The First Cut by Philote

[philote_auctor]

Title: The First Cut
Author: Philote
Rating: PG-13
Summary: She’d never been the suicidal type.
Character: Claire Bennet
Disclaimer: The characters and situations of Heroes do not belong to me. I make no money from this story. Please don’t sue.
Warnings: Self-injury
Challenge: #2 In the Beginning

Comments

[darkfire_blade]

Ohhh that gave me shivers. Her powers definitely aren't very healthy for her. I mean, there must be some sort of bad side-effect coming from all that cell regeneration, because your cells can do that only for a limited amount of time. She'll be using it all up to heal her own self-inflicted injuries and thereby just shortening her own life in a different way perhaps.

I think you did a really great job of conveying how in the world a regular teenage girl would go from ewww pain to let's go into a raging inferno just to see if I'll come out alive. I know that's not a really good description ^^.

I hope Claire'll come out okay.

[meli_64]

That was a cool description of her! Wonderful.

[technosage]

Most people saw hopelessness in death. But for Claire, there was something hopeless about being stuck in this world with no way out.

That about sums it up. I think you've captured her essential dilemma very well.

Thanks for sharing!

[pigeonoverlord]

Both creepy and awesome. :D

[hermionesviolin]

Six attempts and a blazing fire later, and there was a little bit of cold panic edging out her devil-may-care bravado.

She couldn’t die, even if she wanted to.

Most people saw hopelessness in death. But for Claire, there was something hopeless about being stuck in this world with no way out.

No, she’d never been the suicidal type. But now that it wasn’t an option, she couldn’t stop thinking about it.

::shivers::