Fic: You Shouldn't Trust Your Instincts

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Title: You Shouldn't Trust Your Instincts 
Rating: NC-17 
Word count: 711
Pairing: Sylar/Peter
Spoilers: No episode-specific references
Disclaimer: Not my characters, not writing this for profit. 
Notes: Originally written for the Sekrit Cabal Porn Battle at 

Comments

[lex_4_well]

whoaa haha very surprising ending, nice :)

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Thanks a lot!!!

(I kind of worried that people might be bothered if I didn't warn them about "character death", but that would have totally ruined the ending.)

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Poor Peter. I actually wrote this backward, because I took the prompt 'betrayal' and immediately knew how I wanted it to end. Sylar in S1 was so focused on tracking down specials that I don't think any other "biological imperatives" mattered to him, and I once said that he was so obsessed with the hunt that I really couldn't even see him being interested in sex unless it would somehow help him achieve his primary goal. Enter trusting, caring Peter, who's never seen what a good actor Sylar can be when he's after braaains...

I like the tenderness there.
I can't decide, though, if Sylar really lost himself and briefly felt the same as Peter, or if he just pretended while gleefully anticipating how much emotional pain it's going to cause Peter when he realizes this was all a lie. I don't think Sylar's genuinely evil, but he does hate Peter.

Also: somehow in my mind this became het!fic, but this is more a reflection of Peter's character, though XDYou know, I've realized that probably a large reason why I don't write that is that I

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Well, I read that as a little Gabriel coming out, and then Teh Braaaaaaaaaaains taking over XD
You're actually probably right. Which actually just makes it more twisted/sad: that he's so desperate for someone to care about him that even though he hates Peter with a passion, he'd take comfort from him.

But I couldn't write anything Peter-related--even Peter!het--because he annoys me too much.
That's exactly why I wrote this, just as a masochistic challenge. I don't like him either, and I wanted to see if I could manage to make him sympathetic. I did actually kind of feel bad for him by the time I got done. You'll notice it didn't stop me from killing him off, though. ;0)

[skitty_kat]

Oh my. That is fantastic! Lovely lovely sex and an absolute shocker of an ending (as much as I know Sylar's a bad guy the cuteness of it all lulled me into a false sense of security).
Very well done!

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(as much as I know Sylar's a bad guy the cuteness of it all lulled me into a false sense of security)

I actually felt a little bad for doing the same thing to Peter, but with a prompt like "betrayal", I had no choice.

This is the first time I've tried writing Peter, so I'm glad it sounded good to you. Thanks a lot!!!

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Aw, memories? Cool! :0)

I was trying to figure out how to make the prompt work, because I couldn't imagine either of these two trusting one another enough to be betrayed, but then I realized: Peter betrays himself, by wanting to believe that he's reached something good in Sylar badly enough that it never occurs to him that it could just be an excellent acting job put on to get him off guard.

Thanks a lot!

[cookie_simone]

I totally wasn't expecting it to end that way, it was really surprising. And it actually made me laugh out loud. I think I might be evil. Normal people don't react like that, do they?

Anyways, good job! This coming from someone who does not ship Peter/Sylar at all.

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Hey...how did I miss that you commented on this?!? I usually answer emails/comments from LJ religiously.

Sadly...this did not come from any kind of shipping place. It really was me wanting to see if I could write Peter decently. But also...I so totally enjoyed having Sylar trick and kill him. I think I'm DEFINITELY evil. :0)