Enemies to Lovers – Chapter Seven
"Where are we?" Gabriel asked when the group appeared in a small apartment.
"Matt and Mohinder's place. Though it looks like neither of them has been here in a while."
"I'll say," Gabriel said, wiping his finger through the dust on the counter.
"I'm gonna call Matt," Peter said, searching for a phone and hoping that, if there was one, it was still connected.
Gabriel nodded and settled down onto the sofa next to the girl they'd just rescued.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm Marie," she said, settling the blankets into her lap and unwinding them to reveal a rather small baby. "And this is Noah."
"I'm Gabriel," he said.
"I know who you are, silly," she said, shaking her head with a smile as though it was the most obvious thing in the world who he was.
"How? How do you know me?"
"I know everything about you. I know that you were adopted and that you used to be Sylar. That's my gift."
"You gave Peter his powers back."
She nodded. "You needed saving. And he was the only one who could save you. He still is."
"What about him, what can he do?" Gabriel indicated toward the boy in her lap.
Marie made a weird face. "He's only six months old. He can't do anything but eat and cry and sleep and poop."
"Where are your parents?" he asked.
"They're gone," she said sadly, shaking her head.
"Gone where?"
"Your father killed them."
"Oh. I'm… I'm sorry."
"Not your fault," she said, stroking the thin hair on her brother's head.
"Hey," Peter said, exiting one of the bedrooms and setting a phone down on the kitchen counter. "I talked to Matt. He says we can crash here for a while." He headed toward the fridge and pulled it open.
"Anything good in there?" Gabriel asked.
"If you consider half a bottle of mustard and some sort of homemade salsa with something green growing in it to be good."
"I'll go shopping," Gabriel said. "You can hang out here with Marie and Noah."
"Noah?"
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