Ok, this is my first atempt of a Heroes's fanfiction. I just wat to say that English is not my first lenguaje so... don't be too mean, ok?... I'm trying to keep the show's original format here, but like I said, I'm just trying.
This is set right after season 4 so it contain a lot of spoilers. You have been warned!
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Heroes... or Nathan wouldn't have died!
I hope you like it!
Chapter One: The begining
Sometimes it's difficult for people to know what's right, what's wrong, what are they suppose to do... Maybe it's becasue nobody knows for sure...
We live. We act for some kind of inertia, hoping that behind every little act there will be some mayor reason... hoping that every move we make will lead us to a big destiny and we wait for life to make the call that will change our whole existence. But sometimes, when the moment arrives and we finally find out what the world is expecting from us, we also discover that maybe we are not ready, that all that waiting wasn't enough to prepare us for that big destiny. And that's when we begin to wonder if we will be able to sort such a challenge, if we are that specials that we will be able to find the right way that will made us became heroes, and we won't turn into the wrong one that will made us villains...
The Company 2.0, New York city – Angela Petrelli & Noah Bennet
"So... what's the plan?" he asked her.
Angela rised an eyebrow.
"What exactely do you mean?"
"You know... about Nathan. He hasn't been himslef lately. Posibely because of the fact that he is not 'himself'" she just smirked, but didn't say anything. He insisted "Claire just wants to go to Washington University to be near him, you know that, right?"
"What's your point Noah?"
He looked at her not understanding how she didn't get the problem yet.
"I don't want Claire being near... 'Nathan'. It's dangerous, she..."
"Don't be ridiculus Noah" she interrupted him "Claire can't get hurt, and Nathan is not a problem. She is his daughter and he would never hurt her. He loves her"
Her tone was terminant but Noah wasn't going to give up on that one, she was being unrasonable and she had to see it.
"Angela, please. You could always convince Claire to go to another collage..."
"I won't do that and you know it Noah. This is Nathan's opportunity to repair his relationship with his daughter and he needs it, so don't insist. Besides... this is not about Claire, you are just afraid that she would became to love Nathan more than she loves you, he is her real father after all"
He should have said something about it, but he couldn't... he just couldn't deny it.
"HE is not her father" he managed to say after a while.
"Yes, he is" she simply stated "Never forget that"
He didn't push the issue after that. Yes, HE was Nathan now, but he couldn't stop himslef to wonder just for how long he would be, how long would it take him to find out that he wasn't in fact Nathan.
"I have good news for you" Angela told him, changing the subject. She hanged him a red carpet that he began to examine inmediately "We found her"
Noah looked at the photo of the brunette women smirking at him, then he turned his eyes to Angela again.
"She could be a problem"
"Certanly, but we need her now" Noah looked at Angela, totally confused "Peter is not doing too well with ship-shifting, and I need him to keep that ability for now" she explained.
"That's all the information I'm going to get, right?"
Angela smirked.
"Go find her"
Noah nodded.
"And Noah..." she called him, stoping his way to the door "'One of us, one of them', remember? Take Peter with you"
"Angela, he won't be able to..." he began to argue.
"You are becoming very annoying, Noah. You used to follow orders" she told him "Take Peter with you"
Peter's apartment, New York – Peter Petrelli
"Shit!"
Peter looked his reflection in the mirror and cursed one more time. His eye was blue. Stuck... again... He moved it one way and the other a few times trying to make it brown like the other one, but it was futile.
It wasn't the first time one of his body parts changed when they weren't suppose to. It was beginig to be very annoying.
He couldn't understand why his mather wouldn't let him take another ability to get rid of that one. She said it was because she had big plans for him and that she would explain later. She never did, at least not yet.
Peter sighed in resignation. No matter what, his mather would always be cryptic.
The phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Peter, we have a mission"
"Noah, I have to go to work"
"No, you don't. I'll pick you up"
Peter sighed again, this time in annoyence. Why people keep thinking that they could use him whanever they want?
"Ok. At least tell me what are we going to do..." he asked.
"We are going to pay a visit to an old friend of mine..."
Peter didn't know what all of that was about but he was certain that that "friend of Noah", surely wasn't going to be that happy to see him.
Washington University - Claire Bennet
Claire tried one more time before hanging up the cell phone. Her father wasn't answering his phone, as usual. Noah had been very busy with the new company but you would say that he would have had five minutes for his nervous adoptive daughter at her first day of collage, right? Evidentely, he hadn't.
