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TITLE: Crowds
AUTHOR: dragynflies
PAIRING: Elle/Sylar
RATING: PG 13
DISCLAIMER: Heroes cast is not mine.
SUMMARY: For mrstater in response to the prompt “crowded.” A little look inside Elle’s head through seasons 2 and 3.
Elle hates crowds. She hates being around strangers, all clumped together, pushing and pulling and talking all at once.
They make her skin crawl with something that feels like her electricity, bubbling under her pale skin, but she can’t get rid of it, can’t push it out of her like she can the electricity.
She’s used to being around lots of people, walking through Level Five, with thick layers of protective glass between her and them, so they can’t touch her. She’s used to being at Daddy’s meetings, when he lets her sit off to the side, dressed in little designer skirts and jackets, fancy high heeled shoes and carefully applied make up.
She doesn’t like crowds, but she loves attention. Loves walking down the street and knowing without even seeing that men are looking at her with lust while the women look at her with jealousy.
Elle loves attention from anyone, as long as they don’t try to come make small talk with her or grasp at her with their hands. Elle has never become accustomed to touch or small talk, and fails miserably at both no matter how hard she tries.
The only person she likes being around is her Daddy. She likes being around her Daddy because she knows that he is proud of her, and one day, he’s going to look her in the eyes and tell her. Maybe he’ll pat her shoulder or her arm before he tells her that she’s done a good job, that she’s someone special.
She likes to play with the boys in Level Five. She thought she was having fun with Peter…that maybe he was starting to like her sparks and her smile, but he was lying to her. Elle shrugs it off because she is learning that in addition to crowds she doesn’t like anyone, but when she sees him running away she sparks up a ball of electricity that is bigger than necessary.
Elle likes payback.
The first time Elle meets Gabriel Gray, he is hanging from a noose in his watch shop. Elle knows enough to zap the rope apart and save his life but stumbles over the right words to reassure him. To keep him alive long enough for him to kill someone else, instead of himself.
Think I haven’t felt just like you? Everyone does bad things.
The hug he gives her makes her skin tingle. Elle doesn’t like it at all.
It isn’t until she is sitting on the floor of his modest little apartment, eating peach pie and staring at him while he talks that she starts to think she might like another hug. Might like to go to a movie with him even if there are other people in the theatre.
But the next day she watches him do exactly what Mr. Bennet predicted he would do. Watches him throw a boy across the floor with a flick of his wrist and then do the same thing to her.
So she’s sure she’s made the right decision, and reminds herself why she doesn’t like being around people who aren’t her Daddy and who aren’t behind glass, especially when Mr. Bennet seems so happy to watch Gabriel cut open Trevor’s head.
It’s been a year and when Gabriel Sylar kills her Daddy, Elle is reminded of what she did to him before, and decides she doesn’t like payback anymore. Now she doesn’t have her Daddy, so she doesn’t like anyone, and when Angela fires her from the Company and tells her to leave, she decides doesn’t feel even a little bad about letting all those people out of Level Five.
When Claire helps her, Elle laughs and quips and talks about how nice the Cheerleader is being to her, but really she can’t figure it out at all. She learns quick that she’s no one’s first choice when Claire chooses to help Peter over Elle, and just in case that wasn’t enough, Peter doesn’t even care. (Sure he’s hurt, but so is Elle.)
So when she lifts her head up from where she’s chained on the floor and sees him walk into her cell, she decides this is it, and that she’s gonna let him have it, because maybe payback isn’t so bad when it’s Elle doing the paying back. But he just lets her, lets her pour all her electricity into him until they’re both on the floor, panting and out of breath and hurting and then he tells her he forgives her, and takes the pain away.
It might be the first time in her life that someone cared about Elle first, and she hides her confusion behind excitement while she teaches him how to throw lightning balls and make little sparkles between his palms. He holds her like he might kiss her, but he never does.
He’s trying to prove himself, and brushes Elle off like she’s a little girl and doesn’t understand Daddies and too-high expectations, so when Arthur decides to send Sylar after Claire, Elle decides she’s going with.
She likes payback (this’ll teach Claire for thinking that Peter was better than her) and now she likes being around one person again. She likes touching him and when he smiles at her, there’s a whole different kind of electricity that Elle doesn’t understand even if she has played with boys before.
Elle checks while they’re on the road who he likes best - her or someone else - and even though he rolls his eyes and gets upset when she tells the employee at the rental car agency her little story, he still picks her first.
And he lets her drive.
So when he kisses her, she lets him, and she’ll let him have more if he wants, because she’s decided that she likes crowds as long as he’s with her, and she doesn’t mind talking to him, or touching him, because she knows he likes her best. Even without her electricity.
