This is an AU version of season 4 and the end of season 3, nothing that happened with Sylar post Shades of Gray matters in this story. Hope you enjoy!

Oh and I don't own anything besides the idea and the character you don't recognize.

It was the last day of summer. Two young children played in the back yard of a quaint white house, while their mothers conversed over iced tea. A girl and a boy; five and six respectively, the girl wore a white cotton dress and twirled across the yard. Her hair hung in long dark curls and her full cheeks were flushed in excitement. She was a cute child, but not one you would expect to see on the front of a magazine, nothing special. However to be perfectly honest, neither was the boy. His hair had obviously started the afternoon neatly slicked back, but that was no longer the case. His straight dark hair had escaped the hold of the gel and now stuck out every which way. His glasses constantly slid down his nose and he had dark smudges across his face from pushing them back up with dirty hands. His play cloths had originally consisted of a clean pair of jeans and a t-shirt but neither were recognizable though the grass stains and dirt. Somehow he had become completely filthy while his playmates dress was still perfectly white. The two children made their way to a tired swing that hung from an old oak tree. The girl climbed into the swing and squealed with delight as the boy sent her soaring away from the ground. As the tire passed by the ground the boy jumped on and the two of them sung back and forth. Eventually the tire came to a stop. The children sat laughing on the stilled tire until suddenly the little girl planted a kiss on the boys' lips. He was so surprised that he fell of the swing and into the dirt. The little girl jumped to the ground and helped her friend to his feet, trying to brush off some of the new dirt. The boy showed her his scrapped and bleeding palm. Wordlessly she placed a kiss on the wound and it healed before their eyes.

"Kiss a booboo, makes it better." She said with a smile. The boy smiled back. He leaned forward and lightly kissed her.

"All better." He replied. She giggled and her big cheeks turned bright pink. She grabbed his hand and pulled him over to the grass where they both sat.

"We're gonna get married." She informed him as she straightened out her skirt in a ladylike manner.

"Why?" He asked, confused. He knew adults got married, but that was because they were old and needed a playmate and that was the only way they could have a playmate. Adults were boring so they had to force someone to be their playmate… it made sense.

"Because I love you, and when two people love each other they get married." The little girl informed him in a matter of fact sort of way.

"Oh," The boy said a little more confused. "How do you know if you love someone?"

"Well, I think it means you really like someone and you would rather play with them than with anyone else." She explained. The boy nodded, it made a lot more sense now. "Do you love me?"

"I don't want to play with anyone else." He said with a smile.

"Gabriel!" The little boy's mother called from the porch. The children scrambled to their feet and ran to their mothers.

"It's time to go." Gabriel's mother informed him. "Say goodbye to Sarah."

"Bye Sarah." Gabriel said shyly too his playmate.

"Bye Gabriel." She whispered back as their mothers said goodbye and Gabriel's mother lead him away.

"Did you have a good time?" Sarah's mother asked her after Gabriel and his mother were gone.

"Yeah." Sarah replied loudly. "I'm gonna marry Gabriel!"

Her mother laughed.

"Sure you will honey." Her mother replied in a patronizing voice. "We'll start the plans when you see him tomorrow."

But Sarah didn't see him the next day, his family up and left in the middle of the night, never to be seen or heard from again. Sarah missed him dearly, but time went on, and time heals all wounds. However, Sarah never stopped believing that one day she would marry the boy next door, at least not completely. Many years passed and she grew up, she grew into a kind loving woman. A woman who still wonder whatever happened to Gabriel Grey.

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