A Sigh of Relief

This story takes place after the events at Kirby Plaza.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Heroes.

Chapter 1: The Aftermath of the Explosion

Somewhere in New York a movement started on a manhole cover. It shifted a bit then started to move. Then a loud sound was created and the manhole cover flew off of the manhole soaring through the air. Soon it dropped to the ground and clattered for a bit. A man's feet were at the manhole cover he looked at the rusty disc and pondered why it launched off of the hole but his thoughts were cut short. The manhole cover flew up slicing through his body cutting him in half.

Then a man stood over his body smiling. He walked over to the man's body and fished through his pocket while no one was around. He pulled out the man's wallet, then he whipped out the I.D from it he saw the name, 'Tobias Manchester.'

He grinned as he slipped it back into the wallet with ease then he looked down at the man, "Nice hat."

He grabbed the man's hat and placed it atop his head. Walking off towards the end of the street his watch glared in the light of a street light it read, 'Sylar.'

Outside of New York a man in his twenties lay on the ground unconscious. A dog walks over to him and starts licking his face. The black haired man starts to groan a bit then wakes up. Wiping the slobber off of his face and looking the dog in the eyes, "What happened to me?"

He grabbed his head as a sharp pain went through his head, "The explosion…I exploded."

He sat there for a moment then jolted into a standing position, "Nathan!"

He waited for a reply then proceeded to yell again, "NATHAN!"

No response it echoed through the area he was in and there was silence shortly afterwards. The dog panted a bit and he looked down at it. He stared and blinked a few times. He then looked towards the sky, "Nathan…"

"You gave up on any hope of me being alive, what happened to perseverance?" a voice came from behind him.

"Nathan! Your alive!" he exclaimed hugging him.

Nathan said, "Yeah, yeah Peter the feeling is mutual."

He let him hug him for a bit then pushed him off, "Knock it off Peter!"

"Oh sorry Nathan," Peter laughed a bit.

They shared a laugh then calmed down a bit. Peter looked at Nathan, "The only reason I survived was because I met Claire…how did you survive Nathan?"

"Me?" asked, Nathan "I flew you into the sky very high up, but I had to throw you into the air to attempt to escape the explosion, I guess I am very fast I never saw what happened to you. But I did see you land over here and that's how I found you."

Peter sighed, "I'm just glad you are alive, I was about to lose it back there."

"I couldn't watch your heart get broken any longer," said, Nathan "It would be cruel."

"Well I guess we had better had back to New York," said, Peter, "We need to see if everyone is alright."

Nathan looked at him, he was about to take flight then Peter looked at him, "How about something a little more discreet?"

He grabs Nathan's shoulder and the two disappear. They reappear at Kirby Plaza Nathan looks at him with a shocked expression, "Where did you learn to do that?"

"You know Hiro," said, Peter.

The whole area of Kirby Plaza was surrounded with Caution tape in fact several officers were around along with detectives looking around. Nobody had seemed to notice Nathan or Peter arrive until a Detective looked over to Nathan, "Mr. Petrelli? What are you doing here?"

Nathan frowns then thinks for a second, "As a Senator I want to help with problems personally, if things like this are to happen like an attempted terrorist attack by a man named Sylar. Then I will be there!"

He continues to talk about this as Peter sighs then thinks, 'He is back to his old habits and that political mumbo jumbo. Lying to make himself look good for the press that's my brother.'

Peter starts to listen to the conversation again and hears Nathan say, "…And the brave people who fought off the terrorist preventing him from blowing up Kirby Plaza will be rewarded for their bravery!"

Peter then walks away from this unnoticed by his brother. He sees an officer and says, "So you guys get any leads?"

The officer says, "No, there really is not much to see, besides that blood trail into the sewer. It suggests someone got wounded and escaped. The fact it doesn't lead to a body makes it even more suspect."

Peter scratched his cheek, "I see…would you happen to know the locations of everyone who was present at this attack?"

The officer looked at him, "That's disclosed."

"But you see they are friends of mine, in fact I was one of those people here and I was helping out," replied, Peter.

"Well I guess if that's right…Matt Parkman is in a hospital not too far away from here along with D.L Hawkins, with Nikki Sanders and Micah Sanders. The Bennets are on a plane home they had already been questioned. Mohinder Suresh and Molly Walker are in custody for questioning," the Officer said, "I believe that is all we have as of now."

