Title: Paladin
Synopsis: The Bishops, Astrid and Olivia come to terms with Peter's real past as the war draws near.
Rating: T - Language.
It was 3:13 in the morning when she received an FBI phone call. There had been a major argument between the Bishops ending with Peter leaving, and Walter incoherent and confrontational. Agent Farnsworth was on her way to sit with Walter, an APB was put out on Peter's car. Olivia was on her way to the lab, hoping that Walter's love and concern for his son would make him cooperative in finding out what made Peter, the epitome of calmness, lose his temper and leave. Once again she locked her emotions away; it was her way of survival in a world that was increasing falling into chaos. Someday the guilt of not believing in John, having to kill her ray of reason and friend Charlie, dragging Peter, Walter and Astrid into a war that they did not want to wage but no one could stop. Someday this would catch up with her and it would be a bitch, until then though she could lock the guilt away; fear was something different. Her fears were realized when she came into the lab and saw Walter, completely shut down as he sat in the center of the lab with machines broken and instruments scattered around him.
"I had to sedate him, but it was hard. He's quiet immune to drugs," Astrid said as Olivia walked in.
"Do you know what happened," Olivia asked her assistant as she knelt before Walter's blank form?
"No, nothing yet. Campus security reported a disturbance around 2 am, when they got here this was what they found." She pointed to the devastation in the lab.
"And Peter?"
"Security cameras caught him leaving, that's it. Nothing on his car. Walter was mumbling about how he only did it out of love, he didn't mean to hurt anyone."
Olivia thought on Astrid's last words from Walter, 'he didn't mean to hurt anyone.' She wondered how often he had to say those words and if he really didn't mean to hurt anyone? So far him and his partners experiments had hurt hundreds of people. And what would he have done to his son? Since they had been reunited Peter had assumed his role of son begrudgingly at first, then had grown into showing genuine love and concern for his father. Walter was responding to Peter as well, now this? Her phone rang.
"Agent Dunham."
"FBI found Peter Bishop's car wrecked 12 miles south of Boston. No sign of the younger Bishop. Blood at the scene suggests injury but that was all they had for now."
Olivia thanked Broyles and then hung up. She had to get something out of Walter, Peter's life could be in jeopardy.