Unusual Living Situations
By: Kaitlin Phillips
Disclaimer: I don't own Heroes or any of the characters on Heroes
Authors Note: This is my first fic so be nice. Comments are appreciated, Flames are not
Chapter 1
Claire Bennet was screwed. It was as simple as that. Seriously, who fell in love with their UNCLE? And if that wasn't bad enough, Claire had developed a humongous crush on her uncle's girlfriend, Elle Bishop. Not that she could be blamed really, for falling in love with Peter. When they first met Peter saved from a physco supervillian. He was charming, good-looking and had just saved her life. They met a couple more times after that and he was one of the few people she could trust at a very confusing and difficult time in her life. It wasn't surprising that she started to crush on him and then…. he's her uncle. After that bomb dropped she expected the feelings to go away. They didn't. Nope, even after Claire found out her attraction to Peter continued to grow. After everything had settled down and Sylar was dead, most of their little group of freaks moved to New York City.
Peter and Elle moved into an apartment together. Nikki and Micah did too, both of them still coping with the loss of DL. Nathan just moved back into his old house and went back to being a lawyer. Matt and Mohinder moved into an apartment with Molly. Claire and her family moved into a larger apartment just a few blocks from Peter and Elle's place. In fact, after school and after Claire did her homework, she would go and hang out at the couple's apartment. Her parents complained that she spent all her time over there, but next year she was going off to college so they had better get used to not seeing her. As a matter of fact, she was on her way over there right now. Then there was Elle. Elle was the opposite of Peter, where Peter was serious, Elle was child-like. Peter was stable, Elle was unpredictable. Even the way Claire met Elle was the opposite of the way she met Peter. Claire met Elle last year and at the time she was one of the bad guys. Elle was being traded for Clair when Elle shot her out of the sky, literally. After their first meeting there were some more unpleasant and violent encounters between the two women and they genuinely hated each other. Later, after Elle's father was killed and she switched sides, her and Peter began seeing each other. And since, Claire was in love with Peter and she was spending more time with him that meant spending more time with Elle. While getting to know the slightly psychotic women, Claire became infatuated. Elle was beautiful, interesting, and funny in a sarcastic, unique way. Ugh, and so we were back to Claire being screwed.
Claire unlocked the door to her loves' apartment and fixed herself a snack before she plopped herself down on the couch to think. She had accepted that her feelings were real and that she was in love with her uncle and his girlfriend. Now the question became what to do about it. The way Claire saw it, she had three options. Option 1: continue to suffer silently and not tell the objects of her affection how she felt. That just wasn't working and Claire knew she needed to do Something, Anything, or she was going to go crazy. Then there was Option 2: Tell Peter and Elle that she was in love with them. Yeah, because that was going to go over well, they would freak out and tell her parents who would send her to therapy or something. Finally, there was Option 3: Finish her senior year, go to college in another city or state, and avoid Peter and Elle for the rest her life which, considering she was immortal, was going to be a while. Claire hated this option. She wasn't just in love with Peter and Elle but the three of them had also become close friends and Claire really didn't want to lose that. Besides, avoiding Peter and Elle would also mean avoiding the rest of her family and Claire couldn't do that.
That just left Option 2. Claire sighed and resigned herself to her fate. So what if they rejected her, or laughed, or freaked out, at least then it would be out in the open. Just as she finished her thought Peter and Elle walked in the door, coming home from work. "Hey Clairebear, how's it going?" Peter asked. Peter and Elle put their stuff up and Elle sat down in the chair next to the couch as Peter went in the kitchen to look for something to make for dinner. "Pretty good, I was just wondering, could talk to you guys before we eat dinner?" Claire asked hesitantly. She had to talk to them soon, before she lost her nerve. "Sure thing, Pom Pom. Watcha wanna talk about?" Elle questioned, using the nickname that used to be used as an insult but now was her term of affection for Claire. "Well, it's just something that's been going on with me lately that I wanted to let you guys know about." Claire answered slowly as Peter sat in the other chair next to the couch. Claire took a deep breath and began, "So, recently I've been having these feelings…. these feelings for you two that are more than just friendly." Claire said looking at her hands in her lap. "You see, I'm kinda, sorta, in love. With you guys." She finished.
"WHAT!!!"