Not the Same
Spoilers: 3x13 Immortality
Disclaimer: I do not own Fringe...if I did Fauxlivia would NOT be pregnant!
Life is semi-perfect, no man in her life but inside her is a tiny being that solidifies her place in her world. She has risen through the ranks quickly...when the job becomes too much for Lincoln, the Secretary does not waste time promoting her to head of Fringe Division...securing a safe career placement for her pregnancy.
The joy of having a child is short lived because six months in she gets a genetic screening as requested by the Secretary and the news it not good...in fact its horrible.
Brandon looks at her with a solemn face, the Secretary is across the room waiting as well.
"The genetic disease that Peter had is in the baby's DNA but while the cure he was given cured him...it didn't stop the gene from reproducing. Your travel between worlds hyped the genes as it was still developing. The baby won't live past a year...it'll die slowly and in pain just as Peter was." He looked at them both, "I'm sorry, if it had been within the first few weeks the gene could have been removed but not now."
So she continued with the pregnancy and prepared to care for her sick child, nothing seemed right anymore...she'd lost everything and now her only comfort, her child...she was going to loose everything all together.
She cries often and the day the birth comes she wishes the baby dies in childbirth without suffering. However the cry is heard and the nurse held up a baby...it was a boy.
Holding him she smiled, he had Peter's nose and bright blue eyes. The knowledge that her child's life was short-lived didn't matter at that moment. "Welcome to the world baby boy, James Peter Dunham. You're named after my daddy and your daddy...he's a good man, made some bad choices but that doesn't matter...its just you and me."
She buries her son after watching him suffer...three months the disease starts in and she can't bare to see her son in pain so she kills him, smothering him in his sleep. She thinks the Secretary will kill her for doing so but instead he just nods, saying he understands and he's glad she has the ability to end her son's suffering while he could not.
Life moves on, her son is dead and the only reason for Peter to return is gone...she found it ironic that what took him away was the reason for him having no need to return: the disease.
She's unaware that a world away, the day her son is buried her alternate gets news of her own...however hers is full of joy.
A/N: This is my revolt against 3x13...I hate it so I use it. Next is Olivia's story...our Olivia.