Chapter 2

Kiera, San Antonio, Texas

"Kiera, the phone!!!" I heard my mum call up the stairs to me.

"Who is it?" I asked as a pelted down the stairs to get the phone out of her hand.

"Claire! Who else would it be?" she asked as I grabbed the phone out of her hand.

"Hey Claire!" I said

"Heya, how are you doing?" she asked

"I'm great, how are you?"

"Brilliant, look, I wanted to ask you, do you want to come Florida this weekend, seeing as it's half term, would you like to come for a week?" she asked

"Oh my God!!! I'd love to!!! What about cost?" I asked

"Don't worry, we're staying in Dad's villa so there's no problem and we'll be driving there, stopping off on the way, so how about a road trip??" she asked

"Hell Yeah!" I said.

"Great, well I've already made the arrangements, we'll pick you up at eleven at your place, and you better be ready none of this late nonsense" she said

"Hold on, 'you'd already made the arrangements' how did you know I would say yes?"

"Do you really think that I don't know you enough" she said

"Pffft" I said

"Anyway got to go Dad wants to use the phone" she said.

"Later Claire!"

"Bubi K!"

Jess

"are we there yet?" I asked

"I don't know, have a look at that sign, we're stopping off in Panama City, we must be nearly there" said Peter.

I looked closely at the Yellow sign as it flashed past:

Mobile 1 miles

Pensacola 50 miles

Panama City 184 miles

"You have got to be joking me!!" Peter said.

"I'll drive if you like" I offered

"Alright, I'll pull in a lay-by" he said. The nearest lay-by was about a mile away and he pulled in when he got to it. We switched over so I was in the driver's seat and we set off again.

"so peter anything you especially want to do when we get to Florida?" I asked as I drove steadily down the highway

I was answered by a loud snore from the passenger seat. My brother had fallen asleep.

Jess, Florida, USA

I blinked heavily as I opened my eyes. The sun was shining so brightly in the car. Peter stopped nudging me awake as I groaned and awoke; I stretched and opened the car door. My eyes opened even wider when I saw the hotel we were staying in. It was absolutely massive! A man in plush plum uniform walked towards Peter and I as we struggled to get our cases out the back.

"Excuse me, Mr. Petrelli? We will take your bags up to your room and park your car for you if you leave your keys with us, your mother and brother are waiting in the hotel lounge" he said

Peter looked surprised but left the keys with the man and together we walked into the hotel. There were white marble pillars at the main doors (which we opened by two more porters), inside there was dark wood and old furniture. We walked through the reception and into the hotel lounge, I saw Nathan and Mother sitting in a window suit, they were sipping coffee; Nathan was reading the Harvard News Letter and mother the Financial Times. Peter sat down heavily and I followed suit. I looked up at the clock it was nearly two in the afternoon, just time for a swim before dinner.

"Mother, may I have the key to my room? I would like to go get changed so I can go for a swim" I said. Mother looked surprised, as if she expected me to sit and drink coffee with her. This was Florida for god sake, I wasn't going to act as if we were at home, I came here to have fun!!

She just dropped the key onto to my lap for mine and Peter's room, Nathan had a room to himself as did she. I got up and made to move away from the table.

"I'll come with you Jesska" said Peter and got up too leaving mother and Nathan absorbed in their reading. We got the lift up to floor seven (the top floor) and attempted to find our room.

"724, 725, 726 ah 727" I said as I went along the doors. I unlocked it and gasped again. The room was massive. As you walked in you entered a lounge room which had a red plush sofa in it. there was a large blank wall in front of the sofa and a remote control next to it, I rushed over and pressed the on button on the remote, the wall opened and the t.v came from within the wall. I heard a whoop from somewhere else in the suite and I rushed to see what Peter had discovered. He had flopped on one of the huge double beds in the bedroom. Running off the bedroom was a walk in wardrobe and a gigantic bathroom covered in black marble. I went back to the main area of the suite and out onto the balcony it had. The balcony was also massive and it had a hot-tub In it. the best thing about the balcony however was the view, it looked out over the ocean and the sun was sparkling on the water.

I turned back to the room and ran to find Peter, he was still lying flopped on one of the beds. I pulled his leg hard so he fell on the floor.

"Come on Lazy-bones, time to go swimming!!" and with that I went into the walk-in wardrobe where our bags had been deposited and got out two of my bikini's.

