Love's Twilight Hour

Spoilers: Over There 1&2, Season 3 (all of it).

Disclaimer: I do not own Fringe, if I did things would be different.


Olivia woke to the phone, Ella was curled up against her so she reached over the girl gently and grabbed the phone. Finding it was Broyles, she was concerned as he knew she was taking the holidays to visit her sister.

"Dunham?"

"Peter's missing, we've checked everywhere we can think of...its been a week and Dr. Bishop is frantic. Agent Jessup is with him as is Agent Farnsworth, we were wondering if he's in Chiacgo?"

"No he's not," Olivia sat up, "what do you mean Peter's missing?"

She heard Broyles sigh, "he's gone Olivia...we checked all the local bars, the FBI building, the Harvard lab, Massive Dynamics...we even resorted to the base where the device is at. We have nothing, you haven't heard from him?"

"No sir, not since the day I left when he offered to drop me off at the airport...he seemed fine. I mean he was a little upset because..."

"Why Dunham, why was he upset?"

Olivia pinched her nose, "I didn't say anything because it was under control but two weeks ago he tried to kill me...he'd yet to take his Cortexiphan dose and reverted back. I handled it but in the process, after he woke I broke off our relationship because the constant contact was getting dangerous. I knew he was angry but Peter wouldn't just disappear, he'd tell someone something."

Broyles was silent for a moment, "I know I gave you two weeks with your sister but Dr. Bishop is requesting you, he keeps asking for his daughter and I can only assume since you and Peter were so close he has come to see you as his daughter."

"I understand, I'll be on the next flight back. We'll find him sir, he couldn't have disappeared out of thin air."

Olivia packed and left, leaving a small note with Rachel that Peter was missing again and she had to go after him. She hopped the first flight back and arrived in time for breakfast.


She knocked on the Bishops' front door and it opened to reveal Amy, she ushered her in. "He's in there, extremely upset...Astrid's trying to calm him but to no avail."

"Thanks Amy." She headed into the living room to find Walter pacing frantically, "Walter?"

"Oh Olivia!" Walter hugged her and she nodded, "we have to find him...I know Peter's been changing but he wouldn't just leave. That night he said he was going to New York to meet a few friends...I thought it odd till I remembered he had made some friends with some people at Massive Dynamic." He grabbed her arm, "please Olivia, we have to find him."

"We will Walter, I've already traveled to another universe to get him...I'll travel the world to find him...I promise." She looked at Astrid, "I'm going to go up to Peter's room and try to find some clues, sit with him."

"Come on Walter, I'll make you breakfast."


Olivia headed upstairs and found Peter's room clean...it looked as if he had cleaned up on purpose. The desk was organized and the whiteboard void of anything. His closet was neat and his bed made, everything looked perfect...like a maid had taken to it.

Noticing his favorite book on the side table, she sat down on the bed and opened it, finding a picture of her and Peter used as a bookmark...it had been taken at one of their trivia nights. He had his arm around her and she was looking at him with a smile.

Olivia closed the book after putting the picture back and set it aside, she moved to the desk and started flipping through papers but found nothing again. She sighed and sat down, looking around the room she spotted her favorite book lying on the edge of the bed under the pillow.

Going to it, she opened the book to find an envelope with her name on it, she opened it and pulled out a letter. Unfolding the letter, she began to read and found it was created just before Christmas.


'December 24, 2010

Olivia,

I want you to know first and foremost I love you, so much baby that it hurt to have you deny me a second time. The first I understood, after what I did there was no reason for you to even think of wanting to be with me but the second, I can't understand how you think to protect me by pushing me away.

I guess I finally understand why the universes keep throwing us apart just when we get close enough to touch the dream of a future together...we're not meant to be. This force growing inside me, the Cortexiphan is working but its also destroying us.

I want to find a cure, a way to deactivate it and there's only one place I can do that. I want you to know that I don't want you to come after me...not again because this time you could die and I can't bear that thought.

No matter what, even if we're not meant to be, YOU'LL always be who I belong with and always MY OLIVIA. I love you baby and I'm sorry I couldn't say this to your face because with one look of your deep green eyes and it would have stopped me.

Peter'


She knew right away he'd gone to the other side and she found herself morally obligated to bring him back but emotionally she knew he didn't want her to. She wondered if he was with her, the other Olivia but deep down she knew Peter would never go back to her.

Downstairs she found Astrid and Amy talking as Walter ate, "we need to talk away from Walter."

Astrid nodded, "I'll distract him with something, talk to her then talk to me."


The tag teamed and Olivia pulled Amy onto the porch, the agent leaned against the railing and sighed. "What's going on, did you find anything?"

"Peter crossed back over," that made Amy stand upright, "I'm going to go after him but I need your help. How do you feel about universe hopping?"

"You want me to cross into another universe with you?" Amy sighed and Olivia knew she was contemplating it. Amy was religious, they had learned that and at times religion vs. science got debated in the lab but otherwise Amy was open to a lot of things. "You do know we could die."

"I know, but Peter has been with his Cortexiphan for two weeks, I'm accounting for the week difference between universes...any longer and he could kill someone. His anger at Walternate and my alternate is going to boil over eventually and he'll murder them."

Amy nodded, "I thought you'd want them dead."

"I want to kill Walternate but my alternate was following orders and she was coming to genuinely care for Peter...I can't fault her and I don't hate her. We've lived each others' lives so I'm sure she doesn't hate me either. What matters is that Peter is slowly becoming a weapon of destruction and the Cortexiphan is the only thing stopping him...if he kills them, no matter the reason..."

"He's not the Peter we know anymore."

