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Chapter 5


Sybil sat in her chair in O.P.A as they talk about the Sully's case. Sybil was now starting to get distracted more on the Amanda Tanner's case than the Sully's case. She hated even thinking about it. Harrison had notice her look away look before slowly tapping her knee making her look at him. She smiled at him almost nodding her head telling him she was okay. She now paid attention to the case as Stephen started talking.

"Even uglier - gun found in the murder has Sully's prints all over it, which gives him means." Stephen told them as he pointed to the gun.

" Damn it." Olivia says before walking towards Stephen's office where sully was held at. The team followed her as she begins questioning him.

"Did you know Paige was sleeping with Tom Henderson?" Olivia questioned him as Sully looked reluctant to answer.

"What?" Sully asked.

"Did you Know?" Olivia implied. Sully now looked at her with an 'how dare you look'.

" I hired you. You can't come in here and t..." Sully was cut off by Sybil.

" Yes, she can. She can do whatever the hell she wants, because without her, you are definitely going to jail. My guess is 20 years, but if they get fancy, a life sentence is a possibility. Is that what you want?" Sybil said crossing her arms as she stared at Sully who looked a gasp at her.

"Did you know Paige was sleeping with Tom Henderson?" Olivia questioned again as now Sully knew he'd have to tell.

"Yeah. Yeah, I knew." Sully answered as he finally came to part with the truth.

Sybil sighs looking at Olivia, who turned to them.

" Look over our statement. Get me five soldiers. Make sure it uses the words "war hero." Preferably with bars on their uniforms, who are willing to attest to Sully's heroism and kindness And get our defense attorney down here." Olivia told them as they all got in their places. Sybil went to call their defense attorney.

As Olivia began talking to Sully, who complained at the course she was heading. Sybil got off her phone after the talk with their attorney.

" That's because I picked it up off of the floor. I am a soldier and I have looked into the faces of men as I killed them. I know what it means to take a life. I don't know how a person could do this to someone they love. I loved Paige. She was my best friend. I did not kill her." Sully told Olivia in a hurry as Sybil came back in to let Olivia that the attorney was called.

"Find me somebody, anybody, who can say they saw Sully at the time of the murder. Make his alibi stick." Olivia stated looking at him. Sybil and Abby looked at her.

"Livy." Sybil says as Abby called her.

"Liv."

"I believe him. Abby and Sybil, I believe him. Go make his alibi stick." Olivia told them as this time Sybil left with Abby to get Sully's alibi.

Sybil and Abby stood outside after talking to everyone outside the bar. Abby's phone ranged as she picked up.

"Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. I showed Sully's picture to everyone in the bar. No one saw him the night of the murder, and Liv's got cops in the lobby. He's finished."  Abby said as her and Sybil looked at each other before Sybil's phone dinged. Sybil's eyes' narrowed as she took out her phone to see a text from Harrison.

To: Sybil

From: Harrison

-Amanda Tanner showed up to the office. She wanted to see Olivia. Wanted her to send the president a message.

Sybil read the text as she felt over and over again. She hated the pandora's box that was creaking open as little claws started coming out. It wouldn't be long before everything was spilled already. 

Sybil put her phone up as Abby tap her so they could leave. They had met up with Stephen and Harrison, who made sure Sybil was close to him as they spoke to Howie.

"I have $500 in cash and a pizza." Harrison says as he put the pizza on the table with the envelope with the $500 dollars in it.

" Howie, meet your $500 and your pizza." Abby added as she spoke to Howie.

"Deep dish, sausage and mushroom?" Howie questioned them.

"Yeah." Harrison told him.

"By the most best pizza maker ever." Sybil joked.

" Show me." Howie says.

"Howie, sir please we are running on a time clock here. We just need you to help us with this tiny thing. just a small favor." Sybil told him as she motions with her fingers the amount.

"I'm counting." Howie told them before Abby told him what they needed.

"Last night, between 10:00 and midnight, the bank camera that points northeast towards Matty's pub. Speed through. Stop. Right there." Abby motion as they all watch the footage as they saw two men kiss.

