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.
Olivia stood getting ready that evening when her doorbell rang, she answered it to find it was a delivery man. He gave her a package and she signed before going inside.
Sitting on the couch, she opened the box and found a book and an envelope, she opened the envelope and read it…finding it was from Sam Weiss.
'Dunham,
Heard about what happened from Nina, sorry to hear about what happened. I know you can get through it.
I may know why it happened, check out page 47 in the book and keep an open mind.
If you have questions, you know where to find me.
Sam Weiss'
Olivia looked at the book, having seen it in Peter's office before…it was about the First People and their technological world. She opened the book and flipped to the page directed to her, finding herself in chapter four. It was titled: Prophecy of the Merger.
She began to read the text, keeping an open mind as she did.
'In the days leading up to the Great Destruction, the seer of the First People, Callisandra, begged them to see their ways would destroy them. She begged them to see their wrongs and undo the Vacuum but no one would listen.
The day came and the device created the destruction, in the form of worlds…it was supposed to bring life but it only split it. Instead of a complete life, lives were now split into different worlds, each life different from the rest.
Nature was not kind however, this creation threw off balance and so nature retaliated with unseen events. The First People began to die one by one and eventually only a few remained, all turning to the one they ignored…Callisandra. They turned to her and she told them there was no stopping the decimation of their race.
They begged for an answer, she gave them warning instead of hope. She foresaw that one day far into the future, after nature had repaired the damage to its liking, love would drive it to be destroyed once again.
A boy would lay dying in one world and his blood from another would save him, thus he would live in the wrong world since childhood. His own blood would seek to destroy the other till nothing was left.
The First People accepted their fate and did their best to prevent it from happening again, they dismantled the Vacuum and hid it among two worlds before the worlds closed off.
On the final day before separation, Callisandra called them back to her, telling them there was indeed hope. That one day hope would come in the form of a child, one that would be called the Merger because of who it was.
The boy in the previous vision would eventually fall in love with a great warrior, one from the world he grew up in but was not from. From their union would come a child of great power, merging the lost bloodlines of the First People and reuniting the worlds as it would be born of two worlds.
Several signs foretold of the warrior who would beget the Merger. The first was that she would be identical to Callisandra in looks. Second, she would have gifts long forgotten and the ability to cross between worlds without aid of a device. Third and foremost, she would cross worlds for love and love alone.
The Merger would bring balances to the worlds, allowing both to exist in harmony, no longer decaying or dying…but all balance restored. It would use the Vacuum to restore and live but if any other should use it but the Merger, they would die but destroy the worlds at the same time.
The First People placed guardians in each world, marked by a sign…if the Merger should be born in either world, the guardians would guide the child to its future of restoration. With the knowledge that they would be born again in the future and that the future was safe, the First People finally accepted their fate and died off…leaving all their descendants to wait for the Merger but in the end, most forgot.'
Olivia turned the page and came across a drawn picture of what looked like herself, however at the bottom was clearly written: Callisandra, Great Seer of the First People.
Below it was the sign, known as the Sign of Guidance and it was the same symbol she once had because her alternate had it. It meant her alternate and Frank were meant to be guardians but it was possible that they forgot with everyone else.
Olivia now knew why Walternate did what he had done, he'd prevented her and Peter from having a child on fear it would be the Merger of the First People. One that would bring harmonious living instead of his vendetta to destroy.
The sound of the doorbell made her get up and go to the door, she opened it to find Peter. "Hey, you ready to go?"
"Come in, a friend found something and I finally know why Walternate did what he did to me."
Peter sat down after closing the door and Olivia gave him the book, pointing to the page he should read. He read the entire passage and in the end placed the book down, rubbing his hands over his face.
"So he did this to stop some prophecy that could or could not be true?"
Olivia nodded, "because if it is true, his future destruction of our world would be stopped when the Merger restored balance. He would have lost his chance, his way of destroying us and he didn't want that…he's too revengeful. So much he wanted to prevent any chance of me being the mother of this Merger and since you're supposed to be the father…all because of some prophecy written God knows when."
Peter picked up the book and turned the page, finding the drawing of Callisandra. "She looks just like you."
"Or I look just like her." She pointed to the mark, "my alternate and Frank had this mark, it meant they were supposed to guide the Merger had it been born in their world. I don't know who the guardians were in this world.
"All I can think about is if this is true, which it probably isn't, our worlds are doomed because of one man's hatred when all Walter did was save you because he loved you. There's no way for this Merger to be born and so we all suffer."
Peter smiled, "whatever the outcome, we can't change it now. Come on, I know what will get that off your mind…whiskey shots."
Olivia chuckled, "you know the way to a girl's heart."
Peter closed the book and stood, pulling on her hand. "I just know you so well."
A/N: Date time and then huge surprise...Walternate is screwed up, doing this to Olivia to prevent a prophecy.