The wind had dropped and the rain had replaced it, puddles formed on the ground, the streetlights reflected in the shimmering pools, Kayla had watched them for the last hour waiting quietly for the clock to chime so she could close up. Teddy would have been a welcome as she swept the already clean floor gazing out through the large glass panel in to the street that seemed so empty now that the lights were out in the café across the road. Kayla paused in her cleaning and looked at the clock on the wall, it wasn't yet midnight, yet the café was closed? The Redpath's never closed this early, they normally became the next stop for the lost soles that were turfed from Teddy's and home was not an option. She couldn't recall them saying that they were going away anywhere, had the lights been on when she had come in to work? She couldn't remember. Her head had been a mess, what with Gabriel turning up like that.

Behind her the bar clock struck twelve. She sighed and propped the broom back against the bar. Taking of her apron she folded it and placed it on the polished wooden surface. There was something gratifying about doing things by hand, she could use her abilities but why bother.

She walked to the door and flicked out the lights, sliding out the door she checked the street to make sure that she was alone.

Something moved in the shadows at the far end of the street, but she hadn't seen, she had heard it.

"What the heck?" she muttered rubbing at her ear. She looked at the far end of the street she could see it now a dog darted out from the parked cars. How had she heard that? Was that one of Gabriel's abilities? The ability to hear really well? He had killed someone for that? She checked her watch; it had been over five hours since she had seen him? More and more now this would happen, the abilities stayed, once over they wouldn't last much longer than a few minuets after the person left.

Somewhere in the distance a siren sounded, she winced with pain, and it was as if it had gone off right next to her.

"Hurts like a bitch right?"

She looked up from where she had her head in her hands. Gabriel was watching her from the shadows; he stepped in to the light. His sneakers made no sound as he walked towards her his jeans soaking up the water that pored from the sky above. He had his long black coat on from earlier but now it flapped open to show the shirt and vest underneath it, the rain didn't seam to bother him neither did the noise. It was as if a full percussion was sounding off in her head, the sound of the rain hitting the floor echoed through her.

"How the heck can you stand this!"

He laughed, it was deep and it only added to the pain.

"You learn to deal with it…" he smiled at her taking her hands away from her head, her skin felt electric under his touch. "You have a understanding of how things work it wont take you long."

Even as he said it the world became quieter.

"You killed someone for that power?" she asked him as she hunched herself up against the rain that was making it's way down her back, tugging her hand from his grip. His face softened. And he smiled again.

"In my defence, I didn't realise how pointless it really was at the time, although I have found that it can come in useful."

She smirked at him.

"It can, it gave me a lead on Peter Petrelli,"

"What is it with that guy?"

"I hate him"

"Why because he can do what you can do?" Kayla said starting across the street, she had fully intended to cast a sly comment back across her shoulder as she rounded the corner but Gabriel caught up.

"No, he can do what you can do, only problem is he's such a good guy, all his 'save the cheerleader save the world stuff' bit ironic as he was saving the world from himself…"

Kayla stopped and Gabriel nearly walked in to her.

"What? Did Mr Goody two shoes and his gang of misfits fail to mention that it was Peter that nearly killed us all?"

Kayla looked at him, they had told her a lot of things; they had told her that the man that was on front of her was a cold-blooded killer. Yet he seamed so normal, just a little more confident than he used to be, and maybe he didn't look like he got dressed in the dark anymore…

"How?" She found herself asking.

The smile returned to Gabriel's face. "First time around he did this…" he held his hand out in front of him it lit the street and caused little puffs of steam to rise from the glow as the rain hit it.

"He made his hand glow?"

"He can't control it, he became an atomic bomb. You should have seen it… have to admit though it would have tasted a lot sweeter if I didn't have a lump of steal sticking out of my side."

Kayla looked at him, what was he on about? Was he as crazy as Hiro liked to make out? Gabriel seamed to be in control of his power; he seamed almost normal. Well as normal as a man talking about being a walking atom bomb could be.

"What happened to your side?"

"Mr Time and Space decided to make me in to a human pincushion." He mimed being stabbed.

"Hiro?"

"Oh is that what he's called, Ironic I would call it, someone called Hiro could be part of something so dark and disturbing as what Petrelli has in store."

Kayla stopped.

"As dark and disturbing as…"

"Petrelli… you look shocked." He said tipping his head to the side and surveying her. She could feel him taking in the details of her face, reading her expressions; she could feel his eyes resting on her lips.

