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Olive Stone, Broken But Strong || AU Season two retelling.
A/N: This contains spoilers for season two so far and is also AU
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Olive knew that a-lot had happened to them in such a short space of time, from the moment she'd seen TJ in her father's office she knew that all three of them were meant to solve something, she wouldn't say it was something like her father had experienced, or any of the survivors of the flight, but this was like an intuition that she and her father were meant to take TJ into their family, especially since the connection had been instant. Of course the fact that Olive definitely remembered TJ from the airport well, that of course made things a little more interesting. How she had tried to play that off and managed to do so was something she was unsure of, but it had led to her trying not to stumble over her words when they spoke later on during the day.
TJ was proving to be much of a help to her father, making sure he focused and now helping with the research, she knew that her Father needed someone to play idea's off especially when some of the callings had been a little more bizarre, it was due to these callings and research that Olive and TJ had gotten close, trying to track down information, and work out what some of the symbols and imagery meant the passengers had been seeing meant.
Olive hadn't expected to fall so hard or fast for someone but Tj had something about him, she still remembered his kind heart and soul from all those years ago and if she was being honest she'd carried that memory with her ever since, she had boyfriends sure but nothing that felt like this, whatever this was with TJ was new and it felt more real than anything else in the world right now. He accepted her and she accepted him, the was something so simple about fully trusting someone and being able to be open with them.
Ben trusted them, he trusted both to be sensible and while he knew they had feelings for each other he hadn't realised bow deeply they cared for each other until he'd seen them cosied up reading through books on mythology, was it weird maybe, but he's not seen Olive as happy as she was right now and it was like meeting TJ had given her a new lease in her life. In fact it seemed like he was having a positive impact on everyone.
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Olive sometime’s wondered why life had to get so difficult, she’d felt so out of place and unwanted, sure going to the church of the believers probably wasn’t the best idea, but she had needed something, something to cling to when the world had seemed so off and strange, maybe it had been part of the path she was meant to follow to find meaning and hope in her life. Maybe someday she’d understand why she knew in her heart and soul that Cal was still alive. For so many years she had insisted on it that everyone kind of brushed it off as a grieving child clinging to hope of seeing lost family members again.
Adrian who’d set up the church had also been a passenger on the flight and Olive was frustrated that her father didn’t understand her, and had opened up to him about what it was like to have them back after so long and trying to rebuild broken bonds. Adrian had given her something to focus on, because the flight returning really had been some kind of miracle and was it bad that he had wanted to give others hope? She knew here she felt safe, the was something about being able to be open with people she felt compelled to, especially when she’d gotten to tell her story.
On days when the were services she skipped school to go to them, it wasn’t like anyone was going to miss her anyway and she always made up for it and her grades weren’t an issue considering the amount of stuff going on in her life she was currently passing most classes, she put that down to being like her father and that her thirst for knowledge and her wonderment always won over, she knew she had an academic mind and that when she really put her mind to it then she could do whatever she wanted or needed to. For her she wanted to get into a good collage and find a way to help people like she had been with the outreach part of the church, going to the soup kitchen made her thankful for everything she had got and one day , she vowed that she would help people like this, who had no real voice.
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Even after everything she still clung to the idea that all the callings meant something, and luckily TJ had been providing her with someone to investigate with, they’d spend much of one of their days out and about by the water front in search of answers pertaining to the peac*ck tarot card she’d gotten when she was younger, she felt at ease around him no mind to anyone else around them, he stuck with her as they explored the area, and tried to find the reader who’d given her the card, sadly the was no sign of the lady but they had been helped by someone else who gave them where to look and a name for the set the card had came from. This led to the two them finding it and bringing it back to the stone’s residence.
Down in what they now called the research room TJ was sat looking up the cards and set on his laptop, the two often spent time either in his dorm room looking stuff up or here where they could get visual aids on things, It appeared whoever created the set of cards had also wrote a journal. Olive settled next to him with a smile and brought the card deck to the table, Laughing softly as she decided to give him a reading from the cards, it was meant to be playful and light, but something about the cards she’d chosen seamed to call out to her. She’d not let that on though but the was something major around the corner she could feel it.
