WHO: Claire Bennet (future), Toby Williams, Jareth, with a brief appearance by War; later, Noah Bennet and Peter Petrelli (future versions) WHERE: the Hyperion, briefly; various places in L.A. WHEN: Wednesday, September 28; late afternoon WHAT: An unexpected first glimpse of the Goblin King for Toby. RATING: High PG-13 for violence and death STATUS: thread; in-progress
Claire had been watching Toby slumped on a sofa in the lobby with a Game Boy for the past hour after the hour before had been a futile attempt to draw him out. Oh, he responded to her jokes, but not with his normal enthusiasm, and he seemed perfectly content to stay right where he was, rather than go play with Simon and Monty like he did at this point of the day or, and she suspected that was the reason he was out here, have time with Sarah.
She did know how to distract little brothers, though, and that seemed like exactly what he needed for a few hours. When Noah came to offer to cover the front desk so she could head out of the hotel on her errands, she took him up on the offer easily enough, let him know what she was planning so people would know where Toby was, and walked over to the sofa, grabbed Toby's wrist and tugged.