Aren't We Related? -chapter 9- Paire
Chapter 9-No Help
Hiro Nakamura had had everything, friends, money and the opportunity to make a difference in the world. All that changed a couple of weeks ago when his body didn’t want to be “special” anymore, his body couldn’t take it.
After that nothing seemed to work anymore, the company he inherited from his father was doing very bad and friends… Well.. The true friend of Hiro left to explore the world. Yes, Ando left to see a different part of the world, a better looking part of the world.
So Hiro was left alone in the world full evil & Villains he couldn’t fight anymore. He had nothing to live for. No destiny… Well that was until…
KNOCK KNOCK
2 impatient knocks on the door made Hiro look up, who could it be? Nobody cared about the guy living in the old house in Las Vegas.
Hiro got up from the couch, who looked like crazy kids had been jumping on it for hours. Walking really slowly to the door, whispering to himself, Hiro heard voices. He slowed his pace even more.
Boem…Boem…Boem…
The boots Hiro was wearing made such noise that the people outside, no matter who they were, would hear him coming. The door was so far away, atleast that’s what It felt like, even though he was standing right in front of the door.
He reached for the doorknob and the people he saw standing there, were the last ones Hiro expected. Peter Petrelli looked at Hiro with a very cautious look. Peter was also standing a little in front of a girl, a young girl, Hiro recognized her then.
The cheerleader, Claire Bennet… He could see that Peter was very protective of her. There was also something dark in Peter’s eyes that Hiro Couldn’t quite describe.
“What are you doing here, Peter?” he saw the corners of Peter’s mouth slightly turn up, but not enough for anybody but Hiro to notice. “Hello Hiro.” He said in a very confident voice, which made Hiro narrow his eyes.
Claire, also noticing the change in his voice, looked at Peter very suspicious. Then followed the uncomfortable silence, Peter looked at Hiro expecting him to say something, Claire looked at Peter with a rather scared expression and Hiro, he was looking at neither until he started wondering why they were there exactly.
“So.. Are you finally gonna tell me why you are here, Peter?” Hiro asked, “With Claire…” Peter still looked at Hiro, but hearing Claire’s name made him lose focus, but no one noticed that to Peter’s relieve.
“What? Aren’t you gonna invite us in?” Hiro opened the door a little bit more and stepped aside. “Sure…”
Peter walked into the small hall, followed by Claire. Claire knew this was the same Hiro she met a while ago, but still she couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right here.
“Peter…” she whispered, but Peter was just walking to the living room and keeping his eye on Hiro. They were all standing in the living room just looking around, there were no pictures, there wasn’t anything special in the small room… Just a small tv, a little wooden table and the couch that was probably older then Hiro himself.
“Sit down…please.” Hiro added when he saw that nor Peter nor Claire was going to do what he said. “Okay, will you know tell me what you are doing here?”
Peter thought the best way to handle this situation was the direct approach. “Sylar’s alive.” He could’ve sworn that the felt Claire stiffen next to him, but then relaxed immediately again. He saw different things on Hiro’s face, anger, confusion, disbelieve… Mostly disbelieve.
“What do you mean, Sylar’s alive? Peter, We saw him burn, literally.” Peter shook his head… “No, we saw someone shape shifted in Sylar burn. Sylar murdered…” Peter couldn’t go on, Claire knew that he wouldn’t be able to, so he continued, “Sylar was and still is Nathan…”
Hiro’s eyes widened… “So you mean?” Peter having read his mind, answered almost in a sneer. “Yes.” Hiro didn’t know what to say, it looked like Peter was gonna explode any minute and anything Hiro would say wouldn’t help. “I… look, Peter, I really wanna help you but I can’t.”
Peter furrowed his eyebrows, “Why? Did something happen?” Claire looked up. “I… I can’t…. my powers… bad… gone.” Claire didn’t really get it, neither did Peter, but he was trying to read Hiro’s mind so Claire decided to ask. “Uhmm, Hiro? “ Hiro looked at her for the first time like he finally realized she was also there.
“Yes, Cheerleader?” Claire blushed, she never really like his nickname for her. “What exactly did you mean with powers gone?” Hiro looked at her with a sad expression. “Didn’t you wonder why I was here, living in this … well, something… Or why… Ando isn’t here.” Claire just nodded, while now Peter was paying close attention to their conversation.
“Mohinder thinks my body is rejecting my powers… My body can’t take them… Now everytime I try to teleport I just…” Peter heard a word he knew was the key in the whole story. “Try? You mean it doesn’t work anymore?”
Hiro shook his head. There went their last hope. Both Peter and Claire knew it, “Peter…”
“Yeah, I know… I’m sorry, Hiro, but are you sure you can’t even help us with anything?” Again Hiro shook his head. Peter only saw one more thing to do after this, “he needed to find Mohinder… and as many other people with abilities.”
“Where do you think he’ll be?” Claire asked, knowing what Peter was thinking. She didn’t need his power to know what was bothering him. “I don’t know, but we’ll find him… And start a war.” Hiro had no idea what they were talking about and was just looking confused between the 2 others.
“What’s going on?” Hiro wanted to help, with our without powers. “Hmm… Hiro, you’re good with computers, aren’t you? We need to find Mohinder.”
Hiro nodded, “Well, not as good as Micah but yes.” Micah… Peter hadn’t thought of that yet. There were many other people that could help them and he would find them all, together with Claire.