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Alice Shaw (goodnight_alice) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2009-04-29 16:39:00

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!open, alice shaw, angela petrelli, gabriel 'sylar' gray, noah bennet

WHO: Alice Shaw, Gabriel "Sylar" Gray (Nathan Petrelli), Angela Petrelli, and Noah Bennet
WHAT: Alice takes a tumble down the rabbit hole and winds up in Colligo.
WHEN: Mid-morning
WHERE: The Grand Library; Angela Petrelli's room
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In Progress

"... Banana?"

The teen's voice was a low, hoarse mumble as she slowly began to come to her senses. She wasn't sure quite what had happened so she stayed where she was, the cool, hard floor pressing into her cheek and her legs twisted at an odd angle that would have made her father complain about his back for days afterward.

Her father. Alice Shaw's breath hitched as the simple thought of the man was enough to make her memories slowly begin to resurface in her fog-filled mind. Doctor Suresh had slapped her and now... now her father was dead. Her mother too. And Angela, her beloved older sister...

Actually, Alice remembered with a start, Angela hadn't been there at the time. She'd snuck out with those boys and had told Alice to stay where she was. She'd said it would be safe. It was only after that fact that Doctor Suresh had wanted to talk to her, and everything had promptly fallen apart.

Then, as her memories returned, the small girl became aware of one thing with absolute startling clarity. The last thing she remembered was hiding under the porch in Coyote Sands as gunfire rang out around her. This, wherever this was, was most certainly not the middle of the Arizona desert and there wasn't a single gunshot to be heard.

That was all it took to make Alice raise her head and cautiously peer around. Fear knotted in her gut at her unfamiliar surroundings, the books barely registering as panic began to seep through her veins. "H-Hello?" she called out, hesitant at first then louder as she climbed to her feet. "Hello? Is anybody there?"

Her only answer, at least at first, was complete and utter silence. Just around the time Alice was starting to question if she'd possibly died and this was some version of Heaven she'd never been told about, she realized what the real story was. And very nearly began to weep at the thought.

She'd been caught. Somehow, someway, they'd found her under that porch and now she was stuck in some lab to be tested on for the rest of her life. Those boys had been right. The government wasn't trying to help them and, because she hadn't stayed like Angela had told her to do, she wasn't safe anymore either.

Blinking back sudden tears born from sheer terror, the girl wrapped her arms around her midsection and turned in a complete circle to look around. She was opening her mouth to call out yet again for someone when, without warning, she was lifted clear off her feet. A screech passed her lips and she kicked her feet wildly, arms twisting as best they could as the sudden statue come to life began carrying her toward the doors that she'd never even noticed until that very second.

A heartbeat later, Alice was sitting on the steps of the Grand Library with something dropped into her lap that was unlike anything she'd ever remembered seeing before. Curiosity warred with fear as she stared down at the unknown, electrical device and wondered if it was some kind of bomb or something. As she hesitantly began to turn it over in her hands, she paid little attention to the gathering of stormclouds overhead.

Not that she could have stopped them even if she'd noticed them. Alice may be the one responsible for the sudden, erradic change in the weather, but she was far from able to turn it on or off by force of will alone. Not when she was as confused and frightened as she was at this exact moment in time.

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unsureidentity
2009-05-01 12:23 am UTC (link)

It hit him like a load of bricks exactly what she was talking about. All of that digging, out in the desert. His mother had explained after the fact to him because he'd missed the majority of the stuff that had happened because he had been busy trying to make sure that Claire was all right with everything and trying to fix things with Peter. Her explanation provoked a heavy frown as he peered at the ground at they walked, nodding slowly. If he had known, if he had had any idea that something like this had happened before, what the end result would have been, he was sure that he would have never talked to the government.

"It's easier to lure people with honey than it is with poison," He said quietly, a softness in his voice as he looked down at her, reaching out slowly to wipe a tear off of her cheek. "The government has a habit of lying to the people, Alice. Whenever they think that they know what's better for them than they do. But the truth is that they hardly ever understand what is really best. And they certainly never understand things that they couldn't possibly know what are like."

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goodnight_alice
2009-05-01 12:36 am UTC (link)

"They killed my parents," she stated. Her voice was an odd combination of anger and sadness, yet the words were spoken flatly. It was clear she had zero intentions of trying to understand why the government had done what they'd done. All she knew was that they'd lied and, because of that, her family was dead.

"I don't know what happened to my sister. I don't know if I'll see her again. She said she'd be right back but if she did show up they would have just shot her too." She stopped there, nausea welling up inside of her at the thought. She couldn't lose everyone. She just couldn't. Even if she was stuck in this place and might never know the fate of her sister, she couldn't think about that fate having been the same as their parents.

