Claire Bennet and Peter Petrelli

1:43 pm

Hallway

Claire put her hands on Peters shoulers and kissed him back. She really didn't want to stop, but still it was wrong. Claire pulled away from him. She couldn't believe what they had just done. It was so wrong. he was her uncle.

Claire: Peter I-we

Peter: Claire...we're not related...

Claire: What?

Peter: Well...I was adopted so i'm not really Nathans brother.

Claire: Oh my God...

She just couldn't believe this, how was it possible? How long had Peter known? So what they did wasn't wrong. Claire suddenly noticed somthing was wrong with Peter. He was staring down at the floor.

Claire: What's wrong?

Peter: They lied to me...

Claire: Who?

Peter: Everyone.

She relized what was bothering him. His whole family told him for twenty five years that he was their son or their brother. That was another problem with Claire being in love with Peter, he was twenty five and she was sixteen. That was a whole nine year difference. Claire couldn't stand to see the look on his face. She walked over and hugged him.

Peter didn't say anything, he just hugged her back. Claire closed her eyes and for a moment or so she forgot all about her problems. Forgot that there was an armed student running around shooting people.

Well she almost forgot anyway

Lyle Bennet

1:47 pm

Schoolyard

Lyle sat on the ground, he was watching for a moment as the medics took Kelsey to the hospital. He had met her before a few times when Claire hung out with her. Zach was using his cell phone to try and call his mother. Lyles father was walking around, like that would help.

The medics already took care of any injuries Lyle had. He was waiting for his sister to come outside. Normally Lyle didn't worry about things. he knew if Claire happened to get hurt somehow, she'd be fine. But for some reason Lyle felt bad about leaving her inside the school like that.

News reporters were still talking about the shooting. Police cars were parked all around the school and Lyle could hear helicopters overhead.

He didn't really notice these things though.

Claire Bennet and Peter Petrelli

1:49 pm

Hallway

Caire was walking down the hallway looking around. Why weren't the police trying to help? Why was the school so deserted? She didn't even know what was happening anymore. How long had the shooting been going on? It seemed like hours, maybe it was. She suddenly got a realy bad feeling and grabbed Peters hand. he stopped walking and looked over at her.

Peter: What?

Claire: I...nevermid it's stupid.

The two of them walked down another hallway, they didn't see any sign of Josh or anybody else at all for that matter. Claire still couldn't get rid of the feeling she had, it was like she knew somthing was going to happen. Then they went down the main hallway fo the school. Brody was laying on the ground, he had blood all over his shirt and it was obvious he had been shot. To obvious.

Claire felt so dizzy that she had to hold onto Peter to keep from falling. There was blood everywhere. she felt her stomach churn and was sure she was going to vomit. Peter grabbed her and pulled her away from the hall. She didn't sturggle against him. When they gto to a classroom she started to cry. Brody wasn't sombody Claire exactly liked, she couldn care less about him. But for some reason she saw that and couldn't help how she reacted.

Peter hugged her as she fell the the floor and kept crying. Now it seemed way too real. This whole day was real. She wasn't going to wake up like she hoped. This wasn't a dream. Claire put her arms around Peter and kept crying. How many other people had Josh shot? Or killed? Was brody dead? She kept sobbing, crying wasn't going to help but what else could she do?

Claire Oh my God!

Peter: It's okay, everything is going to be ok.

She wanted to believe him, shr really wanted to believe everything would be ok. But now it didn't seem that way anymore. Of course she wasn't afraid of getting shot. Even thought he would survive Claire was scared of Peter geting shot. Or some other friend of hers being killed by Josh. But they could leave anytime. Claire could get up and leave the school. That's what she wanted to do, she wanted to just go home and see her family.

Josh Buyers

1:51 pm

upstairs hallway

Josh walked up the steps, he held the gun out in front of him. He had found brody and shot him. Twice. Brody had probably been trying to get out of the school or somthing when Josh found him. One thing had been bothering Josh. The one guy with Claire Bennet. Josh shot him in the head and he was still alive, it was as if he had never been shot in the first place. That was not possible. Was it?

