right. We have to be realistic. But we also have to have faith it will work out, and then work hard to make sure it does," Fitz began to stand up. "So in the mindset of being realistic, I did the only thing I'm able to do. And if that means staying awake to build a crib, then so be it," he said and kissed Olivia on the lips.

SO what did you think?

It my birthday tomorrow! (or technically today-i havent gone to bed yet) so please review, think of it as a present to me :D