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General Category => General Fan Fiction & Art => Topic started by: Nateosaurus on June 07, 2008, 04:23:47 AM
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Well Here goes, My joyful fun of transfering my Heroes fanfiction onto the New RAF. I'll leave all my authors notes and what not, but I won't transfer all the posts you guys did with your opinions and all..
Hey everyone, I decided I am going to make a Heroes fanfiction and post it here for all to see.
I haven't posted spoilers in this first chapter, but I will be following the Heroes storyline from Season One, so if you don't want to see spoilers, keep on moving.
I hope you guys enjoy this.
Heres the story. Heroes goes on pretty much as usual. But there is a new edition to Heroes. Me. Yep thats right.
I thought it would be awesome to be in Heroes, so here goes. I will soon discover that I have powers, in the next chapter.
Chapter One: Discovery.
I woke up on a Monday morning, expecting the day to be the same as any other, and boring. I had nothing planned as usual. I got out of bed, it was late as usual, and both of my parents were out, probably at work.
"Hello?" I asked, as I walked towards the kitchen. I got no answer, I didn't really expect one anyway. I made a coffee and my breakfast and went into the lounge room.
"Hmm what should I watch?" I asked myself. Yea, that's right, I talk to myself.
I looked for my heroes DVD's, but they weren't there. "What? Where's heroes?" I got confused. They were there yesterday. I didn't think my sister would take them from me, even if they were hers. Fine then. I grabbed a Futurama DVD and watched that instead.
After breakfast, I got dressed and got ready to go for a bike ride. I put the alarm on and walked out the back door. I was looking down, choosing a song on my ipod, when something caught my eye. Hang on.
I looked up, and my jaw dropped. What the!?! My neighbour's two storey house was gone. There was another house there. That makes no sense! I blinked a few times, then just stared. I walked down my drive way. Holy damn. My street had completely changed overnight. I looked around everywhere. Holy damn. A man walked by, walking his dog.
"Excuse Me!" I said.
"Yes?" He asked. He had a slight accent, maybe American.
"Uh, this might sound like a dumb question, but what city is this?"
He looked at me strangely, like I was an animal in the zoo or something. "New York. That's central park over there."
"What?? You're kidding me!"
"Are you alright?" Again with the strange looks.
I started to rant and rave to myself. He quickly walked away down the street.
Holy crap. I was in NEW YORK. I tried to calm down.
"I have always wanted to go here. And now I am here! Wait, my parents! Where are they?" I rushed back inside and called their mobiles. I tried my Dad first, my Mum wasn't good with keeping her phone on her. The phone didn't even ring.
"What's going on? I'm in New York, and I'm alone. But the house is here? Oh man, I am so confused." I searched the house, and it looked exactly the same as usual.
"That's it!" I quickly locked up the house again, and got my bike out.
I rode down the street, quickly coming to a busy street. I was amazed at everything I saw.
I saw a sign in a window. "Vote for Petrelli." It read.
No WAY. NO WAY!! It also had a photo of Nathan Petrelli. I figured it was just some crazed heroes fan who decided to put those up everywhere.
I kept riding my bike, eager to see more things, and maybe find out what was going on. I must be dreaming. If so, what a kick ass dream!
I rode and rode, seeing all these cool things, and the buildings were HUGE in the city. So different compared to the ones in Adelaide!
"G'day mate!" I yelled out. People turned to look at me funny, but I just grinned. This was just awesome!
I saw something across the road. Nathan Petrelli walking into a building, with signs all around saying "vote for petrelli" Hmm those cars are on the wrong side of the road.
"Geez Claire as if you think of that." I muttered. "It's America, duh!"
I crossed the road carefully, not used to the cars driving on the right side as opposed to the left side.
I walked into the office like room that Nathan went into. Someone brushed by me. I stopped and stared yet again. It was Peter. Peter Petrelli. Walking right by me. I thought I was going to faint!
"Hey, girl!" A security guard said. Uh oh. "What are you doing in here?"
"Uh.. I need to speak to Nathan Petrelli?"
"Well he's busy, so move along, please."
"Aw okay." I walked out slowly. I stayed near the exit.
Wait a minute, this reminded me of an actual heroes episode. Episode one of season one.
No way. I'm seriously in heroes?
"Claire you are INSANE! Hmm that's what Marco would say. Okay, I should stop talking to myself on a busy street. Alright. I'm in the show heroes. Oh geez, I've actually become a loony. Yep I am officially a crazy person."
A kid walked by at that moment, staring at me.
"What are you looking at?" I said.
He poked his tongue out at me.
"Psh. American children." I muttered, making myself smile.
Then a thought crossed my mind. OH THE ELLIMIST (Yea I say that instead of Oh my god these days)
Sylar was in heroes. I mean, duh of course he is. But hello, so am I! WOW!
Ok, that's great and all, but he's totally evil and would take my brain in an instant. Oh wait, why would he want my brain? I'm not a hero..Wait! Oh wow. I need to find out if I have powers!
Hmm what would they be. I stared at a rock on the floor. Move dammit! I kept concentrating. It didn't work. Okay, Okay. Maybe not telekinesis, but I'm sure I have something else.
I almost didn't notice as Nathan and Peter came out of the building. I gaped as they walked past. Holy crap. This was so crazy.
Peter was telling Nathan something. I remembered this conversation. Peter was explaining that he thought he could fly.
"Why the hell would I understand that you think you can fly?" Nathan said loudly.
"Because you're my brother." Peter said. Nathan's phone began to ring.
He was speaking to his Mum. Yea I know, I'm in America now, its Mom. Whatever.
"She got arrested." Nathan said.
"Arrested for what?" Peter asked.
"Shoplifting."
They began to quicken their pace down the street.
I kept following them, slowly riding my bike. They caught a taxi and got into it.
"Wait!" I yelled a little too late.
Oh well, at least I knew where Nathan worked.
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Okay everyone here is Chapter two.
I still don't think theres spoilers yet, but they will be coming! So be warned.
It was really hard to find a way to meet another character, so I had to skip the events of episode 2 and 3 and go straight to episode 4.
Chapter two:
As I rode my bike back towards my house, I realised I was kind of lost. I was lost in my thoughts until I noticed a young girl across the road. She was in the middle of the road, and a bus was coming towards her.
"Hey!" I yelled. I put down my bike and ran towards her, suddenly I was speeding across towards her. I grabbed her and took her to the other side of the road.
"Whoa how fast can you run?" Asked the girl, she looked around 10 years old.
"I, um, I don't know!" I was a little freaked out. I realised my bike could get stolen.
Alright, I may as well try this speed thing, I mean what could go wrong.
I concentrated, and sure enough I sped really fast across the road to my bike. I was so fast that the street became a blur. Wicked. I really did have powers.
Hmm I wonder if I can use the super-speed while I'm on my bike.
I zoomed really fast suddenly and I wasn't expecting. I came to a sudden halt.
"Phew" I said. I decided to go a fairly normal pace, because I wanted to find my house. I saw a newsstand, so I went over to it and looked around. And, I saw the comic that I wanted to see. I pulled out some money from my pocket.
Great, Australian money.
"Uh can I buy this comic?" I asked. It was the 9th wonders comic that Isaac Mendez created.
"Sure." I gave him a five dollar note.
"Hey, this isn't right!" He said.
"Sorry!" I yelled as I hopped on my bike and sped away.
I finally found my way home.
I sat down on the couch, trying to remember the exact plot of heroes. I knew I had to find the other heroes. I wanted to learn more about my powers. I had a dream where I had super-speed, but I never thought it would happen to me really. I also dreamed of some other powers, maybe I could have those too!
Suddenly RAF came to my mind. Would I still be able to access it from the heroes world?
Aha! Of course! I had joined an RP on RAF, maybe my powers were the same as those powers. I know it was a dumb thought, but it could work out.
I concentrated, and suddenly I created an illusion of my Mum and Dad walking through the door.
"Mum? Dad?" I asked, believing it was real at first. They didn't answer, and suddenly they disappeared. Oh wow. I can create holographic projections, just like in the RP.
I didn't feel any different. But man, was this cool or what. I knew I had to meet up with the others, But I didn't know who I should go to for help. Maybe Peter or Mohinder.
I knew Isaac Mendez lived in New York, and he painted the future and all, but since he was a druggie, I didn't think he would be the best person to see.
I figured the best thing to do was find Mohinder.
I racked my brains, but I couldn't remember exactly where I would be able to find him.
I remembered that Mohinder went to find Nathan and try and tell him about his abilities, but I wasn't sure when that happened.
I decided I would wait there tomorrow to see if he turned up.
The next day I sat in front of Nathan's office for hours, but he didn't turn up. I wasted an entire day, and then I finally remembered what day Mohinder actually spoke to Nathan. It was tomorrow. Luckily I had nothing better to do. I guess tomorrow would be the day I meet him.
I went back to the office and sat down, not knowing how long I would have to wait or if it was even worth it. Finally I saw Nathan coming out of his office with another guy.
I then heard Mohinder's voice. "Mr Petrelli! Excuse Me Mr Petrelli!" He yelled as Nathan was about to get into a car. I got up and stood closer to them so I could hear what he said.
One of the security guys stopped Mohinder.
"Mr Petrelli, I must speak with you!" He said hurriedly.
"Thanks for your vote." Nathan said, getting into the car.
"Your life might be in danger!" Mohinder yelled. That made Nathan step back. "I believe someone may be targeting you!"
"Can you be a little more specific? 12% of the electorate already opposes me."
"Does the name Sylar mean anything to you?" Mohinder asked.
"I'm sorry, I didn't get your name" Nathan said.
"Suresh, Dr Suresh."
Nathan said something quietly to his guard.
"Sir I'll have to ask you to leave."
Mohinder yelled out about abilities such as mind reading. I knew he was going to say those things. "Please, it's very important that you listen to me!"
Nathan's security guards made Mohinder leave. He began to walk away.
"Wait, Mohinder!" I yelled out.
He stopped and turned.
"I know what you were talking about. I'm one of those people."
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Chapter Three:
"What do you mean?" Mohinder asked me.
"I think you know. I don't know how to explain it." I said. 'I have abilities. Sort of like the ones you just mentioned. My name's Claire."
"I see." He said. He didn't look entirely convinced.
'Look. I'll show you, but not here. Too many people around."
"Okay, come with me then."
We went to Mohinder's apartment building.
"I'm not even sure how I got these powers, I mean they just kind of appeared." I told Mohinder. "I will show you my super-speed, it's the easiest to control."
"You mean to say you have more than one ability?" He asked.
"Yea, I think so, I mean I'm trying to learn how to use them right." I quickly sped across the room and back, taking less than a second.
"Whoa. That's an amazing ability."
"Thanks, Yea I think so too." I smiled. "I wonder what Nathan Petrelli can do."
"I'm not sure either."
"Well I think you went about it all wrong, no offence, the way you went to speak to Nathan. Nathan Petrelli is running for congress, he's not going to listen to you." I said.
"I feel like an ass. I've never been so humiliated in my life." He said, pinning something to the map of the world.
Eden walked through the door at that moment. "Well what did you expect him to invite you in for tea?" She said. She looked at me, confused.
"Oh, Eden, This is Claire." Mohinder said.
"Hey." I said. Now I didn't know what to do, I really didn't know whether Eden was a bad person or not.
"This came for you while you were gone." Eden said. She was holding a small box.
Mohinder put it down on a table and opened it. He pulled out an urn.
"It's my father's ashes." He said, sitting down. "You know I haven't shed a single tear since my fathers death? Even when I claimed his body." He looked up at Eden. "They showed me three John Doe's before they finally found him."
Eden crouched down beside Mohinder, so I moved closer towards them.
"My father was misfiled."
"I'm really really sorry." Eden said.
"At least he didn't die in vain, not with his son here to continue his work." I said.
"What am I even trying to prove? I've used these theories, the map, this Sylar, all of it! Just to validate a relationship that ended a long time ago." He placed the urn on a table next to him.
"I think I should go back to Madras for a while, to scatter my fathers ashes."
"What about me?" I asked. "What do I do while I wait?"
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Since I was closest, I said "Do you want me to get that?"
"I'm looking for Chandra Suresh." Said the voice at the door. I knew it was Peter Petrelli, but I decided not to say anything.
"He doesn't live here anymore." Eden said loudly.
"The guys at the Petrelli campaign gave me this address, They said he came by this morning." Peter said, through the door.
Mohinder went and opened the door. Yep, it was Peter, and he was holding Chandra Suresh's book.
"Are you Chandra Suresh?" Peter asked.
"No. That was my father."
"Your father wrote a book, about people with abilities. I think I may be one of them."
Mohinder looked back at me. "Well you came to the right place."
Mohinder let Peter inside. "Hey!" I said. "I'm Claire. You think you have abilities?" I tried to hide my excitement.
"Well, yea." He said.
"Cool, me too!"
"Well, I keep having these.. um.. dreams, where I can fly. I sort of flew, the other day, I can't explain it, and I can't really control it yet. My brother Nathan can do it too, and I know this painter, Isaac, who can paint the future."
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Okay I tried to put a bit more detail in it, but I don't think i succeeded. I'll keep trying.
Chapter Four:
Peter sat down on the couch, and Mohinder directed me and Eden into another room.
"Do you think he’s telling the truth?" He asked quietly.
"Well I'm not a mind reader. But I think we should believe him. I mean, if I can do what I can do, who's to say he can't?" I said.
We walked back into the other room.
"It was a pleasure to meet you, um, good luck with the whole flying thing" Eden said, shaking Peter’s hand.
"Thanks"
Eden walked out the front door, leaving the three of us.
We had a long conversation, well most of it was Mohinder and Peter. Mohinder got even more skeptical as we went along, since Peter couldn't imitate my powers, probably because of the whole alternate reality thing.
We went to the train station and caught the train to Isaac’s apartment.
It was going to be a loooong train ride, and I knew all the things that they would say, Mohinder being skeptical and Peter trying to convince him, so I zoned out for the whole time, putting my iPod in my ears. The thing I hated most was the whole standing on the train thing. I hate standing in trains and buses. Damn busy New York.
We got to Isaac's apartment, and Peter knocked on the door. I knew this was going to be a waste of time, but still I let them go here anyway. Isaac never answered, he was inside painting the future. We went back to the train station.
Mohinder was beginning to think Peter was crazy. I probably would too, but I already knew that he wasn't.
Oh I almost forgot. Future Hiro visits Peter.. But when. Geez my bad memory I should know this kind of stuff. The important things.
The train jolted suddenly. Peter was standing in a different spot in the train. No ways, future Hiro came. Damn, I wish I got to see it.
"Hiro? Where are you!" Peter was yelling. "I don’t understand."
Mohinder walked over to Peter, I followed close behind.
"Peter, are you alright?" Mohinder asked.
"The cheerleader." He muttered.
"Look, I know you won't believe this, but someone named Hiro Nakamura just stopped time, he must have teleported here, and he told me to save a cheerleader.” Peter said quickly.
"You're right I don't believe you." Mohinder replied.
"He was right there!" Peter said, pointing to the spot they stood.
"And then he teleported away?"
Peter walked back to the end of the train. We followed.
"He stopped time somehow. He talked to me, He knew who I was. He says we all meet up sometime in the future, I guess."
Mohinder gave Peter a strange look of disbelief.
"I know it seems crazy, but I know what I saw."
Mohinder's expression didn’t change.
"He said something bad is about to happen. We can stop it. But first we have to.." He sighed and put his hands to his face. "Save a cheerleader."
"A cheerleader?" Mohinder asked.
"Hey Claire?"
"What?" I asked.
"You're not a cheerleader are you?" Peter asked.
"You gotta be kidding me. Do I LOOK like a cheerleader?" I replied.
He looked at what I was wearing. A My Chemical Romance t-shirt and kind of baggy jeans.
"I guess not. Anyway, I know this seems impossible." Peter said.
"Impossible, It sounds mad!" Mohinder said.
"Do you believe me?" He turned to me.
"Well if this guy did come to you, there's no way to prove it. If he stopped time and all, only you and him would know."
"Please, Just… He said I had to go back to Isaac, the painter." Peter turned back to Mohinder. "He's gonna know what we have to do, So let's just go back to his loft. Alright, If the answers not there, I promise you I will take you to the airport myself. You can go back to India, and you'll never have to hear from me again."
"You'll fly me there yourself?" Mohinder asked. "There are no answers. Go home Peter."
He looked at me. "Uh.. Purple monkey dishwasher?" I said lamely.
Mohinder gave me a strange look. "You too, go home." He walked off of the train.
"What?" Peter asked.
"Look, Peter, I believe you." I said.
"Well why didn't you tell him that?"
"It's a long story, that's even crazier than your story." I admitted.
"Will you come back to Isaac's apartment with me?" He asked. "Your family won't be worried will they?"
"Ah.. I don't think so. But yea, I will come with you."
Lucky I had brought a jacket, New York was cooooold! I quickly pulled it out of my bag and put it on.
We got to Isaac's place yet again. This time he had better answer, I completely forgot if he would or not. Plus, I wanted to meet him.
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Yay I got this done in a night! I wasn't sure if I could make it, but I did! Anyways, no real spoilers still, I don't think, but they will be coming.. quite soon, just you wait.
Chapter five:
"Hello? Isaac?" Peter said loudly. "Come on" He said to me, walking into Isaac's loft.
It was raining outside, I was glad to finally get inside away from the cold.
"You doing okay?"
"Go away man." Isaac muttered.
"Isaac, We need your help."
"You need help? Ask Simone."
Peter looked down at the floor.
"You already took her." Isaac said. "What else do you want from me?"
"You painted me. A picture of me flying. Okay, it was real. It happened, I flew."
"Congratulations."
"I'm telling you I believe you."
Isaac turned away from the window to look at Peter.
"You can paint the future." Peter said.
Isaac pointed his finger at Peter, but didn't say anything, until he looked at me. "Who are you?"
"Oh, I'm Claire."
"Isaac, whatever's happening to you, it's happening to me too. And Claire."
He walked closer to Isaac. "And I don't know why, but I'm supposed to see you. You're supposed to have the answer."
"Is that what I sound like?" Isaac said, shaking his head. "No wonder she left me. I don't have any answers."
"You're supposed to know where we have to go."
"See for yourself."
Me and Peter wandered over to look at the paintings.
I saw a painting of Hiro and Ando, with a homecoming banner behind them. Aha. Homecoming. I couldn't wait for that. We would save Claire from Sylar.
There was a painting of Claire, looking scared.
Isaac stood close by, watching us as we looked at his paintings. They were so awesome up close. There was also a picture of an eclipse, slightly hiding another painting. Peter moved the eclipse painting out of the way.
Ah this painting. I remember this. It's Claire running away from Sylar and all you can see is a huge shadow behind her.
"It's her. The cheerleader."
Peter started to organise the paintings and put them on the wall.
"Oh wow." I said, looking at a painting. "I think this is me."
There was a painting with me in it! I couldn't believe it. It was me, slightly blurred because I was running.
"This is amazing!" Peter said, he had finally put the paintings in an order. "Look it's telling a story, like a comic!"
"Yea its pretty cool." I said, not bothering to look, because I was distracted looking at the painting of me.
"This girl, she’s running, and is that me?" Peter asked Isaac.
"Why would I paint you?" Isaac replied.
"And these two guys. I think we're all trying to help her. The cheerleader. Who is she?"
"I don't know."
"But you painted these."
"I was high."
"So what happens next, Where is she?" Peter asked.
"She's in Odessa, Texas, She goes to Union Wells High School, she's 16 years old, her name is Claire Bennet, her best friends name is Zack." I sighed.
"Whoa! How do you know all that?" Peter asked me.
Aw crap, I said that out loud!
"I must still be high." Isaac said.
"Ah, well like I said it's a long story, and you won't believe me, trust me."
"But you're like me! Is that another one of your abilities?"
"Well not really.."
"I want answers, I want to find out how to stop the bomb. Do you know anything about that?" Isaac asked me.
"Uh.." I had no clue what to say.
I didn't want to tell them how I knew, it would be insane. They wouldn't believe me.
"You don't get it, this is all connected. We are all connected. This thing you painted, if this bomb is true, We're all dead! These are the key to saving us!"
"Something's gonna happen to this girl. We need to know what. Claire what else do you know about.. Claire." He asked, looking a little confused. "Are you sure that's her name?"
"Yea I'm sure. But, look that painting isn't finished. Isaac, you need to finish it!" I pointed at a half finished painting, with another shadow of Sylar's.
"Even if I wanted to I can't!" Isaac said. "I'm out of drugs. I'm out of money to buy drugs."
"Can't you just finish it without shooting up?" Peter suggested.
"If you got some cash on you man, that's another story. Call it a commission."
Peter sighed and stared at the painting. I could tell he was thinking of what to do.
His expression changed suddenly. Aha, he was taking on Isaac's ability. He looked a little freaked out.
"I saw it!"
"What?" Isaac asked.
"I saw something.. In the.. Uh.. canvas." Peter said, looking for a paintbrush. "In the picture. This painting" He pointed at it. "I can finish it!"
"You can paint?"
"No." He said, taking off his sweat shirt. "No, I can't. But, I drew the future. After I saw you the other day. It was only stick figures, but it came true."
Isaac moved closer to see what he would paint.
I was excited too.
Peter closed his eyes. When he opened them again, they were completely white. He looked at the painting and began to paint.
"That is so cool." I said.
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Alright everyone, this could classify as having some spoilers in a way.. and the next chapter will have spoilers for sure.
Chapter Six
Finally Peter finished the painting. We all bent down to see it closely.
It was Claire Bennet. With blood all around her. She was dead. Even though Peter said he couldn't paint, it was still awesome. Yea I know I shouldn't say that, it's a painting of Claire dead. But still.
We got back up, staring at the painting.
"How'd you do that?" Isaac asked.
"I don't know." Peter replied.
"We have to save her."
Isaac's phone began to ring. "Ignore it. It's the wrong number. Some Japanese guy keeps leaving messages."
Peter looked back at the phone. He picked it up.
"Hello?" He said. "Who is this?" He switched hands.
Isaac looked over at Peter.
"My name's Peter Petrelli. I have a message for you." He said.
"Save the cheerleader, save the world." Peter said into the phone.
Isaac went closer to Peter.
"Tell him about the guy from the future." Isaac said.
"He is the guy from the future!"
"Hiro Nakamura, from the future, who speaks English and carries a sword stopped time to tell me that I have to save the cheerleader. That's all I know." Peter said into the phone.
Isaac went back to the painting to look at it.
"Get to New York, when you can. We'll talk." Peter said, then he hung up.
Isaac and Peter moved the painting over to the wall.
"You're sure about where she lives?" Peter asked.
"Yep. Union Wells high school are having their homecoming soon."
They put the painting next to the others.
"These fit together like scenes from a comic. But there's one missing. What was right there?" Peter asked.
"I used to have a painting about that size." Isaac looked thoughtful. "Simone has it."
"Simone." Peter said.
"She took a bunch of my paintings to sell. It's with them."
"What was it of?"
"I don't remember." Isaac sighed. "I was high."
Peter walked away. "Then we need to get it back." He grabbed the phone.
"Tell her the guy from the future said you needed it. I'm sure she'd love that."
After the phone call, Peter looked at me.
"Want me to take you home?" Peter asked me. "It's kinda late."
"Sure, thanks. That'd be great."
"Bye Isaac." Peter said.
"See ya" I said.
"Bye." He replied.
We walked out of his apartment and went home.
"I'll call you sometime soon." He said, walking away, leaving me at my house.
I was really curious about something, I went on the internet, because I wanted to see if I could access RAF. The page loaded. Far out, I did not expect it to work. Hmm. I decided to tell everyone that I was in New York.
Since everyone on RAF is crazy, I figured this would fit right in. I went to the "So Hows Life?" thread and posted.
Since I had a long day, I was pretty tired so I went to sleep earlier than usual.
The next day, I didn't really expect Peter to call me, so I decided to go exploring, I mean, this might be one of the only chances I will get to explore, so why not.
I went over to Central Park on my bike, I rode for hours. I even visited the Statue of Liberty, and yea, it is as cool as you would think. I bought some warmer clothes, since the weather was quite cold and I wasn't used to it yet.
Luckily I had found some money hidden around the house, I don't know what I would have done without it. For lunch I got Taco Bell, which I had always wanted to try.
I sat down in my room, and I thought about my family. Where were they while I was here? Was life still normal back home? I mean, the freaking house is here in New York, how is that even possible?
Peter called me the next day.
"Can you come and meet me at Isaac's loft?" Peter said.
"Sure. No problem." I replied.
"I've seen the painting. It doesn't look good."
"Oh yea?"
"It's me, a painting of me. It looks like at 8:12 tonight, Something bad is gonna happen to me."
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Finally, I pulled myself out of my mental block!
SPOILERSSSSSSS well I'm pretty sure anyways. Doesn't matter, if you haven't seen Heroes season one episode 9, I don't recommend reading this chapter just in case.
Chapter Seven:
Okay this wouldn't be easy to do. I met Peter at Isaac's house.
"We have to get to Odessa, as soon as possible."
"Luckily I found some money then!" I said.
"Yea."
We went to the airport and booked a flight. I had a couple hundred dollars from my parents room, but if they found out, they would kill me! I guess I didn't have to worry about that yet. It took a while to get a flight, so we waited at the airport for what seemed like forever.
We got to Odessa, hours later. The flight was long and boring, but it was still cool, I even got a window seat.
"Thanks for coming along" Peter said.
"It's alright."
We took a taxi from the airport to the "Burnt Toast" Diner, so we could meet Hiro and Ando. But only Ando was there. We told the taxi to wait for a little while.
"Ando?" Peter said. He went over and shook his hand. "Hey, I'm Peter Petrelli."
I shook his hand too. "I'm Claire."
"I'm so sorry it took forever to get here. I couldn't get a flight, and the taxi's in this town. We still have time. Where's Hiro?" Peter asked.
Ando told us to go inside the diner.
He showed us a picture of Hiro.
"Hiro travelled back in time to rescue Charlie. I told him it wasn't a good idea, Peter Petrelli might call, but he insisted." Ando explained.
"What happened to her?" Peter asked.
"She was killed."
Peter put the picture back on the wall.
"We were sitting right here." Ando pointed at the seat, walking towards it. "It all happened so fast. The next thing we know, she was dead, and the killer was gone in a flash."
He said something else in Japanese.
"What?" Peter asked.
"Boogeyman." Ando said.
"Hiro said maybe it's the same man that is going to attack the cheerleader. I told Hiro that it's too risky but Hiro says a man who is too afraid to use power, does not deserve to have power."
"I know when and I know where the cheerleader gets attacked. I have to stop it." Peter took a picture out of his pocket.
"Is this you?" Ando asked.
"Maybe."
"You have a power right?" Ando pointed at Peter. "Super strength? You bend time and space like Hiro?"
"No.. I kind of absorb the abilities of others." He looked at me. "Except yours."
I shrugged.
"And only when they are close." Peter continued. "Truthfully, When I'm by myself I'm not really anything." Peter looked at the clock.
"We got less than an hour." He said. "It happens at 8:12. We have to go."
Peter grabbed his jacket. "You coming?" He asked Ando.
"No. I will wait for Hiro. Without him I am not really anything either. Maybe you should wait too." Ando held out the picture of Peter.
"There's no time." Peter said, grabbing the picture. "I have to save the cheerleader. Let's go." He said to me.
"But Peter!" Ando said. Peter stopped to look at Ando.
"You die."
Peter looked back, but kept walked out of the diner. We went back to the taxi and got in. We made our way towards to school.
We finally got there with a little bit of time to spare.
"You go that way." I pointed. "I'll go this way."
"Should we really separate?" He asked.
"It's just for a little while."
I walked off by myself. I knew I wouldn't be able to help from where I was. But I knew Jackie died and I thought I would stuff up everything if I saved her. So I had no clue what to do.
I tried to remember what was going to happen. I remembered finally, I knew that Peter met Claire without realising, so I walked back to where I originally left Peter. I didn't want to rush, I wanted to make sure I didn't tire myself out.
Peter was walking away from Claire by the time I got there.
"That was Claire you idiot." I said.
"What? It was?" He pointed at a display of newspaper articles and pictures. "Are you sure this isn't the girl?"
"Jackie Wilcox. Nope she's not. Anyways I just came to point that out. I'm going this way now." I said, walking off.
Peter must think I am so weird. But then again, who doesn't?
I looked behind me, and he was walking through the doors at the end of the hallway.
I went to go and find the girls locker room. I hid down another hallway, because I remembered that Sylar could be anywhere.
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EVEN MORE SPOILERS!! Don't read if you haven't seen up to Season One Episode Nine! This ones exciting! :)
Chapter Eight:
I finally got closer to the girls locker room, I could hear Claire and Jackie arguing from a distance. The lights went out.
"Public Schools suck!" Jackie said loudly.
Where the heck was Peter. I forgot what he was doing, maybe I should have told him to come with me. Oh well.
"Hello?" I heard Claire's voice.
"Stop it, you're freaking me out!" Jackie said.
"I thought I heard something."
"You're imagining it, let's go."
I had to pick my moment, I didn't wanna run in there and start screaming about Sylar, they would think I was a crazy person and probably run away from me.
"What is your problem?" Jackie said. "What the hell?"
Jackie kept talking loudly. Oh noes. I saw Sylar from where I was hiding. Time to move.
Aw crap Aw crap Aw crap. My mind was racing. I had to do something, but I knew there was no way to help Jackie.
Sylar grabbed Jackie and held her up by her throat. Claire lunged at him, but he hit her, making her slam against some lockers. She landed at a bad angle, and her arm was broken. Now it really was time to move.
I threw a hologram around me so that Sylar could see it. It was a hologram of Sylar. I thought it would be the perfect disguise.
This was such a bad idea. I sped towards him, and punched on the side of his face. I knew it was a bad idea. Terrible actually.
He tried to hit me, and missed as I sped slightly to the left, but he got me on the second try. I flew back, hitting the lockers not too far away from Claire. I fell to the floor awkwardly. Ouch. I put my hand up to my lip, I tasted blood, I think I bit it when I fell down. I looked down at my hand, and saw blood.
Jackie was screaming, so I knew in a few minutes Peter would come running.
Sylar covered her mouth so she wasn't as loud.
Sylar started to take Jackie's brain. You know, he points his finger and then you get the scar on your head. How else to describe it? I don't know.
I rushed over to Claire, She was putting her arm back into place. I made sure my hologram was only visible to Sylar and not Claire.
"Are you okay?" I said quietly. "It's alright."
Claire got up. Sylar looked at us. The hologram was still around me. I considered putting it around Claire but I didn't. His eyes went from me to Claire. Claire's face was healing itself.
"Run" Jackie managed to gasp. Sylar dropped Jackie, and she fell to the floor. Sylar stopped and stared at us.
"Let's get out of here." I whispered.
We both ran out of the locker room. Down the hall Claire bumped into Peter.
"Claire?" He said, looking at me. Then he looked at the other Claire. "Are you Okay?" She was covered in blood.
"Peter!" I said. "We gotta move."
"Run! Go!" He yelled, seeing Sylar. Sylar stood at the end of the hallway.
"Keep going, Run!" Peter stopped to look at Sylar. I stopped too.
"What are you doing? We gotta get out of here." I said.
Sylar threw lockers toward us. I got out of the way, but one of them hit Peter. He began to run. "Oh now you run" I said. Sylar walked towards me.
Okay I decided to run now too. I was a second behind Peter but not for long with my super-speed. We caught up to Claire, who had kinda fallen down on the steps outside.
Peter helped to pick her up.
"Run" Peter said, and we all ran up the stairs.
We got to the top. Sylar was still only walking towards us.
We all looked back at him.
"What is it?" Claire asked Peter.
"Go to the stadium, okay, find people, find light, he doesn't want to be seen!" Peter replied.
"What about you guys?"
'Don't worry about that, just go!" He said.
"I'll stay with you, Peter." I told him.
"No, go with her. Find people."
"I wasn't asking you Peter. I was telling you. I'm staying here." I said.
"Go!" Peter said to Claire. She just stood there. "GO" He yelled, pointing.
Claire ran off. Then suddenly, pretty much out of nowhere Sylar appeared. I was closer, and he hit me. I fell back.
Then he lunged at Peter, and both of them fell off of the ledge to the ground below. I looked down at them. I stood up, slightly limping in pain. Geez what a wuss. I started walking, then used my super-speed to get down to where Peter and Sylar lay.
