Rebuilding
Spoilers: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3(Olivia, The Box, The Plateau, Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep, Amber 31422, 6955 kHz, The Abducted, Entrada, Marionette promo).
Disclaimer: If I owned Fringe...Olivia would have made it home with Peter in Over There Part 2 instead of this insanity.
Olivia woke to a scream and mentally scanned her home, wondering where the scream was coming from and finally found it. She found Peter asleep beside her, it meant the scream was mental and from what she heard, she knew exactly the yellers were.
Getting out of bed, she made her way downstairs to find her two daughters in the kitchen having a flour fight or so they were trying but their abilities were also being used such as force fields and their hydrokinetic skills...soaking the kitchen in flour and water.
Girls?
They both turned and looked at her, Olivia chuckled at the sight of her two daughters covered in flour and soaked. Olive was five and Callie was four, both had blonde hair and green eyes, much to Peter's delight.
In six years they'd turned their life around, including four kids ages two, four and five.
"Sorry Mommy!" Olive looked at her, "we wanted to make pancakes but then a fight broke out. Did we wake you?"
"Yeah, come on...let's get this mess cleaned up before Daddy wakes up." She headed to the sink and took a clean rag from the sink to use to wipe up.
"Oh Daddy is awake." Peter came in the kitchen in a tank and sweats, "what the hell happened?"
Callie smiled her best 'Olivia' smile and told him joyfully what occurred. "We were trying to make pancakes for Mommy and you when we got in a flour fight. We'll clean it up immediately."
Peter nodded, "yes you will, no abilities either...I'll be here watching you do it."
He walked to the coffee maker and made a cup of coffee before sitting down to watch his two oldest daughters clean up their mess. He'd been blessed with four girls, no boys but as Olivia always said 'we can keep trying, after all...its not that much work to try' so they had tried and ended up with her pregnant...with the twins. Twin identical girls, Carla and Bella, were now two years old. They decided to stop after four as they had five kids if they included Walter and with their hours, they couldn't afford another child...but they would love anymore that came their way.
Olivia leaned against the back of his chair and put her chin on his head, arms around his neck. "A little harsh this morning are we?"
"No, just stern...I guess I shouldn't expect them not to do this but..." he threaded his hand through hers and kissed the top. "Then again they are just like me, bound for trouble."
She kissed his head, "you wouldn't change it...even for a son." She whispered to him, "but you already have one, do you wonder what he's doing right now?"
"I try not to, it takes me from this life to the past...one I hate." He looked up at her, "one without you." Peter sighed and looked back at the girls, "besides, I don't even know his name so..."
Olivia smiled, "we'll have a son one day, patience is a virtue after all."
Peter laughed and kissed her hand again, "then we're out of luck as neither of us has any patience left." He looked over at the girls, "no Olivia, I'm content with our girls and you, he's not mine and never will be. Besides, from what you said of your vision, she has Lincoln to help her and he's going to be loved by others, he doesn't need my love."
Olivia kissed his head again, "that's where you're wrong, your love is endless and deep, the type of love that everyone needs." She walked over to the girls and bent down to help them with the mess.
Over There
On the other side, Olivia Dunham-Lee stood with her son, holding him in her arms as they stood before the portal to the other side. She'd figured out after years of wondering, how to use it. She was going to take her six year old son across to the other side...away from the chance of death he'd cause.
Lincoln looked at her as he continued to make adjustments to it, "you ready baby?"
"Mommy, do I have to go?" James looked at her and she put him down, bending down beside him.
"Yeah baby you have to go...bad men want to hurt you and want you to hurt others but you can't, because its not who you are. On the other side is a woman just like me, she looks like me and with her is your father...your real daddy. He's going to love you just as much as Daddy does."
Lincoln got the machine working and walked over to Olivia and James, "its going to be okay buddy, we'll be going with you the entire way. I want you to take this with you so you never forget us." He held out a photo to James and the boy took it from him. "I want you to love your dad and your new mom but never forget us."
"I don't want to go Daddy!" James hugged him and Lincoln held him before letting go
"I don't want you to either James but its what has to happen." Lincoln stood up and held out a hand to Olivia. "Come on baby, you have to go first James."
James went first but stopped at the portal and saw his parent steps behind him, he went through and it closed off. Olivia began to sob into Lincoln's arms and he held her.
"It was the right thing to do, it was the right thing baby." He kissed her head, "he's safe, you know he is."
She nodded, "he was my baby."
"I know, I know...he was my baby too." Lincoln looked at her, "I have to do it, I'm sorry."
