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Tweak says, "SHIA SURPRISE!"

unsureidentity (unsureidentity) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2009-05-30 22:53:00

Entry tags:

!closed, #complete, claire winchester, gabriel 'sylar' gray

WHO: Gabriel "Sylar" Gray & Claire Bennet
WHAT: Gabriel doesn't feel completely comfortable with only a half understanding of himself and his relationships to others. Claire, for some reason he doesn't understand, is trying to help.
WHERE: Gabriel & Peter's apartment
WHEN:
RATING: PG
STATUS: In Progress

Gabriel had at least some idea who he was now. He had a name, an origin, a few very scant memories flittering across the forefront of his mind, but other than that, all understanding of his existence was scarce. He had a jumble of memories for different sources that made it next to impossible to pick out which ones were important to him. It was only a few that created an intense gut reaction that he was positive that they were his own. That, and a lingering fixation on snowglobes that he had no basis for but still couldn't shake from his mind.

He'd spent most of the day in his room. He was grateful that the apartments had changed. It was going to be difficult enough staying with Peter however long they were going to tolerate this arrangement like this. He wasn't sure how he could have done it if they had remained in one room.

Staring at the far wall, his head leaning back against the wall behind his bed, legs crossed over each other, stretched out on the bed, Gabriel was zoned, probing his own mind to try and sort things out, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make any headway. And the frustration was only leading to a pile of accidentally disintegrated objects whose particle dust littered the floor.

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x_clairebear_x
2009-06-17 12:22 am UTC (link)

He was hugging her. The man with the face of the killer that had made her life hell was hugging her. And Claire, for all of her uncertainty about him and everything he'd said since she'd arrived in his room, didn't mind it one little bit. In fact, she actually appreciated the gesture in a way. Yes, it was another startling reminder of just how different he was from Sylar, which didn't help her merge the two together in her mind, but that small, simple act of true humanity made her all but certain that she was doing the right thing with her decision to help him rather than cast him to the proverbial wolves like everyone else.

Her smile was a gentle, sincere one as she peered up at him. "You're welcome," she said, "but no thanks are necessary. Really. What they did to you was wrong. It's the least I can do, trying to make it right again somehow." And okay, so Claire would admit to herself that she hadn't exactly started out with those noble of intentions. She had started out wanting to kill him, then deciding that if she could make sure Gabriel stayed put that she really would be rid of Sylar forever. But now that she'd spoken with him, and gotten to know him a bit, she had to admit that the thought of just leaving him so broken to figure it all out and fend for himself just felt wrong. Possibly the same, if not worse, as any of the horrible things that Sylar himself had ever done.

Not wanting to dwell on her own guilt for her initial motives, Claire added, "And if you don't want to be that, I say we figure out some sort of way to give you back all of your memories and everything without letting the end result be something you don't want."

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