Blood Bond
Spoilers: Season 1, Season 2 and All of Season Three
Disclaimer: Do we really have to go over this? JJ Abrams owns it...not me.
A/N: This is co-authored with Caithrine Glidewell, our last fic Reprecussions together turned out to be a huge success and I want to thank her for going ahead and doing a second one for me. For those who know us, we tend to cover all fields and I will let you know that once again all the fields will be played: tradgedy, romance, sci-fi, supernatural, humor...
Also, it brings new light to Olivia and Peter as without each other they may not survive...it could get what I like to call 'fringy' but I'm sure you'll love it. Thank you for reading and please review.
Olivia opened the door to her apartment to find Walter, he looked scared.
"Walter? What are you doing here? Did Peter or Astrid drive you?"
He shook his head, "can I come in Olivia?"
She let him in and shut the door, Walter sat down the couch and Olivia sat in the chair. "What is it Walter?"
"Its Peter...I'm scared Olivia, about what's happening to him but you can help...he changes with you like the changes can't break past your bond."
Olivia put up her hands, "stop Walter...I'm confused...start from the beginning."
"Peter touched the machine part on the other side, we both know that but Olivia when he did it weaponized him...he was the one who killed the shapeshifters...I found him murdering one with no remorse but Peter has remorse for everyone even if they don't deserve it. You called Olivia, you called right after he did it and he changed immediately...like you can break that weaponization. You have to help him...he's slowly becoming someone other then my son."
"You're saying that when Peter touched the machine part it turned on his violent nature?"
"Yes," Walter looked at her, "I'm scared Olivia...I'm scared of my own son. I understand why he was driven to find out more about the machine...its changing him."
Olivia looked at him, "but how can I help?"
"Peter's always been connected to you...he told me from the moment you met he felt like he belonged. You changed his mind to come back and when you called...he was Peter again. I think you two are connected...I don't understand it but when you're upset he calms you. Its reciprocal, the bond you two share is different. I think that's why he was able to turn off any emotion towards Fauxlivia when he found out the truth...because his emotions lie with you, he said he had no issue killing her but he needed her to find you...you're driven towards each other, like you need to be together to function properly." Walter sighed, "you can help him Olivia, you can help him turn it off but you need to face the truth that Peter is sorry and he wishes he could take it all back."
Olivia smiled, "I know he does, I told him we can move past it...I understand her now, that it started out as a mission and turned into something more. I don't hate her, I thought I did but I don't because gaining feelings for Peter...I think that will make her a better person in the end."
"But what about Peter?"
"I'll talk to him, I promise Walter."
Walter nodded, "can I get a ride home?"
Olivia smiled and nodded, "come on, you walked didn't you?"
The next day Olivia found Peter at Massive Dynamic, Nina had called and said Peter had shown up for more tests...wanting to take them. She found herself in a lab similar to the other side, a large tank in the middle with computers.
Peter walked in the room in scrubs and looked at her, "Olivia?"
She touched the tank, "I remember it...it was a lot like this, the experiments Walternate did on me, happened in a lab like this."
"He'll pay for what he did to you Olivia."
Olivia turned to look at him, "now that's not the Peter I know, he wouldn't use force and vengeance to try to settle a score...that makes you like him."
"I'm nothing like him."
She nodded, "but you are...you're killing with no remorse, shapeshifters or not. You're angry and driven to use this weapon and when I look at you...I don't see my Peter anymore. Why Peter, why are you doing this? Why are you becoming like your father?"
He was feet away and it took only seconds for him to pin her to the tank, "I am nothing like him and don't ever call him my father...the man hurt you."
"He's not the one doing it right now," she looked him in the eyes, "Peter...I'm scared...of you."
Recognition flew across his eyes and he backed up, looking down at his hands as he shook his head. "Olivia?" He looked at her, "I'm sorry...I'm so sorry, what...how?" She took a step towards him and he backed up, "stay back Olivia, please...I don't want to hurt you."
He left sooner then she could stop him, Olivia went after him and found him in Medical before a cabinet of medications. She knew what he was doing when he grabbed a toxin.
"No, Peter no!" She grabbed his wrist, "no...look at me, Peter look at me please."
