Peter walked into the lab and saw Walter and… Bell on the ground floor working on some kind of research.
Walter heard the door close and looked up to see Peter, "Oh, Peter you're back!"
"Yes Walter. Where's Astrid?" He asked, putting his hands on the railing and looking around the lab.
"She went to get some strawberry ice cream. I convinced her that I would be just fine here with Belly," Walter said enthusiastically. Despite Bell actually being sane and in the body of the woman he trusted more than anything, he still was not pleased about the prospect of the two of them left alone in the lab. The last time that had happened, they had experimented on dozens of innocent college students.
"Alright Walter, I'll be in my office if you need me."
Peter was settled into his office in the lab, searching through files of their previous cases, trying to find some connection to the tears in their universe and the now present machine, trying to see if its presence was accelerating the decay of their universe.
There was a knock at the door and Peter's head snapped up, "Come in."
The door opened slowly and he saw Olivia, well Bell, come in and close the door behind her… him, "Hello Peter. I need to talk to you about something."
Peter sighed and rubbed his eyes, "No offense, Dr. Bell, but unless this has something to do with you getting out of my girlfriend, I'm not interested in listening right now."
"Peter, I know you are not particularly fond of me, but this is something important. Something about Olivia that I must tell you, because she wont remember when she wakes up," Bell told him, standing politely near the back wall of the office.
"Wakes up?" Peter snapped in disbelief, "That's what you're going to called it?"
"Peter, focus," William snapped back. Peter didn't like hearing him speak that way in Olivia's, off-cadenced voice, it reminded him that Bell had, even if only temporarily, taken her away from him again, "What I am going to tell you is important… I am sorry that I must tell you this myself instead of letting Olivia tell you, but currently, I have no choice. I believe Olivia may be pregnant."
Peter's face dropped blank, "She-she's…"
"Yes Peter, and I promise that due to this… development, I will attempt to find a suitable host as soon as possible," Peter ground his teeth at the word 'development,' but kept his mouth shut, "Why this is something I needed to tell you is because it could be… hazardous. A child from two universes, with two universal energies, it could cause problems, an… imbalance."
Peter was confused, "But if the child has energies from both worlds, wouldn't that make up for the child not existing in both worlds?"
"No, because the child will carry the energy of one universe more than the other, depending on the child's gender. If it is a girl, it will weight heavier towards your world, while if it were a boy, it would be biased towards our world."
"Why?" Peter asked, shaking his head, "Why would it be unbalanced that way, and why a girl for me and boy for Olivia, why not the other way around?"
"Because if the course of destiny in both world hadn't been disrupted, you would have had a girl on the other side with their Olivia, and the Olivia from this world would have had a boy with John Scott."
"How do you know all this?" Peter demanded, a harsh edge o his voice at the mention of the other her.
"I know a lot of things Peter, things that you will never truly understand, but you must trust me-" Bell paused unnaturally and seconds later, Olivia's body fell to the floor.
"Dr. Bell," Peter exclaimed, rushing to the body. He shook Olivia's body, trying to get her to wake up and a second later Olivia's eyes began to open, "Bell?"
"Peter," Olivia's normal voice asked drowsily.
Peter quickly pulled Olivia to his chest, "Olivia… Its ok, its okay…"