Veni Scripsi Vici
NOTES: I admit, I haven't seen much of Heroes, but I thought that Gabriel pretty much made the sweetest dad ever. That is all.
Fire and Pain
My head's throbbing so hard, I can't see straight. What just happened? I was thrown back… How much furniture did I just smash through? God, my head hurts… The power he had… Noah must be so scared. Noah… Where's Noah?
I can see now…sort of… I lost my glasses; now everything's fuzzy. I can still see… Oh, no… I can tell I'm at the counter…and I can see the blue… No… Oh, no… Oh, God, no… He's bleeding… His mouth is bleeding… Please, no… He's not moving… Come on, please, just move for Daddy, okay? Please… He's not breathing… Please, he's all I have… No… Noah, please breathe for me… Please… Oh, God, he's shattered… Noah, please! For Daddy…
I'm helpless. Useless. Completely empty. Who am I? Everything I am has been sucked out of me, leaving me a senseless shell. How am I still breathing? I don't want to be.
I'm starting to feel again. I can feel agony begin to grip my mind, but even then, I am so incredibly empty. Everything I loved… My only reason for still existing… Crushed…
Something's happening to me. As my soul fills up with pain, something else is filling my body. There is heat rising in my hands, spreading to my arms, my chest, all the while growing warmer and warmer. I can feel my body shaking; it's because the pain in my mind…the anger…the agony…it keeps me from breathing right, and I'm shaking.
The heat has spread all over; it's stabbing into my hands now. I feel it everywhere; I feel my entire body rising in temperature, the heat escalating as my despair mounts with it.
I don't know what's happening to me. I don't know what's happening outside of me, either. All I know is I've lost him, and all I see is searing orange light. All I know is physical and mental pain. The burning has become nearly as agonizing as what I feel in my soul; both are so unbearable, I think I'm screaming. I don't know. I can't make sense of my body anymore. Everything, in some way, is pain. I know nothing else.
In a brief moment, I know fear. What's happening to me? Oh, God, please let me follow Noah… I'm still burning… Nothing can stop it… I couldn't stop it if I wanted to… Please, let this pain, this fire… Let it take me to him, please… Please… Please… The fire still escalates; the heat is smothering me… So is the despair… Please…
I feel tears leave my eyes, but they don't have time to fall. Instead, they rise from my face in steam.
Noah, wait for me…
I release it all.