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[twintimelines]

What are you doing?

I don't have time for this. We need to put together Walter's plan to defeat the observers, and you, what? Want to play games?

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[tookhishand]

Yes.

[he's happy.]

[twintimelines]

[She can't help but smile at how happy he is.]

You were always different.

But how did it happen? Was it the tech? Did you have it removed?

You probably can't tell me, can you?

[tookhishand]

No. You will have your answers soon, but not from me.

Feel free to head-canon any of this, or continue being cryptic :)

[twintimelines]

Well. At least this is one good thing about being in this place. Seeing you.

You must have given so much up though, when you gave up being an observer. Was it your choice? Or was it a punishment or something?

headcanon it is :)

[tookhishand]

This... was my choice. What you have should never have been comprised in us.

Cool :)

[twintimelines]

What we have? Our emotions?

[tookhishand]

Your emotions and your... imagination, and many other things. Humanity.

[twintimelines]

[She nods]

Do you know that Peter tried using observer tech on himself?

[tookhishand]

[...]

It was undone before he lost himself.

[twintimelines]

Yes. He took it out himself.

While that was happening, though, I saw what it did to him. Saw that he was losing his ability to feel love, or sorrow, or anything. Walter said that past a certain point, it would be irrevocable. Yet, here you are.

[tookhishand]

Do you remember Christine Hollis?

[twintimelines]

Yes, she was kidnapped by an observer. He was protecting her.

MY SAVIOR /trapped in a boring car ride

[tookhishand]

He loved her. He was able to cry, even with the technology suppressing his feelings for her.

I'll be on one soon myself!

[twintimelines]

So there is some remaining capacity for emotions in observers.

[tookhishand]

For two of us. We watched you, August and I, and we changed.

And now I have all the potential for love you do.

[twintimelines]

I'm very happy for you.

[tookhishand]

It is... the five of you I care for.

[twintimelines]

[It's a strange thing to do with an observer, even a former one, but Olivia reaches out to touch his hand.]

We care for you, too.

[tookhishand]

[you keep surprising him. he's not an observer anymore, and he's taking your hand.]

Do you? Have the others said so?

[twintimelines]

[She smiles at that, tightening her hand gently on his.]

I certainly do. And I know Walter does. The other three might not have said it, but I'm certain that if something were to happen to you, something we could stop, or fix, that they would.

[tookhishand]

I know you have tried, I have not forgotten the day I was shot.

This is all I want, besides ridding the world of the invaders.

[twintimelines]

We're trying.

[He was someone else they needed to succeed for. Him and Etta.]

[tookhishand]

You are almost done. Things... will be set right again.

[twintimelines]

I hope so.

[Of course, things will never be right for Olivia. They can just be different.]

[tookhishand]

[no, never. if only he had been there...]

The plan you are working on resets time. The invasion will have never happened. Your lives will have been... happy.