A/N: New Paire story from me. It's a little different from the others and I hope you like it as well. I also hope for reviews. They always make me feel better and inspired my muse fr more. Thanks to all who'll take their time and share their opinion with me. I'm gonna be grateful. Also - please, please let's make it clear once again. English is not my first language. The reason I'm going without beta here it's because I want to learn from my mistakes and get better. Thanks for your understanding and please let me know what you think of the story. Thank you!

Story: Claire works as a stripper in a night club. Peter distance himself from his family and goes to see her. He inherits his father's fortune, but he's not happy. He's hunted from memories of the night he resorted his powers. Night, spent with Claire.

Few notes: It's AU Paire. Spoilers up to the "Brave New World", but without Claire's jump. Peter and Sylar are enemies. Claire is distant from her family, same as Peter. Isaac is alive. His girlfriend name is Kay (a fictional character, created by Valor95 - thanks for letting me use her); Zack is in New York and is Claire's and Isaac's roommate. Claire is working as a stripper in a night club. Peter can't forget the night he spent with her and goes to see her every night. How they reached to here - read and you're gonna find out. "winks"

Enjoy and review, please!

Loves, Arinna

Chapter 21 Go to sleep

Petrelli's Mansion

Noah looked at Angela and his eyes narrowed towards her. She just throw him a look and took a sip from her glass.

"You do realize that all this is one big mess." Noah murmured. "It could be really dangerous."

"I called you here only because you are the only one I can trust to do it." Angela turned around to look at him. "You have to do this, Noah. We have to stop all this nonsense! They are not supposed to be together and this is a mistake that I'm gonna fix it!"

Noah coughed and looked at the empty porch. Peter and Claire were gone already. They probably enjoyed at their company together. It was something that made him feel sad for some reason. His daughter was in love with her uncle and Peter... Peter loved Claire all along. Even Noah could see that. It was one of the reasons he sent Rene the first time. He had to make Claire to forget her hero. Noah knew who Peter was in the moment he met him at that cell. He knew he was Claire's uncle and he just could not stand the look he had given to Claire then. It was pure adoration. It was a look of a man who just had fallen in love. And then it was Claire. She just... adored him. Her eyes were full with love and it was even worse, because Peter was her first love. Noah knew that. His wife had shared that precious information with him. Claire could not stop talking about the man who saved her. Her hero.

That was the moment when Noah chose to act. He sent Rene first to his wife and then to his son. Zach, Claire's friend was the last from the list... before Claire. But Rene had followed Angela's orders. And Angela wanted Claire to remember who Peter was. She thought it would be better if Claire knew Peter as her uncle. That just broke her heart. That was the reason of all of her mistakes from this moment on. Claire thought she could handle it. She thought she could live without Peter in her life. But she did not know that she could not live without him.

Peter thought the same.

Angela had told Noah about his reaction of the news. He just had shut in himself and kept silence. They all thought he could handle it. They all thought he could move on, but he could not. Peter had changed. His point of view changed completely. Angela thought he was too quiet before. She thought he was too closed in himself. But that was nothing compared to the person Peter became after he realized that Claire was his niece. His eyes changed, darken. His shoulders stretched a bit. There was a constant pain in his look when he was not careful enough to hide it. Yeah, he had changed.

Now he was different. The pain was not there anymore. Something had happened and Noah knew what it was exactly. Claire. She had given up. She was with him now. Noah shuddered and took a sip of his scotch. His eyes narrowed. He wanted to stop that unhealthy relationship. Angela suggested a plan, but Noah still was not sure if this could work.

"This is dangerous, Angela." Noah murmured. "We both know that it could cause problems to Peter."

"Noah!" Angela snapped.

"Oh, come on!" Noah placed the empty glass on the cupboard. "I thought you destroyed the last sample of that medicine! The Company can't allow another failure! And this is going to be a massive failure!"

"Who are you to tell me what I'm going to do with my Company?"

"Your Company?" He hissed. "I thought you said..."

"I have 51%." Angela tilted her head. "That means..."

"You're wrong!" Noah lowered his voice. "It's not gonna work and I want you to notice my opinion!"

"Your opinion is noticed and now... we can proceed." She smiled, but there was something in her smile that made him shiver barely noticeable. "Do you understand me?"

He shook his head and just walked out on the porch. Things would get worse. Noah felt it with every bone in his body.

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Peter's Apartment

Peter looked at the sleeping woman beside of him. He leaned on his elbow and slid his hand down over her bare back. Claire shivered in her dream and smiled. Peter continued watching her. She had suffered so much. He had suffered so much. Now they both deserved some happiness together, but something was wrong here. He could feel it.

"Peter?" Claire opened her eyes and looked at him sleepily. "You have to go?"

"No." Peter smiled and took her in his arms. Her head rested on his chest. "I'm not going anywhere tonight."

"Good." Claire murmured. "I love to feel it beside of me."

"I love that feeling too." Peter took her hand and his lips touched the back of her fingers. "Sleep now. I know you're tired and I'm not going anywhere."

He felt her kiss over his neck and smiled.

"I love you, baby." She murmured and fell asleep again.

His smile faded. Something was wrong and he had to find out what it was.