Building Trust

Spoilers: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3(all of it). Read 'Levels of Grief' because there are a few things in here that are explained in the prequel.

Disclaimer: Seriously? If we, the fans, owned Fringe then Season 3 would have never happened(Olivia on the other side not the actual season)!

Olivia was going over her files as she stood on the phone with Broyles, she'd stayed with Peter again and he was currently working with Walter in the kitchen while she got ready for work.

"Yes sir, I understand. We'll depart Logan...I see, well I'll...yes sir." She hung up and grabbed both her bag and Peter's from the closet, packing from her drawer and the small amount of closet space Peter had given her. She took several pairs of jeans and shirts as well as underwear and placed them in his bag before heading to the bathroom and removed both their toiletries.

"I said enough Walter," Peter entered the room with a cup of coffee she knew was for her, "that man is driving me insane...uh baby are we going somewhere?"

She nodded, "there was a murder that looks Fringe-related in Miami...we're heading there in an hour. The private jet we got from Massive Dynamic, thank you by the way, is taking us there."

"I'll get Walter..."

"He'll just want to come back with the body so no need to pack a bag for him." Olivia reminded and Peter chuckled, knowing she was one step ahead. "I know you have a test next Friday so if we're not done you can always come back for it."

"Thanks but the minute I say 'FBI' my professor will allow me to take it online...he's cool like that but once I start at MIT...sorry but I can't just wiggle my way out of it."

Olivia nodded, "I know and Broyles knows, which is why he's having a new agent starting on next month, to get the hang of things...with Jessup of course, we'll have two more agents helping so we won't be spread thin."

"Another agent?"

"You know I told you about Lincoln on the other side, well he's an FBI agent over here...Broyles is pulling him over from Counterterrorism to help...he apparently has a science degree in biological science that he hasn't used since his father pushed him into the FBI..."

Peter chuckled and looked at her, "I get the idea just don't forget who your partner is."

She shrugged, "when I found him I was excited, he reads like he is over there...but I know he isn't Lincoln from over there and personally I don't want him to be. It'll just feel better, having him and Jessup around...after loosing Charlie and then loosing him a second time..."

He smiled and kissed her head, pulling her into his arms and she curled into him, "I know it must be hard, loosing your mother and Charlie a second time but I promise you it'll be okay." He kissed her head again and Olivia nodded. "Once you get that dynamic down with this Lincoln, you'll forget all about the one on the other side."

"Kind of hard when I've actually slept with him," she pulled back, "as her...I slept with him when I was her...she had her fiancé Frank and then Lincoln...at the same time. She figured out how to handle it...when Frank was out of town, she was with Lincoln and when Frank was in town, it was training sessions on Tuesday and Thursday although it was far from training."

Peter looked at her shocked, "add in me..."

"Three guys," she smirked, "you're lucky...I'm a one man kind of woman, I only need you but apparently she needed three."

"Thank God for small miracles." He kissed her and Olivia chuckled, "I trust you baby, I'd never think of you as a..."

"Slut...she'd actually find no offense in it, she'd admit it too."

They landed in Miami and went straight to the crime scene, finding a body drained of all blood...the cops said vampire but Walter said it was probably a draining for some twisted medical experiment, that or mutated vampire bat...of which even Olivia cracked a smile.

Walter went back with the body and Peter and Olivia settled for the night, thankful to actually get some rest. They arrived at the hotel for a room only to find Broyles had already booked one for them...a two room suite that had a conference room, a bedroom with two double beds and a bathroom.

Peter looked at the conference room, finding a white board by the wall, a rollaway one so that it could be used in addition to the one already on the wall. He and Olivia set up the area into a small office before heading to get dinner.

They ate at the hotel restaurant and managed to enjoy it as Walter had yet to finish the autopsy so they were left not working that evening. They found themselves actually laughing over something Ella had done.

"So she adds the sodium like I said to but she looks at me and says 'Uncle Peter, why are we adding it all at once? We're supposed to add it gradually' and I'm sitting there wondering when the little scientist got better then me."

Olivia laughed and took a sip of her wine, "well she told me that she wants to be just like you and Walter, to be a scientist. She loved the chemistry set you sent her for her birthday and the Physics for Kids set you got her for Christmas did her in. Rachel's expression was 'as long as it isn't illegal I don't care' because she knows you used to be a con man but are reformed. She says its ironic that a former con man, and I quote this 'falls in love with an FBI agent, its like out of a movie' so that's her view."

Peter chuckled, "your sister always was the one to think outside the box." His phone rang and he found it was a text from Astrid, "well that's Astrid, Walter finished the autopsy and she's faxing the report to our suite's fax machine."