Thunder rumbled once again in the background, a wind coming seemingly out of nowhere that caused her skirt to billow lightly around her legs. "We didn't do anything wrong," she said when she trusted herself to speak again. "We never hurt anyone. My parents were good people and my sister was worried about the prom and they treated us like we were some kind of... communists!"

There was a large flash of lightning that struck the ground just thirty or so yards ahead of them. Alice flinched and quickly squeezed her eyes shut, trying to regain control of her emotions again. It took a few moments but finally the storm seemed to dissipate. By the time she'd re-opened her eyes, the skies weren't quite back to their previous brilliant blue but the clouds were starting to disappear.

"I hate them," she finally said, glaring at the ground as though it were to blame for all of this. "I know I shouldn't. Hating is wrong and isn't a healthy way to handle situations, but I do. I hate them for what they did."

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unsureidentity
2009-05-01 12:45 am UTC (link)

Nathan's eyes went wide at the strike of lightening, staring at where it landed before looking down at Alice and sighing, pushing a heavy focus into himself to try and keep it controlled as he took a step forward, and another, hovering just a few inches off of the ground. Oddly, he didn't feel as though he might actually be able to push himself higher than that. But that didn't matter right now.

"Some things change," He said as he looked down at her. "It takes time, but things change," He said before lowering himself back down to the ground in front of her and sighing as he raised a hand and pushed it nervously through his hair. He still wasn't used using his ability in front of strangers. Hell, he hardly ever used it around people that he knew, unless it was necessary. But this was a situation that it needed to be displayed. She had to know that she wasn't alone here.

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goodnight_alice
2009-05-01 12:52 am UTC (link)

Alice hadn't really been sure how Nathan might react once he figured out that she was the one who was definitely responsible for the storms. She had thought he might be frightened, or possibly angry. Maybe he wouldn't even believe it was her who was doing it. Whatever might have crossed her mind at his reaction, though, him displaying his own ability was not it.

"You... can fly?" she whispered, her eyes wide as she peered up at him. For a moment, she simply stared at him in shock, her own upset temporarily forgotten in the face of this new, startling news. As her brain slowly began to assimilate it, however, for the first time in a very long time, Alice felt hope stir within her.

He was a Senator for the United States. A member of their own government. And he could fly. If that didn't say something about the future and what it might hold she didn't know what would. A member of Congress had an ability. Clearly, they had come leaps and bounds since the days of rounding everyone up and forcing them into the middle of the desert to be slaughtered like cattle.

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unsureidentity
2009-05-01 01:02 am UTC (link)

"My whole family has abilities," Nathan said as he settled a hand on her shoulder with a soft smile. "My father could take the abilities of others. My brother can mimic them. My mother has dreams that tell her the future," He said as they started walking back towards the housing complex. It had to be something that was hard to get her head wrapped around, the government going from rounding people up to electing one of them, but he thought it was better to just leave out the negative parts of the story, give her the hope that she needed.

Things were going to get better now that things had been smoothed over, the Company had been re-established, and everything that he had almost destroyed had been returned to how they had been.

"And yes, I can fly," Nathan said with a slightly sheepish grin. "I'm going to take a stab in the dark here. You can control the weather?"

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goodnight_alice
2009-05-01 01:11 am UTC (link)

My mother has dreams that tell her the future.

The words washed over Alice like a bucket of cold water, causing her breath to catch in her throat and her eyes to widen. Distantly, she heard Nathan admit to his own ability and ask about hers. Slowly, she nodded her head in agreement. However, when she tried to speak, she found her throat was too dry to even attempt it.

Finally she managed it, although her voice came out little more than a raspy whisper. "My sister used to have dreams that told her things. She always said they were confusing and sometimes hard to understand, but she definitely saw the future." She blinked, peering up at Nathan as though she was seeing him for the first time. "What... what's your mother's name?"

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unsureidentity
2009-05-01 01:17 am UTC (link)

Nathan looked down at Alice with a quiet confusion before what she said rocked his memories. They had gone to Coyote Sands to find his mother's sister, to find Alice, but... It couldn't be. It had to be just some strange coincidence. But still... There was no reason for him to try and tell her that it would be better for his mother to talk to her about this. It would be easier to make sure whether or not they were actually on the right track before anything else was brought into the mix.

"Angela," He said, blinking at Alice for a moment, waiting to see her reaction. "Angela Petrelli. I can't say that I know her maiden name. We never talked about her family. It was always just Pop's side."

