Chapter 11: Jalouse

Mary De La Riviere Manley, "Song":

Ah, Dangerous Swain, tell me no more,
Thy Happy Nymph you Worship and Adore!
When thy fill'd Eyes are sparkling at her Name,
I raving wish that mine had caus'd the Flame.

If by your fire to her you can impart
Diffusive heat to warm another's heart;
Ah, dangerous Swain, what would the ruin be,
Should you but once persuade you burn for me!

Peter looked up when Agent Dunham walked into his cell.

"Where is she?" he asked grimly.

She sat down next to him, staring at him like she'd never seen him before. "Broyles took her to the lab. Walter is going to examine her."

"Be careful with her. She's been through a lot."

She continued examining his face. "How do you know she is who she says she is?"

"I know it's her the same way I know you're not: I know her. I've been inside her head, and she's been in mine. I've been through so much with her."

"Why did you go to Reiden Lake?"

"She told me to meet her there."

"When did she tell you to meet her there? When did she communicate with you?"

"Last night, in a dream."

"A dream?" she repeated incredulously.

"Yeah. She contacted me through a dream. I'm not exactly sure how she did it, but like you she has the ability to cross dimensions, and shared dream states are something Walter has induced before."

Olivia stood up then and took a step away. "Why didn't you tell me? Why did you steal a car, instead of asking me for help?"

From the confusion in her voice, he realized that question wasn't part of the interrogation, she was asking as a friend, asking why he didn't confide in her about what was really going on.

It hadn't crossed his mind, and now he realized why. "To be honest, I didn't know if I could trust you. I didn't know if you would believe me, and if you tried to keep me from going...I couldn't risk that. I wasn't entirely sure she would be there, that the dream was true, but I couldn't risk not showing up if it was. I had to be there for her if she came. I had to be the one there to meet her."

She nodded, more to herself than him. "You should have told me. I don't know what's going to happen, to you or to her."

"Don't let anything happen to her," he almost begged. "She just came to find me. She didn't do anything wrong. And I promise she's not a shapeshifter."

"I'll see what I can do, but..."

"But you don't trust me."

"But I'm not sure you should be trusting her." She sat back down. "Tell me everything, starting at the beginning."