Laney nervously as she tried to get as close to Peter as she possibly could.
"It's gonna be okay, Lane." Peter said his eyes fixed on the guy.
She watched as Sylar bum rushed the guy in front of them knocking him down and vanishing all the ones that stood behind them.
"Come on, let's go check on, Matt." Peter said as he grabbed Laney's hand dragging her up the stairs while Sylar handled the rest.
"Matt!" Peter said as he began to search for Matt finding him in the kitchen, "Matt? Are you okay?"
"No."
"Here sit." Peter said grabbing a stool for him to sit on.
"Ow! Aah! Okay, okay, okay." Matt said after Peter set his leg back into place.
"It's just dislocated."
"Awesome." All of a sudden then man from down stairs was placed on the floor, causing Laney to turn around as Sylar walked into the room, "what the hell is he doing here?"
"Matt, he's going to help, Peter."
"How is he gonna help do anything, don't you know he's a murderer?"
"Yeah, I do but apparently Peter trusts him and that's good enough for me." She smiled putting her hands on her hips as Peter shot her a smirk.
"I trapped him in a nightmare. What the hell is he doing out? You did this." Matt said completely ignoring Laney.
"It's a long story." Peter and Sylar both said simultaneously.
"But right now we need to know what Samuel is planning. When and where."
"Thousands of people are in danger, Matt."
"Get in his head, Matt. Tells us what you see."
"Why, so you guys can run off and be superheroes together? This is ridiculous. Peter, come on, he's a monster. I can't believe you actually trust him!"
Peter walked over to the guy laying on the floor, "you want something done?" He began to use the ability he had gained from Matt to try and see what was in the guys head. "Samuel's gonna show the world his powers. New York City, Central Park. Tonight."
"What does he mean show his power?"
"He's gonna open up the ground, kill them all, bury them."
"That's sounds like a plan I'd come up with back in the day."
"You say that like it wasn't yesterday."
"I'm not that person anymore, Matt. I know it's hard to understand."
"We got what we needed, let's go." Peter said grabbing Laney's hand.
"You're not going anywhere. You leave with Sylar, people are gonna end up dead, and that'll be on you. I can't let that happen."
"Let's go," Peter said grabbing Sylar as well.
"I'm not going anywhere."
"What are you talking about?"
"That would be me. See I can still push a thought. I told you, Peter, I'm not letting him out of here. Sylar killed your brother, Peter, he killed Nathan."
"I've repented."
"Oh, yeah, during the nightmare. Right, cause that lasted all of what, a couple hours?"
"Not to us, Matt. That was five years. Look, you heard what Samuel's planning. We can stop him."
I don't expect you to understand, what happened in that nightmare. And I don't expect you to forgive me."
"Good, cause that'll never happen."
"I've done so much wrong to so many people. Just give me a chance to redeem myself. Matt, I've been inside of your head so I have a pretty good idea of what it takes to be a good person. Go inside mine and you make the call."
Peter and Laney both nodded as Matt's eyes fell on them, his attention shot back to Sylar as he began reading his mind.
"You see it, right here."
"No, what I saw was inside your twisted mind. That wasn't your heart."
"I can prove it. Just give me a chance."
"You need to trust us, Matt."
"Fine, just get, get the hell out of my home."
"Let's go," Peter said stepping closer to Sylar and heading towards the door with him and Laney.
"So, Samuel. He can do what I can do?"
"Yeah, but on a much larger scale."
Laney's eyes shot to Peter as her voice trembled, "what if I… what if I turn out to be like Samuel?"
"You're not like him, Laney, all right? You're not, don't even think that."
She nodded at Peter's words as worried still filled her thoughts, what if she was like him? What if she would do what he was doing now in the future?
As they made their way through the carnival crowd, Peter stopped, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The dream."
"What?"
"All these people, they're all here, like lambs to slaughter."
"It's not gonna happen, Peter. Go find Samuel, I'll save Emma. Peter, your dream said I save her. Trust me." Sylar said walking in the opposite direction.
"You think we really can trust him?" Laney said her hand still firmly grasping Peter's.
"Yeah, we have to." Peter announced as they headed to the main stage, watching as Samuel came out from behind the curtain. As the ground began to rumble beneath their feet, Laney began to panic, "Peter."
"Do it, Laney. You can match this and force it back." Laney held out her hands and used her power to push against the ground steadying it against Samuel's power.
"Go, Peter. I don't know how long I can hold it."
Peter dove onto the stage tackling Samuel and tumbling with him into the back stage. The ground stopped shaking and Laney made her way to the back stage as well, hoping to help Peter. As Samuel and Peter stood up, Samuel used his ability to lift the ground as Peter countered.
