Confess your love (as well as your folly)

[sugangel7]

Title: Confess your love (as well as your folly)
Fandom: Fringe
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Peter/Olivia
Word Count: ~1650
Spoilers: Through “Concentrate and Ask Again.”
Summary: Post-“Marionette.” He lives in purgatory, with Heaven just out of reach.
Disclaimer: I don’t own the fabulous show that is Fringe or the beautiful song that is “White Blank

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[rainer76]

But he cannot return and there is another woman who feels real, a woman who looks and acts so much like the mother he remembers, and he makes himself forget.

(Years later he cannot return and there will be another woman who feels real, a woman who looks and acts so much like the one he loves, and this other will make him forget.)

I apologise, more eloquent people have provided better feedback, but this combination of lines stands out for me. All the characters in Fringe are so brilliantly flawed, and those flaws are rooted in history and backstory. Along with Olivia, I've always found Peter's psychology fascinating, and deeply underplayed. I know some people complain about it in narrative terms, but I actually prefer it. In reality, survivors don't dwell on the past, it's that ability which keeps them moving forward, keeps them *surviving*, and both Olivia and Peter demonstrate it in spades. Like zip, I love that he reads her reports about Over There, that he knows, perceives, imagines what she suffered, but won't broach the subject unless Olivia does. Wonderfully written, you really don't write enough in this fandom.

[sugangel7]

Thanks so much for your kind words.

And yeah, I definitely see Peter as this man who doesn't dwell on the past - otherwise how would he have ever forgiven Walter?