"So no sign of Hiro Nakamura?" asked, Peter.

"I didn't know there was a Hiro Nakamura at the scene," the Officer said.

Peter looked at him and reassured him, "It's fine he can take care of himself."

Then he walked away from the scene seeing his brother just standing around being a politician like usual. He heard a voice, "So you didn't go nuclear on New York after all eh Peter?"

Peter whipped around to see a man with a scruffy beard and light brown hair. Peter stared at him, "Claude? Why are you here?"

"I heard about what happened and knew it was you," said Claude, "I just wanted to congratulate you for holding some restraint."

"Thanks?" said a confused Peter.

"You should take it as a thanks," said, Claude, "Another reason I am here is I can come out of hiding Peter the Company is over with, their tracking system no longer with the Company, the head of the Company lobbed off."

Peter listened in closer as he paused then continued talking, "Also an old friend of mine is out of that horrible business."

Claude smiled, "I'm going to go check on my birds."

Peter watched as he walked off, "Strangest man I ever met."

Then Peter remembered the hospital he started walking down the street towards the hospital.

Up the street inside of the hospital lay Matt Parkman on a hospital bed. He tried to roll over on his side but there was a sharp pain in his chest. Then he looked up at the ceiling bandages were wrapped around his chest and he was in a hospital gown with blankets over him. His gun laid on a table nearby, a nurse walked in watching his attempt to roll on his side, "I wouldn't try that Mr. Parkman it should be creating some pain in your chest."

"You think?" said Matt grabbing his chest.

"Well I wanted to tell you your wife is here," she seemed insulted by his remark as she walked out of the room.

Janice walks into the room and Matt looked up at her saying, "It has been so long honey!"

She then embraces him saying, "I have been worried sick about you Matt, where have you been all this time."

"I was getting those people off of my back, the ones who have been after me," he whispered into her ear.

Then another voice came from the door, "I hate to ruin this reunion but Matt I think I have your job back."

Matt looked over her shoulder to see Audrey Hanson smiling, "In fact not only that but the force has allowed me to give you the test verbally."

"I can never thank you enough for this chance Audrey I haven't been working for a while," he said.

Janice then said to Matt, "It's been tough without you around, I had to go into some of the savings for a while."

"That's fine I'm just glad to be back," Matt sighed.

Audrey then looked at the two and affirmed, "When you are out of this hospital bed you come to me and take the oral test."

She then left the room. Matt paused, "Well bye then."

Janice smiled then another voice was heard she muttered, "What now?"

Then she turned around. Matt looked past her, "Peter I see the explosion didn't give you too much trouble."

"Naw," Peter laughed a bit, "I just came to see how everyone was doing here."

"What about Nathan is he alright?" asked Matt.

"Oh yeah he is doing his political stuff right now," joked Peter, "Well I know you two were having an intimate moment so I'll take off, get well Matt."

Peter then continued walking down the hallway heading to the room where D.L, Nikki, and Micah were present. Peter walked into the room D.L looked up at him, "Hey it's that exploding guy."

Micah smiled then said, "Hey you're a Hero!"

"A Hero? Don't make me laugh I blew up what kind of Hero blows up?" Peter said this with some tone of humor.

Micah looked at him with a serious expression, "You did a lot."

"Well what about you three?" said Peter, "All of you were there with me, Nikki took on Sylar hand to hand. How much braver can you get, so if you think about it a real Hero is your mom."

Nikki said with a manner of appreciation, "Yeah well you weren't too bad yourself."

Micah looked up to his mom smiling.

Peter then said, "Well I won't keep you three things to do…places to be I am sure."

"It's nice to see you in one piece," Nikki said.

"Same to you," Peter said before walking down the hallway.

At the Empire State Building there was a commotion. A tall man in the upper 6-foot region was standing before a large audience. He was a very scrawny man with black hair that hung over a head band that he wore across his forehead that was white with a blue stripe across it. His blue eyes scanned the audience, when they did he looked up. Then scratched his beard a bit you could tell he hadn't shaven in several days. He had a slim facial structure hidden behind this beard of his. He put his hands in the form of a picture frame both were bandaged and bruised of which he aimed at the empire state building. His feet were bandaged too they were also a bit bruised as well. He wore a black t-shirt below his white jacket and he wore white pants with a black belt across them.

