Disclaimer: Chapter 3 of this story is up, and Heroes is still not mine.

A/N: The words in Italic are flashback scenes.

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3

Reminiscing

Valkyrie walked slowly to one certain cell on Level 5—the one where they kept Sylar inside. She wasn't really sure about this whole 'first assignment' thing that Angela just told her about. According to her, she was supposed to prepare Sylar, the serial killer, to be one of the Company's agents. How in the world was she supposed to do that? Well, building a conversation with him wasn't the problem. Valkyrie could do that without even being feared that he would kill her. Her ability could protect her from the evil side of Sylar. She had confronted him a few times before, and she was still perfectly alive until now. However, trying to get him to do certain things was probably going to be the main problem for her. She had tried to bring Sylar's good side which, she knew it very well, was buried deep inside of him, ever since their first meeting. But, it hadn't really worked out.

Valkyrie then stopped in front of Sylar's cell's door. Before she opened that door, she took a deep breath while hoping that she'd know what to say once she got inside.

As soon as the door was opened, Valkyrie stepped inside slowly. She could see Sylar sitting there alone and staring at the wall in front of him. Soon, he realized Valkyrie's existence inside that cell. He turned around and looked at the young woman who was standing near the door.

"Still trying to digest that little new information about you, huh?" said Valkyrie as she leaned casually on the door. "That makes it two of us," she chuckled.

"Valkyrie?" he was surprised to see her there.

"Hello, Sylar," she smiled. "We haven't talked in a while, have we?" Valkyrie then walked toward him.

"So, you know?" asked Sylar.

"She just told me," replied Valkyrie who was now already standing in front of him.

"Do you think it is true?" he looked at her intensely. But, it wasn't the 'killing mode' type of intensity. It was more like curious type of intensity.

"I've come to realize that it's kind of hard to exactly define what is true and what is false, once you got here," answered Valkyrie.

There was a slight pause with the two of them staring at each other. Suddenly, Sylar rose and moved closer to Valkyrie. He then moved his hand and stroked her long dark brown hair softly. "I've never thought I'd ever see you again, Val," said him with some sort of tender tone in his voice.

To be honest, Valkyrie couldn't really breathe properly at that very instant. "Neither have I," said her softly as she looked deeply at the eyes of the man in front of her.

A few brief moments later, their lips finally met. It was a soft and sweet kiss. Valkyrie enjoyed every single moment of it. So did Sylar. He missed her. So did her. It had been a long time since the last time they met. And that kiss just brought back every memory that they shared together.

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Valkyrie slowly opened the door of Isaac Mendez's loft in Manhattan, New York. She then carefully put her foot in front of the other and stepped inside.

"You're late," suddenly a voice came. It was Sylar's voice. He then turned around and faced the woman who just got inside that loft. "I've killed him," he continued.

"I'm not late," said Valkyrie as she took the stairs and went down to get closer to Sylar. She could see Isaac's body on the floor with his head ripped off. "I didn't come for him."

"Then, why are you here?"

"I came for you."

Sylar laughed to himself. "What? You're gonna lock me up again? You realize it didn't work out at the first time, don't you?"

"I do realize that locking you up is not gonna do any good for anybody," she smiled as she daringly stepped closer and closer to Sylar as if his reputation as a serial killer didn't scare her at all. "You don't have to get through all of these," said Valkyrie suddenly.

Sylar gave her a confused look, but still managed to maintain his strong stare at her. "What do you mean?" he asked.

"Something is coming. And you don't have to be a part of it."

"How can you know that? You barely even know me."

Valkyrie didn't immediately answer his question. "I know enough to care for you," she said.

Sylar didn't see that one coming. He was a little shocked about what she just said, but he tried to hide it from her. Unexpectedly, there was an urge inside of him that told him to do the same thing to her like what he did to Isaac right before she got there.

Sylar then slowly lifted his right hand and tried to rip Valkyrie's head off just like how he usually did to his victims. Unfortunately for him, his telekinesis power didn't work at that very moment.

"You can't kill me," said Valkyrie as she smiled to him. Her ability to generate invisible force fields could protect her from almost any kind of harm. And in this case, it certainly protected her from getting her head ripped off by Sylar.

"So, this is your ability?" said Sylar as he tried to touch Valkyrie's arm, only to find out that Valkyrie was still maintaining her force fields. Although, he had seen so many amazing and unbelievable things happened, at that point he couldn't hide his amazement about Valkyrie's power.

Valkyrie nodded. Sylar then stared at her again. He examined her. "You're different," he suddenly said.

Valkyrie put up a confused look on her face. "Different how?" she asked.

"From all the people who have abilities that I've met, you're the only one who really understands how exactly your power works. You're in a complete control of your power. That's really amazing," he explained.

Valkyrie just watched him as he explained those facts about herself. She slowly removed the force fields. All of a sudden, she just leaned forward to him and brushed her lips to his. Sylar was completely shocked by her movements. But, somehow his voice within just told him to just give in. The next thing he knew, his hands were already all over her, ready to unbutton the black blouse that she had on.

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After what felt like a century for both of them, Valkyrie decided to take her lips off his. She then pulled herself slowly so she could see his face better. She just smiled, not knowing what to say after the kiss.

"What's wrong?" Sylar started over their conversation.

"No, nothing's wrong. It's just—it's been a long time. That's all," said Valkyrie. She then took a seat on the table that was in the middle of that cell.

"There is something else. You look… different."

"You know, you said that, too, that night."

"What happened to you? You're broken. I can feel that," Sylar insisted to know what exactly was going on with Valkyrie.

What happened to me? she asked to herself. She then remembered where she was earlier that day before heading to that building. The cemetery. "I—I've just had a lot in my mind lately," she finally said. They both then stayed quiet, before finally Valkyrie said, "Come on! I'm supposed to be preparing you."

"Preparing me? For what?"

"You're going to help us to capture those prisoners who escaped from here. Didn't Aunt Angela tell you?"

"No," replied Sylar.

"Well, then I just told you. Come on!" Valkyrie rose and walked toward the door.

"But, I can't leave this cell. She said I have this hunger that turns me into a killer. I'm not going out there again and kill more people," said Sylar. He sounded really sure about the things that he said.

"That's why I'm here," said Valkyrie as she turned around and smiled at him. "I'm supposed to help you to learn how to control the hunger," she continued.

"How exactly are you gonna do that?" he asked.

"We'll find out soon enough. Now, just follow me. Please?" said Valkyrie as she got out from that cell.

Sylar wasn't so sure about what he was supposed to do. But, finally, he decided to just follow her.

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A/N: A little crappy. I apologize. But, we did learn about what happened between Valkyrie and Sylar in the past. And also Valkyrie's power, which is a total copy from the Invisible Woman of Fantastic Four (just minus the ability to be invisible). I'm not creative at creating superpowers. Haha.

Hopefully the next one is way better. Comments are much appreciated! Comments make me write some more. Hehe. Anyway, for the question about Arthur Petrelli, yes, he'll be involved.