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

[lemonpiefirefly.livejournal.com]

Caught up to this episode just now. I am conflicted on exactly what scared her. I don't think she was scared *of* him, exactly [though after the predictable reveal it's another story]. Though with Peter's cynicism, I could see how he could interpret it that way. I really like the progression through the eps of "you'd tell me if you were sacred, right?" to "that's why you have people in your life, to tell them when you're scared" (big fat paraphrase there; the one where Peter ends up with the vasculitis thing), to then she *can't* be scared, then this. Commenting in part for discussion and part for remembering plot bunny.

But dear god that moment....