Hope everybody had a nice time over the past few days!
Emile Danko walked into the dark and dank warehouse in the middle of the night, setting his eyes upon the three sleeping people there. His two super powered companions and the spawn of Claire Bennet. Who had yet to manifest, if he ever did at looked at the child with disgust, knowing he had a Bennet, no worse, a Petrelli in the same room as him. He then smirked, pulling his phone out his pocket, sending the saved message he had been waiting to send, and then picturing Noah Bennet's face as his daughter sobbed to him about his involvement in her son's only obstacle now was Sylar. He didn't have a clue that would happen, thinking that Sylar was off the radar. Luckily he had some of that tranquillizer left over for emergencies, he thought he would never had to use it.
"Wake up you two," He said, kicking the bed to shuffle his two goons awake. "We've got some pictures to take."
"Danko!" Noah Bennet growled, taking the phone off Claire to read the message, to see if it was true then tried phoning back the number but it just rang dead.
"I thought he was dead," Claire said, in a shaky voice.
"Obviously not," Noah said, "He's found a way or someone has found away to heal his injuries."
Gabriel quickly walked away, not getting their attention until the front door slammed.
"Gabriel!" Claire shouted running towards the door but Noah grabbed her arm.
"Where are you going?" Noah asked, keeping his grip on Claire.
"To get Gabriel," Claire said pulling away from him and opened the door, running after Gabriel.
Noah sighed and sat back down, pulling out his cell. "Hello Lauren, it's Noah." He said to his old friend. "Could you do me a favour?"
A very determined Gabriel marched down the hallway, towards the window that was before him. Using his mind, he opened the window, and zipped up his hoody.
"Don't you dare." Claire said from behind which stopped Gabriel in his tracks. "Not without me."
Gabriel turned around, facing her as she came up to him, wrapping his arms around his neck. "Are you sure?" He asked and she nodded. He then scooped him up into his arms.
"Hey!" Peter shouted behind them and he spun around as Peter walked towards them.
"He knows about us by the way." Gabriel whispered to her and her stomach turned. God, her Uncle knew. Then it hit her that she slept with her Uncle's best friend. It didn't occur to her before.
Gabriel put her down yet felt the need to keep his hand on the small of her back, which Claire didn't back away from.
Peter was struggling for words as he looked on to them both, a thousand different emotions running through his body. Part of him wanted to hit Gabriel again, over and over and not stop. Another wanted to console and support him, as he did with Claire. But most part almost felt relieved to know who the father was, but it did plugged some images in his head he did not want to even think about.
"We have a lot to talk about." Peter said, "Not right now, but tell me one thing,"
"It was my idea Peter, I initiated everything that night." Claire said, knowing what her Uncle was thinking. "You know Gabriel isn't like that."
Peter nodded and looked down, seeing Gabriel's hand disappearing behind Claire's back.
"Danko's got Ollie." Gabriel said, his voice almost cracking. "We need to find out where he is."
"Danko?" Peter asked, not believing it. "How can you be so sure?"
"He's right, how do we not know this is some hoax." Claire said. "Anyone could be in this, and pretending to be him."
"He knows too much." Gabriel chimed in. "It's got to be him. Nobody knows how to take me out except a few and they're all related to Ollie in some way."
Claire wanted to say something again, but she knew it was just fighting hope and then she felt herself shaking. Of course, Gabriel felt her too and looked to her, as she started to let more tears fall.
"Hey, it's ok." Gabriel whispered, pulling her into a gentle hug. "There is no way he's getting away with this. He has no idea what he has done."
Peter had to look away from the touching scene before him, even though he had grown to love Gabriel, he just couldn't accept the fact he was the father of his great nephew. "Do you think Danko knows your Ollie's father?" He asked, hoping it would break them apart, which it did and just in time as Noah opened the door further down.
Claire looked to Peter and quickly shook her head. He couldn't know, not yet at least. Peter nodded and pulled Claire over to him, putting a protective arm around him.
"I've phone Lauren, she's going to help us, she knows Danko's case pretty well." Noah announced as he walked down the hall.
"Any she was ok with you phoning at three in the morning?" Peter asked.
"I don't think time has anything to do with it when my grandson is missing." He said back to Peter, and looked to Gabriel.
"Sure you haven't got any information on him, since you were very chummy with him." He said.
"Same could be said to you," Gabriel shot back. "You were behind the cowboy round up of specials."
"Stop it! Both of you!" Claire screamed, "Would you both for once stop competing against each other!"
Noah's phone started to ring, but it didn't stop him staring at Gabriel with rage.
"Lauren," He said into the phone. "Anything?"
"God please let her have something good." Clare whispered, sinking deeper into Peter's hug as her Dad talked away quietly to Lauren.
Gabriel turned to look out the window, breathing in and out heavily, as he felt his emotions getting the better of him. He could feel his eyes starting to water as realisation started to dawn on him.
"I'm leaving," Gabriel mumbled to them. "I'm going to find our son. You stay here and wait for what Lauren's got."
"No," Claire whispered. "We do this together."
Gabriel shook his head and started to walk out, knowing Claire would not protest any louder as she would cause a scene in front of her Dad.
"You don't even have a phone." Peter said, "Here, take mine." Peter threw his own phone to him. "You keep in touch!"
Gabriel nodded and ran down the stairs, with Claire following his movements until he disappeared.
"Where's he going?" Noah asked, once hanging up the phone.
"He's going to look for Danko." Peter said, and Claire left his side, walking silently back to the apartment where her Dad now stood.
"What did Lauren have to say?" She asked him.
"They have no record of Danko's body, and still had him down as missing." Noah said. "So unfortunately we are no further but Lauren now has a name of Simon Campbell and is currently researching using CIA connections."
Claire nodded, not the answer she was hoping for.
"Come on, let's get some sleep, there's nothing more we can do tonight." Peter said, pulling on Claire's hand to follow. "It's the best thing for us, you need your sleep Claire."
She nodded and walked back into the apartment, letting Peter tuck her into bed. It didn't make her feel any comfortable as she was before, and her eyes wouldn't even stay shut.
Claire tossed and turned, for what felt like hours but it had only been half and hour. She couldn't sleep at a time like this. Her phone buzzed silently in her jeans pocket, and she quickly grabbed it opening the message quickly. I'm waiting in the car downstairs for you. Gabriel
Claire shot out of bed, and managed to climb out the window without waking anybody up. She closed the window back over and looked down seeing Gabriel standing outside the car, looking up at her.
He motioned for her to come down and she immediately let herself fall from as Gabriel guided her safely down and into his arms. She looked up to him, seeing his eyes were red and puffy. He had been crying but she didn't mention it. The buzzing of her phone distracted her, and Gabriel let her go, walking over to the car.
"Let's go." Gabriel said, pulling on her hand but she stayed still. "Claire, come on."
"Gabriel," She whispered, looking at her phone then turned it round fro him to see.
Danko was well and truly alive, confirmed by the picture of him holding their son with a wicked smile.