That last episode killed me! It left me with a need to write, but writer's block too. It was just a mess. This season is killing me! Okay rant over…

Olivia had been texting back and fourth with Claudia, Michael, and Huck for most of the morning hoping that they got some kind of information. Abby had called a few times while they were shopping. Olivia called her back and Abby told her all about the concert and her time with David, Olivia stopped her before things got too detailed. Fitz was chuckling when he heard Olivia say, "Stop! Too much information, No… Oh my god, Mary had a little lamb! I'm hanging up now!" She gave Fitz a dirty look for laughing at her and resumed texting.

"Any information?"

"You mean about my father or about David's big thick…"

"Liv!" Olivia busted out laughing at the expression on his face.

"I'm just saying after that little conversation with Abby I could give you a police sketch."

"Do you… uhm… does she…"

"Spit it out dear."

"Do you tell her the sort of things that she tells you?" He looked really concerned, he wasn't a prude, and the idea of Olivia talking about their sex life was incredibly sexy, but it was still awkward.

"Oh god no!"

"Why not?" Olivia rolled her eyes at him because of how quickly his tone had changed from one of awkwardness to insult.

"All our neighbors know exactly what goes on in that apartment, I don't need Abby knowing too." Fitz face showed pride as he smirked at her. "Besides I don't want to hear about David's little friend and if I'm sitting there bragging about your moves it would be hard for me to feign prudishness."

"Little friend Liv really?"

"Abby's words not mine, but apparently he knows how to use it." He glared at her, "I'm just repeating what I hear!"

"I don't think I want to hear you talking about anyone's friends but mine!" Olivia looked at his scandalized face and decided to take pity on him.

"Well yours is really the only one I want to discuss so I think we can work that out." She started running her hands up and down his thigh while he was driving.

"Livvy…"

"Fitz?"

"Behave for the next fifteen minutes please."

"And if I don't?" She started moving her hand higher.

"Don't make me pull over this car Livvy!" He had a look in his eyes that told her he was serious so she gave him and break and kept her hands to herself for the rest of the ride to the hotel.

Fitz insisted on dropping Olivia off with Claudia before he would take the bags out of the trunk and into their room, wanting to maintain his surprise. When Fitz finally made it upstairs Claudia and Olivia had their heads together discussing their plans for tonight, it was clear that Olivia hadn't mentioned what their mother said but he wasn't going to push her. He figured it was between her and her siblings. He walked in with the bags behind his back and stuff a bag into the closet. After finding the bag he was looking for he tossed it on the bed.

"You guys wanna do some laps?" He threw a bag from a store Olivia hadn't heard of. She looked at Fitz,

"I may have gone overboard." The bag had five different swimsuits in it, not including four more pairs of trunks Olivia assumed was for himself, Huck and Michael. Claudia looked stunned, but Olivia was used to him going overboard.

"Maybe later, you guys should go though, it is technically still your vacation."

"Its not a vacation unless I am on a beach with a mai tai or better yet with an embarrassingly large glass of wine." Olivia replied bitterly. They weren't planning on going out of town, but she was excited to walk on the beach in the fall and lay in bed with Fitz all day reading and watching TV, this was definitely not what she was hoping for. Fitz looked at his watch, it was only ten,

"Well it's a little early for me to find you some wine, would you settle for a swim and the promise of a whole bottle later?"

"You're spoiling her!"

"I'll get you both a bottle."

"Much better." Olivia was enjoying Fitz and Claudia's banter, thankful that they seemed to really like each other. There was a knock on the door, they all assumed was either Michael or Huck. Olivia went to open the door, but instead of one of her family members she found a bellhop from the hotel holding the most ostentatious display of flowers she had ever seen. Olivia let him in and let him set them down. Claudia was giving Olivia a confused look as she stared at the flowers nervously.

"Fitz those are beautiful, that's so sweet!" Claudia said shocked at her sister's response to the display of affection.

"They're not from Fitz."

"You didn't even open the cards!" She looked at Fitz waiting for him to agree with her. Olivia was irritated, her sister was being so obtuse, it wasn't like her.

"They aren't from me. Livvy hates flowers, I brought them on our first real date and she asked me 'why I would kill something beautiful, just to watch it die', plus roses make her sneeze." Olivia gave him a small smile, thankful that he knew her so well, she never mentioned roses make her sneeze, but he had noticed anyway.