I knew Sylar got up and walked away sometime soon. I stood back, hidden behind a column of the building. Sure enough Sylar began to get up, he looked at Peter, thinking he was dead, and ran away, limping. Once he was out of sight, I went over to Peter.
A noise to my left startled me. It was Claire, coming out of the school building.
We both went over to Peter. He coughed a couple of times and tried to sit up. He twisted his leg back into place. Gross. He groaned in pain. His face was healing.
"How did you?" Claire asked.
Peter looked around. "Where is he?"
"I don't know, he ran away before I got here."
"I saw him go that way." I pointed.
"Go get some help okay?"
"Okay, I'll be back."
She started to run off.
"Hey, what are your names?" She asked, turning to look back at us.
"I'm Claire" I replied. "This is Peter."
"My name's Claire too." She said.
"Are you the one?" Peter asked. "By saving you did I save the world?"
"I don't know. I'm just a cheerleader." She ran off to go get help.
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Okay hopefully from now on I don't have to warn you guys about the spoilers coz there will probably always be them from now on.
Chapter Nine:
"Geez Peter, you took a big fall." I said. It was easier than asking if he was okay, which I kind of felt was a stupid question even though he healed.
"Yea. I must have absorbed her ability. Which I don't get coz I didn't absorb yours."
"Yea." I tried to help him stand. "Ugh, You're too heavy." I got his blood all over me. Gross.
"Thanks" He said.
"Sorry."
"So you saw Sylar get away?" He asked.
"Yea. I knew following him wouldn't do me any good."
"Uh huh." He looked at me. "Sorry."
"For what?" I asked.
"Well for one, dragging you into this mess, and for getting blood all over your jacket."
I looked down at it. It started off as a clean blue jacket. Ugh. It was now red and blue.
"I kinda volunteered. Well not for the blood, but you know what I mean."
I took off the jacket and threw it away in a nearby trash can. No point in keeping it.
The police got there a little while later.
"Ugh your foot! How did you not notice that?" I said.
He quickly put it back into place, as it was twisted off to the side.
"Put your hands on your head!" A police officer yelled to Peter.
I looked around "Me too?"
"What the hell? What's all that blood?" One of them said.
"What? This isn't what you think." Peter said.
"He didn't do anything wrong." I said.
"Alright hands up!" The cop yelled.
Peter got handcuffed and taken towards the car.
"He didn't do anything." I protested. "Look I have no where else to go, can I go with you?"
I got directed to the other car, away from Peter.
And so we were taken to the police station, but I wasn't able to see where Peter was taken. The police questioned me, and asked about all the blood. I didn't have a logical answer, so I couldn't help.
I sat in the waiting room for ages. I eventually fell asleep, leaning back on my chair.
I woke up, with people around me in the waiting room. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to leave, but I left anyways. I took a taxi from the police station to the school again.
"Thanks" I said, paying the cab driver.
I went into the school and looked for Hiro and Ando. I knew they would be there but I didn't know what time. It was already kind of late, no body had woken me up until now.
I finally saw them walking along. I was glad I had met Ando the other day, or they would think I was crazy.
"Ando!" I yelled, walking over to them. "Hey!"
They stopped to look at me.
"Hey." I said.
"Hello Claire." Ando said. "This is Hiro."
"Hey." I shook his hand. "Nice to meet you."
His phone began to ring. "Hello?" Hiro said, pausing. "Yes? Mr Isaac!"
I had completely forgotten about this. I had no way to tell Peter where I was or who I was with, but at least I could meet up with him later in New York, or call him sometime.
Ando said something in Japanese. Hiro turned around and replied in Japanese.
Ando kept talking in Japanese. I got annoyed.
"What?" I asked.
Ando got on the phone, speaking in English, telling Isaac to meet us at the Bus Depot later on.
"Can I go with you?" I asked.
"Okay." Ando said.
We all got into their car and head off towards the Bus Depot. We waited for quite a while.
Finally his bus came, and out came Isaac. Hiro and Ando went towards him. I stayed where I was at first.
"Hiro Nakamura?" Isaac said. "I presume."
Hiro did the Star Trek sign that he always seems to do. I got up and walked over to Isaac.
"Claire?" He asked.
"Hey." I said.
We all drove to the Burnt Toast Diner, I knew we were going to end up there again.
Yay Food! I was so hungry by this time. I can have some waffles!
"This hasn't even got to the printer yet!" Isaac said, looking down at the comic Hiro gave him. "It's incredible! You really went to the future."
We all sat down at a table.
"Jumping through time.." Isaac began.
"And space. Your power very strong too."
"I'm not so sure about that. I can only do it when I'm chasing."
Hiro and Ando looked confused.
"Uh. Stoned. On Drugs. Uh, what else did you see there?"
A lady came by to give us menus. I lunged at it and grabbed it.
"I saw the bomb." Hiro said. "It exploded the city and destroyed many things. And I saw you."
"What about me?" Isaac asked.
Hiro looked at Ando and he nodded.
"I saw you on the floor. You were dead. With your head cut off."
Isaac ran his hands through his hair. "Okay, the man who cuts off heads. He's taken care of."
"He's caught." Hiro said.
"That is very good news." Ando said. "Hiro lost a friend. The brain man killed her."
"Wait a minute." Isaac pulled a book out of his bag. "I painted this two days ago. Sober. Is this your friend?"
"Yes."
"I'm getting waffles." I accidentally said out loud. "Uh be right back." I went to order waffles.
I left them to talk, I didn't have much to say anyways.
"Quite recently, I painted a picture of a man.. exploding." Isaac said, as I came back to the table.
"How do you stop an exploding man?" Hiro asked.
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No spoilers in this.
Chapter 10:
So I finally ate my waffles. I was still in Texas and I was wondering about how I would get back 'home' to New York.
Isaac, Hiro and Ando decided to go to a hotel. I didn't really want to go, I kind of wanted to start heading back to New York as soon as I could.
"I'm going to go for a while, I'll probably meet up with you later, maybe not." I said, putting my bag on my back.
I gave Isaac my phone number just in case.
I could go straight the airport now by taxi, or I could go to the bus depot.
I called a taxi and got one to the city. I figured I would stay for a while and then go back to New York.
I went to grab some food at a nearby fast food restaurant. I passed by the high school as I walked to the fast food place. I ate the food, trying to figure out what to do next. I left the restaurant and stopped outside, searching for my iPod. I was looking down, so I didn't notice that Eden came out of a car and walked towards me.
"Hey." She said.
"What?" I looked up. "What are you doing here?"
"You need to come with me." She was using her power against me! No!
"No." I said, but it was like my legs wanted to walk to the car. I tried to super-speed away from her, but it wouldn't work. I looked around, and sure enough there was the Haitian standing there.
I got into the car.
"Now you need to sleep." She said.
I fell back on the seat, falling asleep, I couldn't stop myself.
I woke up suddenly. I was in a brightly lit room. I looked around.
"What the *beeeep*" I said. I looked down, seeing that I was wearing a white t-shirt and white pants. Creepy.
I was at Primatech Paper! Noooo!
I also remembered something. Sylar was caught! That means he was here too! Whoa oh's! That also meant Eden would be killed soon, even though technically she shot herself and all.
I paced around the room for a while. I tried to open the door which was locked. It wasn't as bad as Sylar's cell, but I knew I probably wouldn't be able to get out anytime soon.
I sat down on the bed in the centre of the room. I was bored as heck.
The door opened. My eyes shot to the door. In came Noah Bennet. AKA Claire's Dad.
I could see the Haitian standing outside the door.
I stood up.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"I hear you have an ability. Don't try to use it, it won't work. Not with my friend here."
"I already know what he does. He steals memories and stops people like me from using abilities." I said.
"You do? You have super-speed am I correct?"
"No." I said lamely. Like he didn't know already, I was careless and I let Eden find out about my abilities.
I concentrated on using my ability, it wasn't going to work, but I decided to try anyways.
If the Haitian wasn't there, I could have easily sped outside and gotten away.
"You know, I helped save your daughter. And this is the thanks I get?" I said, holding my hands outstretched.
"Yea, and you wouldn't have been able to do it without abilities. Come with me." Noah said.
"Fine." We walked out of the room and into another room, with a desk.
"Sit down" I stared suspiciously at the chair. Oh man Oh man Oh man.
I sat down. There was some weird thing in front of me. It had about 10 buttons on it, all random colours and in random spots. Looked like a kids toy gone crazy.
"What is it?" I asked. Noah sat down on a chair on the opposite side of the desk.
"It's to test your speed and agility."
"Oh yea?" I asked.
"All you have to do, is hit each button as they light up." He explained.
"Do I have to?" I stared at the contraption.
"Yes. It will give you a slight shock through the back of the chair if you miss a button."
"Aw man." I said.
"You ready?" He asked.
I grumbled and then said "Yes."
A blue button lit up. I pressed it. The buttons were lighting up quite slow at first, but it began to get quicker and quicker until I had to use my super-speed to keep up. I got tired out because I had to rush so quickly. I missed a button. The shock ran through my back.
"Ah!" I cried out. It startled me but it didn't really hurt. "I'm finished." I told him
Noah shut down the machine.
"That was weird." I said.
Some one else walked in the room that I didn't know. Looked like a doctor.
"Okay Claire, I'm gonna need to take some blood."
"No!" I protested.
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No spoilers really. This chapters probably boring.
Chapter Eleven:
For the next few days I had to do all these stupid tests for my super-speed. I hadn't said anything about my other abilities yet, but I was getting really sick of having to use super-speed all the time, it was tiring me out heaps.
I fell asleep during one test! That's how bad it was getting. I wondered if it was possible for them to find out I had other abilities through my blood tests. Probably not, but who knows?
It would have to show something considering my abilities can’t be absorbed by Peter.
"Claire." A doctor came in to talk to me. "Your DNA –" They went into long talk about DNA and my blood test. I glazed over, having no idea what they were on about.
"Claire?" They asked.
"What?" I said, snapping out of my daze.
"Super-speed isn't your only ability is it?" Noah Bennet said, as he walked into the room.
"And you think that why?" I asked.
"Your DNA is quite similar to Sylar's, in the way that he has taken on other abilities."
"Well, the conclusion is that you have other abilities."
'You can't prove it." I said.
"You could show us."
"Not gonna happen." I said. Okay so it was kind of obvious now that I had other abilities, but since they had no idea what they were, I could keep them hidden for now.
Noah left the room.
I figured it was nearly lunch time, I had no other way to find out the time except when food came.
I decided to try something out.
Because I hadn't really tried all that hard to escape yet, as I was waiting for the right moment, I usually got the food brought into my room. This time they would be in for a shock.
I sat in one corner of the room and stayed very still and quiet. Someone came in to give me lunch.
"What?" They muttered, looking around the room. The door was still open, how easy it would be to leave. I had thrown a hologram of an empty room. If they came over here, they would find me, because I couldn't make force fields or anything like that, but for now I was safe.
They pressed a button on the outside of my room but stayed at the door. It was a security thing I guess. I couldn't get out if that damn person wouldn’t get out of the way. Two security guards came in a couple minutes later with Noah Bennet.
"How did she escape?" He asked
I tried to keep as quiet as possible. I didn't want this plan to backfire.
"Walking through walls?" He said. "Could it be invisibility? Maybe she's still in this room."
"Go on, check!" Noah said.
The two guards came in the room, getting closer to where I sat. I slowly stood up, as quiet as I could. I slowly crept towards the door. I was a second away from the door, when Noah decided at that moment he would walk into the room. He walked straight into me.
"What the?"
Damn. I was a second away from getting the heck out of here.
Of course, my little stunt made everything worse. I had revealed an ability and I was careless once again. I had to do more tests to show all my other abilities. I guess co-operating would be easier, but I didn't want to.
During a test, on a treadmill, I got tired and I jumped off.
"Hey what are you doing?"
"I'm sick of this!!" I yelled. "I'm leaving!" I went over to the door, which was of course locked.
I knocked over the desk in the middle of the room in anger. I felt really tired all of a sudden, and the floor rushed up to meet me. Everything went black.
I woke up in a room with bright blue lights. I was laying down on some weird table thing and I had weird cord like things stuck to my head. There was a machine next to me, making random beeping noises.
"What the *beeeep*" I said. I tried to sit up but I couldn't.
A little while later, Noah Bennet and the Haitian walked in.
"How are you Claire?" He said.
I just ignored him and tried to sit up again.
"You're finally awake, that's a good sign."
"What?" I said. "How long was I out?"
"Two days."
"Two days?? What? Why?"
"We're not sure yet."
"What’s this machine?" I asked.
"It's measuring your resting rate."
For the next couple of days it was more tests of course, because of my stupid fainting spell.
I began to plan my escape. I had thought of half a dozen ideas that I knew would fail somehow. I needed a better escape plan. I knew Sylar was here, and that he escaped soon but I wasn’t sure the exact day or anything like that.
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Spoilers, yes i think so.
Chapter Twelve:
I was being tested again, but that's nothing new. Sometime during the day the guards went crazy. It must have been Sylar escaping. I heard thuds down the hall. I looked at the guard that stood in my room, and I threw a hologram around me, to look like I wasn't there. I watched as Sylar walked past my window. He looked right at me, but I knew he couldn't see me. He looked at the guard, who rushed out of the room, holding his gun.
Sylar used his telekinesis to throw him backwards and the guard fell to the ground. He continued to walk down the hall. I kept the hologram around me, and walked out of the room, stopping on the way out to pick up the guards gun, just in case. I followed Sylar down the hall, trying to be quiet. He walked out of the building, and kept going.
I decided not to follow him, I already knew he would go to the Bennet house, but Claire wouldn't be there. I had to get back to New York, as soon as I could. I went into the office parts of Primatech, and I found all my stuff, in my bag, including my shoes.
I walked out of the building, trying to find a clothing store to get out of this slightly weird outfit. Sylar was wearing clothes stolen from Primatech, but I didn't know where to get them.
I rushed into the first clothing store I saw.
I got changed and paid for the clothes. I walked out and caught a taxi to the airport. I had lost track of how many days I was stuck at Primatech. I checked my phone. I had missed a couple calls from Mohinder. I guess I'd call him when I got back to New York.
I took the quickest flight to NY, so I didn't have to wait all that long.
I got back later that evening, and as soon as I was back home, I crashed on the couch and fell asleep almost instantly. I woke up in the middle of the night and moved to my bed. I would call Mohinder tomorrow.
I woke up in the afternoon. The first thing I did after breakfast was call Mohinder.
The phone was busy a few times but finally he picked up.
"Hey Mohinder. It's Claire. Sorry I took so long to reply to your call."
"That's fine. I need to speak with you. In person if that’s alright. Where are you?"
"I'm at my house, in New York. I could come to you."
He gave me the address and I got a taxi over there.
I got there about half an hour later.
"Hey." I said. He let me in.
"I've been trying to call people, the people just like you. I'm sorry I left like that, in such a hurry."
"I did seem kind of crazy." I admitted.
"Well now everyone seems to think that I'm the crazy one, I've tried to call a lot of people, and most of them hang up on me. Until earlier, I got a message from a man named Zane Taylor."
That stopped me in my tracks. I knew Sylar would kill him, but I knew there was no way we could get to his house in time.
"I'll go with you." I said, before he even had time to ask.
"All the way to Virginia Beach?"
"Yea, I will go with you. I have nothing better to do."
Mohinder got his stuff ready, and I made sure I had warmer clothes. Mohinder drove us all the way to Virginia Beach, taking up most of the day. On the way there, I explained to him that I didn't want to reveal my powers to anyone unless we knew 100% that we could trust them. I wanted to keep my brain a little while longer, but I didn’t tell him that.
Finally we got there. Oh. My. God. I was going to actually meet Sylar.
Freaky and cool at the same time.
Mohinder pressed the door bell.
"Hello? Zane Taylor?" He asked.
I tried not to yell out "Oh my god Sylar!" It was tempting, real tempting.
"Yes." Said Sylar. "You must be Dr Suresh. Come on in." He opened the door for us.
"Who are you?" He asked me.
"Uh I'm Claire. Mohinder's.. friend." I said. We walked in carefully, there were weird puddles everywhere on the floor.
"Can I get you some tea?" Sylar asked us.
"Sorry it took us so long to get here." Mohinder said.
"No, it's no problem."
He peeked his head out of the door in the kitchen. I knew the real Zane Taylor was dead in that kitchen, but what could I do?
"Is Earl Gray okay?" He asked.
"Yes that'll be fine." Mohinder answered.
I stared at one of the puddles on the floor, trying to think of one good reason this power was useful in any way. I really couldn't come up with anything.
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Chapter Thirteen:
"You sounded rather alarmed on the phone." Mohinder said. "You seem to have calmed down some."
"I had a kind of epiphany about it this morning."
I kept my eyes on the puddle. I didn't want to accidentally burst into laughter because Sylar was so good at playing nice. The puddle was quite interesting. I think it used to be a lamp?
"I guess you want to see my ability." Sylar said.
That made me pay attention. I'd love to see something getting melted. Psh yea right.
"Yes, I'm quite anxious to document it."
Sylar picked up a toaster and put it on a plastic sheet like thing. "You might want to stand back. That looks like a nice jacket." Dun dun dun.. I thought.
He melted the toaster. What can I say. Bravo. Awesome. I tried to not laugh. It was hard.
"My god." Mohinder muttered.
I said nothing, trying to keep a straight face.
"You wanna see it again?"
Mohinder smiled. Yay! An excuse to break free from the straight face.
"Gee, that's useful." I said, rolling my eyes. Sylar gave me a look. I shrugged.
He sat down across from Mohinder.
"I'm very interested on how you control this ability." Mohinder said.
"It's like riding a bike for the first time. At first it's a little wobbly. And then I discovered something. A kind of peace. A sense of purpose. That can only be described as destiny."
Mohinder pulled something out of his bag. "I'd like to take a DNA sample."
"From me? Okay, sure." Sylar said.
Mohinder handed him the swab thing. "Just swab it on the inside of your mouth."
Sylar grabbed it and looked at it, then looked into the kitchen. "The tea." He said, pointing. "If you'll excuse me for a second." He got up and walked into the kitchen.
"Of course." Mohinder said. He then spoke more quietly to me. "Are you sure you don't want to tell him about your abilities?"
"I don't think it’s a good idea yet. Keep it down though, I don't want him to hear."
"Okay."
"I just swab it on the inside of my cheek?" Sylar asked from the kitchen.
"Yes that's right." Mohinder said, standing up. He walked slowly towards the kitchen. I stayed where I was, no reason to get up. Mohinder made it to the kitchen.
"There you go." Sylar said, handing him the swab. "DNA sample."
"Thank you. You know, you should be careful about who you talk to about these abilities, Zane."
Sylar came back to sit down next to me.
"There are people that won't understand, or try to hurt you." Mohinder continued.
"Why would anybody want to hurt me?" Sylar asked.
Oh, I could think of a few reasons. But that's just me.
"I don't know yet, but I do know this, there are others out there, like you."
"Really? How many others?"
"Dozens. And those are just the ones I know about. With more time, and research I could find hundreds, thousands. But you're the first one who's returned my phone calls. But I am going to find them, All of them."
Sylar stood up. "I could go with you. I could help you. Think about it, these people could need convincing. Who better to do that?" He looked at me. "So you're not, like me?"
"No." I said. Mohinder shot me a look, but I ignored it. There was no way I was going to admit that I had abilities to Sylar.
Mohinder smiled at Sylar. He believed him.
We worked out that we would go to Montana, to meet a woman named Dale who had super hearing. I knew what Sylar would do, and I would try and stop it.
I sat in the back seat on the way there and I fell asleep during the trip.
We got to Dale's house later that day.
"Holy crap!" I said, getting out the car.
"What is it?" Mohinder said.
"Snow!" I burst out into laughter and I didn't know why. I picked up some snow.
I couldn't let snow distract me, no matter how cool it was. I realised how cold my hand was, and I dropped the snow.
"Before we go in, I just wanted to say thanks." Sylar said.
"For what?"
"For, you know, bringing me with you. You didn't have to do that."
"I'm glad for the extra company."
"I believe in fate, Mohinder, and karma. And I'm not just saying that because you’re Indian."
I turned away so they couldn’t see my face, I was trying not to laugh.
"I mean, you really came to my rescue. I won't forget that."
I stared at the snow, getting an itch to make a snowman, and Mohinder and Sylar went ahead, walking into the garage. I realised that I should be following them, so I did.
"Excuse me!" Mohinder said loudly. "Excuse me!"
Dale was welding something, with a helmet on. She took it off.
"Oh." She said.
I could hear the rap music coming from the headphones.
She took them out of her ears. "Rap music. Can't stand it, but it's the only thing I found that cancels out the –" She paused. "Can I help you?"
"We're looking for Dale Smither?" Mohinder said.
"You found her."
"Oh, of course. I'm Mohinder Suresh, and this is Mr. Taylor."
"It's Zane, actually, just Zane." Sylar said.
"I'm Claire." I said, and I wondered how many freaking people I had to introduce myself to.
"I left you several messages this week."
"Yea, I got em." Dale said.
"Uh, I believe I can help you with what's happening to you. I'm sure you have lots of questions."
"Yea, only one. How'd you find me?"
"You gave blood, eleven years ago, signed a consent form for it to be used in the Human Genome Project."
"You dialled the wrong number." She said.
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First things first. To everyone who's read this, and commented, you all rock. Thanks for the feedback.
Chapter Fourteen:
"Look, I know what you're thinking right now, that you've got nobody to talk to, nobody that understands what you're going through. But that's not true. I..I understand." Sylar said.
"Yea?" Dale said.
Sylar looked at Mohinder and he nodded. Sylar went over to the table and emptied a jar. He put a wrench into the jar. And then he melted the wrench.
"Damn." Dale said. "That was my best wrench. So there really are others, huh?"
"Yes. I'm proof of that."
"That's why we're here." Mohinder said.
"I thought the headaches at first were gonna kill me. I'd lie awake at night thinking that my head was gonna explode. A ****roach crawling across my neighbours floor was like a marching band parading through my house."
"I'm sorry, it must be quite a burden."
"A burden?" Dale laughed. "Hell no. This is the best damn thing that ever happened to me. Well now that I've learned to control it. I'm like superman or something. I can hear rain coming from 40 miles away. I can even hear someone's moods, the tiniest change in a heartbeat." She looked straight at Sylar. 'Yours for instance."
Sylar looked uncomfortable.
"It's racing kind of fast. You nervous about something?" Dale asked him.
"Um, no, I'm just excited to meet somebody like me."
"Well, if you've come to take it away from me, you're gonna have a hell of a fight on your hands."
"I can assure you that we only want to help." Mohinder said. "I'd like to perform a few tests, some questions really, that's all, shouldn't take more than a couple of hours."
"I'm kinda backed up today."
"We can come back in the morning." Mohinder said.
Dale nodded. "Okay." Then she walked away to get back to her work.
We drove to a motel, after stopping at a diner on the way to get dinner.
"We could get three rooms." Mohinder said.
"Why? I mean, why the extra room, can't two of us share?" I said. I obviously didn't want to share a room with Sylar, but this idea was easier.
"I'll share with you." I said to Mohinder. "I'll sleep on the couch, I don't mind."
Mohinder walked into the motel office to get us the rooms.
He parked the car in front of our motel rooms.
We all went to the boot of the car to get our things.
"You know, I have to admit Zane, when you first offered to help, I was cautious." Mohinder admitted.
I quickly grabbed my stuff out of the boot.
"In what way?" Sylar asked.
"I don't know you, You don't know me. It could have been a disaster. But you made a difference today. Here's your key."
I just managed to see the evil look in his eyes once he grabbed the key.
"When you told that woman Dale you could help her, is that really possible?"
"It's only theoretical at this point. But I am working on an inhibitor."
He said some stuff I didn’t quite understand.
"We can offer these people understanding, control, or if needed, elimination of their ability."
"Elimination? You make it sound like a virus or a plague." Sylar said.
"I'm sorry. I didn’t mean to imply. It's just not all of these people exhibit the same set of skills that you do. They could be dangerous."
I realised how funny that was. Mohinder was still clueless but I didn't think it would be a good decision to tell him about Sylar.
"My father had to learn that first hand."
"Hows that?" Sylar asked.
"He was murdered. By a man named Sylar."
Whoa oh's.
"What happened, to this Sylar?" He asked.
Oh gee I don't know YOU'RE STANDING RIGHT THERE!! I thought to myself.
"I'm not sure." Mohinder said.
"He just got away with killing your dad?" Sylar asked. It was like he was almost talking in third person. Weird.
"I only know he's gone, locked away. What does it matter? Even if I could come face to face with him, what difference would it make? Justice can never really be served."
I considered somehow ending this conversation, but since I wasn't talking there probably wasn’t anything I could say.
"What a shame." Sylar said. He turned away. "They're out there. I can feel them. So innocent, so unaware of what's happening to them. We'll find them. All of them. Together. The three of us." He looked at me.
He was probably wondering why I was even there with Mohinder. Sooner or later he'd probably figure out who I was.
"It's our destiny." He said.
I rolled my eyes when he looked back at Mohinder.
"I'm gonna call it a night."
"Yea." Mohinder said quietly.
"Catch you in the morning." Sylar opened his room and walked in.
I followed Mohinder into the room.
I went and laid down on the couch, trying to stay awake. I couldn't fall asleep, I knew what Sylar would do, and I wanted to try and stop it. I think I fell asleep a couple of times, but I kept waking back up. I thought I heard the door opening in Sylar's room. A few minutes later, I got up. I looked over at Mohinder, who was asleep. I left the room as quietly as I could. Our motel wasn't all that far away from Dale's house, and since Mohinder had the keys to the car, Sylar must have left on foot.
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Okay, in this chapter I use my hologram power, and It speaks with Dale's voice. I know that I probably wouldn't be able to do that with voices, but I couldn't think of anything else, so just deal with it. Plus *SPOILER* one girl in season 2 can create voices, and her power is holograms/illusions or whatever so, I technically could do it too.
Chapter Fifteen:
I knew that this was the worst idea ever, and that going against Sylar was just stupid. But I had no other choice, because I didn't want to do nothing. I wish I had brought that gun along, the one I picked up at Primatech but I had left that at my house. It probably wouldn't have done that much good anyways.
I looked around, I couldn't see Sylar anywhere, and thank god for that. I began to walk away from the motel, once I was in darkness, I would use my speed to get to Dale's house as soon as I could, who knows he could already be there.
I started to think of what I could do. The odds didn't favour me, I could even die tonight if I wasn't careful. I had bought a lighter a couple of days ago, which I wish I had done earlier. If I could manipulate, but not create fire, then a lighter would be good to bring along wherever I go. But other than that, I had no weapon but my powers. I was going to get my ass kicked and I knew it.
I got to Dale's house a bit later on. I couldn't see Sylar anywhere, but the thing is he was probably hiding in plain sight. If I could get there a bit earlier than him, I could warn Dale, and try to get her out of there. I walked into the garage, still no sign of Sylar, so I hoped I was there before him. I finally saw Dale, working underneath a car. She was sure to hear me coming, as I remembered that she couldn’t hear Sylar coming because he didn’t make any footsteps.
She came out from under the car, taking her headphones out of her ears.
"What are you doing here?" She asked me.
"Look, you need to get out of here. You're in danger."
"From what?"
"One of those guys you met, Zane. He's not who he says he is. You have to leave, or he'll kill you!" I said.
"How do you know this?"
"Look, it's a long story, but I don't want your death on my conscience, so please, get out of here before he kills you!"
"Alright, I'll go up to the house." She walked away, looking at me strangely.
"Good, stay there." I had no idea whether she believed me, but I had to take that chance. I went back over to the car. I sat close by and made a hologram appear. It was a hologram of Dale working underneath the car. I knew this was a good idea. I just hoped it worked.
I knew what happened originally, so I decided to keep it as close to that as possible. I was hidden by the hologram, I stood close to the hologram of Dale, but as far as anyone was concerned, I wasn't there.
Holo Dale got up from underneath the car. She took her headphones out of her ears, and looked around, scared. She looked into the darkness.
It was then that I saw Sylar standing there. I was pretty scared myself. I had to make sure I didn’t let this hologram slip just yet.
I had practised this many times before. I was able to project voices but only short sentences, I hadn't perfected it. Some words sounded awfully close to my own voice, but I was still able to make a sentence or two come out, it was pretty much me talking, but I somehow was able to project my voice to sound like other peoples voices, just enough. If this stuffed up, I was screwed.
"Funny, I didn't hear your footsteps." The hologram said. Her voice sounded so close to mine, it was scary.
"That's because there weren't any." Sylar said, stepping out of the shadows.
"That sound, in your heart. What is it?" The hologram said. Again the voice was so close to mine. That was all I would be able to make her say. It was just enough.
"Murder." He said. He pointed at her head, making the red line of blood appear. This wouldn't work for very long and I knew it. If he went to take her brain, he would realise that she wasn't really there and that she was a hologram.
I screamed, basically in my own voice, but I made it seem like the hologram was doing it. He leaned down, and went to take her brain. His hand went straight through her head.
I came up invisibly behind him. I kicked him in the back, making him fall straight down. The hologram of Dale disappeared as he landed. I made myself look like Dale, keeping the hologram on me.
"How are you doing this?" He said, getting back up.
He came closer to me, and tried to punch me. It was extremely hard to use two powers at once, but I managed to speed slightly to the left, making him miss.
I used my super speed to punch him in the face a couple of times. He tried to punch me back, hitting me in the side of my face hard. I fell backwards, but quickly got back up.
My hologram wavered for a slight second, but luckily he didn't see.
I stood up, and walked closer to Sylar. His eyes watched me curiously, waiting to see what I would do next.
Just when I was about to make my move, he used his telekinesis on me, making me slam back into a wall. I fell down on the ground, and I managed to slightly sit up, but it was too hard to get up so quickly.
He walked towards me slowly, and I almost freaked out. He was going to kill me.
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Chapter Sixteen:
I stared at Sylar as he walked towards me. I wasn't going to die without a fight. I managed to slip my hand into my pocket, and pull out my lighter. Sylar was staring right at me, he was sure to notice. I dragged myself up, holding onto the wall behind me with one hand, and while doing so, I used the lighter.
A spark was all I really needed, as long as it was big enough. I got a tiny flame. I made it turn into a fireball, in my hand.
Sylar looked surprised. He flicked his hand, making the lighter zoom out of my hand and fall just out of my reach.
It didn't matter, I had the fire now. I manipulated the flame to climb up both of my arms. I threw a fire ball straight towards him. He telekinetically made the fire zoom back at me.
"It doesn't hurt me." I said, speaking in a deeper voice than my own.
It made him looked surprised again, because he was expecting Dale's voice.
"Who are you? You're not really Dale are you? You were there, in Texas, at the school, weren't you?" He asked.
I ignored him, and made almost all the fire zoom really fast towards him. Because it was slightly unexpected, he didn't make it turn around and hit me instead.
"Ah!" He yelled. While he was distracted, I walked awkwardly to the exit. Sylar walked faster than me unfortunately, because I was injured. He stood next to the exit, and hit me across the face, I fell backwards yet again.
I looked up, to see where Sylar was, and got hit again out of nowhere. I heard a noise coming from the exit, and Sylar must have heard it too, he turned around to look. There was no one there. Since Sylar was distracted, it would be the perfect moment to strike. I lunged out with my foot, hitting his left leg, on the other side of his knee, making him stumble forwards and fall down.
I couldn't move much more than that, I was tired, and I was starting to feel drowsy. My head fell back. I heard Sylar groan, then he got back up. I knew I was going to die. I just hoped it didn't hurt too much, but it's Sylar, so of course it will hurt.
"Hey!" It was Dale's voice coming from the door.
"No." I whispered. "No!" I said a bit louder. I tried to get up, I had to get her out of there.
I could hear Sylar's footsteps, walking away from me.
"What are you doing?" Dale said loudly. "Get the hell out of here."
That woman was clearly insane. I tried to help her, and now she's crazy enough to come back and try and help me. I could barely move.
"Get out of here!" I managed to say, but probably not loud enough. I heard a bit of fighting, and then Dale began to scream. Sylar was killing her.
I turned my head, and I managed to see Dale fall to the ground, the top of her head basically missing. Sylar leaned down, I grabbed a spanner or something from the ground and chucked it at him. It hit him in the back of the head. He shot a look back at me, but continued with what he was doing.
