New chapter yay! This one's longer than the other ones. Also, sort of heavy on the Plaude. Sorry, it was on my mind. XP

#4 Arguments

"Mohinder, you're home!"

"So I noticed."

"Gosh, you're grumpy. What's the matter?"

"Out of the eleven people I drove across town today—because everyone seemed to be on the complete other side of the city from where they wanted to go—only six of them paid their fares, and only four of them could afford the whole thing. Honestly, one man tried to pay me with a pack of cigarettes!"

"If you'd just take me with you, nobody would get out of the cab without paying their fares."

"I think the last thing I need is somebody complaining about the homicidal maniac sitting in the passenger seat, but thanks for offering."

"If you say so. But never mind that, guess what happened today!"

"Um… you watched TV."

"Nope."

"You painted the future."

"Nope."

"You… oh, I give up. What happened?"

"Peter and Claude broke up!"

"Again?"

"Yeah, but this time I think it's serious. Peter called me in the middle of the day. He said he was at Nathan's house, and he wanted me to go eat Claude's brain. Apparently, Claude tried to make him get a haircut."

"And did you?"

"Eat Claude's brains? Eww, no. I don't think that man even owns shampoo."

"Surely that can't make a difference to how the brain tastes… however, I am very glad you didn't eat his brain. I'm sure Peter would regret it when he wanted to hook up with him again."

"They sure fight a lot."

"Yeah."

"I'm glad we're not like that."

"What are you talking about? I tried to kill you once, remember?"

"Well yeah, but we've been going pretty steady since then. And Claude's always beating poor Peter up."

RING

"Can you get that, Sylar?"

…

"It was Peter. He says they're back together again."

"It's a good thing you didn't eat Claude's brain. Imagine, breaking up over something silly, like a haircut."

"Yeah. Say, you didn't wear that sweater over that shirt all day, did you?"

"Yes, why, what's wrong with it?"

"Mohinder, the shirt is purple, and the sweater is orange!"

"Yeah, so? Anyway, nobody could see my shirt, because I wore my scarf over it."

"Not the multicolored one?"

"Yeah, so?"

"That's it. I'm throwing that hideous thing away!"

"Sylar!! If you touch my scarf, I swear I'll break up with you…"