New Fic: Hard Science

[jackwabbit]

Hard Science
Fandom: Fringe
Rated: PG
Category: Ficlet. Peter angst.
Season: Two. Set during Jacksonville. Post-lab, pre-house.
Spoilers: Jacksonville.
Summary: A scientist has to follow the data, no matter where it leads.
Word Count: 136

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Peter had never bought into his mother’s theory.

She’d told him he was special, and though he’d smiled politely, he’d called BS from day one.

But now? Now he knows he was wrong.

Because Olivia was scared.

He shakes his head, disgusted.

With everything they saw on a daily basis, she never blinked. Monsters, alternate realities, kidnapping, whatever; even shooting her “partner” barely ruffled her feathers.

And yet, she was afraid of him.

Peter snorts, realizing this is par for the course in his life.

He is a scientist, after all, and he knows that in order to establish the truth, you have to test the theory.

He’d done so, unintentionally and despite the personal cost, and he’d proven his mother right.

He was unique, and it hurt like hell.

The scientific method was a bitch.

Comments

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I think she's terrified of him, and nothing will convince me otherwise. Not Peter per se, but what he represents/what he is becoming. Intimacy. Cliche, but true. Olivia Dunham doesn't need anyone, right? She tried that once, and look how that turned out. So she's better off alone, right? And certainly she doesn't want to go down the work partner road again, right? And yet...she does want to. And now, maybe so does he, so it's a potentially real thing instead of just theoretical. Etc, etc, etc. I think she's scared of him. And even if she's not, he thinks she is. His whispered "don't be" proves it to me. (GUUUUUUUUH!)

I have to get back to work and I can't really put this into written words regardless, but suffice to say...

*drooling idiot on the floor in the corner over this episode*

[lemonpiefirefly.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes - this - the situation and what he represents/ intimacy was the crux there, not exactly fear *of* him, but "him" in that way. But yeah, the part about what she can do being unique... turnabout's fair effing play, yeah?

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Valid. Point.