She nodded and watched as he set up an electrical charge on the device, it began to spark and eventually began to burn. Lincoln doused it with the nearby fire extinguisher before looking at the sound of soldiers.
Both turned to see soldiers from the DOD with the Secretary, he looked at them. "Where is my grandson at?"
"Gone," Olivia wiped away her tears, "where you can't turn him into a murderer, where he'll be loved and cared for. Our world may die but won't be my son who destroys billions of lives."
"You just condemned us all."
Olivia nodded, "there was never a war, you just think there was when Peter was taken but he was taken to be saved...not to spite you. This is your war, not ours and not theirs and defiantly not James's because he's just like his father...sweet and kind and gentle, he couldn't do it...it would break him just like it broke Peter to even think about doing it. He wanted to find another way and I know he will."
The Secretary nodded, "so be, shoot them."
He took a step back and the soldiers took aim, Lincoln grabbed a hold of Olivia. "I love you."
"I love you too, I'm sorry."
"Shoot him first!" The Secretary's voice bellowed and Lincoln nodded.
"Goodbye Liv, I love you baby." He shut his eyes and held her tight, as the shot was fired Olivia turned them and took the shot first, it went through her and then through Lincoln.
Both fell and the Secretary looked at both, "get rid of the bodies."
He was pissed, his ways of ending the other side were both tainted and it seemed another way would have to be found.
Over Here
James looked around and turned as the device shut off, he saw his parents for a split second before it shut off and nothing was left...he stood in the Harvard lab alone. He ran to the spot and touched it, nothing was there. "Mommy, Daddy?"
"Hey there," James turned to see his mother, except she had blonde hair. "How'd you get in here?"
Olivia Bishop looked at the small boy before her, he looked scared and out of place.
"Through the portal, Mommy and Daddy are stuck on the other side." He looked at her, "you look like my mommy, she said I had to come because bad people would hurt me. She said my real daddy was here."
Olivia bent down and looked at him, noticing the picture in his hand. She gently took it and found it was off her alternate, Lincoln and James...all happy and smiling. "Okay, I'm Olivia..."
"That's my Mommy's name."
"Hey Liv," Peter entered the lab with a file in hand, "Sweetheart did Walter tell you about the results before he left?" He looked up to see them, "hi, how'd you get in here?"
Olivia smiled, "Peter...I'd like you to meet your son." She held out the photo and Peter took it, looking at the family in the photo. "She sent him over, I don't know why yet."
"I want Mommy and Daddy, can we go back please...the promised to come with me."
Olivia smiled, "what's your name?"
"James, James Lincoln Bishop...I have my grandpa's last name, Mommy's name is different as is Daddy's. I don't like Grandpa, he gives me shots...a lot of them, he calls the medicine Cortexilyn."
Peter looked at Olivia and they both knew what Cortexilyn really was, James groaned. "Are you okay baby boy?"
"I feel dizzy," he groaned and fell to the floor, eyes wide open.
"Oh God," Peter picked up James and Olivia grabbed the boy's bag that was had been on his back before teleporting them to Massive Dynamic.
Twelve hours later, Olivia sat waiting on James to wake up when his head moved. He opened his eyes and she looked at him. "Hey, you're finally awake."
"Mommy, your hair is different?"
Olivia wanted to tell him she wasn't his mother but the look on his face, she knew how Elizabeth Bishop felt so long ago. The little boy didn't deserve that lie so she sat on the bed and took his hand. "I'm not your mommy, not your real mommy...she's gone as is Daddy. There were some bad people that would hurt you and they sent you to us.
"I'm Olivia and you James are very safe and very loved." She smiled, "now you need your rest, but in the morning I'm going to show you your new home. You're going to have four sisters, but guess what, they're all younger then you so you get to boss them around."
He looked at her, "you're lying, you said there were bad people after me but you're thinking about how I came here. You think that Mommy and Daddy are dead because of what my grandpa will do to them when he finds out. That Daddy isn't my real daddy and you're wrong. He is my daddy and you'll never be my mommy."
Olivia nodded, "I don't want to be, I just want to take care of you...your mommy sent you to me because she knew I'd love you and it'll take a while but I know you'll at least come to care about me like I already love you. You don't have to call me Mom or Mommy, you can call me Olivia or even Liv if you want."
Peter knocked on the door, "hey, I heard the patient was awake...how are you buddy?"
"I hate you."
Peter nodded, "well I hate me too...long story behind that kid but there's something you might want to see. Your mom wrote you a letter, see?" He held up a letter and handed it to him. "Can you read?"
James nodded, "a little." He unfolded the paper and looked at it, "its Fringe Code...I know Fringe Code."
