December 1st--Ticking
This is my December 1st entrey for the Petlar Advent Calendar. But remember that I'm not signed on for the 1st, so go ahead and click the picture above to head over to Peter_Sylar and see the real Dec. 1st entry.
Ticking
A Petlar Drabble-353 words
--So in my little Petlar verse, so far unnamed, Gabriel and Sylar are seperate personalities and Peter can still use a lot of abilities at once. And with the split personality thing, at any time Sylar and Gabriel can be fighting to own the body and they sort of mush to create a little gray area...(Why yes I made a pun)
Peter POV
I take his ability when he's sleeping. I do it every night, then relinquish it every morning before I get ready for work. It's not long enough for the hunger to set in but he still worries. So I just don't tell him.
I love his ability. And it's not that I have this desire to learn things or know how things work, it's just that I like knowing how he works. When I first take his ability, with a soft stroke on his inner wrist, my head fills with a heavy sounding tick. It's irregular. There's no set time between one tick and the next; sometimes it's seconds, other times it's minutes. But after the ability has settled a seperate ticking starts. This one is softer and on a set predictable schedule. These ticks linger and fizzle out in a predictable but nice sounding way. Even though they're quieter they never quite manage to get lost behind the quicker, harsher ticks that came first.
It took me three nights to realise what the differences were. The first is obviously the tick that belongs to Sylar. The brash, broken, unpredictable personality is what draws the ability to the surface. And Gabriel is the soft, predictable tick. The ability says this man should tick soft always. It says that the irregular ticking is wrong, broken. Gabriel's own intuitive aptitude knows that he's broken.
But I've never done anything with the ability. Nothing active anyways. I just like the reassurance. Every night two sets of ticking weave through my head to make a beautiful lullaby.
Once I tried to close my eyes and imagine Emma's colors dancing with Gabriels ticking but it didn't seem right. It had been beautiful but it just didn't feel right. Emma's dancing colors don't belong in my bed. They don't deserve to be so wrapped around Gabriel's ability. No one else deserves to be wrapped around this ticking. It's my little secret. It's something only I get to share with Gabriel.
It doesn't matter that everyone else knows about their differences, because we're the only ones who really know.
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At this point I'd like to say that I'm not bashing Emma. I do in fact ship Pemma since Petlar just isn't going to happen on screen. But we can still dream about achieving some real life Zailo. ^^x