I started noticing changes in her when we got back from the other side, the words that she used to convince me to come back still echoed in my head.
"I have thought of a hundred reasons… why you should come back. To.. to fight the shape-shifters, to take care of Walter, to … to save the world. But in the end… you have to come back. Because you belong with me."
Just thinking about it brings a smile to my face. I had gone to a whole other universe to escape the world in which I had been lied to for my whole life, just to find out that the person that had brought me back to the universe I had originally lied to me all over again. It is kind of ironic that the lie that Walternate told me felt just as big as the one that Walter told me.
I came back for Olivia, yet somehow it didn't quite feel like she, herself had come back . She had an explanation when I asked her about it; she had a perfectly responsible explanation. I mean it was completely responsible that seeing another version of herself would make her want to change so that she could be happier like that other version.
But I still had this nagging feeling that that wasn't all, she was different in ways her explanation couldn't explain. The way she walked was different, the way she acted with Walter was different, and she didn't have that look in her eye, the one that had the slightest hint of hope hidden beneath a cloud of heaviness.
But even the stuff her explanation seemed to cover, seemed a little off to me. She was quicker with a smile and she seemed happier in general. Even if it was just because seeing another version of herself had made her want to change, it would have taken time, but the changes were almost instantaneous.
I started to think that they were because my relationship with her had changed, that I was the one that was making her so happy. But it all still didn't add up.
On the days when I started to think about it all too much I started to think that maybe she had been replaced by a shape shifter or something, but I would quickly dismiss the thought thinking it would be impossible. I mean how could they, Olivia hadn't been away from any of us long enough to have a shape shifter replace her.
If a shape shifter had somehow managed to become Olivia that would mine that Olivia was dead and that was something I just couldn't stand to think about.
But I still couldn't stop the feeling that something wasn't right with her. I just wish there was a way for me to find out for sure if it really was Olivia, without her knowing that I think she might have been replaced.
I started to think of all the possible ways I could try to find out, but all the ways I knew to find out if someone was a shape shifter involved finding mercury in their blood or finding a memory disk in the bottom of her spine. Both of which would alert her to the fact I thought she had been replaced.
If she found out I thought that and she really was our Olivia that would land me in serious trouble.