Olivia woke up the next morning again at seven thirty, despite being exhausted and having only gotten about four hours of sleep. She was perfectly content to snuggle back into the bed, but as soon as she started to move around Fitz started to stir.

"What's wrong?" he mumbled out, his voice still thick with sleep and his curls flattened on one side of his head. She snuggled back into his side and threw her leg of his.

"God we need to stop asking each other that," she groaned realizing how often they had said it lately, especially instead of good morning or something. It seemed like every conversation they had in the last few days had started with 'what happened?' or 'what's wrong?' and she was getting sick of it quickly, desperate to get back to their regular lives. He chuckled and wrapped his arms around her,

"We should try and catch some more sleep, I have a feeling its going to be a long day." He was right, everyone would be on edge today. They weren't really on that family vacation that they had been playing at yesterday. This was business; they had to oust their own father. It wasn't going to be easy and it wouldn't end nicely. Every time Olivia thought about what was going to come she would get knots in her stomach. Unconsciously she pulled tighter into Fitz, she knew today would change a lot of things for her family. He heard her exhale loudly through her nose, a clear sign she wouldn't be relaxing anytime soon.

"TV or pool?" He asked her, hoping she would say TV, he wasn't as wired as she was all he wanted to do was hold her and try and sleep until the chaos found them. She threw her arm across him and held on.

"TV please." He handed her the remote and allowed her to flip around before she settled on the news, only she would put on the news to relax her thought. Her last thoughts were of the weather report before they both fell back to sleep.

The hotel's phone ringing not even an hour later woke up Olivia, who was curled in Fitz side, seconds later he too was awake. Both with irritated looks on their faces they stared at the phone. Fitz finally reached across her and grabbed the receiver,

"Hello?" Olivia wasn't really pay attention, she was drawling shapes on Fitz's bare chest completely enthralled by him he lifted them both up and bit and handed her the phone,

"They want to talk to you." Olivia grabbed the phone without hesitation figuring it was her mother asking where to meet them.

"There's a gentleman here asking about your room number, he claims to be your… uhm… boyfriend, he's… uhh very insistent that he give you his delivery himself, would you like us to tell him where to find you?" With wide eyes Olivia looked at Fitz's immediately knowing who was at the desk.

"Can I speak with him myself?" She said as pleasant as before, but her face had gone from soft and sleepy into gladiator mode once more.

"Great, thanks." Fitz was only hearing half of the conversation but was immediately put on edge. She watched as he got up pulled on some sweat pants and his t-shirt from last night, before sitting down on her side of the bed.

"You need to leave now." She heard Stephan on the other line chuckle.

"Oh baby I just wanted to drop off that chocolate I promised you last night, I even brought Harrison with me, you know you want to see him while you still can."

"You are out of your mind, 704 be here in five minutes." Olivia slammed down the phone and got up to throw on some clothes too. She found some leggings sitting on their bags and threw them on and kept on Fitz's Brown t-shirt.

"Stephan is on his way up, I need you to text Michael and Huck, tell them he is coming up, that I'll handle him, but they should be alert. You need to call the desk and have them get us a different room as soon as he leaves, tell them this one has plumbing problems." He was watching her race around the room, and followed her into the bathroom. She took the lid off the back part stuck her hand in and pulled on a few pieces of plastic until the toilet began running, he was about to leave when he heard a sound he hadn't heard since he was in the navy. He spun around glaring at the piece of black metal in his hand,

"Livvy? What the hell!" She breezed past him ignoring his questions, he grabbed her as gently as possible, but it still shook her out of whatever zone she was in.

"I know you hate guns Fitz, I do too, but in this world we need to be able to protect ourselves."

"Do you even know how to use that thing, at least let me have it."

She looked him dead in the eye released the safety, checked the magazine, saw that it was full, and cocked it so that there would be a bullet waiting in the chamber.

"I know how to use it."

"Olivia…" his words died in his mouth when their was a knock on the door. She handed him her phone,

"Michael and Huck, tell them." She walked passed him to get the door, intent on not letting Fitz out and not letting Stephan in. A thousand scenarios play through her mind as she walks away from Fitz. She yanks open the door, but stands in front of it blocking him as much as possible.

"What do you want?"

"Morning babe." He grins at her as she glares, not at all affected by the look she's giving me.

"What. Do. You. Want?"

