A/N: Okay, so I don't even know what to do with that episode. So I'm just going to post this chapter I've been working on...But seriously this is the first time in my history of watching Scandal that my mood is just down. I've never felt sad after watching this show. This was just a bummer of an episode. It was good, I think but my shipper goggles are on. It was still better than see-sawing with the white house though, lawd Jesus I'm tired of that story line. Maybe I was just in a sad place to start off with, from the news of Prince...sigh. Did he seriously just buy that though, that "I love him, I want to be with him" when she just had him and was like Nope! I can't I won't. Read these vows Liv. I don't know what that says, suddenly I can't read...LMAO. That's just about how she slid up out of the white house though when they tried to get her to marry Fitz. Then when she was like "you're a weaker version of him," I half expected him to laugh in her face but I forget he was damaged as a child. But I for damn show laughed and was like wait a minute Liv, you're trying to keep this believable, slide back on over to believable-ness for a second, cause damaged self esteem be damned, after that comment I'm pretty sure he's on to you. I will say I did half expect her ass to still slide up in that wedding with a 600+ guess list and shut that shit down, which I would have been entirely and completely here for just for the balls that would take, and just to prove a point.
Anyways, again, I didn't know what to do with this episode, and today was just a sad day and this episode made it even sadder, and I had this sitting on my computer. It's not necessarily as long as I wanted or as complete because I was still working on it, but I felt like I had to do something after watching tonight.
Olivia watched as her daughter wiggled around her bed, mostly and thankfully all over her father. She was paying attention to the child but was semi consumed by her thoughts as well. It wasn't until the child toppled over clumsily onto Jake's head that she smiled. She had managed to wiggle her way above his head and onto his pillow as she was in an in between stage of her movement development. She was doing more than scooting but not quite crawling yet and was able to sit up by herself most of the time. She had been trying to get herself upright when she fell onto him. Her smile widened as he sighed out loud and took the child from off of his head and placed her back in between them. He then closed his eyes again.
"Nine days, and she doesn't want to sleep in her own bed anymore," he stated.
Nine days, that was how long they had been on the run before they had decided to come back to town. After being gone for a few days Olivia started to get anxious. She was more of a take action type of person or at least she wanted to be in the know and it was hard to do that being out of town. He had been lucky enough to be able to contact Huck on a secure line. Well he had actually taken a chance, figuring that Huck would be the least likely of their contacts to have his equipment unknowingly tampered with. He had called, asked if anything had been suspicious with any of his equipment and the man had told him no then proceed to check just incase he'd missed anything. His search had come up empty. He had then told Huck what was going on and had just finished relaying the full message when the phone was snatched away from them and Abby and Anna took turns telling them about themselves for leaving like they had and not contacting anyone for three days. They had apologized but explained what had happened again to the women only to cause their worry over the entire thing to heighten again. Olivia had then pleaded with Anna to go back to New York as this could have had something to do with her dad and Anna would be just as good of a target as she was. The woman refused which pissed Olivia off but she did tell her to be extra vigilant before storming out of the room to give Adeline a diaper change.
They had then decided since they knew more about what was going on, it would be better if they returned to the city to help handle this. It had basically been an attempt to kidnap Olivia, her father had had nothing to do with it. They had figured it out, stopped the guys in process of trying to blackmail the POTUS for her ransom and, still being in a take action state of mind, she wanted to put the plan into action to take down her father as she felt they would never find a better window of time to do so.
"Do you think I'm doing the right thing?" she asked him, the smile disappearing from her face as she broached the subject that had been plaguing her.
He opened his eyes and turned towards her as Adeline continued to maneuver her way around the bed, babbling to herself. "About what?"
"My mother," she told him, as if he didn't already know. She hadn't stopped thinking about it since she left the jail earlier. She had gone to visit her mother to see if the woman would provide some insight on how to take down her father.
The woman had replied by telling her 'I know you aren't going to just waltz your behind in here with your flat stomach and no semblance of my grandbaby in your arms and get what you want from me." She had then stated boldly and flatly 'I want to see my grandbaby."
She had rolled her eyes got up to leave, hearing the woman say, "You must not want my help then," as she walked out of the door.
She had first refused to even consider it, but the more she thought about it, the more she actually started to consider it. She had brought the subject up to Jake first, since she would end up telling him before she actually did bring the baby to see Maya, if she decided to do so.
