For game_byrd
Okay, there are two drabbles here, let me know if either of them we can use?
Bennett wasn't really intending on snooping through Peter's things, he really didn't, but Angela had called him in a panic, claiming she had a nightmare where Peter and Sylar were shacking up (among other things), and he said he'd check it out.
So maybe he broke into the medic's apartment and was looking for evidence of something, anything, he could use to prove or disprove Angela's theory.
At first, he just notices the little things: A grocery list with two different sets of handwriting, stuck to the fridge; two toothbrushes in the bathroom; A closet full of clothes meant for two different sized people; and a small box, shoved behind some folded up sheets in the closet. In the box was a whole collection of things.
Noah noticed a long shard of broken glass, lightly covered in blood; an old, beat up copy of Pillars of the Earth; some drawings, mostly done in pen and on various scraps of paper; a letter, written in careful, neat handwriting; and finally, a small stack of Polaroids. Flipping through them, Noah sees various shots of Peter, and Sylar, goofing around or just sitting, and a few with the two of them together, Sylar holding the camera out at arm's length to get them both in the frame.
He finds one with Peter, standing in some field at sunrise, with his hair a mess, peeking out from behind the collar of his coat. The look in the medic's eyes is full of adoration and amusement, and Noah puts back into the box without so much another look. He knows who was taking the picture, who was making Peter so happy.
He takes one look at the final picture, the one where the two of them are sprawled across clean white sheets, lips barely touching, before carefully restoring the box back to its original hiding place and disappearing, leaving the place as he found it.
He didn't really need to tell Angela what he saw. She would find out the truth soon enough, and honestly, he could care less. At least Peter was smiling again.
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"We need to take him down as soon as possible," Angela is saying, looking around the room at the others gathered there. Noah Bennett is at her right, nodding his head in agreement. To her left, Mohinder Suresh is looking grim. Matt Parkman, Hiro Nakamura, Ando Masahashi, Rene Samedi and a single Company agent make up the rest of the occupants, looking just as determined.
"The easiest thing to do is to lure him out in the open," Bennett says, but before he can continue to explain his plan, Matt interrupts, "Sylar isn't stupid. He'll know it's a trap."
"Then what do you propose we do, Matthew?" Mohinder levels a gaze at his friend, leaning against the table, clearly irritated at this whole discussion.
"Simple," Matt replies, looking over his shoulder towards the eldest Petrelli. "All we have to do is exploit his relationship with that son of yours."
Angela's brow furrow and she's quick to shake her head.
"Absolutely not. I refuse to get Peter involved in this."
"Angela-" Noah puts a hand on her shoulder. "We might not have other options. If we're going to kill that monster once and for all, we're going to need some leverage."
There is a long, drawn out moment of silence as everyone tries to decide if their plan was really the best one, but suddenly, the lone Agent standing at the end of the room speaks up.
"You son of a bitch."
They all turn, surprised, and then the agent's skin is shimmering and changing until Peter is standing there, a look of absolute rage on his face.
"Peter!" Angela gasps, and Matt swears internally for not figuring it out sooner.
"I can't believe this, after all we've done for you. And to think that we trusted every one of you."
He shakes his head and narrows his eyes, making sure to glare at absolutely everyone in the room.
"Peter, I can explain," Angela says, trying to move forward, but Peter holds out a hand and she stops in place, held back by an invisible force.
"Fuck off, all of you."
Matt and Mohinder inch forward, making to grab Peter, but Bennett gives them a look, and they cease advancing in favor of remaining where they stand, allowing Peter to turn on his heel and stomp out of the office.
From down the hallway, they hear a loud crashing noise and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Peter broke a window and, knowing his track record, leapt out of it so that he could fly away.
"So..." Matt says, watching the others carefully, "We're just going to let him go off and warn Sylar that we're after him?"
Bennett makes to say something but Angela just sighs, moving to sit down in the padded armchair in the corner.
"It doesn't matter. Sylar must have fixed Peter's empathy and now the two of them are unstoppable. They're going to leave here, go somewhere far away."
"I could go to Peter's apartment," Hiro volunteers, but the idea is quickly shot down. All of the ideas they come up with are dismissed and everyone soon realizes that it's very likely they will never see Peter Petrelli or Gabriel Gray ever again.
So yeah, neither of these are related and both are kind of out of context. There would need to be stuff put on either side. What do you think? I figure Matt knows, cause he does, and maybe Angela suspets it, of course. Not sure about Bennett. He has some idea. So they're all like, well, fuck. What do we do?
