Title: Numbers
Author: Cassandra MulderRated: PG
Classification: Heroes; Peter/Claire AU
Spoilers: General season 1 stuff
Disclaimer: Not mine. Kring rules all, except when it comes to messing up P/C. :p
Written: March 6, 2007
Word Count: 237
Summary: The significant events of her life could be counted.
A/N: This is just a little drabblish thing that actually came to me somewhere around December. I found it and revised it, and decided to post it, despite the recent developments for my poor 'ship. That's what AU fic is for. heh Remember, if you enjoy, feedback is love. :)


17 - Peter saved her life, and much sooner than she had anticipated she had returned the favor.

18 - She realized what she felt for him was far beyond hero worship, and nothing like family. She loved him in a way she had never known.

20 - She's a full-grown, self-sufficient, mature young woman, but despite the fact that she's wise beyond her years, he still tells her she's too young. She wishes more than anything that she had never revealed her feelings.

22 - Peter tells her he can't take it anymore, and kisses her breathless. She can't remember the last time she was so happy.

24 - She almost loses him again, and she curses whatever power gave them this destiny they can't seem to escape. When he recovers, she finds he has just as much faith in everything as ever. She wonders how that could be after all they've seen.

25 - She gives her heart to him forever, surrounded by friends acquired over the last eight years. They light candles for the ones that didn't make it, and their patchwork family laughs and claps when he dips her backwards as he kisses her.

27 - She realizes it's been a full decade since her life turned upside down. She knows she wouldn't change a thing, because as painful as the choices she had to make were then, it brought her Peter. He was the one thing she never would have traded for the world.

Finis