She had recentely arrived to the campus and she was so nervous... she needed some support.
Claire picked the phone again and searched in her speed dial the number 2.
"Yes?"
"Hi Nathan, sorry to interrupt you I just... I don't know, it was a stupid idea" she apologized. Nathan was a Senator after all, he was very busy.
She could hear him laugh at the other side of the line.
"Don't be ridicoulus Claire, you are never an interruption. In fact, I'm glad you called, it's been a long time since the last time we really talked"
She smiled and nodded, just to notice that he couldn't see her.
"I'm at the university and..." she was unsure whatever to tell Nathan or not. He didn't know her that much and she didn't want him to think she was stupid.
"Nervous?" he asked, certanely understanding the problem.
"Yes" she admited.
She heared him laugh again.
"Don't be, you'll do great. Everyone is going to love you, how couldn't they?" he assured her sweetly.
She smiled again. There he was, her father, her biological father, the Senator, the man she had met just months ago, conforting her when her other father, the man who rised her, wasn't.
"Thank you. I know you are busy so I really apreciate this" she told him. She needed him to now how important it was for her not to be alone in that moment that meant so much for her... how important it was that he, of all people, had been there for her.
"I always have time for you. Never doubt to call me. And don't thank me, I'm your father, it's kind of my job to be there for you" she felt a tear falling in her cheek when he said that "I know I haven't done a good job before, and I'm sorry. But I want to make it up to you. I really want to make things right this time Claire. I don't want to loose you again..."
He was being honest, she could tell. And for the first time Claire felt that he wanted to be her father, not that it was some kind of obligation.
"Don't worry. You're doing just fine" she told him.
"Well, 'fine' is not enough, but it's a start. You deserve 'wonderfull', so I'll keep trying..." he told her. She could almost hear his warm smile "Take care of yourself, ok?"
"I can't get hurt, remember?" she joked "I will, don't worry" she added after a while.
"Ok. I'll be missing you. Promise you will call me if you need anything, ok?"
"I promise"
She wanted to laugh at how much effort Nathan was doing to sound like a father. But, then again, his concern really sound sincere.
"Alright. I gotta go now" he told her.
"Ok... I..." she wasn't sure if she should say what she was going to say, but after some thinking, she just said it "I love you"
There was a brief silence before Nathan talked again, and when he did, his voice sound almost broken.
"I love you more..."
She smiled one more time before hanging up. She felt certanely better after talking to Nathan, like that was what she needed it.
Claire took a long breath, before she took her bag and began to walk to her dorm. This couldn't be so difficult, right? Everything was gooing to be just fine... or that was what she thought.
The Senator's office, Washington D.C – Nathan Petrelli
He hunged up his cell phone and put it on his desk before taking his face into his hands. After a while he got up and began to peace in his office.
"She said she loves me..." he tought, kind of surprised and still very moved by her words "She have never told me she loves me before...".
He could feel the tears that he had stopped just seconds before with a lot of effort coming back.
Nathan was concious that he had really screwed up with Claire before, and he really wanted to win his daughter back, he just didn't know how. But she had told her he was doing just fine... That had to mean something, right?
He opened his cell phone and watched at the photo Meredith had snaped for him long ago, the only one he had of Claire not beign a baby. She was so beautiful, so much like her mother... The same blue eyes, the same smooth skin, the same enchanting smile... But he could tell she was his daughter: she had the Petrelli look, and the Petrelli stubbornness.
He alreadey missed her, and he had just talked to her.
"You are such a sap..."
Nathan turned around looking for the origin of the voice. But he was alone.
"Exactly Nathan... You are alone..."
Nathan turned again. Where the hell was that voice coming from? He knew that voice, but... that was imposible.
"Nothing is imposible Nathan"
Nathan turned again and then he saw it... the mirror just across his office.
"What is it Nathan? Are you scared?"
"Who are you?" he asked, not walking near the mirror.
"Oh, you know who I am!"
"Who are you?" Nathan asked again rising his voice.
"Why don't you see it by yourself?"
Nathan approched the mirror slowly, almost scared. The he saw instated of his own reflection, he wasn't expecting it.
"Hello Nathan... Missed me?" he said.
"Sylar..."
Well, that's it for now. And for those of you that are wondering where the hell are Hiro, Ando, Tracy and the others… just wait, they will be appearing soon! Be patient!
Let me know if you liked it or not! Criticism is good when it's done with respect! Review, please!