I had to get out of there. Once he was done with her, I was next and I couldn't let that happen now that I had a chance to escape. I crawled as fast as I could towards the exit. I grabbed onto a nearby table and hauled myself up. I hobbled out of there as fast as possible. I threw a hologram around me so that he couldn't see me.
I sat down for a while, down the road, away from the house. I had to get far enough away because now that Sylar had the super hearing, he would easily be able to find me. I made it back to the motel room, I assume I was later than Sylar, but I had no way to tell. I went into the bathroom, and cleaned up the blood. I had gotten a blood nose, which had now stopped. My eyebrow didn't look too good, with a slight cut. I had various bruises all over, but I couldn't do anything about those.
I stared into the mirror, when something caught my eye. It was on my neck, just slightly hidden by my t-shirt. Two little black marks. I had forgotten to check for those, after I was kidnapped and all, it should have been the first thing I checked. I got a knife from the kitchen, and I cut them out. It hurt like hell, but I didn't want those marks there. I found a bandaid and put it over the top of them. I had to remember to keep that hidden from everyone.
I went back to the couch, and pulled the blanket over me. It was cold and I was in pain, I hoped I felt slightly better in the morning, because I couldn't let Sylar know it was me that he fought with.
I finally managed to get to sleep, but it wasn't a good sleep, I was having a nightmare about being killed. I had just narrowly made it out of there alive. I was lucky.
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Chapter Seventeen:
In the morning, I didn't want to get up. Mohinder came over and woke me up. I groaned.
"Gimme ten more minutes" I mumbled. Finally I dragged myself out of bed and went to go get ready. I made sure I was presentable, because I couldn't let Sylar know it was me.
We loaded all our stuff into the car. I looked at Sylar. He was acting the same as yesterday. He was really good at playing nice.
Mohinder got in the drivers seat, and me and Sylar got into the car as well. I kept my eye on Sylar though. When we got closer to Dale's house, Sylar looked like he was in pain.
"Zane, are you alright?" Mohinder asked him.
"Yea." He muttered. "It's just a headache."
"Ok. Sit tight, I'll be back."
He looked like he was in a lot of pain now. I was glad. He twitched his head. "Ah!"
"What's up with you?" I asked.
He looked back at me. He was struggling to keep in character.
"Just... a…headache." He said slowly and quietly.
I felt like screaming in his ear, he deserved it. I wasn't able to save her, and I was pretty angry that I didn't get to.
"Hello?" Mohinder said loudly, walking into the garage. "Anybody here?"
"Ah!" Sylar muttered again. He opened his window. "Maybe we should just come back, Mohinder." He said.
"Dale?" Mohinder ran back out, and began to cough and was probably vomiting. Sylar got out of the car. I already knew what it was, but I figured I should get out anyways.
"Mohinder, what's the matter?" Sylar asked.
Mohinder pointed inside.
I followed Sylar inside, but he was ahead of me.
"Ugh" I muttered. I just slightly managed to see the smile on Sylar's face. He turned to look at me, but I had already turned away slightly.
He twitched his head strangely. He went over to Mohinder. He had his phone out, and was pressing buttons.
"What are you doing?" Sylar asked.
"Dialling 911!" Mohinder replied.
"Do you think that's a good idea?"
"What are you talking about? She was murdered!"
"But what were we doing here?"
"What do you mean? We found her!" Mohinder said.
"How?" Sylar said. "Why? Look at us, where did we come from, how did we get here? Can we explain any of this without looking completely insane?"
"The top of her head was removed. It was Sylar! I don't.. I mean, how?"
"Sylar." Sylar said, looking around.
"We have to warn them, everyone on the list. He's after them. We'll leave now, and we'll call the police from a phone on the road. Come on." He went back to get into the car, and so did I.
"Ah!" Sylar said, bringing his hand up to his ear.
"Zane, are you okay?" Mohinder said. He started the car up. I was already in the car too.
Sylar hopped in. Mohinder began to drive us out of there.
On the road, kinda far away from there, Mohinder called the police, and told them about Dale being murdered. I was surprised that Mohinder didn't suspect anything. I mean.. It's just something I would suspect. Especially since 'Zane' hadn't told us much about himself and everything.
Mohinder decided the best thing to do would be going back to New York.
We got back to New York later that night. I was worried because I knew that soon Mohinder would find out about Sylar, I just wasn't sure when. It could even be today.
I went home earlier, to grab some things, but I didn't want to take too long just in case Mohinder found about Sylar while I was gone.
When I got back, Mohinder was doing something on his computer. Sylar found the list and was looking at it.
"So this is the list." Sylar said.
"Yes. What's left of it, most of these people are missing, or dead. I want to run your DNA sample against my father's formula."
Mohinder had taken a DNA sample from me before we met Sylar, but he used Sylar's DNA.
"I'm going to take you someplace safe." Mohinder said.
"This is your father's formula." He looked over Mohinder's shoulder. "How he made the list, how he found me."
I stood on the other side of Mohinder. I wasn't ever on the list, which is expected.
"Yes, but I haven't figured out what IT is looking for. A specific gene? There are 3 billion base pairs in human DNA. It’s a proverbial needle."
"Did my DNA help?" Sylar asked
"No." Mohinder replied. He stood up.
"Okay, well Mohinder, you've been driving all night, why don't you just take a break?"
"I can't. These people are in danger. We have to warn them. If Sylar gets to them first –"
"Exactly. So let me help. I mean, here." He walked over to the map of the world. "This one is in New York, Um Isaac Mendez. I'll call him, and you just relax, just take a minute."
"You're very kind, Zane, thank you." He went off towards the sink, as the kettle began to whistle.
"You have no idea how alone I used to feel. Insignificant. You've given me hope."
"Hope is great. We need caffeine."
Sylar smiled. "So this formula, if you figure it out, how many of us will you find." He picked up the phone to call Isaac.
"Who knows." Mohinder said. He picked up the tea. I went over and took one from him.
"Hundreds? Thousands? Maybe more."
"No. It's busy." Sylar said, putting down the phone.
I remembered this. Mohinder knew. Mohinder knew that he was Sylar. I thought he would tell me, but he didn't.
"I'll get him later." He took a cup from Mohinder. He held it up in the air. "To new friends."
I was far away. I knew what would happen now. I should have told Mohinder not to do it. It doesn't work out. Sylar drank some of his tea.
"This is good, what is it?" He asked.
"Chai. It’s a special blend my father brought from India."
Sylar drank some more. He cleared his throat. "Who are we gonna call next?" He asked.
"No one." Mohinder replied. "I already have you. Mr. Sylar." He dropped his cup and it crashed on the floor. His eyes began to close, and he fell to the floor.
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I realised I've been slow with this lately, it went over to page 2 shocked so I had to post again.
Chapter Eighteen
"You know that probably wasn't the best idea." I told Mohinder.
"Oh and why's that?" He asked.
I helped move Sylar to a chair. Mohinder set up an IV.
"Well you could have warned me first before drugging him. He trusted you, and you could have played along with that for a bit longer. Now he'll be pissed."
"I had to do something." He said.
"Then why not call the police and have them do it, instead of you. It's revenge isn't it? You want revenge."
Sylar woke up soon after that.
"I can't feel my fingers." He mumbled.
Mohinder told him what it was. "It induces paralysis of the brain, which means you can't control your abilities."
Sylar jumped, trying to get out of the chair.
"Whoever you think I am, I'm not." He said.
"You are the man who murdered my father. Do you still expect me to believe you're Zane Taylor?" He showed Sylar his computer. "Zane was killed. Three days ago. The same day I met you. You thought you were so clever giving me his DNA." He pulled a tuning fork out of his pocket. "You're a parasite. You killed my father and fed off his work." He hit the tuning fork on the table, and brought it to Sylar's ear.
"Let me hear you say it."
"Ahh" Sylar muttered.
“Tell me your name! Say it!”
Sylar screamed.
"I want to hear you say it!"
"Ahh… Sylar." He muttered. He breathed loudly.
"There's only one thing to do with a parasite. Kill it. Before it kills again." He went over to his desk and pulled the gun from the drawer.
'You're just like your father. Murderers, the both of you."
"I'm a scientist." Mohinder said.
Sylar laughed. "Your father said that but he kept leading me to –"
"He had no idea what you were."
"He knew. He may not have admitted it, but after all, we were making so much progress together, why would he stop."
"You know nothing about my father!" Mohinder yelled, pulling the gun on Sylar.
"Whoa. Mohinder. I don't think that's a good idea." I warned.
"I know everything." Sylar said. "He confided in me. He told me things he felt he could never tell you. Things about your sister, Shanti. He thought you were too… What's the word.. Fragile, to know the truth." He moved closer to the gun. "That's why he liked me. You were always seeking to prove it, while I provided stimulation. He gave up on you. But he adored me. Now who's the real parasite here?" He said angrily.
Mohinder pulled the gun away.
"You're right. My father did want answers." He put the gun down on the desk. "He called you patient zero. You're the template he used to create this formula. You're the key to unlocking its secrets." He opened a box and pulled something out. I saw it was a needle.
"As much as I'd like to, killing you will not give me what I need."
"So what are you gonna do?" Sylar asked.
"I'm going to take a sample of your spinal fluid." He leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "And it's going to hurt."
He pushed Sylar's head forward. "You might do some good before you die.'
Mohinder injected the needle and Sylar screamed.
Once he got the spinal fluid, he placed it on the desk and went back to his computer.
"I finally found it. That's it, these four simple genes answer everything. I can make a new list, I can find them, save them." Mohinder said.
"And what about me?" Sylar asked. "Don't I deserve to be saved? Or am I just a victim too. I didn’t ask for this."
"And what would you have me do?"
"Help find a way. Give me salvation." He said. "Give me that damn list so I can sink my teeth in!" He yelled. He looked at me.
"And you. You're on the list, aren't you?" He asked. "Why else would you be here."
"Um, I'm here for moral support?" I replied. "Plus I make a damn good cup of tea"
Mohinder stood up and walked over to him.
"I'm a natural progression of the species. Evolution is a part of nature and nature kills, simple, right."
"What you've done is not evolution. It's murder. What I am doing, is revenge."
"Mohinder you're crazy." I said to him. I hadn't even seen him pick up the gun, but now he pointed it at Sylar.
"Now I can fulfil my duties as a son." Sylar closed his eyes.
"You're crazy." I said, shaking my head. I knew this wouldn't work. It was a bad idea. "I'd say don't do it, but I know you will anyways."
Mohinder pulled the trigger. *BANG*
Mohinder looked at Sylar, confused. Sylar had stopped the bullet in mid air. It dropped to the floor.
"I wasn't begging for my life. I was offering you yours."
The straps on his hands began to come off. He stood up. "You are your father's son. So determined, you didn't even notice I stopped the IV." He turned it on and off.
"Don't worry. You might actually do some good before you die. Starting with that list." He walked over to Mohinder.
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Chapter Nineteen:
"You." Sylar said to me. "The other night. It was you, wasn't it?"
"What?" I asked.
"That woman, Dale, you tried to save her. Well I guess we'll find out won't we?"
Aw crap, I was so screwed.
He walked over to me, but I walked backwards, away from him. He pointed at me, but I quickly shot to the other side of the room using my super-speed.
His eyes followed me around the room.
"You can run, but you can't hide." He said.
Ha ha. Now I'm more scared. Not really.
I saw Mohinder picking up the gun. Aw man. He pointed it at Sylar.
Sylar used his telekinesis to make the gun zoom out of his hands and hit the wall.
He made Mohinder slam back into the wall and fall to the floor. Sylar turned back to me.
I threw a hologram of myself, like a dozen clones of me in the room.
"Nice trick."
The thing was, I couldn't make the holograms attack him instead of me, because they weren't really there.
"Yea I thought so." I made all the holograms say at once.
He looked around at all of us, trying to find out which was the real one. I could hide myself inside the hologram if I wanted. But either way, he had to figure it out eventually.
I made all of the Claire's zoom around the room. It looked so cool, the room was like a blur.
"I can hear your heartbeat." He said, looking directly at where I stood. I made the holograms talk. It was crazy. I zoomed across to another part of the room.
"You'll get tired eventually.” He said, looking at all of the holograms.
A knock at the door distracted him.
"Suresh?" The door opened. It was Peter.
"No, Peter don't come in here!" I quickly yelled, but it was too late, Peter had walked in. The door slammed shut, because Sylar used his telekinesis.
"I remember you." He said. He looked back at me. He used his telekinesis to slam Peter into the wall. "Still won't stop running?" He asked me. "Well I'll kill him instead."
He held his hand around Peter's throat. "You're like me aren't you? I'd like to see how that works."
"No!" I yelled, running over to him, but he threw out his arm, which I ran straight into of course, and fell backwards slightly. He telekinetically threw me across the room, and I fell to the floor. Man I was sick of that damn power.
Sylar pointed at Peter, and started to cut his head open. Peter started screaming. Then he started to heal. He used telekinesis to throw Sylar across the room. Man how I wish I could have been the one to do that.
Sylar hit a cupboard, making glass shards fall around him, then he fell to the ground.
Peter came over to me. "You okay?"
I groaned and stood up. "Yea I guess." I looked at Mohinder and leaned down. I shook him. "Mohinder? Mohinder? Wake up!" I said.
His eyes fluttered open.
Then Sylar stood up.
"Oh no. I'm not done with him yet." Sylar said.
I looked at Peter. "Go invisible, I can do that too.. sort of." I said quietly.
Peter went invisible and I threw a hologram around me.
Sylar looked around the room. "Interesting, I can't wait to try that one. "He telekinetically brought a bunch of glass shards up into the air. Whoa oh's.
I got to a safe place with my super-speed.
Sylar looked around.
"Peter, duck!" I said. Just as I was saying that, Sylar shot the glass everywhere.
A piece of glass hit Peter's head. God dammit! Every time I try to change something it goes wrong. Peter fell to the ground. Sylar stepped closer to Peter.
Mohinder had gotten up, and pushed the map of the world straight at Sylar and they both fell to the ground. I got rid of my hologram and walked over to Mohinder. He crawled over to Peter.
"Oh my god! Peter? Peter!" He said.
"Let's get out of here. We'll bring him."
We both hauled him outside and put him in Mohinder's taxi.
"Take him to his family." I said. "He'll be okay, don't worry." I began to walk back towards the apartment.
"Wait, where are you going?" He asked.
"I'll catch up with you later, I just have to do something."
I went back to Mohinder's apartment, and slightly opened the door a little bit.
I looked in, and Sylar was holding a piece of paper. "Isaac Mendez" He muttered.
He stood up and walked towards the door. I shot out of there like a bullet, and went to find Isaac.
I needed to save Isaac, and probably nearly die trying, but I was getting used to having my ass kicked by now. Luckily I had remembered where he lived. Reed Street. I took a taxi there.
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Chapter Twenty
I finally got there, and before Sylar too.
"Isaac! You're in danger!" I said.
"I know." He said, pointing to a couple of paintings. They were paintings of him screaming, and another one had him without the top of his head. He had just finished a new one, of Sylar standing near him.
"I want to help you." I told him.
"That's probably not a good idea. Go while you still can."
"You want me to leave?" I asked.
"Yes, he could kill you too."
"I can't just leave and do nothing." I said. "We should get out of here.' I grabbed his arm and tried to drag him.
"I'm not going anywhere." He said. Grr, why does he have to be stubborn when I’m trying to save his LIFE?
"You're crazy! He could get here any minute!"
"I know."
And that's about when Sylar decided to walk in. Oh great.
"You really can paint the future." Sylar said. "You!" He looked at me. "You haven't had enough?"
"Hi Sylar. Miss me?" I asked. Aw man.
"You're late." Isaac said to Sylar.
"I guess you know why I'm here."
"You're the one who's gonna kill me." Isaac said, walking closer to Sylar.
What the heck was I supposed to do! I was gonna get my ass kicked again, and I wasn't really in the mood.
"Yea, that's true." Sylar said. Isaac's expression stayed the same. "This is usually the part when people start screaming."
"I tried fighting the future. It's too big for me. Maybe you can do better."
"Why me?" Sylar asked. "Do you see some special future for me?"
"They stop you, and you die."
Sylar laughed. "You painted all that too?" He looked around.
"Show me." He turned to look at Isaac. "Show me." His voice went funny.
Isaac looked behind him, at the gun. Sylar used his telekinesis to make it fall to the ground. It was tempting to pick it up, but it would do no good.
I got my lighter out, luckily I had bought an extra couple for spares.
"Now now." Sylar said. I knew what he was about to do and I had to stop him.
I made a large fireball appear, making Sylar turn to look at me.
"Almost forgot you were standing there." He said coldly.
I threw the fire at him, he wasn’t expecting me to do it so quickly.
"Ah!" His jacket caught on fire, and he started to put the fire out by making his jacket get covered in ice. Oh. My. God. I had completely forgotten that he had a freezing ability.
I threw another fireball, and used my super-speed to get closer to him. He tried to hit me, but missed as I stepped really quickly to the right.
I punched him a couple times with my super-speed, and got out of his way when he tried to hit me back. He stopped, and pointed at me. I was raised up in the air, and I started to choke. I gasped for air, and my hands flew up to my neck, but I couldn't breathe
He pointed his other hand at Isaac.
"N..no" I managed to say.
Isaac flew backwards to the ground. I was still in the air, trying to breathe, only managing to get short gasps. A paintbrush flew out of somewhere and stabbed through Isaac’s arm, and another one went through his other arm. He screamed. Ouchies.
"It's already gone." Isaac said, talking about the paintings and etc, etc. You know, choking over here?
"Why don't you tell me all about it then?"
"I've seen enough of the future, I don't need to watch it happen. I've wasted my life, destroyed everything good that ever came to me. At least I did one good thing before I died."
Sylar made another two paintbrushes stab through Isaac’s legs. More ouchies. Isaac screamed again.
"You can't fight the future." Isaac said.
"Neither can you."
Sylar put his eyes on me, and made me fall to the floor, I could finally breath again, but I started to cough.
He walked over to Isaac.
"It's alright. I finally know my part in all this. To die here with you. But not before I show them how to kill you, and stop the bomb. I finally get to be a hero."
Sylar leaned over, and started to kill Isaac and take his brain, and Isaac screamed some more. I tried to get up, slowly I managed to sit up. Sylar pointed at me, making me fall backwards again.
I looked around, realising that one of the painting easels was on fire. I made the fire come to me, and I shot it straight at Sylar.
"Ahh!" He yelled. The fire was all around him. I didn't stop to ask questions, I got up and ran straight out the door in a blur.
I walked down the street, far away from Isaac's apartment. I was out of breath, I stopped and sat down for a little while, trying to figure out where I would go to from here, until I realised that I had to go back. I knew Hiro would be coming this way soon, so I decided to wait for him.
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Okay I gotta start posting a bit more often, since when season one ends, I will be writing season 2, but I might go on 'hiatus'. So I shall update quicker hopefully. Sorrrrry!
Chapter Twenty One
I had planned to meet with Hiro, I really did. But I eventually changed my mind and just stayed home for the day, taking it easy.
The next day I went straight to Kirby Plaza in the morning after breakfast and waited. I knew eventually Claire and Peter would show up. I waited for ages, and finally I saw them, but soon after that Noah, Claire's Dad, came along with Matt Parkman and Ted Sprague, so I stayed hidden and watched from a distance.
Peter's hands began to glow. "Claire!" He yelled. Not to me obviously.
Finally Peter's hands went back to normal.
Claire walked off with her Dad, but I stayed hidden. A few minutes later, they went back with the others, but I realised I may as well go over there.
"Hey Peter." I said.
"Hey, Where did you come from?" He asked.
"Hey Ted, Hey Matt." I said. They looked back at me strangely.
"How do you know? –"
"Long story." I cut them off. Matt gave me a really funny look, he was probably reading my mind. He would think I'm a crazy person for sure. "Sylar's just around the corner, and he heard everything you said." I turned to look at the place I knew Sylar was.
I used my super-speed to rush over to where Sylar stood. I made sure I had a hologram around me, a holo of Sylar. Just coz I could, although I'm sure he knew who I was by now.
"Hey Sylar." I said with his voice. He looked at me.
"You again" He said.
I zoomed back to the others.
"Yep, definitely Sylar." I told them.
Everyone more or less said their goodbyes, and I went with Peter, Claire and Ted.
"You know, I've been thinking after we save the world I might go on patrols, you know, jumping in front of bullets, and dragging people out of burning buildings." Claire said.
"You're not gonna catch me wearing a cape." Peter replied.
We were walking across a busy road in some random place in New York, they knew where they were going, I had not a clue.
"Walking around with my underwear outside my pants." Peter said, smiling.
"Why do we have to rent a car, why can't we just fly to Nebraska?" Claire asked.
Peter looked back at her.
"In a plane." She said.
"The FBI's got my face all over wanted posters, we wouldn't get that far that way." Ted said.
Peter looked around, looking worried.
"What is it?" Claire asked.
"Sylar I guess." I said.
"Yea, Sylar." Peter replied. "He's here, he's watching us."
"Right now?"
"Well I told you he knew where we were." I said.
"He knows what Ted can do, we need to get off the street."
"Who's Sylar?" Ted asked.
We rushed into a rent a car place. Peter explained a bit more about Sylar quickly to Ted.
"So this guy Sylar kills people like us?" Ted asked.
"Yea, and he takes what we can do." Peter said
"How does he manage that?"
"He rips your head open."
I coughed and said "Eats brains." But Ted just gave me a funny look.
"I say we stick to the plan and get out of the city." He said.
A car shot out in front of us. It was the FBI. Whoops I forgot about this.
"Get out of here, go!" Ted said to us.
"Let's get out of here." Peter said, grabbing mine and Claire's arms.
Ted was knocked down to the ground.
"Let's go." Peter made us all invisible and we vanished into the crowd.
"There were three others, find them!" I managed to hear before we were out of there.
We walked away from there, and got the rental car. We ended up getting stuck in a traffic jam later on.
"Come on! Get moving." Peter yelled.
"Is this the only way out of the city?" Claire asked.
"No, but it's the fastest."
Peter and Claire began to get out of the car, so I followed.
And then I remembered why the cars were in a traffic jam. Ted. Sylar killed him.
We saw the overturned truck, and walked closer to it. We stopped at a fence nearby to watch.
"Sylar got him." Peter said. "He killed Ted."
"Does that mean that Sylar can do what Ted can do?" Claire asked.
"Yep." I replied.
"He's the one. He's gonna wipe out the entire city!"
"You've gotta stop him!" Claire said.
"I don't think I can. The last time I fought Sylar he killed me." Peter said.
"I've fought him like 3 or 4 times, and I'm still alive and kicking." I told them.
"Come on." Peter grabbed Claire’s arm, and I followed. We went back to the car.
Later on, in the car, Claire rang her Dad, I just zoned out because I was tired. We eventually stopped in an underground car-park.
"What are we doing here?" Claire asked. I looked up and saw Nathan Petrelli standing there. "I actually believed you. You lied to me, you said you weren't gonna call him!" Claire said.
"I know, but think about it Claire, we can't do this alone." Peter said.
"No you think about it! We can't trust him."
"Yes we can trust him, Nathan has never let me down."
"Nathan doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about anyone, he doesn't care about me and I'm his own daughter. We do not need him." Claire argued.
"Yes we do."
"Why?"
"Because I'm afraid. Okay?" Peter yelled. "And I need my brother." Peter said. He looked at Claire for a minute and then got out of the car to go and talk to Nathan.
Claire opened her door a couple of minutes later.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm leaving." She said.
"Look, I'll go with you." I got out of the car too, and we walked away from Peter. She bumped into Angela Petrelli.
"See you later, Claire." I said, walking away from them both. I had to get to Kirby Plaza as soon as I could.
I knew that Peter would get there soon, but I didn't want to wait for him.
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Man I thought I would post more often but no, I'm just really lazy, sorry! I promise that I will post the rest of the fight soon, and by soon I mean in the next couple of days, definately before next Sunday so don't worry.
Chapter Twenty Two
I got to the Kirby Building about 20 odd minutes later. I was too early, Sylar wouldn't be there yet and I didn't want to sit there waiting. I rushed up the stairs with super-speed, not bothering to wait for an elevator. I searched a couple rooms until I found Mohinder and Molly in one of them.
"Mohinder" I said. "Hey."
"Claire?" He asked. "Where do you always come from?" He looked a little startled.
"Sorry. No time for that. Hi Molly." I smiled.
"How did you know?-" Mohinder began to say.
"No time for that." I repeated, cutting him off.
"We have to go." Mohinder said.
"Yea I know, I'll go with you. I tried to get here as fast as I could. I was with Peter, and Claire."
We walked slowly and cautiously through the building.
"I think we should be okay for a while." I said.
"Doesn't hurt to stay cautious." Mohinder said.
We peeked around one corner. There was a man lying on the ground. At first I didn't recognise him. Mohinder and Molly went back behind the corner.
Mohinder started to walk back towards him.
Molly stopped him. "Wait, he could be a bad guy."
"He needs my help." Mohinder said quietly.
We went closer to him, and that's when I recognised him as D.L. Hawkins, or Micah's Dad.
"Okay we need to get him out of here."
Molly went over to the elevator and pressed the button twice. "It's not working." She said quietly.
"They must have shut it down. Okay I need you two to keep an eye out, if anyone comes tell me straight away."
A few minutes later, Molly said "The guards are coming."
Micah and Niki came soon after that.
"Dad!" Micah yelled out, running towards D.L.
"Micah." D.L. muttered.
"We have to go!" Mohinder said.
Niki snapped off the handle on the door to the stairs. I looked around, seeing the other set of stairs down the hallway.
Micah went over to the elevator.
"It won't work!" Molly told him.
"Yes it will." He put his hand on the button and the elevator door opened. They both smiled at each other.
Niki and Mohinder helped D.L. stand up. He winced in pain.
"Come on!" Molly yelled.
"Meet you down there." I said to Mohinder, who was closest.
"What?" He asked quickly, but I turned into a blur as I shot towards the other stairs. I would get there way before they would. Elevators are slow.
I got down there as fast as I could. I zoomed out of the building, I could see Peter and Noah talking. I looked closer and I could see Sylar walking towards them. Oh great.
He tapped Noah on the shoulder. He telekinetically made him fly backwards, hitting into a building. He fell to the floor. Ouch, that's gotta hurt.
Peter looked a bit worried.
"What took you so long?" Sylar asked.
I zoomed up next to Peter.
I looked at him. "Thought you could use some help." I said. I pulled out my lighter.
"You again?" Sylar said, looking a bit annoyed. He looked back at Peter. "Haven't I killed you before?"
"Didn't take." Peter said. I was thinking about how much I loved that line, when Sylar smiled, and made Peter start choking.
"You think I'm gonna let you ruin it all?" He asked. "Take all the glory?" I made the fire creep up my arms while he was distracted.
"Hey Sylar." I said. "Think fast." I threw a fire ball straight at him. He must have been thinking fast, coz the ice began to form around him, making my fire disappear.
"Fire vs Ice huh. This should be fun." I said, watching him carefully. I threw another fire ball, he threw a ball of ice, or whatever he threw. They hit each other, and made a small explosion of light. It looked awesome. I made my fire go faster. I zoomed to the left and to the right, to confuse Sylar. My hands felt kind of cold all of a sudden. They began to freeze slightly. I put the fire around my hands, warming them up again. I threw a bunch of fire balls around Sylar, while running fast in a circle. I got out of the circle quickly.
While he was busy spinning around, I took the chance to zoom a bit closer. I punched him with super speed twice. He tried to hit me back, but I moved to the left and the right so fast that he missed both times. I looked around, seeing Matt begin to walk closer, with a gun in his hands. No!
"Matt, no!" I yelled. It was too late, his fingers were on the trigger. *BANG BANG* He shot twice.
Sylar stopped them in mid air with his other hand. Aw crap! I thought quickly. I wonder if I really am as fast as a speeding bullet. Thisisabadidea! My thoughts jumbled together. I ran straight forward, catching a bullet in my hand. Holy crap! No way! Then I realised there were two bullets.
One hit Matt and he fell back, hitting the building behind him, then he fell to the ground. I stared at the bullet in my hands and looked up at Sylar. I realised he had a burn on the left side of his face because of me.
I created a hologram around me, making everyone but me and Sylar disappear. I smiled and made myself disappear too. Peter fell to the floor, gasping. Sylar looked around, but of course he could see nothing. I used my super-speed to run past him, hitting him in the stomach as I zoomed past.
"I know what this is! I know it's a hologram. I can't wait to have that power!" He said, still looking around. I stood still for a moment, and stamped my foot on the ground, causing it to ripple under my feet. I caused an earthquake under his feet, making him fall to the floor. He started to stand up but I made another earthquake knock him backwards again.
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Gah I hate being so lazy with this, but I kind of have an excuse this week coz of Job Search Training and all that..
But at least I got this done before Sunday, like I promised.
Chapter Twenty Three
"How many times do you think you're gonna do that?" He asked, standing up.
I looked around, figuring out what to do next. I saw Mohinder, D.L, Niki, Micah and Molly get out of the Kirby Plaza building. They distracted me, and messed with my hologram so I turned it off completely.
He pointed at me, and I suddenly couldn't breath. I grabbed at my throat, not being able to do anything to stop it. He walked towards me, and when he was close enough, I kicked him hard in his shin with super-speed.
"Ahh!" He yelled, stumbling backwards.
He punched me in the face because I didn't have enough time to get out of the way.
Peter came over and stood next to me.
I thought it was a great opportunity to use some more powers. There was a slight wind, so I manipulated it to make the wind worse around Sylar, making him fly through the air for a split second, making him fall into the water surrounding the fountain. Great for me.
He got out of the water, looking pretty pissed off.
While his back was turned from the water, I made a huge wave form behind him, and it came crashing down on him, making him fall over for the millionth time tonight.
Sylar got up, coughing a bit. He was now right in front of us. He turned around to look behind him, telekinetically ripping a parking meter from the ground and making it fly into his hands. He swung at me, but I ducked and zoomed to the left, getting out of the way. The parking meter hit Peter instead, and he fell down to the ground.
"Sorry Peter. You can heal I can't." I quickly said.
"Did you really think you could stop me?" Sylar said, getting ready to hit again.
Niki had come closer while we were distracted. She grabbed the parking meter off of Sylar, and hit him really hard. He groaned and fell to the ground. I wish I had super strength.
"Mum, Dad needs your help!" Micah yelled.
"Go back to your family. I got this." Peter told Niki.
Peter took off his jacket, then went over to Sylar and punched him several times in the face. Sylar started to laugh. What a crazy person.
Peter's hands began to glow. He was using Ted's power.
"Wait, no, no!" He yelled. Sylar got back up.
"It turns out you're the villain Peter. I'm the hero." Sylar said. He was bleeding from Peter’s punches.
"Is that so?" I asked, tapping him on the shoulder. He turned around and I punched him in the face using super speed. He fell back again.
Suddenly Hiro teleported out of nowhere. "Sylar" He said.
He turned to look at Hiro. "You."
"Hyyyyyah!" Hiro yelled, running towards Sylar with his sword. He stabbed him through the chest. Ouch. "Yatta." Hiro said, pulling the sword out. Sylar groaned, and fell down to the ground.
"Hiro!" Peter exclaimed.
"Peter Petrelli!"
"You can stop this!"
"How?"
"I need you to kill me!" Peter said.
"Three.. two.. one." I muttered. Sylar put his head up for a second, and pointed at Hiro.
He made Hiro fly backwards, but Hiro teleported away in mid air. I could have stopped that from happening but I didn't want to change the story, he might not go to Ancient Japan otherwise.
Sylar smiled, then his head fell back down.
Peter breathed loudly, freaking out just a bit.
Claire began to run over towards us finally, she had gotten the gun from her Dad, and pointed it at Peter.
"Do it!" Peter said. "Do it! You're the only one, Claire."
"Tell me there's another way, please." She said through tears.
"Shoot me, there is no other way."
"There is" I said quietly, I didn't know if they could hear me.
"What?" Peter asked. "Do you know how to stop this?"
"Yea just wait about three more seconds." I pointed into the sky, and sure enough, pretty much a second later Nathan appeared in the sky.
"There is another way, Claire." Nathan said. "The future isn’t written in stone." He pushed the gun down.
"I took his power Nathan. I can't control it. I can't do anything."
