GAH! You guys I love the review! They make me happy especially when the writers drop a bomb like that! I think that him choosing altlivia would be worse than her being pregnant…anyway ENJOY!

Reference: Lines from Same Old Story.

My interpretation also from when Olivia lets go and cries at the end of the pilot.

Chapter 12 – New Years

For some strange reason, school had gone back two days after Christmas only to have 4 days off over New Years and the students weren't complaining. It was now the 29th of December and school had been back for only 3 days. Teachers had said it was because of their meetings, but no one really believed that.

The group sat outside the school grounds huddled under a tree, they had gotten stuck in the rain and Beth didn't want to move until it had stopped and so, being that they live in Boston and rain is common, they had been stuck under the tree for more than an hour and the rain hadn't slowed or stopped. Olivia had sat down to work on an assignment she had only realizing something that had never occurred to her before.

Glancing up at Charlie and then back down to her assignment, where she had all her friends names and birthdates, including her own, she realised that Charlie was born almost 2 years before the other, including her.

"Hey Charlie, how come you were born in '77 and yet are in the same class as us. You should be turning 18 soon…" Olivia looked up at him once more to find him watching her, smiling. He took a seat next to her and spoke, "Well, I moved around a lot when I was a kid. Dad was in the FBI and was moved around a lot for his job and so we went with him. When we settled here, the school decided that I didn't have a stable enough education before transferring and so I was left with these losers," Charlie smiled as he motioned to Beth and Bobby, who were huddled together to try and keep warm. It wasn't even that cold, it was just that they were still in the honeymoon phase of their relationship and were always together.

Without looking back at Charlie Bobby held up his hand and gave Charlie finger, only causing him to smile more and start to laugh. Olivia joined in, shaking her head at the childish antics.

Beth pulled away from Bobby just in time to see Sonia walking up to them. She was a beautiful girl with short straight brown hair and deep brown eyes. There was silence in the group as she approached. "Hey guys, rains a pain in the ass, don't you think." No one answer, until Olivia took the plunge. "Yea Sonia it is. We were going to wait until it stopped but it clearly hasn't." Sonia smiled at Olivia as she spoke.

"There was actually a reason I came over, shelter not being the major one, but I was wondering what you were all doing for New Years?" They waited before answering, none of them, except Charlie, had really spoken to her much and even then it wasn't enough to warrant any sort of invite anywhere.

Charlie spoke this time, "Um nothing really. We were just going to hang out at my house. My sister is away and my folks will be out. Movies and pizza. Just something to get away from life for a few hours." Charlie glanced down at Olivia knowingly, smiling gently. When he turned back to Sonia, he noticed that were smile had faded and she spoke as though embarrassed, "Oh, well. Have a good time then." She was about to make a break for the school building when Charlie called out, at the encouragement of his friends. "Would you like to come too? There is always room for one more." He smiled back at her and watched as a bright smile found it's way to her face.

Coming back under the shelter she spoke, "Just as long as you are sure. I mean I don't want to push in or anything?" Olivia watched as Sonia fumbled over her words as she spoke to Charlie, who couldn't stop smiling, just watched her.

Olivia spoke up again, hoping keep the awkwardness away from the two of them, "Oh don't worry about it. It should be fun." Sonia only nodded before walking away from them once more, the rain had stopped and so she had taken the opportunity to leave them.

"Oh man, the two of you are going to be married one day, I can feel it." Bobby, laughed at Charlie, when his smile didn't leave his face. Shaking himself of the thoughts running through his head, Charlie turned to Liv, "So you going to help set up or not?" Olivia sighed dramatically before smiling, "Yea you know I will."

By this stage, Bobby and Beth had left Charlie and Olivia alone,. Olivia had given her assignment a miss and had begun to read from Charlie's Heath book as Charlie sat against trunk of the tree. Finally glancing at him and realizing that he wasn't doing any work she smiled to herself when she had a thought.

