Title: Obsession
Fan dom: Heroes
Rating: T - Violence, Adult situations, Moderate Language
Notes and Spoilers: Through "Volume 1: Chapter 23: How to Stop an Exploding Man", Graphic Novel Chapters 39 to 42 "Betty", Graphic Novel Chapters 63 and 64: "Elle's First Assignment: Parts 1 & 2"and the Fan Fictions Squall and Fatigue. And some random things from non-specific episodes of Volume 2. This story is part of an alternate universe of after the close of Volume 1...
Chapter 10
Nathan looked up at his mother and noticed the glance she and Peter shared.
"What's going on here?" he asked.
Peter did not answer she just stared back at their mother.
The two of them had this conversation before.
Yet that time she told him it was for him. If that was true, why did he have dreams that he had to blow up. Was fate trying to tell him something?
Nathan blinked as he looked at the two of them.
He looked at his mother too.
"You are not going to do that to him," he stated, his voice just above a whisper, with a just a bit of bitterness mixed within.
Peter sat up and looked at Nathan then.
"You know?"
Nathan turned and looked at their mother.
"There must be another way."
But Angela looked at Peter.
It is the only way.
Claude walked in front of Noah. In the cold hallways of Primatech, they made their way through each hallway.
"Was she the one?" Noah asked his former partner.
Claude shook his head. "I mean no. It was not her."
He stared for a few seconds before he grasped onto the cold brick walls as continued.
Alex was not the one he kept from the company, but he cared for her all the same.
Still what Noah did not know was that the person he did protect that one day those several years ago was closer to this saga than he would imagine.
The past would not go away.
"Who has control of the company now?" Claude whispered.
"With Thompson and Linderman dead, I suppose Bob."
Bob.
Elle opened her eyes. She was disorientated and checked her surroundings.
"Ow.." she cried. "Where am I?"
She rubbed her head as she tried to remember what she was doing before she apparrently go knocked out.
She walked up slowly and studied the room.
"What a mess..." she sighed and then she saw the mangled bed and the remains of an administration device smashed in a million pieces below her feet.
"Peter!" she shouted in realization.
She started to breathe heavy as she fiddled around with the phone she had in her pocket. Should she tell her father? Or should she just handle Peter's disappearance on her own. Her father called her a baby and how could she ever redeem herself if she just continued her record of failure.
The alarm!
It was a passing thought and she turned around and saw that it was also smashed. What happened here? Peter was at the brink of death, it could not have been him.
At least he was okay.
But what of the world? Her father told her that people like Peter and Sylar were dangerous.
She liked him. The two weeks he was down here he almost became an obsession.
She gasped for air and she clenched her fingers in order to will the muscles in her arms from twitching.
"At least Sylar is still here..." she whispered.
She picked up a few items of debris.
A sharp scrap of metal burned in her hand and she dropped it immediately.
She shook her hands.
What happened to her?
Hearing voices in the nearby hallways, she exited Peter's former room.
She could detect the electric currents in the air, somehow she was able to channel the energy and use it generate shoots of electricity.
Several months ago her father sent her to Union Wells High School undercover as a student to spy on Claire Bennett. She was thrilled that her father trusted her on such a mission, but he pulled her from the mission and sent her back to this cement hell hole.
Waiting for her new mission: one that never came. Until two weeks ago.
She was not going to lose the other one.
Sylar did not know what it was but after the loud noise that could not be that far away, he no longer felt the cold tinge on the top of his chest.
He grasped to breathe and when he could, he took a few deep labored breaths before he returned to his prize.
He concentrated on the machine tormenting him: he tried his best to manipulate them.
He still could not move: he knew it was the drug in the IV's doing. The company had him confined this way once before in Texas. It worked for some time.
But he got out then.
He would now too.
...
Candice left her prey to check out the sound of that noise.
She would be back. If he ran...she would find him.
It was from the same room of the other spiritual voice she heard before. The one that watched Peter.
She was not close to Peter but he did try to save her life that one time.
It was interesting being within these walls in this new angle.
She stopped: There were voices a few yards above her.
"Do you–?" Noah whispered before stepping back.
Claude reached out for his former partner and held him back.
He stared at Bob, a man he have not seen in years.
A shiver went down this his spine.
You may say it is an obsession.
"It is the only way to end it."
Peter looked up at Nathan and tried to smile.
He stood up and leaned on his shoulders.
Nathan felt his insides stiffen but Peter gently squeezed his shoulder, if only to show him things were going to be okay.
"The future isn't written in stone."
Nathan nodded.
"But to sacrifice yourself?"
He did not clearly know what was going on but he knew the look in Peter's eyes.
Peter felt a shiver against his back. He jumped.
"I'm sorry Peter,"a familiar voice cried as she wrapped her blended arms around Peter's waist.
Peter exhaled a breath.
"Are your dreams coming true?" she whispered.
Peter turned around, it did not take long for him to locate her hands and he gently took them into his own.
"Yeah," he said with a nodded whisper.
Alex hesitated for a few seconds as Peter just stood still; she could not resist much longer.
She reached out and lightly touched him above his right brow.
She was surprised that he did not push her away. She closed her eyes, and held them tight.
She open her eyes and joined Peter's eyes, with an expression full of fright.
Angela was right.
To Be Continued
Author's Note: Elle is such a stalker-like character too! But I wrote Alex before Volume 2 began. So though this story takes some of Volume 2's concepts in addition to some Volume 1 graphic novel direction (mostly flashback stories that took place before Volume 2 anyway), this story doesn't really follow the show after the close of Volume 1. Still, I try to keep character in character, and I hope you enjoy my tale. Thanks for reading! --Stef :-)