"I'm not leaving you." Nathan walked over to Peter. "There's another way to end this and you know it."
"I can't let you die."
"And I can't let everyone else." Nathan said, turning to look at Claire. "You saved the cheerleader, so we could save the world."
"I love you Nathan."
"I love you too. You ready?" He walked closer to Peter, and they flew into the air.
I stared into the sky, just like everyone else. There was a far off bang, and the sky lit up. I knew what had really happened to them.
"What happened to them?" I heard Niki ask.
Then I remembered something. "Sylar" I said. I zoomed over to Matt, who was still lying on the ground, and grabbed his gun. I walked over towards Sylar, but he was gone. I stared at the trail of blood, leading to the sewer.
"Damn." I said, going back to return the gun. I wasn't even sure I'd be able to shoot him if he was still lying there.
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Okay, I really didn't expect to be posting so soon, but I had some inspiration to post. It's not all that exciting yet, but thats because Season Two takes place four months after Season One.
But I think what I'm doing now works, I will skip through the months, but still write some of what I do in that time. Here goes:
Chapter Twenty Four
One month later…
I woke up, on the couch of Mohinder's apartment. I had stayed there to help look after Molly while Matt and Mohinder were busy working and doing other things, and I must have fallen asleep. I got up suddenly.
"Good morning." I heard Molly's voice behind me, from the table.
"Good morning. Why didn't anyone wake me up last night?" I asked.
"It was late, there was no point in waking you up to go home." Mohinder said, walking in the door. "You want breakfast?"
"Sure." I went over and sat down at the table.
I went home a bit later on. I was pretty lonely, that was why I was always helping out Matt, Mohinder and Molly whenever I could. Plus I got paid $15 bucks an hour to babysit, which worked for me.
I picked up the phone, something I had begun to do everyday. I called my sisters phone numbers, and my parents numbers, always getting nothing but dial tones. But I thought it was worth it to try anyways.
I looked at the date. December 8. I couldn't believe how long I had been in the Heroes world. I couldn't remember the exact date I had appeared here, but it was a few months for sure.
I heard a noise at the door. It sounded like a key in the lock.
"Who's there?" I asked, walking over to the door. When I saw who it was, my jaw dropped.
"LEONIE!" I exclaimed. "What the heck are you doing here?"
"Uh.. Claire? What's going on? Are we in New York? I just came back from the hospital!" She asked, sounded very confused.
"Yea, we are in New York, but wait, the hospital? What happened?" I asked, walking over to hug her.
"I was hit by a car, the doctors told me. I just got sent home today, although I didn't know how to get here. Oh, and can you explain to me something?" She asked.
"Oh, yea, sure thing."
"Why the &$^# are we in New York?"
I filled her in as best I could. She sat down on the couch, looking quite pale.
"Where's Shaun?" She asked. I knew she would, as Shaun is her fiancé and all.
"Um.. Well I'm not sure. I'm not even sure how you're even here! What exactly do you remember?" I asked her.
"Well I woke up one morning, it must have been a couple months ago, I was in a coma for a long time. I went outside, I found out we were in New York, and I was so confused. I checked the street, but since the cars were on the wrong side, I was hit. That's the last thing I remember before I woke up a couple days ago in hospital."
"Whoa! So, you're okay now, right?"
"Yea, should be."
"Good."
Later on in the week, I introduced Leonie to Matt, Mohinder and Molly. She fainted when she realised she was in the Heroes world, but the others didn't really understand. It was quite funny if you ask me. I was curious if she had superpowers, but I hadn't told her about mine yet, I figured that she should find out a bit later, since she fainted and all. It would be a big shock to hear, too.
December 21…
"Holy crap, I can't believe it's my birthday." I said.
"Me neither." Leonie said. "You're really 19."
"Actually, I'm not 100% that I am 19. I think I'm still 18, when I came here it was like.. July or something here, but back home it was just after December."
"You know how confusing you really are?" Leonie said, laughing.
"Yea, I know."
"Are we gonna actually do anything for your birthday, or not? Having cake isn't exactly a birthday party."
"I dunno, you got anything in mind? I'm stuffed with cake."
"Uh, Claire, what's with this?" Leonie asked. She had opened a drawer. It was filled with lighters. "You don't smoke do you?"
"Hell no. You don't see cigarettes around the place do you?"
"No.. but still, what is with all these lighters? You a pyromaniac?"
"Not exactly." I smiled and turned to look at her. "Well maybe a little."
I picked up a lighter and made a fireball appear in my hands. Her face was lit up from the glow of the flame.
"Cool right?" I said.
"No, actually it's hot." She said, shaking her head. "So, what, you have super powers too?"
"Apparently so. It's not all I can do either."
I showed her my super speed, and holographic projection, as well as all the element manipulations I could do.
"That's pretty damn awesome." She grinned. "Do I get powers too?"
"I have no idea. I hope so, it'd be great!"
Leonie tried like a hundred times to use a super power, but nothing seemed to work.
"This totally sucks, I'm so jealous!"
"Well, you could still have them. Maybe just not yet.. Who knows. Or you could be normal."
"Ugh, who wants that, since we are in the 'Heroes world' and all." She said.
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Hey guys, It looks like I'm back from my hiatus, time for season two, my next post will be back on track with the other people from Heroes and following the storyline.
Chapter Twenty Five
One month later…
I sat on the couch, thinking of how awesome being in the Heroes world really was. And I even got to spend Christmas with Leonie which was great, and it was a white Christmas too! Exciting stuff really.
Not much had happened in the last couple of months, Leonie got a job at some office place and that's what she's been doing. I babysat every so often too.
I was waiting for Leonie to get home. Finally she walked in, looking a bit stressed.
"Stressful day?" I asked her.
"Yea. I'm in a terrible mood, that traffic out there is insane and didn't make me feel much better."
"Oh, ok" I said, not really knowing what else to say.
She put her bag down on the table and sighed. The lights in the house began to flicker slightly, but I didn't pay much notice.
"You made dinner?"
"Oh no!" I had completely forgot and I was only gonna make things worse for her. "Sorry"
The lights flickered again, this time a lot worse.
"What's with the lights?" Leonie asked.
"I don't know, they weren't like this before."
They kept flickering, until they turned completely off and on again.
"That's really weird" I muttered.
Suddenly there was a bright light in the room, it was so bright I had to quickly shut my eyes. When I opened them again, Leonie had disappeared.
I looked around the room, my eyes getting used to the normal light again.
"Leonie? Where are you?" I asked.
"What are you talking about, I'm right here!" She exclaimed.
"Uh, you are? Where exactly?" I said, staring at the place I had heard her voice.
"What? Right here?"
"Uh, just look at yourself."
"Ahh! Where am I?"
I laughed. "I think you're invisible. That light, you were bending the light around you, to make yourself invisible. I guess you do have powers after all"
"Oh, cool, but how do I make it stop?"
I laughed again, and I tried to help her with her new found ability.
Suddenly I was knocked backwards. "Ah, what the hell?" I said.
"Uh, Claire? I think that was me, I'm really sorry."
She was visible again. "Hey I can see you!" I said. "But what was you?"
"I don't know, I felt some sort of energy forming, so I threw it away from me, and it hit you and knocked you off your chair."
"Like, a forcefield?"
"I guess so."
"Awesome. You now have to learn to control it, it may take a while." I had a huge smile on my face, this was the best thing ever.
Two months later….
A few days later I was out shopping with Leonie. I completely hated shopping, unless it was at McDonalds. I decided just to deal, since Leonie offered to pay for a movie. It was a great movie too.
I heard a bunch of yelling and loud noises coming from a nearby alleyway.
"Leonie! Do you hear that?" I asked, rushing over to the noises.
It was two guys fighting with each other.
"Oh. My. God. Is that Todd?" Leonie asked.
"Huh? What? Is what Todd?" I looked over there, and it must have been Todd’s identical twin, which of course didn't exist.
"Why the heck is he beating up some guy?"
"How the hell should I know. Todd! Is that you? What the hell's going on?"
"No, get out of here." Said the guy that was being beaten up. "Go, don't get involved."
"Like hell." I should stop saying the word hell by now.
"Leonie, now's the time to figure out how those powers of yours really work."
"Okay." She closed her eyes for a second, and when she opened them, a bright light was shining around her.
"What the? I can't see!" The Todd look a like yelled.
"Yea serves you right." I said. I walked over to him. "It can't be Todd, that makes absolutely no sense, he’s just a look a like." I said as I knocked him out. "You alright, man?" I asked the guy who got beaten up.
"Yea, I think so. Thanks." He got up and began to walk away.
"I guess our work here is done?" I said to Leonie.
"I guess."
"Hey, what's the date today?" I asked, and she told me. "Oh really, its been four months already? Sweet."
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Dude, Season Two is all over the place, pretty hard to find storylines to tag along to.. This is kind of a filler chapter to show off my new flight ability and yea, set up for the next posts to come I guess.
Chapter Twenty Six
"Hey Claire, guess what someone gave me at work today?" Leonie said, that night.
"What?"
She handed me a comic book, it was a 9th wonders comic.
"Oh, awesome!" I said.
"Yea, look at the cover" She pointed at a figure on the cover. It was a person in flames flying through the air.
"No way, what issue is this, Isaac is dead" I said, looking for the date. It was an old issue.
"I think that's meant to be you, Claire."
"You think?"
"Sure, I mean it very well could be."
"But I can't fly."
"Yea, maybe you can learn? What's the movie… Oh yea of course, Fantastic Four! I'm the invisible girl and you're the human torch, I mean our powers are way different, but similar to an extent."
"I guess." I said, opening the comic and reading. It showed me attempting to fly several times before getting it right and flying off of a 10 story building. I was excited to go and try but at the same time a bit scared.
"Let's go outside and test it out!" Leonie said.
"Are you serious?"
She pointed at the comic. It showed us both in the front yard at night time.
"Fine, fine let's go and try it out"
Once we were outside, I pulled my lighter out of my pocket and made a huge fireball cover myself in fire. Of course it didn't hurt me, I manipulated it around me, so it was just hot but no pain or burns or anything.
I took a deep breath, and tried to shoot myself into the air, but I had no clue how.
"Maybe we should go watch Fantastic Four again?" I asked, looking at Leonie.
We went back inside to watch it, and afterwards I spent hours out in the front yard trying to fly.
"Hey, I saw you hover that time!" Leonie said. She thought it was funny of course, but I kept crashing and falling over, which wasn't fun at all.
"Okay, I think I can do this, I'm gonna try from the roof this time."
"Oooo You sure?"
"No." I said, as I climbed onto the garage roof and then onto the house. I decided I would run to the other end of the house and then jump off and pray I wouldn’t break my neck.
"Here goes." I said to myself quietly. I covered myself with flames, it looked so cool.
"Please don't die!" Leonie yelled from the front yard. That made me feel absolutely great.
"I'm gonna regret this!" I yelled as I ran towards the end of the roof. I jumped off, and shot into the air. Holy crap, I was actually flying.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOO OOOOOO!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I went flying down the neighbourhood and didn't want to go back home, but eventually I did. I was a bit scared about the landing though. I hadn't perfected a landing yet.
I had reached my street, I got closer and closer to the ground.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" I screamed, and landed on the ground with a thud, just outside my house in some grass.
Leonie came rushing out. "Claire! You alright?" She helped me stand up.
"Oh, yea, I'm good." I said, a bit out of breath.
I was covered in dirt and bits of grass, but I was more or less okay. That was a rush.
I grinned. "I wanna go again!"
We went inside and I got a phone call. It was Matt.
"Hey, what's up?" I said.
"It's Molly, I just.. I don't really know what to do. Can you come over here anytime soon?"
"Sure, I'll be there soon." I replied.
I decided I would fly there, more excuses to perfect my flying ability.
I got there a few minutes later, seeing as they were in Brooklyn and so was I, it wasn’t far to go.
"Hey Matt." I said, walking inside.
"She's in her room." He said, sitting down at the table.
I walked into Molly’s room quietly, she sat in silence, eating her food.
"Hey Molly, how are you?"
"I don't know."
"Look, I know about the nightmares." She looked up at me finally.
"I don't really want to talk about it."
"Yea, I know, I wouldn't either. So let's not. Let's forget it and talk about something else instead."
We talked a bit longer about other stuff, I was trying to get her trust, since I knew everything about why she had the nightmares but I couldn’t really tell her how I knew and all that.
"Hey, do you think you could find someone for me?"
"Yea, Who?"
"My parents and my other sister, Alicia. I'm not sure where they are right now."
"You don't know where they are? Sure I'll find them for you. Do you have a picture?"
"Yea." I showed her a picture of me with my parents and my sisters.
She got an atlas out and a push pin. A few seconds later she had the push pin stuck into the atlas.
"Australia? Is that where you’re from?"
"Yea. Thanks Molly, I just needed to know where they were."
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Yays, a new post on the new forum.
Since season two is really all over the place, and its hard to stick to the existing storylines at the moment coz there’s not many people in New York anymore.. so I went off the story line.. I'll be back with the story line soon, I promise. Darn season two.
Chapter Twenty Seven
Leonie went to work in the morning, leaving me home by myself, and bored.
There wasn't many people left in New York, and the people who were in New York were busy with work and things like that so I didn’t know what to do.
I had a lazy day for once, just hanging around the house and watching movies. Until I got a phone call at about 11 o'clock in the morning.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Hello, this is John, Leonie's boss. Is this her sister?"
"Yea"
"Well do you know where she is? She didn't come in to work today."
"Oh really? I saw her leave earlier this morning."
"Oh. Well she usually calls if she's sick or something."
"She's not sick. I'm not sure where she is, when I see her, I'll tell her you rang." I hung up the phone, confused.
I dialled Leonie's number, but it went straight to message bank. Odd. I tried to think of where she could be. I racked my brains. Think dammit!
I went out to find her, flying around to places she most likely would be. I still couldn't find her, hours later. It was almost 4 o'clock. This was pointless, I knew I wouldn't find her.
Suddenly an idea popped into my head.
"No way" I muttered. "Nononono" There was one possibility that it could be. Primatech Paper. She could have been kidnapped, the same way I was.
As far as I knew, she hadn't told anyone about her abilities besides me, Mohinder, Matt and Molly, but since Mohinder was kind of working for the company now, someone could have found out about it. Dammit.
I went home, grabbed a few things and then flew on to Odessa, Texas.
I took forever. It wasn't easy flying such a long distance, I had to keep stopping every so often for breaks.
Finally I found Primatech paper, but of course it was closed, with no lights on or anything. I could break in, which would be awfully fun, but I decided against it.
I went and booked a hotel room, and stayed there for the rest of the night, what was left of it anyway. This was slightly ridiculous, since I didn't even know where my sister was, but I had to make sure.
I woke up in the morning, pumped and ready to go. I had even brought that gun I had stolen, just in case I needed it. I had it hidden in the lining of my jacket.
I walked in the doors of Primatech, a hologram over me of a guard I had seen earlier in the car park while scoping the place out.
Being quiet and suspicious was the way I'd get caught, so I walked in with a big smile on my face. "Hey" I said to some guy on the way in. "How are ya?" I grinned at the receptionist. I kept walking through the corridors.
Finally I found what I was looking for. Bob Bishop’s office. I walked in quietly, making sure no body saw me go in there. I rushed over to the cabinet on the far wall, where there were files with people's names on them. V, V, V, Voskamp there we go. I saw two Voskamps. So it was true, my sister has been kidnapped. I grabbed our files off of the cabinet. I considered burning them, but I wanted to keep them for some odd reason, so I put them in my bag. I left the room soon after that, time to find my sister.
I got lost fairly quickly, trying to remember where I was the time I was kidnapped. It was so long ago, and my memory really sucks, so I was still very lost.
"You lost?" A slightly familiar voice asked. It was Bob Bishop, who I really didn't like.
"Uh, no, I know where I am." I replied, looking around for an exit.
"Uh huh." He nodded.
"Actually maybe I am. Maybe you could help me? Where is the – Holy crap, what is that?" I said, pointing behind him. He turned to look, and I made a hologram of nothing around me.
"What?" Bob asked, turning back to me. He looked around, confused. He walked away, shaking his head. Ha. Funny. I liked messing with people that way.
I followed him for a short while, he walked around for ages. He stopped and picked something up from a room that looked like a kitchen, and walked towards a door with a coded lock on it. He looked around, and then punched a code into the door, which I didn't get to see with his arm in the way.
I followed closer, and used my super speed to get through the door before it shut. We were in another hallway, with a few rooms scattered around. Leonie must be in one of them.
Some guard came over to Bob and they said something about my sister and something about Elle. The rest wasn't important. I sat down in the hallway, with the hologram still around me. I waited a while, not sure how long it was, but finally Elle came to the door in front of me, leading to another room which I was sure my sister was in.
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Chapter Twenty Eight
I stood up, getting ready in case I needed to fight. Elle walked into the room, so I followed closely behind her. Like an idiot, I banged my elbow on the door frame, and wasn't able to stop myself from muttering "Ow."
Elle spun around, looking around suspiciously. I stayed quiet, and she finally turned back to walk through another door.
I kept a short distance from her. I saw my sister, sleeping on a bed in the room. Elle left something on the table, I wasn't really paying attention. She headed towards the door. Nooo! I'd be locked in! I used my super speed to rush past Elle and grab her keys. I still had the hologram around me, but Elle was looking straight at me because of the jingle of the keys. Crap.
"Who's there?" She asked, annoyed. She threw a lightning bolt in my direction before I had time to react.
"Yahh!" I said, stumbling. That really hurt. My hologram had disappeared. "Just me" I said.
I used my super speed to get closer to her, and hit her in the face. Evil sadistic person she was, she deserved it. But I wasn't really expecting to get hit back but I was, and I forgot to dodge it. It wasn't normal girl fighting either, no slapping faces or pulling hair for us. She hit my eyebrow, my pierced eyebrow. Ow ow ow ow, now that really hurt for sure.
I punched her in the nose, making her nose start bleeding. She looked at me with an evil look on her face, and she started to form another ball of lightning in her hand.
I looked up, seeing a smoke detector above my head. I smiled, and threw a fireball up at the ceiling before Elle could do anything, and the water began to spray everywhere, making Elle electrocute herself and fall to the ground. She got back up, looking
I looked back over at Leonie, who was waking up from the water spraying on her. The water wasn't hitting me, as I was manipulating it so it wouldn't.
"Leonie!" I said happily, rushing over to her. "Come on, let's get outta here!"
"Claire! Thank god you're here!" She said, smiling, giving me a hug.
"We have to go!" I said hurriedly. We walked out of the room, carefully stepping around Elle. "I should do a hologram"
"It's too late!" Leonie said. "Look over there."
"Crap." I muttered. A couple guards were headed in our direction.
"Which ways the exit?" Leonie asked.
"Uh" I looked around, there were three ways to go, two if you didn't include the way the guards were. "This way." I started to run down the hallway, with Leonie running next to me.
Something went shooting through the air right next to me, and then I saw another one coming, and it hit Leonie. Leonie fell to the floor suddenly.
"Leonie?"
"I'm okay." She muttered, stumbling as she stood up. I pulled something out of her shoulder, some sort of tazer. I looked back, seeing the guards holding tazer guns and they were about to shoot again.
I grabbed Leonie. "Get on my back, now!" She got on slowly, and I began to run for it. It wasn't easy, but finally I made it outside.
I flew into the air. I had bought a new lighter, a wrist contraption that worked when I flicked a switch with my thumb, it was awesome and a lot easier than pulling my lighter out all the time. Leonie was still on my back but I couldn't fly as high as I usually did, it was more difficult. Not being mean to my sister in any way, I just hadn't ever flew with someone on my back before.
I looked around, realizing a car was following us. Dammit. I flew down to the roof of a fast food restaurant and stayed there. About 5 minutes later, two guards popped out of nowhere, but I realized they came from the door on the opposite side of the roof.
"Can't catch meee" I taunted, and then I leapt off of the roof with Leonie on my back again.
I flew away as fast as I can. I stopped at the hospital, but Leonie was getting back to normal, so we continued flying towards New York.
"Ugh, I'm tired, can we stay here for the night?"
"What, here in the middle of some city we don't know the name of?"
"I should start bringing maps with me." I sighed.
We asked at a local shop, what city we were in, and got really funny looks from the shop keeper.
"Tennessee" They answered.
"Thanks." I said. I bought a US map that would be able to fold up and fit in my pocket.
I checked on the map, seeing there were a few states to travel through before making it home.
The next day in the afternoon, we made our way back to New York this time, only stopping a couple times for water, food and the bathroom.
Once we were home, it was such a relief.
After sleeping for a couple more hours, I went to Mohinder's apartment, only Mohinder wasn't there, only Matt and Molly.
"You look stressed' I said as I walked through the open front door.
"Claire, where have you been the last couple of days?"
"Oh, you know, nowhere, just saving my kidnapped sister." I said.
I knew the next day Matt would be going to Philadelphia to meet his father again, and I had already decided to tag along.
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Chapter Twenty Nine
The next day I went to the police station to wait for Matt. I finally saw him, after waiting a while.
“Hey Matt!” I said, walking over to him.
“Hi, Claire, what are you doing here?”
“I came to ask you –“ I was cut off by Nathan Petrelli.
“What do you think your doing interrogating my mother without me there?” Nathan asked.
“Relax, she didn’t give me anything.” Matt replied.
“Of course she didn’t give you anything, these people protect each other.” Nathan said.
I followed them as they walked, Matt stopped for a second to get something from a closeby desk.
“My mother’s not a killer, I’m not going to have her sit in jail for a crime she didn’t commit!”
“Neither am I. That’s why I’m going to Philadelphia, to see my father, figure this whole thing out.”
“Let me come with you.” Nathan said.
“No, you’re not a cop.”
“Oh yea, Matt that’s why I’m here.” I said quickly. “I’m coming too.”
“Listen, I’m guessing this isn’t official police business so if I’m there it won’t make a difference.”
“You don’t understand, its Molly, my father did something to her, she’s in trouble.”
“What do you mean did something to her?”
“Come here.” Matt said, walking a short distance away. “He got in her head somehow, I don’t know how he did it but I think it’s all connected, to Keito, to your mother, it could be dangerous.”
“I can take care of myself.”
Matt shook his head slightly.
“Look, I have to do this. Let me come with you.”
“Oh and me. Don’t forget me.” I said, since I was pretty much being ignored, which I was now used to.
“Who are you?” Nathan asked.
“I’m Claire. I’m a friend of your brothers.”
“I’m.—“
“Nathan” I nodded. “I know who you are, flying man.”
“Fine. We can probably get there faster if you go, Nathan. Coz you can.. uh..” He made a gesture with his head.
“I’m not a cargo jet, Parkman.” Nathan said.
“Oh please.”
“Heh. Well it would be quicker to fly. Which is what I’m going to be doing.” I grinned.
“I suppose we’ll drive.. wait you can fly too?” Nathan asked.
2 hours later, I met up with them in Philadelphia. Thanks to the map I had collected earlier, I had managed to not get lost at all.
“So, third floor and apartment number 9?” I asked.
“How did you know that?” Matt asked me.
“Um, no reason.” I replied, as we walked out of the elevator and down a hallway.
“Alright, this is it. This is where Molly said we’d find him.”
“What are you planning exactly?” Nathan asked.
“Uhh.. I’m not sure.” Matt admitted.
“You’re not sure? He just traumatized your girl, has my mother terrified, you better get your.. get your gun out.”
Matt was about to knock on the door.
“Come on.” Nathan said, putting his hand on Matt’s shoulder. “Hey. You okay?”
“When I was 13, my father ran out on us. I haven’t talked to him, I haven’t seen him.. I’ve spent half my life wondering what I’m gonna say to this guy if I ever got the chance, and now I can’t even knock on the door.” Matt said quietly.
Nathan reached out and knocked on the door.
“You’re welcome.” He said, looking at Matt. “Parkman, this is not a family reunion.”
“I know.”
“Okay, he’s not your Dad today, he is a suspect. Get your gun out.” Nathan looked at me. “You’re sure you want to come in with us?”
“Yea. No worries.” I replied.
“Police, Open up!” Matt shouted. He busted in with his shoulder.
“Who the hell are you?” Matt’s Dad.. what was his name, what was his name.. oh yea Maury Parkman shouted back, ****ing a shotgun.
I stayed behind the wall with Nathan.
“I said who the hell are you?” He repeated.
“Put the gun down and I’ll tell you.” Matt said.
“Parkman!” Nathan muttered.
“Matt? Oh my god, what.. what are you doing here?” Maury asked.
“Put the gun down!”
“Not til you tell me what the hell you’re doing here!”
“I want to know what you’re doing inside of Molly Walker’s dreams.” Matt said.
“Who?”
“And I wanna know about Keito Nakamura’s murder.”
“And while we’re at it, why is Angela Petrelli protecting you?” Nathan asked.
Matt lunged forward, knocking the shotgun out of Maury’s hands, and putting his hands behind his back.
“Wait, what are you a cop?” Maury shouted.
“Not right now I’m not, so you better start talking.” Matt said, putting handcuffs on his father.
“What are you doing?” I asked Nathan. He had picked up the shotgun and was ****ing it.
He shrugged. Matt turned to look at the sound.
“I’m good.” Nathan said.
“You got it all wrong!” Maury said.
“Is that why you’re swinging a shotgun?”
“Because of that.. On the desk.”
Nathan picked up a photo and passed it to Matt. I already knew what photo it was, with the heroes symbol drawn over it.
“They’re gonna kill me too.”
Whatever.
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Well I was kinda hoping that Claire and Nathan would have a flying race, but besides that nice post! ;D
SEASON 2 SPOILERS
Question now is if Claire is going to stop Maury, or is she going to be sucked into a nightmare of her own? I'd be quite interested to see what her nightmare would be. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have planned for season 2 though, as your options are kinda limited. Hiro spends most of the season in the past, the Bennets are in California (if I remembered that right) and Sylar is in Mexico up until the end.
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Well I was kinda hoping that Claire and Nathan would have a flying race, but besides that nice post! ;D
heh, maybe next time eh Mike :P
I have the ending of season two all figured out in my mind.
I've also written the next.. two chapters? two and half? something like that. But I gotta change a couple things before I post the next one
EDIT: I've actually written up to partway through Thirty Three, man I'm going good, hehe
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Chapter Thirty
“Tell me about Molly Walker. She’s seen this symbol, she’s seen you and she calls you the nightmare man.”
“She’s looking for me!”
“Yea, and she saw you looking back at her and now she won’t wake up, so whatever you did, undo it now!”
“I’m sorry, I’m protecting myself.”
“Protecting yourself from who?” Nathan asked.
Adam, I knew it was Adam but being stuck in a room with two mind readers, I knew I had to avert that thought.
“Which one of her kids are you?” Maury asked. “You’re the politician, right.”
“My mother is sitting in jail for Keito’s murder. They both received similar threats. Both taken from the same picture. The same photograph, you were all connected.”
“Your folks, Keito, Linderman, we found each other, years ago. We thought we could help people, save the world.”
Matt shoved Maury. “The only thing you’ve ever wanted to save, is your own ass.”
“Still angry huh Matt? You feel better slapping some cuffs on your Dad, make you feel good?”
“Oh it’s starting to, yea.”
“This is a waste of time.” Nathan said. “Just read his mind so we can get the hell out of here.”
“What did you say? You can.. read minds?” Maury asked Matt. “Yea? Go ahead.”
Nathan shrugged. “Go on.”
After a few seconds, Matt backed away, with his hands to his head. “Gahh”
“It’s painful isn’t it.”
“How do you know that?” Matt asked suspiciously. “Can you read minds too?”
“See Matt, you and I, we’re not so different after all. Now, unlock these cuffs. I’ll tell you everything I know. I promise.”
Yea right, sure sure.
Matt took the handcuffs off of Maury, who was now rubbing his wrists.
“Alright you’re gonna tell us everything, every crime, everyone you’ve ever worked with.”
“Everything.” Nathan said.
“I’m sorry” Maury said, trying to hug Matt. “I’m so sorry I left you.”
Matt pushed him away. “It wasn’t easy for me.” Maury said, sitting down.
“Don’t.”
I decided to stop listening, I knew it all already. I listened to them natter on for a little while, I was pretty much Claire the lamp at that point. I was getting ready for when Maury was going to trap Matt and Nathan in nightmares. I had to be ready for it, so that I wouldn’t get trapped too.
“Hang on, I got something I can show you.” Maury said. Aha, now’s the time. I could of course stop Matt and Nathan from going in the room, but where’s the fun in that.
“Coz it helped me understand it” Maury continued. “It’s a bunch of stuff from back then, its in here. Come on.”
Matt sighed and followed his father into another room. The door slammed shut. Nathan ran over to the door. “Matt?” He tried to open the door
“It won’t open.” I said.
Nathan gave up on the door. “Matt!” He started to push against it.
“Well you could do that of course.”
He finally got to the other side, but I knew he was now stuck in a nightmare.
Everything turned black suddenly. I closed my eyes for a second, and when I opened them I was in a nightmare. I looked up, seeing my house around me, it was on fire. I was in my bedroom.
I could hear my family screaming at me. I’d try and use my fire power, but I knew, I knew it was a nightmare, so I resisted the urge to do something.
“I know this is your nightmare that you’re creating, Maury. It won’t work on me!” I shouted.
What the hell was I supposed to do now, how was I supposed to stop it.
“Stop it! I know this isn’t real!” I kept shouting, but the nightmare wasn’t going away.
I closed my eyes, hoping I’d wake up and I’d be back to normal. It didn’t work. Noooo!
I ran through the house, I could hear my family still screaming and yelling, but they were nowhere to be seen. What the heck!
Okay I had to get out of the nightmare. I closed my eyes, imagining Maury’s apartment around me, my house wasn’t there, there was no fire, no screaming. Slowly the sounds disappeared. I opened my eyes again and I saw Maury’s apartment. I smiled. It worked.
I looked around, seeing Nathan and Matt fighting each other, hitting into the walls and breaking tables that were in the way.
“Ahh” I said, moving out of the way, to a safe distance. “Matt! Nathan! Wake up!” I yelled, knowing it would make no difference. “Holy crap!”
“Wake up!” They were coming my way again, so I moved out of the way. I picked up a lamp and chucked it at them, but it missed. Good, I didn’t want to have to explain that later.
Now Matt was waking up. “Hey!” He tried to yell, but Nathan was trying to choke him.
“Stop, Nathan, Nathan wake up!” He muttered.
I grabbed Nathan and pulled him away from Matt. They both lay on the floor, looking confused.
“You guys alright?” I asked, crouching down.
“What happened?” Nathan asked.
“Your Dad, he did this to you. I managed to pull myself out of my nightmare.”
“Now we know why Molly calls him the nightmare man.” Matt said.
“But you stopped it, how did you do that?” Nathan asked Matt, then he turned to me. “And how about you?”
“Okay, I can’t really explain this to you, at least not know, but I already knew it was going to happen.”
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Been a while since I updated..
Chapter Thirty One
Nathan helped Matt to his feet.
“He’s gone by the way. I saw him leave.” I said.
Matt started rummaging through things, looking for something.
“What are you looking for?” Nathan asked, holding his head.
“We don’t know where he went”
I cleared my throat, not wanting to admit I knew where he went.
“Why he’s doing this” Matt continued. “Something there”
“What?”
“I knew this was a con. I knew I couldn’t trust him.” Matt said, throwing a bunch of papers to the floor.
Nathan picked up a photo. “Well we know where he’s headed.” It was a picture of Bob Bishop with the symbol written over him. “That’s Bob, he was one of them.”
“He runs the company.”
“Looks like he’s next.” Nathan said.
“Mhmm” I said. “So are we gonna go to Hartsdale now?”
“How did you know Bob was in Hartsdale?”
“Um.. “ I paused. “Let’s go.” I began to walk out of the apartment building. “I’ll go with you guys, in the car. I’m tired.”
“Okay then” Matt said.
“So, Claire, you said you were friends with Peter.” Nathan said.
“Yea, I’m friends with him.”
< He shouldn’t say “were” since Peter is still alive. > I thought.
“What? Peter is alive?” Matt asked.
My eyes went wide. “Huh?” I said. “So how about that weather out there, when I first got to New York it was freezing.”
Nathan tried to continue the conversation, but I got my music out so I wouldn’t be talked to.
