Chapter 6

Bryony, Miami, Texas, USA

I slammed the door to my bedroom breathing hard. Sylar had had that look in his eye again, the one that I had seen before, the other night. All he had been doing was going through that file again and then he looked up and there was this fire in his eyes, this sort of hunger that I can't even explain.

I pulled out a duffel bag out of the wardrobe and started throwing random clothes into. I had had enough, I was leaving, I think that Sylar I becoming dangerous, he used to have moderate control over his power, but now I see it come back again and again, I mean, I know I can heal but that doesn't mean I want to have to.

I heard the door open and close behind me.

"so your leaving?" he asked

"yeah" I said

"where you gonna go?" he asked, he sounded genuinely concerned for a few seconds and then I caught the parallel in his voice.

"Dunno, I'll find Peter" I said still not looking at him.

"You think that he'll really want to see you after you laid into his sister?" he asked with a sneer

"For one; if he doesn't want me I'm a big girl I can take of myself and two she's not his sister, now if you don't mind can you please move, you're standing in front of the wardrobe" I said with a deep coldness in my eyes. When he didn't move I made a ball of lightning appear in my hand, he looked as if he were about to retaliate but when I made fire appear in my left hand as well he gave up shrugged and left the room.

I finished packing and left the room, on my way out I stopped and looked at a photo that was in a blue frame on a small cabinet. It was of Sylar and I about two years ago when we had gone to a theme park and he had got us in for free with some 'persuasion', the photo was taken when we had just bought ice cream and it was of him stealing a bite from my cone. We both looked happy, it's a shame at how much he's changed. I took the photo and tucked into my satchel, I left the room. He was sat watching T.V he turned when he heard me walking to the front door. His eyes followed me all across the room and out through the front door I could still feel his eyes through the door. I sighed deeply and thought back briefly on the life I was just about to leave, several images flashed before my mind, all the good times we had shared and then they were gone and I was too. Away down the corridor away from the apartment faster than the speed of sound.

I reached the street it was bathed in sunlight, I looked around cautiously and then started to walk towards the hotel that I knew that Peter and Jess were staying in. I knew that their brother had left earlier in the week so it would make it easier. Walking onto the beach I took off my shoes and dumped my bag on the sand. That was the last thing I remember before seeing that gray wall of the cell. I rolled over on the hard floor and my eyes were met by another girl sat on the floor of the same cell, she is watching me cautiously. I sat up slowly.

"who are you?" the girl asked, her long brown hair was tucked neatly behind her.

"Bryony" I replied, "and yourself?"

"Keira Smithson" she said. My eyes widened a little at the name, I recognized her from the red folder.

"Where are we?" I asked

"Well, I don't exactly know but these weird people keep doing tests on me because I have-" she stopped herself mid sentence

"it's alright, I have them too, I suppose you mean that you can do this" I said and held my hand expecting it too turn to flame. When it didn't I frowned and tried again, still nothing.

"Abilities don't work in here" Kiera said. I scowled.

"When then I know exactly where we are; Primatech paper. Except that's just a cover-up they are basically a prison and laboratory for people with abilities" I said. She made a small 'o' with her mouth and then said;

"We're on Level 6, does that mean anything to you?" she asked

"really?" I said astounded, "do they really think we're that dangerous? Too put it another way, top security villains are kept on Level 5"

She looked shocked but then jumped when the door opened and another body was thrown into the room. Kiera took one look at the new body and then her body started to jerk and it looked like she was having a fit. The new body sat up.

"Jess?" I said

"You."

One Day Ago. Jess, Miami Florida USA

"So Peter where we going?" I asked.

"To the Mall" he said

"Which one? There are loads" I joked

"I dunno, you choose" he said

"Well I quite like the look of that one" I said pointing to a big old building.

"That one it is" he replied turning to the mall whose main entrance was situated on the corner of the street, we went inside and the cool air-conditioning hit us with a nice wave. The mall was quite empty which was odd for Saturday in florida in the middle of summer. I felt peter noticeable move closer to me. I look up at him bemused but he was looking around warily.

"Pete, what's up?" I asked

"I just have a bad feeling about this place and all this un-normality that has been happening lately ive learned to start to trust my instincts" he replied.

"Even about that girl?" I asked nastily

"Yes even about her, she didn't have a bad cloud about her like some people, like that man stood over there and that woman over there" he said suddenly. i looked around wildly at his words and saw a man stood by a palm tree in the centre mall and a woman sat not far away reading yesterday's newspaper.

"Let's get out of here Pete" I said quietly. We turned to leave the mall but directly behind us was man dressed in security uniform.

"May I see your ID please?" he said

"why?" asked Peter.

"Just show him Peter" I said getting scared, all I wanted was to get back to the hotel. I pulled my driving license out of my purse. The guard took a look at my identity and pressed a button. Another two guards ran up to us, one of them grabbed Peter and the other caught me.

"What do you think your doing?!" yelled Peter, struggling to get away from the guard.

"We have no issue with you, it's your sister sir, she's on wanted posters across town" said the man.

"What?" I shouted. Why was on wanted posters.

"Here she is sir" said the guard speaking to a man behind my shoulder. I was spun around by the guard and presented to the man who was stood by the potted palm tree.

"Perfect" said the man. He motioned to the man holding me and I was hauled outside to a waiting police van. I was struggling tooth and nail and I could see that peter had had to have two guards restrain him because he had been struggling so hard. I could see him trying to use his powers but apparently they were redundant at the moment. I was thrown (literally) into the van and the doors slammed shut behind me, blocking off all the sunlight. There was a small vent in the door and I screamed through it but then that too was slammed shut. I was alone in the darkness, a muffling blanket of stifled air.

