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.