The trip home seemed a lot longer than the time it took to get to Philadelphia. Eventually I fell asleep in the car, it wasn’t even late or anything, I was just tired.
I woke up about an hour or so later.
“Maybe we should call, before we just turn up at his door?” I suggested.
“Good idea.” Matt replied, stopping at a pay phone and calling the facility.
“Indeed.” I said.
Finally we got to the facility, Matt got instructions from the front desk and we went off in search of Bob.
“I’ll let them explain it to you.” Bob said loudly, walking around the corner with Mohinder and Niki. “Officer Parkman, Mr Petrelli.” He said, shaking their hands. I was grateful he had forgotten to mention me.
“Matt? Claire?” Mohinder said, confused. He looked at Matt. “I thought you were gonna find your father?”
“I did. He attacked Angela Petrelli, my father killed Keito Nakamura.” Matt said.
Ha, no he didn’t, but they still didn’t know that.
“He’s killing them all.” Matt continued. “And now, he’s coming to kill Bob.” He held up the photo of Bob.
“Perhaps we should talk in my office?” Bob said.
Just as we got to the door, my phone began to ring from my pocket. Bugger.
“Gah, alright I’ll catch up with you guys later.” I said, taking my phone out of my pocket and answering. My phone read “Home” and said the phone number. “Hello?” I said, walking away from the others.
“Hey Claire, its Leonie, just calling to check up on you I suppose.”
“I’m alright, I’m in New York now, in a place called Hartsdale.”
“Where’s that?” Leonie asked.
“Somewhere in New York?” I laughed, as I continued to walk through the hallways. “I have no idea. You’d have to look it up. I don’t think its that far away..”
“Alright. When will you be back?”
“Soon. Don’t worry about me.”
“What happened in Philadelphia, you said it was important.”
“It was. But it’s a long story, I’ll tell you all about it later.” I sat down in the hallway. “I should probably go, I think.”
“Ah, alright. Take care, be careful!”
“I will. See you soon.” I said my goodbyes and hung up the phone.
I looked around as I stood up, realising I had taken too many turns and forgotten the way back. Darn it. Finally Mohinder came around the corner close to me. Phew.
“Mohinder! Phew, I was getting lost.” I said, smiling. “Are you by yourself?” I asked.
“No, Niki is with me.. She must be back there. Niki?” He called out, and began to walk back in the way he came. I followed.
“Is everything alright?” Mohinder asked Niki.
She looked behind her, then back at Mohinder. “Let’s go.”
“Hi Jess-- Niki. I don’t think we’ve met properly.” I said, as we walked through the hallways. “I’m Claire.” Crap, I was an idiot, I had almost called her Jessica.
She looked at me suspiciously. “How’d you know my name?”
“Um.. I read your name badge.”
“I’m not wearing one.”
“Purple Monkey Dishwasher.” I said.
“Not again!” Mohinder muttered, giving me a strange look.
“Indeed.”
We got to a room that looked just like a lab, probably coz it was, duh. Anyways that’s clearly not the point. Mohinder went over to a cabinet to get the virus out.
“All this trouble over one drop of liquid.” Niki said.
“The virus could kill an entire species.” Mohinder replied.
“Or it could stop Maury and save us all.”
That reminded me, I was sure we were being watched by Maury. Weren’t we? Or was that later? I was confused, me and my bad memory.
“You’re wrong.” Niki said. She was talking to no one. “They said that they would help me.”
“Niki what are you talking about?” Mohinder asked.
“I’m sick! I’m still sick.” She said, staring at nothing, like there was a person there. It was Maury doing this. “Because you’re dead!” She was seeing D.L. standing there, if my memory served me correctly.
Mohinder looked at her confused. I was surprised he hadn’t figured it out yet, that it was Maury. Come on Mohinder! I walked over to Mohinder, purposely walking through where D.L. must have been standing.
Niki looked at me, confused.
“What?” I asked.
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Good stuff as always Claire. I like you've started the idea of Matt reading your mind, he must be really confused! :P
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Chapter Thirty Two
Niki started yelling all of a sudden, and fell down to the floor, like she was holding someone up. Man this was so confusing without being able to see DL there.
“Niki, you’re talking to yourself.” Mohinder said, crouching down and holding her hand. “I think its Maury, we need to call Bob.” Niki stood up, an angry look creeping over her face.
She punched Mohinder, making him fly across the room.
My eyes went wide, how could I FORGET this part! She broke his freaking nose. Geez, I’d get killed!
“Oh crap” I muttered.
Niki walked towards me, and punched. I used my speed to get nimbly out of the way.
“Oh no you don’t.” I knew better than to go against her with her super strength, I sure didn’t want a broken nose. She picked up the virus filled needle. Eeep, I had to get out of there.
I used my speed again to get out of the room and run away.
I got lost fairly quickly of course, but I had to get to Bob’s office before Niki did. I finally found the right way to get there, and I rushed there as fast as I could. The damn door was locked. Damn it!
I moved back down the hallway, and projected a hologram around me of an empty hallway. There was no way I wanted to fight Niki.
She got to the door and started punching away at it, she would be able to get through fairly quickly. Maury came from around the corner, watching Niki punching the door, he would probably be able to figure out I was here, I was glad he was busy making Niki crazy instead.
The door busted inwards, pieces flying everywhere. Maury turned around and started to walk away. Good.
“Stay back Nathan.” I heard from inside the room.
“I got it.” Nathan replied. “Don’t do it Niki, this isn’t you.”
I crept inside the room, leaving the hologram around me because I knew it was safer.
“Don’t do it!” Nathan repeated.
“How can you defend him, he killed D.L!” Niki said.
“I didn’t kill anyone.” Bob said. “It’s Maury, he’s gotten inside of your head!”
“Listen to me, this is a nightmare, this isn’t you, okay, don’t be his puppet, you’re stronger than this!” Nathan told her.
“You came here to get control of your life, don’t let Maury undo all of that!” Bob said loudly.
“Listen to me, listen to me. Think of your son. Think of Micah. Think of your boy.”
And with that, Niki stabbed herself in the arm with the needle.
I dropped the hologram, but I wasn’t noticed.
Niki fell down to the floor. “I couldn’t get the nightmare out. I didn’t know what else to do. I had to stop myself.” She said, a tear rolling down her face.
I left the room, planning to go home, but I ran into Matt.
At first I didn’t notice him there, I was too busy in my own thoughts, wishing I could go HOME home, back to Australia since I missed the rest of my family.
<America is great and all, but I want to know where my parents really are, back in the real world. How am I supposed to explain this to Mohinder, Matt and the others, they’d never understand about me watching a show on TV they happen to be the stars of.> I was thinking.
I looked up realising Matt was looking at me, a strange confused look on his face.
“You’re not.. reading my thoughts are you?” I asked nervously.
“Um.. no.”
“Tell the truth Matt.” I said.
“Fine, okay I heard it. “Back in the real world” “TV show we happen to be the stars of”? Your thoughts make no sense.” He said.
I looked around, we weren’t far away from Bob’s office.
“Okay. I’ll try and explain, but not here.” We walked further down the hallway and turned a corner. I stopped, trying to think of what to say.
“Well?” He asked.
“I’m thinking!” I said. “But I suppose youuuu already know that.”
“Sorry.”
“Alright. I realise I have no way to explain this. Can’t you just stay out of my head?”
“I try, but sometimes it’s accidental.”
“Surely. Look, I have a lot going on right now, I will explain this in time, but not now, and not here. I’m.. I’m leaving, I’m going to go home now.” I turned to leave.
“And stay out of my head.” I added.
The exit was back in the direction I came from, so I walked past Bob’s office.
“Claire, wait!” Someone called. I figured it was Matt but the voice was different.
I stopped and turned. “What is it?” I realised it wasn’t Matt after all, it was Bob. “What do you want?”
“To talk.” He said, gesturing to his office.
I sighed. “Whatever.” I followed him into his office and he shut the door. Everyone else was gone. “So what is it?”
“I just got told about your escapades down at the other facility in Odessa.”
“Oh, that.” I said.
“Yes. It seems you met—“
“Your daughter Elle?” I interrupted. “Yea. I did. So?”
“Well, you used an impressive amount of power, I suppose I’m asking you to join us here at the company.”
“Even though I kicked your daughter’s ass?” I said, trying to keep a straight face. “You’re kidding right? Look, the answers no. I’m not going to work for you.”
“You know, I had a feeling you’d say that.”
“Gee what gave you that impression.” I rolled my eyes. “My sister was kidnapped!”
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Kill Bob! He has it coming! ;)
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Kill Bob! He has it coming! ;)
Tempting, Tempting. I'll think about it :P haha
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Chapter Thirty Three
I walked over to the door, ready to leave.
“What if I was to say I have a deal for you. That your sister would be safe, we’d leave her alone, but only if you worked for us.”
“That’s bullsh—“
“No. It isn’t. It’s simple really. A job here, and your sister is safe.”
“Fine. I’ll do it. For her, no other reason.” I said, slightly angrily. I was mad, I didn’t want to work here, it was a crazy idea.
“I notice you stole you and your sister’s records from the Company also.”
“I burnt them, you can’t have them back” I lied. They were sitting on my desk at home, I hadn’t had the chance to look through them yet.
“All I’ll need from you now, is your phone number and then you can go home. I’ll call you when you’re needed.” He handed me a pen and a piece of paper.
“Right.” I hesitated, but then wrote down my number. “Hey, I forgot to ask. Do I get paid?”
I left the facility, my head was a jumble of thoughts, this was such a bad idea, but at least Leonie would be safe.
I flew home, since it was easier than getting a taxi or whatever.
“Ah, you’re back!” Leonie said as I walked through the door. She looked confused, probably coz of my angry expression. “Everything.. okay?”
I explained to her the deal I made. I told her how confused I was but I needed to make sure she was safe.
“I say don’t do it, don’t worry about me!” She said
“I can’t let you get kidnapped again! I want you safe!”
“Look, little sister, I’m the older one, I’m supposed to be the one keeping YOU safe.”
“Probably. But listen, I have to do this, to help you. Whether we like it or not, I have to.”
The next day, I got a phone call from Bob.
“You’re needed, I booked you on a flight to Costa Verde.”
“No need for a flight, I can get there my own way. Just tell me where to meet you.”
I was told directions of where to meet with him, and I checked on my map so I knew where to go.
I went outside, and flew off in the air, in the direction of Costa Verde. It took me ages but finally I got there. I went to the meeting spot. I wasn’t told much though, so I didn’t know who’d be there.
“Okay, I’m here, now what?” I said to Bob.
“We’re waiting for Mohinder. He should be here soon.”
“Right. So why are we in Costa Verde?”
“You’ll be working with Elle.”
“Seriously? Do I have to?” I protested. I never really liked Elle. “Don’t you pair people who have powers with other people who don’t have powers?”
“Usually. But you’ll be working with Elle and Mohinder. Safer that way.”
“So they’re my babysitters? Oh joy.”
“Ah, there he is.” Bob said. “Welcome to Costa Verde.” He walked over to Mohinder.
“Claire? What are you doing here?” He asked.
“She’s working with you.”
“Seriously.” Mohinder looked confused.
“By the way, I’m as confused as you. I didn’t get told much.”
“How are we going to do this?” Mohinder asked Bob.
“Swiftly. We grab Claire Bennet, we take out her father, we get out.”
“By take out, you mean kill.”
“It is a euphemism.” Bob said.
Achoooo I sneezed while Mohinder said something.
“I never agreed to take out anybody.” He finished.
“You were loyal to Bennet, I get that, but the two of you were going to take down the company. Well you made the right choice in telling me the truth.”
“I’m not choosing sides. This is about Claire’s blood curing Niki. I’m just trying to do the right thing for everyone.”
“That’s what I like about you Dr Suresh. Your moral compass always points true North.”
What the hell was that supposed to mean?
“Which is why you’re going to get a new partner, one who can execute. One who’s compass points North, North West.”
We were walking towards Elle, she was sunbaking.
“I hope you’re using sunscreen.”
“Ugh, Overprotective much?”
“Dr Suresh, I would like you to meet my daughter, Elle. And Claire, you already met her.”
“Ha. Yea.” I said.
“Your daughter?” Mohinder asked. “She’s the executioner?”
“What’s your super power, punching bag?” Elle asked. She looked at me. “You again. I’ll play nice so long as someone’s around.” Ugh god she annoyed me.
“Have you been working on your sharp shooting? I wouldn’t want you to get to close to Bennet.”
“Hey fight club. Check this out.” She said to Mohinder.
She pointed at a glass filled with some alcoholic drink and zapped it with electricity. It caught on fire.
“Shocking…” I said sarcastically.
She blew on her finger as if it was a gun. What a total moron.
We walked to a hotel room nearby.
A little while later, Mohinder got a phone call, once he was finished talking he came back inside from the balcony.
“That was Bennet.”
“Does he know we’re here?”
“No. He just wanted to know some information, a location of a boy.”
Elle was putting bullets in a gun, while Mohinder was putting on a gun holster. Crazy idiot.
“Maybe we can use this to our advantage.” Mohinder continued
“How so?” Bob asked.
“We feed him a false location, we isolate him. We get him away from Claire, we don’t have to kill him.”
“Do you know what happens when you change your plans mid stream?” Elle said, she was annoying and wouldn’t stop touching Mohinder. I rolled my eyes.
“No.”
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I say again: kill Bob, he has it coming! And kill Elle too! ;)
Nice to see you getting involved with the Bennet family. Hopefully things will work out better with you there.
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haha this is great, i love how you hate elle, so funny
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((Okay, guys, its been a long time. A really long time. I think I gave up on this because I ran out of inspiration or something... now that season three has started it kicked my brain into gear. Excuse me while I say... HOLY CRAP MY LAST CHAPTER WAS POSTED JUNE 9TH! :o Definately a long time.
I've been checking to see if I still have readers, so I have a few, thats alright. Feel free to comment, coz I need the comments, here or in PM, I don't mind! Suggestions are good too. I decided I will update quicker than FOUR MONTHS!
But I'm not sure how long it will be between chapters.))
The long awaited (:P) Chapter Thirty Four...
“Alright, let’s go.” Elle said. The three of us, me, Elle and Mohinder walked outside and got in a car.
“Meet you there.” I said, getting ready to fly away, flicking my lighter and creating a small flame in the palm of my hand.
“You can’t just go off some place without us.” Elle said.
I grinned. “Watch me.” A few seconds later I was zooming through the air. I had no intention of following any orders coming from anyone working with the company, especially from Elle.
I knew exactly where I was going, I had even already looked at a map and figured out a way there. The corner of Ocean Ave and Fourth Street. Lucky my memory wasn’t always terrible, when it came to Heroes.
I landed across the street and walked over, seeing West and Noah Bennet. Noah was talking on his mobile, I knew it was Mohinder.
He said something and stood up, letting West roll away and stand up.
“What’s going on?” West demanded.
“Claire’s in danger. I need your help.”
“Hi there.” I said, strolling over. “I think I can help.”
“Who are you?” West asked me.
“Hi West. I’m Claire. Yes, another Claire. I’m uh… an old friend?” I raised my eyebrow. “How about we walk?” I gestured with my hands.
I turned to Noah. “I’m sort of.. working with the company. I got forced into it but I have no intention of really helping them. And Elle…” I sighed. “She annoys me, lets leave it at that.”
“Where are we going? You said on the phone..” West started to say.
“I’m getting my car, I’m meeting Mohinder Suresh. I need you as backup, I have a plan.” He explained a few details of his plan and we continued walking.
A few minutes later Noah was driving away, leaving me and West alone. “You fly too, huh?” He asked.
“No. I don’t.” I said as I launched into the air with the flames around me.
“That’s cool, but doesn’t it get annoying?”
“Well it’s not very good for stealth, if that’s what you mean.” I said loudly over the wind
We followed Noah’s car through the air. He stopped to talk to Mohinder, but a few minutes later he was moving again, with Mohinder in the car. Finally they stopped and got out, Mohinder pointing a gun at Elle. We were close enough to see but not be spotted.
I nodded at West and landed close by. He flew off to a short distance away, just as we had discussed.
“Whoa, sorry I’m late.” I said, jogging up to Elle. She had electricity formed in her hand, walking over to Noah. She turned to me, distracted, as West flew down to get her, hitting into Noah’s parked car.
West rolled over and stood up, Elle seemed to be unconscious.
“Real nice moves.” I said, rolling my eyes. West looked like he was in pain from the fall.
Mohinder and Noah were fighting, Noah wrestling to get the gun from him. He got a punch to the face, to which he retaliated and hit Mohinder in his broken nose. Ouchies. Now Noah was pointing the gun at Mohinder.
“You lie to me? You betray me? Come after my daughter?” He yelled angrily, clicking the gun. “How did you think it was gonna end?”
I knew he didn’t shoot him, but I was trying to think of what WOULD happen if Mohinder was shot. I had no idea.
“Mr Butler! What are you doing?” West asked.
“Shush, I’m trying to watch…” I said. West just gave me a confused look.
Noah put the gun back to safety mode, clicking it. Mohinder breathed a sigh of relief. “No ones taking my little girl!” He yelled, kicking Mohinder.
“Badass.” I muttered. I walked over to Noah. “Anyone ever tell you that you’re a badass?” He just looked at me, and told West to pick Elle up.
Mohinder looked up at me. “What are you doing…” He asked, his hands covering his face.
“Being badass?” I said with a grin, even though I wasn’t doing a single thing that was badass.
About 10 minutes later we were back at the Bennet house. Noah rushed in while West was picking Elle up out of the car.
“Sandra! Claire!” Noah yelled.
I waited for West before walking inside. The house was even nicer in real life.
“Hi Mrs Butler. It’s good to, er, see you again.” It would have been really strange for Claire’s Mum, seeing Claire’s boyfriend holding some random unconscious girl. So weird.
“Mr Muggles doggy bath!” I said, not realising I had spoken out loud. Noah gave me a strange look before asking Sandra where it was.
I helped West strap Elle into a chair. West took off her shoes and put her feet in the doggy bath. Noah sprayed her with a hose that came out of the sink. Weird American inventions.
Finally Elle woke up, looking annoyed, trying to escape.
“I need to speak to your father.” Noah said patiently.
“What do you think, this is my first day?” Elle retorted, forming electricity in her hands, and electrocuting herself. She screamed in pain. Ouchies. It’s totally a different story when you know its special effects, but this was right in front of me! Totally awesome.
“Stings like a b***h doesn’t it?” Noah said.
What a great line. I tried to resist laughter but I started to almost giggle.
“I know all about your ability, Elle.” Noah said, telling her a story about the testing Elle went through. Totally awesome. “Why do you think I never let the company anywhere near Claire? I didn’t want her to become you.”
Total awesomeness. Did I mention that fact already? Ah yes, probably.
“I have a plan!” I said, as a light bulb flashed over my head. “Just, uh, do whatever it is you were about to do.” I walked away, knowing I’d be getting strange looks.
"Hang on a second.." Noah said. "I think I'd like to hear it. This plan of yours."
I stopped and quickly explained. He had a lot of questions for me throughout the explanation. "Just trust me, alright?" I finally said, as I left the Bennet house.
After flying for a bit, I walked into the hotel room where Bob, Elle, Mohinder and I were in earlier. And sure enough, Bob was in there with Claire. He left the room that Claire was in, so I snuck in.
Claire looked surprised. “Claire?” She was definately confused.
“Hi.” I whispered. “Listen, I don’t have much time.” I started to untie her wrists and feet so she could stand up out of the chair she was strapped to. “I’m going to take your place.” I concentrated on a hologram, putting it around me, so I looked just like Claire Bennet. “Now go, go home or something, just get the heck away from here.”
“Thank you.” She said. She got to the door and turned back. “Will you be alright?”
I nodded. “Of course, now go.”
Bob came back into the room, holding his cell phone. Heh, cell phone.
“Did I hear you talking to someone?” He asked, glancing around suspiciously.
“My invisible friend. She’s crazy!” I suddenly realised the slight flaw in my plan. I was creating a hologram of myself being tied to the chair, but in order for Bob to let me stand up, he would have to untie my hands, which weren’t really tied!
A dilemma! I stood up, using a hologram to make it seem I almost had super strength, pulling my hands and legs out from being tied up.
Bob looked very confused at this point.
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Claire is back! With a vengeance! ;)
Cool update Claire, it's always fun to see Noah being badass! :happy34:
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awesome! lol gotta love our claire, never thinking things through, always screwing something up haha (story claire, not real claire...well both really, but i mean story claire haha)
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clllllllearrrrrrrrr
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Lol Russell... uh.. thanks for the comment? :P
Yes, its an update, people, holy crap!
Chapter Thirty Five
“What’s going on here?” Bob asked.
That was Mohinder’s cue to walk in the building. Bob turned to him. “We have to go. Now. Get Claire, watch her.” He pointed at me. I smiled innocently.
I decided to co operate as Mohinder tied my wrists back up and we walked outside to a van. We drove for a while and finally stopped, near the beach, where Noah, West and Elle were waiting.
They let me out of the van, and I got ready for a fight. “It doesn’t have to be this way, Noah!” Bob said loudly.
I looked at Noah, he could see the real me and not the hologram of Claire. He slightly nodded at me, I nodded back and smiled.
Bob untied my wrists and let me go, so I started walking. A second later, Noah let Elle go, and she walked towards me. Me and Elle stared each other down and continued walking. I got to Noah. “It’s alright, Claire should be at home, right now. Hologram going on, right now.” I said, as I created a hologram around us, of Claire hugging Noah, West grabbing Claire and flying away.
I knew what Elle was about to do of course. She threw electricity in the air at West and Claire, but it was just a hologram. I made sure the hologram people fell down.
“Claire!” Noah shouted, looking at me.
“It’s all working the way it should.” I said quietly. “You need to get the hell out of here.”
He didn’t leave, instead pointed his gun at Elle and Bob.
“How does it happen, what happens next?” He demanded. “I’ve seen the painting, just tell me what happens!”
“I probably shouldn’t tell you that.” I said.
“You think I kill Bob, don’t you? Something along those lines? Is that right?”
“I can’t tell you! Shush, they’ll hear you!”
“It doesn’t matter. Turn off the hologram. Do it now!” He said, turning and shooting Elle, hitting her in the shoulder.
I had turned off the hologram when he told me, so now we were all visible.
“Elle!!” Bob yelled, running to her.
“No matter what I do, we’ll always be running. But if you die, Bob, the company dies with you.” He pointed the gun at Bob.
I breathed a deep breath. I couldn’t believe what I was about to do. I had brought a gun, a gun I had kept in my possession for a long time with no intention of using it. I clicked it into place and pointed it.
“Please, don’t do this” Mohinder said.
Noah clicked the gun. I turned to look at Mohinder and shot the gun. No, I wasn’t aiming at Mohinder.
I shot Bob, and he slumped to the ground. Holy crap. I didn’t kill him, I just hit him in the arm because I clearly suck at aiming.
Mohinder had his gun, ready to shoot Noah, but was totally shocked by what I had done.
“No!” Noah yelled, turning to Mohinder, getting ready to shoot. I couldn’t let either of them shoot each other. Ah crap, I thought, as they both pulled the trigger, pointing at each other. My first instinct was to save Noah, as he was the one who was supposed to die here today, so I used my super speed to catch Mohinder’s bullet from his gun.
Apparently I’m faster than a bullet, but maybe I’m not fast enough for two bullets shot at the same time. I had assumed I would save one person at least, and the bullets would miss me. I realised my mistake as the bullet hit me….
An unknown time later, I woke up. I got up, coughing.
“Here, drink this.” It was Claire Bennet. I breathed a sigh of relief.
“Holy crap, you scared me. I thought I was at the company or something.” I said as I grabbed the water off of Claire and drank it quickly. “Wasn’t I dead?”
“Yes. Claire’s blood saved you.” Noah said. “It was her idea.”
I grinned. “Thank you! Thanks heaps.” I reached out and hugged Claire, thinking about how weird it was that I was actually hugging Claire Bennet. “You know, I think it was actually your bullet that killed me! But it could have been Mohinders.. I’m not sure…” I scratched my neck, realising that the marks from my time at the Company were gone.
“Tell me, Claire. Were Bob and Elle supposed to die there. What about me, was I supposed to die? The painting..” He showed me a picture on his laptop, a painting of him with a gunshot through his eye, and West and Claire in the background.
“I can’t tell you.” I stared at the painting.
“You saved my life, didn’t you? I was supposed to die.”
“Yea. Okay, you happy now? You were supposed to die. And be brought back by Claire’s blood, but you were going to be stuck in a cell by the company. I suggest you be careful who you let in the house.”
“We should move.”
“NO!” I almost shouted. “Sorry. I don’t think you should move, just stay careful. Oh crap, what’s the date?”
“You’re a very confusing girl.” Noah said, and then told me the date.
“Yea. I know. Listen, I have to get to Texas, can I borrow a map?”
“Texas?” Claire asked.
“Yep, Odessa. Where you used to live. I have to go save your other Dad. Nathan.”
“What are you talking about?”
I borrowed a map from them, trying to change the subject but of course they wanted to know how I knew the things I knew. It was way too hard to explain. I thanked them again for the help and for bringing me back to life. I even got to keep the bullet that had killed me. I put it in my pocket, it was kind of cool.
“Wait, why are you going to Odessa? What’s going to happen? Do you know the future or something?” Claire asked me.
“I’m sure I can tell you eventually. But for now, I have to go and help Nathan. I’ll keep you updated.” I got her phone number and told her I’d call her soon to tell her what happened. “Just make sure you watch the news.” I grinned and walked out of the Bennet house, patting Mr Muggles on the way out, just because I could.
I got out my mobile phone and dialled my sisters number. “Hey, Leonie?”
“Claire! How goes things in California?”
“Great, I saved some lives, shot some people, you know, the usual.”
“Yes.. the usual… tell me all about it later, okay?”
“Sure. Now, are you in Texas yet?”
“Yea. Got in this afternoon. I’m waiting at the diner.”
“Get to Primatech Paper. I’ll meet you there, okay?” I said my goodbyes and hung up the phone, and jumped into the air, flying away to Texas.
It was going to take me a while, so I had to hurry the heck up. I wasn’t sure how much time I exactly had, I just had to hurry.
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I reached out and hugged Claire, thinking about how weird it was that I was actually hugging Claire Bennet.
hahaha, hayden panatierre eh claire lol
cool chapter, interesting how you tried to change things, you really hate bob and elle eh lol
cant wait for more
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Nice to see Claire back in the thick of the action, saving lives and shooting people, the usual. ;D
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(Ugh, had to use note pad for this. Evil, evil note pad. But it's all good. :) I'm so close to the end of season two.)
Chapter Thirty Six
I landed in a park and walked a couple blocks to Primatech Paper. Leonie was sitting on a bench waiting for me.
“Finally.” She smiled and hugged me. “So, what do we do now?”
“I think we’re early. We need to wait for Adam and Peter to show up.”
I had already explained to her earlier what was going to happen today. I was a bit nervous because I really, really didn’t want it to end up being my fault that the virus got out.
I pulled my phone out of my pocket, and dialled Matt Parkman's number, knowing that he was going to come here with Nathan a bit later on. There was no answer. Damn. Oh well.
“Do you have a plan?” Leonie asked a few minutes later.
I snapped out of my daydream. “Not really.” I admitted. “Not a very good one, anyway.”
"Great." My sister said.
"Adam and Peter should be getting here soon" I said, glancing at my watch, although I didn't know the exact time I expected them to show up.
"Over there!" My sister whispered, grabbing my arm. We glowed for a second, and then turned invisible.
Adam and Peter were walking into a warehouse part of Primatech. We decided to follow close behind. Adam was talking to Peter, but a few seconds later Hiro Nakamura was on the floor, seemingly unconscious. I had pretty much forgotten about that until now.
"Alright." I said as I rushed over to Hiro, trying to wake him up.
Finally he woke up, a few minutes later.
"I think I have an idea. Hiro, in a few minutes, Nathan Petrelli and Matt Parkman will be out the front. Go and meet them, alright? We'll go towards Adam and Peter."
I explained a little bit more of my plan, and filled in Hiro who was a little confused, and hadn't met my sister before.
Hiro walked away towards the exit.
Me and Leonie ran to catch up to Adam and Peter as they were already gone.
We caught up with them in a hallway a couple floors down.
"Take care of that, will you?" I heard Adam say. I turned a corner and there they were. We were back to being invisible, so there was no chance we'd be spotted.
Peter threw a electricity bolt at a panel on the wall, and the alarm stopped.
They were talking, but I couldn't hear them. I didn't want to get too close just yet. Peter might accidentally hear my thoughts or something, and that would not be good.
I felt like a stalker.
Peter was concentrating on opening the vault door. I was tempted to yell out "Don't blow a fuse, buddy."
The vault was open, finally. "Go. Get the virus." Peter said, breathing heavily.
Hiro appeared suddenly, in front of the vault. "I must stop you, Kensei!"
Adam brought out his sword, but Peter telekinetically slammed Hiro into the wall.
"He's going to keep at it, Peter. Unless you do something about it."
I nodded to my sister, and we got out of hiding, but we were still invisible.
Leonie's hands glowed with light.
Peter was starting to choke Hiro with his telekinesis.
"Peter" I said in a deeper voice than usual.
He turned to look over at us, but did not see us. I didn't think he could use two powers at once, so our thoughts would be safe for now.
Leonie pushed her hands out in front of her, her fingers splayed. Light shot out of her hands straight at Peter.
"Yahh!" He shouted, because he was temporarily blinded. Hiro crumpled to the ground, released from the telekinetic hold.
"Be careful." I warned Leonie.
"I know." She said.
Peter turned to us, now he was using his mental abilities. "Claire. Leonie. Why don't you just show yourselves. I'm trying to stop the virus, don't try and stop me."
He pushed his hand out in front of him, making me and Leonie fly backwards. We both stood up quickly, although the landing did hurt a bit.
She prepared to send another light beam or two towards Peter, but Matt appeared and took over, using his mental abilities to try and stop Peter.
I used my super speed to rush straight past Peter and into the vault. Hiro had already teleported into the vault. He was having a heated conversation with Adam, and Adam was holding the virus.
I rushed past him, and grabbed the virus out of his hand. I was holding a glue stick, I replaced the virus in his hand with it.
I was quick enough to replace it, but not without being noticed. I put a hologram around it, so even if Adam looked at it, he would be looking at the virus.
He whirled around and looked at me, but he could only see the wall behind me. "What?"
Hiro said something in Japanese, before grabbing Adam's shoulder and teleporting away.
I walked to the door of the vault, just as Peter and Nathan came inside, with Matt and Leonie not far behind. I turned off the hologram and held out my hand.
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Chapter Thirty Seven
“Is that it? The virus?” Nathan asked.
“Where did those guys go?” Matt asked.
“They’re gone.” I said. I gave the virus to Peter.
“Thanks. I saw what this could do. I almost..” Peter shook his head slightly.
“Peter, you’re not responsible for what might’ve happened.” Nathan said.
“What I don’t get is, you’re a mind reader. How the heck did you not know what Adam was planning to do?” I asked, raising my eyebrow at Peter. “I mean, I’m not a mind reader and I… nothing.”
“You came here to destroy the virus, so finish the job.” Nathan said.
“Alright. Stand back.” Peter said as he used his radiation ability to destroy the virus in the palm of his hand. It turned to dust, and just blew away into the air.
“What the hells going on? Your mother, my father. God knows what else they’ve done, how long are we going to have to clean up their mess?”
“Matt, you’re right.” Nathan nodded. “We’ve been used, manipulated by these people. Well it ends, right here. No more secrets.”
“So what do you wanna do?” Peter asked.
Before he could continue, I interrupted by muttering “Press conference.”
He looked at me suspiciously for a second, like he didn’t hear me correctly and said “We take this all public. Expose them for who they really are. I’m going to call a press conference. Matt, I need your help. Make sure everyone listens to me.”
They started to walk out the door, and I took a deep breath.
“Nathan.” I said.
He turned to look at me as we walked. “I need to tell you something, and its important.”
“Yea? What is it?” He asked.
I searched for the right words in my head, but my brain wasn’t helping me very much. “Something.. bad is going to happen to you. I, uh, I…” I shook my head.
Matt looked at me, as if he was reading my mind. “Nathan’s going to get shot?”
I nodded. “Yea. Listen, if there was ever a time you had to trust me, its right now.”
“What are you talking about?” Nathan asked.