The van started to move and because I was in the back I felt every bump in the road twice as hard as the man and the woman in the front. I could hear the man laughing through a tiny grate that was at the top of the divide, he had a hard guttural laugh which made me cringe.

I don't know how long we travelled for. I thought about Peter, had they let him go? Had he gone for help? Help from whom? Nathan was in New York and I'm pretty sure that Angela wouldn't help him rescue me.

I heard the engine shut off and the van came to a standstill. The back doors of the van were pulled open and bright sunlight streamed in nearly blinding me. A man came toward me but he was too late I already had electricity coursing through my veins and I made sure that he felt it. he fell back with burns. Then three more men scrambled into the van and one of them forced my mouth open and a pill was shoved down my throat, I choked on it as it made it's way down my throat, I tried to electrocute the man who had shoved it in my mouth, but my powers, for the second time that day, weren't working.

The man I had been aiming at laughed evilly and he and his companions grabbed me by the upper arms and pulled me out of the van. As soon as we were outside we were inside again, in a cold building with as little personality as the men who had captured me. We went down one long corridor and into a lift, the lift travelled down, down. We got out and then I was in cell, this all happened so faster I barely had time to register it. I was thrown onto the floor of the cell I was still recovering when I heard.

"Jess?"

I looked up and saw Bryony.

"You" I said in shock.

Bryony, A Cell somewhere in Florida, USA

I opened my mouth to ask Jess how she came to be here when I heard a sound I never wish to hear again, it was an awful gurgling sound and several choking sounds from the other side of the cell.

"Kiera!"

Kiera was slumped against the wall, I crawled over to her and sat her up, her eyes had rolled back into her head and she was shaking in my hands. She was chocking on her tongue and she was gasping. I clenched her jaw to try and slacken it while Jess was trying to stop her head lolling back. And then she fainted. Her body just went slack in my hands, i put her on the floor and put my ear near her mouth to check she was still breathing. She was, she appeared to have recovered she was just unconscious. Then she gave a great gasp and I had to move my head quickly to stop her from hitting me, she sat up quite normally and looked around the cell.

"do you have any idea what the hell just happened?" said Jess in shock.

"yes" I said

"What?"

"She just integrated all our abilities at once and it just made her spack out slightly" I said with a smile.

"yeah," said Keira, "when it was just you, Bryony, I could deal, I was integrating them slowly, but when Jess arrived there were too many all at once and it made me panic and have a fit"

"Why didn't that happen to me then?" asked Jess

"Well we've already met before Jess" I said pointedly, "so we already have each others powers"

"Oh yeah," she said, "and speaking of having met before, I'm sorry I tried to kill you, I just didn't want to believe you about not being a Petrelli, but then I went and asked Angela and she told me the truth"

"It's okay," I said, "I'm getting used to people trying to kill me"

"How so?" said Kiera

"Well, I guess we all better start at the beginning seeing as we've not got anywhere else to go" the others nodded their assent.

"Well I grew up in an orphanage until I was fourteen. It was horrible and I hated it, but I acquired my powers when I was four so I had several things to help me along like being able to do this," I said with a smile and with that I used my previously unused power and morphed into a gremlin, I quickly morphed back again after seeing their faces, "it has the right effect on little kids. Anyway when I was fourteen I was going back to the home after school when I decided that I wanted a large tube of Pringles from the local shop, so I went inside and I tried to nick them as I was about to leave the store invisible, someone put their hand on my arm. I was petrified, I was supposed to be invisible how could they see me? Anyway they could and I turned around and there was a guy of about seventeen stood there. He wasn't looking directly at me so I guessed he couldn't see me so I quickly morphed into the way I look now, not that I looked much different before. This man pulled me around the corner into a park and sat me down on a bench. He said to me that he knew what I could do and that he could help me escape from the orphanage. So to cut a long story short, he did and I have been living with him for just over three years."

"As what?" Kiera said with a smile

"Oh-no! Just as friends only!" I replied quickly, "well you see the only problem with this friend was that he used to cut my head off at regular intervals"

They both gasped in revulsion.

"Every time a new power manifested," I continued, "he would cut the top of my scalp off take my power and give me back my scalp. That's how his power worked you see, he has the ability to see how anything works therefore he knows exactly where we keep our powers in the brain and he has the ability to take them on. But his DNA has been so corrupted by taking on things that he shouldn't have that it has turned him physco so I moved out, and guess what I ended up here. That's about it" I finished

"Well that's pretty gross" said Kiera referring to the last part of my monologue. I nodded in agreement.

"well my story," jess started, "is not nearly as disturbing, I basically grew up in a wonderful house in Texas with my great family and two wonderful brothers, about a year ago my father died of a heart attack and then the shit started. I got my powers, we came on this holiday and I discovered that my whole family has powers and that they are not my family really. Peter finds himself a girlfriend, Nathan career gets off to a flying start and I end up being kidnapped and in prison. Why does the shit always happen to me?" she said

"Your brother's got a girlfriend?" I asked shocked.

"Yeah err you?" jess questioned.

"Oh! He hasn't asked me out … yet" I said.

"he will" she said knowingly.

"do you like him?" asked Kiera. I smiled in reply.

"Well my story," keira said, "is that I too started off in an orphanage but I was adopted at three and I have lived peacefully with my mom and dad since, my powers manifested and I didn't think much of it, one of my best friends has a power as well and we were on holiday with her dad and then I got kidnap and slammed in here, where they have been doing all sorts of weird tests" she said

"What sort of tests?" I asked eyes wide.

We are interrupted.

"Right ladies, seeing as your all together your joint testing will begin" I spun my head round, there was man stood by the door in a coat with an evil glint in his eye. I looked sideways at Kiera who raised her eyebrows.