"Which one do you think I should wear?" I asked Peter holding both up to my body, there was a dark blue one that had silver diamante going up the back of the top and the other one was blood red with gold clasps.

"The blue one" said Peter.

"Okay" I said and went to change in the bathroom slamming the door in his face by accident. After I had changed I put my white skinny's on and together we went down to the pool. The pool in this hotel was an infinity pool and it looked as if it ran straight into the ocean. I laid my towel down on a bed reserved for our room and walked to the edge of the pool. With a graceful motion I dived in. I was swiftly joined by Peter who bombed in next to me causing a tidal wave over nearby swimmers.

"You're an idiot Pete." I said and swum off.

Matt, Manhattan, New York, USA

I tapped my pen lazily on the desk, my brain blank except for the odd fly and sheet of old newspaper whirling past. Yup, you guessed it; I was bored. I was attempting to write a very dull newspaper article about the building of the first New York skyscrapers in the 1920's. also I had to cope with an awful throbbing headache that has been bothering me for the last week or so. I have been to the doctor's and he ran some tests and just said it was a regular headache and that taking drugs should make it go away.

"Matt! Have you finished the piece of Gertrude the Giggling Gerbil yet?" asked the assistant editor as he walked past my cubicle.

"No, not yet" I said. He sighed and walked on muttering under his breath. This job sucks, I love journalism but I just wish I could be covering more exciting cases. I dream of bigger and better things that "Gertrude the Giggling Gerbil", my boss thinks I'm not ready for that sort of stuff yet. I'll show him.

Parkman, he has no future I journalism unless he starts to work harder

"Who said that?"

There was a pause.

"Parkman, why are you talking to yourself?" my boss poked his head around the door.

"I wasn't sir someone said something to me" I said

"Parkman; you, me and the assistant editor are the only ones left here and he's on the other side of the building"

I-Idiot

"What?" I asked

"Parkman, what the hell? Are you feeling alright?"

Does he want me to call an ambulance?

"No I'm fine sir, I don't need and ambulance, I've just got a headache"

"How did you know that?"

"Know what?"

"Know that!"

Matt??? What the hell? What is he talking about…bout nothing…

Is he alright?

Do I need to photocopy this now or later? Someone else's voice

What is going on?

Who is shouting?

Nobody's shouting.

Everyone's shouting.

I blacked out.

Bryony, Miami, Florida, USA

"Soooo, done anything interesting lately?" I said as I sat the breakfast table.

"Yeah actually, I discovered your new ability and now I want it" Sylar said looking at me.

"No, No please, I'll do anything!" I cried at him. He looked at me for a moment as if reconsidering what he was about to do, but then I saw he look up at me through his lashes, the way he always does when he looks at his victims.

I screamed as I was thrown back against the lounge wall. His hand was around my throat and then it wasn't but I still couldn't move. I was held; my head was on fire and I felt knife like blades all over me and then I was screaming louder than I'd ever screamed before.

I was on the kitchen table and Sylar was above me. I could feel him in my head. He touched my face gently to try and stop me from crying.

"Don't cry anymore, Bryony, you've been through this enough times."

I gave a gurgled cry in reply. I felt him touch a particular spot in my head and then everything was right again, I was sitting up on the table, Sylar was wiping blood off his hands.

"You fucking bastard! I'm going for a shower!" I screamed the first part at him and then after I had gingerly touched my hair, added the second part.

"Fine but I must tell you, I used all the hot water up this morning" he said in a casual voice. I marched up to him and I screamed directly in his earhole before turning around and stomped upstairs.

"someone's tetchy" he said.

I could have killed him.

Kiera, Miami, Florida, USA

"So what? You came down here just for research?!, This was meant to be a family holiday!" shouted Claire.

"I'm sorry Claire, that's why I asked if you wanted to bring Kiera so that you weren't totally bored" said Noah rationally.

"I don't care dad, you said we were coming to Texas to have fun, but no, you had to screw that up didn't you dad" said Claire.

I stood in the corner trying to look inconspicuous, I didn't like being part of family disagreements. Claire was staring daggers at her father and Noah was staring that right back.

