Bricks in the Wall, Chapter 34: The Metaphorical Hammer

[game_byrd]

Title: The Metaphorical Hammer
Characters: Peter, Sylar
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit sexual content
Word count: 1,800
Setting: The Wall
Summary: Peter starts off wanting nothing to do with Sylar; ends wanting to do nothing without him. Or, alternately, it's the story of how Sylar worms his way into Peter's life, bed, and heart.
Notes: Inspired by one

Comments

[game_byrd]

Yeah, Sylar's pretty scary-looking without even trying much. But he emotes really well - from tiny and inoffensive to death-on-wheels.

This whole story is a 'foot in the door' thing! Sylar really worms his way in, one bit at a time. I hadn't made up my mind if he did it intentionally or if it was just a natural progression. It's the difference between him thinking 'Peter let me sleep in his bed last night, so I can sleep there again tonight!' and 'Peter let me sleep in his bed last night, so there's no way I'm going to sleep anywhere else' along with whatever other entitlement he might want to add.

Your line was just so raw! So bone-deep in the human psyche! I had to run with it.

Of course its *Peter* who starts the cuddling. Thing is, I don't think he even means to. Obviously he's not there yet mentally and he doesn't want to, but I think its so unconscious for him he just sees an available body and latches on.

That's it exactly. He doesn't mean to, but he does it anyway. It's like someone on a diet, trying to be good, but then one thing leads to another and pretty soon you're holding a plate with nothing on it but cake crumbs.

Something I've noticed: you seem to have more ease writing a broken down Sylar where he's crying and asking for things. Maybe MBU is still in early enough stages where Sylar's hanging onto his pride...For whatever reason I've been thinking he'd have to be at wit's end to resort to that but...he's kind of already there, in the Wall, isn't he? I'm definitely experimenting with things with him and I like how its coming together.

The guy's sleeping on Peter's couch! He has very little pride in this particular story. It's something I think he'd lose as time passed in MBU. Right now, just a couple weeks in, I don't think it's odd that Sylar would still be trying to stand on propriety and claim the moral high ground like it's a king of the mountain competition. Eventually, that defensive aggression has to crumble and Sylar has to accept that he's not any better than anyone else. And before he gets there, I think he'll go through a period of thinking he's worse than everyone.