“The press conference. Near the end of your speech, you get shot.”
“How could you possibly know something like that?”
“Well. I guess its time to reveal this. I’m from the future. In a normal world, that might seem kind of crazy. In fact it still seems crazy. I know its crazy. But listen to me, do you want to go and get shot? Get killed?” I watched his expression, he looked very confused. “Didn’t think so. Let me help you.”
“What do you suggest we do?” He asked.
I explained my plan to them, they thought I was insane. But I was lucky that Matt and Peter were mind readers, because they knew that I believed in what I was saying.
We drove to the police station, Nathan got everything ready for the press conference.
“Listen to me, Claire. If I don’t get shot… I’m having you committed to a mental hospital.”
I grinned. “That’s fine with me.”
“Alright. I’m ready when you are.” Leonie said.
I glanced around me, no one was looking. “You ready, Nathan? In about three seconds, I’ll be you and you’ll be me, thanks to my hologram ability.”
“Sure. Go ahead.” He said, handing out a piece of paper to me. He had written down a speech he was planning on saying at the conference.
“Thanks.” I concentrated on the holograms, making the air around us shimmer as the hologram formed around us, making us look like we were morphing into each other. Kind of weird, but of course it was going to be weird.
“What about our…” Nathan paused, as he noticed the difference in his voice. “Voices..”
“That’s right. I sound like you, you sound like me.” I said in Nathans voice. So creepy.
“I still don’t quite understand.” Matt said. “Couldn’t Nathan go up there, and your sister use her forcefield around him?”
“Well we can’t exactly cover that up.” Leonie replied.
“But.. with your hologram..” Matt began.
“This way is much easier, must you try to confuse the situation even more, dude?” I laughed. “Let’s go do this thing. Now Leonie. Your job is so important, okay, that forcefield HAS to protect me.”
She nodded. “No problem.”
“Okay, it’s time.” I walked out of the hallway, and into the room for the conference. I stepped onto the podium, with the others. Matt and Peter stood next to me, and Leonie and Nathan stood behind us.
“Good afternoon.” I began. “Most of you have no idea who I am. My name is Nathan Petrelli, and I was elected to Congress in the State of New York. Seems like a long time ago. I lost my position. I lost my brother. I lost my family. I'm sad to say that I lost my way. But while I was gone, I had the chance to see the world through newly-humbled eyes. Witnessed amazing things.” I continually glanced down at the paper, I really didn’t want to make a mistake with anything I said.
“I've seen ordinary people among us, trying their best each day to be heroes. These ordinary people... like you, like me, are capable of extraordinary things. You have no idea... how extraordinary. But there are other people, organizations, who don't want you to know the truth. I, myself, kept secrets. But last year... something incredible happened to me. And it changed my life. At first, I was afraid. But I'm... I'm not afraid anymore. I'm here to tell you the truth.”
I was getting scared now, worried the force field wouldn’t hold. I paused for a second, but knew I had to go on. “I have the abili…”
*BANG BANG* Two shots came out of nowhere, just like I knew would happen.
The bullets hit the forcefield and fell to the floor. I covered them up with the hologram. I noticed that instead of acting like I had told them to, Peter, Matt and Nathan were just staring at me, shocked. I rolled my eyes, putting a hologram around me of them rushing about crazily.
I fell to the floor, I was unharmed, just acting.
I looked around, seeing the mirror image of myself, Nathan under disguise. His mouth was wide open, his eyes were wide. He couldn’t believe it, I had told the truth.
“Let’s get a paramedic up in here!” Someone shouted.
Everyone had gone nuts! People were yelling, completely shocked and confused.
“Matt, do you see anyone?” Peter looked at me. “Who’s responsible for this, Claire? Tell me who shot him!”
“Let’s get this situation under control first. I need to make a hologram of Nathan leaving. Leonie, you still have the forcefield up?”
“Yea. You’re lucky it’s soundproof.”
“I’m sorry about this, but I HAVE to do it.” I grinned and threw my arms into the air. “YATTA! I did it!”
"I'm still having you committed to a mental hospital." Nathan finally said, once he had gotten over the shock of how close he was to getting shot.
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schweet, damn this is a big change huh
awesome conclusion, haha yatta! nice
so, ive been wondering, has claire seen season 3? lol
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Ha ha, nice work Claire! Next time on "A Heroes Journey" Claire is committed to a mental asylum! :o
"You don't understand! I'm a superhero!"
"Right... sure you are Claire... How about you try on this nice white jacket?" ;D
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[Mmkay, finally an update. Thanks to Duff for the help with ideas. I think some of this is a bit confusing. Anyways, I am teleported to the same time in episode 4, where Future Peter gets shot, if you were wondering.]
Chapter Thirty Seven
Everyone was still freaking out over the shooting.
“Someone call an ambulance!” Someone shouted.
“We have to get out of here before paramedics come.” I said urgently.
“Who shot him? Who did it, Claire?” Peter demanded.
I shook my head. “I don’t know.” I stood up on my tiptoes and looked over the crowd, seeing a figure walking away.
“I’m going.” Peter said, running away after the shooter. He could have teleported, but no of course they never think of these things.
“Me too. Stay here.” I said to Nathan and Leonie as I ran through the crowd with my super-speed. I easily passed Peter as he ran because I was way faster.
I was shocked to see Peter in front of me, walking down the hallway briskly.
“Peter?” I said, stopping to look at him. His eyes went wide and then closed. “No!” I lunged forward and grabbed his arm.
“What the?” I muttered. We were now in the middle of a quiet street, I had no idea where we were.
“Why did you follow me?” Peter said.
“Why did you shoot your brother?” I countered.
“I had to.”
“So, are we in the future? I mean, I read that future Peter might be the shooter, but I didn’t really think..” I trailed off.
“I know about you Claire. In the past, you told us everything. About the TV show, about everything. At first we all thought you were insane.”
“Do you still think I’m insane?” I asked with a grin.
“Well, the short answer is yes, except, you had proof.”
“What kind of proof? What happens to me in the future?”
“You sure ask a lot of questions. Come on, let’s get moving.” He said, starting to walk away. I followed close behind.
“So.. tell me what happens to me.”
“You and your sister go home. To your real home. Your sister didn’t come back, something about wanting to stay there. You came back though, and you brought back something I never thought I’d see.”
“What? What did I bring back?”
“Two DVD box sets and a graphic novel. Oh and a t-shirt, poster, 4 magazines and a couple t-shirts.”
“Holy crap. I brought all my Heroes merchandise back? Whoa.” I laughed.
“You weren’t supposed to follow me.” He said. “It’s dangerous, people are after me…”
“Where the heck are we, anyway? Can you show me the future? I mean, it’s not like you don’t have time. With your power, you have all the time in the world.”
“Alright. I know the exact time I should take you to. But we have to be careful, because if my memory serves me correctly, I meet up with another future Peter around this time.”
“Time travel is so confusing.” I murmured as we teleported away.
Now we were in an alleyway, it looked like New York. “New York? How far in the future are we?”
“Four years.”
“Wow.”
“Now, we need to get out of this spot. People are after me, no matter what time I’m from.”
“I’m confused…” I muttered.
*BLAM BLAM* I heard gunshots nearby.
“Oh crap!” I yelled. A younger version of Peter was running our way, and another version of future Peter was shot dead on the ground. I didn’t understand, couldn’t Peter heal?
“I told you. This future is dangerous.”
“If right here is dangerous, then WHY DID YOU TELEPORT US HERE?” I yelled.
Younger Peter looked at both Future Peters with a confused look on his face.
“No time for explanations, just start running!” I yelled as bullets whizzed by us.
We ran into the Haitian, so the younger Peter knocked him out with a discarded metal pole.
“Who are you, what’s going on?” Younger Peter asked, shoving Future Peter. “I was just talking to myself from the future, and he just got shot, so how the heck are you here too?”
“It’s a long story involving gay werewolf smoochies?” I grinned and shrugged at their confused faces. “I think you teleported us to the worst time ever.”
There was a bit of an awkward silence, before I broke it. “So. I want to know where I am in this future.”
“Peter. You have to go to Mohinder, talk to him, okay? He’ll be at Isaac’s old loft.”
Future Peter said, grabbing my arm and teleporting away, leaving younger Peter alone.
“Thank the Ellimist for that. It was so confusing with Peter’s running around all over the place.” I said.
“Right.. You wanted your future, well here it is.” He gestured towards the house in front of us. It was my house. I was suddenly worried and didn’t want to go in.
“I’m kind of worried. Who am I in this future? Am I a good guy? Villain?”
“For the most part, you’re a good guy. But you’ve done some things you aren’t proud of.”
“Like what?” I asked.
“You killed someone. It was an accident, but it made my brother.. Made him different.”
“So.. what do you mean by different? What’s happened to Nathan?”
“Nathan? Oh I mean Gabriel, of course.”
“Que? Wait a second. Sylar is your brother?” I burst out into uncontrollable laughter, for no apparent reason. “Omigosh. That’s funny. And you’re being serious, too. Wait a second.. I killed someone? I need to know who.” I went back to being serious.
“Elle Bishop. You and her, you were fighting, she tried to use her electricity on you, but you manipulated water from a nearby pool, and she electrocuted herself to death.”
My eyes went wide. I never really liked Elle anyways, but to be responsible for her death? That was beyond insane.
Someone landed from the sky in front of us. I glanced up at him, confused.
“Did I not mention that pretty much everyone has abilities now?”
I stared at the blonde guy standing in front of me. He looked about 19, 20 years old. “Is that?..” I wondered.
“Claire! You look different. What’s going on?”
I just stared at him blankly, wondering who the heck he was. He leaned in and kissed me on the cheek, hugging me. I looked towards Future Peter for help but he just smiled to himself.
“Whats wrong?” The guy asked.
“Um, don’t take this the wrong way, but.. who are you?”
“Oh. I should have guessed, because you look younger and everything. It’s me, Claire. It’s Lyle.”
“Lyle Bennet? The hell? What are you doing, flying to my house?”
“I got powers a couple years ago. I’m going to assume you’re from the past, right?”
“Yea. Wait a second.. are we dating?” I asked.
“Yes.. We have been for a while..” He replied.
I hit myself on the forehead with my palm. What in the heck? Me and Lyle Bennet? That’s insane.
“I think I want to go back home now.” I said to Peter.
“Hey, you wanted to see your future..” He laughed to himself. I was surprised, since he had been totally serious until up to that point.
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Ha ha, this is funy seeing Claire all confused for a change! But really, Lyle Bennet? Interesting choice, lol.
Great post as always Claire! :)
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Ha ha, this is funy seeing Claire all confused for a change! But really, Lyle Bennet? Interesting choice, lol.
Great post as always Claire! :)
Haha. I wanted to choose the randomest person.
Realistically, It would be very odd if I was with Sylar :P
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You stole my line! That's so awesome!
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haha awesome chapter claire, i was laughing when he just listed all the stuff you brought back lol the dvds would have been enough and then hes just like...and a poster, and a bunch of shirts, like you can tell hes like yea...it was really weird haha
interesting stuff, some cool developments, cant wait for more
thanks for the mention! glad i could help lol....when did i help?
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Meh this chapter sucks... I just wanted to hurry and post so I can get to the good stuff of season three since I've been going too slow with this.
Chapter Thirty Eight
“Yea. I want to go back.” I said. Being in the future was so weird.
“You can’t tell Nathan, Peter or Matt about me.” Future Peter said.
“I won’t. Why don’t you just take me back to a few seconds before I follow you or something?”
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll just have to trust you. I’m a mind reader, I know you’re not going to tell.”
We teleported away, back to the police building. We were in a bathroom.
“Time for me to go.” Future Peter said, putting his jacket and hat on the ground and teleporting away again.
A few seconds later the present Peter came through the door, with Matt and some cops just behind him.
“Where’d he go?” Peter asked.
“Did you get a good look at him?” Matt asked.
“No, I wasn’t fast enough.” I lied. With two mind readers next to me, I felt a little nervous. Don’t think about it, don’t think about it PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER!
I heard a bunch of yelling and loud voices. Nathan ran over to us, and he wasn’t in disguise. “A little help?” He said.
“Ah crap.” I said, realising I had forgot about the hologram. “Matt, Peter, you think you can convince these people with your mind powers?”
With their psychic abilities, they managed to get all the reporters and cops to believe that Nathan was really shot.
“We need to go to the hospital.” I said. “Matt, you can convince the doctors that Nathan is going in for surgery and whatnot.”
“Alright.” Matt said. “Let’s go.”
Nathan was staring at me. “How, how, how did you know that I was going to get shot? I need to know, and are you sure you don’t know who did it?”
“I.. I’ll explain it to you soon, I promise.” I replied, and followed Matt.
As we drove to the hospital, I called Claire Bennet to tell her the situation.
“Hello?” Claire Bennet answered.
“Hey Claire, its Claire.” I said.
“Is Nathan alright? Did he get shot? Did you save him, do you need my blood to save him?” She bombarded me with questions.
“Whoa, whoa, slow down. Nathan’s fine, I saved him.” I glanced at Nathan, who still seemed a bit freaked out. “Do you want to speak to Nathan?”
“Not right now… Maybe later…” She replied.
“Alright. Well we’re almost at the hospital, so we can cover up this mess, I’ll call you back later or something.”
“Sure. Bye.” She said. I hung up the phone and got out of the car, now that we were in the parking lot of the hospital.
Matt made the doctors believe that Nathan was in surgery, and I created a hologram in one of the rooms of a surgery happening. It was hard work, since I didn’t know what a real surgery would look like besides the stuff I had seen on TV and in movies.
A couple hours later, Matt used his power again, so the doctors thought that Nathan had recovered, amazingly. Matt made the doctors believe that the bullets had passed straight through Nathan’s body, missing vital organs with not too much damage.
Peter disappeared a while later, I don’t know where he went, but unfortunately I was stuck at the hospital, having to keep up holograms.
I called Claire again, explaining a bit more about what happened because she wanted to know, since Nathan getting shot was being replayed over and over on the news.
“Hang on just one second.” She said after a while. “I just need to put the phone down for a second.”
“Okay.” I replied.
“I won’t be long.” I heard a small noise as she set down her phone.
I heard some rustling, and then Sylar’s voice. Yes, Sylar’s voice, saying “Hello Claire.”
“I bet you’ve been…” Sylar said.
Claire was back on the phone in a flash. “Sylar’s here!”
“Claire, where are you?” I asked hurriedly.
“I’m upstairs, at home.”
“JUMP OUT THE WINDOW!” I yelled. I heard noises
I heard the phone hitting the floor. I heard a crash and a bunch of noises before the line went dead. I tried calling back, but the phone was off. Crap.
I had read about this happening, I knew Sylar would get her ability, but I didn’t really know if Claire would live or die.
I walked back to Leonie and Nathan to talk to them. “Alright Leonie, you don’t have to stay here with me. You can go home. Where did Matt and Peter go?”
“Something about the police station, I dunno.” Leonie shrugged.
“You’ve got the money to go home, right?” I asked.
“Yea. Barely.”
“You need to hurry up and learn to fly.” I said with a laugh.
“Yea, I do. Alright, bye sweetness.” She hugged me and walked out of the door.
“So technically, Nathan, you don’t have to be here.” I said.
He was lying on the hospital bed, looking bored. A nurse walked in. Ah crap.
“Time for a blood test.” She said, taking out a needle. Oh crap, I didn’t think about this, we needed Matt or Peter to convince her to go away.
Peter walked in, with great timing. I jumped up and hissed in his ear. “Use your power, convince her to go.”
The nurse walked out and I breathed a sigh of relief. “Where’s Matt?”
Peter glanced around and shrugged. “I don’t know.”
There was something about him that seemed suspicious, he acted slightly different. It reminded me of Future Peter, but I chose not to say anything. He looked at me and nodded slightly.
“Better call Mom.” Nathan said.
“The doctors already did. What are we gonna tell her?” Peter wondered.
They both looked at me and nodded at each other. “Claire.” Peter started. “How did you know he was going to get shot?”
“I’ll explain it to you if you really want, but you won’t believe me.”
Peter glanced at Nathan and then back at me. “Come with me for a second.” He walked out of the room, so I followed close behind.
“It’s me again. Future Peter.” He said.
“Yea, I figured that out already and I haven’t said anything about you either.”
“Good.”
“What did you do to Matt?”
“I sent him away.”
“What? Why? Where’d you send him? You didn’t send me away, and I know all about you!”
“Would you rather me send you away to Africa as well?”
I shook my head. “No way.”
“Peter!” Angela Petrelli’s voice called out.
“Mom.” Peter said.
“What have you done with Peter?” She asked.
Peter looked confused for a second. I put a hologram around me and walked past them, staying close enough to hear their conversation.
“Where did you think you inherited your first ability from? Your dreams, I dreamed you’d come. I saw what you’d do. Shooting your own brother for God’s sake..”
“I had to. And if you can see the future, then you should know that it didn’t work. Thanks to this girl named Claire, and no I don’t mean Claire Bennet. Where did she go, anyways?”
They kept talking, but I wasn’t paying much attention for a while.
“Now where is my son?” Angela finally asked.
“Don’t worry. I put him in a safe place.” Peter replied, walking away.
I was so confused. Watching a TV show is much more easier than being in one. I had no idea what was going to happen next, I only knew small things about season three.
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It's a Christmas miracle! Nice work Claire! :)
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(I went off in a tangent in this one... I couldn't figure out what to do at this point in time, so yeah. This leads on to a part of Heroes I really wanted to be in, so here goes. Enjoy.)
Chapter Thirty Nine
Future Peter walked away from Angela. I walked a little faster to keep up with him, and when the hallway was free again, I turned off my hologram.
“Yo, Peter.” I said, shaking my head because I used the word yo.
“You again.” He muttered.
“Yep. I’m curious, what did you do with the real Peter?”
“Forget about it.” He said. Once we were outside, he shot off into the air. I had no idea where he was going, but I just assumed New York.
I had to get home anyway, so I checked out the map I had in my pocket, and flew off in the direction of New York.
Most of the time, when I flew low, I created a hologram of birds around me so no one would see me. But since it was too hard to keep up both powers and fly fast, I just didn’t worry about it.
I stayed high up in the clouds so I wouldn’t be too visible.
I saw signs for Hartsdale, NY, when I started flying lower. I was just about to put my hologram on when I flew into a phone line. I was lucky that I didn’t get electrocuted badly, I felt only a small shock.
“Yaaaahhh!” I shouted, landing on a trampoline in someone’s backyard. I was thinking about how lucky that was, but when I hit the trampoline I jumped again, causing me to fall off the trampoline and into the dirt. Ouch.
I got up, holding my head and limping slightly, glad no one had seen that because of the humiliation. Just great.
Now why was Hartsdale so familiar to me? I thought for a few seconds before it popped into my head.
“Of course! Primatech!” I said to myself. I jumped over a fence to get out of the backyard I was in, and continued to walk.
I didn’t think it was likely that I would run into Primatech, so I figured I’d be safe.
I flew off into the air, trying to get higher so I could get back home quicker. I wasn’t flying high enough, and I could see Primatech in the distance. Bugger. I could even see a person pointing up at me as I tried to get higher.
Finally I managed to get high enough. I tried to go faster but by now I was really tired. I checked the sky around me, and got a punch to the back of my head.
Yes, I was flying, but I got punched.
I fell slightly and spun around. Who the hell had hit me?
WestNathanPetersome oneelsewithabilitie s My thoughts jumbled together. It couldn’t have been them..
“Where are you going?” A female voice asked.
“Away from you!” I shouted back to the lady in front of me. She was about 30, with long brown hair and she was wearing professional looking clothes.
I realized what she was doing, she was trying to herd me lower to the ground. But I realized it too late. She was obviously a company agent, and they always have “one of us, one of them”. I should have seen it coming but I didn’t.
Her partner on the ground shot me with a tazer gun. I started to fall, and it all went black when I hit the ground.
I blinked rapidly as I woke up. I looked around me. No no no no no. I was at Primatech. And wearing a grey t-shirt and grey pants. Last time it was white. I was in a lab room or something.
“Not again!” I nearly shouted.
“You’re awake!” It was the lady from before. I attempted to flick my lighter but it wasn’t there. Curses!
“Yes, we took away your lighters. It seems you could be dangerous with them” She said.
“I could be dangerous without em!” I shot back.
She wasn’t alone, but I didn’t think the doctor would be much hassle. He was holding a needle full of my blood which he must have taken from me while I was asleep.
I used my super speed to get to the door, but it was locked. The lady would have the key! I sped past her, trying to grab the key from her. She stepped away from me, really fast. What the hell?
I stood still and faced her. “So.. you mimic the powers of others, is that it? No wait.. you were flying without fire..”
“Nice guess. Animal mimicry is my ability. I just need to watch as many animal documentaries as I can, and I can do what they can do. Fly like a bird, be extremely fast like a cheetah.”
“Well whoop-de-doo.” I said sarcastically. I sped towards the doctor and grabbed the needle from his hands. I released the contents onto the floor and filled it with air instead. I grabbed the doctor by the shoulders. “Let me out of here or I’ll kill this guy… Air does kill people right?” I threatened.. sort of.
“No Claire, it probably wouldn’t.” She said.
Well, unfortunately I wasn’t smart enough to know whether it would kill or hurt the guy, and I didn’t really wanna kill the guy, so I was kinda screwed. I took a deep breath and instead of injecting him in the neck, which I had the needle pointed at, I injected him in the arm.
He yelled and fell down to the ground, grabbing him arm. He didn’t look like a dead person, just a highly ticked off person. Oh. Crap.
Nice job Claire. Really fantastic. I mean, I couldn’t have done better myself. Shut up brain! I argued with myself, and the animal mimicry lady just grabbed my arms, pulled them behind my back and marched me out of the room. We walked through Bob’s office, the door was open and Bob was sitting there.
“Which room do you want this one in?”
“Oh, it’s her. The one who shot me!” He said in his annoying voice. “Level 3.”
I already knew that Level 5 was for the most dangerous people. I wondered how you got to that level. How did the level system work? I mean.. what made dangerous enough for Level 3? Maybe there wasn’t enough room on Level 2? Who knew.
Well, I guess I deserved Level 3, considering I shot Bob who runs this place, and threatened to kill another guy already. I decided to try something new. We were on Level 3 now. I concentrated on the air around me, and manipulated it. It was hard, but I was trying to suck the oxygen away from the lady who was pulling me along.
Sure enough she started to choke and she let go of me. Ha!
“I’ll show you level 3!” I said. Her eyes closed and she fell to the floor.
I checked her pulse, she was alive, probably just unconscious. Good. I let her breathe normally again, and set off down the hallway.
I continued walking through the halls, marveling that there were no guards. What kind of security was this?
I saw a room nearby, with a young woman sitting there looking kinda sad. I wanted to help all these people who were trapped here, but they could end up killing me or something! I went over to her door and tried to press the buttons on the electric lock. Nothing was happening. I looked at her sadly and shrugged.
“I’ll try and come back for you!” I heard activity coming down the hallway. Ah crap. I put a hologram around me and stood very still.
It was Elle. Looking for me, obviously. I walked slowly backwards, and unfortunately into the fire alarm. Dammit. The alarm was really loud, and Elle turned to look at me. She didn’t see me of course, but she shot me with electricity anyway.
“Argh.” I said as it hit me. My hologram shuddered and then disappeared. Dammit again.
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Very fun chapter Claire. I loved the animal mimicry ability, that was awesome! Very action packed and interesting. Can't wait to see more!
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Chapter Forty
“Uh.. hi Elle” I said. “I’m just going to leave, I’m sure you don’t mind.” I sped towards her with my super speed, but she splayed out her hands and made electricity fly all around her.
I tried to be quick enough to run past it but I couldn’t, it electrocuted me.
“Yah!” I fell to my knees. Dammit, I didn’t like being electrocuted...
Elle walked over to me. “After all this damage you’ve caused, it doesn’t look like you’ll be in level 3 after all.” She shocked me again, throwing some electricity at me.
I really didn’t like being electrocuted. I stood up with my super speed and punched her in the face. She didn’t see it coming, but when I hit her I got shocked again. Stupid electricity.
I glanced around quickly. If only there was a tap or a drinking fountain, or something!
“You know, the security is really bad in this place.” I said.
I concentrated on the air again, trying to make it so I was sucking the air away from Elle.
She coughed, but she managed to speak. “The security may be bad, but at least I didn’t come without backup!”
Someone appeared out of the door to the left which I hadn’t even noticed. They shot a tazer thingy at me, and I fell to the ground shuddering. Elle stopped coughing and walked over to me.
I was still conscious, and really ticked off.
“Let’s get her in a holding cell, now.” Elle said to the other guy who had tazered me. Jerk.
“Where are you taking me?” I mumbled. Way too much electricity for one day.
We walked down the hallway towards the elevator. I watched the numbers at the top of the elevator. 1...2...3....4... what the!
“You’re more dangerous than we took into account.” Elle said. “Maybe we could put you on Level 4.. But it’s better to be safe than sorry.”
I was contemplating a witty comeback.. only to discover I had none. The elevator doors opened to Level 5.
I was still able to walk but I really didn’t feel too good. We walked past one cell, a man sitting in the middle of the room with a weird thing over his face so he couldn’t talk. The next cell there was a man throwing fire at the window over and over again.
We walked past a couple more cells. They were all a lot older than me and male.
“So I’m the first female to be locked up on this level?” I asked, not expecting an answer.
The next cell was mine. Elle opened the door. “I’ll leave you to it.” She said, and turned to walk away.
I used that moment to use all the energy I had left. I manipulated the air around me one last time.
“I don’t think so..” The guy holding my arm said. He pushed me into my cell and quickly locked up the door. Dammit. I watched through the window as he turned to walk away.
I sat down on the bed and glanced around. Bed, toilet, door, window. That was pretty much it. There was also a vent high above me, but there was no way I could reach it without having my fire so I could fly up there.
Then I remembered something. One of the only things I knew about Level 5 was that they all escaped. I didn’t know when, but at least I had that to hold on to.
I woke up in the morning and there was food in my room near the doorway. I walked over to it and glanced out of the window. I couldn’t really see any of the other inmates, but I could see two security guards wandering the halls. I ate the food quickly, then moved the bed so it was directly under the vent. I stretched out but I couldn’t reach the vent.
I jumped, and I still couldn’t reach the vent. Dammit. Was there any one of my powers that could help me escape? My fire maybe but that was the only one I couldn’t use. Well, I guess there were worse situations I’ve been in.. Maybe..
I listened to the random shouting of the other inmates.
“I’m Peter Petrelliiiii!” The man in the next cell cried out. Oookay.
I sat on the bed and drifted off to sleep through boredom.
“You come to see me, baby, or what?” An inmate shouted, waking me up.
I wiped my eyes sleepily and watched as Elle walked past my cell. I got up and walked to the window.
I heard her opening a cell and talking to someone. Something about Sylar. I moved to the right and I could see a bit more out of the window.
Sylar was walking up from the right, and sent Elle flying through the air. I smiled coz it was awesome.
“Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!” She screamed.
I basically had front row seats to it all. Noah Bennet was out of his cell and shot Sylar several times. He looked pretty dead, but all of a sudden he turned his head and spoke.
Noah went flying through the air a second later, landing in front of the cell next to me.
“Sylar! You bastard!” The guy yelled. It was the guy who kept yelling about being Peter Petrelli.
Sylar spoke to Elle, I couldn’t really hear him through the glass. He was holding a gun, and he turned it to gold. He must have killed Bob to be able to do that.
He tossed the gun away and spoke again. Then he pointed his index finger of doom at Elle.
Elle screamed. Her power went crazy, and she sent electricity flying everywhere. Sylar was thrown a few feet away and all the lights went out.
And the best thing happened. My cell door opened. Just like that. I heard some creaking as all the other doors were opened at the same time.
I walked out cautiously. I picked up the discarded golden gun, just in case.
“Let’s get out of here!” Someone shouted.
“Get this thing off me” A black guy with a straight-jacket on said. He was walking out of his cell and trying to get it off. Some guy with glasses helped him.
A man walked past me. “Elle, it’s me, Peter. You okay?”
Elle was opening her eyes and looking confused.
“Peter?” I asked. The man looked up at me. I didn’t really recognize him. “Why do you look like that?”
“Claire.” He said. “What are you doing here-“
“Jesse. Come on, we gotta go before they lock us back up!” The black guy from before came up and grabbed Jesse/Peter’s shoulders.
“Claire, you coming?” He asked me.
I was glad that none of the inmates looked interested in a fight. They all just wanted to get out of there.
I looked around and saw Noah dragging Sylar into a cell.
“I don’t know Pete, how can I pass up an unconscious Sylar?” I grinned and ran off with Peter down the hallway.
“Now tell me, why do you look like some other guy?”
“I don’t know.. My future self did something to me.” He replied.
“Yeah, I spoke to him a while ago. Weird guy.”
We ran down a few flights of stairs to the exit.
“Wait a sec.. all my stuffs inside. My phone, wallet, keys, clothes”
“Hurry up!” Shouted the black guy.
“Just a sec!” Peter shouted back. “Okay, we’ll get the stuff. We just have to hurry.”
“It’ll be quicker if I use my super speed.” I said, and sped off to find a place it might be. I found Bob’s office. Bob was sitting in his chair with the top of his head and brain removed. Gross.
There was a room next to it that said “Confiscated items”
I saw my bag hanging up on a wall. I pulled out my jacket and put that on quickly, and ran back to meet up with Peter.
We ran out of the building and met up with the other villains nearby.
“Let’s get the hell out of here!” One of them said with a Texan accent (at least I think it was Texan). It was the pyro guy. I had heard the others call him Flint. He was playing around with fire in the palm of his hand.
“Who are you?” The black guy said.
“What, you think coz I’m a girl I’m not good enough for Level 5?” I said, manipulating Flint’s fire and stealing it so it was in the palm of my hand instead of his.
“Still, I don’t know you. You could compromise what we’re trying to do.”
“We don’t have time. Let’s go.” A guy with glasses and a German accent said.
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Chapter Forty One
We were several blocks away from the Company when they broke in to a clothing store and grabbed some new clothes for themselves.
They went to a petrol station next.
“We’ll wait until a car comes, and we’ll take it.” Knox said. I had finally learned the black guys name.
Peter walked over to the pay phones.
“Who are you calling?” I asked. I wanted to stay with him as much as possible, coz I really didn’t trust the others.
“I gotta warn my brother about Future Peter.” He said, and picked up the phone.
I glanced back at the others quickly. Flint was playing with fire, right in the middle of a petrol station. Just great.
“Nathan, I’m not even sure if you’re alive or not, but if you get this, you need to look out for someone who looks just like me. He’s got a scar on his face and I think its me from the futu-“ Peter was interrupted by Knox.
“Come on, our ride is here.” He said.
I turned back to the others, and the German guy was beating up some dude. I heard a woman screaming, as Flint threw flames at her.
Holy sheeeeeeeet. I manipulated his flames, making them die out. I put a hologram around the woman so it looked like she was burning. The flames were gone but she was still screaming, which was good for me coz it looked convincing.
I nudged Peter and told him quietly what I was doing. He looked kinda scared. I was scared too, these guys were creepy.
“What are you doing?” Peter asked.
“Just having a little fun, that’s all.” The German replied.
I tried to look tough.. not easy when you’re about to pee your pants. I thought about RAF and I was no longer scared.
The German walked around to the other side of the car. He moved his hand and the doors opened by themselves.
Flint walked past and winked at Peter, before going into the car.
Peter glanced at me. I just shrugged back.
“You coming?” Knox asked from the driver’s seat. “It’s now or never.” I heard sirens in the background.
I quickly sat in the front seat so I wouldn’t have to sit in the back with two of the villains. Peter reluctantly sat in the back seat.
“Where are we going?” I asked Knox. He glanced at me but didn’t reply.
“I’m starvin’” Flint said with his accent.
“Alright, I’ll find a place to stop on the way there just so it shuts you up.”
Most of the car ride was boring, until we reached a diner in New Jersey. I wondered where we were actually going. We were in a town called Poughkeepsie. What kind of name is that, seriously?
My mobile started screaming out the lyrics to a song. I quickly got it out of my pocket to check it out. “Hello?”
“Claire! Where the hell are you, I’ve been trying to call you.. and I’ve texted you so much!” Leonie said frantically.
“Ah crap. Sorry, but I can’t talk right now. I don’t know when I’ll get home. See you soon.”
