Don't Fight The Future

[game_byrd]

Title: Don’t Fight The Future
Characters: Gabriel/Peter Petrelli
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic sexual content
Word count: ~800
Setting: Shattered Salvation (not that it’s important - any generic future with Gabe and Peter together will work)
Summary: Gabriel has a precognitive dream and sets about making it come true.
Notes: I wrote this a year and a

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[means2bhuman]

And the best part is I subconsciously understood that from the bluntness of Peter's blinking reaction. He was very surprised to hear that.

I'm a behind-the-scenes junkie myself so hearing about a writer's process or deleted scenes (as I call them) is fascinating. I can't say I didn't have a clue that you considered other options (you've said that early on it was unformed although I forget that constantly) but this was kind of a pleasant surprise. I like to sit and think 'How would the series have turned out had she gone that direction?' you know?

About the talking: I have to say, I agree with the viewer. Sure you could have dragged out the miscommunication (and they still have/had miscommunications aplenty the way you have it now!) and it would have been, in my opinion, more drama into less time/chapters as you can only use the same trick how many times, I guess?

Peter, while prone to falling into one-night-stands, is/would be a considerate lover. Long term? He'd be Chatty Cathy about sex, do's and don'ts. Sylar/Gabriel? You couldn't make him/them touch it with a ten foot pole. Immediately you have not miscommunication, but just a difference of experiences and personalities and power play (for lack of a better word). Overall, I applaud your choice whether it was precognitive (pun intended) or not.

Interesting, too. I imagine I'd be the same way about sex: 'uuuh, we don't talk about *that* at least not about ME' I'd be sad to say all the "sexperts" (*snort*) whapping us over the head with "COMMUNICATE!" is true. Isn't that so weird? Women talk about everything else on the planet, from PMS to politics, but sex? No go! (A generalization). Its socially expected in my opinion.

[game_byrd]

If you're interested, I have a couple chapters of SS that got scrapped entirely after the direction change because they turned into things the boys just wouldn't do with each other. They don't make a lot of sense out of context so I've never tried to recycle them. If you want to read them, let me know and I'll email them over.

You're totally right about Peter, there. He wants to talk and Gabriel just ... doesn't. Gabe has yet to come to terms with the fact that he's fucking Peter Petrelli here, as far as that goes. Clearly he's doing it and he enjoys it, but it's tough to reconcile with his self image. The less he talks about it, the less he has to confront that.

My ability to talk about what I want in bed is inversely proportional to how likely I am to get in bed with whoever I'm talking to. So I can blurt out whatever I want here on the internet to people I've never met and may never meet (I'd like to meet you, DD3, Viv, and a lot of the folks here, but I know the reality is that it's inconvenient and highly unlikely to happen). But once I'm dealing with someone I'm actually getting in bed with ... whoa! Clam-up time! I think it's the female version of the guy stuttering and getting tongue-tied around a girl he's trying to impress.

[means2bhuman]

Would I? I'd love to read them! Thank you for offering.

Interesting how 'bagging' someone as high profile as Peter would still screw with his self-image. Then again, Peter is, well, a man after all and that's bound to throw him for loops.

Ha! I'd never thought of it that way. I now have more empathy for those guys (and women). Its always easier for me to write things out than say them aloud, too.