((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.
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