"I brought you some chocolates." He holds the box out to her, but she ignores it.

"Where is Harrison?"

"Oh did I say he was with me? I meant I spoke to him this morning." He's still grinning and its unnerving her, but she doesn't let it show. She realizes something isn't right with him, he was always arrogant, but the way he's looking at her is new. His eyes are crazy, almost unhinged.

"Okay, you're leaving now." She tries to shut the door on him, but he holds it open.

"That's your trick isn't Liv, leaving. You left me here." He spits out at her and Fitz immediately comes out to stand next to Olivia when he hears the change in his tone. His appearance makes Stephan pause for a moment, but only a moment. She leaned into Fitz, hoping for some reassurance, but also hoping that if her body was between his and Stephan's that Fitz wouldn't try to hit him. He allowed it, but he was stiffer than usual, she knew it wasn't from Stephan, it was the gun that now was hidden behind her back. Knowing she had to stay attentive she tried to ignore the solid mass that was behind her and focus on getting him to leave.

"Stephan I would have never been with you even if I hadn't left town. We are over, you need to leave me alone." She tried to close the door, but again he pried it open. He was in her face and Olivia was trying to hold Fitz back,

"You did this to me. I could have left with you, we could have been together and I wouldn't be like this! I wouldn't have to do these things!" When Huck heard Stephan begin yelling he immediately came out and pulled Stephan away from her as Fitz was grabbing at him. Olivia was grateful of his timing, but she was still concerned about what he had said. Her and Stephan were never very serious, at least not to her. He was originally a good way to piss off her father, but when she realized it wouldn't work he was comfortable and fun. She had never known him the way she knew Fitz or vice versa, so she didn't think much of it leaving him.

"You're a grownup Stephan don't blame me for the way your life is going, I made my choices and you made yours." She couldn't look at him anymore, she wanted to feel bad for him, she did, but he had become something she didn't recognize and didn't know what to do except to keep Fitz away from him. She closed the door to the room and left Stephan with Huck pulling Fitz with her.

His eyes were full of rage, she knew if she let him go he would immediately go outside that door and beat Stephan until he couldn't stand anymore.

"Fitz?" She was trying to get him to make eye contact without any success.

"Look at me." Nothing.

"LOOK. AT. ME." He finally looked at her, some of the rage receding being replaced by something she wasn't quite sure she recognized. It finally hit her, the look she had been waiting for ever since she told him who she really was. He was looking at her like she was a stranger.

"I'm so sorry Fitz, please…" he cut her off.

"What are you sorry for?" His voice was stone and it cut her.

"For having to see that and deal with him, I swear I don't know what got into him, he didn't used to be like that. It's our fathers! They do this to everyone. Men like them destroy everything they touch." He turned away from her, no longer interested in her explanation. He couldn't even look at her, she didn't get it.

"That's not… what? The gun, you're mad I have a gun to protect us with? I know that since your mom… I know you hate them, I do too. I never wanted to look at another one after I left, but that's not realistic. Had I been smart. Doing what I knew I could have protected you. I should have been paying attention. I would have been. But you… I love you so I wasn't listening to my gut that morning. I was happy and distracted and it almost got you killed!" She took a breath to try and calm down, she didn't want to fight with him here, especially not with Huck and Michael outside doing god knows what to Stephan. "Fitz please you have to understand that I didn't want to hurt you or bring up bad memories, trust me I know. Holding a gun, it makes me sick, I hate it. My father handed me one when I was fourteen and didn't think twice about teaching me to use it. How to kill with it. I don't want to have it in my apartment or in this room, I don't want to know how to use it or know that I have perfect aim using it. But I do that's my life. That's what this life means. That's also why I left."

Fitz looked at her shocked by her confession. He thought he knew everything about her, but watching her pick up a gun and use it so confidently had shocked him. He felt he no longer knew her, the woman in front of him was a stranger, but she was a stranger he loved and wanted to protect. He couldn't protect her if she kept throwing herself in the way.

"You still don't get it Olivia, when you picked up that gun, you became someone else, someone so full of secrets that I no longer knew you. I know that you want to protect me and everyone else, but its time for us to protect each other. I cant lose you anymore than you're willing to lose me. I wait for you, I watch for you, my whole life is you, my every mood is controlled by the look on your face, but today you went cold. I didn't think I would ever feel that from you. You know everything about me, but you're this ball of secrets."