Later that night after TJ had returned to his dorms and she’d had dinner with her family, spent some time studying and beaten Cal at a video game she got a text from TJ asking her to meet him, she wasn’t ever going to say no. He usually had some information on things when this arose or he just wanted company and that two she understood, while the wasn’t anything official they’d both made their crushes on each other clear earlier in the day, she simply asked Ben if she could go out for a while and he’d agreed when she told him it was TJ. Ben had also grown fond of him and he added another player to those who had callings and were trying to crack the code in time and defeat the death date.
Olive was left speechless when she got to the location he’d requested of her, the candles illuminating the path, she gave him a shy smile as he walked he down the path to the song he’d chosen fort them. The music was to symbolise the fool card , the illuminated path was to symbolise the world, and the pie at the end was to symbolise the empress, it might not have been perfect and a little cheesy but he’d wanted to impress her. He knew the was something about Olive that had drawn him in, and he was nervous after all he’d not had any real experience in romance, and this was his first try at showing someone he cared deeply for. Olive glanced up at him and whispered softly “Well it’s perfect”. Everything seamed to stop in that moment as the two kissed, for them it simply felt like the world had melted away around them
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In the next few weeks Olive and TJ spent more time together, going on cute little dates , it wasn’t an official thing of them being boyfriend and girlfriend, but it was as close to being that as it could be without either of them saying it, or asking the other directly, maybe because they were both nervous and didn’t want to ruin a good thing, but she had admitted to her father about them, She’d been talking with him one night after her mother had moved out and gone to Danny’s about things and how she was holding up, she’d chosen to stay here because all her memories were here, everything she needed was here and besides, right now she was sure her father needed the company. He’d known he’d seen the way the two were together, but he’d trusted them to comets him in time with it, he simply gave them his blessing and told them he trusted them.
Olive had begged TJ to come with her to the nightclub, it wasn’t her usual scene but she’d been invited ands didn’t want to let anyone else down, after all why would she turn down sneaking into a club underage and dancing in the backroom, sure wasn’t the best idea she’d had but it was something exciting and another new date for them. Heading inside with help of Maxine she smiled sure this wasn’t their scene but every once in a while it was nice to do something different. Mostly because she was so tired of feeling like she was becoming a recluse, and that she had no real life outside of study and helping with the callings.
Seeing a Photo Booth TJ had taken her hand and led her across to it, he had made up his mind that he wanted to give Olive something special, sitting in the privacy of it he turned to speak to her softly, and put the bracelet on her wrist, explaining it’s memories to her, she in turn put her one on him, a way for them to bond. It was simple and pure and the unsaid message of this exchange caused her to smile, posing for a few of the photo with him before kissing him softly on the last one so many memories were being made to replace ones of sadness she’d felt recently.
The night though wouldn’t end well for them, Isiah who had been one of the congregation at the church had wanted to prove that miracles do exist and had been formulating this plan for weeks. He’s made sure everyone was tapped and had no way out before he started the fire, it was lucky that somehow Ben and Michaela had also been at the nightclub, and that Cal knew how to unlock Olive’s iPad and find where she was, somehow Grace had talked Jared into helping her and Zeke find Ben and Mick , since all of them were missing it stood a chance they would all be here. Olive had been trapped though, the door of the room she had been in locked tight. Somehow Ben and TJ managed to break the door and had started helping people out.
Olive ,her father and TJ had all been trying to work their way out when Isiah had grabbed her and had been rambling like a mad man about miracles and proof. She was scared that if this fire burning around them didn’t kill her then he would , She cried as he held onto her tight, TJ somehow managed to tackle him to the ground and had yelled for Ben to get Olive out. Ben had scooped his daughter up and held onto her tightly as he made his way through the smoke, it was hard to see at first but then a light appeared to him, and following that he managed to carry her out, he’d been just heading back in for TJ when the whole place exploded and they banded anyone else from going in,
Olive almost crumpled to the ground in that instant, if it hadn’t been for her mother holding her up she’d have ended up on the floor crying, her first love was trapped in a building and she had no way of getting to him, her heart and head hurt, she just sobbed as Ben wrapped his arms around her, the was nothing he could do right now. How could he do anything that would make this better.
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