Fic Masterlist - non-Peter/Sylar Version
Non-Peter/Sylar
(includes Peter&Sylar platonic)
The Adventures of Matt Parkman
Characters: Matt Parkman, Janice Parkman, Matty Parkman, Maury Parkman, Ryan Evans (OC), Patricia Pennington (OC), Molly, a few other bit characters
Rating: R
Warnings: Mild sexual content, drug use, severe mental abuse, abuse of powers
Word Count: ~65,000 in twenty-five chapters
Setting: Shattered Salvation AU (though you need not have read any of that to follow this). This story begins in early spring of 2010 and ends in August of 2010. It is set post season 4, following canon for Matt Parkman with the exception of "The Art of Deception," "The Wall," and "Brave New World." (Those episodes didn't happen in the AU.)
Summary: Matt Parkman is in Los Angeles, living with Janice and little Matty, trying to figure out how to be a stay-at-home father and the hero he thinks he is meant to be. He does not succeed. The story tells the tale of power and temptation corrupting someone who had the best of intentions, and how he manages to get his life together afterward.
The Romances of Maury Parkman
Characters: Maury Parkman, Angela Petrelli, Patricia Pennington (OC)
Rating: NC-17 for the first three chapters, R for the last three
Warnings: Explicit sexual content
Word Count: ~23,000 in six chapters
Summary: Shattered Salvation AU. Maury Parkman has begun working for the Company again, but his life is rather empty. Everyone he knows hates him or is used by him. He begins to realize this isn't how he wants to spend what little is left of his life. The first three chapters recount encounters with the OC Patty, but he breaks that off to pursue Angela Petrelli.
Acts of Kindness
Characters: Peter and Sylar, platonic, no slash, appearances by Angela and Claire
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~20,000 told in eight chapters
Summary: Immediately after Brave New World, Peter takes it onto himself to help Sylar reintegrate into society, and unwittingly fulfills Lydia's prophecy that Sylar would find someone to care about him.
Moral Obligations
Characters: Peter Petrelli, Claire Bennet. Cameos by Gabriel Gray and Hiro Nakamura. Brief appearances by various original characters.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of blood and medical treatment; mild violence; temporary child death.
Word Count: ~13,500 in six chapters
Summary: The story begins two months after the events of Brave New World, at the end of Season 4. After the leap from the Ferris wheel, Claire drops off the radar for a while. At first, Peter thought she was in hiding. Then he discovers that she’s been imprisoned and is being forced against her will … to heal people. Peter has to wrestle with the difficult dilemma of what’s right and what’s wrong when the life and well-being of the many are pitted against the freedom of one.
Peter Petrelli Character Questionnaire
Characters: Peter Petrelli
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 8,500
Summary: This is a survey style questionnaire, like an interview conducted with the character.
The Best Victim; The Worst Punishment
Characters: Adam Monroe/Eric Thompson, cameo by Bob Bishop
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic rape, torture, death, and snuff sex
Word Count: 7,500
Summary: This is a two-chapter story set in the mid-1980s, while Adam Monroe is a prisoner of the Company. He’s been held for nearly a decade at this point and he’s gone a little crazy around the edges. Thompson has been with the Company for five or six years now, being one of their earliest recruits. He’s about 30 years old here.
Mylar
Characters: Gabriel, Peter, Mohinder
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~6,000 in two chapters (deadfic)
Summary: Post-Brave New World. In chapter 1, Sylar, now going by Gabriel, is trying to put his life to rights by apologizing to those he has wronged. Mohinder requires a rather different sort of apology than he was expecting. In chapter 2, Mohinder and Sylar are breaking up. Mohinder calls on Peter to help him.
The Light Within
Characters: Peter, Nathan, Claire, brief appearances by Angela, Linderman, Ted, Noah and Sylar. No romantic pairings.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of blood-sucking. Vampirism (dealt with fairly non-graphically). A little violence.
Word Count: ~4,500
Summary: Peter contracts vampirism; Claire and Nathan help him. They stop the exploding man and save an unlikely victim. Season One, slight AU. This begins in the middle of .07%, when an apparently dead Peter is brought to the Petrelli mansion after his second run-in with Sylar.