"I knew it would come back to this. What was I supposed to do, should I have told you on our first date, hey guess what my father may actually be satan, he gave teenagers guns and taught them how to be criminals. Or maybe I should have told you when we first met, would that have been okay? Maybe when you told me you were in love with me? Because I wasn't scared of that enough! Would you have handled that well? No! You would have run in the other direction."

The fact that she could think that he would ever run from her hurt him more than she realized.

"I would never, will never run from you!" He scoffed at her.

She was pacing now, scared to lose him, but her anger was taking over that part of her brain. She didn't even know what they were fighting about anymore. Was it because she had a gun? Not likely, he wasn't stupid or naive. Was it because Stephan came? No, he's not that juvenile. Was it because she didn't tell him who she was from the start? Maybe a little bit, but he loved her, he had forgiven her almost immediately, what were they fighting about.

"I don't even know why you are mad at me! I just want to protect you from this! You have no right to be angry at me for that! When I met you I was done. I thought I would never come home I would never have to do this or expose anyone in my life to this. I would never have…" he cut her off.

"Never what, fallen in love with me, let me in? Really Liv, you're belitting us now. I wouldn't have run from you no matter when you told me. I think you forget how we met. You were literally beating someone, I knew I wasn't getting involved with someone normal, and I didn't care. I saw you and immediately wanted to protect you. I didn't even know what that scum bag had done to Abby. I just knew he had hurt you some how. I didn't know your name, but I wanted to save you from him, it only took me a few seconds to realize you don't need saving," he laughed at the memory a little. It really was the worst way to meet the person you love. He had seen her at her worst from day one and he jumped in anyway. "Liv I know you can protect yourself, you don't need a hero. I get that, but I think you think Im some damsel in distress that needs saving from this big bad world you come from. I don't and I wont let you throw yourself in front of any bullets from me."

"You mean like you did?"

"That was different!"

"Because it was you saving me? Don't be a hypocrite Fitz, it doesn't look good on you."

"Because it was instinct! I couldn't have stopped myself if I tried! I saw a gun and pushed you out of the way, it was immediate. Like breathing. But you sat in this hotel room and made a plan. Without me. You just handled me. That's not how this works, not when I'm sitting here telling you we are in this together."

It hit her finally and she realized that he was hurt she didn't tell him who she was, but he had gotten over it, but her planning and strategizing without him had hurt him again, and scared him. She immediately cut the tone she had been using and was almost back at her normal voice, not yet the voice she only reserved for him, but better.

"Fitz, I'm sorry I've been alone in this for so long now, it's just what seems natural to me. I don't mean you edge you out of anything."

"You have to trust me enough to let me help you, even if we both know you don't need it."

"I trust you. It's not about trust. I just, I want you to see me, not some job or something you have to take care of. I love Michael and Huck, but to them I am a responsibility, even to Claudia to some extent. I never want to be that to you."

"You're the person I love Livvy, you will always be that to me, no matter what." He told her firmly moving closer to her in an attempt to get her to stop pacing.

"So I'm still me?" She wasn't sure she wanted to hear the answer after the look her gave her earlier.

"You're still you." He told her in a way that made she sure wouldn't doubt it for a while. She just nodded at him, not really sure what to do now, they hadn't fought like that before. They had bickered, usually about stupid things like books or politics, things had never really gotten that heated before. The only time they got close was when they realized that he would be the TA to one of her classes, but even that had resolved quickly, she had told him they needed a break and he needed to be realistic about it for the semester and he told her he loved her and that they wouldn't be slowing down or taking a break, she immediately ran to his arms and agreed.

She wanted to run into his arms again and hold him until everything was really forgiven, but she was worried about what was going on outside the door. Just because for a few seconds her world had imploded didn't mean everything else hadn't kept on going. Stephan was out there willing to threaten Harrison, her mother was due at the hotel any minute, and she had no idea how long it was going to take to get things handled with her father. She was about to ask him to sit with her for a minute before they went outside, just one minute, but they heard Claudia outside the door calling for them.

"Stop fighting! Our mother is here!" Olivia and Fitz both exchanged a look, slightly embarrassed that they had been that loud, but still amused by Claudia. He held out his hand for her and she grabbed it without hesitation. They walked out together, a team again.