Cycle
Title: Cycle
Author: Greens
Rating: PG
Words: 267
Characters: Gabriel Gray
Summary: It was a vicious cycle with no end in sight.
Spoilers: Basic Sylar spoilers.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, Heroes does not belong to me. This makes me sad.
Author's Note: Written for heroes_las Round 1 Challenge 4
All Gabriel Gray really knew and understood were the workings of a clock. He understood the way the hands moved, ticking away the seconds of life. These seconds would turn to minutes, which would turn to hours and days. Before you knew it, you had aged a year but nothing had changed. He was still just a watchmaker, doing the same job his father had done, and his father’s father had done.
It was a vicious cycle with no end in sight. Gabriel was doomed to live the same boring, insignificant life until he died. He wasn’t special, he was only a watchmaker. Ordinary and predictable.
It was simply one of those days. A schedule written in stone dictated the direction of every hour. Customers came in sporadically with time pieces in need of fixing and Gabriel was more than happy to help. Many times, at no cost. However, even though to many, the young man was a ‘life saver’, Gabriel longed for something more. He hoped and wished for something incredible.
But incredible never happened.
The dozens of clocks on the walls of “Gray and Sons” ticked at exactly the same time. There wasn’t a single variation as Gabriel sat at his work station tinkering with a watch which he had been working on for years.
Tick. Tock
The noise continued in unison.
Tick. Tock
The same it always had.
Tick-ick. To-tock
Until the split second when the cycle was broken and an unexpected stranger made his way into the shop with a broken watch and information that would change Gabriel’s life forever.
Author: Greens
Rating: PG
Words: 267
Characters: Gabriel Gray
Summary: It was a vicious cycle with no end in sight.
Spoilers: Basic Sylar spoilers.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, Heroes does not belong to me. This makes me sad.
Author's Note: Written for heroes_las Round 1 Challenge 4
All Gabriel Gray really knew and understood were the workings of a clock. He understood the way the hands moved, ticking away the seconds of life. These seconds would turn to minutes, which would turn to hours and days. Before you knew it, you had aged a year but nothing had changed. He was still just a watchmaker, doing the same job his father had done, and his father’s father had done.
It was a vicious cycle with no end in sight. Gabriel was doomed to live the same boring, insignificant life until he died. He wasn’t special, he was only a watchmaker. Ordinary and predictable.
It was simply one of those days. A schedule written in stone dictated the direction of every hour. Customers came in sporadically with time pieces in need of fixing and Gabriel was more than happy to help. Many times, at no cost. However, even though to many, the young man was a ‘life saver’, Gabriel longed for something more. He hoped and wished for something incredible.
But incredible never happened.
The dozens of clocks on the walls of “Gray and Sons” ticked at exactly the same time. There wasn’t a single variation as Gabriel sat at his work station tinkering with a watch which he had been working on for years.
Tick. Tock
The noise continued in unison.
Tick. Tock
The same it always had.
Tick-ick. To-tock
Until the split second when the cycle was broken and an unexpected stranger made his way into the shop with a broken watch and information that would change Gabriel’s life forever.