The Secretary watched his son appear before his eye, look around the posh office, and then look straight into his eyes. He then saw his eyes grow dark.
"Are you the reason that Olivia is a shapeshifter? Why did you kill her? Why?"
"I wish I didn't have to resort to such extreme measures, Peter, but you refused to cooperate, and I need you for the machine I showed you."
"And you think killing the woman I love will help you do that?"
"I didn't kill your Olivia." Walternate pressed a button on his desk and summoned an escort for Peter. The doors behind him opened, and in stepped Olivia. "Nice to see you again, Mr. Bishop. Please follow me." She led him back through the doors that she entered through, and outside to a car that was waiting. She dismissed the driver in the front seat and sat in his place, instructing Peter to sit nest to her in the passenger seat.
Something inside Olivia clicked as soon as she saw Peter. She suddenly remembered all of the things that had happened on the other side; on her side. Her real memories slowly began to return. Rachel, Ella, Walter, Astrid, Peter. The night she was captured, the woman trying to convince her she was a different person, running away, everything.
"Peter, its me. It's Olivia." she said quietly as she started to drive.
Peter only managed a surprised "What?"
"They captured me and convinced me that I was someone I'm not. But then I saw you. Try to act normal, we are being watched."
"But you were a shapeshifter. You sent me here. You came back with us." he managed dumbly.
"It had to be the other me that came back with you. She isn't here. And what do you mean shapeshifter?"
"When I saw you, her, this morning, I...but then when she came back her blood was mercury and then she pressed a button and sent me here. I thought she was you. I thought the shapeshifter killed you. How do I know that you are you? How do I know that this isn't some sort of act?"
Olivia considered his question. He definitely had a point. If her alternate really did go back with them, then that meant that he had been living with her for the last few months. But how could she really convince him the truth?
"The night that I was captured, when I came to find you with Charlie, I told you that you belong with me, and then I kissed you. Did she ever bring that up?" There was no way that her doppelganger knew that one.
It took a moment for Peter to reply to this. She didn't ever bring that night up. In fact, them becoming a couple happened more randomly than he had realized. He wondered why he didn't catch it earlier.
"No." he said simply. She had convinced him a little with that, but he didn't completely trust her. At least, not yet.
They continued driving for almost three hours in silence. Peter was the one who broke the silence.
"Where are we going?"
"Right now we are headed to the lab he wants you to be confined to so that you can finish his doomsday machine."
"I don't plan on helping him with that. I will not be the one responsible for the destruction of an entire world."
"I know, Peter. But I am also pretty sure that Walternate knows that too. We just have to play his game for a while until we can find some sort of loophole in his plan."
Peter didn't reply. But instead of looking out the window again, he opted to look at her, to try and find the differences between the other Olivia and this one. Besides the red hair, there weren't any obvious ones. What he did notice was that, before the whole alternate universe thing, Olivia never shortened her words, or slurred them the way that the Olivia he had known for the past few months. She always said things like "I'm thinkin' of..." or something along the lines of that. He had noticed it the first couple of weeks back. But he dismissed it as nothing. Now he wished he hadn't. He had also noticed a few other odd behaviors from the other Olivia. Like the way she rearranged her apartment when they returned to their side. Or the odd looks she would give Walter every once in a while. He could see now his mistake. He was too fast to fall in love with Olivia that he didn't catch the obvious signs that he had the wrong Olivia.
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I tried to write a longer chapter for this one because it has been a while since my last update. I'm not sure if I got Peter completely right in this chapter, but I figured he would be mad and confused because the woman he proposed to is now dead, and I would really love feedback on that. Thanks for reading, Please Review!
