Girl Time
Claire woke up and looked around. She didn't know where she was for a split second before remembering what had happened. She was being held prisoner by Spike and Drusilla. She had to get out of there. She run up the stair and tried to open the door. It wouldn't open. 'Damn, it's locked' she thought.
She tried to force it open but it was to strong. Finally she sat back on her bed and tried to think of a way out. She looked at her little bathroom and realised she hadn't showered in at least 3 days. Deciding it was better than sitting around doing nothing she took a shower.
To her surprise it was not cold or dirty. Instead it was warm and oddly comforting. She thought of her family and kicked herself for lying to them. She had arranged it so that it would take them month to realise she wasn't actually in college and by the time they find her then her Dad will probably try and take on Sy;ar and Elle single handed. With all of his new power he won't stand a chance.
She turned the shower off. The room was full of steam so she felt around for a towel. She felt one and heard a voice say "Here you go cheerleader". She screamed and said "Elle what the Hell are you doing" before covering herself. "Don't be embarassed if you have something i've never seen before i'll zap it" she said teasing her.
Claire was getting angry being played with by a pair of psychos. "I got to admit, you got a hot body, I guess cheerleading and immortality would do that for you" she said before zapping Claire on the nose. "Will you get out while I get changed" she screamed.
"Why are you down here anyway" Claire asked through the door. "Well Gabriel's out for a few hours and he suggested you and I have some Girl Time, only problem is i've never had girl time before so i don't know what to do" she said.
Claire came out fully dressed and said "Wait you're telling me you've never been to a slumber party?". "Nope, I was to busy catching super powered criminal or being experimented on" she said. "Did you even have friends" she asked. "Nope, the closest thing i had to friends were the doctor at the Company" she said.
Claire couldn't help feel sorry for Elle, she never had time with friends. "Well, back in high school, me and the other cheerleaders would do are hair and play games and talk about boys and stuff like that" Claire said. "I could do that" she said smiling happily.
For the next couple of hour Claire and Elle had a sort of day time slumber party. They did each other nails and hair. Elle had her painted electric blue while Claire had her's done and different colour each making and rainbow of her fingernails. After that they talked about thing like family.
"What's up with you and your dad Claire do you hate him or love him or what" Elle asked. "I don't hate him, it's just i'm sick of all his lies" Claire said. Elle rolled her eyes and said "If you asked me you don't appreshiate what you have". "What do you mean" Claire said.
"Well let me ask you this, would you rather have a mother and father who love absolutely but lie to you to protect you from a world full of people like Arthur Petrilli or Knox, or would you want a father who took away your childhood to experiment on you and use you as his own personal attack dog or a mother who always made you feel like you were never good enough, never important enough, never special enough" she said.
This got Claire thinking, maybe Elle was right, despite everything her father had done it was done out of love, maybe he wasn't as bad as she thought. "Were your parent like that" she asked.
"My dad was I don't know what my mom was like, I can't remember her, the mother i was talking about, well its not my place to tell you about" she said. Claire deduced she was talking about Sylar mother. 'Wow no wonder these two are so messed up, I mean if i got rised like them I'd probably be as messed up as them' she thought.
To her surprise shew found herself feeling sorry for the two of them, even though it didn't excuse everything they had doe to her she felt her hatred for them lessen.
After that they decided to play truth or dare. "Truth" Elle said. "How did Gabriel Gray become Sylar" Claire asked as she was curious as to how a watchmaker from New York became the super powered serial killing thorn in her side. Elle face changed expression and Claire recognised it as guilt and just before she could speak a voice interupted them.
"Well you see, Gabriel Gray was just an ordinary watchmaker from New York who always wanted to be special, and one day her was approach by Chandra Suresh, who told him he was special, how when his power proved to be passive he contacted a man named Brian Davis who had Telekinesis, he didn't want it and I did so, i killed and took his power, after that I felt so much guilt that I tried to kill myself until this little angel save me" he said refering to Elle as Gabriel came down the stair to join them
"After that the Company wanted to find out his secrets so they sent me and your Dad to spy on him, and we began a relationship and i started to fall in love with him, your father insisted we complete the mission so I introduced him to another special with the power of Kinetic Projection and Gabriel snapped and became Sylar and i was left with the guilt of creating him and losing the man i loved" Elle finished.
"That is until, Old man Petrilli brought us back together, one of two good things he did for us" Gabriel said beginnig to kiss Elle. Claire was speechless, her father had never told her about this, all of it, all the victims, Jackie, Isaac, Ted, they could still be alive if her father hadn't intervened.
"You know when I said you should have some girl time, i was expecting pillow fights and truth or dare not telling my origin story" he said. "We actuall are playing truth or dare and it's Claire's turn" Elle said. "Dare" Claire said without thinking.
"I dare you to kiss Elle on the mouth for five second" Gabriel said. "No way" Claire said. "Come on Claire, isn't this what girl do in colleg, experiment" Elle said moving closer to her. "Not a chance in hell, no offense Elle" she said.
"What's the matter Claire, chicken" Gabriel said. "Oh I'll show you chicken, come here" she said pulling Elle into a kiss. To the surprise of both Ele and Claire they actually like it. Elle's lips were warm and soft and tasted like peach. Her electrical abilty tickled Claire as their lips moved around. Claire lips to Elle were welcoming and divene and tasted liek strawberries.
The kiss lasted for a lot longer then five second, it was actually bordering on making out. Finally when they pull apart Elle said breathless "That was intense". The only person who made her feel that way was Gabriel. Claire felt light headed and decided to have some fun with Gabriel.
Looking at him she was no longer seeing that ruthless killer he was, instead she saw the a man trying to make up for what he had done in the past. "Ok Gabriel, truth or dare" Claire said. "Dare" said. "I dare you to kiss me"she said.
He turned to Elle and said "May I". "I had the pleasure you should too" she said. With that he began to kiss Claire and it was amazing. Despite the age difference it felt naturally, right. Claire remembered kissing West, but that was nothing to this, Gabriel was powerful, he practically a god yet he was gentle and Claire could sense the kind soul that was buried deep inside of him. As for Gabriel, in the moment he kissed Claire the chaos within his mind was made quiet and tequail, the only time it was like that was when he was with Elle.
After the kiss ended Gabriel said "Truth or Dare, Claire". "Truth"she said. "Why did you come here" he asked. "I came because I wanted revenge for all you've done to me, yet now that i know the truth about you two, i don't know what i want"
After that they went up stair and had dinner. Claire did not try and run away this time and she eat it without complaint and even joined in on the conversation. After dinner Gabriel didn't bring her to the basemint instead he brought her upstair into a spare bedroom and said "You can stay in the guest room tonight"
"Thank you Gabriel" She said. "Claire, we're deeply sorry for everything we did to you and your family, did Peter deliver my message" he said. "Yes he did and I didn't believe him" she said. "What about now" he asked. "I believe him know"she said. "I know we have a lot to make up for but, while your here with us we'll try and right some of those wrongs" he said and Claire could see he was being sincere.
Later that night while Gabriel and Elle were asleep Claire snuck downstair and was about to leave but just couldn't bring herself to leave. 'Maybe Peter was right, maybe there is good in them' she thought. 'Maybe I should stay and try and build some bridges' she thought and finally decided to go back to bed and see where this goes.