The idea just came to me and I had to write it. Really just getting into the crux of Fitz's anger, especially where Olivia is concerned. Rated M for language.


The day's events were replaying over and over in Olivia's mind. From the sex in the electrical closet to Fitz telling her that even though he might not be able to control his erections around her, he didn't want her and coming home and drinking one too many glasses of wine, this had been the day from hell. And the persistent knocking that was coming from her front door wasn't making it any better. "Go away!" Olivia yelled from her spot on the floor, in front of her coffee table. After taking a shower and grabbing her wine, that was as far as she made it. The knocking stopped and Olivia silently thanked God. And then it started again, this time more forceful. "What do you want?!" Olivia asked opening the door, not looking to see who it was.

"You said it was a mistake so I'm giving you 10 minutes to explain yourself." Fitz's tone was void of emotion. He simply sidestepped Olivia as he entered her apartment, closing the door behind him.

"When I tried to explain you didn't want to hear it so you can't come here and demand I explain myself." Olivia folded her arms across her chest, immediately getting defensive.

"Dammit you will explain!" Fitz's voice boomed. "I've had it up to my eyeballs with your passive aggressive bullshit! You fucked up Liv! You don't get to cry your way out of this. You need to explain why the hell you keep making decisions for me!"

"I did it because I love you. I wanted you to win so badly. I knew how much you wanted to be president. I see now that it was a mistake but at the time I didn't see any other way." Olivia sat down on the couch, rubbing her temples.

"There was another way. You should have let me lose! But you all selfishly took it upon yourselves to play God. You…you keep doing this to me. You keep trying to run my life the way you think it should be. I'm not some child you need to coddle. I'm a grown ass man and I could've handled losing."

"But the things your father said to you. And you asking me after his funeral if I thought you'd make a good president…I wouldn't deny you the one thing you wanted most. It's a mistake I wish I could take back but I can't." Liv stood up so she could look Fitz in the eyes.

"You still don't get it. You and Mellie and Cyrus never ask me what I want! You just decide what you think I want and what you think is best for me and I'm tired of it! And fuck all this mistake talk. That was straight betrayal!"

"What else do you want me to call it? Yes I knew that if you found out you'd be upset, and you have that right, but it wasn't done out of malice. Fitz, you know me." Olivia pleaded.

"I thought I knew you but I obviously don't. Because the Olivia I thought I knew was always honest with me. Painfully so at times. But the woman standing before me, I don't know who she is. I don't recognize her." Fitz sighed, running his hands through his hair.

"So is that why you fucked me in that closet like I was some whore? Is that who you think I am now?" Olivia closed the gap between them, getting into Fitz's personal space.

"You don't get to do this! You don't get to throw that in my face! Nobody made you be with me in that closet. You could have left after you slapped me. You're nobody's victim Olivia!"

"And neither are you! You act like you've never made mistakes. What was Amanda Tanner then? Was she not a mistake? And you had the nerve to bring me in to clean up that mess. You blatantly lied to my damn face Fitzgerald!" Olivia began to pace back and forth. "So is one betrayal bigger than the other? Or is it just when you're the one feeling betrayed that it's so damn unforgivable?"

"Oh you don't get to throw that in my face and make it seem like the two can be compared. I fucked that girl once! You had left. You're not my wife. I didn't owe you anything. But you stole the God damned Presidential Election Olivia! Everything I've done the past three years have been based on a lie! Don't you see the magnitude of what you all have done?" Fitz's anger was reaching it's boiling point.

"There were four other people involved yet I'm getting the brunt of your punishment! Do you think that is fair Fitz? Huh?"

"I don't love the others! I love you. I love you and you lied to me for years! Years Olivia! And you didn't even have the decency to tell me yourself after everything threatened to come out. You were just going to continue to keep me in the dark. And you claim that you did this out of love…" Fitz scoffed. "You don't do that to people you love Liv. You don't hurt them the way I've been hurting for the past ten months."

"And you think this has been easy for me Fitz? For the past ten months I haven't been able to sleep. All thought are consumed by you. So I know a little bit about pain from the one you love. I had finally given in and decided I would wait for you and you just said fuck it."

"There are things you don't know. And I can't be with someone I don't trust. I can't believe anything out of your mouth right now. You've told me we were in this together before and you left, so I'm not putting too much stock in anything you have to say. I don't think I'll even trust you again." Fitz's anger was subsiding and it was being replaced with heartache.

"You know what, you're right. I should've known better than to get into bed with Verna and Hollis and Mellie and Cyrus. But I should have also known better than to get into bed with you. The past three years of my life have been one huge mistake." Olivia said, knowing that her last sentence was a lie.

"Fuck you Liv! You can't hurt me anymore than you already have. And keep lying to yourself. Lord knows you lie to everyone else."

"Fuck me?! Really Fitz?! Fuck you too!" Olivia yelled through tears "I wish I had turned Cyrus down when he asked me to come help you. I wish I had never met you. I fucking hate you for making me fall in love with you! Do you understand that I hate you right now?!"

"I can't find it in me to care how you feel right now! My feelings were never taken into consideration by you! So again, fuck you! And I'm done with you!" Fitz opened the door and left without saying another word.