WHO: Claire Bennet (future), Angela Petrelli WHERE: the Hyperion WHEN: Friday, October 21; coinciding with this & this WHAT: Claire finds the not-so-secret surprise Angela left her. RATING: TBD STATUS: thread; in-progress
It was the bark that caught Claire's attention first when she opened the door to her room, as a bark wasn't something she was used to being greeted with, not in a number of years. That it was a familiar-sounding bark, followed by the sight of a reasonably familiar-looking dog, caused Claire's eyes to round out in surprise.
"Mr Muggles?!"
She scooped the dog up as it bounced off the bed and ran to her, bringing it nose to nose to look at it. She realized it wasn't Mr Muggles when she did – this dog was clearly younger, his coloring was just a bit different – but the drop from that initial expectation was soothed by the feeling that came from puppy kisses. She had a dog. In the last few days, she hadn't set out to get any pets, but she couldn't deny that this filled one of those small holes that had been left as her life broke apart piece by piece in the future she came from, and was fixed piece by piece in this place.
She had someone to thank. The question was, who? The note she found with relatively little inspection of her room told her what she had been nearly certain of, but even then, Claire was filled with some disbelief. Her grandmother had actually gotten her a dog. A dog who looked like Mr Muggles! These people, her family, who hadn't been there for years and were now were doing familyish things like this and it was equal parts confusing and elating.
The first thing she did was tell the world, because her excitement was just that great. The second thing she was was dart out of her room, still holding her new dog, to find Angela.