"Come on Claire, leave it, let's go out

Jess, Miami, Florida, USA

I slowly got out of the pool and made my way back to the sun lounger. As I looked around to find the bed I left my towel on. And find it I did. Lying on the bed I had left it on was one of the most gorgeous guys I had laid eyes on. He had dark blonde hair and blue eyes. I clocked him and he smiled; he was there on purpose. I strode up to my bed and looked down at him with my hands across my chest.

"Can I help you?" I asked

"Yes, actually, I was wondering, that guy you were messing about in the pool with? What is he to you?"

"What's it to you?" I asked

"I think you're fit, that's all" he said in the same cocky, confident tone that he had used when I asked him what he wanted.

"Is everything okay here?" I heard my brother's voice over my shoulder.

"Yes it's fine" said the boy who was lying on my bed.

"And who might you be?" asked my brother with a steely tone.

"I'm this girl's best buddy for the rest of her holiday" said the boy.

"Okay now answer my question straight" said Peter.

"My names Darren, Darren James" said the boy.

"I'm Jess, Jessica Petrelli" I said

"Hi" he said and he swung his legs off his bed. He came up to me and put his arm around my shoulder, I drew back initially but then relaxed, I felt peter tense up next to me and his hands curled slightly into fists. I shook my head slightly to make him relax.

"Now can I buy you I drink" asked Darren.

"Yeah I'd like a Malibu and Lemonade if that's alright" I said

"Sure thing" he said and he led me away from lounger and from my brother.

Peter Petrelli, Miami, USA

I ran inside the hotel pulling my t-shirt on over my torso and shorts as I went. I had to find Nathan. What the hell was Jess playing at? She can't just go off with a guy she'd only met a couple of seconds before, it just isn't like her! usually she's quite quiet and studious, it just isn't I like her to be this --- arghh. I can't even think of I word for it my mind is reeling so much. I looked back over my shoulder cautiously. Yes, she was sitting with Darren at the bar drinking a cocktail of some sort, I hurried on I had to find Nathan quickly so I could get back to watching Darren to check the slime ball didn't try anything that he shouldn't be trying; if he does I'll make him eat his teeth.

"Nathan?" I said running up the stairs in his penthouse room into the lounge area.

"Peter?" I heard my brothers voice

"Nathan you got to come down to the pool area, with me, now" I said slightly breathless.

"Why?" he asked

"Jess is with this boy, she's just met him and he's already buying her drinks and stuff, it's really weird. I don't trust him at all. You have to talk to her" I said

"why me, she's being so cold to me at the moment" he said

"What?! She told me that's how you've been acting towards her." I said as I sank down onto the sofa.

"I didn't realize I had" said Nathan as he sank into the seat opposite me. He looked at me as if trying to search my soul.

"When are you going to tell her Nathan?" I asked, "you told me weeks ago and this is what's holding you back from her"

"She'll just reject me" said Nathan.

"You know what, I don't think she will." Peter said.

Nathan, Miami, Florida, USA

I was down in the pool area, I could hear the annoying sound of little kids laughing. I could see Jess and Darren at the pool bar, he was feeding her little grapes from the dish he had in his hand. I walked across up to the bar and to Jess, cutting her off from Darren by standing between them –this was no mean feat seeing as she was practically lying on him, something he seemed to be pretty pleased about.

"Jess, What the hell are you doing?" I asked

"Who's this babe?" asked Darren to Jess.

"She is not your 'babe'" I said turning on Darren.

"look Nathan just leave him alone! We're just having a bit of fun" said Jess.

"He's after more than fun, Jess and you know it" I said.

"Look Nathan, he is a good person, so just back the fuck off, alright?" Jess said in my face. I was taken aback, I didn't think that Jess would ever talk to me like this. I turned on heel and saw Darren's smirking face as I did so. I walked off, leaving them to their silly, childish, games.

Bryony, Miami, Florida, USA

There. No there, I see her. She is walking hand-in-hand with some extremely fit looking blonde boy. He keeps kissing her intermittently, there she is – Jessica Petrelli, Gotcha. Sylar will be pleased.

Noah, Miami, Florida, USA

"Niki is it done?" I said into the phone.

"Yes Boss, he's dead"

"The president will be pleased, I want you on the next flight back to New York, get out of there. And tell Hiro none of that funny business to get you back here, it's got to look legitimate"

"sure thing boss, whatever you say and buy the way are they safe?"

"They are safe, at the moment, that's why I'm here, with all of them being so close, who knows what could happen?"