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Fate, Not Yet

As a little girl, Valkyrie used to love the trips she and her father had to New York City. She really loved the city. Even more than she loved Las Vegas where she was raised. But, a trip to New York meant more than that to her. A trip to New York meant that she would get a chance to visit the Petrellis.

Valkyrie had considered the Petrellis as her own family her whole life. She absolutely adored her Aunt Angela. Valkyrie never really knew how it was to have a mother and Angela Petrelli was the closest person she knew that she could consider as a mother figure. On the other hand, Uncle Arthur was not bad either. Valkyrie always enjoyed hanging out with him and the Petrelli boys—Nathan and Peter. Speaking of those two brothers, she also adored the two of them as a kid. She even once had a little secret crush on the big brother, Nathan. While she and Peter were like best friends.

However, at that moment when Valkyrie was sitting pretty in Angela's office in Primatech Research, she couldn't really see her as the woman she had known. For some weird reasons, she just couldn't trust her and all the things she had been saying since Valkyrie arrived in that building. Valkyrie then realized that after seeing what Angela had done to her sons several months ago, she had lost her trust to her.

"I don't believe you. He's not your son. He can't be," said Valkyrie in disbelief. She herself was still trying to digest the little information that Angela just told her about Sylar being one of the Petrelli brothers. That information was a little crazy to be true.

"Don't make it too complicated to believe, Valkyrie. It isn't the first crazy thing you've ever heard about my family, is it? Besides, you're the only one from your generation who knows a lot about what my generation have done. This is supposed to be something that you will easily digest. You've seen many crazy things happened here," Angela tried to convince her.

"That doesn't mean you're telling the truth."

"It doesn't matter whether I'm telling the truth or not, anyway. You're here not to believe in what I'm saying. You're here because of your fate."

"My fate? What do you possibly know about my fate?"

Angela put up a little smile on her face, but maintained her intense stare at Valkyrie. "I've seen it," she said.

"Oh, really? You know what, this reminds me of something. Remember, several months ago, here in New York? You almost let your own son explode and kill everybody in New York City, because you were so convinced that it was his destiny, his fate!" Valkyrie didn't realize that she was already off her seat until she stopped yelling at Angela.

Angela didn't really see that one coming. She then relaxed her body to her seat behind the desk and said, "People make mistakes, Val. Try to remember that."

Valkyrie then slowly sat down on her chair again. She sighed, "I know."

There was a slight quiet moment between the two women, before Valkyrie finally opened her mouth again. "So, what is it? What did you see about my fate?" she asked softly. She was able to control herself again now.

"Right now is not the right time for you to know," replied Angela.

Valkyrie stared at her. She knew that there was no need to force Aunt Angela to tell her about her fate. If she said it wasn't the right time, then it wasn't the right time. At that moment, she started to see the woman in front of her as her Aunt Angela again.

"So, he knew?" asked Valkyrie.

Angela nodded. Her stare wasn't as intense as before.

"First assignment, eh? What do you want me to do?"

"Talk to him."

"Talk? Are you serious?" Valkyrie put up her confused face.

"Prepare him. He's going to be our one of our agents to capture those escapees," Angela smiled again, almost excitedly.

Valkyrie chuckled. She must've heard it wrong, she thought. "You want him to capture the escapees? You know he's going to kill them, don't you?"

Angela then got up from her seat and walked slowly towards the door, wanting to leave the room. "He's not gonna kill them," said her. There was a certainty in the tone of her voice.

"But, you just said to me, he has this so-called 'hunger'. He still can't control it. He'll kill them," said Valkyrie as she followed Angela's movement with her eyes.

"That's why I bring you here," Angela turned around and faced Valkyrie. "You're going to help him to learn how to control the hunger inside of him," she continued.

"What? How am I supposed to do that?"

"Don't worry about that. For now, just go and prepare him. Noah's gonna be here any minute now."

"Noah? You're going to make them partners? Are you out of your mind? They will kill each other!"

"Then, that is your job to make sure they won't," said Angela as she opened the door and left Valkyrie alone there, wondering what exactly Aunt Angela was up to.

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