"All I'm saying Mackayla, (she noted his use of her full name) I may be a killer, but I'm not evil, He's a villain playing at heroes. It's only a matter of time before he slips, I slip I hurt myself, he slips and we all die."

Kayla looked him in the eyes, the streetlight flickered, she wasn't sure if that was down to her or Gabriel, she could feel the words unspoken between the two of them.

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because I don't want to have to kill you because you made the wrong decision."

The lamp above them flickered out.

"You have been listening in at doors?" she said scanning the street, she noticed that Gabriel was doing the same, if she hadn't turned out the light and he hadn't they weren't alone. Again he grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her deeper in to the shadows.

"How often do they follow you?" he whispered in to her ear as he held her close to him in the shadows.

"This would be the first time." She tried not to shudder as his warm breath landed on her neck, she could use her abilities to protect herself, he knew that but yet he seamed weary of this outside threat.

His fingers played out a rhythm on her wrist, he was nervous he didn't know what was going to happen next and it scared him. At the end of the street a pale blue light glowed, whomever it was following had there own power source.

"Well, well, well." Gabriel sneered quietly, "if it isn't the national grid." His hand stopped twitching out a rhythm and changed to gently stroking the skin that lay beneath the fingers. "You might want to mimic her, you will never pay an electric bill again."

"That glow?"

"She's an interesting one that's for sure, another one of Petrelli's projects." He dropped Kayla's wrist and walked out in to the street. It would have been highly affective it wasn't for the waterlogged coat dragging the ground.

"Sylar."

"Tell me why I shouldn't kill you." The blond stopped in her tracks as Gabriel addressed her.

"You can't, you're broken, the company did something to you…" she stuttered.

A grin spread across Gabriel's face. Kayla stepped slightly forwards. Gabriel was right she could feel the power this girl had, she could use that… she felt a tingle in her fingers it spread like pins and needles till there was a low buzzing… then cracks as a tiny lightning bolt shot from finger to finger. She looked down at her hands, She hadn't meant to do it, but yet she had, she could see the woman flagging.

"Why are you following us?" he said not advancing on her in body only in voice.

"I…"

"Did Peter send you?" Kayla found herself asking. The blond girl nodded. Kayla walked out of the shadows and ignited the street lamp behind them all. "What's your name?" She said quietly.

The blond girl looked from Kayla to Gabriel and then back again. "Elle."

"We'll Elle I do believe that my friend asked you a question?" She could feel Gabriel's eyes on her again; Elle watched her hand, it still continued to crackle with electricity.

"He wants to know if the virus antidote worked on you." Elle said nodding at Gabriel. "He figured that you would come looking for her." She stressed the last word as she nodded back at Kayla. Kayla knew straight away that that was the wrong thing for her to have said, as did Elle. She slowly started backing off. But it was to late; Kayla saw the body stiffen a second before Elle was thrown in to a Dumpster.

Kayla ducked just in time as a jet of electricity flashed across the top of her head.

"Kayla stay out the way." Gabriel said as he ducked the shot and pulled her behind him, he pulled the large metal ladder from the escape and threw it in the direction of the blond with a flick of the finger.

She recoiled winded but two seconds later she was on her feet and hit Gabriel in the chest with another bolt. She advanced on his riving body as he fell to the floor.

"So it did work did it? Obviously not as well as Mohinder thought it would, won't Peter be happy when I take him home a Sylar." A vicious grin crossed the blondes' face; it was removed quite fast as Kayla's fist connected with it.

"Get the hell away from him." She growled. As Elle cradled her face, her other hand coming up to attack Kayla. "So what are you his new toy? He shot the last one."

Under her skin Kayla felt the electricity bubbling and as she watched she could see Elle fail. "Tell Peter to leave me alone, I don't want to join up to some Circus side show."

"You're making a big mistake." Elle said backing off.

"Oh shut up little girl." Said Kayla hitting Elle with a blast of her own medicine, Elle shrieked with the pain. "Take the message from me…you didn't see Sylar, he wasn't here." Elle glared at her.

"Go before I change my mind and shoot the messenger." Elle clambered to her feet and started running looking back over her shoulder as she went as soon as she disappeared around the corner Kayla turned to Gabriel, he was cradling his side.

"You ok." Kayla said quietly squatting down at his side.

"I could have taken her." He said wincing.