"God, you are such a lunatic sometimes! He brought you flowers and you lectured him!?"

"She gave me that gladiator voice and face too." Fitz told her pretending to pout, really he thought it was adorable and sexy that she didn't flowers and didn't have a problem telling him what she thought, it was just one more way she was special.

"Guys seriously can we have mock Liv time later and focus on this shit show?"

"You sure they aren't from Dad?" Olivia gave her a look. "Okay not from Dad. There's a card, just calm down and read the card." Olivia still looked scared and frozen. She knew she was probably overreacting, but the last few days have made her wary surprises even more than before. Fitz walked over and grabbed the card, his face immediately showed rage and he crumpled the card in his hand. Seeing that look it immediately clicked in her head who would send them. Fitz had the same expression he had whenever Jake would ask to borrow her notes from class. Stephan.

"Rat bastard," Olivia burst out, "what did it say?" Fitz just handed her the note, she straightened it out and read it out loud in her most sarcastic voice.

"Liv, see you soon, all my love Stephan. What the fuck is wrong with him! He's delusional! I haven't spoken to him in three years, and before that… ugh what was I thinking!?" Olivia was torn between being angry that Stephan would be presumptuous enough to send her flowers and that he clearly put Fitz in a bad mood ruining their day. She looked between Claudia and Fitz. Fitz looked ready to kill someone with his bare hands and Claudia looked amused.

"Fitz, I am so sorry, I don't… I cant… He's… I don't even know what he was thinking."

"Its fine Olivia." She was shocked, he never called her Olivia unless he was mad or they were in class, even in class it was mostly Liv.

"Claudia can you give us a minute?" Olivia asked her.

"You shouldn't let this ruin your day, I am sure that was his intention." With that she walked out the door, figuring she would let them solve their own issues. Claudia figured Olivia should have expected Stephan to pull something, sending flowers was the bare minimum of foolish actions he would try.

Fitz's hands were still clenched in fists, his ears were bright red and his eyes were stormy and angry.

"Olivia?"

"That's your name isn't it?"

"Seriously Fitz? Everything that's happened the last few days and your mad because I have a jackass for an ex boyfriend?"

"No! No! I understand you have a past. I can deal with that. What I am having a hard time dealing with is why you had to go to him for help? And now these? I should kick his ass!"

"I just… I don't know! Okay! I knew he could help, I didn't think past that, clearly I should have, or you should have spoken up and said you didn't want me to. I would have listened!"

"You wouldn't have listened to anyone! You've been yelling out orders for the past two days! You haven't breathed or listened to anyone, you don't sleep or eat! And I am trying to keep you standing so I am not going to get into your way, but now he crossed the line."

"So that's what this is about, your not mad at him for sending me flowers you know I don't want or like, your mad at me for not being able to hold it together?"

"Of course not Livvy, come here!" She stood at the other side of the room still angry at him, not giving into him that easily. "Please." She finally looked at him and saw that pain on his face, she made eye contact with him, but refused to go closer to him.

"It should be me!" he yelled at her. He was running his hands through his curls and pacing back and fourth. He never used to pace, she figured he'd gotten it from her. She was always moving around.

"Fitz, calm down, what do you mean?"

"I should be the one that can help you, but I can't. All I can do is sit here and try to make you sleep and eat and distract you, but I can't really do anything. It kills me Livvy to see you in this much pain and there's nothing for me to do about it."

"Oh Fitz, you're doing everything!" She went to him finally understanding how he felt, because she felt the same way when he was shot, seeing him in pain and not being able to do anything about it just about killed her, of course he would feel the same. He looked at her with broken eyes, she grabbed his hands so that he would stop running them through his hair. "We have to stop this, you need to tell me how you feel and I do too. We can't keep getting upset over the same thing. I need you Fitz. More than anyone else. I could do this without Michael and Claudia and even Huck, I could find someone else to get me information, it would hurt but I could. I can't find another you, to feed me and hold me when I sleep and distract me, that's just you. So please don't put all of this on yourself, and I will try not to too. I'll even take a nap after a few laps okay? And maybe when this is done you can kick Stephan's ass." She smirked at him as she wrapped her arms around his torso.

"Can I borrow your tire iron?"

"Of course."