Fics like A Touch of Snow

... In the aftermath of Bell taking over her body, Olivia struggles to reconnect with herself. Peter helps. ... "She may not be an empty vessel either, she sure isn’t just herself anymore, hasn’t been for a long time. John, Nick, that other her, Bell…they have all left their mark on her, no matter how short the invasion, little bits of themselves crowding her mind, crawling under her skin. Changing her DNA, too. That’s something else she’s been thinking about. DNA. Cells. The kinds that make up every living thing—her included. Whenever she showers and she rubs at her skin, she pictures those epithelial cells coming off and going down the drain with the suds, reminding herself of the endless cycle of dying cells and cells reborn; that eventually, there won’t be any cell left that Bell would have touched. No wonder her own consciousness nearly fled at this latest assault. It is back and in full control, has been for a few days, as if never interrupted, nor forced to retreat in the deepest parts of herself. And yet, there is a disconnect. A numbness of sorts, a queasy confusion. She looks at her hands, and she wonders what they were used for while she hid."

Fics like A Touch of Snow

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