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goodnight_alice
2009-05-01 01:27 am UTC (link)

"Shaw," Alice answered simply. "Her maiden name was Shaw. Angela Shaw." She had a good idea why they never spoke of her family, too, considering as far as Angela was concerned she likely had no family left. After all, their parents were dead and as for Alice... well, Alice could only assume that Angela must have believed her to have died in the shootout as well. Although how she could think that without there being a body was a mystery, but then again, this was all one giant, illogical mess now wasn't it? So it stood to reason that there would be other things that couldn't simply be explained away.

"It's her," she stated firmly, knowing it as well as she knew her own name. "Your mother is my sister. They have the same name, the same ability... it's her." She stopped there, trying to calm herself lest she jump too far ahead in her conclusions. Instead she simply stared up at Nathan for a full moment, trying desperately to find some glimpse of her beloved sister in his features.

"Is... is she here?" she finally asked, almost afraid to hear the answer. A 'no', she thought, might very well be more than she could take.

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unsureidentity
2009-05-01 02:04 am UTC (link)

"She's here," Nathan said, a very delicate smile gracing his features as he nodded towards the buildings that they were now in sight of. "She's actually waiting in there for me to get back. I said I'd go out, see if I could figure out whether there was anything else distinguishing about this place. I guess it's a good thing that I did," He said, chuckling as he looked down at Alice.

His aunt was barely older than his sons. He knew that it was often a situation that people truly ended up in, but this was simply baffling. It wasn't at all like those situations whatsoever. And it just begged the label: "Only in the Petrelli family."

"So," He said, offering her a wider grin. "Think we should go and see if we can surprise Ma or what?"

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goodnight_alice
2009-05-01 02:15 am UTC (link)

Several emotions assaulted Alice all at once following his answer. The first was relief that he hadn't said his mother wasn't here. The second was doubt. What if she was wrong and this wasn't her Angela? Followed soon after that came nervousness at meeting a sister (provided she was her sister, of course) that she hadn't seen in what, to Angela, would seem like a very long time.

Finally, fear settled over her. Fear that she was wrong and would be heartbroken if that were the case. Fear that Angela really would be her sister but wouldn't want anything to do with her, or would be angry with her for not staying in Coyote Sands. It was irrational, of course, to think such a thing but fear was rarely rational and this was no exception.

After a few seconds of warring with herself, debating on simply saying no and asking to instead be shown to her own room, Alice finally gave a wordless nod. A soft clearing of her throat and she answered him out loud in a voice that sounded much more certain than she really felt.

"Definitely. It isn't often someone gets to surprise her anyway. At least, I never managed it all that well," she answered, the fear fading as she smiled up at her... nephew. That, she decided, was going to take some getting used to.

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unsureidentity
2009-05-01 08:54 am UTC (link)

Nathan chuckled, soft and amused despite the fact that his mind was currently at war with itself trying to realign all of the memories jumbled in his head. Stress. Stress was what it was. That was the only explanation that he could come up with for the fact that his most recent memories seemed to be meshed into an insane ball of twinge that he had to unravel in order to get any any of them. And even then, they weren't exactly crystal clear.

But no matter. Right now, his own memories would settle themselves. There was someone else to worry about at the moment.

"She's not an easy person to surprise, that's for sure," Nathan said with a laugh. He remembered when he and Pete were younger, especially when Peter was little, and he was still hemming around innocence, and they would spend next to forever on a present for her birthday or Mother's Day. She always seemed to know exactly what they had planned.

But she always put up a fair show of being surprised. And she was always honestly delighted.

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goodnight_alice
2009-05-01 02:28 pm UTC (link)

Alice nodded in agreement, her hopes rising a little higher as yet another thing his mother and her sister had in common became known. It was small, nearly inconsequential, but to her it was an important piece to a puzzle that would have likely become a major focus for her had she been forced to put it all together herself.

Peering up at the building she assumed they were to be housed in, if the signs that labeled it as the housing district were to be believed, the girl swallowed audibly. The hand that she'd taken Nathan's offered arm with tightened ever so slightly against the muscles beneath her fingers. Her expression was wary, eyes filled with uncertainty, as she peered slowly up at the man.

"What if she doesn't want to see me?" she asked. She hated how scared she sounded, how small her voice came out. She couldn't help it though. Now that they were almost there, every doubt she'd tried to ignore came rushing back in full force.

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unsureidentity
2009-05-02 03:39 pm UTC (link)

"I wouldn't worry about that," He said, smiling down at her as he felt a soft prick of fear tingling in his gut. That wasn't right. That simply was off. Why was he scared? Ma would be ecstatic even if she would be more confused than he was at the moment. There was no reason to be afraid.

"She'll be happy to see you. I'm sure of it," Nathan said as he lead her to the first room on the first floor in the first building, knocking on the door. "Ma? You in?"

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