"Let me go," he grabbed her wrist and pushed her back, Olivia slammed into the medical cabinet and the glass shattered, so much it cut part of her face. She pushed off and grabbed Peter, wrapping her arm around his neck and gently tightened the arm lock till he fell unconscious...the toxin caught before it could break.
After Peter was placed in a bed and hooked up to every machine available, Olivia went to find Walter. He was talking with Nina about blood tests, apparently Falcon had hidden the fact of Peter's DNA changes but they were recovered.
Noticing part of the device on the table, no doubt they were trying to test it with Peter...she walked over and looked at it. The device that was glowing, due to the small amount of blood it had in it to use as a DNA sample, shut off when she neared it.
"Its never done that before," Olivia looked up to see Brandon, "back up about two feet."
Olivia did so and the device switched on, she neared it again and it shut off. "Why is it doing that?"
"Doing what?" Nina walked over with Walter, "what's going on?"
Brandon looked at Nina, "we found something...Agent Dunham is like a counterbalance to the machine. Show her."
Olivia backed up and the device switched on but shut off again when she neared, "why is it doing that?"
"Because Olivia is unique," Walter looked at them, "I suspected something like this but I didn't expect it to be complex. This is why Olivia can make Peter better, his rage and weaponization doesn't surface with her...whether it be her voice, her name or vicinity...the device and Peter's changes see her as a threat so they hide." He looked at Olivia, "I can't understand why he would attack you...Olivia were you afraid when he hurt you?"
"My guard was down."
"Did Peter glimmer as he does when you let it down."
Olivia nodded, "he lit up like the Empire State Building...why does it matter?"
"I'll need some of your blood...I know you have a phobia of needles since your return but it could save Peter."
Olivia looked away when the needle was placed in her skin, she reminded herself it was for Peter to keep from breaking the tech's arm. As soon as the bandage was on her arm, she was out of the chair in under a second.
She found Walter and Brandon going over blood types and looking in microscopes. Brandon looked at the large screen, it showed a computerized model of DNA...three screens showed. One was labeled 'Olivia' and the other two were labeled 'Peter' and all had DNA strands on them.
"The dominate areas of Peter's DNA are in yellow...the mutation is clearly evident."
Walter nodded, "what is the red on Olivia's."
"Agent Dunham's mutated genes, from the Cortexiphan. If this works, Peter's dominate DNA should return to normal, which is blue on the screen...if the entire DNA strand turns blue we know it works...if it doesn't then we're out of luck."
Olivia walked in, "what are you doing?"
"Its really complex but simply," Brandon looked at her, "we're trying to see if your DNA has any effect on Peter like you have on the machine." He turned back and worked under the microscope, Olivia noticed that the blood introduced to Peter's own began to slowly work like the light box two years before. The genes slowly began turning blue...indicating a change, they were becoming dormant.
"We'll need to give Peter a blood transfusion," Brandon looked at Olivia, "you'll have to donate blood."
An hour later Olivia sat by Peter's bed holding his hand as they began to hook up her donated blood to him. She combed her fingers through his hair and smiled, "you're going to make it Peter."
Peter woke feeling like he'd been choked, he turned his head to see Olivia sitting beside him holding his hand. Her face had a few cuts on them that looked like they'd been treated.
"Olivia?"
She looked at him and stood up, "Peter...how are you feeling?"
"What happened?"
"What do you remember?" She sat on the bed and held his hand in hers.
He shook his head, "I remember going to bed last night after you visited. Where am I? What happened to you?" He raised his hand and touched a cut with his finger.
"Good you're awake," Nina walked in and Peter dropped his hand, "well I have to say this is the most unique situation we've had here including the incident with the shapeshifter. How are you feeling?"
"Like I have a hangover...pounding headache and more acute senses."
"That would be from the blood transfusion...it contained high levels of Cortexiphan."
Peter looked at her, "you pumped me full of blood laced with Cortexiphan?"
"We had to...it was the only thing that helped." Nina sat down in the chair by the bed and looked at both. "We found your behavior changes are due to mutations in your DNA, assumed to be due to the machine part you touched on the other side. Walter explained your dangerous actions and we agree that its made you into a weapon, Brandon believes so you won't turn against it.