He stopped in the middle of the empty hall. Maybe it was time to end this. Josh had done enough and he couldn't find any other students. There wasn't a point in staying around. He should just stop. But he didn't.

Instead Josh went down the hallway shooting at cameras and lockers as he went. He was going to find Claire and her friend.

Claire Bennet and Peter Petrelli

1:54 pm

Classroom

Claire still sitting the floor of the social studies classroom. Peter was still holding her. She had stopped crying a long time ao and for a while they both stayed quiet. This was so stupid and useless. Claire wasn't saving anybody. She couldn't even save her own friend. That made her wonder what happened to Kelsey. Claire hoped that she was okay.

Peter: What do you want to do?

Claire: I don't know...

She sat up and looked around the dark room. The curtains were drawn and the door was shut. Where was the rest of the school anyway? How many kids had escaped since the shooting began? Apparently alot of them because she didn't see anybody now. Wat were they going to do? She wasn't helping anybody, she felt as if she wasn't even trying. But somthing told her to stay and wait. As if that would do any good. Josh was still here and Claire knew that.

Maybe there was a way to stop him, to get him to turn himself into the police. It seemed like for the past two hours Claire had been running in circles or somthing like that. She leaned up and looked at Peter.

Claire: how long have you known?

Peter: For a few weeks...

He already knew what she was talking about. Three weeks ago Nathan went to Peters apartment at two in the morning and said he couldn't sleep until he talked to Peter. That's when he told him everything. Nathan had knon his whole entire life. Everyday he would lie and pretend Peter was his real brother. Peter had tried to lie to himself and say Nathan was crazy, anything that would make what he said false.

But it was the truth.

Claire: Didn't they ever try to tell you?

Peter: No.

Claire knew how bad it felt. How much it sucked to be lied to just about every day of her life. She finally made herself stand up. Peter watched her. She knew sitting in some classroom feeling sorry for herself wasn't going to help anybody. If anything it would hurt more people. Claire felt like she had already done that enough lately.

Claire: We need to help, I have to find Josh...and talk to him.

Peter: Are you sure, we don't have to find him. I'll help.

Claire: I think if I just talk to him it'll be ok, thanks though Peter.

Peter smiled at her and she pulled him to his feet and put her arms around him. They kissed again.

Noah and Lyle Bennet, Zach

1:56 pm

Schoolyard

Noah was talking to a police officer. he was dressed like a normal cop, proably just on duty when he got this call. In his hand was a black walkie talkie.

Noah: You don't understand, my daughters in there.

Officer: a lot of kids are still in there sir, we're trying.

Noah: No you aren't, you're just standing around. None of you are trying.

Lyle and Zach were watching. They both wanted the same thing, for Claire to be safe. Lyle rarely ever showed any signs that he cared about his sister. That was until now. He couldn't stop worrying. Every once and a while gunshots could be heard inside the school. There were alot of police units waiting to enter the school.

Lyle didn't understand why they were waiting. Anybody that wasn't a cop or EMT was supposed to stay far back, Just in case.

Claire Bennet and Peter Petrelli

2:01 pm

Hallway

Peter followed Claire down the hall. they were going upstairs, trying to find Josh. They found the staircase and went up the steps quickly. Nobody was at the top of the stairs, or in the hallway.

Nobody but Josh. he was standing halfway down the hall, staring off into space. Claire didn't know why. She felt her heart rate speed up and had a hard time swallowing.

Peter: Are you sure?

Claire:...Yeah, just stay here ok?

She was hoping Peter would listen because for some reason she couldn't stop worrying about him. She took a deep breath before walking into the hall.

Claire:..Josh

A/N: Sorry about any spelling errors. also I might want to add that this takes place a few monts after homecoming.