"You seem to have found my power."
"It's funny how that works, huh?"
They battled against each other forcing the ground to wave like water, and the earth to shake beneath all of their feet.
"I'm not gonna let you hurt anyone now."
"Peter, you of all people should know they have to fear us! That's the only way they'll respect us. All you've ever wanted is respect. We both know what it's like to live in the shadow of a brother. Joseph destroyed my potential, kept me down. Just like your brother."
"My brother didn't let me down. He built me up."
Once again the ground stopped shaking but this time Samuel's power was unable to work as well as Peter's.
"So how does it feel to be ordinary?"
"Where did they all go?" Samuel said throwing a punch at Peter and being blocked. "They can't have all left. they're here somewhere."
Peter threw Samuel onto the stage and examined as he looked out over the empty carnival grounds. Laney walked out from behind the curtain noticing Noah, coming from behind a separate curtain, she placed a hand on Peter's shoulder and walked over to Noah, standing beside him, watching Samuel scream at the people that caused him to lose his power.
"You can't leave me. You cowards! Where are ya? Come back here! You're nothing without me!"
Samuel fell to his knees exhausted, as Peter made his way over to Noah and Laney.
"I got to say, I never liked carnivals."
"Yep."
Peter pulled Laney in to him and hugged her close, "Good job."
"Thanks. I try." She chuckled as she wiped her face, realizing the blood that had trickled from her nose. "Guess I over did it a bit."
"He was a lot stronger than you." Noah said handing her a handkerchief.
"Yeah, yeah. I held my own pretty well I thought." Laney joked as she wiped her nose and snuggled herself into Peter's arms, resting her head on his chest. They began to walk towards the direction Sylar had went earlier meeting Emma along the way. Peter and Laney hugged her and Laney looked at her bleeding fingers as Peter addressed her, "Are you okay?"
Emma nodded and gave Laney a painful look before shifting her hand to Peter's hand, "there was a man named Doyle. He made me play."
"Doyle."
"Your friend, took care of him."
Peter looked in the direction Emma had come from his face riddled with worried as the three walked over to where Doyle had kept Emma captive. They entered into the tent as Sylar plugged in an extension cord, lighting up a tied up Doyle, "What do you think? I like it."
Peter stared at Sylar with a small grin on his face as Laney stepped forward.
"Not to shabby, Sylar." She said patting him on the shoulder and turning to widen her eyes at Peter.
"Yeah, it's not bad." Peter said as Sylar and Emma began to walk out and Laney walked back over to him resting her head on Peter's shoulder.
"He could have scalped him, I think tying him up is an adequate way to taking care of him."
"Yep."
"It's a step in the right direction." Laney said she began to walk out of the tent with Peter close behind her catching up to Sylar and saying good-bye to Emma as she made her way home.
"It's amazing, Peter."
"What is?"
"When I saved her. I didn't have a thought for myself. I could have killed Doyle but I didn't. It felt…good. It felt right."
"Peter, look." Laney said grabbing his arm.
"What the hell does she think she's doing? She's gonna change everything."
"That's right. It's a brave new world."
They all watched with anticipation as Claire reached the summit of the ladder on the ferris wheel, she stood up tall and and took her leap falling to the ground with a thud. As she sat up and put her bones back in place the camera crews surrounded her, watching is amazement as Laney's smile beamed from ear to ear. Peter looked at her and pulled her in close kissing her forehead.
"This changes everything, doesn't it?"
"This changes more than everything."
Peter and Laney made their way to the bus stop, they climbed on the bus and found a seat at the back, Laney leaned her head on Peter's shoulder feeling exhausted as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder, pulling her closer to him. The bus pulled up outside of Peter's apartment building and Laney and Peter sleepily made their way out of the bus and up to the apartment, bouncing off of each other through the halls and giggling lightly as they did.
Peter unlocked the door and they both made their way into the empty apartment, as Laney made a rush for the bathroom as she always had. She got ready for bed and climbed in wiggling around under the blankets and watching Peter and he got ready for bed himself. He climbed in and wrapped his arms around Laney and pulling her back into him. She flipped over and ran her fingers through his hair.
"Look's like we have all the time in the world now."
He leaned in and kissed her lips, and traced his fingers along her face, "yeah, looks that way."
Laney snuggled into his chest and listened to his heartbeat, "Sylar was right, it is a brave new world. Thanks to Claire."
He chuckled and took a deep breath smelling the scent of her hair, "Yeah, he was right."
Their exhaustion set in as they laid there wrapped in each other anticipating what awaited them tomorrow.