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)!
Vacation was something Peter spent weeks on between his classes at MIT, a few classmates tried to help by suggesting private secluded getaways so he could 'get some' as they put it. He told them that Olivia wasn't the normal woman and that she'd shoot them for saying that...they stopped.
He did however know that although it was intended to be a romantic getaway for their anniversary, it also needed to be relaxing for Olivia as it would be her last peaceful period before the baby came.
Finally he settled on Greece as he knew the area and Olivia had admitted she had wanted to go a few years back when he was talking about all the places he had been. He had a friend, a legal friend, who arranged the entire get away for him as his family helped in the hotel they would be staying at...legally.
What surprised Peter was the day he walked out of MIT after finals was that Olivia was waiting for him. He usually walked the hour walk to Harvard if it wasn't down pouring so it was a surprise to see her waiting.
"Yo Bishop, hot mama up ahead." One of his physics classmates looked at him, "damn she's hot too, so dude go talk to her...or better yet don't, woman's pregnant and you know what they say about pregnant women...they want you to take care of the kid."
Peter shook his head at Devon Richardson, a physics major and had transferred from Roxbury with him, the guy actually liked him not for his money but for his personality. Devon's girlfriend, who was a physics major as well, shook her head. Taylor was one of the women that stuck by her man despite his rash behavior but Peter could tell they were in love. The other guy, James Atwood, a chemist, was laughing.
"She's coming this way man, better run before you're stuck with a kid but I wouldn't mind if I had that every night."
Peter shook his head a second time and smiled when Olivia walked over, she smiled.
"Three seconds man."
Peter looked at Olivia as she walked over and stopped feet away, she was different again and he wondered why till he noticed the smile on her face. The long hair was red hair, bangs on her forehead and cargo pants with a blue shirt...but defiantly pregnant and defiantly HIS Olivia, her eyes were olive green.
"Here I thought blondes were more fun?" He chuckled and Olivia shrugged, "why the change Sweetheart, I thought you'd gone back to being dark colors and all business...what changed?"
Olivia smiled, "someone once told me that you can change what you are but not who you are. I figured out who I am Peter and this is me...these past few weeks I've struggled to find myself again, the memories locked away didn't help so I let them out again and I feel like myself again."
"Thank God!" Peter pulled her to him and kissed her right there in the middle of Killian Court, Olivia warped her arms around his shoulders and smiled as she pulled back. "I knew something was off...you had this look in your eyes like you were unhappy and I thought it was about what happened, about the boy, but it seems it was just you weren't yourself."
"Plus a certain little girl kicked some sense into me."
Peter chuckled and placed a hand on her now twenty week belly, their daughter kicked his hand and he chuckled. "A fighter like her mother."
"Yo Bishop, ain't you gonna introduce us man..." Devon shook his head and held out his hand, "I'm Devon Richardson and this is my girlfriend, Taylor Westwood and our chemist bud, James Atwood. I don't mean to be disrespectful but Bishop has only mentioned you, but never by name, said you were some type of cop."
Olivia smiled and shook his hand, "Olivia Dunham and I'm an FBI agent actually. Peter tells me he goes out but never with who..." she looked at Peter, "I hope you aren't running anything illegal again Bishop...that payoff was a one time deal with the FBI."
"Sweetheart, I own a third of the biggest corporation in the world...why would I be insane enough to run something illegal when I could get kicked out of MIT, loose the business, go to jail and especially do it with a fiancée who is an FBI agent...I'm not Walter, I'm a reformed conman and reformed being the key word there."
"I know," she smirked, "God you forgot how playful I can be like this."
Peter rolled his eyes and turned to his buddies, "I have to take this beautiful woman on an anniversary getaway/babymoon so I'll catch you three spring semester."
"Whatever man, we know you...you'll be calling soon asking us to come rescue you." James chuckled and nodded to Olivia, "if you have to, shoot him...Bishop's told us all about your shooting skills."
Taylor rolled her eyes, "just get my number from Peter, we'll get together and I'll tell you all about Peter's antics here at MIT. He even made a professor cry by pointing out he made a mistake in his calculations...four times. The professor is about ready to have him teach the class since he knows more than the average student...he's in charge of four study groups of all types of fields from chemistry to physics to biology to even quantum physics...which he's totally big on for some strange reason."
"Yeah, some strange reason." Olivia looked at Peter and he shrugged. "Which professor exactly?"
"Quantum Physics." Peter raised and eyebrow at her and she eyed him, "what, the man had the equations for..." she held up her hand, "right you don't understand half of what is said in the lab so you don't even want to know."
She nodded and looked at her watch, "we should get going, our plane leave in three hours and we still have to stop by the house to pick up out stuff and say goodbye to Walter."
They landed in Greece the next day, Olivia had slept on the plane but jetlag and pregnancy didn't go together so she crashed as soon as they landed at their villa. She woke later that evening to the sounds of laughter and immediately headed downstairs and out to the patio.
Peter was entertaining several people, two women and a man...the man was in his thirties and was obviously Greek. The women were different ages, one in her late twenties and the other in her fifties, both Greek as well.
"So then I go running into the building screaming 'fire' because I see smoke only to find my father is smoking by the window. Not my brightest moment for Harvard or the FBI."
The man chuckled, "oh Peter you have only changed your legal ways...no longer the conman that I met years ago but it is good for you. You have your father again and an honest job and a pretty lady I hope."
"Yep, actually she's standing by the door waiting for introduction...aren't you Sweetheart?" He looked at Olivia and she walked over, "I hope your nap left you well rested."