He had responded by asking her what she thought, then telling her that it was her family, if she was okay with it then he was too. But that's the thing, she didn't know if she was okay with it. So she had discussed it with Abby, then called Anna who was back in town with Alex for the time being. Both women told her that it was up to her and reminded her that her mother had never actively done anything to hurt her, Anna throwing in the fact that she actually had a genuinely good and loving relationship with her mother before she went away. So she had decided that she would do it, but only after informing Anna that she was promising to come with her which had resulted in a pretty childish fight, but the woman agreeing to come anyway.
"I think that you wouldn't put Adeline in harm's way ever," he told her. "I think you would avoid that at all cost. So I think you know on some level that it is safe and that you are doing the right thing, and I trust your judgment on that. So yeah, I think you're doing the right thing."
She responded only by staring at him, the moonlight coming through her window being the only source of light illuminating the room. He stared back. At least until Adeline wiggled her way right in front of his face, babbling something as she placed her hands on his face used it as a leverage to try to pull herself up. She only managed to get her chest further up enough to grab onto his ear and his nose and bring her mouth to his eye.
"Are you sucking my eyeball?" he asked disbelievingly and Olivia laughed as she could partially see the disapproving look on the man's face and she heard a loud smacking noise coming from that direction. "It's midnight," he said grabbing hold of the child again and removing her from his face. "Why are you not asleep?" The baby only responded by laughing which caused Olivia to laugh.
"It's not funny," he told Olivia. "She's not using you as a jungle gym."
"Muah," Anna said as she placed a kiss on the baby's cheek. "My little thickums," she said tickling the baby's chubby little thighs, causing the child to laugh and wiggle in her mother's arms. "Are you excited about meeting your grandma?"
"She's not her grandmother," Olivia corrected it as wholeheartedly as she could.
"Um, I'm not a genetics expert and I haven't made a family tree since second grade but I do believe…," Olivia cut her off as they stepped up to the guard's desk.
"We are here to see Maya Lewis," she said.
The guard looked at the computer screen and after hitting a few keys informed them that they would need to go through an extensive search as well as scan the baby to make sure there was nothing hidden in her diaper.
"See that girly, you already got street cred," Anna said placing her finger in the baby's palm to which Adeline replied by gripping her finger and beginning to babble at the woman.
"Stop it Anna," Olivia said as she tried to force the gut reaction she had had to hearing her child would have to be scanned back down her throat.
"What? I'm just playing?" Anna defended. "Besides, between you and Jake that kid had street cred pre conception."
"I do not have street cred," Olivia defended.
"Whatever," was Anna's reply. "I bet bitches on the street aren't messing with you."
"Shut up Anna," Olivia said.
"You shut up Olivia," Anna returned.
The petty bickering continued throughout the rest of the security procedures and down the hall as they were led to the room where they would meet with her mother.
Maya heard them coming down the hall as the guard open the door. She smiled slightly to herself.
"Both of you stop your whining," she spoke out towards the door. Immediately she noticed the talking ceased, before it picked up again.
She heard Anna telling Olivia to go in and she figured they had stopped right outside the door as they were speaking in a hushed tone and she could still hear them. She smiled as she heard a baby seemingly trying to get in on whatever conversation was going on. She couldn't help the smile that came to her face. Olivia had told her that it would be hard getting the clearance to bring a child in, to which Maya responded with, "Well make a call."
"Get in here girl so I can see my granddaughter," she stated.
Olivia looked at Anna who returned her look but then raised her eyebrows and gestured towards the door. "Go Liv," she said. "We weren't treated like some potential drug mules just to get here and stand outside the door."
Olivia took a deep breath and held it, pulling Adeline a little closer to her. She stared at the door a little longer before stepping into the entryway.
Her face remained stoic and hesitant as she watched her mother's eyes go a little wide before her expression slowly morphed into a smile. She still wasn't sure about this, but it was too late.
"Oh," Maya started causing Adeline's attention to turn from the burly men flanking the doorway as she frantically looked for the new voice and only sound being made in the room at the time. "Darling, look at you."
Olivia could feel herself growing angry as a look of pure happiness came over her mother's face. She watched as the woman held her cuffed hands up to her mouth as she tooked in the baby's features. She didn't know why anger was prevailing emotion out of all the things she had been feeling. Maybe it was a backlog of things. Like her mother being gone for most of her life, all of her pregnancy and denying her and her daughter the comfort of having a dependable mother/grandmother to be in their lives. She didn't think that her mother deserved to know her daughter. She didn't deserve to win this one. Even though it was her own decision to bring Adeline, she felt like Maya had forced her hand a little.