I'm pretty overdramatic, sometimes, I think.
Bennett wasn't really intending on snooping through Peter's things, he really didn't, but Angela had called him in a panic, claiming she had a nightmare where Peter and Sylar were shacking up (among other things), and he said he'd check it out.
So maybe he broke into the medic's apartment and was looking for evidence of something, anything, he could use to prove or disprove Angela's theory.
At first, he just notices the little things: A grocery list with two different sets of handwriting, stuck to the fridge; two toothbrushes in the bathroom; A closet full of clothes meant for two different sized people; and a small box, shoved behind some folded up sheets in the closet. In the box was a whole collection of things.
Noah noticed a long shard of broken glass, lightly covered in blood; an old, beat up copy of Pillars of the Earth; some drawings, mostly done in pen and on various scraps of paper; a letter, written in careful, neat handwriting; and finally, a small stack of Polaroids. Flipping through them, Noah sees various shots of Peter, and Sylar, goofing around or just sitting, and a few with the two of them together, Sylar holding the camera out at arm's length to get them both in the frame.
He finds one with Peter, standing in some field at sunrise, with his hair a mess, peeking out from behind the collar of his coat. The look in the medic's eyes is full of adoration and amusement, and Noah puts back into the box without so much another look. He knows who was taking the picture, who was making Peter so happy.
He takes one look at the final picture, the one where the two of them are sprawled across clean white sheets, lips barely touching, before carefully restoring the box back to its original hiding place and disappearing, leaving the place as he found it.
He didn't really need to tell Angela what he saw. She would find out the truth soon enough, and honestly, he could care less. At least Peter was smiling again.
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"We need to take him down as soon as possible," Angela is saying, looking around the room at the others gathered there. Noah Bennett is at her right, nodding his head in agreement. To her left, Mohinder Suresh is looking grim. Matt Parkman, Hiro Nakamura, Ando Masahashi, Rene Samedi and a single Company agent make up the rest of the occupants, looking just as determined.
"The easiest thing to do is to lure him out in the open," Bennett says, but before he can continue to explain his plan, Matt interrupts, "Sylar isn't stupid. He'll know it's a trap."
"Then what do you propose we do, Matthew?" Mohinder levels a gaze at his friend, leaning against the table, clearly irritated at this whole discussion.
"Simple," Matt replies, looking over his shoulder towards the eldest Petrelli. "All we have to do is exploit his relationship with that son of yours."
Angela's brow furrow and she's quick to shake her head.
"Absolutely not. I refuse to get Peter involved in this."
"Angela-" Noah puts a hand on her shoulder. "We might not have other options. If we're going to kill that monster once and for all, we're going to need some leverage."
There is a long, drawn out moment of silence as everyone tries to decide if their plan was really the best one, but suddenly, the lone Agent standing at the end of the room speaks up.
"You son of a bitch."
They all turn, surprised, and then the agent's skin is shimmering and changing until Peter is standing there, a look of absolute rage on his face.
"Peter!" Angela gasps, and Matt swears internally for not figuring it out sooner.
"I can't believe this, after all we've done for you. And to think that we trusted every one of you."
He shakes his head and narrows his eyes, making sure to glare at absolutely everyone in the room.
"Peter, I can explain," Angela says, trying to move forward, but Peter holds out a hand and she stops in place, held back by an invisible force.
"Fuck off, all of you."
Matt and Mohinder inch forward, making to grab Peter, but Bennett gives them a look, and they cease advancing in favor of remaining where they stand, allowing Peter to turn on his heel and stomp out of the office.
From down the hallway, they hear a loud crashing noise and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Peter broke a window and, knowing his track record, leapt out of it so that he could fly away.
"So..." Matt says, watching the others carefully, "We're just going to let him go off and warn Sylar that we're after him?"
Bennett makes to say something but Angela just sighs, moving to sit down in the padded armchair in the corner.
"It doesn't matter. Sylar must have fixed Peter's empathy and now the two of them are unstoppable. They're going to leave here, go somewhere far away."
"I could go to Peter's apartment," Hiro volunteers, but the idea is quickly shot down. All of the ideas they come up with are dismissed and everyone soon realizes that it's very likely they will never see Peter Petrelli or Gabriel Gray ever again.
So yeah, neither of these are related and both are kind of out of context. There would need to be stuff put on either side. What do you think? I figure Matt knows, cause he does, and maybe Angela suspets it, of course. Not sure about Bennett. He has some idea. So they're all like, well, fuck. What do we do?
I'm pretty overdramatic, sometimes, I think.