"Anyways, Walter believed that Olivia is a barrier for you, she channels most of the changes, preventing them and we figured out its due to the way her Cortexiphan mutated DNA silences the changes. By adding some of her blood to yours...all changes became inactive and the mutations didn't replicate during DNA Replication. We gave you a blood transfusion about four hours ago and our recent scan shows no replication of those changes and the ones that are already existent have been rendered useless.
"We don't know how long the effects will last, if they are long term or short term but if they are short term you're going to have to have regular transfusions to keep this from happening again. After seeing what you nearly did to your self and what you did to Olivia, I'm concerned."
Peter looked at Olivia, the cuts were fine but the fact he did it and had no memory put so much guilt on him. He was supposed to be protecting her, from what her alternate had to say and from his biological father...instead he hurt her more.
"I'll leave you to talk, call if you need anything."
Nina left and Peter looked at Olivia, reaching up he traced the cuts with his forefinger. "I'm sorry Olivia...you told me we could move past this and I just turn around and hurt you again."
"Its my fault, I ambushed you...I said things to make you react to see if Walter was just exaggerating but he wasn't. You realized what you were doing but tried to kill yourself, reverting back when I tried to stop you...that's how I got these." She motioned to her face, "trying to stop you from killing yourself."
"I never want to hurt you Sweetheart," the endearment slipped but neither said anything. "If anything I want to protect you...now I have to protect you from myself."
She took his hand from her face and held it, "apparently Walter thinks that due to the fact I'm basically keeping you alive, that we can't leave each other's sides for very long now. I tried to explain to him that with my blood you'll be fine but Walter is Walter.
"I'll try to talk to him...if he'll listen." He touched his head, "could you..." he pointed to the ceiling and Olivia leaned over him...touching the light switch and the lights dimmed. "So this is how you are all the time?"
Olivia shook her head, "just after crossing over...but I have a guy who can help with it. As soon as you're out of here we'll get you back to normal, minus the blood transfusions as you'll need them." She gave a soft chuckle, "you owe me what...six bottles of whiskey now, I've saved your life six times."
"Like you really need the alcohol...you drink like a drunk, the high tolerance isn't good."
Olivia reached over and touched his face, "do you remember anything?"
He looked at her and found her eyes, it was like a flashback hit him...her voice weak and full of fear.
Peter...I'm scared...of you.
He looked at Olivia and wanting nothing more than to tell her to run as far as she could from him, from what he was becoming but something told him that Olivia would stay no matter the danger to her. Her eyes now said devotion and if he was honest with himself, he felt a strange pull to her now that her blood was running through him and her DNA helping his own. He didn't want to leave her side and he wondered why that was.
"What I remember I never want to relive again." Peter sighed, "why do I hurt those I care about?"
"You help more then you hurt but in those few times, it means your human."
Peter chuckled and looked at her, "I hate to break it to you Sweetheart but I'm not exactly entirely human anymore and neither are you, we have mutated DNA and are linked to things far stranger then we could ever have imagined as children."
"Ass." She let go his hand and stood up, "I have to go...Walter wants my help with something. I'll be back though...to break you out."
Peter caught her wrist and Olivia turned to him, he pulled her to the bed as he sat up. Olivia looked at him and Peter sighed, "do me one favor in this Olivia."
"Anything."
"If it comes down to it...kill me, I don't want anyone else pulling the trigger."
"No Peter," she shook her head, "we're going to get past this, we're going to fight this...we're doing so well...I won't think about that."
Peter looked at her, "promise me Olivia, if it comes to me dying...promise me you'll do it. I need to know that if it comes down to saving the world or saving me that you'll put everyone before me. I need to know that if I die...you'll be the last thing I see."
Olivia shook her head, "no...I won't, I'm sorry Peter but I won't." She tore her wrist from his hand and left the room in a flash, outside his room she leaned against the wall and wiped at her eyes, trying to prevent tears from falling.
She understood why he asked and deep down she knew if she was going to be killed, she'd want Peter to be the one pulling the trigger. If you're going to die, dying by the hand of someone of someone you love is much better then a stranger because they are the last person you see but she couldn't...she couldn't kill him because he'd become such a part of her. Walter was right, they had a unique bond down to the molecular level and she couldn't function properly without him.
Written by: FringeDivision2008 (FD2008)
A/N: The next will be written by Caithrine, enjoy...