"Yeah I saw all the 'taking' you were doing." She helped him to his feet. " I think we need a long talk don't you?"

"What about." He said blankly.

"About everything?"

"There isn't anything to talk about."

Kayla raised an eyebrow but dropped the subject till they had travelled the block to her flat; they climbed the stairs slowly Gabriel struggling under what she suspected was an open wound.

"What antidote was she on about? What's wrong with you Gabe?" Kayla said when they reached her landing.

"It was a virus…after Petrelli went a-bomb on us and future boy stabbed me someone injected me with a virus…" Kayla gasped, but Gabriel continued. "They patched me up aright saved my life but they gave me a virus that took away my abilities...all of them." They paused as Kayla pushed her door open. Angel mewed a hello as they made there way in and she lowered Gabriel on to the sofa.

"But you have your ability's back now right?" she said as she helped him out of his coat and took it to the kitchen. She found her first aid kit in the kitchen cupboard, boiled some water with a flick of her wrist then transferred it in to a bowl and headed back to the sofa where Gabriel was sitting undoing his shirt to look at the damage. He flicked the lamp on.

"I have them back but no where as strong as they were." He said taking the kit from Kayla as she sat on the small coffee table. Angel looked at Gabriel for a few seconds before jumping across from the table to the sofa.

Kayla found herself watching as Gabriel slowly pealed away the bandage from his wound so that it oozed red. How could Hiro do that? He seamed to gentile. She realised she was staring and felt herself going slowly red.

"So this virus?"

"It's called the shanty virus, Dr Suresh was kind enough to give me the antidote as way of an apology for trying to foolishly betray me."

"Dr Suresh? As in…the genealogist? Isn't he dead?"

Somehow Kayla managed to pull her eyes away from the wound to Gabriel's face.

"Yes he's dead, of that I'm sure, seeing as I was there. Dr Mohinder Suresh is his son; I have a lot to be thankful for to that family. They made me what I am."

"A cold blooded killer?" Kayla said leaning in to use the water to clean the wound. Her fingers trembled slightly as she brushed the skin.

She felt Gabriel's breath right next to her ear.

"No, special…just like you."

His hand made its way to her wrist again; he began gently rubbing his fingers along it. "I don't know why you're scared of me, if I was going to hurt you, you would be dead by now."

She turned to look at him.

"I'm not scared of you, I'm scared of me." He looked at her his head tipped on the side in that thoughtful way that she had seen a few times in the short hours that he had come hurtling back in to her life.

"I was impressed." He said tracing her wrist down to her hand and across the fingers. She felt a shot of something almost electric shoot up her arm. She found herself staring in to his eyes.

"What have you got me in to?"

"Evolution." He smiled at her.

"What did she mean, that girl…who was the other one?"

"Trust me if you had been there you would have shot the bitch as well." Breaking the contact with Kayla's skin almost broke the trance that she felt herself in. However there was something holding her to him, something more than intrigue. "You killed her? Did you, you know…"

The smirk danced on his lips again.

"Did I what? Steal her ability's or sleep with her?"

Kayla was ashamed of herself but knew she had meant both questions, she had felt something as strong as jealousy take hold of her as soon as 'another woman' had been mentioned.

"I needed her, I needed to get back here and she was a ride and an excuse to get to Suresh. I will admit that I would have loved that juicy ability but little miss electric turned up and spoiled everything."

Kayla watched him as he sat up and positioned a leg either side of hers. He took both of her hands in his own and spoke straight to her.

She could feel the tingling again, this time it coursed through her body, this man in front of her could not be her Gabriel, he was so different, yet there was something familiar and right about him, as if she was meant to be here with him. She braved looking up in to his face.

"I did come here to kill you tonight. You knew that when I walked through the door, I didn't know that it was you until I got here. But you have nothing to worry about, and you know deep down that you don't, you knew as soon as you didn't kill me, because I know you easily could."

Kayla opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out.

"You stepped in to save me tonight, why?" he asked pulling her silently closer.

"Because it was what I had to do." And Kayla knew she was telling the truth even if she wasn't sure where the words came from.

"And me finding you was what I had to do." He stroked her face. " I should go."

"No." she said quietly pulling her hands free from his grip. "Stay, your hurt and they will be looking for you, if they turn up I want to help you."

"If you're sure."

"Gabe, the sofa is all yours." She smiled.

"Sofa? But…"

"I'm sorry the only man that sleeps next to me is my Angel."