Enemies to Lovers Chapter Three
It is only a moment before he understands. He feels a sudden energy bursting through him with unbelievably pain. He's felt this pain before.
"Elle," Gabriel breathes, unable to move.
"Hello Sylar," she says. She stops for a moment, just long enough for Gabriel to shoot a ball of lightning from his hand.
"My name is Gabriel," he growls. She just laughs when the energy hit her, as though it merely tickled.
Once again the pain is running through him, worse this time.
"My name is Gabriel," he repeats weakly.
"Gabriel doesn't exist," she tells him. "There is only Sylar. You have always been Sylar and you will always be Sylar." She laughs again.
They all know he can fight back. But even he knows he can't win. There are too many. Knox and Flint and Elle and some guy who could turn his whole body into metal and two others whose powers he has yet to see.
The pain stops once more and he uses his telekinesis to throw back the whole group.
"My name is Gabriel," he says once again.
But before he has the chance to do any more damage, one of the mystery men his him pinned to the ground with his hand around his throat.
Gabriel gasps for breath and struggles to remove the man's hand. Only a moment he is fighting before he suddenly can't move at all. His hands and feet are being pressed into the ground by an unseen force and he can't move.
"Nice try, Sylar," he says, standing up and turning his back on him. Try as he might, he still can't move and it's getting harder to breathe with every second.
"Well look what we have here," Elle says. "A new toy."
Gabriel's eyes are focused directly on the sky and he can't see who has arrived and part of him is sure he doesn't want to know.
"I can't believe you'd show up here," she says. "I mean, after all, you brother is over here dying so you can get away, and you just walk back into the line of fire."
Peter.
Sometimes Gabriel just wanted to hit him. He was a smart guy, but he was remarkably stupid at times. How could he come back?
"Let him go," Peter says calmly.
"And what are you going to do if I don't?" the mystery man asked. "You are powerless."
There is a pause and Gabriel can sense the grin on his brother's face. He realizes now that there is something else there as well, something different.
"You should have killed me when you had the chance."
A second later, Gabriel is able to move again and he is on his feet in a flash.