When the the small group reached outside, Gabriel was in a squatting position running his fingers over every surface he could.
Claire was hugging herself as she watched him. He was concentrating really hard, she could see it in his face. To her it looked like a good sign and she was so grateful of him being here. Without him they would have no clue where to start looking at all. If only her Dad, who was still scowling at him, knew that too. Well, he did know, just didn't express it. And his hand was stuffed in his pocket.
"Will you please put that gun away." She whispered angrily to him.
"Like I say, you can't be too careful." Noah repeated not moving his hand and Claire sighed blinking back tears. The emotions she was feeling at the moment where overwhelming, and she knew she would be like this until Ollie was safe back in her arms.
Time passed, no one spoke. Noah was pacing back and forward, much to Claire's annoyance. "What are we still even doing here?" He whispered to both Claire and Peter. "He's just wasting time, he's probably in on it. Anything to make you upset Claire." Noah suggested to which Claire turned round to him, red with rage. "He probably kidnapped him and gave Matt a cold trail to follow."
"I'm sorry, are you suggesting I took Ollie?" Gabriel asked, raising from the ground. He had held his tongue long enough. "I would never do such a thing."
"Didn't stop you the first time with Molly." Noah said with his sly smile.
"I am not that person anymore!" Gabriel replied with a raised voice and Peter went over to him trying to calm him.
"Sure you're not, you're reformed, fighting for good." Noah spat sarcastically.
"Dad, please." Claire said but Noah kept going.
"I'm not convinced with the acting Sylar." Noah said. "I know you're craving to kill, it's on your mind everyday and I'm just waiting to take you out."
"Watch what you say," Gabriel warned.
"You don't care about Ollie, you don't care about Claire at all." Noah said. "You're so obsessed with her that the only way to get close to her would be taking her son from her and pretending to help."
"Dad stop it!" Claire shouted. "How could you even suggest that?"
"Well it's true, isn't it Sylar?" Noah asked with a smirk and Gabriel was taken several deep breaths to keep himself calm. Noah would be dead in less than a second if he kept going.
"I think you should stop right now." Peter said. "Have you forgotten that your Grandson is missing Noah?"
"Of course I haven't forgotten because I have a good feeling that he is the kidnapper." Noah said, eyes deadlocked with Gabriel.
Gabriel was very close to leaving, being sick of the accusation against him. But no, he would be strong for Claire, and prove his innocence to Noah.
"Guys!" Matt shouted getting their attention. "This is getting us nowhere! We need to keep moving, keep going for clues."
"You're right," Peter said. "The more time passes, the harder it's going to be."
"I'll head back to the station to try help lock down this car." Matt said and Gabriel looked off to the street beside them before walking over. "I don't know if it's a safe bet asking people around if they saw anything suspicious."
"I don't know, maybe it will call for attention." Noah said, Gabriel still half hearing the conversation. Claire was looking over to Gabriel as he moved further away, intrigued where he was going. He crouched down and looked at something on the road before quickly looking up meeting Claire's eyes.
Claire felt herself walk over to him and quickly saw the dark spot on the ground. The day light showing the tinge of red. She shook her head vigorously, it was blood.
"No," She whispered.
"It might not be his Claire." Gabriel said to her a gentle voice before pressing his thumb down on it.
Claire tried swallow but found it incredibly hard to do so, and by this point Peter and Noah had came over, curious.
"Who's is it?" Claire asked.
"My ability can only let me knew a history of objects Claire, not bodily fluids." He replied, sounding very defeated. "But it could well be our kidnapper's."
The rest of the group made their way over and Matt peered down. "We need to get a sample of this, see who it links to."
"Ok, Matt you do that." Peter said. "I think we need to start asking around now. Try find this car."
"Come on Peter," Gabriel started. "We'd just be wasting our time looking for this car, we need more information on it."
Claire by this point was shivering, emotions still getting the better of her. "We need to get you back inside. It's freezing out here." Peter said, wrapping an arm around Claire.
"No, no." Claire said. "I don't want to go back in there. Can we go to your place?"
Peter looked over to Noah who nodded and Peter smiled. "Of course we can."
It was almost dark by the time Matt made his way over to Peter's apartment where his head hurt and he was getting tired. Peter opened the door to him letting him in quickly.
Noah was talking on the phone to someone. Gabriel was looking over maps on the floor, marking various places. Claire was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, what you find out?" Peter asked once Matt had sat down. Noah hung up the phone and Gabriel looked up.
"So far, no one matching Ollie's description has crossed the border and they have pictures of him now to be on the safe side." Matt said. "So at least we know he's still in the state."
Peter sighed in relief but thought at the back of his head it would be still be a wide search to find him.
"Four Micra's turned up in the area, I have them detained for now." Matt said. "One was abandoned. I was thinking you could give it a once over Gabriel?"
Gabriel nodded and stood up. "The blood?"
"The blood belong to Simon Campbell. Twenty six year old male, from California." Matt said before looking at Noah. "He attended the same college as Claire."
Noah walked over looking over the file that Matt held. There was a picture, from high school by the looks of it. He showed the picture to Peter and Gabriel too.
"His last known address is only ten minutes from here." Peter remarked and put it down. "Let's go then."
"I need to ask Claire some questions," Matt said and Noah nodded.
"Me and Gabriel will go to the address and see if he's still there and we'll give you a call." Peter said as they started getting ready to leave.
Matt and Noah made their way to Peter's room where Claire was lying on the bed.
"Claire," Noah said and she turned quickly.
"Hey, did you find anything?" She said almost pleading.
"Yeh," Matt said, "We've got a name, address and picture matching the blood."
Claire bolted up from the bed right away, her heart beating faster again. "I need the file guys." Matt shouted and Gabriel came a few seconds later with the file in hand, passing it to Matt before leaving.
He hovered just outside the door to hear any new information as Peter was in the bathroom.
"Do you know this guy?" Matt asked holding up the picture to Claire.
Claire studied the picture. The black and white year book photo of a clean cut light haired boy. All four men were thinking the same thing when they first saw the picture, how the resemblance matched.
"Claire, is he Ollie's father?" Noah asked what everyone else wanted to ask.