"So Charlie, I was looking through some of the Criminology books the library have and I found something, an old article about unsolved murders, most with missing pituitary glands." Olivia glanced to the side, to see Charlie's reaction.

He turned to face her with a slightly disgusted look on his face, "Oh you say the sweetest things." His voice held a note of enthusiasm but his face was straight. Olivia laughed and quipped, "Only to you, Charlie." He laughed at her gently before she continued.

"No the reason I was saying it was because I saw a photo of the agent who found the killer, Agent Michael Francis. He looks a lot like you…" Olivia waited to see what sort of reaction she would get from him. She watched him turn his face towards the sky for a moment before smiling to himself, as thought remembering something.

"That was the last case my grandfather worked on before he retired. He was FBI, as was my father and that's the intention after I finish school." Charlie shrugged as Olivia smiled brightly at him. Glancing at the time, Charlie grabbed for Olivia's hand and pulled her up, "Come on. You got to get home before Rachel does. Make sure is safe around Greg. I don't like him." Charlie and Olivia made their way to the rain had started to come down again, drenching them both.

Saturday went fast, Olivia had spent most of her time looking after Roxy because her aunt had to work. Sitting in the lounge reading was something that Olivia had always enjoyed doing, and it was also good because she could hear everything that was happening up stairs in her sisters room.

Rachel had invited Greg over because their aunt was out and so as soon as they had made their way towards Rachel's room. Olivia had tried to call her sister back but she didn't listen and kept going towards her room.

Olivia sighed, as she read her mind wandered back to John and how he was gone. She had been trying to put on a brave face and not show that she was too upset and it was working, she was fooling everyone, unless their name was Charlie Francis. He had been able to see right through her as soon as she had arrived back at school.

John stood by the side of the platform, waiting for the train to come. He had already said goodbye to his family and as he turned he found Olivia standing to the side. He took in her clothing, dark blue jeans and a black jumper, beanie, gloves and a scarf. Feet clad in red Docs. He dropped his bag and took a step towards her.

"Livy, what are you doing here?" They met in the middle and she smiled sadly at him. "I know you told me not to come, but I wanted to say goodbye properly. Obviously I didn't see you yesterday and I wanted to make your you left safely." She shrugged as he pulled her for a hug. Holding her close he spoke in her ear. "Liv, you know I don't think it's a good idea for us to continue on together, I have no idea how long I will be away." As he spoke he pulled away and was able to see the unshed tears in her eyes, "Yea I know, but I'm still going to miss you."

He placed a small kiss on her forehead before and whispered, "Goodbye Liv" and then he turned to leave. Olivia watched as he picked his bag up, said one last goodbye to his family and boarded the train. She only let one small tear fall as she glanced back at her one last time.

Walking towards school, she was greeted by friends, "Hey Liv, how are ya?" Beth called out as she walked through the halls. Olivia looked up and smiled sadly and nodded. She was getting through most of the day before Charlie stopped her and puller her towards an empty class room.

"Livi, you're not fooling anyone right now and don't tell me you're fine because you're not fine. Come on talk to me…" Charlie sat down next to her, as she sat on the teacher's desk, he watched as she brought her feet up onto the teacher's chair. "Oh Charlie." Finally letting go, Olivia brought her hand to her mouth in an attempt to cover a sob that came from her lips. Charlie just placed a hand around her shoulder, brought her closer to him and let her cry.

Raised voices caught Olivia's attention and with a quick glance up towards the ceiling listening to Rachel's voice. "No Greg! I said no! You know what! Just leave! GO!" Olivia rose from her seat after a moment of silence only to hear heavy footsteps coming down the hall and the stairs. She watched as Greg flew passed the entrance to the lounge and slammed the door behind him.

Olivia didn't dare go up and see Rachel, instead she just sat back down and listened to her sister cry.

It was early, not even midday when Olivia had arrived at Charlie's house. His parents had already left for a friends place and wouldn't be back for a few days and so they had given him permission to have a small party. "Thanks for coming Liv. I really appreciate the help." Charlie spoke as he passed Olivia some cups and a few plates. "Yea Charlie, you know I am happy to help." Olivia smiled up at Charlie.

