Assorted ficlets done to the 10 song shuffle meme, focusing on Olivia and Lincoln mostly, gen and het.
Spoilers: To 5x12
Characters/Pairings: Olivia, William Bell, alt!Olivia/Lincoln, Olivia/alt!Lincoln, alt!Olivia, altLincoln, Olivia/Lincoln, Nick Lane, Lincoln.
Warnings: character death
A/N: Thanks to giallarhorn for betareading.
1. He's Not Gone – post S4 Olivia - "Ring The Bells" by James
A bell rings and Olivia thinks, no, this shouldn't be happening.
She feels lies form on her lips, and stutters into a raspy cough to cover the difference of a voice settling into a lower octave. She's just watching, spying details about her body that are wrong, a picture growing hazier as she's pushed out unwillingly by another. There's a moment of hesitation, but he knows it's either her or him who has to vacate the body.
Then there's a dream of her life outlined in stark black lines. There's a man with an X across his chest that still haunts her after all this time.
"Be strong, Olive."
He raises the gun to shoot; she finds it's her finger on the trigger and her aim true.
"I always was," she says and doesn't give killing William Bell a second of doubt.
She hits the mark and lurches upright on a gurney with a gasp, lungs moving under her own volition again and pushing out a tight laugh because he should've known better. Unless better was for her, not him - another test in a game that neither of them could win entirely.
