His name's Peter Bishop. He's a high school dropout, IQ 190 which is 50 points north of genius. Misfit, nomad. Hasn't kept a job longer than two months. He's been a wild land fireman,cargo pilot and briefly a college chemistry professor. He falsified a degree from M.I.T and even managed to get a few papers published before he was found out. Sounds like a massive pain in the ass.
Those words belonged to Olivia herself. The Peter she didn't even know a few days ago, the Peter who she had only read about in documents was only about that– And he was Walter Bishop's son. Now Olivia understood those words weren't enough to describe Peter Bishop at all. He was much more than that.
She didn't know what to think about him. How could someone describe Peter Bishop? At first she had thought he was selfish. Plus, she had to blackmail him in order to get him help her. Only thing she had been able understand then was that he was running away from something. Blackmailing him into it wasn't really like Olivia but she had to save John in that sitation.
Olivia had noticed she was actually pretty oblivious about Peter Bishop's father when she was going back to Boston by plane. Only thing she could understand by the way he talked about his father was that he didn't like him. His father had been in hospital for seventeen years and he probably hadn't went to visit once. She knew the reason he didn't want to go to Boston and help her wasn't because of his selfishness. Peter Bishop really didn't want to see his father. He didn't even really know his father. Olivia was sure about these when Peter refused to visit Walter Bishop with her at .
But Walter Bishop was a clever man. He knew Olivia wouldn't be able to see him without his son. He wanted to see his son. Olivia met his smart-ass side when she had to talk to him about it. The way Peter called her sweetheart made her annoyed. It was obvious that he was good with women with his good looks and high IQ but that didn't give him the right of talking with her like that. Olivia couldn't not answer that. She still knew that it made the fact it annoyed her obvious too him.
Olivia understood that it wasn't enough to save John when she talked to Walter Bishop. She had to get him out of there. She and Walter both knew that they needed Peter's signature and giving of that signature was the last thing Peter Bishop wanted to be. But her blackmailing worked. She had made Peter Bishop to sign it. Olivia didn't see it as a success. That was something she had to do. If it was her own choise she would send Peter Bishop to the Iraq immediatly. She didn't want to ruin anyone's life. But she didn't want to lose John either.
Olivia met a new side of Peter when they re-open the laboratory of Walter Bishop in Harvard University. Sense of humor. The talk they had when Walter wanted a cow made her see his sense of humor. "I picked that up reading books. You should try it some time. It's fun." It was stil very clear in Olivia's mind as if it was told just yesterday. He was definetily a clever man. Olivia also thought he could flirt any woman he met. He was very confident in his charming skills. Was he really able to charm women with his charming skills?
One of the most important times Olivia thought of was when Peter noticed she was bluffing. Peter's suprise had made Olivia asshamed of herself. She had blackmailed a man into helping her. Olivia remined herself that she had to do it in order to save John. Peter Bishop's selfishness had make her do it. The interesting thing was the fact he was running away from the mafia. A man like him losing poker game was the most absurd thing in the world. That was why Olivia had believed him when he say it there was cheating in the game. There was no other way he would lose in a gamble otherwise.
"The man who was just released from a mental institution, he wants to give you a drug overdose and stick a metal rod into your head and put you naked into a rusty tank of water. Excuse me for a sec. You're obviously under severe duress and you haven't slept since Iraq and the man you care about might die, but I'm telling you, he will kill you."
Olivia thought Peter was thinking like her. Any heathly minded people would think like Peter. If it was up to him, Walter shouldn't been allowed to be handed lancet. Trusting Walter Bishop was one of the most absurd thing that could be done. But Olivia had to trust him. Because there was no other way of escaping from this situation. The only thing she could think about was that John would do the same thing for her. Yes, John would do it for her. But there was something else she understood in that moment. Peter Bishop wasn't as selfish as she had thought. If he was, he wouldn't had cared the fact his father could had killed an FBI agent he hadn't even know. But he had. He had warned Olivia because it was a mistake in his eyes. Maybe the reason Peter hadn't want to come to Boston when they first met was because he wasn't ready to face his past yet, who could know? Who was really ready to face their past, anyway?
Peter had helped her even thought he hadn't approve. "I hope your guy is worth it." Those words were stil in her mind. Was he worth it? That was a completely different topic.
Olivia was sure that Peter Bishop wasn't selfish at all when Walter had helped catching the criminal. Peter had come to crime scene before she could even explain what had happened. He had found out that Richard Steig had escape and helped Olivia catching him even thought it wasn't his job. Which selfish man would run for meters to catch a criminal he wasn't even involved with? Or sneak in the FBI arraign room and make him tell the names of chemicals? Peter also had found a suitable way to cure. She was sure Peter Bishop wasn't the man she thought he was. Peter Bishop was a smart man. He wasn't even close to selfishness. He was wise enough to make chemical solitions. She had even witnessed Peter becoming exited at John's waking.
Ah, John… Olivia thought. The John that had died in her arms just a few minutes ago… She had thousands of questions in her mind. The biggest question was 'who had he been working for?' But she actually had lots of questions she wanted to ask. Olivia found herself in a dead-end. The world she knew had falled apart when John got injured. It was very different then she had thought. In that world even the man she didn't even know the man she had loved.
Now all she wondered about was why had was the reason she had become an FBI agent. She wanted to protect people. Helping people who couldn't defend themselves… If the world was very different than she had thought, then maybe the best way to protect them was accepting Broyles' offer. But she perfectly will knew she couldn't do it alone. There was only one thing she knew while tears flowed down her cheeks: They needed Walter and Peter Bishop.
"I'm not gonna use false threats with you anymore. I don't need to." Olivia knew Peter better now. She only hoped that he wouldn't refuse her. She didn't feel ready about telling Peter that John was a traitor, because Peter had known the man she loved wasn't worth all the risks she had been through. "The threats are real."
"After you left, my father sat down and started talking to me and he was remarkably lucid. He told me about the work that he and William Bell had done and the experiments and that incident. What happened on the plane is just the beginning. Which makes every part of me feel like I got to get the hell out of Boston."
Olivia understood that she really needed Peter when she noticed that she was afraid of Peter refusing her offer. She saw that Peter wasn't ready to go when Walter asked if they were leaving. He couldn't leave this world that he knew that existed either. And maybe one of the things he didn't want to leave behind was Walter and herself. What kind of person Peter Bishop really was? She didn't know.
