Summary: Sylar's death in "Eclipse Part 2" ends up permanent and Elle is dead set on her revenge, but will killing Noah Bennett make the pain go away? Maybe killing Claire is better suited, but when Elle starts seeing her beloved everywhere she might just not be grief stricken, but crazy as well.

Author's Note: In this universe Sylar never took Claire's power hence when Noah killed him he stayed dead.

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CHAPTER 1: STAINED

Elle watched the eclipse disappear from her range. The sun shone down upon Gabriel's corpse. Her hands were tight around the bars waiting for him to wake up. She was waiting for him to stand up and tell her everything was alright and they were going to get the Bennetts. Seconds turned into minutes. He didn't move.

"Gabriel." The first whisper in the minutes of despair. "Gabriel wake up!" She was demanding the body to move. Blood had long since stopped pouring from the man's throat. "You can't leave me. Please don't leave me alone." In truth he was the only one who had truly showed her the affection she craved.

Yes her father had shown her love in a roundabout way, but he also used her. Gabriel had kept her safe. Saved her from Bennett's wrath. There was no point in saving damaged goods like her unless he was willing to try and save himself. Bennett had been stronger and she had been helpless to watch as the only person in the world who cared for her slowly died from existence.

"Why didn't you kill me?" She whispered. "Save me the trouble of caring for you." She wanted to fall against the bars and die herself, but revenge lingered in her bones. She shot a bolt of electricity at the lock on the bars. Her cage opened. Her first reaction was to go to him.

"Gabriel." A stream of tears travelled down her face. He had once called her an angel and at this moment she wished she had divine powers to bring his sorry ass back to her. She placed her hand against his hair, dark and a bit overgrown. She remembered clutching her fingers in that hair just hours before.

She slowly laid down next to him in the pool of his own blood. She stared into his half closed eyes. Her fingers trembled as she attempted to close them. She paused looking into them as if he would hear what she was saying.

"I want you to know that it wasn't easy. Getting you to trust me. It wasn't easy because I knew it was wrong. I never thought something was so wrong in my life. I never had these feeling, true genuine feelings for anyone else. When I first saw you I knew you were going to hit a nerve. Change me somehow. And you did Gabriel." She placed her hand against his hair. Her fingers trembled as tears slid once again from her light eyes.

"You changed me in so many ways. You changed my world. My life. My feelings. You were the electric blue in the crazy rainbow that is me." She smiled knowing that was her favorite color. Her hand rested on his cool cheek. "You were my first Gabriel. My first love. The first person who saw me as what I was and not as what I should have been. To tell you the truth if I could have died lying next to you or by your hand I would because you gave me the best moments of my life. I'll never stop loving you as long as I live." A leap pressed deep inside her heart. She had loved a serial killer. Her father's murderer. The monster she had created. It was like Dr. Frankenstein loving the monster that destroyed so many lives including his own. Yet somehow he made it better. Exciting.

"I'll make sure Noah Bennett knows the suffering he put me through. The suffering you and I had to face. He'll pay." Elle knew those words were true. She had a vendetta on Bennett. He would pay for killing Gabriel. Whether it was with his life or his family he would pay.

"Oh my God!" Elle turned her head to see a dark skinned woman in the stores uniform dropping a box. Glasses shattered at her feet. It was the icing to Elle's cake. "What did you-"

"Nothing." She was shaking trying to decide if she had time for this. She didn't, but she'd tell the truth. Make Bennett be the bad guy. Make Bennett feel the fact he killed a man and he liked it. "He . . .tried to save me. A man chased us in here. He hide me, but the man killed him and left." The woman reached for her walkie talkie.

"Rick we got a problem in the storage unit." She said looking back at Elle. Her eyes told her she believed the story despite the fact she was drenched in his blood. "Honey I can see how shaken you are sit down." She closed her eyes looking away from Gabriel. Elle went over to the woman sitting on the floor by the pile of empty boxes. "Now this guy, why was he after you?" Again the truth was something to look at, but she didn't want to make Gabriel and herself look guilty. A lie would be a quick fix.

"We were going to take his daughter in for questioning at our place. Just routine for our company." Her shoulders pressed toward her body at the mention of the word "company". "He went crazy saying we had no right to take her away and he started shooting at us." She looked at her thigh. At the shot wound that was all, but covered up making the woman gasp.

"We had no choice, but to shoot at him. His daughter got in the way and he tried to hunt us down. He killed my . . ." She looked back at Gabriel. Real tears spilled out of her face. The woman placed a reassuring hand on her back.

"Hey, we're going to get him." She assured Elle as footsteps came running and soon halted.

"Oh my-" A male voice echoed.

"Yeah I know." The dark skinned woman said as Elle sobbed softly.

"Who would do something like this?" The man who had to be Rick asked. Elle lifted up her tear soaked face to look at the light haired man.

"Noah Bennett did this." She told him. "Noah Bennett is going to pay."

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