[001] [Intro] Just another tequiiiiila sunriiiise...

[the_flyingman]

There was pain. It was throbbing, all consuming, and just unpleasantBut he'd have to open his eyes eventually. Nathan knew that much. Whether or not he wanted to wasn't a question, he had to get up. Claire was... Claire was somewhere. She was somewhere, doing something, and it wasn't very safe for her to be alone. It didn't matter how well she'd

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[daughterof_evil]

Sasha should have been a little more surprised when she walked back into her hotel room to find a man walking out of it. Luckily for Nathan, after the morning she'd had, Sasha knew better than to freak out about it. His clothes had already been in his closet when she had woken up, and there were pictures of a family that she didn't recognize on his side of the room.

"You were kidnapped and dumped in a hotel room in a city that shouldn't exist," she explained, walking over to help the man steady himself. He wasn't doing a good job of staying upright on his own, and he smelled like tequila and peanuts. "And you totally had too much to drink last night." She didn't have to know him to be sure of that.

"I'm Sasha. I think we're supposed to be roomies." He didn't look like the type to go for that, but she wasn't giving up her room, so he'd have to take it up with management. "Easy, tiger. Puking on me would make a horrible first impression."

[the_flyingman]

Tiger. Sasha. Roomies. Hotel? Kidnapped.

God, it'd be nice if his head wasn't hurting right now.

"... Nathan Petrelli." She was helping him, why would he fight with her? If she was part of the plan, put there strictly to mess with him, then he'd deal with that when he could think straight. It wouldn't be the first time it'd happened.

"I was with my daughter." She had to be somewhere, right? If he'd been taken, Claire couldn't be far. Right. "We were in Mexico, there were these college kids..." Anyway. She really didn't need to know about that.

"Her name is Claire." Going to-- Nope, not yet. "She's short and blonde. Very short. Skinny. Looks like a cheerleader. Have you seen her?"

He really thought he was doing well, under the circumstances.

[daughterof_evil]

"A cheerleader," Sasha repeated, holding on to him a little tighter as he tried to explain himself. He was looking for a daughter who he probably wouldn't find. People were doing a lot of talking about how they had ended up in the city, but she hadn't heard of anyone who had arrived with a buddy. His daughter was probably right where he had left her, wondering if her dad had stumbled into a gutter or something.

"Sorry, I'm new here. I don't know a lot of people yet." And hopefully, she'd find her way home before she needed to get to know anyone else. Some of the people seemed nice, but she wasn't looking to relocate again. The move to Gotham from Los Angeles had been hard enough. "Maybe you should sit down." Or sleep until he felt like he could walk a straight line again, whatever worked for him.

[the_flyingman]

Then maybe Claire was around here somewhere, and he just hadn't found her yet. All the same, Sasha's suggestion of taking a seat's a welcome one, and Nathan nods immediately, only slightly regretting the action after it's over. Ow.

"Sitting would be great." At least for a minute. He's now confirmed with himself for the most part that he's not going to throw up. Almost something to be proud of, when you think about it. "You said your name was Sasha, right?" Right. Right? Right.

[reapwhatwesow]

Angela had laid down for a nap. As masochistic as that might have made her seem, she knew what Peter was going to end up doing, that he was going to try and interfere in a way that she knew now that nobody should. But she needed to see if anything had changed, if what he had probably already done had altered the flow of events. But it had played through exactly the same as it had before: screams and death and music and blood and Sylar. I'm here to save you. Angela could only imagine exactly what he meant by that. While she had seen more than enough humanity shine in Gabriel than she had originally anticipated during her experiment to get him on the Company's side, whatever doubts she had had about his inability to be redeemed had been wiped clean with the murder of her son. There was nothing good in Sylar to her after he had done that

[the_flyingman]

"Ma?"

It's a dream, right?

No, no it's not. Nathan knows that when he looks up, because he doesn't dream about these things. Especially when he's hungover. If he's going to dream about a parent, it's going to be his father, and not with these circumstances set for him in advance. This would be pleasant compared to what he'd dream up.

So his mother was here. Crap. "Where's Peter?" And why them, and no one else? And why couldn't she have shown up when he didn't feel like he was going to pass out? Ten more minutes to figure things out would've been fine. "How did we get here?"

[reapwhatwesow]

Where's Peter? How did we get here? No accusing questions, no questions of why, how she could have possibly thought handing Sylar's life over to him was a workable much less moral plan. There was no anger in his expression, nothing that she expected she would imagine if she was truly going to inflict something like this on herself. It was...disturbingly like the dreams she'd had of Alice. Confusing yet benign, and certainly not something she would expect to see of someone who was dead. But there was a major difference between Alice and Nathan. She hadn't seen her sister's body. She had buried her son's

[the_flyingman]

The migraine threatened to surge forward and double when his mother's hand came to rest upon his cheek. But when Nathan saw this wasn't going to be another one of those times where she shared another Petrelli secret, or confessed to him she'd been in on another scheme, or anything of the sort, it subsided.

No, she appeared to be dangerously close to crying. Nathan stared at his mother in disbelief while she seemed to check if he was actually there, and by the time she was holding onto his arm, he felt an annoying surge of guilt for being suspicious of her in the first place.

He didn't have the energy for this. "Ma, it's alright. We'll figure it out." And even if they couldn't, lying to themselves was better than her breaking down into tears, wasn't it?