Invalid Reality
Characters: Hesam, Eli, Dennis Wells (OC)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of blood and medical treatment, off-screen (probable) character death
Word Count: ~3,000
Summary: Hesam is working as a paramedic when he gets a call for a stabbing. He arrives to find Eli in need and comes face-to-face with abilities.
Scored
Characters: Peter Petrelli, Sonja (original female character), Mike (original male character)
Rating: R
Warnings: Peter is drugged and raped (the rape happens entirely off-camera)
Word Count: ~2,400
Summary: Pre-season. Peter is 24. Peter goes to a party, gets drunk, makes a few bad decisions, and gets taken advantage of.
Light Up
Characters: Nathan/Peter
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit sexual content, incest
Word Count: ~2,300
Setting: Preseason, New Year’s Eve, 1998. Peter has been 20 for a week now. Nathan is 31 and will be married within a few months in a sudden manner. Nathan has to walk away from the best thing in the world.
I (Don't Want To) See Dead People
Characters: Sylar, Cole Sear (aged forward about five years)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~2,000
Setting: Sixth Sense and Heroes crossover. Season 1, July 2006 (which makes it pre-season for everything except "Six Months Ago") Sylar is stalking a special, whose power would have very, very bad consequences for someone like himself.
Sylar on Sylar Action
Characters: Sylar, James Martin, Danko
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Dub-con (victim consents, but isn’t in a position to say no), explicit sexual content, off screen murder
Word Count: ~2,000
Summary: In the episode "Into Asylum" in Season 3, Sylar and Danko capture James Martin. Rather than kill him right away, Sylar has something he wants to explore first - something that he’s wondered about for years now.
Futurecrafting
Characters: Gabriel, Hiro, Peter, Claire
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 2,000
Summary: After the events of Brave New World, Hiro, Sylar, Peter and Claire decide to do something truly revolutionary. Hiro goes back in time to change everything.
Claire Bennet vs. the Zombie Queen
Characters: Claire Bennet and an OC named Anita
Rating: R
Warnings: Zombies, blood, gore
Word Count: ~1,800
Summary: Shattered Salvation AU. The Company still exists, Claire works for it, and she's been assigned a work partner named Anita. Claire and Anita are sent to backwoods Wisconsin to investigate rumors of a family of regenerators, only to find they are actually undead!
Collateral Damage
Characters: Sylar, Heidi, Simon, Monty. No pairings.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of violence
Word Count: ~1,500
Summary: After Mercy Heights, Sylar goes hunting easier prey. He finds it. Season Four, immediately following The Fifth Stage.
Unidentified Flying Intruders
Characters: Lyle Bennet, Nathan Petrelli
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 1,500
Summary: Lyle confronts an unexpected intruder in his back yard and grapples with the complexities involved in protecting his family.
Reminiscences
Characters: Nathan/Peter
Rating: R
Warnings: Incest
Word Count: 1,500
Summary: Preseason, fall, 1998. Peter is 19. Nathan is 31. It's a month or two before the events of Light Up. Nathan never wanted to be in love with his brother, but there was only so long he could fight it.
Big Ben
Characters: Peter Petrelli, Ben Osbourn (original male character)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Contested, non-consensual oral sex
Word Count: ~1,400
Summary: Pre-season. Peter is 19, almost 20. Peter gets cold feet and a date goes bad.
The First Step
Characters: Sandra Bennet
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Reference to past violence and abuse of mental powers
Word Count: ~1,300
Summary: Set between Season 3 and 4. Sandra works herself up to seeing an attorney about her troubled marriage.
Eight Surgeries Later
Characters: Adam Monroe, unnamed female medical technician, unnamed female resident doctor
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Word count: 1,000 (set following My Sweet Cherry Pie)
Summary: Adam muses on whether to save the life of a stranger.
Worse Was Yet To Come
Characters: Claire Bennet, Samson Gray
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Violence, gore, disturbing imagery, allusion to rape
Word Count: 950
Summary: After Claire's big reveal by leaping off the Ferris wheel, her identity and her ability become public knowledge, attracting some unwanted attention from the likes of one Samson Gray. She must relive a horror, but unfortunately the worst is yet to come.
My Sweet Cherry Pie
Characters: Adam Monroe, Mike Clems (Hartsdale guard, OMC), George Gerber (Hartsdale guard, OMC)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Word Count: 900, precedes Eight Surgeries Later
Summary: Confined RP backstory. Two guards negotiate for Adam’s cooperation in simple blood drawing.