They paid and headed upstairs, Olivia decided to get a shower while Peter began working on what they had...i.e. translating what Walter said in the Autopsy Report as she understood maybe a little bit.

She came out of the bathroom in a towel, having forgotten her clothes by accident to see Peter by the bed grabbing a file out of her briefcase. He looked up and saw her, smiling and walked over to her. He held the file out to the side as he leaned in to kiss her, other hand on her cheek. "Beautiful as always...you look like Venus coming out of the ocean...just in a towel."

"Bishop...I'd stop while you're ahead, did you find what you needed in my bag?" She smirked and he chuckled, she knew he had found that picture of him sleeping...the one she kept in her bag at all times. He held it up and she grabbed it, "that's my personal picture."

"Careful, you'll get it wet...your hair is dripping." He kissed her head and headed into the conference room.

After getting dressed, Olivia joined him, her hair now pulled back and dried as much as possible. Her bangs covered her forehead and wouldn't be able to be pushed to the side as she usually did till it dried.

"What do we have?"

After two hours of work and a couple of yawns later they decided to go to bed, forgetting the second bed as they both crawled into the first. Olivia felt Peter's arm around her and his face in her hair as it usually was when she slept with her back to him.

The next day Olivia noted looking at her phone was their four month anniversary...Peter was big on the monthly anniversaries as they were a sign that they had made it another month. He'd be big on the weekly ones if she hadn't drawn the line with that...besides, the idea of getting gifts, expensive gifts, weekly was not something she could handle.

His gifts were indeed lavish, anything from a new gun to jewelry to a new wardrobe, that had been their first month anniversary where he refilled her closet with things she needed and even didn't need. A new gun the second and jewelry the third, she'd hate to see what their first year anniversary would be if the monthly gifts were insanely lavish. His new income with Massive Dynamic plus the income as a consultant, minus the whole 'we won't put you in jail' thing, gave him a very huge bank account. Only eight months after becoming the heir to the Massive Dynamic fortune and he was already a millionaire...not that anyone knew that and for good reason, he had enemies who would use it against him.

They questioned their suspects coming to a quick conclusion and a quick end to the case, it had only taken two days to figure out what actually happened...not that Olivia found it all that bad as causes could take weeks. It was just that a mortician was experimenting with animals and seeing what would happen when injected with human blood...he ran out of bodies so he killed someone for blood.

"Seriously, a vampire bat would have been better!" Peter looked at her as they packed up, "we only got two days in Miami...two days."

"You'll be able to take that test on campus now." She chuckled knowing he didn't want to take it at all...he hated his State and Local Politics class...he got his required field experience as he actually worked for the FBI but hated the exams he was given. "Oh come on Peter, you have a 4.0 GPA and will graduate at the top of your class...one small Social Science class is not going to kill you. Have you thought of your end of term service project...legally speaking of course?"

"I was thinking of bringing you in," he chuckled, "a real life FBI agent coming in and I help explain the duties as a consultant to the FBI."

Olivia shook her head, realizing he hadn't given her anything for their anniversary. "Did you forget what yesterday was?" He looked at her as if wondering, "our four month anniversary, usually you're...never mind, I don't want to give you any ideas."

Peter smiled and walked to her, placing his hands on her arms. "I didn't forget but I've come to realize how much you hate those expensive things so I did something you can actually appreciate but it will get expensive for you...literally FOR you." He pulled a card out of his back pocket and handed it to her, she found the card was a security card for Massive Dynamic. Reading it, she found it had her photo on it as well as information:

Name: Dunham, Olivia

Title: Shareholder

Level Access: Level 5, All Projects

Main Oversight: Security and FBI Liaison

MD Access : 233-33-824-SH3

"I'm a shareholder?"

"Walter and I thought it a good idea to keep it in the family but not have one of us solely responsible so there are three shareholders...you, me and him. Nina just runs it in his name as he can't legally do so...insanity and all. But this, you have authority over her...you can make her give you any information you want now...the chain of command is Walter, me, you and then Nina."

Olivia smiled, "so by expensive you mean I get that massive check too?"

"Yes, six hundred thousand every three months...so you'll have about two million and four hundred thousand in a year and twelve million in five years. Add on your FBI salary and you'll have enough to put Ella through private school and buy a house and still have some left over."

Olivia looked at the badge, "you know what I like best...I don't have anyone to tell me what to do or where to go there...especially not Nina." She smiled, "this is...this is perfect, thank you."

She hugged him and he kissed her head, "I'm glad I finally got something you approve of."

A/N: Next we meet this universe's Lincoln and he tries to kiss Olivia...so she rejects him, with her memories its all over again. For those who are Lincoln/Olivia fans (either Olivia), they will not be having an affair or a relationship beyond friendship because she's determined to make her relationship with Peter work