SODALIS
Prologue
He was frightened. This silence was eerie and whole, scary and way too suddenly.
He remembered the noise, almost deafening, the screaming, the pain before everything was gone. Transfixed he stared up into the bright blue sky unblinkingly. A bird flew by, a cloud passed his field of vision, grey smoke dissolved.
With every passing moment this situation became more and more peaceful and he wanted to give into this feeling but he knew that something had to be wrong. He just didn't know what and momentarily he didn't care.
He closed his eyes and let himself rest in the overtaking darkness because somehow he was very tired. Just one moment, nothing more, one moment he wanted to sleep and rest. Then he wouldn't be so tired anymore.
He felt something on his chest. It was warm and felt strangely familiar. Fingers, soft and also warm, pressed against his throat and stirred him back from the darkness into consciousness. His eyes snapped open.
Explosion like everything returned: the noise, sirens wailing in the distance, people shouting, screaming, crying. The smell of burning tires stung in his nose. Ache cursed through him like a bolt of lightning and his face contorted in a painful frown and as groan escaped his mouth.
"Shh... everything is going to be okay." A soothing voice said though it was thick with emotions. He looked up to where he last seen the blue sky only and found a tear stained face looking down on him. Her eyes were wide with panic, tears filled the moment he locked eyes with her. Her lips quivered but she tried to put up a brave face and attempted a smile.
Still in heavy pain he tried to return the gesture but failed as another groan built up inside of him.
"Claire!" she shouted. "Hurry, we're here!" Looking back she focused him. "Please!" she then whispered more to herself than to him or the hopefully approaching Claire.
Every now and then she turned from his face to their surroundings, watching with frantic movements what was going on around them, then down his abdomen with concern before she locked eyes with him again.
It was then that he realized that both of her hands were pressed down on his stomach and that some warm liquid was running down his sides.
He pressed his eyes shut, trying to gulp the impending panic down. He remembered the shot now. Its sound was still ringing in his ears. He looked down on his hands and knew that he had seen them before in red, holding them up after the shot for confirmation that the bullet had indeed hit him.
"Claire!" Now she sounded as panicked as he felt and he was grateful the he wasn't in this alone.
"She'll be here any moment. And then you'll feel better! Okay?" Her last word sounded more like a plea than anything else.
He wanted to reach out to her, hold her hand, grasp her face but it was no use. His arms were lying limp and useless, heavy like stone on the cold street.
Suddenly he felt his eyelids just as heavy and he tried with all his might to keep them open but he failed. Slowly but steadily his eyes closed. Blackness surrounded him once more. Somewhere in the back of his numbing mind he felt someone shake him, calling out to him. "Peter!" But the black mist consumed him and engulfed him till there was blissful nothingness. No sound, no sight, no pain.
AN: Hello boys and girls! I hope you liked this first insight to my first ever "Heroes" Fanfiction. And my first Fanfiction since...uhm...a very long time...and I have some stories on well...hiatus...but I hope you like this first chapter and are curious about how it goes on. Please let me know if you do want to know. Pretty please.
Oh and before I forget it...I think I'm in a huge need of a beta...because of some events in my life I neglected my last, very very good beta and I hope she still likes me "Hi Carmilla!"...anyhow...review!! Please...!!!!
AN2: Did some grammar correction! Uff…embarrasing! He! Well…thx to those who did already review! That was so nice!