" Is ... Is that Sully?" Harrison asked as they could clearly see his face as he locks lips with the mystery man. 

"Well so much for hating gays." Sybil announced with a small smirk on her face.

"We're gonna need a copy of that." Stephen said as they waited for Howie to get the video tape.

They met right back at O.P.A. As they told Olivia, the lead that they had. They all sat in their open area as they spoke to Sully.

"We don't have a lot of time. The police are here, so I need you to listen." Olivia told Sully as he looked at her.

" What's going on?" Sully asked.

"We were able to verify your alibi." Olivia replied to him.

"You were? That's a good thing, right?" he responded.

" Sully, you're the most decorated hero since the Vietnam war, you come from a family of soldiers, you make your living giving speeches for the conservative right, and you've said over and over, Paige was your best friend. Not your lover, your best friend. Paige knew, didn't she? She was your best friend. She knew you were gay. The two of you had a deal." Olivia told him as Sully started shaking his head.

"You can't show that tape to anyone." Sully told them.

" I need the name of the man you were kissing." Olivia requested.

"You can't show that tape and you can't have a name." Sully ignored her request.

" It's your alibi. This could help you." Sybil pointed out but still she couldn't understand why he was so reluctant on not letting this secret be known.

"No. I'm You cannot tell people that I am gay. I am a hero." Sully pleaded.

"Is being a hero is more important than your freedom?" Sybil asked but Sully didn't answer her. He didn't want to talk about it anymore.

"The police have a warrant for your arrest. All due respect, people finding out you're gay is no big deal compared to that." Abby added agreeing with Sybil.

"No. I am a hero. I honor the uniform." Sully says not wanting to hear anything else.

" Sully." Olivia called his name, hoping her would reconsider.

"I honor the uniform!" Sully yelled standing up.

"Sully, look at me. The rules have changed. Don't ask, don't tell is over." Olivia judged.

"That is talk! I am a conservative republican! I am publicly anti-gay! I am the deacon in my church. They're talking about me running for Congress one day. I am Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan St. James. I'm a hero. I can't be gay." Sully told them. Sybil rolled her eyes.

"But you are. This is who you are. This is your alibi. Let us help you. Come on, Sully." Olivia pleaded one last time.

"No." Sully concluded already having his mind made up as he begins walking out towards the lobby which held the police.

"Sully. Sully!" Olivia shouted following him as everyone followed her.

"Sullivan St. James, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can you have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be provided to you." The cop told him as he was handcuffed before leaving. Olivia following to meet him at the station.

Sybil and Quinn stood in the room as Sybil looked pissed. Huck had called out to them.

"Hey, you seen Olivia?" Huck asked them.

"She just followed Sully to the station. Why?" Sybil asked.

"Got a strange call some girl named Amanda Tanner." Huck told her as her and Quinn looked at each other.

"What did she want?" Sybil asks Huck.

"She's in the hospital. She tried to kill herself." Huck told them as her and Quinn left to go to the hospital.

By the time, Olivia made it to the hospital, Quinn stood outside Amanda's room.

"What happened?" Olivia questioned Quinn.

"She slashed her wrists." Quinn told her as she seemed to be looking for someone.

"Any press sniffing around?" Olivia asked her.

"No. No one. One of the nurses told me her dad's flying in. He'll be here in the morning." Quinn responded as she nodded.

"Okay. She hasn't spoken anyone ... no nurses or doctors about anything?" Olivia questioned Quinn as Quinn shook her head no.

"Just to me." Quinn tells her.

"Good. Stay with her." Olivia said.

" Olivia. You said to trust your gut. My gut says she's telling the truth." Quinn says to her.

Olivia didn't want to think nothing of it as her and Quinn spoke as she listened to the details of what Amanda had told her. She watched as Quinn was looking around for someone.

"Quinn, who are you looking for?" Olivia questioned Quinn.

"Did you see Sybil outside the hospital? She said she had a phone call that she needed to take." Quinn asked Olivia.

"No, I didn't" Olivia said before pausing.

"Was Sybil here while you spoke to Amanda?" Olivia asked Quinn, who wondered why she was asking that question.