“Claire, what-“
I hung up and put my phone on silent.
I ran up to catch up with the others and walked into the diner.
After a short wait, we got our food.
I watched Flint eating his massive plate of food. Gross. That guy was weird.
“So.. how did you get stuck in Level 5?” Knox asked. He was sitting in front of me. “You don’t seem like the type at all. I mean, how old are you?”
“I’m 19..and, well.. I’ve been fighting the company for a while.. I shot Bob, the manager or whatever you wanna call him. It was just too bad that I only got his arm. Plus when I got caught this time, I suffocated a company agent and a guard.”
“You haven’t killed anyone, have you?” Peter asked. He was sitting next to me.
“Nah. That’s lame. I’d ask what you guys did to get stuck in Level 5.. but I’m not 100% sure that I wanna know.” I grinned to make it look like I was just joking around.
I saw Peter glancing around, spotting a pay phone.
“I’ll be back in a second” He said, walking off.
A few awkward minutes later, he had returned to the table.
“Let’s go.” The German said once Peter was back.
I was no longer scared of these guys. So far they hadn’t tried to kill me, so I figured I’d be alright for a while longer. I didn’t really wanna leave Peter by himself, even though I was sure he’d be okay.
We all got in the car again, this time I was in the back seat with Peter and The German dude.
About 10 minutes later we arrived out front of a bank. Oh great.
The others were walking to the bank while Peter was glancing at himself in the window of the car.
“I really look like this guy.. this is so strange.” He said quietly to me.
“Yeah I know. I’m the one who has to look at you and keep telling myself that you are Peter.” I replied, before nodding my head towards the others.
We quickly caught up to Knox, as the German and Flint walked ahead.
“We should come back at night, it’ll be empty.” Peter said.
“That’s not exactly the plan now, is it?” Knox replied. “You’re terrified, Jesse. I can feel it.”
“Is that all your power is? Sensing fear? Psh lame.” I said.
“No.. I can sense fear, and use peoples fear for my own strength.”
“Ookay.” I nodded.
“Why are you so scared, Jesse. She’s not.” Knox said.
“No reason. I’m good.” Peter said quickly.
We walked into the bank as a group and looked around. The German put his hand out in the air and closed all the shutters on the windows, making it darker.
Everyone noticed and started to get alarmed.
“Light it up.” Knox told Flint.
Blue flames appeared in his hands, and he threw it around the room at the people waiting in the lines.
“Everyone on the ground, now!” He shouted.
The people screamed as the fire shot by them, and they ducked to the ground.
“Sit down and face the ground.” Knox said to the hostages.
The German looked up at the video camera in the corner of the room and raised his hand at it, to stop the video feed, I was assuming. He walked over to a safe with Knox. The German concentrated and used his power against the safe.
“Hand over your cell phones, people” I said loudly, going to each person and using a hologram to pretend to seize their phones. I whispered to each person to tell them to be quiet and that I’d help them get out.
I saw one lady about to reach for a panic button. I walked over quickly and bent down. “Hey.” I said quietly. “You want me to stop you from doing that.. or one of those guys?” I jerked my thumb towards the others.
“I’m sorry.” She said, panicking.
“Yeah, you are” Flint said, appearing out of nowhere. He grabbed the woman’s arm and pulled her up. “Maybe you can work it off.”
“Hey, leave her the hell alone.” I stood up and tried to look tough.
He laughed and let go of the woman. “You gonna stop me?” He held up his fist and covered it with blue flames.
“What are you gonna do, try and burn me extra crispy? I’m not as flammable as that person back at the gas station.” I flicked my lighters and covered my hands with flames. “Yeah. I can do it too.”
“Claire” Peter said.
“Don’t get involved Jesse. This is between me and.. where did she go?”
I used my super speed to move away from Flint. I turned back to him. “Sorry, I got bored.”
He glared at me. The German called out a second later. “This is open!”
“Let’s go collect our winnings.” He sauntered over to the safe.
Peter turned to me. “What are you doing? You could get yourself killed!”
“These guys aren’t even worth my time. A bunch of bank robbers? Here I was, expecting something exciting.”
“Jesse, come on” Flint said. Peter followed him off somewhere. I stayed outside with Knox.
Knox came over to me. “I need your cell phone.”
“What? Why?”
“Don’t ask, just hand it over.”
I reluctantly gave him my phone, and he walked over to the other side of the room to call privately.
I used that moment to go over to the hostages, with a hologram around me of course.
I put my finger to my lips and said “Ssshh.”
I spoke quietly, telling them I was letting them go.
They all stood up quietly without talking, only nodding. I walked over to the door silently, like a ghost.
“Just don’t say anything” I said, glancing back at Knox. They got to the door before Knox came walking over.
Ah crap.
He looked around and walked over to the hostages, to grab one of them. Because it was a hologram, his hand went straight through.
“Run for it!” I practically yelled, letting the hostages pass by me and out the door.
Knox came over to me, looking pretty angry.
“This is all of it, lets move!” The German said, coming out of the other room with the other two.
“We have a problem.” Knox said.
Everyone looked outside at the cop cars that were pulling up.
“How the hell did they know we were here?” Flint asked.
“That’s not the problem. The problem is, this girl here is a traitor.” Knox looked at me.
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Chapter Forty Two
“Yeah yeah, so what?” I shrugged. “You’re just trying to distract them from the fact you called the police.” I said to Knox.
“You what?” The German hissed.
“Yeah, I called em. It wasn’t all about the money for me. In fact it was more about revenge.”
“See, he’s the real traitor here.” I quickly said.
“It was all about the money for me.” The German said, pulling out a gun from his back pocket.
For a second I thought he was gonna point it at me, but he pointed it at Knox. “I’m gonna take mine, and leave, before the Company shows up.”
“The Company was supposed to show up. While I had the hostages fear powering me up.” He turned to me. “I needed the hostages.”
“I know you did. You need fear, and they had it. Well too bad Knox, your plan is foiled, oh noes!”
“We got what we need, let’s just get out of here!” Peter said desperately.
Knox turned to look at The German and back at me. He wanted a fight, he just wasn’t sure who to pick. I could sense it.
“You’re scared too, aren’t you?” Knox said to the German. Knox looked back at me and punched me.
His fist went through my stomach. It was quite gross actually. I fell to the floor, very dead-like, and such.
Luckily for me, I had already planned it out. I had sped out of the way already, and he was really hitting the wall behind me. I just hoped he was fooled enough.
“Claire!” Peter cried out.
“What?” I said, as I made the hologram flicker and disappear. I waved from a chair in the middle of the room. Knox looked angry, and walked over to me, but I sped over back towards Peter and waved again.
“I’m not scared of you Knox. There’s no way you could get close enough to kill me.”
Flint looked over at me and threw a fireball my way.
“Don’t be stupid, Flint.” The fire blew right past me but didn’t even touch me. I didn’t even have to move. “I obviously can control fire, duh.”
Knox turned back to The German. Before he could make a move, I ran past and grabbed the German’s gun, and hit The German over the head with it. He fell to the floor, unconscious.
“That solves that problem. He was going to ruin your already failed plan.”
“Yeah.. What is the plan exactly?” Flint asked.
I rolled my eyes. “Why do you keep this guy around? He’s an idiot!”
“We stay put, raise hell, and wait for the company man to say ‘when super people do bad things.’”
“That doesn’t make sense.” I interrupted.
He ignored me and continued. “And when he gets here, beat his horn rimmed glasses right into his skull.”
“Ooh. I know him! Like seriously. Saved his life once.”
“You know, it would be best if you stayed quiet, coz you just became our hostage.” Knox said.
“Sure thing.”
Peter looked at me like I was crazy. Which I was. He walked over to the window and stared outside. A few minutes later he finally spoke. “So what if he doesn’t show?”
“He always does. He’s sent to hunt us, and then we’ll get our payback.” Knox replied.
“What if..I don’t want it anymore.” Peter said.
“You sat in that cell month after month, and this is all you would talk about. I never told you.. but it gave me hope.” Knox admitted. “Probably saved my life.”
“Yeah but we’re free now. Why do you wanna tempt fate?”
“What are you so afraid of?”
Uh oh. Knox knew something was up. I had to do something, but what?
Peter shrugged. “I just don’t wanna go back. I don’t like feeling trapped. Powerless. I just wanna go back to my life.”
“Yeah, I bet you can’t wait to get your family and friends in Detroit.”
Ah crap, I’d bet five bucks his family doesn’t really live in Detroit.
“Yeah, exactly.” Peter replied.
“Except Jesse’s family is from Vegas. And he ain’t got any friends!”
While Knox was talking, I sped towards him, and punched him in the face when he got to the word “friends”
He swung back, but missed, which gave Peter the opportunity to lunge forward at Knox. He pushed him back against the wall.
“I can explain!” Peter said.
“Who the hell are you? And how do you know this girl?” Knox used his strength against Peter, throwing him across the room. Ah crap.
I sped over to Peter and helped him up. “You can’t be scared of him. It gives him his strength. Think about something else!”
“Listen, somebody put me inside the body of this guy. I had nothing to do with it and there’s nothing I can do about it!” Peter tried to explain.
“We’re supposed to believe that?” Flint walked over from the corner. I think he had fallen asleep or something, who knows, but that guy was stupid.
I stood in front of Peter. “Can you use your usual powers by any chance?” I whispered.
“No, they don’t work.”
“Well, that’s.. um.. crap.” I turned to Knox. “Your super strength is no match for Super Claire!” I said as I used my super speed to punch him several times, and each time he tried to hit me back he missed.
“You’re just too slow see, and you have nothing to do with all that strength.”
Flint tried to go over to Peter. I stopped him and stuck my foot out in front of him. He tripped over, it was quite funny actually. Little did I know, he was just a distraction so that Knox could get to Peter.
Knox grabbed him by the neck. I stopped immediately and stood still.
“Aha, a weakness. You two obviously know each other from somewhere.”
“Stop this, Knox. I already told you, somebody put me in the body of this guy!”
“Then why’d you stick around? You had plenty of chances to bail.”
“You said you were gonna hurt people. I couldn’t let that happen.”
“Yeah, it’s easier to capture bad guys when you’re hanging out with em.” I said. “You’re going down, Knox.”
“Now I know you guys are full of it. Nobody’s that heroic.”
“Holy shizz, look! It’s HRG!” I said, pointing out the window. “He’s on his way inside.”
Noah walked to the door with his hands out in front of him.
“Sit down, both of you.” Knox said. “Thanks to your fear, you guys aren’t going anywhere.”
“Hey, I am not scared.” I protested. “Darn you Peter.” I added quietly.
Knox went over to the door, and made Noah sit on a chair in the middle of the room. Noah looked over at me and Peter/Jesse. I gave him a small wave.
“We’re hostages, isn’t it great?” I smiled.
“Shut up.” Flint said back to me.
“You ruined my life!” Knox said angrily to Noah.
“You’re a criminal, Knox.” Noah replied calmly.
“Criminals get trials. Laywers. Me, I got stuck in super-Guantanamo.”
Without meaning to, I started to laugh. In a hostage situation, I was just sitting there chuckling quietly. Yeah I really was crazy.
“You got a bum rap, is that it?” Noah said.
I laughed again, causing Peter to give me a weird look.
“I think you get off being judge, jury and executioner.” Knox said. “Now it’s my turn.”
“Knox. You don’t have to do this, you can walk away!” Peter attempted. “You’re free now!”
“Shut up!” Knox shouted.
“Very intelligent there, Knox.” I said, and clapped my hands.
“I’m done listening to you!”
“No! No one dies TODAY!” Peter yelled. He was facing Flint, and his voice got louder, sending shock ripples through the air, knocking Flint to the ground.
“Badass.” I grinned.
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Chapter Forty Three
Peter was shocked at the new discovery of Jesse’s power. He stood up and faced Knox, who actually looked scared for a second.
“LISTEN TO MEEEEEE!” He shouted, sending more shock waves or whatever you wanna call them at Knox.
Knox fell backwards to the ground, and Noah’s chair fell to the ground.
“Peter, your power is awesome! Good job!” I said.
He turned to me and looked at me strangely. “Peter’s not here anymore.”
“Oh, crap.” He swung his fist at me but I easily ducked and sped out of the way.
I went over to Noah. “Sup? Need some help?” I held out my hand and helped him stand up, although he didn’t really need help, coz he’s too badass for that.
“Do you have a gun?” I asked hopefully.
He shook his head. “Well what good are you?” I said as I stepped back towards Jesse and took a swing at him with super speed.
“You can go already. We don’t need you here anymore.” Jesse said from the ground.
“Yeah? Well you… um.. suck!” I replied.
“Turn yourself in. Nobody has to get hurt.” Noah said.
“Who the hell do you think you are?” Knox said angrily.
I looked behind him and noticed Sylar standing there. My fan-girl heart was happy again. I grinned without even meaning to.
“Just a guy with a partner standing right behind you.” Noah said calmly.
Sylar held his hand out in front of him, and used his telekinesis to stop Knox in his tracks.
“Did I hear that correctly? Partner? Sylar? Whoa. I don’t get it.” I said.
Flint started to stand up, finally. His hands were covered in blue flames. I held my hands out in front of me dramatically and stole his flames. I used my air power again so he couldn’t breathe.
“You might learn something, Flint.” I said. “No oxygen, no flame.” His flames died out, and he sunk to his knees coughing.
Jesse turned to me and tried to use his ability on me. Noah grabbed a gun lying on the ground and shot his arm. He fell to the ground holding his shoulder.
“I told you to stay put!” Noah shouted at Sylar.
“You told me that to make sure I wouldn’t, didn’t you?” Sylar replied.
“Badass.” I said. I liked to use that word a lot.
The German dude stood up on the other side of the room. I seemed to be the only person who noticed.
“Um, Sylar or someone? The German dude’s awake” I said.
Sylar used telekinesis to freeze him in the spot. Well that was easy.
“All of you, sit down on the ground with your hands out where we can see them!” Noah instructed. He stood up and forced Jesse to stand up too, tying his wrists behind his back.
“So what do we do now?” Sylar asked.
“I’ll get him patched up, and tell the locals these are federal prisoners and get them back to Level 5.” Noah replied, as he started to leave the bank.
“Yeah, okay.” Sylar said. He stopped leaning against the wall and looked around. Uh oh, he had some sort of look in his eye. He was looking at Flint.
Knox took the chance to bolt, but I quickly sped past him and tripped him. I looked back at Sylar. Noooooo! I couldn’t let him kill Flint! A pyro Sylar would NOT be a good idea. I left Knox and ran back to Sylar.
“I don’t think you wanna do that, Sylar.” I said, trying to stay calm. I let Knox get away!
“Wait, what are you doing?” Noah rushed back to the door, but Sylar shut it. “He’s getting away!”
“You were right, I am just a killer.” Sylar said.
“Oh geez. You know how many times we’ve fought, Sylar? Well it’s heaps of times and you still haven’t managed to kill me yet. I can’t let you kill Flint.”
I quickly sped towards Sylar, but he raised his hand and I went flying backwards through the air. In the commotion, Flint had actually come up with the smart idea of running for it. He was gone, but Sylar didn’t even seem to notice.
Noah was still pounding on the door and yelling at Sylar. Sylar pointed his index finger of doom at me. Nooooo!
I looked just past Sylar, there was a floating gun in the air. I raised my eyebrow. Sylar turned to look at the gun and it shot him.
Ha, I had forgotten about the German dude yet again. I stood up as Sylar healed. He raised his finger at the German instead.
I walked over to Sylar, but he telekinetically threw me backwards again. “Curse you Sylar!” I grumbled as I landed. Oh well. It was only the German dude. He had the same basic power at Sylar anyway, just only with metal things.
I heard Noah talking to Sylar, as he hesitated to kill The German. “You can fight it.”
“No. I don’t think I can.” Sylar replied. “It’s the hunger.” The German screamed as Sylar killed him. Pleasant.
I stood up and walked over after Sylar was finished wiping blood off of his hands.
Noah came inside finally. “Let’s get back to the Company.” He was angry.
“Can I come to? I can help you put the Level 5 people back where they belong. You know I don’t belong there.” I said hopefully.
“I think I’ll need help.” Noah said.
“Yeah, Sylar’s a bit of a loose cannon.” I said, looking at Sylar. “I don’t understand, why are you partners? For one, I thought you were both captured, plus Sylar nearly killed Claire..”
“I’m just trying to put these guys away where they belong.” Noah replied. “I don’t know what his agenda is.”
It was a very awkward car drive back to the company. Flint and Knox had gotten away, The German was killed, but we had Jesse in custody, and he seemed like the more harmless one.
Since Bob was dead, Angela Petrelli was running the company. She escorted Sylar back to a cell.
“I want to help find all the missing Level 5 villains.” I said to Angela. “I could’ve stopped Knox and Flint from getting away if it weren’t for Sylar. Why do you have him as an agent, doesn’t he hate the company by now?”
“He’s my son.” She replied.
“I doubt that very much, but whatever. You can go ahead and try and lock me back up, but it’s not a good idea. I can help.”
She took a few minutes to think before answering. “Come back tomorrow.”
“Alright.” I said, and turned to leave. Then I remembered something. “Wait a second. If I help you, it means I have to stay free. No more being locked up. Me or my sister.”
“No promises.” She said.
I smiled. “Then there’s no promises that I won’t burn this place to the ground.” I flicked my lighter and made a small ball of fire in my palm.
“This place is still a paper factory on the outside, right? Well paper burns easily, just remember that.” With that, I turned back and walked away.
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When Angela said 'He's my son.' you should have said something like 'And I'm a can opener', would have been funny. ;D
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I was wrong... THAT was badass! Way to psych out Angela! I loved that last part! ;D
I also liked the way you casually ignored the revelation that Sylar is her son. And naturally the fight in the bank was awesome, very clever using your air manipulation to put out the Flint's fire.
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((Jax, you're right, that woulda been awesome! Where were you while I was writing it :P And thanks Mike for calling this badass. 8) This chapter is slightly shorter than usual.. coz I wanted to end it as a cliffhanger))
Chapter Forty Four
I arrived home a couple hours later, needing sleep so bad.
“What on earth have you been up to?” Leonie said as I walked in the door. “What are you wearing?”
I had totally forgotten I was still wearing the grey pants and grey t-shirt from the Company. I was wearing my blue jacket as well, and my normal shoes.
I put my bag on my bed before answering Leonie. “Oh, just some stuff. Stopping a bank robbery and stuff.”
I explained some more before going to bed and sleeping.
The next day I got to the company earlier than I was supposed to, and took some time to wander the halls. I eventually ran into Noah.
“Hello again.” I said. “So you’re not actually working here again? Just helping out with these villains?”
“Pretty much.” He replied.
I heard a scream down the hallway. “You hear that?” I asked, and took off running towards the scream.
The scream was coming from Angela Petrelli, in Sylar’s cell. All the action was over though.
Peter was on the ground unconscious and Sylar was asking Angela if she was okay. Bit of a change, really. It would normally be Peter in that spot.
Noah gestured for Sylar to come out of the cell, while Angela was just sitting looking at Peter.
“We got a lead on the latest target.” Noah told us.
“And you want me to come with you?” Sylar asked.
“Don’t make this harder than it already is.” Noah replied, and started to walk off, leaving Sylar there. I followed Noah.
“So who’s the target?” I asked.
“Stephen Canfield. Can create vortexes.”
“Vortexes? Riiight. Sounds kinda cool. What was he on Level 5 for?”
“He killed a man, by sending him through a vortex.”
“Is that it? I mean that seems kinda lame for Level 5, it was probably just an accident.” I shrugged. “Maybe he didn’t kill him and the vortexes actually go somewhere. So where does this guy live?”
“Los Angeles.”
“You really don’t talk much, do you?” I said,
15 minutes later, we were on our way to LA.
“Won’t this take like a million years? America is huge!” I said from the back seat of the car. Noah was driving and Sylar was in the front seat. He was wearing his suit again. And looking good, I might add.
I was totally dressed the part. I was wearing my black Rise Against t-shirt, and jeans, with my orange converse sneakers.
Sylar was choosing radio stations while eating an apple. I was bored, so I was playing Mario Kart on my Nintendo DS.
“Just… sit.” Noah said to Sylar. “Just so you know, this was her idea not mine.”
“You mean my mother?”
I laughed when he said that. It just seemed so weird. I really doubted they were related, I didn’t know why. It just seemed like a good plot device the Heroes writers would throw in for fun.
“If it was up to me, I would have left you to rot.”
“No forgiveness, is that it?” Sylar asked.
“You terrorized my daughter, you killed countless others.”
“Rehabilitation doesn’t happen overnight. I am trying.”
“Yeah, I’m still alive, that’s a good sign right?” I smiled at Sylar as he looked in the rearview mirror at me.
“I understand. Killing is just in your nature.” Noah said.
“But it’s his ability. It’d be harder for you to understand since you’re not like us.” I said. “By the way Sylar, I forgive you! You are fun to fight against though.”
Noah looked back at me, and I shrugged. “Hey Sylar? Did the Shanti Virus take away any of your abilities? Like the freezing and whatnot?”
“How did you know about the virus?”
“According to my files, I was injected by the virus around the same time you were, Sylar. But I didn’t lose any abilities or get sick. Same thing happened to my sister. I’m surprised you’re working for the company after they did that to you.”
“You’re trying to get Sylar to switch sides again?” Noah asked.
“No, I’m just saying.” I put down my DS for a while, and started to read Stephen Canfield’s file.
He didn’t seem like a bad person, just someone who made a mistake. He sent someone through a vortex, and it was most likely just an accident.
Finally we arrived, after a long drive. We had only stopped two times on the way there. I got out and looked at the house, I saw movement inside. I crept over to the window and glanced inside. Claire was in there, talking to Stephen.
“Noah… Claire’s inside.” I said.
He looked alarmed. “Let’s go inside.” He had his gun out, and walked towards the door.
“She doesn’t look like she’s in any trouble though, should we really just barge in?”
He considered it for a second, but it seemed he had decided to just barge in. I rolled my eyes as Noah went inside with his gun, with me right behind. “Claire?”
“Dad?” Claire replied, just as confused.
“He’s your father? You set me up?” Stephen said.
“No, I swear!”
Stephen grabbed Claire and used her as a hostage. “Back off! Drop the gun!”
Sylar walked in. “Let go of the girl!” He shouted.
“Sylar? Dad, what he is he doing here?” Claire asked.
“Canfield, you don’t stand a chance.”
“It’s not over yet. Hold on to something.” He said, and held out his hand.
“Stand back, I will shoot!” Sylar yelled.
Stephen formed a vortex in the middle of the room, and it started to pull everything nearby into the centre of the room.
I sped over to Stephen. “Stop the vortex.. Now!” I grabbed his arm as he tried to run away. He only managed to get to the doorway.
Everyone else grabbed what they could around the room. The pull of the vortex was really strong. I was being dragged towards it.
“I don’t wanna have to hurt you” I said.
Whatever Claire was holding on to wasn’t strong enough, it started to break off. “Dad!” She yelled.
“Claire! Hold on!” Noah shouted.
Claire slipped and let go. Sylar and Noah tried to reach out their hands, but none of them were fast enough to help her.
She fell towards the vortex as I grabbed her arm. Of course, that didn’t help the situation at all, it just caused me and Stephen to be dragged inside the vortex as well.
“CLAAAAAAAA-” Noah started to yell out Claire’s name. It all went silent.
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and Claire, Claire and Stephen were never seen or heard from again.
THE END
cool story claire, it was definitely fun reading it, pity there wont be more
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and Claire, Claire and Stephen were never seen or heard from again.
THE END
Oh no! You're right! Claire is obviously gone forever... ;)
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[spoiler]Um.. The two Claires and Stephen are never heard from again.
THE END. ;)[/spoiler]
Chapter Forty Five
I opened one eye to look at my surroundings before opening both. My eyes went wide. It was like looking through cloudy water. I could see the entire room but everyone was frozen in place. Claire and Stephen were standing beside me.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“I don’t know!” Stephen said. “I thought if you go through the vortex.. you just disappear.”
“Well obviously not, can you get us back?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well you better figure it out, we don’t wanna stay here forever!”
“Is Dad okay?” Claire wondered, looking at Noah.
“He’s a lot better than us right now.” I said. I walked to the cloudy wall around us and tried to walk through it. It was solid, like an actual wall. It was like that all around us.
“I don’t know what to do.” Stephen said. He was sitting on the ground.
I started to get a bit worried. I might never see my family or anyone ever again! Be stuck here forever and resort to cannibalism and die here in nowhere land! I grabbed his arm to pull him up.
“Come on, you have to try, you can’t just leave us here!”
“I’ll try but I don’t know what will happen. We could disappear forever.”
“What other choice do we have? I want to see my family again, my house.. back in Aus.. what if I never see them again..”
He put out his arm and created a vortex around us.
I watched as his house disappeared. It was just fading away. I didn’t think that was a good sign. I looked at Claire who looked pretty scared, I probably did too. Even Stephen looked scared. We were standing in darkness, I could barely see them and they were right in front of me.
Finally the light started to pick up again. We were standing.. in my lounge room.
“What the hell?!” I said, confused. We still had a cloudy wall around us. I could see myself sitting at the computer in front of me. I couldn’t believe it, I was sitting there on RAF. I shook my head.
“Why are we in my lounge room looking at myself?”
“I don’t know! You were talking about your house.. and now we are at your house..”
“Then why am I over there? That’s not possible! Do something, we are still stuck!”
Stephen went over to the wall and touched it. He concentrated, and caused a vortex to appear. It basically absorbed the wall, and the cloudy wall was gone.
I looked at myself sitting at the computer. She leaped up and looked at us. She looked kinda scared.
“What the hell?! Who are you? Why do you look like me?”
“Claire, calm down. I’m you.”
She stared at me blankly. “You’re me?”
“Yeah. And this is Claire, you know, from Heroes?”
“Hayden Panettiere?” She said, looking excited and confused.
“Um.. no. Claire from Heroes. Like the character..”
“I’m so confused but I won’t question a miracle! I must be dreaming!" The other me pinched her arm. "Apparently not.. but still, it seems like a dream."
“Claire? Who are you talking to?” My Mums voice called out from the kitchen.
“Myself! Like, literally!” She yelled back.
“We have to go, Claire.” I said to her. The others were too confused to be talking at all.
“Wait! Don’t leave!” She said. She grabbed something off the desk and put it in a plastic bag. “Take this. If that’s really Claire from Heroes..” She paused and shook her head. “Well, I don’t know.. but just take it.”
I turned to Stephen, as I heard footsteps coming toward us from the kitchen. “Stephen! I know you can get us back. Try really hard, I know you can do it!”
“Okay.” He made another vortex and we were sent back to his house. The cloudy wall was back.
Claire looked at me, and noticed how calm I was. “You just met yourself, and got transported through a vortex, but you’re not fazed by that at all?”
“Nah. This ain’t too weird. I’m used to weird.. I am a RAFian after all.”
She gave me a weird look in return, but I just grinned.
“Alright, let’s do this.” I said to Stephen, as he made the wall disappear, and the room was back to normal.
“IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIREEE!” Noah finished yelling Claire’s name. He looked up at us, shocked. He hugged Claire. “I thought..” He started to say.
“I feel left out. No hug for me?” I said. I quickly hugged Sylar, resulting in a strange look. I just smiled back, kind of embarrassed.
Claire and Noah were looking at me strangely as well.
“Oh come on, Sylar is awesome.” I said, and shrugged. I looked back at where Stephen was standing but he was gone.
Sylar ran off looking for him, with no luck. “He’s gone.”
“Oh really? I wouldn’t have guessed.” I said with a grin.
Noah and Sylar turned to Claire.
“Claire? Where did Mr Canfield go?” Noah asked.
“Leave him alone, he doesn’t wanna hurt anyone.” Claire said.
“This isn’t a game.” Noah said. “He’s very dangerous.”
“But his vortexes, they don’t make people disappear!” Claire protested. “And who are you to talk. You brought Sylar here.”
“Where did it take you?” Noah asked.
“It’s really complicated to explain, but it basically takes you wherever you wanna go.” I said.
Noah turned to Claire. “You have to tell me where Mr Canfield went.”
“He’s not a killer. He’s having problems, like I had problems. He just- He didn’t have you to help him.” Claire said.
“Alright. Okay then, just let me talk to him. If what you say is true, we can make other arrangements. You can trust me, Claire. I wouldn’t send anybody to Level 5 that didn’t belong there.”
I laughed when he said that. “How did I end up there then?”
He looked at me. “That wasn’t my decision.”
“He’s at the Griffith Park Carousel.” Claire finally said.
“Thank you Claire.” Noah looked over at Sylar. “Let’s go.”
We all got in the car and drove to the Carousel place. During the car ride, I had decided what I was going to do. I couldn’t let him go back to Level 5, and I was determined to stop that from happening.
Without telling the others, I used my super speed to rush ahead of the others while Noah was telling Claire to go in by herself.
“Stephen.” I said hurriedly. “You’ve gotta get out of here.”
“They never showed. They stood me up.” He said to me.
“I’m sorry.. but you have to leave. If you don’t, you’ll go back to Level 5 and I don’t want that to happen.” I grabbed a pen and piece of paper from my backpack, and wrote my mobile phone number down. “If you ever need help, with anything, just tell me. I live in New York, by the way. Now go, while you still can.”
“Thank you.” He replied.
“Good luck with your family, I hope you can find them and speak to them.”
He created a vortex and walked into it. I waved goodbye, and then Claire came walking up behind me.
“Oh, hey.” I said. “I couldn’t find him. Maybe him and his family met up and left or something.” I shrugged. “Let’s go back to your Dad.”
We walked back quietly, until Claire finally spoke. “You let him go, didn’t you.”
“Yeah.” I admitted. “He didn’t deserve Level 5. I’ve been there, it was a short time but it still counts, and it’s not a nice place.”
“I don’t think he deserved it either.” She said.
My phone rang, just as we got back to the others, and Claire was explaining how he ran away or something.
“Hello?” I answered.
“This is Angela Petrelli.”
“Um, okay.”
“There’s a Level 5 villain in Massachusetts who has just killed again.”
“And you want me to go after them?” I asked.
“Yes, we have a partner organized for you. You don’t need to tell Noah or Sylar the specifics of your mission, just tell them it’s urgent and you have to leave.”
“Okay no worries.” I hung up the phone and said my goodbyes, before flying off towards home.
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I started to get a bit worried. I might never see my family or anyone ever again! Be stuck here forever and resort to cannibalism and die here in nowhere land! I grabbed his arm to pull him up.
haha a minute into the vortex and your already contemplating cannibalism
cool chapter, great take on the vortex power
massachusetts hmmm? haha awesome, cant wait
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Great work as always Claire! I can't wait to see who Claire's partner is! Technically it should be a non-powered person as per the "one of us, one of them" policy, but you could always make an exception.
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Chapter Forty Six
After spending some time at home, I was back at the company. It was 5 pm.
I was in Angela Petrelli’s office. She handed me the file of David Bauer, a Level 5 escapee. He was about 25, medium length blonde hair and grey/blue eyes.
“Killed 7 people and put two more in vegetative states? Whoa.” I said, and continued reading, finding out more things about this man that I didn’t want to know.
“You’re more than capable of bringing him in, with your partner.”
I looked up, interested. “Who is it? Is it someone with an ability? Oh of course not.. ‘One of us, one of them’, right?”
A guy walked in, with messy brown hair and green eyes. He was about 21, and kinda cute. “Hey, I’m Kane.”
I shrugged. “Yeah whatever, let’s get going.”
A few minutes later we were driving to Massachusetts in Kane’s car, which I admit was a pretty cool looking car.
I even got a gun and one of those tazer things. I wasn’t supposed to have a gun but I took it just in case I needed it. The golden gun I had left at home, for emergencies.
“So.. you don’t seem very enthusiastic to be here.” Kane said.
“Not really. I’m going to have to capture a serial killer and you’re my only backup team?” I looked at him. “I’m so screwed.”
“From what I’ve read about you, you’re pretty powerful.”
“I guess, but this guy has the power to overload your thoughts and emotions, make you feel pain and sorrow that isn’t real, even put people in comas.” I said.
He thought about that for a moment. “You know, I was injected with something when I was a baby. I was supposed to turn out like you, with an ability. I guess that’s why my Dad stuck me with a desk job. This is the first time I’ve had an outside mission.”
