Disclaimer: I do not own Scandal

AN: Well, we've come to the end of True Believers. We've also come to the end of this series. This is the very last one... I didn't realize I'd be this sad to say goodbye to this version of these characters. I've grown to love them so much since I started the project with "This" and then with "History in the Making." I do feel, though, like it's the right time to put them to bed. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported all three of these stories. I want to particularly thank the people who take the time to review: jennkyle, noro, reader575, ScandalOlitz4Ever, , Puckleberryfan82, crabapplect, cleo, kkimberly49 (I hope the story at least ended without destroying you completely!), and jazphace. Thank you all so much for everything! ~ XOXO MAS

Chapter Twenty-Two: True Believers

Church bells ringing on our wedding day, climbed in that limo and rode away

Guess you'll always hear some people say, man, they're never gonna make it

We settled in and we settled down, in this quiet little seaside town

You are the rock I built my world around and life will never break it

We are one heartbeat in the darkness, we are one lasting answered prayer

We are one unbroken promise, we are two true believers

It wasn't easy getting here today, sometimes you stumbled or I lost my way

But every roadblock was a chance to say, take my hand I'm here beside you

We worked and made it through the toughest parts

Now everyday is another chance to start

To look around and see that where we are, is where we were trying to get to

"True Believers" Darius Rucker

One Year Later

Olivia watched with pride as Fitz took the podium next to Sally once again. It had been a tough campaign, much harder than the last one. This time they'd been up against Edison Davis. Not only had that stirred up quite a bit of mud (after all, they'd dated what felt like a million years ago), but Edison was an actual formidable candidate. He was honest to a fault like Fitz, and he would've been damn good at this job.

The American people wanted more of the Grant family though. The public was in love with their three kids and there were hints that a fourth would be well-received. Olivia's hand absently skimmed over her flat stomach. She had a feeling they wouldn't able to keep the news of Grant baby #4 quiet for very long, not that she minded. It wasn't always easy being on a pedestal in the spotlight, but she had Fitz, she had her kids, she had her family. All of that made things much easier. It made sharing Fitz with the rest of world bearable.

She beamed when Fitz finished his acceptance speech to thunderous applause.

SCANDAL

Twenty-Five Years Later

Olivia paced the waiting room slowly, "I'm too damn young for this, Fitzgerald." She muttered.

"Then why are you worrying?" He asked teasingly, folding his newspaper (he'd take print even in the digital age any day).

"Because I'm too old for this." She snapped back at him.

He chuckled, "You know they're doing just fine in there."

"I know that, I did it four times, Anna is fine. Jer is fine. I'm not worried about that. I just, he's so old now!"

"Which makes us like crypt keeper old." Olivia glared at him and he set his paper down, "It's the first grandbaby, Livie, of course you're nervous. And Jer is going to do just fine as a dad. Let's be more afraid of the fact that he's marrying Abby's daughter." He glanced across the waiting room at his in-laws.

"Hey! I resent that!" Abby snapped.

"I'm going to have to agree with Fitz. Having Abby as an in-law must suck." David quipped.

The redhead turned on her husband, "You do know you asked me to marry you. Willingly. No one forced your hand or anything."

David pointed at Olivia, "She sort of did. She was the one who approached me in the bar to"

"To give you an in to the woman you'd been ogling." Olivia reminded him, "Don't blame me for your bad taste."

Abby's mouth dropped open, "I'm sitting right here!" She protested.

"What did we miss? Did we miss anything?" The door to the waiting room opened and the rest of their friends nearly fell through the doorway.

"The baby's not here yet, Mom, right?" Karen asked, her hand firmly clasped in Javi's a diamond ring glittering on it, indicating the wedding that would be happening in just a week's time.

Olivia stopped her pacing to hug her only daughter, "No, Kare, no baby yet. If she's anything like you four were," she eyed her three younger children, "she'll be stubborn and won't want to join us here in the world."

"Mom!" Evan protested, "That's just something none of us needs to hear."

Fitz chuckled and picked his paper up again, "It's the truth. Your mother nearly broke my hand with you." He pointed to his youngest son and Evan just scowled at his father.

Mellie took a seat on one of the waiting room chairs, "Well then, it looks like we have quite the wait ahead of us." She murmured with a smile, "Time to settle in."

SCANDAL

"The first grandbaby." Alexandra cooed holding Alice Grant close to her chest, staring into the blue eyes that everyone hoped would remain the Grant blue. "She's so precious." She glanced over at her son, "I want one." She ordered.

"Not happening any time soon." He told her, holding up his hands. Alexandra glared at him in response.

Jerry pressed a kiss to Anna's brow, "She's perfect." He murmured.

Anna nodded in agreement, "She really is. I wish Uncle Cy and Nana could be here to meet her." Silence settled over the room at that.

"They would both love her very much. Uncle Cy was a big softy when it came to you kids, and Eleanor just adored you all." Olivia let go of Fitz's hand and moved off to the side, "In fact," she picked up a box off the floor, "we haven't told you guys this, but Nana wanted to be here for this." She pulled a blanket out of of the box. "She made a bunch of these for the grandbabies." She handed it to Jer, "This is for Alice."

Jerry and Anna both stared at the blanket in awe, "She," Jer swallowed thickly, "wow."

"And that's not all," Fitz leaned over the box, "this is from Uncle Cy." He pulled out a stuffed elephant in an American flag sweater. Each of the kids had been given one when they were born. Cyrus had stocked up on them for the grandkids before he died. "For Alice."

"It's like they're not even gone." Quinn murmured.

"They'll always be with us." Olivia agreed, "As if either of them would have it any other way."

SCANDAL

XOXO

MAS