Three Noelle Ficlets
Title: Denial is a Friend
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Alternate ending for 3x16. Noah finally reflects on his grief over Elle’s death.
Spoilers: 3x16
Disclaimer: Heroes is not owned by me, but by Tim Kring. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
Title: Alive Again
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Just when Noah thought he could accept the truth, he discovers what a lie it was.
Spoilers: 3x12 and minor 3x16
Disclaimer: Heroes is not owned by me, but by Tim Kring. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
Title: Noah’s Jealous Side
Rating: PG-13
Summary: We know Noah heard Elle telling Gabriel he was special as he was. So why was Noah outside of the van when Elle came running up?
Spoilers: 3x08
Disclaimer: Heroes is not owned by me, but by Tim Kring. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
Title: Denial is a Friend
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Alternate ending for 3x16. Noah finally reflects on his grief over Elle’s death.
Spoilers: 3x16
Disclaimer: Heroes is not owned by me, but by Tim Kring. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
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Noah Bennet didn’t want to admit it. He still couldn’t face it. Two months after the fact and he still couldn’t even say the words.
Elle, his former partner and often his only friend, was dead. To make matters worse she had been killed by the hand of virtually the only killer he hadn’t yet been able to stop. Even now when he could just taste the bittersweet nectar of revenge he knew he couldn’t go after Sylar. Not now, not if he wanted to keep Claire safe from him and Danko.
When Sylar had said it the night Primatech burned to the ground he hadn’t wanted to believe it. He couldn’t. But then Sylar wouldn’t lie about a kill like that, especially when he then knew Elle had more than slightly helped create the monster he had become. Part of him even envied the bastard. He’d had what Noah still cursed himself for having wanted.
Now his daughter was terrified of him, his wife had thrown him out of the house and the only friendly face he wanted to see was the very one he knew was lost to him forever.
As he drained his third scotch, he saw her face again. His fourth scotch quickly followed. It was the first time he had been able to let himself grieve and it was only because it was the first time he had been left alone long enough to where he had been able to think about more than Nathan’s sickening plot.
He took his glasses off and rubbed his sore, tired eyes. But he wouldn’t cry. He was too numb, but the idea that she would never turn to him when she was in need again, knowing he hadn’t been this alone since before he joined The Company only tightened the knot in his gut.
Five minutes later his fifth and final scotch of the night was as gone as his will to remember any part of this night. Elle was dead, but he wouldn’t say goodbye. He had already lost too much and even if he had lost her too at least he still had denial as his friend. The only one he knew would be with him until the day he finally died himself.
The End
Title: Alive Again
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Just when Noah thought he could accept the truth, he discovers what a lie it was.
Spoilers: 3x12 and minor 3x16
Disclaimer: Heroes is not owned by me, but by Tim Kring. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
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Elle had been lying low, knowing the danger she would be in if the others knew Sylar had helped her fake her death. She too had heard of the other specials being rounded up, hunted and in some cases killed.
There was only one place she knew she would be safe, the only place she could turn to. She didn’t know Pinehearst and Primatech were both gone, but it hardly mattered since that wasn’t where she was headed.
Sandra was out, just as she had planned to be while Noah packed up the last of his things. Lyle was with her and Claire was who knew where.
It made it easier for Noah. He didn’t need the fights today. He just wanted to get his things from the house he had worked so hard for and that Sandra was obviously going to get to keep.
He managed to finish in piece and while so lost in his thoughts of everything over the last month he hadn’t even noticed he was being followed.
Elle had meant to talk to him at the house but from down the street she could see what he was doing. Packing, leaving some part of his old life behind. It was oddly comforting for her to see, it was nice to know she wasn’t the only one looking to start over as best she could.
Noah stood up after the third knock. Whoever this was obviously wasn’t going away. And if it was Nathan, so help him, biological father or his daughter or not he would know pain for coming to him now.
He couldn’t have imagined the shock he was in for as he pulled open the door.
“Hi,” Elle smiled. She didn’t know whether to try to leap into his arms at the fact he would potentially be the only one happy to see her, or would at least tolerate her. That was good enough, admittedly. Or just cry from the shock before her. He was stunned, that could only be good, right?
“Elle? Sylar -”
“Faked my death,” she broke in. “I’ve been trying to hide ever since, but I just couldn’t take hiding from you anymore. I don’t really want my old life back, but you’re the closest thing I’ve had to a real friend.”
Noah’s head was spinning. This was so unlike her and yet he knew from experience what coming back from the dead could do to a person. Sylar had said that she was dead, yet here she stood just as he had remembered. Every blonde hair even perfectly in place.
“Are you gonna say anything?” she asked, growing more nervous by the moment. Would he turn her in? Shoot her? Tell her that he wished she had died?
Noah had kidded himself into believing he had moved beyond her death, that he had moved beyond her. But it had all been a lie. It had been as much of a lie as her death, he was beginning to realize. He needed her, he needed to keep her in his life.
“Come in,” he told her finally.
“Bennet, there’s something I need to ask you,” she told him once he had closed the door after her. “Something I’ve never asked you before.”
“I won’t turn you over to them,” came his immediate reply. He had saved her several times before, he wouldn’t stop now.
“Thanks, but this is something else. Something more - Bennet, can you just kiss me?”
He couldn’t believe what he had heard, but the pleading and forming tears in her blue eyes proved to him that he had heard right. Her request was almost too easy to grant. His marriage was over as it was and he couldn’t remember the last time he had been so relieved to see her.
He held her as though he would never let go while his mouth plundered hers, their kiss fierce and all-consuming. There was nothing more either of them would need, they knew. They were both alive again, both trying to escape past demons and move on. And now, together, they knew that they not only could but would.
The End
Title: Noah’s Jealous Side
Rating: PG-13
Summary: We know Noah heard Elle telling Gabriel he was special as he was. So why was Noah outside of the van when Elle came running up?
Spoilers: 3x08
Disclaimer: Heroes is not owned by me, but by Tim Kring. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
~~
“You’re special just the way you are,” Elle softly spoke to Gabriel.
Noah, in response, nearly vomited then and there in the van. Since when did he have to listen to his partner spewing this garbage? Special? The man was a killer and they were here to make sure he would kill again.
Damn the surveillance, everything was being recorded as it was, he needed air. It wasn’t that he was jealous, never. She was Elle. What could he be jealous of?
Okay, so she had never looked at him the way she was having to look at Gabriel for the assignment (and it was for the assignment!) and she had never said things like that to him. But that was hardly a reason to be jealous. She was still young enough to be his daughter, he was still her partner and he was still married.
But then why wasn’t that sickening feeling leaving him? Why wasn’t the fresh air helping as he leaned against the side of the van? And why was he plotting a form of harmless revenge?
“Special just the way you are,” he mocked finally as she came jogging up towards the van. “I was afraid you were about to bust into song.”
This wasn’t over and he knew this would only get worse before it got better. But still he wasn’t jealous. No, not possible. She was Elle.
Elle… A young, beautiful blonde whom, if circumstances were different, he knew he most likely would have already claimed for his own.
Still he wasn’t jealous. Not a bit.
Gabriel would pay for this, Noah soon thought with a heavy sigh as he climbed back into the van moments later.
The End