The Taste of your Breath

[game_byrd]

Title: The Taste of your Breath
Characters: Sylar, Peter Petrelli
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word count: 320
Summary: Peter vents. Sylar sucks it up.
Notes: Written for heroes_contest ‘Breath’ challenge.

Comments

[vivihanna]

Really beautiful! Peter is like a drug for Sylar and he can't get enough. :D

[game_byrd]

Thanks!

[dancingdragon3]

Damn woman, what got into you?! This is...different. More poetic than your usual, me thinks. I love it.

"He was awash in Peter’s very soul here, as the animating force of Peter’s existence surged over, around and into Sylar like the waves of the ocean, drawing him in closer with every billowing rush." My goodness! The description! That took my breath away!

"This was the essence of life itself, vibrancy and vigor and vaporous vitae that filled the void between them, creating a nebulous connection spun from ether..." Wonderful alliteration! Very intelligent and cosmic.

[game_byrd]

Well ... uh ... Poe. I said I was going to try to figure out how to write like that. I think this is a poor attempt at copying, but hey, it works for the prompt, right? I'm just a big copy-cat sometimes. Wait until I get done with Morella. :D I'm sure I'll be better at Poe-ing then!

So it's all your fault! Yay you!

Glad you liked it. Of all things, I got inspired for this by lurking through the Tumblr site Petlar is my OTP (I'm not sure of the address). They had a picture of Peter in Sy's face in I Am Become Death and I ran with it. Not that this is necessarily set there - Peter wasn't as physically close and Sylar seemed tuned into what he was saying, unlike what I've written. So it's probably set more like in the Wall or something.

Thanks for the good words! It's a writing style I'm going to keep working at for a little bit. I'm especially glad you see it as already so different from my normal.

[means2bhuman]

Okay, so I joined the heroes_contest and saw this was the next challenge. I was super excited to see what you'd put out and (either I had a feeling it would be like this or I'd hoped) this did not disappoint! If I'd have had time/joined sooner, this would have been similar to what I'd have written, I had such a similar idea in mind so either you're in my head or great minds think alike

[game_byrd]

There's a whole week left for "Breath" and it's anything less than 500 words. I didn't think I'd enter this one either. I made a list of what I planned to work on over the next week and doing an entry for Breath was the lowest on the list - not even really *on* the list, just an 'optional' tacked onto the end. So of course my muse decides *that* is what I must write

[quirkysmuse]

Wow, this is was a really striking piece, so well-written and lyrical. I really like the flow of language here. Well done!

[game_byrd]

Oh wow, thank you! I'll have to try to write like this more often. It seems to have struck a chord with several.

[amles80]

Yes, that is very true. You struck a cord with me, too. I loved this. I can't even say which line is my favorite because the story flows so exquistly. I think that to be this obsessed with somebody's breath, it must be a really huge crush! :)

I remember your story for the previous prompt, too. I think you're on your way of making me like the idea of Petlar. ;)

[game_byrd]

Woo-hoo! We need more Petlar fans.

And oh yeah, one's desire for someone (or at least this is true for me) has a huge impact with how much of "them" I'm interested in getting, just exactly how intimate and thoroughly drenched in them.

For Sylar to be tripping that hard just on Peter's breath ... yeah, HUGE crush.

[daria234]

Love this fic.

[game_byrd]

Thanks!