Right or Wrong?
Title: Right or Wrong?
Fandom: Heroes
Rating/Genre: pg/gen
Characters: Matt Parkman, Angela Petrelli, Noah Bennet (with Sylar and Nathan, sort of)
Summary: One dead body, and a defenceless one. Matt has to decide if he will do what Angela says, or not.
Word count: 558
Spoilers/Warnings: Season three, end of episode 25/character death
Notes: First fic this year! For heroes_contest, drabble challenge # 26, “Fork In the Road”.
The air is still echoing of Mrs. Petrelli’s cry of despair; a cry on the verge of awakening the dead - during the time Matt did police work, he had heard that cry many times from mothers refusing to accept what was there before their eyes, and it almost made his heart break.
It’s natural, the only possible reaction; it is against all laws of nature for parents to survive their offspring. Parents are supposed to go when their time comes and leave the children behind, alive and well.
Still, nature doesn’t always work like that, and Matt knows it. Life is cruel. Bad things happen to good people, and especially for half bad-half good people like all of them… No, the thing is, it doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad or morally grey as they call it - sometimes, a mother has to face the untimely death of her son.
But Mrs. Petrelli refuses. She thinks that there is a way around it; she looks upon Matt as her son’s saviour, and Matt knows that he has never been able to refuse to help anyone.
Mrs. Petrelli and Bennet stare at Matt, and he has to remind himself that he is the one with the mind power.
Can a grieving mother think straight? But years of making decisions in the present based on the future made Mrs. Petrelli strong, and now she’s begging him. Who is he to say she’s wrong?
Bennet is strong, too. Not just a Company agent, but the man chosen to be the guardian of that very important girl, without any other abilities than the strength of his convictions, his judgement and loyalty.
Matt is confused. Both of them are full of emotions. If Mrs. Petrelli dreamed that he’ll save Nathan, why does she have to look at him like that? If he has a choice, who can say that the future she can see is meant to be?
And why is Bennet agreeing with her? Will it really be good for the world to have Sylar trapped where he can be controlled, or will it be dangerous to have him in Nathan’s position? Is it good for Mrs. Petrelli to have a living, breathing image of Nathan next to her - or not? Isn’t Bennet the guy who more than anyone wants to see Sylar dead, crushed, extinguished?
“I can’t loose Nathan”, Mrs. Petrelli says, “not like this. I’m begging you.”
Matt understands. There is nothing he wouldn’t do for Molly, and he didn’t even know before that he had a son, but now the thought of not being able to spend the rest of his life watching Matty grow is unbearable.
Matt thinks again. Would he want to see Sylar looking like and believing that he is Matty or Molly? The idea makes him nauseous. This is wrong; he knows it.
But Mrs. Petrelli wants this. And she has lost so much already; she seems to be willing to do anything, and she has an iron will.
Matt has a choice; to say yes or no. He turns around to face the other lifeless body in the room; dead in the eyes of normal people, but Matt doubts that Sylar will ever die, and what can he do about it?
“Sylar is dead”, he begins, “that life is over…”
And then it’s done.
.
Fandom: Heroes
Rating/Genre: pg/gen
Characters: Matt Parkman, Angela Petrelli, Noah Bennet (with Sylar and Nathan, sort of)
Summary: One dead body, and a defenceless one. Matt has to decide if he will do what Angela says, or not.
Word count: 558
Spoilers/Warnings: Season three, end of episode 25/character death
Notes: First fic this year! For heroes_contest, drabble challenge # 26, “Fork In the Road”.
The air is still echoing of Mrs. Petrelli’s cry of despair; a cry on the verge of awakening the dead - during the time Matt did police work, he had heard that cry many times from mothers refusing to accept what was there before their eyes, and it almost made his heart break.
It’s natural, the only possible reaction; it is against all laws of nature for parents to survive their offspring. Parents are supposed to go when their time comes and leave the children behind, alive and well.
Still, nature doesn’t always work like that, and Matt knows it. Life is cruel. Bad things happen to good people, and especially for half bad-half good people like all of them… No, the thing is, it doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad or morally grey as they call it - sometimes, a mother has to face the untimely death of her son.
But Mrs. Petrelli refuses. She thinks that there is a way around it; she looks upon Matt as her son’s saviour, and Matt knows that he has never been able to refuse to help anyone.
Mrs. Petrelli and Bennet stare at Matt, and he has to remind himself that he is the one with the mind power.
Can a grieving mother think straight? But years of making decisions in the present based on the future made Mrs. Petrelli strong, and now she’s begging him. Who is he to say she’s wrong?
Bennet is strong, too. Not just a Company agent, but the man chosen to be the guardian of that very important girl, without any other abilities than the strength of his convictions, his judgement and loyalty.
Matt is confused. Both of them are full of emotions. If Mrs. Petrelli dreamed that he’ll save Nathan, why does she have to look at him like that? If he has a choice, who can say that the future she can see is meant to be?
And why is Bennet agreeing with her? Will it really be good for the world to have Sylar trapped where he can be controlled, or will it be dangerous to have him in Nathan’s position? Is it good for Mrs. Petrelli to have a living, breathing image of Nathan next to her - or not? Isn’t Bennet the guy who more than anyone wants to see Sylar dead, crushed, extinguished?
“I can’t loose Nathan”, Mrs. Petrelli says, “not like this. I’m begging you.”
Matt understands. There is nothing he wouldn’t do for Molly, and he didn’t even know before that he had a son, but now the thought of not being able to spend the rest of his life watching Matty grow is unbearable.
Matt thinks again. Would he want to see Sylar looking like and believing that he is Matty or Molly? The idea makes him nauseous. This is wrong; he knows it.
But Mrs. Petrelli wants this. And she has lost so much already; she seems to be willing to do anything, and she has an iron will.
Matt has a choice; to say yes or no. He turns around to face the other lifeless body in the room; dead in the eyes of normal people, but Matt doubts that Sylar will ever die, and what can he do about it?
“Sylar is dead”, he begins, “that life is over…”
And then it’s done.
.