A news reporter stood before him, "The famous British boxer Edgar Wellington says he is going to climb the Empire State building without any safety gear of any kind. The story behind this man is that his parents disowned him after he nearly killed a man in the boxing ring. So he moved to New York to attempt this major feat maybe as a way to get his parents back on his side, I will go ask him."

The reporter walked over to Edgar raising the mike, "Edgar, you say you are going to climb the Empire State building without any safety gear, why are you going to do this?"

"The thrill," he said walking over to the building ignoring the news reporter now. He gripped the wall where there was apparently no grip. Then he lifted his other arm grabbing the next part. Soon his leg was up, and he was climbing up the wall. Strangely enough he was making a quick effort of doing so and continued scaling it.

People started yelling and screaming as he made it up twenty feet he looked down at the crowd then bellowed, "I NEED COMPLETE SILENCE TO CONCENTRATE!"

The audience quieted down and he continued, about halfway up he raised his leg and slipped. The audience gasped as he lost all feelings of support and started to fall but he quickly reacted latching onto the wall then gripping it with his feet. Then the audience cheered waving their arms and screaming. Edgar smiled whispered reassuringly, "I have to put on a show."

Then he continued on up the building until there was about ten feet left. He quickly scurried up the side and grabbed on to the top and stood up. He picked up a megaphone he had placed up there long ago and talked into it, "I have climbed the Empire State Building, something many people have never done I challenge any aspiring climbers to take on this task!"

He then tossed the megaphone off the back and climbed down. When he arrived at the bottom of the building people were cheering him on and asking for autographs. He just ignored them and walked off. There was a car waiting for him in a parking lot he hopped into the car and sighed pulling out a cigarette and lighting it, "These bloody Americans, give them something to gawk at and they love it."

His Agent was sitting in the driver's side starting up the car, "But Edgar it may be a way to boost your career."

"I'm not so sure I want to be noticed," Edgar countered, "My damn crazy brother might still be about."

"Yeah well that might bring more attention to yourself," the Agent continued.

"He killed my parents over some chips and we covered it up," Edgar took a puff of his cigarette, "I'm not sure that was such a great idea either."

"Whatever you say Edgar," he stayed silent for the rest of the ride until they arrived at the hotel room.

The Agent looked at Edgar, "Your stop your majesty!"

"Yeah screw you too Thompson," Edgar flipped him off as he walked into the hotel.

Edgar walked through the hotel and came up to his room a person in there early ages looked at him, "I saw you climb the wall on the news, can I have an autograph?"

"You and every other person in New York," Edgar said putting his cigarette out on the boy's picture of himself.

The boy looked extremely sad. Edgar shut the door behind him without another word. He turned around to lock the door behind him. Then a voice came from behind him, "I know you Edgar."

Edgar turned around, "Brother?"

"Yes you thought I was off of your trail Edgar, they always thought you were the better child," his brother snarled.

"Jason it's not like that!" Edgar exclaimed.

"Whatever you say," Jason said quietly.

The bed crunched up in on itself along with the TV. Jason looked at him, "But I am much better than you now, you climb walls I defy the laws of physics."

Everything in the room started to float even Edgar. Edgar stared at him as Jason pulled out his gun, "Maybe killing you will keep them all from watching me!"

Jason's sterile white long sleeved shirt and pants waved in the wind a bit. He was a very tall man and he was scrawny like Edgar he had a long scruffy beard sat on his broad chin along with some long hair as well. His deep green eyes stared at Edgar both to the sides of his large nose. He loaded his magnum and aimed again, "Edgar, it ends here."

He raises his finger towards the trigger but Edgar floats towards the wall and kicks off of it. He strikes Jason with a punch knocking him into the wall behind him. Then Edgar runs across the floor as the gravity returns within the room he leaps out the window feeling a bit of pain when he landed on the ground below. Swiftly he continued running down the street escaping sight. Jason steps towards the window, "He escaped…"

The door opened behind him and there was a service lady with towels. He turned around with amazing agility and screamed, "ARE YOU THE ONE WATCHING ME!"

Then fired several rounds into her chest. The lady fall to the floor bleeding all over, "No you aren't, but when I find them all will be restored…"

He made it so there was a lower gravity around him and leaped out the window soaring through the air with his hair blowing in his face.