Set in Season 4 around episode 5(Tabula Rasa)_Warning may contain Season 4 Spoilers-so read at your own risk!!!!! -
'Sylar/Nathan' is new at the Carnival------And ya- when I say 'Nathan' its actually Sylar's body with Nathan's memories.…..enjoy!
Carne Vale-apparently means 'Flesh Farewell' Thank you Wikipedia.
"What should we call you? Gabriel? Sylar?" Samuel asked him. "Take a deep breath…What's the first name that pops into your head?"
"Call me Nathan."
---
"Gar here, can finish your tour." Lydia, that tattoo'd lady, walked away-her skirt flowing in the light breeze.
"Gar?" Nathan asked as he looked at the girl. Her clothes weren't as flowing as Lydia's and she wasn't as classically pretty as Lydia, but still her winked smile and way of looking at him caught him off guard. She was cute-even though her cheeks were a bit smudged.
"Short for Garbage Girl…Its not my real name. Just what people call me around here. My real name is Ness. Nice to meet you." She reached out her hand to shake his.
"Nathan-I think." he shook her hand reluctantly.
"I like it." she grinned and stuck her hand back in to the garbage bin.
"What are you doing?" he asked out of genuine interest, covertly wiping his hand on his shirt.
"Digging through the garbage." she said loftily. "I said Garbage Girl wasn't my real name, but that doesn't mean I didn't earn it as a nickname."
"This is a hobby-or….?" he laughed a bit at her intense look as she purposefully rifled through the old corndog sticks and bubblegum wrappers.
"Its my power." She smiled and proudly pulled out a teddy bear from the trashcan. It had clearly seen better days. The head had been ripped off and was only hanging on by a couple of threads.
"You find….treasures, do you?" Nathan asked, clearly thinking this ragged, ketchup-coated teddy bear was better off left in the bin.
"Something like that." she looked it over. "I saw some boys steal this from a little girl not long ago. They ripped its head off and dumped it in here." She sighed and looked around. "I thought I should rescue it and give it back to her."
"…and you think she'll want it now?" he asked. His dark eyebrows furrowing together.
"Yeah." Ness grinned more to herself and waved her hand over the teddy bear. There was a small fizzling sound and the teddy bear returned to looking like new. "I think she might." Nathan looked at the doll-still shocked that he wasn't the only one to possess these abilities. "Come on-Lets go find her." She hit him on the shoulder and led him off in the direction of the Zipper.
A few paces away, Edgar stood-knife in hand-watching.
---
"So you fix things?" Nathan asked as they walked, dodging the carnival patrons. He wasn't sure why but that seemed familiar to him. Fixing broken things-watches….understanding how they worked…
"Not really." Ness replied-still craning her head around looking for the young girl in a blue dress with braided hair. "I can take things to any point in their life span. Objects have lives-just like people." She explained
"That's interesting." He said, though seemed not convinced.
"Everything has a birth..." Ness took the teddy bear and ran her hand over it again. With a slight fizzle she was holding a lump of material-some thread, fluff, and buttons. "And a death…" She waved her hand again and was holding the near headless dirty mass of fluff from before. "But the part that really matters is everything in between." She grinned and once again the bear was in mint condition. Nathan took the bear from her and examined it. He smelled it. There was no trace of the garbage bin left on it-only what was left on 'Gar's' hands.
They continued walking.
"Is that her?" He asked, pointing at a little girl hidden behind a booth still crying.
Ness looked where he was pointing and nodded. "Why don't you give it to her?"
"I…um…" Nathan faltered.
"Come on." she smiled. "Can't be afraid of kids if you're going to work in a carnival." She smiled.
"I'm not afraid." he crossed his arms. "I just-thought she might not like a strange man coming at her with toys is all."
Ness laughed. "Alright, Nathan. We'll go together."
They walked up to the girl. She looked up at them-her eyes still red.
"I think this belongs to you." Ness said grinning and handed the girl the bear.
"You fixed it!?" the girl asked.
"Something like that." Ness grinned.
"Cool! Thanks!" The girl jumped up and ran off to find her family.
"You just made a little girl very happy." Nathan remarked as she ran away.
"In a place like this-everyone should be happy." She grinned up him. "I think you will be too, someday."
"I think I'm starting to be." he started to grin back. He wasn't sure why but from both Lydia and Ness's attention and Samuel's words beginning to sink in, he was starting to feel like he belonged here.
"Come with me back to the trailers-We'll get cleaned up for supper." She smiled.
"If its all the same to you. I think Ill sit here awhile." He walked over to a wooden plank by a nearby booth. "I need to gather my thoughts a bit."
"Understandable." She nodded.
"Thanks, Ness." he added-almost as an afterthought.
"See you around." She grinned-part of her glad he didn't call her 'Gar.'
Please Review!