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10 – 11- Little Things That Claire Never Thought She Would Know About Gabriel Gray.
Chapter 1
ONE
Claire wouldn't have thought she would know that Gabriel prefers White Peach tea over Earl Gray when he was stressed, that he only meat he likes is chicken, that he can't complete a tongue-twister to save his life, or that he absolutely cannot stand the smell of pumpkin pie.
TWO
There are nine freckles spread out across his skin.
THREE
Despite Virginia Gray's near constant putdowns, emotionally manipulative behavior, and clearly unstable mental state, Gabriel had loved his mother more then anyone in the world.
FOUR
Sylar, despite being so deeply buried within Gabriel, is by no means gone. At times she will see Sylar in the blazing, laser like quitatily of Gabriel's eyes, the hardness and cunning of his smile, or the possessiveness of his voice and his hands upon her body. It's not that Gabriel and Sylar are two separate personatlies, not exactly. They are both intelligent, condsiderdite, protective, shrewd, sarcastic, and can lie well enough to fool a lie detector test. Each posses a fierce temper, are both anal retentive neat freaks, and seem obsessed with their hair at times. Both drink coffee only on Saturday mornings, each hate trains, country music, and sweater vests, and both love the smell of her hair.
There is one important difference however; Gabriel is struggling to maintain control over The Hunger. Nearly everyday is a agonizing, brutal, burning struggle to have more, take more, consume more, to learn more, and even centuries later there are times when Gabriel can barley keep himself from drowning. Sylar on the other hand has completely subcomed to The Hunger. He has allowed that need to take/have/consume/devour/learn to coat nearly his entire being like thick, black oil until she would recognize almost no part of him.
Despite that one major difference between Sylar and Gabriel, there is one thing that is an unbreakable, concert solid constant for each of them. Both Gabriel and Sylar would give their lives for hers.
FIVE
Claire finds how he has excelled tremendously within the fields of Neurosurgery and psychology to be a little ironic.
SIX
When Gabriel is concerting he will poke his tongue out of the corner of his mouth.
SEVEN
He hates the smell of strawberry shampoo, the sight of spiders, the feel of unwashed hair, the taste of caramel, and the sound of dogs barking.
EIGHT
Claire had always heard that girls tended to fall in love with and marry men who were like their fathers. If you had asked Claire at the age of 17 which man in her life was most unlike her dad, "Sylar" would have instantly sprang to her mind. At the time, and for nearly a centaury afterward, she had thought that he and her father had nothing in common whatsoever.
Now, Claire can tell you with absolute certainty that Gabriel Gray has always been exactly like Noah Bennet in two aspects, and two aspects only. Just like her dad, Gabriel holds unconditional love and boundless loyalty for those whom he considers to be his family, and there is absolutely no length that he would not go to in order to protect them.
NINE
Gabriel likes to hang crystals on the curtain rode of their bedroom window. He claims it's because she likes them, but Claire knows the true reason is that Gabriel loves how the tiny rainbows dance across her skin.
TEN
Claire thinks how the concept of magic tricks are completely beyond the realm of his compression, despite over three centuries spent attempting to master them, to be hilarious.
ELEVEN
For the first three years of knowing him, whenever she thought of Sylar's eyes she saw greed, anger, hate, and a lust for power. When he was trying to redeem himself she witnessed within Gabriel's eyes guilt, fear, self loathing, vurnabitily, and a pleading to be loved; to be enough. She never thought that she could look into the eyes of both Sylar and Gabriel and witness love, protectiveness, desire, friendship, and trust.
