Electrified

Remembrance

AN: I've only seen up to the end of Season Two, so, this is where this fic is set.

Elle and Peter, well, it wasn't ever going to happen. Elle was a sadistic user of electricity, and Peter was the first person she'd ever kissed. When Elle escapes from The Company after discovering just what was done to her during those experiments, she tries to find the one person she felt safe with: Peter. Perhaps, there was more than a plot to that kiss than they both thought? Sometimes you win, sometimes you get electrocuted.

I lost an island, in the ocean. A place where nickels come to gamble on their faces. She took the offer, to be the daughter, and pledge allegiance to the one that offers social gain - please don't leave me. I'm in over my head.

"There's always a company," he told her seriously, watching as the girl shook her head in disbelief. His features were impassive, he didn't have a reason to argue what he said, because it was true, and although he could make her believe it, he could show her too. With the truth. He didn't need to show her lies, as he had been forced to years before. He had always wondered why she hadn't been concerned about her lack of memory, but, when you lived a life like her, nothing would have stood out very much to make her concerned. Perhaps, he reasoned, she was so far gone from the experiments anyway that her brain didn't work normally…or something else to do with The Company.

The blonde blinked several times before speaking, in a voice that quavered for once.

"Can you…tell me what I don't remember?"

He smiled slightly, "I can, but why would you believe what I tell you?"

Elle sighed, brushing strands of loose hair from her eyes and meeting his gaze, "I don't know, but, I would."

"Why would you, when I can show you?"

Gulping, not because she was scared of him, but of the memories, she nodded, stepping forward to him, "Do it."

The Haitian straightened his shoulders and stretched out his hand, covering her eyes, and silently praying for the young woman, because there was no saying how she would react.

Elle screamed as if her heart had been ripped from her chest.

**

'The human brain can't take that much electricity,' the words returned to Elle like a taunt, and she buried her head in her arms, knees pulled up to her chin. She sat against the hard, antiseptic clean wall of The Company's research corridor. She leaned her head back, tears streaming down her face as she listened to the screams from the room behind her. It confirmed everything she'd needed to know, never thought they'd do to her. Or, never remembered. Elle quickly wiped her eyes, pulling herself up and walked to the office - there was one last thing she needed to find.

Scrabbling around on her father's desk, she found a carelessly left piece of paper - just what she had needed. Noah Bennet's cell block number. She sat down at the computer, ready to finish her work from last time, hacking into her father's system with amazing speed. She found the encrypted files, her own and after scanning them, deleted it. A few more searches and she had the code to Noah Bennet's cell, Adam's exact location, and Molly Walker's school address. Deleting all of the information she took, she surged the system with her power. After all, The Company had trained her, manipulated her power, why not pay them back with her ability - for everything?

Pulling the folder on Mohinder Suresh before she left, she ran from the room, melted the lock on the door and sprinted down the white corridor. Shouts followed her, but she ignored them, casting impossibly high voltages over her shoulder towards her pursuers.

Elle flung the door open, taking the stairs three at a time, and crossed the last few metres to the blacked out car. She climbed in, and the driver started the engine - they were gone.

Bob yelled at his employees for letting his daughter get away, but the one thing he didn't suspect was that she had destroyed the computer system purposely. He assumed too much, he believed she still loved her father. He had trusted someone, his first mistake - a mistake, which would prove fatal.

**

Elle and The Haitian reached the city without too much of a problem. They pulled up and got out of the Land Rover, then walked silently into the busiest café they could find.

Sitting furthest from the front windows, they began to talk.

"I got the information." Elle told him proudly. The Haitian nodded, his form of praise. Elle frowned though, "Why didn't you let me get Mr. Bennet out though? I could have done it."

"I do not doubt that, Elle. But, that would have been too obvious; The Company should not know you have changed sides."

"Then why did we get the information?" she asked.

"I shall help Mr. Bennet; I can make them forget they ever saw me, if they do."

Elle nodded, telling him exactly where Noah Bennet was, the code for his cell, the number of guards and their shift patterns. "Adam is secure?" he questioned, though he didn't seem too concerned or bothered.

"Yep. Apparently that Hiro Nakamura buried him alive - as he's immortal that must be kinda harsh."

The Haitian nodded, "But, does he not deserve it for what he has done?"

Elle frowned, "I suppose you're right. It's odd to think of things that way, but, you know he was still cute." The Haitian raised an eyebrow at her, and she blushed. "Not that that matters or anything."

"Now, what are you going to do?" he asked her slowly.

"I don't know, I thought you'd tell me." she said desperately; she was alone, her father now her enemy and she was scared. So used to taking orders, that she did not know what to do by herself.

"You catch on quickly."

She let out a breath she hadn't realised she had been holding. "What do I do then?"

The Haitian smiled, "You must do exactly as I tell you."

"Of course."

"You must promise me." he said sternly, leaning forward in his seat to meet her gaze.

She nodded dumbly, "I promise you."

He found this satisfactory, and began to outline what she should do. "You have to help get Doctor Suresh out of The Company, and Molly Walker must be kept away from them. They would do the same to her, keep Claire safe too - both would be subjected to what you were." Elle flinched, memories invading her head, the memories of pain returning, burning unseen scars into her pale skin.

"I understand." She noted the rest of what he said automatically, he handed her the keys to an apartment, and said he would visit her in three days when he had Noah Bennet safely out of The Company building.

"And, Elle you must find him soon - before they do." he called after her, Elle turned back to the tall, dark skinned man, and smiled for the first time since she had remembered.

"Don't worry, I will."

"Remember: Lara Collins."

"That's my name," they walked in opposite directions, the young fugitive sighed to herself, "at least, it is now."