The Pattern to Sodor
Chapter 1
Olivia Dunham woke up early on a Saturday morning, when she looked down at her feet from the couch she saw her niece, Ella, there hiding behind the armrest looking at her intently and waiting for her to wake up.
"MORNING AUNT LIV!!!" Ella yells and jumps up on to Olivia waking her up with a smile.
"Morning Ella," she beams sleepily.
"So are we going to your work today?" Ella asked with the sweetest face she could put on to persuade her aunt to answer yes.
"That's right," Olivia remembered "its take your daughter to work day."
"You're not my mom though." Ella replied in a childish way.
"Well I don't have a daughter of my own let's see if your mom will let me borrow you today." Olivia replied
"Thank you aunt Liv!!!" as Ella hugged her aunt in thanks.
At that moment, Ella's Mom, Rachel, entered the room with a smile on her face and her arms crossed.
"Morning sis." She greeted.
Ella ran up to her mom and clung to her legs.
"MOMMY CAN I PLEASE GO WITH AUNT LIV TO HER WORK PLEASE???" Ella questioned
"Sure sweetie, you can go with aunt Liv it she says it's ok." Rachel answered softly.
"YEAHEEEEEEEEE!!!!" Ella squealed and running and jumping to Olivia and clinging to her legs.
"Just let me get ready for work and we can go." She stated while getting up and heading for the restroom.
Meanwhile at the bishop home…
"PETER!!!" Walter shouted excitedly causing his son to jump a foot off the bed. "Peter, I finally figured out how to replicate Jones' portal device!" he beamed triumphantly. His son Peter was extremely annoyed at his rude awakening and looked at his father.
"Walter, Is there any reason in particular you had to wake me up in a way that could have given me a heart attack?" Peter stated dryly. His father hugged him regardless to apologize for waking him up.
"I am incredibly sorry for that son, but I needed to tell you this so you can call agent Dunham and inform her of a test that I will be conducting at my laboratory." He said in a now calmer and more serious tone.
Peter sighed, "Alright let me get a shower since there is no point in getting back to bed now." Peter pulled out his cell phone and dialed Olivia's cell phone.
While the Dunham home…
Olivia just got out of the shower when she heard her phone ring; she looked at the number and saw it was peter.
"Hi peter" she chirped slightly annoyed because of her prior commitment
"Hey Olivia, Walter said that he figured out how to replicate Jones' device, Remember, the one that can go through to the other side" he stated.
"Yeah I remember that." She stated nervously.
"Well Walter says that he would like you to be at the lab to see it working. He is really excited about this." He stated while chuckling slightly.
Olivia thought for a while and thought that it would be best to leave Ella home until she got back from Harvard and then pick her up and they could both head to work.
"Yeah I can go, just let me tell Ella." She stated
"Ella?" Peter said confused.
"It's take your child to work day." She replied
"Oh," he chuckled realizing what Olivia was doing "so you're borrowing her from Rachel for today?"
"Yes" Olivia chuckled.
"Ok I'll Let Walter know" he smiled.
"Thanks for the heads up Peter" she replied
"No problem, bye" Peter stated.
"Bye." Olivia stated and hung up the phone and got back to getting ready.
Ella hid back from behind the side of the restroom door while Olivia passed.
"Ok now what do I do" Ella thought after hearing her aunt on the phone. She remembered that there were ways of getting out of the daycare at the FBI building. All she needed to do was figure out where her aunt was going after she was dropped off at the FBI building.
Meanwhile at Harvard…
"I'm sorry were late." Walter said entering his basement laboratory.
"Walter who are you ta…" Peter Froze, in the room there was a Man and a teenage boy.
The man was dressed in what could be described as a stereotypical nineteen sixties business suit that appeared to have no eyebrows or any facial hair for that matter, he was also bald. The teenager was wearing a black jacket with several items pinned to his jacket. He also had an armband on that had three different colored stripes and what appeared to be a wheel in front of the stripes. He also wore a top hat that he removed when he saw Walter. Peter was slightly shaken, he knew that the bald man was the same one that had saved him and his father from drowning in an icy lake, he was simply known as "the Observer". The other man looked like a dictator, but his armband wasn't any flag that he knew about from his travels around the world.
"W… Walther," Peter stuttered nervously, "why is the Observer in your lab and who is the other guy?"
Walter sighed remembering how he met his friend. "It's a long story son," he replied.
"Allow me to introduce myself," the teenager said as he bowed, "I am The Premier of the nation of Railroadishia, Nick F. V."
Walter smiled and chuckled, "So you finally beat the communists there."
Peter was still extremely confused, "Walter you know this guy?"
"Why yes son, in the mid 1980's he approached me at a party in Rockefeller plaza, he was hosting since he was even then, extremely wealthy," Walter explained.
"Have you ever heard of 'the madrailman'?" asked the teenager.
It suddenly dawned on Peter that he was face to face with one of his former employers from traveling; he once worked as a makeshift conductor on the Madrail Central. He was both shocked and irritated that he was working for a teenager for almost a year and a half before drifting again.
"I still owe Walter a lot, even though I look as though I'm in my late teens; I'm actually almost thirty years older than your father. How the happened he gave me a formula that made me young again, and made me practically indestructible, I am forever in his debt and have given him large amounts of money, It is also the reason I am present at the testing of a more compact portal." He looked for a response as if he was made of stone.
Peter was still in shock at this. He couldn't believe what was just said then he finally wrapped his head around "more compact".
"Wait," peter said confused "you mean you have created a portal before?!" he said dumbfounded
"Yes son I have, you see my friend is the ruler of a country that doesn't exist in our reality, but does elsewhere, the prototype was bulky and very expensive to operate," Walter stated.
"And now I'm here to see if this prototype works, if so I will replace my portals for my railroad" the teenager said.
And there was a very long conversation that followed and the observer just observed the situation and looked at his watch. He interrupted the Explanations of how Nick became a ruler.
"I'm sorry but I need to leave now or I will be late." The bald man stated dryly and promptly left the lab.
I do not own Fringe, that the charactors of fringe are property of Fox Studios
I also do Not own Thomas the Tank engine, that is property of Hit Entertainment and Rev. Awdry
I Do own my OC Madrailman though