sirenspull | 005: Video

[ The NV flickers on for the first time to--what is that?--bubbles and bleak murky water. Green and grey, and a flash of light high above. There's wild splashing, white water, and a bleary shot of the city in the far distance.

The water swallows up the NV, and then over the next minute or so everything is just dark. Bleak and dark and wet.

And then the splashing starts again. The NV goes off in all the activity.

An hour and a half later, it comes back on, and a sand smeared, wet, bedraggled Sylar is leant over the NV, shivering--the water is subzero. There's seaweed in his hair, and his eyes are blazing gold, as though on fire. He's considering exploding just to teach Lucifer a lesson he'll not forget. ]

I have a wonderful idea. [ His voice is harsh, as though he's spent the last few hours choking saltwater, which would be accurate. ] The next time you decide that something is yours, write your goddamned name on it.

[ OOC: Sylar's replies will come a couple of hours later, as in the meantime he'll be stopped from exploding the city. He doesn't appreciate getting dumped in the ocean much, not really. Also shh it's totally Wednesday here. ]

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Perhaps you're right - though I will confess, I may still take the liberty of concluding him an idiot.

And are you speaking, then, of the law? That is surprising to me.

I shouldn't write him off if I were you. His son came close to capturing me, which puts him a cut above most of you.

Do I really have to spell it out? I'm talking about the angel.

...Which angel.

The angel. Lucifer. The devil himself. Satan. Beelzebub. The morning star. The prosecutor. Any of that ring a bell?

Sam may be many wonderful things but he's not capable of dismembering a man and teleporting him into the ocean.

Right. And that individual isn't protecting me. Though I'm flattered, truly, that you think so.

You're wrong. The protection extends to you.

...Quite. And who's to say the protection doesn't extend to all?

Protection or not he's still Lucifer. It's not in his best interests to protect everyone on the island from me.

But perhaps you'd like to petition him for it. I'm sure you could sell him your soul, if you still had one.

I never had one to begin with, thank you.

Because you don't believe?

Since I doubt you could handle a thought more complex than that, yes. Let us say so.

Try me. I read.

Oh, do you? Where do you find the time, between the cycles of murdering and then being neutralized?

Your contempt is childish. The Pillars of the Earth is one of my favourites, but wherever would I find time to read it? It's not as though I have a life.

Deepest sympathies. Things are hard for you.

For someone who's so adept at using sarcasm, you don't recognise it easily, do you?

By the way, I suggest hydrogen peroxide. It's a little strong, but it'll do the job.

I recognized it, thank you.

[That's said with a bit less withering contempt than perhaps Miles would like to have in his voice, because in spite of everything that second comment does rather unnerve him.]

And everything is already cleaned up, thank you.

I'm glad to hear it. You should never leave blood for too long, otherwise the stains are impossible to get out.

[ Although to be honest he usually just throws his clothes out. ]

I don't need you lecturing me about blood.

It's more like friendly advice.

Regardless, I do not need it. And there is nothing "friendly" between us.

Actually there is. A friendly distance

I loathe you, and you would enjoy murdering me. Sorry - is that "friendly"?

Maybe if there was a reason to kill you. There's plenty of people on this island with powers, and I'm not even sure what you do.

Nothing of any interest to you.

[That's not even a lie. The ability to, ultimately, kill with a touch would be useful to Sylar - but if he described the ability, Sylar would never figure out that was what it could be used for.]

But you do not mean to say that you dislike killing.

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