“Oh geez, this keeps getting better and better. This is a suicide mission. Turn the car around, lets go back.”
Kane laughed, as if I was joking.
“Or.. don’t turn around, no worries.” I slumped back in the chair, and then fiddled with the radio to find some good music. I stopped at a cool rock station. “How far away is Massachusetts?”
“Not too far.”
“Good coz I’m dying here making small talk with you.”
He glanced over at me and rolled his eyes before turning back to the road.
“Braintree? What kind of name for a town is that?” I said, as we drove past the sign a while later. “Does David Bauer live here?”
“No. He lives closer to Boston, but the murder reports came from this area, and we think he’s on the move towards his home."
Kane parked the car on a quiet neighbourhood street. “Last kill was here, down that alleyway, two days ago.”
I followed him down to the alleyway. There was a tiny bit of blood left on the fence, but the rest had been cleaned up.
“This ain’t much to go on. Maybe we should talk to the police.”
“And tell them what, Claire? We’re two college kids doing a paper on serial killers?”
“That’s stupid, and no. We are now the FBI Agents Sarah Carmichael and Mike Lancaster. Look in your reflection on the car.” I pointed.
“Holy crap, I look like 5 years older. So do you.”
“They won’t question us too much, I can make them see whatever I want.”
We got back in the car and drove to the police station. It was quiet. Way too quiet.
I walked up to the front desk, there was one woman sitting there at the front desk, slumped in her chair, with her head resting on the keyboard. There was blood everywhere.
I jumped over the desk and moved her, trying to check for a pulse.
I looked up at Kane. “She’s dead. She’s not even cold yet. This didn’t happen very long ago.” I pulled my gun out and held it out in front of me, covering my other hand in flames.
“Hello? Anyone here?” I said loudly as we walked through the building, finding two more people dead in the hallway.
A loud scream echoed through the halls. I ran to the end of the hallway and turned the corner. I found the room which was the source of the scream. I stepped inside, only to discover it was just a TV making the noise. It was some old cheesy horror flick.
The door slammed behind me, and a man stepped out. It was the David dude. Ah crap.
“Hello there.”
“Yo.” I replied casually. “How's it hanging?"
His eyes narrowed at me. “You’re not a cop, are you?”
“Cat food.” I said.
He just stared at me, confused. I kicked him the shin and punched him in the face quickly, then ran to the door, threw it open and ran out. It wasn’t even locked. I couldn’t see Kane anywhere. “Kane?” I shouted as I ran. I turned a corner and slammed into Kane.
“Sorry.” He muttered.
I shoved him. “Where the hell where you?”
“Around. I thought I heard something over that way."
I rolled my eyes. “Whatever.” I froze when I heard footsteps coming our way.
I dragged Kane to the wall and whispered to tell him to stay put and be quiet. “The hologram will make sure he can’t see us.”
A few seconds later David walked straight past us, but stopped and whirled around. “I know you’re here. I can’t see you, but I can hurt you.”
“Arghhhh!” Kane shouted, holding his head and dropping to the floor.
David smiled and walked over to where Kane was. He still couldn’t see him because of my hologram, but he knew where Kane was. He pulled him up. “Show yourself! I know you’re here already!” He yelled.
I turned off the hologram and pointed my tazer straight at David. “Hello again. I guess that trick won’t work on you.” I was about to pull the trigger, when he must have used his ability on me.
My thoughts and emotions jumbled together. I held my head and dropped to the floor, just like Kane had. I couldn’t even see what was going on.
“You’re from the Company? I’m never going back there.” I managed to hear. “Time to die.”
“Noooo!” I shouted, and managed to get a small flame in my hand. I shot it straight at David, and he hit his arm, desperate to get rid of the flames. I stood up and grabbed Kane’s arm, forcing him to run with me back to the car.
“We need a better plan.” I said, out of breath. “We ruined a perfect chance of getting him. By now, he’ll be gone and he’ll be hard to find until he kills again.”
“Why? That plan worked perfectly.” He said with a grin.
“Not funny. He was this close to killing you.”
“Aww, you actually care about me. I never thought that would happen.”
“Dream on buddy.” I said as we hopped in the car.
“I guess we sleep on it, I mean its getting late, so we may as well just head to a motel.”
“Shouldn’t we call the police?”
He shook his head. “They’ll ask too many questions.”
((Just a quick note to say that you guys shall be appearing in the next chapter, or the one after that. I'm gonna need some backup!))
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So Claire has a partner now eh? And he was injected with the serum but it didn't work? Or did it? *mysterious tune* ;)
So this David guy, did you make him up or was he in Heroes? I'm afraid I don't recall him if he was in it.
And yay! We're turning up soon! :)
I liked the joke with the FBI names by the way, lol!
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way to spoil the surprise... or are we the only ones who read this?
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It's still a surprise since we don't know the details of how it's going to happen exactly.
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I have the sneaking feeling that I'm doomed... ::)
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Chapter Forty Seven
We stayed at the motel overnight, but I was woken up suddenly in the middle of the night.
“Claire? Claire! Get up!”
“I’m awake! What do you want?” I muttered and looked at the alarm clock. “It’s almost 4 in the morning!”
“We have to go. There’s been another killing, in Weymouth. That’s not too far from here.”
“Dammit. Alright, let’s get our stuff and go.”
15 minutes later we were in the car on our way to Weymouth.. and I was only half awake. I yawned sleepily.
“How’d you find out so quick that there was another kill?” I asked.
Kane looked at me. “I have my ways.”
“Riiight.. that explains nothing. Do you even know where we are going?”
“Yeah, a warehouse just off the highway, just before we reach the town.”
We arrived at the warehouse, and it was still dark.
“This is such a bad idea, you know that right?” I said as we got out of the car. I formed a fireball in my hands so I could actually see properly.
We walked towards the warehouse, but we had to stop when we hit a fence.
“Good luck getting over this.” I said to Kane, as he started to climb. I easily used my power to fly over the fence, making the flames disappear again as I landed so I wasn’t so visible. I just kept small flames so we could see.
“Grrrrrrr” I heard a low deep growl coming from nearby.
Kane jumped and landed next to me. “You hear that?” He whispered.
“Sounds like a dog.”
“Grrrrruff!” The dog appeared out of the shadows, barking loudly.
“Wanna shut that dog up?” I said.
“Hey doggie.. nice doggie…”
“You idiot, that’s not going to help us.”
The dog lunged at me, so I quickly hid behind Kane. Yeah I was a wuss.
“Grrrrrrufff!” The dog barked.
“I’d love to leave, doggie, but we need to stop this serial killer.”
The dog barked, as if replying to what he said.
“I’m hungry too, I haven’t eaten anything since last night.”
“Why the hell are you having a conversation with a DOG?” I asked.
“The dog has a name. His name is Killer, and hes not so bad.”
“What the hell are you talking about?” I raised my eyebrow, even though he didn’t see it.
“Don’t worry about it. Let’s go.” Kane said, and walked into the warehouse, with the dog walking by his side.
I caught up to him. “Wait a minute.. you said you were injected, right? Which means, you do have a power! You can talk to animals!”
“No I can’t…”
“Then what do you call that? That dog coulda killed us, instead its acting like you’re its best friend!”
“Hmm.. okay.” He looked at the dog. “Sit. Roll over.”
I rolled my eyes. “Tell it to do something different, that normal dogs don’t do when they are told.”
“Um… chase after your tail. Please.” Kane instructed.
The dog started to chase its tail.
“See!” I said.
“Okay, maybe I can talk to animals.” He smiled. “All this time I thought I couldn’t do anything special.”
“Blah blah blah. Serial killer on the loose, remember?” I continued walking.
“You again!” A voice called out. It was David.
Another voice screamed. It was a female voice. Oh crap.
“I’ve been waiting for you guys.”
“You’ve got a hostage?” I asked.
There was another scream and a thud, as the hostage fell to the floor. “Not anymore I don’t.”
“Oh crap.” I pulled my gun out of my pocket and shot at him. He moved into the shadows where I couldn’t see him. I threw a fireball towards the darkness, and I could see him for a second, walking closer to us.
I used my super speed to get close to him and grabbed the tazer out of my other pocket.
“Gonna shoot me with that?”
“Arghh!” I yelled as he used his power on me. My head was spinning. I hoped Kane had some brains and wasn’t gonna just let me get killed.
David grabbed me and held a knife to my throat.
There was nothing I could do, since my head was too overloaded to think straight.
He pressed the knife to my throat. Oh crap.
I heard a thud as Kane hit David over the head with something. He shot him with a tazer, which made David fall to the floor, bringing the knife across my neck.
“Arghhh!” I shouted. I quickly grabbed my neck to stop the bleeding, it wasn’t a very deep cut but it still hurt like hell.
I took off my jacket and wrapped it around my neck tightly, but not too tight to stop me from breathing.
“Thanks so much for coming to my rescue.” I said sarcastically.
“Hey, I saved you!” Kane said.
“You’re the worst partner ever.” I muttered. I looked over at David, who was no longer there. “Oh what the… Where heck is he now?”
“Surprised?” David’s voice said coldly as he slammed Kane into the wall, and used his power on Kane. Kane screamed. I lunged at David but it was no use.
“Run, Claire! Runnn!” He shouted.
“Yeah right.” I said, throwing a fireball at David.
David smiled and threw his knife straight at Kane. He gasped, and was dead within moments. David reached over, and took the knife back.
Running time! I ran for it, trying to find a place to hide. I needed backup! I was so stupid, what the hell did I know about capturing serial killers?
I quickly hid behind some old crates and took a deep breath. I pulled out my mobile phone and dialed a number.
“Canfield.” Stephen Canfield answered.
“Hey its Claire..”
“Which one?”
“The brunette one, now that’s not important, I need help! Can you get here to Massachusetts?”
“Sure. Where?”
“It’s a warehouse off of the highway, just before Weymouth.”
“Alright. Be there soon.” He hung up.
He appeared in front of me a few minutes later.
“It worked.” He sounded impressed with himself.
“There’s a serial killer here and I need help. Can you take me somewhere? I have some friends I believe can help me.”
“Sure, okay.”
This was another of my stupid ideas. What if I brought my friends here and they got killed? What if they didn’t get powers? Gosh I was an idiot.
We went through a vortex, and ended up in Massachusetts, but in the real world. We were in Tim/Duff’s house.
“Duff! I need your help!” I said hurriedly.
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Ha ha, I like Kane's power, even if it's not very useful in a combat situation. Can't wait for next chapter Claire! :)
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"Hello Claire, I've been expecting you."
haha cool chapter, too bad your buddy didnt get to use his powers very much, perhaps ill be able to help?
cant wait to get put into the story!!!
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Chapter Forty Eight
“What the *#!@?” Duff said, jumping out of his chair and staring at me like I had three heads and four eyes. “Is this some kind of joke?”
“Duff. I need your help. It’s really important. Listen, I can take you to a place where you can have super powers.”
“What the heck are you talking about?!?”
“Watch this.” I said with a grin. I flicked my lighter and causes flames to shoot out around me.
“You really have powers?” He asked. He sat back down on his chair and looked confused. He sat in silence for a while.
“Duff…?” I said quietly.
“Let’s go!” He stood up and walked into the vortex bravely.
A few minutes later, thanks to Stephen’s vortex, we were in England saying hello to Mike.
“Bloody hell! Claire? Duff? Some guy? What are you doing here? And what’s with the swirling vortex?!” Mike said incredulously.
Despite all the craziness, he decided to come with us as well.
Next was Shanker’s college in Hamilton.
We explained to Shanker why we were there but he just stared back at us. He shook his head and turned to stare at the bottle of water on his desk, ignoring us. I waved my hand in front of his face but he didn’t respond.
“Right. We don’t have time for this!” I said, grabbing his arm and dragging him into the vortex. “Believe us now?”
“You were telling the truth?!” Shanker said.
“How could I lie about something as crazy as this?” I laughed.
We got to Jax’s house last. He was in the middle of a sing and dance routine, to a cool Paramore song.
“Keeping you here and it makes no sense that-“ Jax whirled around to look at me as I stepped out of the vortex. “Claire?”
“That’d be me. Jax, I need your help, come with me.”
He grabbed his jacket and a gun from a drawer. “Let’s go.”
We appeared back in the warehouse behind a bunch of crates. “Thanks for your help Stephen.” I said. “We’ll take it from here.”
“No problem.” He created another vortex and was gone instantly.
“This is insane, you know that, right?” Shanker said.
“I know it is. This also isn’t just fun and games. There’s a serial killer here that we HAVE to stop. He nearly killed me, that’s why I have this stupid jacket tied around my neck.”
“Are you sure we’ll get powers like you?” Duff asked.
“I sure hope so, I need you guys-“ Instead of finishing my sentence, I started to scream. David had appeared out of nowhere, and stabbed Jax in the chest.
He sunk to his knees. Duff was right next to him, so he crouched down to help him.
David grabbed Shanker by the throat, and tried to lift him, but it was difficult because of Shanker’s height.
*BANG* A loud bang was heard as Mike shot David. He hit his arm, making David run away like a coward.
“What is with evil people and the name David?” Mike wondered.
“Jax!” I bent down next to him. “Don’t die!”
“Don’t worry about me, I knew the risks” He gasped, closing his eyes, and stopped breathing.
“We’ve gotta do something.” Duff said. “I think I know a bit of CPR” Duff put his hands on Jax’s chest and started performing CPR. Nothing was working. “Noo!”
Suddenly Jax’s arm waved around. His other arm moved too.
“Oh. My. God. I think that was me.” Shanker said. He picked up a piece of wood and gave it to me.
“What the heck do I want this for?!” I asked.
It went flying out of my hands, like it was alive.
Duff was still trying to save Jax. “Come on, man.” Jax took a breath.
Duff fell back slightly, out of breath.
I took a good look at Jax’s wound. It was gone. “I think.. you just healed him.” I said with my eyes wide.
Shanker grabbed Jax’s hand to pull him up, but suddenly Shanker went flying.
“Awesome!” Jax said excitedly.
Shanker glared back at Jax.
“Sorry man but this is awesome.”
Everyone turned to Mike and stared at him. He was the only one who hadn’t shown any sign of a power.
Everything went black.
“What just happened?”
“My eyes!”
“I can’t see!”
“What’s going on?!” Our voices chorused together.
“I’m sorry guys, I guess I do have a power too.” Mike said sheepishly.
“We don’t have time. We have to find this guy.” I said.
“Yeah. Maybe we could split up?” Jax suggested.
“We’re stronger together. Gah, I wish there were proper lights in here.” My fire was not the best light source.
“I can see just fine.” Mike said. “I guess I can’t just make other people blind, I can make my eyesight better too.”
“Great! You can go first then” Shanker gestured towards the door.
We walked down several hallways and didn’t find a single thing.
“This is ridiculous, we’ll never find him.” Shanker sighed.
“I smell something.” Mike said.
“Are you for real?” I asked. “You have a really good sense of smell too?”
“Yeah, but I can’t use it at the same time as seeing in the dark. This David guy smells like he hasn’t showered in a week. He’s this way.” Mike pointed down a small corridor.
As we neared a door, Mike fell to the ground, clutching his head.
“Be careful guys, he’s close. He’s using his power on- argh!” I stumbled.
David appeared, looking angry. “You! How are you still alive?” He asked Jax.
“Just real lucky I guess” Jax replied, pointing his gun straight at David.
David got ready to throw his knife at Jax, but it hit a blue-tinged wall that Jax created and the knife fell to the ground.
“Yeah, we have powers too, douchebag.” I said.
We were safe behind Jax’s forcefield thingy, so Mike used his power against David.
David collapsed to the ground suddenly.
“What did you just do?” Shanker asked.
“I’m not sure.. I think I stopped one of his senses… He can’t feel anything, so I guess that made him fall.” Mike said.
Duff walked over to David. “How long will it last for?”
“Not long.” David reached out to grab Duff, but Duff side stepped out of his reach. David jumped up, but Duff grabbed his arm.
David shuddered and fell to the ground. He was no longer breathing.
“Oh my god, what the hell did I just do?” Duff said.
“It’s not your fault, he would have killed so many more people.” Mike said.
“With my power, I can bring him back..”
“He’s not worth bringing back.” I said coldly. “Let’s go, guys.” I began to walk away.
We walked straight out of the warehouse, back towards where the car was parked. I turned and looked back at the warehouse, throwing fire straight at it. I let the building burn down before getting in the car.
“So.. who can drive?” I asked from the front seat.
Shanker got in the driver’s seat. “I won’t have to drive.” He said, as the steering wheel moved by itself, and the car started to drive away.
“Let’s go back to New York, Shanker.”
((Not sure I put enough action in this for you guys! I kinda rushed some parts coz I wanted to get it done quick...coz its hard to write when I don't have the tv show as a guideline))
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I KNEW IT! You killed me! Oh well, at least I got better. ::)
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AWESOMENESS!!! 8)
Love this chapter Claire! Our characters reactions were cool and I thought the things you had my character say were a lot like what I'd actually say in that situation. Also, showing us use our powers for the first time was very cool. Glad to see you're already getting creative with my powers.
Can't wait to read more!
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very nice, got me to a tee... what does that even mean?
also
David grabbed Shanker by the throat, and tried to lift him, but it was difficult because of Shanker’s height.
... really?
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well a short guy cant just lift a tall guy by the throat, thats just physics lol
of course I could lift you just fine haha
awesome chapter claire, you got my reaction down perfect, and as promised, im a total badass lol and I liked how i wanted to revive him, made killing him more realistic
and everyone elses powers were pretty sweet, so whats our team name? haha
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Team Phoenix? :P
Better yet, how about Team Awesome? :D
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Team Phoenix? :P
I think Harry Potter already did that...only cooler lol
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"I say we should be just 'The Five'. We could each have cool code names! I'll be 'Push' and Duff can be 'Savior' and Shanks could be 'Bezalel' and Mike can go with 'Sense' and Claire gets 'Prowler'."
*Everyone stares*
"I think about this sort of thing a lot. And can I please drive? This whole no driver thing's creeping me out and I can drive stick."
*Everyone stares again*
Feel free to use that claire. ;D
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wtf bezalel?
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He was a rabbi who reportedly created a golem to defend the Prague in the 16th century. Only I think I got it wrong, cause apparently he was referred to as 'the Maharal'. It makes sense cause your power is to animate things.
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I get bored, okay?
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Funny idea Jax, but there's no way my superhero name is going to be Sense! If I'm getting a name, I insist on it being cool! 8)
Maybe we shouldn't form a Justice League just yet... ::)
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Okay, how bout 'Blindside' ;D
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is that cuz im jewish? or cuz of my power
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Cause of your power, it was the first name I saw associated with Golems.
I think we should stop posting til' Claire posts the next chapter....
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((I know guys, its been a long time. I wish I had a better excuse than "I'm lazy, deal with it, princesses." Anywho, heres the chapter. Its not fantastic, but it'll do. haha))
Chapter Forty Nine
I asked Shanker to stop the car at Primatech, so I could inform them of Kane’s death. “Wait here, don’t get into any trouble, I’ll be right back.” I said to the others, and I walked inside. There were no guards.. anywhere. I couldn’t see anyone. Creepy.
I looked into rooms as I walked past them. I finally saw someone in one of the rooms. It was Angela Petrelli lying on a hospital-like bed, and she looked like she was either sleeping or in a coma. I was guessing the second one, as her eyes were open but she wasn’t moving.
Someone grabbed my shoulder suddenly. I screamed and spun around. It was Duff with the others, cracking up laughing.
“You scared the crap out of me!” I said, punching Duff’s arm. “You’re like a ninja.”
He just laughed.
“Why is there no one here?” Mike wondered.
“Hey!” A voice yelled from down the hall. Good timing.
“Time to get out of here. I told you guys not to follow me!” I said quickly as we ran for it, back to the car.
Shanker used his power and the car started moving again. It wasn’t long before we returned home, finally.
“Boy, am I glad to be home.” I said happily as I got out of the car and stretched.
“You live here? It looks so out of place, a house in the middle of a street filled with apartments.”
“So you guys don’t mind having to stay with me?” I asked.
“Where else can we go?” Shanker said. “Everything’s expensive in New York.”
“Ah, true, true.” I nodded. “Well it’s lucky that my house has five bedrooms. Not five beds though. So we’ll all have to get jobs… I’ve got a bit of money from the Company but it won’t last forever.”
My sister was home, so I quickly explained to her why I was walking in the house with 2 Americans, a Canadian and an Englishman. That was fun. I also told Leonie about how Stephen Canfield could take her home. While the others were settling in, she finally decided that she would go home.
A couple hours later, Stephen came over. I’d miss Leonie a lot, but at the same time I was happy with her choice. I had been tempted to go home, but I couldn’t leave super powers.
We said our long goodbyes, which I'm sure you don't wanna hear about. “See you later” I waved as she disappeared into the vortex. It wasn’t like she was gone forever, although it really felt like it.
“This is so ridiculously awesome.” Mike said a while later. “We are actually in the Heroes universe.”
“Yeah, it’s insane.” Duff agreed.
“So.. now we’re not on RAF, do we call you Tim? And you Dylan?” I frowned. “Nah, sounds too weird. I’ll just call you Duff and Jax.”
“Fine with me.” Jax said.
We sat around watching movies, until a knock on the door startled me.
“I knew he was the killer!” Shanker exclaimed.
I rolled my eyes and walked to the front door. A pretty girl with short blonde hair was standing there. She had dreadlocks in her hair, making her hair look awesome.
“Claire Voskamp?” She asked.
“That’s me, who are you? Do you work for the Company?”
She zoomed past me with super speed into the hallway. Awesome, she was like me.
“You have super speed too?” I said excitedly, with a grin on my face.
“Yeah.”
“So do you work for the Company, or not?” I asked.
“Probably not the company you think I work for.”
“Primatech. Are you from there?”
“No.” She handed me a card with the word Pinehearst written on it.
“What is this?”
“They’ve taken interest in you-“
I cut her off. “If you’re trying to recruit me for something, I’m not really interested.” I gestured towards the door, until I realised something. “Wait.. would I get paid?”
“Of course.”
“I’ll think about it.” I said, with no intention of thinking about joining the organisation. There was no way that Pinehearst was a good place.
“Alright. Well, I’ve got other people to see, so see you later.” And with that, she zoomed off out the front door.
“Guys.” I said, walking back into the other room, just as the credits started rolling for the movie we were watching. “I think something big is happening.”
I explained to the others about Pinehearst.
“We don’t even know what they do there!” Mike said.
“Yeah I know, I was going to ask and then she just sped out of here!”
“I say it’s a risk, but we take it.” Duff said. "Not join them, coz that'd be a bad idea, but we have to check it out."
“I don’t want to go alone, so will you guys come with me?” I asked.
The next day we went to Pinehearst, which was in New Jersey.
“Whoa, this place is huge, Should we split up?” Jax asked as we got out the car.
“I don’t think so. With my hologram power I can keep us concealed if need be. Although Mike can make people blind, it’d be best to stay together.” I said.
“Act like you belong here.” Duff said, walking in the door. There was a couple people around, but they didn’t really pay much notice to us.
“Real good security, huh.” Shanker said.
“That’s like all the companies in Heroes. They just don’t care about security.” Mike replied.
We read a sign on the wall. It was a directory, and right next to the elevators, so we got on one of them and went up a couple floors.
“Son, until you change that attitude, you’re grounded.” I heard someone’s voice down the hall. He had a distinct American accent. His footsteps headed in our direction.
I panicked and made a hologram around us of a couple pot plants. He looked in our general direction with a confused look on his face, but continued on.
The others walked in the direction the man had come from, and found a locked door.
“The guy was talking to someone in here.” Mike said.
“But it could be anyone” Shanker was saying as I used my super speed to rush back down the hallway to follow the man from before. I found him talking to Mohinder.
I sneakily rushed past, stealing the man’s keycard for the door.
I ran back to the others, holding the card out and waving it around. “Only one way to find out who’s in there.” I said, and tried the card on the door. It worked, of course.
I walked in slowly and carefully. “Oh my god, Peter!” I rushed over. He was strapped to a bed that looked like one from a hospital. “What are you doing here?”
“My father.. he’s alive. He locked me in here like this.”
“Yeah, I heard him say something about grounding you… wait a minute.. your father is alive?”
“Yeah, I thought he was dead, but he’s definitely alive. And he stole my powers, I cant use them anymore.” He looked past me. “Who are they?”
“They’re friends of mine.” I said, as I introduced them. This was the first Heroes characters they had met, so they were kinda star struck.
I was really hoping none of them would say “Big fan of your work, Mr Ventimiglia.” I would have burst out into laughter if that happened.
“He’s gonna come back any time now.” Peter said.
“Don’t worry. I might have an idea.”
We all turned to look at the person who had spoken.
((cue eerie music here :P))
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Yay! Update! Awesome work as always Claire! Can't wait to see out characters get into the action some more! :)
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Chapter Fifty (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY)
“So what’s the plan?” I asked.
“We hide in the corner and scream like babies when they catch us?” Jax suggested.
“No.” Mike said. “I can hear footsteps outside. They’re coming. Claire, use your hologram power. Make us all invisible except for Peter. If anything bad happens, we’ll be your backup. When the guards come, we’ll knock em out inside Jax’s force field and holograms can take their place.”
“Nice plan. Let’s just hope this works.” Peter said. He picked up a piece of chair he had broken off earlier. He waited a few minutes, and when the door opened, he lunged forward at his father.
His father easily moved it out of the way with telekinesis, and his guards rushed to grab Peter. I created a hologram around them quickly, and Jax made a force field around us all. Shanker and Duff reached out and grabbed the shoulders of the guards.
Shanker’s guard froze into place, almost like he was a statue. Duff’s guard fell to the ground, unconscious.
“That’s creepy.” I muttered. The force field was sound proof, of course. Peter was pretending to struggle with the guards, but it was really Mike and Shanker who were holding on to him.
“So. I guess you’re not going to help me” Peter’s Dad was saying.
“Don’t do this, Dad. Please. You’re gonna destroy the world!” Peter replied.
“I don’t see it that way.”
“You think you’re better than everyone else? That you have the right to do whatever you want, hurt anyone that gets in your way?” Peter shouted.
“I am better, Peter. It’s not a belief, it’s a fact.”
“Hey, that guy reminds me of Tyler” Duff said, as we were still in a force field. “Full of ego.”
“And one way or another, you will help me get this done!” Arthur said. He nodded his head towards the door, and Mike and Shanker looked at each other wondering what to do.
“Strap him down. I don’t pay you two to stand there!” Arthur said. “Take him to lab 7.”
They pretended to struggle, and then wheeled Peter outside.
“Which way is it??” Shanker wondered.
“We are so dead.” I said. “He’ll suspect something.”
“I’ll meet you there.” Arthur said, walking down another hallway.
“We should have asked the guards for directions.” Duff said.
After walking around lost for a while, we found lab 7 and walked inside.
“Suresh?” Peter said, sounding worried.
“Hello Peter.” Mohinder replied. He was holding a needle in his hand.
“So you’re helping my father?”
“I prefer to think he’s helping me.”
“And what is that?” Peter asked, looking at the needle.
Mohinder explained that since Peter used to have abilities, he was the perfect test candidate for a formula to give people powers.
“Wait wait wait! When I saw you in the future you said that manipulating abilities was wrong. That it was all a mistake.”
“Peter tell me something. In this future of yours, what did I look like?”
“There was something wrong with you. You changed. You looked like a monster.”
Mohinder looked shocked. “Then you’re too late.” He said finally, and grabbed Peter’s arm. His jacket sleeve moved up a bit, showing off weird scales on Mohinder’s arm.
I swooped in and grabbed the needle off of Mohinder, revealing myself.
“Peter, we are so outta here.” I said. He sat up quickly and looked around.
Suddenly Sylar walked in, and I forgot what I was doing and just looked at him. “Hello Mohinder.” He said, using his power to throw him across the room, into a wall. He pointed at the other doctor in the room, preparing to throw him too.
“Whoa whoa whoa. Wait a second there.” Shanker said, and grabbed Sylar’s arm. He stayed frozen to the spot and couldn’t move a muscle besides his eyes.
Duff knocked the doctor unconscious as he ran towards the exit. “Sorry man.”
“Wait. Sylar’s not here to hurt us.” Peter said.
“You sure?” Shanker eyed Sylar suspiciously. He grabbed his arm again and Sylar was moving again.
Peter turned to Sylar. “You came for me?”
“That’s what brothers do, Pete.”
I caught Mike’s eye and we both snickered, knowing that Peter was definitely not Sylar’s brother.
“It’s best if he doesn’t find out right now.” I whispered, knowing full well Mike would be able to hear me if he used his power.
“Let’s get out of here.” Sylar told Peter.
Mohinder lunged out of nowhere towards Sylar, and knocked him to the ground.
“Stop!” Jax said, and Mohinder tried to knock Jax out of the way, but his force field stopped him.
“Peter!” Arthur finally arrived, looking around at all of us. He definitely looked surprised. I was the closest, so he held out his arm in front of him and tried to shoot me with electricity, but I side stepped easily.
“I don’t wanna sound immature, but the phrase “neener neener neener” works really well here.” I said, dodging another electricity bolt coming my way.
A stray bolt came really close to Mike, and his hair was standing on end. “Running time!” He shouted. He must have used his power on Arthur, because he was shooting around him with no aim, and stumbling around like he couldn’t see.
I looked at Mohinder, who was trying to beat up Sylar. Shanker grabbed my arm and pulled me away, and we ran for it.
Finally we stopped. “Some brother you are” I said with a grin. “Leaving your bro back there getting beated up”
Everyone except Peter chuckled quietly.
“I don’t get what’s so funny.” Peter said.
“He’s not your brother, Peter. Don’t you guys ever think about paternity tests or something? Sheesh man.” I said.
“How do you know he’s not my brother?”
“Because it’s a very strange plot device?” Duff said.
Peter raised his eyebrow at us. “I get it. My Mom and Dad are just using him, they knows that this way is safe, Sylar won’t try and kill them if he thinks he’s finally found his parents.”
“Okay. So where is the exit? This place is a maze.” Duff said, looking around.
We accidentally walked into a room where Sylar was sitting.
“I knew we went the wrong way…” I groaned.
Peter tried to tell Sylar his father wasn’t to be trusted, but of course Sylar disagreed.
Arthur Petrelli walked in, looking a little pissed off.
“I’m sorry Peter, this is something I have to do.” Sylar said.
“If you help him, you’re proving all the things I’ve ever said about you. Just kick his ass and let’s all get out of here.”
“Oh I’m not going anywhere Peter. You are.” He pointed at Peter, and that was the first time I realised there was a full wall window right next to him.
“No! Jax, forcefield, window!” I yelled.
Sylar used his power as I was yelling, and Peter crashed through the window. Jax ran over to the window, and Peter stopped falling a few metres from the ground.
“Claire!” Jax said hurriedly. “A hologram of stairs leading to the ground, please.”
I created the hologram, and we all walked out of the window. Yes, walked out. Jax’s force field was easy enough to walk on, and he made sure that Arthur and Sylar couldn’t follow us.
My hologram was just there so we wouldn’t walk off the edge of the force field and die.
“Oh my god, Peter!” I heard a voice shout nearby. It was Claire Bennet, who was with Elle.
“What are you doing here?” Peter asked her.
“What happened? What’s on your arm?” Claire asked.
There was a small electrical burn there, which I had noticed before.
“Why didn’t you heal that?”
“They took my abilities!” Peter explained.
Elle started walking away. “Elle, where are you going?” Claire asked her.
“You heard what he said! They took away his abilities! I’m sorry Claire.” She said as she rushed off towards the building.
“Elle!” Claire shouted.
“I can help with that.” Duff said, grabbing Peter’s arm and healing it. He smiled at Claire and winked. I rolled my eyes. “You need to learn how to heal other people besides yourself.”
“How did you know I could heal?” Claire asked.
“Oh, um, you know.”
“He’s a stalker. Watch out for him, Claire. I think he’s hitting on you.” I said with a laugh.
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NEW CHAPTER! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Great work as always Claire! It's so much fun seeing us all using our powers to help out. I like that you've added little in-jokes too, makes the chapter even more funny! Can't wait to see what happens next!
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hey...your back
great chapter, lots of good action. Ive completely forgotten most of volume 3 so this is a good refresher lol
and yes! hitting on hayden panatierre, story duff rules!