Chapter: A Bit Unsure
Characters/Pairings: Claire, Alex/Monica, Matt
Author's Note: Thanks to Boisterous Hal for the pairing idea.
Warning: Uh, spoilers for volume 4, I guess. You'd have to have watched it to know who Alex is, for one thing.
Disclaimer: I do not own Heroes. I'm serious. Deadly serious.
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Claire was a bit unsure of what she'd seen.
It had merely been a gesture of comfort, a friendly squeeze of the shoulder at the announcement of a death in the family. Surely that was all it had been.
And yet. She couldn't be totally sure. There had been something in his eyes when he'd looked at Monica. The way his hand had lingered on her shoulder must have meant something more than friendship. Admittedly she didn't have the best of experiences when it came to what constituted romantic touching, and what was merely platonic, but that look had been more than just sympathetic. It had been...well. She didn't really know.
The thing was...the thing was...Alex was hers. She'd kissed him first, surrounded on all sides by danger, water and the fucked up piece of crap that was her life a few years ago. She'd thought there'd definitely been something between them.
But no, apparently not. She knew she was being petty, selfish even. After all, in the grand scheme of things, Monica needed him more than she did. If she was honest with herself, Monica wanted him more than she did. And if she just cut the crap for one minute, she knew he wasn't the one for her. She was just jealous, a petty jealous born from the knowledge of so many missed opportunities.
She wondered if anyone else had noticed. Matt kept giving her sympathetic looks (nice, but not necessary) so she supposed that meant he knew. But what did he know exactly?
Just a friendly gesture. The exchange of a glance, a soft smile. It could have meant anything.
Claire was just a bit unsure what.
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