Olivia sat beside him in cargo carpis and a red shirt, her red hair in a ponytail. "Left both of us rested, she's kicking up a storm...might have a nuclear reaction going on in there."
Peter laughed and kissed her head, "nice use of a scientific phrase but a bit off on the terminology. Anyways, I'd like you to meet three friends of mine who helped me arrange this trip for you...all legal of course, they aren't my 'weird connections' as you call them. Maria, Stella and Mikos Nicolai...they're friends and Maria works here so she told them and they showed up. This is my fiancée Olivia Dunham."
"And you couldn't turn them away, so how did you meet?"
Stella chuckled, "Peter was conman, try to sell me something and Mikos, my boy see right through ploy. I tell Peter 'come have dinner with family' to see if he for real and even when he not, I still like him...very sweet. Fix my sink and washer...Mikos horrible at repair but Peter help so we forgive him and invite him back. Second time he come, very honest and not try to con us...friends since."
"Honestly, I'm sorry...they know I'm sorry." Peter looked at Olivia, "it was how I lived and sometimes you come out of cons with money and other times with friends. Mikos and his family put me up a couple of times when I had to get away from the states when Big Eddie came after me so I returned the favor. Mikos is a brilliant engineer and I just hired him for the construction of the new Massive Dynamic headquarters in Greece...he's going to be helping build the place and it'll help his family out."
Maria smiled, "we must have a baby shower for you, before you leave at the end of the week. You'll come to our home and we'll celebrate one...our family is huge and we love holding baby showers and weddings. Peter has come to several dinners and is practically a cousin, you must come and let us...please, we insist."
"Yes," Stella looked at her, "we have baby shower for you, you no say no...you have fun and let us spoil you and baby."
Mikos nodded, "are you kidding, you aren't leaving without one...and my sister knows how to hold someone hostage, she does it to my cousins all the time."
Peter looked at Olivia, "come on Sweetheart, its part of the babymoon, you have to."
Olivia smiled, "alright fine, baby shower it is."
They spent the next morning in bed together just laying together talking, Peter spooned himself against Olivia and allowed his hand to sit on her belly.
"We've yet to choose a name for her." Peter kissed Olivia's head, "she needs one...I mean already she has a personality so she needs a name."
Olivia moved her hand to his and pulled it up, holding it at her chest, "I was hoping to call her Elizabeth after your mother but only if that was alright with you. We can change it to Isabelle or another variation if you want so its not identical..."
"No, Elizabeth is perfect...how about Mary after your mother...Mary-Elizabeth Livy Bishop, Livy after you." Peter leaned up on his elbow and looked down at her, Olivia turned slightly and looked at him with a smile. "Well...what do you think?"
"I think that your daughter hates the name, she kicked and said it wasn't her name and the mental equivalent of 'yuck' was thrown at me."
Peter chuckled and sat up, moving so his head was by her belly, gently raising Olivia's shirt he kissed her belly. "Don't like that name huh, well what name do you want then?"
His chin received a kick and Olivia smirked, "Livy it is, she likes Livy because its after me so she has a name...Livy Isabelle Bishop."
Peter sighed and kissed Olivia's belly before pulling her shirt down, "Livy Isabelle Bishop it is, if I've learned one thing...its never to argue with you two."
They spent the afternoon on the beach and the rest of the week touring Greek historic landmarks and temples, enjoying the romantic getaway. The Friday before they left the Nicolai baby shower was held and they headed into Athens for the event...Olivia found herself surprised that over a hundred people were there and gifts covered three long tables in all sizes and shapes.
She had fun, playing baby games although her favorite was where Peter had to race the men drinking a bottle and he actually won. Laughter filled the air and Olivia could honestly agree she'd look back having enjoyed her anniversary vacation.
Although their anniversary was the day they left, Peter and Olivia agreed to move it to the last day they were there...Saturday evening. They enjoyed a nice private dinner at the resort restuarant and walked the beach.
"Did you enjoy yourself?" Peter kissed her head as they walked the beach at sunset, his arm around her. "We leave tomorrow morning, is it wrong to not want to go?"
"No," Olivia looked at him, "here we don't have to fight the universe or save it...we can just be who we are...Olivia and Peter. However, we have to go back as Walter can only survive for so long alone and Broyles will need my expertise soon and you have a Ph.D. to finish so we have to go."
Peter sighed and kissed her head as they walked, "always the rational of this team, I love you baby and I'll always love you...I'm just glad we got this time away before the...before Livy arrives as we won't have time to ourselves for a while."
"Happy anniversary," Olivia kissed him and smiled, "so what did you get me?"
He chuckled and shook his head, "nothing...this vacation was for the past three months and besides, I've learned you like it more when nothing is given on the date but small things throughout the period."
"So you are learning, come on Mr. Bishop we have a date with our bedroom." She took his hand and they walked back to the villa sad their vacation had come to a close but knew the year had been worth it...the future was clearer then it had been fifteen months before when Olivia came home.
A/N: Sorry, school started and was working on Reprecussions w/ Caithrine Glidewell so I haven't updated in a while. I have finally figured out where I'm going to put the last chapter...the day Peter graduates in five years time, he'll be receiving his Ph.D. in the chapter as well as the somehow untimely birth of his second daughter (as Olivia goes into labor moments after he receives his Ph.D.)...that's Fringe for you or the Bishop family if you prefer.
Next chapter will be Livy's birth, Olivia and Peter are already married so its just the birth...which Peter is late to due to an exam and Olivia doesn't call him till she knows he's out and she's already halfway through labor...that's Olivia though.