002 - Audio - Sylar - Anonymous NV

[fixesclocks]

Some scallywags mighten accuse me o' likin' th' sound o' me owns voice. Thar they may be right. 'tis rude indeed that I be yet ta introduce meself properly, don't ye reckon? One soul that went t'Davy Jones be hardly a proper 'Ahoy.'

Me name be Sylar. Ye may 'ave heard o' me. If ye haven't, 'tis only a matter o' time.

[I couldn't resist. Sylar has

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[askedtobe]

[ Just... this face forever. Peter is the epitome of unamused right now. ]

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[fixesclocks]

[Look, his face is moving but the words that come out don't match the words he makes. If you read his lips, you might catch the real ones:

Hello Peter.]

Ahoy, landlubber.

[But a face none the less. Sylar's face, cool and unexpressive, calculating.]

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[askedtobe]

[ God he's just not saying anything at all and just glowering. This sure is going to be an interesting feed.

He's awfully glad everyone finds this so amusing. ]

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[fixesclocks]

[Sylar resumes his conversations while leaving the video feed on to Peter. Occasionally he smiles at him.

After about ten minutes, he picks up the NV - his watch - and turns it to face the table. It jogs a little, for two more minutes, before he turns it back to face him.]

That's better, isn't it?

[His voice is liquid, every hint of pirate dubbing gone.]

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[askedtobe]

[ He doesn't want to talk and sound like a stupid pirate though, Sylar, he's unwilling to have a conversation with the man who killed him when he sounds like a character from a disney movie.

So he'll just grab the nearest notepad and start scribbling away on it until it's proven that he can speak on the network without pirate-interference.

Have a notepad shoved in the direction of the feed: 'Glad you found it so amusing, did you fix it??' ]

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[fixesclocks]

Yes.

[Dark eyes, focused through the camera on Peter's once the notepad is withdrawn.]

And so can you. You know how. You can see it.

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[askedtobe]

[ Thank god, now he can adequately express his rage. ]

Don't tell me what I can and can't do, i'm not you.

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[fixesclocks]

[He tilts his head.]

You just proved that you're much more like me than you think, Peter.

What else needs fixing? That clock behind you. It's seven seconds off the hour.

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[askedtobe]

[ Peter glances over his shoulder at the clock, brow furrowing a bit as he tips his head and--

Oh. This isn't a good thing, not at all, not even remotely, and Peter's attention has been snapped back to the NV. ]

Is that- is that what you can do?

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[fixesclocks]

[Sylar swivels his head to one side.]

And now you know, it's digging at the back of your head with every tick and every tock.

It's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong.

Fix it.

You can feel it, can't you?

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[askedtobe]

[ Peter's no longer purely angry, cut through with a certain amount of fear about what exactly has just occurred. And that fear is slowly seeping into the sound of his voice. ]

So I can fix clocks now, great. Know when they're running fast.

Real convenient, i'll never be late for work again. [ He already nows he can only fake being dense for so long.]

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[fixesclocks]

[He doesn't have to push it. It's something that will cause far, far more destruction if Peter comes upon it accidentally, at the worst time.

He might even get a copycat.

So smiling, he leans back, corrects his posture.

I think today might be my favourite day here so far.

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[askedtobe]

[ Peter is mere minutes away from legitimately freaking out. He doesn't know what this means exactly, but considering how excited Sylar seems to be about it, all he knows is this isn't good.

And it's bothering him all the more, the nagging in the back of his head because their tv is broken. It's been broken, but now he can feel it, and somehow... somehow, it's terrifying. ]

Why? Sylar, what is this?

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[fixesclocks]

[He owes Peter an explanation if he's going to hell, right? He can see his panic, and he breathes it in, relishes it.]

I call it intuitive aptitude. You look at something and you know, instinctively, how it works. Like that clock. The NV. Like me.

And sometimes you just have to take a closer look.

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[askedtobe]

So that's why-- [ Suddenly it all fit, why Sylar did the things he did, and Peter glanced off for a moment, putting the puzzle together of the last month before he'd shown up here. But it didn't do a thing to dial back his fear, looking back to his NV and nearly snarling. ]

It doesn't give you an excuse.

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[fixesclocks]

I've never needed an excuse, Peter.

[His lips quirk. It's repulsive, almost a genuine smile at how naive he is.]

It's the hunger.

Now you've let it in, it'll consume you.