"So do I?" Olivia smiled and took the paper, "yep, that's Fringe Code...do you want to read it or should I?"
"I can't read the big words." James looked at the paper and handed it to Olivia, she began to read it.
"Dear James,
My baby boy, I love you very much but you must understand that in the beginning you weren't meant for me...you were meant for the world. I kept you, loved you when I shouldn't have and as I did, I learned that you are very special but not destined for what you were created for.
Your real daddy is probably there with you right now, its a long story he'll tell you one day on how we're in two different worlds but for now you need to know that he never knew about you. I never told him because I was angry. I could have but in truth, the woman with you mattered more then me and that's okay because she is so much better then me.
I love you James, I've loved you since I first found out and you were never a mission, never a task because you were made of love and I loved your daddy but he didn't love me. You have a new Mommy and your Daddy and they will love you, just as we love you.
I do this for you, so you can't hurt anyone like Grandpa hurts you. Where you are, there are people who look like us; like me, like Grandpa, like Agent Farnsworth but you have to trust them because they're good people...the best.
Always your mother,
Olivia Dunham-Lee."
Olivia looked at James as he looked at them, "so she tried to save me?"
"And she did, you're safe now and no one can hurt you." She looked at Peter, "right?"
Peter nodded, "I promise and I never break a promise."
James nodded, "okay...I'll try."
Ten Years Later
Olivia looked up the stairs of their house, the sound of chaos was in process. "James Lincoln Bishop, Olive Elizabeth Bishop, Callisandra Rachel Bishop knock off that insanity now before I come up there."
"Geez Mom," James came down the stairs, the sixteen year old was dressed for school. "Seriously, all we were doing was plotting our escape from the vacation."
Olivia chuckled, "I bet you were...get going to school before I drag you there."
Callie and Olive came down the stairs, the fifteen and fourteen year old were laughing. "Oh come on James, its not that bad...just because Dana broke up with you don't mean that the Bishop prowlness won't bring a few more."
"Who the hell is talking about prowlness?" Peter came in the room, "was that you Olive?"
"Yep, it was her." The twins came down the stairs in matching outfits except one wore blue and the other wore green. "So Dad, Mr. Conner wants to know about our family, what exactly do we say because we have to lie?"
Peter looked at them, "what do you mean you have to lie?"
Carla groaned, her twin sister explained the answer while she had asked the question. Bella looked at them. "We can't exactly say our father is from one universe and our mother is from another and we're from both and our brother is from the other universe because his mother is an identical version of Mom. Not to mention that our grandfather is the SOD from the other universe while our alternate grandfather is a crazy insane scientist. To top it off, we also can't say that because of some crazy exposure to a youth formula that our parents age very slowly. I mean you still look like you're thirty and you're fifty...you won't look middle age till you're at least a hundred and fifty, oh and we have inane abilities that can do things you only find in comic books." Bella smiled at her parents, "so you see the issue...what do we say?"
Olivia looked at them, it had been a fact that due to a case nine years before that they'd been exposed to a youth formula in a mad scientist's lab, not Walter's though, and they were left with a biological anomaly...they would age very slowly. Walter estimated they'd probably live to be three hundred if not older...external youth with age he called it.
"You tell the truth, your parents work for the FBI in Counterterrorism. Your mother is an FBI agent and your father and grandfather are consultants for the FBI while your father also runs Massive Dynamic. You have three sisters and two brothers and a large extended family made up of FBI agents, scientists and biological family."
Carla shrugged, "alright, its boring but its not breaking any federal disclosure laws."
Olivia looked up, "James you're taking the girls to school right?"
"Yep, come on you freaks...lets get going."
Peter chuckled and looked at Olivia, putting his arm around her. "You know, for being where he came from...I think he's doing alright."
"Because he's like his father...resilient and strong." Olivia kissed his cheek, "I have to go get Dunham ready, no doubt he's going crazy."
"He's nine months old."
Olivia smiled, "he's your son, he loves trouble...remember what they say about boys, they're ten times worse then girls and you remember what the girls were like at nine months don't you?"
Peter groaned and looked at the ceiling, "Dunham Charlie Bishop, if I even think you're playing games you'll be grounded."
"He's nine months, grounding doesn't work with him yet." Olivia smiled and kissed him, "I'll be back, have Walter ready when I come down."
Peter watched her go and smiled, nearly seventeen years before he'd betrayed the woman he loved and in the process got a son but after all was said and done, he had the woman he loved, the daughters he wanted and his sons but due to some insanity, he had a long life ahead with Olivia...a very long life.
If you asked if he'd change anything, anything at all...even his betrayal, he'd have to say no and even Olivia would say it was worth it all.
