Home for the Fight
Spoilers: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3(Olivia, The Box, The Plateau, Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep, Amber 31422, 6955 kHz, The Abducted).
Disclaimer: If I owned Fringe...Olivia would be on the right side and with Peter.
And they did, the next morning Olivia got a call saying that her alternate had committed suicide and was dead. Broyles said she was being taken to Massive Dynamic for a medical procedure and Olivia needed to get there with Peter.
They arrived as Mulara was leaving the operating room, "good you're here."
"What procedure was preformed?" Olivia eyed her and Mulara looked at the door.
"Ovary extraction, apparently in her suicide note it was stated that she wanted you to have her ovaries. The woman is strange, dead or not."
"You're kidding right?" Peter looked at her, "where is the note?"
"Agent Broyles has it."
They found Broyles on the phone in the hallway two corridors away, he just handed Olivia the note as he was on the phone doing damage control.
Olivia read the note, Peter looking over her shoulder.
Olivia, Peter,
God knows I've done enough to deserve hell and in my final hours, I hope what I'm about to do brings a little comfort to all the wrong I've done to you both. I have nothing left, nothing at all to live for. Frank is gone, my children gone as well.
I wish I had something to live for but I don't. I understood how you felt Olivia but I was wrong, you are the stronger one...you had the will to live, I don't. I want to curl up and die...and die I shall. But before I do. I want you both to have something you cannot have, my first and final act of selflessness.
Olivia, I want you to have my ovary, we are genetically identical and so you'll be having your children not another's. Just do me one favor, if you manage to find a way to talk with the other side, tell Lincoln that I did love him and I did not forget about him, even when I began to forget about Frank...perhaps he was my Peter.
I'm sorry,
Olivia Dunham
Peter sighed, "why would she do this...if she had this Lincoln guy over there?"
"Because she knew she'd never get back and she had given up hope. She's right however, it was her only selfless act."
Sixteen months later Olivia sat looking at her daughter, her baby girl who was just like her. Peter smiled from the doorway, the newborn was sleeping in her mother's arms. "I found a name for her if you want to know it?"
Olivia smiled, "what name?"
Peter sighed and walked over, sitting on the bed. "After the woman who gave her life...Olive."
"Olive, Olive Callisandra Bishop."
Mommy!
Both looked at the baby and Peter chuckled, "guess Mulara was wrong again, the Cortexiphan came through the pregnancy not conception."
Olivia looked at her daughter and then up at the doorway, she saw Sam and Nina Sharp there.
Nina smiled, "she'll always be protected and guided."
"She's the Merger," Sam walked in, "the future restorer of all that has gone wrong. She was predicted by your ancestor long ago, by our people...the First People."
"You're..."
Nina nodded, "no but we are descendants just as you are, as you both are. While most have forgotten, our parents never made us forget, our families have been passing down the tradition for millions of years...our families made the guardians, one after another, parent to child. When Peter died and then Walter came back with the Peter before you, I suspected the time was among us of that re-destruction.
"When you walked into my office I knew for sure that the time of the Merger was upon us, when I saw you together for the first time...right after you met, I knew it was true. I knew that your child would one day be the Merger."
"But she isn't mine exactly?"
Sam nodded, "love begot the Merger, not biology...she may have been your alternate but it was your love, between you both, that created the child. But Nina is correct, she will be guided towards her destiny one day...to restore."
Nina smiled, "what is her name?"
"Olive, Olive Callisandra Bishop."
Nina gently took the baby and held her gently, "Peace, Knowledge and Wisdom."
Peace, Knowledge and Wisdom
They all looked at the baby, Nina nodded. "She'll save us all one day but for now she's just a child, your daughter." She handed the baby back to Olivia and left with Sam.
Peter looked at Olive and chuckled, "you may save the worlds one day young lady but only after you finish college."
I shall save the worlds when I deem it the time.
Olivia chuckled and looked at Peter, "that's you in her...not me."
Olivia watched Peter take their daughter, he was enjoying the daughter he had waited nearly six years for. A beautiful girl who would fill his life with laughter, love and joy.
Looking at the window, she knew she could only thank one person: her alternate, because she made coming home a fight and the fight was worth the long term results.
It was a short while later that Peter created a window that allowed communication to the other world. She managed after taking it all the way to Liberty Island, to get a hold of Brandon on the other side. He said the Secretary was dead and she breathed finally but asked for Lincoln.
It took a while but soon he was standing before her. "Lincoln, I'm Olivia's alternate."
"Where is she?"
"She committed suicide, I tried to tell her that she needed to live but after what happened to Frank and the embryos..."
He shook his head, "what do you mean about that, Frank is worried sick about her...its been four years."
"Someone left her a message, I have it." She removed the note with code and held it up, Lincoln's eyes moved as he read it. "She said she didn't have anything else to live for. I tried to save her life but she wouldn't listen, even that you..."
He chuckled, "there's nothing between us or was."
"She wanted me to tell you something and I have it in writing." She removed the letter and held it up as well. "She wanted you to know she loved you and that she never forgot you even when she began to forget about Frank."
Lincoln's face paled and Olivia noticed his eyes held tears, "where is her body?"
"We uh, we buried her in New York not far from where she lived on the other side. We can't cross over again but I managed to find a way to communicate. I wanted her to be as close as she could to home as possible. I made sure she wore her Fringe Division uniform...I had one made for her and her gun, her 76 was buried with her as well. I tired to do her good in the end, this letter is a copy...the real one is with her."
He nodded, "is her name on the headstone or another name?"
"I put Olivia 'Amber' Dunham on there, as it was the nickname you called her...because of her hair and also that she could catch anything like amber could."
"Thank you Olivia, I'll uh, I'll let everyone know she didn't make it and the status as MIA is to be placed as KILD, it stands for Killed In Line of Duty."
"I uh, I have a daughter...she's two month old, I named her Olive in Olivia's memory."
"You shouldn't have."
"But I had to, goodbye Lincoln."
He nodded and the device was shut off, Olivia turned to see Peter waiting for her. He pulled her into his arms and she held on.
She was crying inside but not for herself but for her alternate and what would never be for her.
"Let's go home."
"Yeah."
They packed up and went home, to their children and to the happiness they had, but never forgetting the fight that had been and the lives lost.
A/N: There, finished and done with...I wanted to finish so I could write something for Olivia's return.
