Chapter Nine – Unfriendly Meetings
Mohinder Suresh kept working on what his father started after everything that went on a couple weeks ago with Sylar he wanted to try to locate innocent people before they met the fate of Sylar, they could also help save the world. He found name after and was able to find some address, he decided to go find some of them. The closest to his location was a girl named Jayden Everwood.
He didn't want to be noticed to much, not sure how was watching so he took the back ways. He just hoped that he wasn't too late. He was walking down a vacant ally when he tripped, practically on thin air.
"Peter?" He called out.
"Sorry." Peter Petrelli answered, appearing and helping Mohinder up. Peter was one of the people with special abilities, he would absorb others. "Where are you going in such a rush?"
"I've located another person, I was just going to talk to them. Care to join me?"
"Sure." He said walking him. "Do you know what ability they have?"
"I'm afraid not." Mohinder said a little disappointed. "I haven't found a way to successfully know what their ability is." Peter nodded and followed Mohinder to an apartment building. He was accualy excited, finding people like him was always something he looked forward to.
When they reached the building Peter looked up seeing it to be a small building, not like others on New York having twenty or thirty floor. "What floor do they live on?" Peter asked as they entered the building.
"She lives on the top floor, E-8." Mohinder said looking at the name chart and finding Everwood. "But maybe you should wait outside her apartment, like I said before, we don't know what ability she may have."
"I understand." Peter said nodding. "I'll wait outside the apartment door." Mohinder was right, not knowing what her power could be. They climbed five flights of stairs and finally found the door at the end of the hallway. Peter leaned against the wall he hoped he wouldn't have to wait too long. Mohinder knocked on the door. When the door was opened, he was met by a warm bright light.
"Can I help you?" A soft voice asked. After Mohinders eyes readjusted to the light he answered.
"Yes are you Jayden?" He asked know that this was gong to sound compeatly insaine and he knew this might not go well. But he tried to stay as positive as he could.
"Depends, who are you?" She said leaning against the door frame.
"My name's Mohiner Suresh. I was wondering if I could come in and talk to Jayden?" The girls electric blue eyes, out lined in think black eyeliner looked at Mohinder a bit confused for a couple seconds. Pushing her long light brown strait hair out of her face, she leaned forward and saw Peter.
"Would your body guard like to come in too?" She asked raising her eyebrow.
"I'm not a body guard." He stated looking over at her. She was very pretty, he thought. He was kind of imbarrassed that he would be standing out there. "I'll just wait out here." The girl nodded at him.
"Come on in Mr. Suresh." He thanked her and walked in with her. The first thing he noticed was all the widows and the skylight and how bright and warm it was in her apartment. Mohinder followed her into her living room and sat down on the couch. "So you want to talk to Jayden start talking to her?" She sad crossing her legs and leaning back.
"You're name is on a list." Mohinder started. "This list has people with special abilities on it." She didn't answer right away, almost like she was searching for what to say.
"What makes you think there's anything special about me?" She finally asked. She seemed to be nervous, Mohinder could tell she was hiding something
"My father put her name on this list for a reason." He answered.
"Well, maybe he was wrong." She said rearranging herself in her seat.
"I don't think so, my father was very precise on his work I don't believe he would make a mistake." He said confidently.
"Okay, say that I does have an ability, why are you here?" Mohinder knew he was going to sound crazy.
"To tell you, you are meant to save the world and to warn you."
"Warn her about what?" She asked now playing on his words. She seemed to change, almost finding this exciting.
"About a man named Sylar." She cocked her head and looked out the window then back to him.
"I've heard of him on the news, I think."
"Yes, maybe with your help, together we can stop him."
"Stop him from what?" She always seemed to have a question Mohinder thought. She seemed to be caurious, not what he expected.
"Sylar is a madman and a murderer, he kills people for their abilities. He wants to blow up this whole city and we have to stop him. You can help us Jayden, would you mind telling me what your gift is?" Mohinder could hear her laughing. She had walked over to the window and looked out.
"You know Sylar doesn't sound too bad." Mohinder couldn't believe what she just said. Doesn't sound bad? He though maybe she didn't believe him? Maybe she thought it was wall a joke?
"Jayden, he murdered my father!" Mohinder retorted. "If he finds people with abilities, he'll kill them and take their gift and maybe yours too."
"I can protect myself." She said turning around laughing at him in amusement. Jade could see the confusetion in his face. "You don't think he's the only one like that, I mean there has to be more. Not everyone's a ball of sunshine."
"You're right. I'm just trying to help." He said. "Some people can't handle what to happening to them, I want them to know there not the only ones, that they don't have to go through it alone."
"You're very smart." She said. This had to be Chaundra's son, she thought. He seemed to watched her very closely. She pulled up her sleeves and took off one of the bandages on her arm revealing burns and scars.
"Are you a fire starter?" She nodding putting her hands together like she was praying, when she opened them like a book her hands were filed with flames. "That's incredible!" He said amazed. "May I take a sample of your blood?"
"What! Why?" She said confused and slightly nervous. Jade remembered when Bennet did that to her. How would she know if he was giving he something that would hurt he even worst? She hesitaly pulled her arms to her sides.
"To run tests, it may help us, you may be the person who can defeat Sylar." She looked at him suspiciously biting her bottom lip. He could hear her chuckle as a smirk crept across her face.
"No." She answered. With a wave of her hand Mohinder was pinned to the wall.
"What are you doing?" Mohinder fumed. He tried to move, but his whole body was pinned. She wasn't as sweet and innocent as she seemed to be.
"I'm not helping you, you work with Bennet." She looked down at her scared arms. "They did this to me once, I won't let you do this to me again!" She sent his body across the apartment into a book case. He could hear Peter banging on the door but she had it locked.
"I know who you are talking about and I have nothing to do with them." He pleaded.
"You're a liar."
"No I…" But he couldn't finish what he was going to say. She didn't want to listen to him anymore. He had to work with him, he had to work with him or something.
"I have more them one ability." She said looking at the pinned man. He was angry, she could see it in his face, but he was useless, unable to do anything. "Not being in control must suck." She said. "Sylar sounds like fun, plus, we're just waiting for a boom."
"How do you know that?" Mohinder was shocked. Only a few people knew about that. But why wouldn't she want to stop it, it would kill her too id it goes off.
"I saw Issack's paintings, I know everything. The exploding man even the comic book that everybody reads so blindly"
"He's going to blow up the whole city, killing everybody." She laughed. "He'll kill you and take your powers."
"I'll take my chances, but don't worry." She said walking closer to him. "I'll be back. Your just like your father." She said shaking her head in disguest.
"What do you know about my father? You never knew him!" Mohinder said.
"I didn't know your father but he took something away from me." Her blue eyes searched him closely. "Revenge is a bitch." She dropped Mohinder to the floor. "Say hi to Bennet for me."
"Peter!" Mohinder yelled. Jade smiled at him then watched her be engulfed by flames. Peter finally managed to opened the door. When he was n the room smoke was everywhere and Mohinder was on the floor.
"What the hell happened?" Peter asked helping him up.
"She's going to help Sylar." He answered. His back hurt from hard hard he hit the walls.
"What! Why?"
"She thinks we work with Bennet, they must have hurt her somehow, she showed me scares she had, but she's so strong, so many abilities. She's never going to listen to us."
"What are we going to do?" Mohinder straightened his shirt and took a deep breath.
"We have to try to stop them." He said walking to the door. "Now we have two to worry about, we're going to need help we can't do this on our own."