AUTHOR: dragynflies
PAIRING: Elle/Sylar
RATING: PG 13
DISCLAIMER: Heroes cast is not mine.
SUMMARY: For mrstater in response to the prompt “crowded.” A little look inside Elle’s head through seasons 2 and 3.
Elle hates crowds. She hates being around strangers, all clumped together, pushing and pulling and talking all at once.
They make her skin crawl with something that feels like her electricity, bubbling under her pale skin, but she can’t get rid of it, can’t push it out of her like she can the electricity.
She’s used to being around lots of people, walking through Level Five, with thick layers of protective glass between her and them, so they can’t touch her. She’s used to being at Daddy’s meetings, when he lets her sit off to the side, dressed in little designer skirts and jackets, fancy high heeled shoes and carefully applied make up.
She doesn’t like crowds, but she loves attention. Loves walking down the street and knowing without even seeing that men are looking at her with lust while the women look at her with jealousy.
Elle loves attention from anyone, as long as they don’t try to come make small talk with her or grasp at her with their hands. Elle has never become accustomed to touch or small talk, and fails miserably at both no matter how hard she tries.
The only person she likes being around is her Daddy. She likes being around her Daddy because she knows that he is proud of her, and one day, he’s going to look her in the eyes and tell her. Maybe he’ll pat her shoulder or her arm before he tells her that she’s done a good job, that she’s someone special.
She likes to play with the boys in Level Five. She thought she was having fun with Peter…that maybe he was starting to like her sparks and her smile, but he was lying to her. Elle shrugs it off because she is learning that in addition to crowds she doesn’t like anyone, but when she sees him running away she sparks up a ball of electricity that is bigger than necessary.
Elle likes payback.
The first time Elle meets Gabriel Gray, he is hanging from a noose in his watch shop. Elle knows enough to zap the rope apart and save his life but stumbles over the right words to reassure him. To keep him alive long enough for him to kill someone else, instead of himself.
Think I haven’t felt just like you? Everyone does bad things.
The hug he gives her makes her skin tingle. Elle doesn’t like it at all.
It isn’t until she is sitting on the floor of his modest little apartment, eating peach pie and staring at him while he talks that she starts to think she might like another hug. Might like to go to a movie with him even if there are other people in the theatre.
But the next day she watches him do exactly what Mr. Bennet predicted he would do. Watches him throw a boy across the floor with a flick of his wrist and then do the same thing to her.
So she’s sure she’s made the right decision, and reminds herself why she doesn’t like being around people who aren’t her Daddy and who aren’t behind glass, especially when Mr. Bennet seems so happy to watch Gabriel cut open Trevor’s head.
It’s been a year and when Gabriel Sylar kills her Daddy, Elle is reminded of what she did to him before, and decides she doesn’t like payback anymore. Now she doesn’t have her Daddy, so she doesn’t like anyone, and when Angela fires her from the Company and tells her to leave, she decides doesn’t feel even a little bad about letting all those people out of Level Five.
When Claire helps her, Elle laughs and quips and talks about how nice the Cheerleader is being to her, but really she can’t figure it out at all. She learns quick that she’s no one’s first choice when Claire chooses to help Peter over Elle, and just in case that wasn’t enough, Peter doesn’t even care. (Sure he’s hurt, but so is Elle.)
So when she lifts her head up from where she’s chained on the floor and sees him walk into her cell, she decides this is it, and that she’s gonna let him have it, because maybe payback isn’t so bad when it’s Elle doing the paying back. But he just lets her, lets her pour all her electricity into him until they’re both on the floor, panting and out of breath and hurting and then he tells her he forgives her, and takes the pain away.
It might be the first time in her life that someone cared about Elle first, and she hides her confusion behind excitement while she teaches him how to throw lightning balls and make little sparkles between his palms. He holds her like he might kiss her, but he never does.
He’s trying to prove himself, and brushes Elle off like she’s a little girl and doesn’t understand Daddies and too-high expectations, so when Arthur decides to send Sylar after Claire, Elle decides she’s going with.
She likes payback (this’ll teach Claire for thinking that Peter was better than her) and now she likes being around one person again. She likes touching him and when he smiles at her, there’s a whole different kind of electricity that Elle doesn’t understand even if she has played with boys before.
Elle checks while they’re on the road who he likes best - her or someone else - and even though he rolls his eyes and gets upset when she tells the employee at the rental car agency her little story, he still picks her first.
And he lets her drive.
So when he kisses her, she lets him, and she’ll let him have more if he wants, because she’s decided that she likes crowds as long as he’s with her, and she doesn’t mind talking to him, or touching him, because she knows he likes her best. Even without her electricity.