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Watching From The Shadows Chapter 4

Claire and Jake
New York High School

"Claire, I. Well, I don't know how to tell you this."

"Tell me what?" Claire watched her friend with a curious and nervous expression.

"Well Claire, I, I think I can fly."

"Are you serious?"

"Deadly."

Claire couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"You must speak to my dad and uncle! Come round my house after school, okay? This is so great!"

"Yeah, that'd be brilliant! I just woke up one morning and I felt my feet hovering off from the ground and I realised I was floating in midair."

"That's exactly how my uncle found out he could fly. You sound so much like him. It's really strange."

"Maybe we're related." Jake joked as he put his arm around his friend's shoulder.

Petrelli Residence and Jake
Petrelli Mansion
Later on that day...

"I hope you don't mind Jake coming over dad. He wanted to speak to Peter."

"No, that's fine Claire. I've been wanting to meet this boy you've been talking about for a while now. I'm Nathan Petrelli by the way." He said as he shook the young boy's hand.

"Jake."

"It's very nice to meet you."

"Do you know where Peter is?" Claire asked curiously. She couldn't believe that the three people closest to her could actually fly.

"Yes, he's in his room. Well, at least that's where I last saw him.

Claire nodded and showed her friend up to her uncle's room.

Nathan stood still in shock as he watched his daughter and her friend go upstairs. Nathan was sure he had seen Jake before, which didn't seem to please him.

"Come in." Peter said quietly as his niece knocked on the door.

"Peter, guess what?!" Claire screamed excitedly as she burst through the door. "Jake thinks he can fly! Like you!"

Peter raised his eyebrow.

"Really?" He asked suspiciously.

"Well, I think I can. Every morning, when I get out of bed, my feet just kinda, lift up from the ground. It's as though I'm hovering."

"Just like you Peter." Claire grinned widely.

"Well then. Show us what you've got."

"What, now? Where?" Jake asked nervously.

"Yes now, out of the window." Peter said with a smirk spread across his face.

Jake nodded and hurried over to Peter's bedroom window.

"What if I can't?"

Peter sighed before getting up from his place on the bed.

"Start off small then. Try from the ground or something."

Jake nodded once again and closed his eyes tightly before his feet started lifting up off of the ground.

"Jake! You did it!" Claire shrieked as she hugged her friend.

"Right then. I guess you can try phase two, jumping out of the window."

Nodding a third time, Jake once again, hurried over to the window and carefully opened it.

"If I can't, well you know, fly. Will you, help me? I mean, will you catch me?"

"Of course I will Jake." Peter smiled smugly before watching his niece's friend jump out of the window.

"Peter! Help him then! He's not flying!" Claire screamed as she shook her uncle uncontrollably. "You have to help him!"

"Why Claire? He said he could fly."

But it was too late...Jake had already hit the ground.

"Jake!" Claire cried as she knelt by his side. "Please don't die Jake. You're my bestest friend in the whole wide world."

Peter's whole body jolted as she said those words. It hadn't been long ago since she'd said those very words to him.

"He's already dead Claire." Peter looked down to the ground. Ashamed of his actions. He hated how jealousy always showed the worst side of people.

Claire looked at her friend's bloody body. Cuts and bruises covered his face, and his light blue eyes seemed emotionless and dull.

"I love you Jake. I love you. Don't leave me...I need you."

Once again, Peter's body jolted. He thought she needed him, not Jake. He thought he was her hero, he thought he was her protector, but, obviously not.

"Don't worry Claire...I'm here." A weak voice startled Claire.

"Jake?! You're alive."

Both Peter and Claire watched as Jake's bruised, battered and bloody body, miraculously healed itself.

"How did you...?" Claire murmured as she got up from the ground, helping Jake up as well.

"I guess we're more alike then we thought." Jake laughed as he pushed his friend playfully.

"I guess we are."

Later on that evening...

Peter couldn't help but wish he was Jake, although they were both very similar. They'd both taken a liking to Claire, Claire had taken a liking to them but Jake was in a better position than him. He was just a friend, not blood related, whereas Peter was. He'd always wondered whether he'd be adopted or switched at birth but that would have been impossible. He really wished it was true though.

"I'm going to bed." Claire sighed as she got up from the sofa. It'd been 2 hours since they'd taken Jake home and Claire was incredibly tired. It had been a very busy day for her.

"Okay sweetie. See you in the morning." Nathan got up and kissed his daughter on the head before she trudged upstairs.

"Hey, Nathan, what'd you think of Claire's friend?"

"He was okay. What makes you ask?" Nathan asked worriedly.

"No particular reason. It's just, well, he's just like me. Strange really. First he can fly and then he can heal himself."

"Heal himself?"

"Yeah, he tried flying out of the window and kinda failed."

Nathan's expression was beginning to worry his brother. "Are you alright Nath?"

"Yeah just fine. I'm going to get some sleep now. Get rid of the bags under my eyes."

Peter raised his eyebrow. "Okay bro."

Walking to his mother's room, Nathan put his hands to his head. He had to speak to his mother...urgently.

"Ma, I need to talk to you."

"What about Nathan? Can't you see I'm busy?"

"It can't wait mum. My...he's...here."

"Come on Nathan, spit it out."

"The boy...He's here."

"Jake? What on Earth is he doing here? Get rid of him!"

"No ma, he's not in the house, but he was. He's Claire's best friend."

"Oh god Nathan, we have to do something. She can't be hanging around with him. She'll become curious. Her and Peter both."

"It's too late. They've already realised how alike he is to Peter. We have to tell them ma. We can't just keep living this lie.

"No Nathan, it's for the best that they don't know. Besides, it's not doing them any harm not knowing the truth is it?"

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