"So how is Rachel doing, you know after Greg and her broke up?" Charlie spoke but continued to set things up. He had moved on to the music now and was playing around with the CD player. "Oh well, she'll be fine. It's not the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last." As she finished speaking, Charlie's eye's pricked up at the doorbell. Hurrying off to answer he was a little disappointed to find Beth and Bobby at the door.

As he welcomed them in Olivia spoke from behind him, "You know he was waiting for Sonia to come." She patted Charlie's back in an attempt to relieve some stress but only caused Beth and Bobby to laugh at him.

"Hey! Charlie, don't shut the door!" A voice called all their attention and they found Sonia jogging slowly up the stairs, backpack in hand. They had all organized to stay at Charlie's house, so no one had to leave early or really late. "Oh, hey Sonia. Glad you could make it." Charlie placed a hand on Sonia's back and guided her inside, taking her bag from her and placing it on the ground. "No problem's Charlie, thank you so much for the invite."

All finding their a seat either on the ground or on the two couches, Beth and Bobby were curled up together focusing on the TV but occasionally he would lean down and place a kiss on her forehead and Charlie and Sonia had taken the other couch, sitting close enough to each other that they everyone knew that they would be each other's New Years Kiss.

Olivia couldn't focus on the movie at that moment. She missed John and was having a hard time keeping him of her mind at this particular time, with all her friends being with someone or likely chances of being with someone, she was sad. But she would never show it.

11.30pm had come and gone with another movie and a few drinks. Bobby and Beth hadn't moved from their loveseat but Charlie and Sonia had sat closer to each other. So close that he had now stretched his arm around her shoulder's and she had laid her head on his shoulder. Olivia huffed from her position on the floor, she rose and made a break for the front door.

She needed some air, it was too stuffy in the house, either that or she was just annoyed and jealous. Letting the front door close behind her, Olivia took a seat on the steps there were covered and not wet. Letting out a breath of cold air, she watched as it smoked in front of her. Olivia didn't know how long she had sat on her own for, it was quiet and she felt calm.

As she sat silently she glanced around, thinking that there was someone there. Hoping to find someone that would at least squash the fear inside of her that someone was watching her. It had not been the first time she had had this feeling and having it more than once was staring to worry her. When her eyes found nothing, she strained her ears to see if she could hear something.

"You know you are likely to freeze out here in the cold and with no jacket." Olivia's head shot up at the sound of a voice, but her body relaxed when she saw Peter walking up the footpath, towards the house. Rubbing her hand's together, she placed them between her legs, trying to keep them warm. "Yeah but it beats being in there right now." He walked up the stairs and sat down when she scooted over, giving him room to sit. Once he was next to her, she could feel the body heat coming off of him and was glad that he had come, because she really was starting to get cold.

"What are you doing out this way Peter? Don't you have family or something?" She watched as he just shrugged but he spoke after a moment or two, "My mother doesn't really do anything with me anymore. It's been a while since we have had a full conversation to be honest."

"What about your father?" Part of her didn't know why she was asking, but she did anyway. He gave a small laugh and smile before speaking again, "Well my father isn't around anymore. Walter hasn't been around for a long time." The way he spoke, Olivia knew that there was no chance in continuing the conversation, or at least this part of it. They both were surrounded by comfortable silence.

It wasn't until distant fireworks were let off that they both realised that it must have been midnight already. Olivia's eyes shone in awe and her smile grew as each firework exploded in the night sky. Peter watched her out of the corner of his eye, his smile growing every time her eyes grew.

"Wow, beautiful!" Olivia exclaimed as colours filled the sky. Peter smirked to himself and even though it was completely cliché he whispered, "Yea beautiful" Olivia didn't realise that he wasn't talking about the fireworks but about her.

"Happy New Year Livia." Peter spoke quietly as she watched on. Turning to him, with a wide, bright smile she spoke, "Happy New Year Peter."