Just Talking (Part II)
Title: Just Talking (Part II)
Characters: Sylar/Gabriel Gray, Peter Petrelli
Rating: PG-13/NC-17
Warnings: Discussions of abortion, death of pregnant women, bad living conditions for children/infants including scientific testing. Discussions of semi-graphic casual sex/sex practices, contraceptives. It's a bit dark and depressing but it ends nicely. ( Read more... )
"That’s how it’s supposed to be; that’s how it’s intended.”
I like this line a lot. I hadn't thought about it, but I agree that's what Peter would think. He'd have ideas that people were meant to love each other, that there was a divine purpose to the world. The sex act would fall into that just like everything else - that there was a meaning to that act that made it sacred, in a way. Not that he'd be all hung up about its holiness, but to Peter it would be something special and to be honored even if he's getting it on with Chelsea in the back of the bar. Because that made him and Chelsea happy, which means it's a good thing, it has virtue, it's cool, it's valuable, it's right.
I hadn't thought about Sylar's opinion on kids, but I agree. I especially liked this: he’d fight tooth and nail to get that kid a good home and held hostage until Sylar turned himself in. Which he would do once the kid was safe. Because yeah, there's a heart in there. There's a good man in there. I like to see glimpses of that.
The 'death by nachos' images were hilarious!
You know what's going through Peter's brain right here? Peter paused; not a good sign. “Why is it irrelevant after high school?” Crap. The puzzling frown on the man’s face was endearing, so Sylar studied it a little.
“I wasn’t….” Sylar ducked his head down to the plate again, “exactly on the market. Not hard not to think about-….”
He's thinking Sylar came out of the closet and/or experimented with being gay after high school. Peter did (experimented, not coming out ... well, not that it was much of an experiment, as Peter knew he was bi pretty early). I don't think you were writing it with that in Peter's mind, but reread and you'll see it fits everything he says.
It's funny how heteronormative this conversation is when Peter's bi and Sylar's trying to figure out how to get laid. The first conversation about m/m is going to be a doozy!
Thank you for posting this!
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Interesting insight (I'm glad you're taking it deeper and/or IC-ness to Peter!) about "meant to be's" It seemed something that Peter would say just in the "rightness" of the universe.
About Sylar and kids: Absolutely. I think he started...pre-planning his new life sans-Hunger, plus-Elle during the Eclipse and that really fell apart on him - badly. House, 2.5 kids, white picket fence and family dog....Then reality hits that, oh, yeah, Elle is NOT family, settle-down material, life won't let either of them catch a break and things go to hell. I think he got really envious/bitter/sad at being stuck in Matt's head and dealing with a wife and kid and this "perfect" life. Being Nathan, someone who REALLY had it all was the same thing. Not to mention being Petrelli, being Martin/Virginia's son, then Samson/OC mother's son. He's kind of had normalities (of other people's lives, granted) ripped from him a lot.
He's totally not heartless - he's got too much heart and he's not stupid enough to think he can take care of a kid on the run when he can't even take care of himself - he knows what the right thing to do is. IABD - he's lonely because he lacks a partner (so I assume) but he has his kid to give him love and for him to focus on and live for. He makes a wonderful dad because the best way to learn how to do something is to either fail or experience things the wrong way and he has thousands of times over.
Does he want kids someday? Yes. Would he if he had the opportunity? Maybe - he'd be worried a lot about his genes (being passed on and his ability to parent) and possibly his situation whatever it be at the time. Given where he is in S4, he'd take a good 20+ years until he'd be ready for kids with anyone. There's the whole regen-should-we-have-kids-at-all problem, too, assuming his partner (assuming, again, that he has one) is immortal also.
Glad you liked the death-by-nacho references. I thought they were a bit hammy, but you all but dropped the prompt in my lap and nachos were the plot device of choice.
O.M.G
You're so right about the experimenting angle Peter's seeing! Oh no!! So not what I intended at all. That's so funny, though!
M/M: Ha. Its gonna be one quiet room when that goes down, at least on Sylar's side.
Thanks for all your help (and comments) on it. Couldn't have done it without you.
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