Parallelism
Characters: Nathan Petrelli, Peter Petrelli (no pairings, no slash)
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 800
Summary: Peter is a defiant young man growing up under the heel of an authoritarian father who has a supernatural power (unknown to his sons) to compel obedience. Nathan tries to counsel Peter to take the easy way out, but Peter refuses.
God’s Work
Characters: Maya Herrera
Rating: PG
Warnings: An unflattering portrayal of religious views.
Word Count: 800
Summary: Season 3, immediately following The Eclipse, Part 1. Maya finds a purpose for her life.
Trial by Fire
Characters: Meredith, Sylar
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mild description of fire damage to a body
Word Count: 750
Summary: At the end of Dual, Sylar's immobilized body is abandoned within the burning building structure of the Hartsdale Primatech facility. Since bodies burn long before glass melts, someone must have pulled him to safety. Who and why, revealed.
Journeyman
Characters: Sylar, Peter Petrelli
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word count: ~750
Summary: Set immediately following Brave New World, Sylar talks his way through an introspective journey of his identity while Peter listens.
Vestments for Violence
Characters: Jessica, Sylar, Audrey, Ted (no pairings)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 700
Summary: Various characters garb themselves in different ways to prepare for the possibility of killing.
Damned Either Way
Characters: Emile Danko
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 650
Summary: Danko’s fear of getting too close battles with his fear of harm coming to the one he cares about too much.
The Nameless
Characters: Micah, Analyst, Danko
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 600
Summary: "Shades of Gray", Season 3. A little backstory on why a nameless analyst is able to do so much.
How I saved the world through fantastic sex with Peter Petrelli
Characters: Marilyn S. Barker (OC), Peter Petrelli
Rating: R
Warnings: Bad writing
Word Count: 600
Summary: This is badfic - deliberately, intentionally written to be bad. The lead character is a Mary Sue whom Peter falls in love with.
Guilty Conscience
Characters: Matt Parkman
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 550
Summary: When the apparition of Sylar starts showing up, Matt isn't sure that he knows his own mind.
Noah Bennet: The Man with the Birth Plan
Characters: Noah Bennet, various others
Rating: R
Warnings: Male impregnation, bad writing
Word count: 550
Summary: This is badfic - deliberately, intentionally written to be bad. Noah Bennet finds out he's pregnant and goes on a quest to find the father.
Social Niceties
Characters: Peter Petrelli, a couple original characters
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 525
Summary: Preseason. Peter is 19 and a freshman in college. Peter shows a friend of his how to meet girls.
Teenage Rebellion
Characters: Claire Bennet, Lyle Bennet
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 400
Summary: Season 2 or 3. Lyle engages in a little teenage rebellion. Claire doubts he'll get away with it.
Understanding Chaos
Characters: Mohinder Suresh
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 325
Summary: Mohinder uses his original, true power of narration to speculate about the meaning of life.
Truth - a Muse Poll
Characters: A lot of them
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~200
Summary: In search of the perfect “Truth” contest entry, I polled a number of muses to find their take on the subject.
Noah/Sandra Drabble
Characters: Noah Bennet, Sandra Bennet
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Summary: Noah and Sandra have a painfully adult conversation as they climb in bed together.
Hornet’s Nest
Characters: Ted Sprague, Matt Parkman
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Summary: Ted and Matt have a breakfast conversation where Ted momentarily waxes philosophical.
Ten Bucks
Characters: Peter Petrelli, Original Male Character
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Summary: The provocation for a random fight Peter got into when he was twenty-three.
Faithful Friend
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Summary: Little Gabriel stares out the window as his father drives him to a diner.
Star Trek
The Future’s So Bright
Characters: Sylar, Spock, James Kirk
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1,200
Summary: Sylar uses Hiro’s ability to travel to the future, where he is dazzled by the new world he finds and the people in it.
Dirty Talk
Characters: Spock, Nyota Uhura
Rating: R
Word Count: 650
Summary: Spock and Uhura share pillow talk about the linguistic quirks characteristic of human pair-bonding.
Original and Personal Stories
(some may be friends-locked)
Night Terror
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,000
Setting: Real life/non-fandom/modern
True Story
Genre: Horror/terror
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,700
Summary: A true story from my youth, where my cousin and I found more than we expected when we explored my parent’s land.