Bricks in the Wall, Chapter 14: Defending His Memory

[game_byrd]

Title: Defending His Memory
Characters: Peter, Sylar
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Words: 420
Setting: Any of my various Wall settings, or post BNW
Summary: Peter tries to explain to Sylar the connection between grief and love.
Notes: Heroes_contest "Defended" entry. Inspired by WWW dot Slate dot com/blogs/quora/2012/03/23/

Comments

[dancingdragon3]

We're wired to make love to each other. That's how we come into being. It's what we should do with our lives."

Yes! Peter as the embodiment of sexual desire. Perfect. And with such a sweet reasoning.

Peter reached out for him, caressed Sylar's forearms and leaned in to kiss him gently, first on the mouth, then his stubble-strewn cheek, then nipping along his jaw towards his chin. Sylar shut his eyes in bliss and made a contented sigh. Peter smiled at him and pulled back. "You like that, right?"

"No, Peter, I only melt inside like that over things I detest."

So sweet, sexy, and tender, then an interjection of humor. This fic is melting my heart.

Peter reached out and took Sylar's hand, which was reluctantly allowed. "I'm going to miss Nathan for the rest of my life. I'm not going to get over it. I'm not going to forget it. I'm not going to pretend it doesn't matter. The same goes for everyone I love, especially you."

Excellent! It's conflicted, complicated, hard to accept, and nothing but the truth. Beautiful.

[game_byrd]

Peter smiled at him and pulled back. "You like that, right?"

What I find funny is that Peter gets such a clear freaking affirmation of pleasure and he *still* has to ask! I think he wants the ego stroke of verbal recognition. My muses are so weird sometimes.

Thank you for all your kind words! They mean so much to me. (I suppose I'm not so different from Peter here.)

[means2bhuman]

I still love this. Its very all-encompassing. I like Peter's ideas and he does a good job of selling them, you know? They're very believable or at least believe-in-able

[game_byrd]

Thank you SO much. You'd already said such nice things about it I decided to go ahead with this as the contest entry rather than seeing what else I might come up with. Also, my life has been unexpectedly busy for having so much time "off"!

Poor Sylar. I think if he could he would have Peter's kids, if only for Peter's sake (if Peter wanted them). But being reminded that your partner, in being with you, can't have that option that they might desperately want is never pleasant.

Oh, but he *could* have Peter's kids. It would just require a degree of sacrifice I don't think Sylar is willing to give and Peter would NEVER ask. Nor even think of it. Sylar has assumed a female form before. There's no reason to think his body wouldn't be functional. The problem would lie in maintaining the form for long enough. I don't think he could pull it off. A few days was giving him fits. Six to nine months is just unfathomable.

I really loved the barely-allowed hand-holding. I don't think Sylar enjoys being touched while having any form of a serious

[photoash]

This was a really interesting look at them :) I like how Peter and Sylar are so completely comfortable with one another - expecting eachothers reactions and things just going along like this may be something they've talked about a ton of times (even Sylar's rebuke is taken in stride).

:)

[game_byrd]

Yeah, I set things at different places along my internal timeline. This is set in Wall Verse, a couple years after they've started being intimate with each other. I might still yet work this into a chapter in that. It's part of why I haven't continued publishing that - my beta suggested a lot of elaboration on how their relationship develops, how they discuss and work out some of the major issues between them, and I've been too busy to write it, other than a few small scenes.

Thanks for the review!

[lornrocks]

Oh, you kids.

And by kids I mean Peter.

(I still like to think that in the future they raised bb!Noah in a cute house with a Pomeranian and waffles.)

[game_byrd]

I think that's what I like most about punk4life's Tattooverse. It's such a normal, domestic future for them!

[game_byrd]

Yes, how to love someone, respect and honor them is more an issue of training than I think most people realize! I hadn't thought of it that way, but you are right that Peter is teaching Sylar.