Olivia nodded, "are you willing to go with me, it could be a one way trip...I have to warn you of that."

"Yeah, count me in. I'm going to go home and change, what should I wear?"

"Normal clothes, their styles are just like ours." Olivia sighed, "I have to tell Astrid...I'll pick you up in half an hour...we're going to need Nina Sharp's help on this one."


The drive to Massive Dynamic was long but Olivia thought about everything as she drove, Amy sat in the passenger seat praying as she read the bible. Thirty minutes before she got to Massive Dynamic, Olivia looked over at her temporary partner and saw she was closing her bible.

"Found anything yet?"

"My priest once told me 'Destiny is not laid out before you like a picture you can see, you must search for it in the most unlikely of places. One day at a time, some days will seem like hell and others will seem like heaven but in the end our destiny is unseen till it is right before us' and I think he's right."

Olivia dug her hand in her pocket and removed the picture that sat in Peter's book, the one she had taken. Looking at it she gave a small nod, "I know my destiny and its been to save this man from the beginning. I've saved his life multiple times and end the end I have to save him all over again." She put the picture on the dash and continued to drive. "I only hope this time I can find an ally instead of an enemy, I have too many over there."


They found Nina waiting in the rotunda, she nodded and Olivia followed. "It's been calibrated and is ready, Brandon says you must return within twenty four hours or two people from over there will disappear."

"Balance must be maintained, I know Nina." Olivia looked at her, "did you get the Cortexiphan?"

"Its in the lab ready to go, Olivia I must warn you that the device has only been tested with animals and objects not people. I don't know what will happen."

Olivia smiled, "I have it covered."


They made their way to a lab and Brandon stood outside a triad of large tuning forks, he nodded to her. "You'll need to stand in the middle, keep your arms inside and stay very still."

"I'll need to spread my arms out," Olivia looked at him, "it'll help with the crossover, I overdosed on Cortexiphan."

Nina eyed her, "overdosed...I don't understand."

"She took four vials of it," Amy was the one to speak, "something about helping her achieve abilities she could use."

Brandon shook his head, "you're going to poison yourself with that, the vials are specificially designed to be taken as a single dose. There's no telling what will happen when you crossover."

Olivia nodded, "that's why I took it, alright do you have the Cortexiphan?"

Brandon handed her a bag, "this has the tuning forks needed to get back, place them exactly where you land. It also has the Cortexiphan," Olivia slipped the phone cuff she had stolen from the other side during her escape onto her ear. "What's that?"

"What I'll need," she looked at Amy and took the bag she had been holding, "I'll need thirty minutes, no more...then we leave."


Thirty minutes later they looked up to see Olivia entering the room in smoke-colored cargo pants, a red shirt and boots, her hair was red and down long as well as bangs. She looked different and pulled on the bag Brandon had sitting nearby.

"Let's go." She stood on the middle and faced Amy, who just stared. "What's wrong?"

"You're different...how?"

Olivia smiled, "brainwashing, it never works and you're always left with the memories they give you." She nodded to Brandon and held her arms out, closing her eyes she thought about the other side and soon the tuning forks were heard humming. "Close your eyes Amy."


When Olivia opened her eyes she stood in Columbus Park, Amy was looking around in shock. Olivia pressed the phone cuff.

"Yes, hello I need a cab at Columbus Park, no I'd like a specific cab...7X41...yes he's my usual driver. Olivia Dunham OD6701...okay thank you." She removed her hand and smiled, "a friend of mine will be here soon."

Amy looked around, "it looks just like our world."

"Except we'd be standing in Massive Dynamic if we were in our world. Help me set up the tuning forks." She unzipped her bag and handed one to Amy, who put it on the ground and pressed the button letting the device sink into the ground. Olivia did the same, creating a triad of tuning forks.

"So how do they activate...no offense but there are a ton of kids here."

Olivia held up a remote, "four digit entry and voice command, just so we're clear...my alternate looks exactly like me so whatever you do...ask me a question if we meet up after getting separated, ask right away even if I have a gunshot."

"What question?"

"What is your favorite band, if I say U2 kill me...anything else don't worry about it."

Amy nodded, "sounds good...so what are you going to do once your friend gets here?"

"I'm going to head to Peter's apartment first, they'll probably give him the same one. If he's not there we're going to Upstate New York to see his mother, she'll know how to contact him."

Amy smiled, "you've thought this through."

"While you were praying, I was planning." Olivia looked up to see the taxi pull up, she smiled, "there's our ride."


Both headed over and slid in, Henry turned and Olivia smiled. He groaned, "you again, I thought you were in an parallel universe."

"I was till my boyfriend decided to run off again...Peter came back under a misguided notion. I paid you double for my trouble last time I saw you...you owe me."

"Girl do you realize that this universe traveling has to stop...Jasmine is wondering why I have been coming in with lower paychecks. I've said 'Honey' more times since I met you then I did before.'

Olivia chuckled, "let me get Peter back and you'll never have to worry about me again...unless you meet my twin sister who actually is from this side...if you do, don't act like you know her."

"Like you had to tell me twice, who's your friend?"

Amy nodded to him, "Amy Jessup...I'm Liv's temp partner till her ass of a boyfriend decides to get has act together...he's her partner when he's not running off to alternate universes."

"Where to ladies?" He slid his card and Olivia raddled off Peter's address like it was her own. "You remember everything don't you?"

"I have a freakishly good memory, I remember everything...especially if its numbers."


A/N: Next with being stuck on the other side, Peter decides to help where he can best...Fringe Division. Which means he has to work with Alt-Livia and her team...in those chapters till Olivia enters the picture Alt-Livia will be called Olivia.