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[gray_atonement]

Who: Sylar, Shilo, Kurt; Elle, Adam, Peter, Claire, Claude; open
Where: Level 5, Level 4; Level 3; Level 2
When: During the Crazy Level stuff

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Level 3

[gray_atonement]

Sylar spun around, choking a little bit as Adam approached him asking that question. Why that question, of all the questions to be asked. He supposed it was a fair inquiry, but he didn't expect it from Adam or right then. He forced the truth into a short answer, giving a curt, "I'm special. Wait until you see him on a different level; he's a nightmare. I hate him."

"Can we speak about this in a moment?" He cast a pointed glance over to Claude, then back at Adam. Then to the boy in his arms and back again. There were other things of greater importance to deal with at the moment.

Again, Sylar turned. This time to face Claude. He had the perfect lie prepared, had been working on it for awhile. And then he remembered the horror of this floor and spit out words completely contrary to the ones he had been calculating in his mind. "I only like formalities when I'm not in a hurry. I know that name because he was the first Company agent to succeed in catching me. It was Eden McCain and The Haitian that caught me actually. He was just there to torment me when I awoke in a cell."

He winced internally, but outwardly he tried to hold his composure. This would be much easier if Claude had been hit with the same affliction that he was suffering from. This Claude was still a Company man and likely to find out most of his secrets if he wasn't more careful. Glancing at Adam and back to Claude again, he asked, "Do you recognize that man?"

Level 3 (sorry Sy!)

[kurt_bamf]

Normally, Kurt would've found Gabriel's act against Peter to be downright cruel. That nagging voice of reason still existed but it was quite distant now. Gabriel had... had a reason for doing what he did, Kurt decided. He wasn't the sort to pick on kids. No, of course not...

Kurt followed after his companion, coming to stand just a bit behind him. He didn't know Claude at all, and part of him wondered why he was important.

So, he decided to ask.

"Gabriel, why are we not continuing to the Infirmary? Why is herr Claude important?"

Level 3

[thevanishingman]

He gave Sylar a suspicious stare. That wasn't right... Eden McCain? He'd never heard of an agent by that name. And then, of course, there was the matter of when this could have possibly happened. He and Bennet were partners; it didn't make any sense for him to go on this mission without Claude knowing (seeing as, aside from the obvious 'partner' issue, there was that fact that Claude had been sticking his nose where it didn't belong for a good long time now, happily undetected).

"Hm." His stare became more intent, focused around Sylar's neck, looking for the telltale marks. "When did this... incident happen, exactly?" he asked, blinking, looking away towards Adam as Sylar pointed at him. Yeah, he recognized him... but not in that regalia. "No." He let out a little laugh. "Do I look like the sort of bloke who'd hang around with samurai, mate?"

Then, a sharp look was directed at Kurt. He didn't even bother asking how the man... thing knew his name, seeing as everybody on the bleedin' Barge knew his name already. He nodded at the boy, looking at Sylar once more. "What happened to him?"

Level 3 - the truth pains me

[gray_atonement]

Sylar was beginning to loose his calm exterior, taking another couple steps forward until he was only just within the confines of this level. He turned so his back was to the exit, allowing himself to face all of them at once. Grinding his teeth before answering, he told Kurt, "We are. I wanted to stop to talk to Claude. He's important because he's my warden and I want to know more about his past."

Well, there went subtlety.

Frustration beginning to overcome his tone, he turned to regard Claude again. The man never made things easy, did he? Sylar shifted the boy in his arms a little bit to regain comfort. "Two thousand four. After you two were partners, apparently. Bennet was partnered with Elle Bishop, Eden McCain, The Haitian, and then myself. You don't look like the sort to 'hang around' with samurai, no, but this Adam was in the possession of The Company for some time. You're lying when I'm forced into truth. I hadn't expected straight answers. I did hope you would at least speak to me."

"Her name is Shilo Wallace. She fell unconscious on the fifth floor when coming to my room. I thought she was someone else at first and that is why I am carrying her. She became a boy when we entered onto this floor, where everyone seems to be changing. I should hurry to the infirmary and I want to leave because I'm saying too much." He twisted his head with a slightly pained expression. Looking down at the boy, he finally let irritation paint his features. That's right. He had somewhere to be and this was getting him nowhere. "If you want to talk more, come with me to the second floor. I don't think you'll like it as much. I will."

Level 3

[thevanishingman]

After? But that meant-- had he been... what happened? Had he been forcibly retired, or did he manage to finally escape the Company? Or was it something simple and boring, like he'd just been transferred elsewhere? Needless to say, Claude was extremely put off by this news-- enough to even lose his flippant demeanor and take a few steps back, away from Sylar.

"I--" He closed his mouth, then shook his head and put his fingers on his temple irritably. "That's what you do in the Company-- you lie. To protect people." Like the few he'd managed to hide. If the Company ever found out...

Well. He'd know.

"...what's on the second floor?" he asked warily. Being a more... trusting version of himself, he did want to go down and pursue the conversation, but he knew better than to just wander into an unknown situation. And if Sylar was forced into the truth, well... who better to ask?

Level 3

[gray_atonement]

"No!" Sylar growled slightly in reference to the idea of the Company ever being good. They were nothing but evil and cruel, even his own mother had perhaps tried to kill him. Regardless, it was Bennet that made him who he was and it was most certainly not to protect him. "You lie in the Company to hurt people. To turn them, to destroy them. The Company has never done anything to protect people. You're only a member of the Company until you do something wrong and they find out. Then.. you're a liability."

He nearly dropped Shilo in his anger but immediately caught the girl's legs only a foot or so lower than he had been carrying them a moment before. Facing Claude, he answered with complete honesty, "I don't know. I do know that it can't be any worse than this and that, when you get there, you'll realize who you are. I'll be able to lie again. You'll be angry with me. This girl really does need to get to the infirmary and I'm going to take her now."

"If any of you," he looked to Adam, Kurt, and Claude, "want to continue this conversation, you can follow me down to level two."

Level 3 - And Claude will come down later-- probably after Peter's death!

[thevanishingman]

Well, that struck a nerve in Sylar. Though Claude tried not to show it, the man's words struck a nerve in him, too. The bit about being a liability. He'd heard his "colleagues" (what a joke) talk about him before, when they thought he wasn't around-- or perhaps not caring if he was-- trying to assess how much of a liability he was, how much longer he could be useful before the risks from having an invisible man in their midst were too great.

And yeah, he knows what the Company's doing is sick, twisted, hurting his own people, but he tries to use his position to do what he can, hide the few special people he can get to first, and isn't that all he can do against them?

"I know who I am," he said quickly, backing up further, putting distance between himself and the others. "But I don't know who you are. Good luck with all that."

He'd go down later, he decided, to check on the kid. If he... she... was special, too, it would be worth checking out (after all, it was a regular congregation of special people here). With other Company folks on the Barge, she could've been in greater danger than a bump on the head.

Level 3

[gray_atonement]

Sylar was done with Claude. As far as he was concerned, the man was worthless in this state. While he hoped the younger Claude might be more open and talkative than his current warden, and perhaps he was a little, Sylar dismissed him as being just as tight-lipped about his past. It wasn't so much Claude's fault that Sylar was so frustrated as it was the truth flood that had hit him and the things he had unwillingly revealed. That loss of control did not amuse him the slightest.

Rolling his eyes at Claude like a petulant child, he finally turned around to stomp downstairs behind Kurt.