"Yes, she heard everything." Quinn answered before Olivia nodded leaving right away confusing Quinn.

Sybil stood in the president's office as the aide let her know he would be right in. Sybil saw that Olivia was calling her as she declined the call. The door finally opened again, as she turned to face Fitz and Cyrus, who froze at the sight of her. 

"Sybil? This is a surprise." Fitz says as him and her had an unspoken talk.

"We're gonna need the room, please." Fitz told them as him and Sybil still stared at each other.

"Sir, you have to give that toast to the president of France in ten minutes. Maybe you could find ..." Cyrus complained as he watched them.

"We need the room." Fitz told him again before Cyrus and the aide left out the door. Fitz had look up at the ceiling they both knew the camera was before they went to the back corner behind his desk.

"Sybil." Fitz called out to her. He tries to touch her but she wouldn't let him.

"Sweet baby? Sweet ba.. Sweet baby?" Sybil whimpered as she tried to get away from him as she felt cornered.

"Come here." Fitz grabbed her softly, pulling her towards him.

" You left me." Fitz said to her as Sybil tried not to cry.

"No. No. you can't do that. You're married. I was so wrong to get in a relationship with you. I told you everything. But to hurt Mellie, who I began to see as a friend. No. I cannot do that to her. I can't. "Sybil told him. She tried to avoid looking at him. She avoided the eyes that she loved so much. That she can't get enough of. 

"Please. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me." Fitz cooed at her as he tried to make her look at him. But she couldn't. He was her weakness, and She was his. 

"Did you give her that dog?" Sybil demanded.

"Sybil. Sybil baby." Fitz cooed again rubbing her arms.

"Answer the question." Sybil repeated.

"I love you so much. I missed you." Fitz says to her.

"You had Olivia take this case, knowing you was sleeping with this girl. Clouding her judgement, she questioned that girl so hard that she almost killed herself. How could you do that! Sybil shouted before Fitz kissed her lips. The kiss lasting a few seconds before she remembered what she was doing and slapped him.

"No." Sybil told him before Cyrus and Olivia burst into the room. As they heard the commotion, Fitz's head still to the side as she looks at them. Olivia and Cyrus had piece together what had happened.

"I just want to say that we can hear you screaming. Mr. President, you want to go clean up." Cyrus told Fitz, who now fix his head to look at Olivia and Cyrus.

Olivia went to her cousin to comfort her almost.

"Cy no." Fitz pleaded to Cyrus, who looked disappointed in him.

"You have lipstick on your mouth. You need to clean up." Cyrus tells him before Fitz gave one look to Sybil as she caught his eyes again before he left.

"Olivia. Sybil. What the hell is going on?" Cyrus asked wanting to know their side of the story. He couldn't believe that Fitz might've been seeing Sybil behind his back.

"You didn't know. He tells you everything." Olivia told him as Sybil tried not to cry. 

"Didn't tell me this." Cyrus said motioning to Sybil. 

"Because it didn't matter enough." Sybil says before she and Olivia started leaving.

"Wait no Liv. Sybil come back so we can talk about this." Cyrus told them.

" We have to go." Olivia told Cyrus one last time before they left.

As soon as they walked out, Sybil's phone started ringing. She answered the phone hearing her father's voice.

"Veronica's dead. Come home now." Damon told his daughter before hanging up.

Sybil right then and there let out a cry for herself, for Fitz and for her darling sister Veronica. Olivia hugs her tight as her cousin cried.

" Sybbie, what's wrong?" Olivia told her.

"Veronica's dead. I have to go home. I have to go back to Oakland." Sybil told her. 

"Okay, this is what you are going to do. You're going to go to Oakland. We'll be here if you need us. You do what you have to do." Olivia preps her cousin as she nodded. Her and Olivia went their separate ways before she went home, switching cars knowing that she would drive to Oakland. Her pandora's box was opened now regarding the situation with Fitz. 

As she drives into the night, leaving the president and O.P.A behind not knowing of the trouble that her cousin would get into on her behalf against the president.




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