What if Fitz was never President and Olivia kept her straight bangs for a while?
What if Lindsay D never became Quinn and what if Huck was a real contender for wine nights duringBachelorseason?
It all comes down to one question: What if Defiance County wasnt rigged?
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And it all leads to the first major boo-boo of this whole disaster calledScandal: Defiance.
Heading back to 2010, Hollis Doyle (human trash bag) puts it to a second vote.
If she stood in the sun and kept fighting the good fight.
Olivia says no, and Fitz loses by a slim margin in, you guessed it… Defiance.
Olivia did everything she could, including keeping those 2010 bangs.
But Olivias plan is to go back to D.C. and help Marcus pass some bills in Congress.
Fitz tells Olivia he still loves her, but she departs anyway.
But Fitz isnt in D.C. from California for giggles… hes there to ask her to marry him.
She stays silent and lets the elevator door close.
Thank God for non-automated elevators.
Four months later, Fitz and Olivia decide to tie the knot.
Cyrus is outside with James (HEY, DAN BUCATINSKY, HEY BOY), and theyrestill not out.
But saddest of all is Mellie, who is outside the church, pretty heartbroken.
Inside the church, Olivia is getting ready with Huck in tow.
Vaguely cleaned up, he walks her down the aisle toward Fitz.
Rowan creeps in the back in typical Rowan fashion.
Well,sort of realbecause its an alternate reality.
Its a popular show, because newly minted couple Cyrus and Mellie catch it as well.
Huck isobsessedwith Lindsay D, who is actually just old school Quinn.
Its all perfect and too much, since Huck watchingThe Bacheloris actually all of us watchingThe Bachelor.
He explains to James that he cared about him, but he cant be with him.
Of course, Mellie overhears the whole thing.
Shes here to advocate for the bill she and Marcus were working on.
She nearly scores a one-on-one with the president, but he turns her down.
This is a world where people turn down Olivia Pope, after all.
Fitz finishes by saying, You should have done it.
Five months later, theres no more marital snuggles… just alarms.
Alarms across the board.
Olivia and Fitz are miserable.
Abby pushes Olivia on the whole situation, but Olivia insists not everyone can be David and Abby.
Thats when he finally tells her to stops and pushes her off him.
She calls him a sad drunk, and shes not wrong.
Its later that Mellie takes Olivia aside to tell her she was right about Defiance.
She apologizes about everything… trying to get Fitz into office and in a way, herself.
Shes trapped in this political facade, and Fitz is free.
He tells Olivia he loves her and still wants her, if shell have him.
She hands him what are presumably divorce papers, but whats inside isnt divorce papers at all.
She gives him information on a townhouse in Georgetown, because love matters in the real world.
We flash back to therealworld, where Olivia is alone in the Oval.
She jumps up from the couch and runs outside to Fitz, who is standing on the balcony.
He asks if shes made a decision, and she says that shes in.
In for the plan to call Cyrus innocent for murdering Frankie?
In for their relationship?
In for going back to a world where she has straight bangs?