She didn't realize that she had stopped moving until Anna nudged her slightly from behind. She swallowed thickly before moving towards the table. She looked down at her daughter whose eyes were locked on the woman sitting on the other side of this. Her mother continued to smile and stare down the baby as she and Anna took their seats across from her. She adjusted Adeline so that she was facing Maya.
"Olivia, she's beautiful," Maya mused, causing Adeline to start babbling as she thought that a conversation had been initiated.
"Aww, sweetheart," Maya went to reach for the baby but was stopped short as she realized that her hands were still cuffed to the table. She then turned to the guard behind her. "Take these damn cuffs off of me."
The man stared her down before turning to Olivia. He didn't move. This caused Maya to turn to Olivia. They just stared at each other. Maya arched an eyebrow letting Olivia know that she knew she had to power to give the word that would release her from the handcuffs. Olivia rolled her eyes, causing Maya to frown, and glanced at the guard before nodding subtly. The man then walked over and removed the handcuffs. Maya immediately reached for the baby and Adeline leaned forward raising her arms out, the lady seemed nice enough, she had barely stopped smiling since she laid eyes on her. Olivia sighed wishing the baby had already gotten that stranger anxiety the pediatrician kept warning her about.
When Olivia made no effort to hand her the baby, Maya spoke, "So you aren't going to let me hold her?"
"Your husband," Olivia said, knowing that would piss Maya off at least a little. Anna had to suppress a smirk at the look that came to the older woman's face. "How do I get to him?"
"By correcting your tone and letting me hold my grandbaby," she said staring Olivia down, who returned the stare momentarily before lifting Adeline from her lap allowing her mother to take her. She knew that this would be part of the deal, but that didn't mean she would walk into it so willingly, but the faster they got this over with the faster she could get her baby back and leave the prison.
"Oh, babygirl," Maya said holding the baby up to give her a once over. "You look just like your mama did. Minus that white boy's eyes of course."
Olivia's lips pressed together and Anna gave a look of disbelief that that woman would still be so petty even though she was scheduled to spend the rest of her life behind bars.
"But thank god you got some pigment in your skin. And you're gonna have your mama's hair," she said pulling gently at the wild curls that were somewhat tamed by the lilac headband the baby had on. The baby responded by smiling and beginning to talk back, causing the woman to continue doting her.
"Look at that, she can pass for normal," Anna whispered to Olivia.
"And if those two over there don't fix their nasty little attitudes, Grandma's going to beat their butts," Maya said, to the baby.
"Okay Mommy Dearest," Anna started. "You know what, we came here for information, spill it."
"Isn't that something?" Maya said settling Adeline on her lap and finally looking at them. "All that attitude and sass and still needing my help."
"Just tell me how to get to him," Olivia demanded.
A/N: I hope you liked. I feel like Maya could've stopped the end of tonight's episode. Apparently the season finale is titled 'that's my girl' or someone says that's my girl. People are speculating that it's Rowan referring to Liv but I actually think it might be Maya (Though I am biased). I also think that Jake knows something's up with Liv and Rowan because again Liv had Voldy and quickly slid up out of that mess, and he knows Liv, she's flaky but he knows she's not that flaky aaannnd he knows even if she felt that way she wouldn't just straight up tell him because Liv never cuts the strings that she may need to pull later unless she absolutely has too i.e. the white house and she's still trying to pull them, and she definitely didn't have to take it there tonight. I think Jake was still deciding what to do about it and when he said I do to Vanessa that was him deciding on a plan to take Rowan out from the inside. And what the hell is up with Rowan. If he wanted Jake to marry Vanessa so badly why the hell did he have him and Liv up in the same house? He know good and well what was about to happen. And also, Rowan is evil as hell. That house is the perfect I need a break from my adult life so I'm going to go back to my childhood bedroom and give up all responsibility for my life for next few days get away that we all need from adulthood at times. I would be in there listening to loud '90s music, texting people, not paying bills and bullshiting my life away every other weekend. He knows how to lure people, dirty, dirty. Oh this you can't take command story line is back as well, another one that is tired and played out BUT...if it brings Maya back into the picture, I can overlook it.
BUT BRUH...PRINCE! I still can't get over that one.