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[askedtobe]

[ Peter rarely makes posts to the network with such express purpose, but when he shows up on the feed this time, he looks prepared. Like he's got a message. And he only glances off camera once, before he starts. ]

You know, been here almost a year and a half now. Place definitely takes a toll on a person after awhile. Especially when things at home don't exactly make it any easier to deal with the kind of things that go on here. If you let it, everything just kind of.. falls apart. [ He shrugs, grasping a little for the right words. Public speaking isn't his strong suit. ]

Doesn't mean it has to, though. I know more than a few people here have made allegiances with people they never would've thought to. Whatever gets you through, right? Makes it easier, helps keep you going? Didn't actually think i'd end up happy in this place, not after everything that's happened.

[ This time, when he looks off camera again, he lets his NV turn ... to an expectant Sylar, his dark gaze fixed on the device. He smiles, wryly, as though to say 'surprise'. ]

Makes a lot of sense, when you think about it. The people who remind you of home, who understand what it's like to be you better than anyone else does; you can't really pick and choose who those people are. Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

[ He quirks an offscreen glance toward Peter. ]

Everyone deserves a little happiness in their lives, don't you think? Someone to love. Something you'd kill to protect. [ He reaches out suddenly, viper-quick, pulling Peter back into view of the NV by dragging him into his lap, and surprising a smile out of him in the process. Sylar presses his nose into Peter's neck, buries his nose briefly into hair that has grown back mysteriously quickly, and then looks back at the screen mockingly. ]

Like this smile. Isn't it adorable? A man could kill for a smile like this.

[ But before Sylar can embarrass them both any further, Peter's fumbling for his NV and trying not to smile so much as he turns off the feed. ]


[ ooc; blue is Peter; red is Sylar. threadjacking is encouraged! ]

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[hostage]

The fuck...

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[askedtobe]

Got a problem?

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[hostage]

Uh, yeah. Yeah, I got a problem. That guy was knuckle-deep in your niece's brains a couple weeks ago!

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[askedtobe]

You're not telling me anything I don't already know.

[hostage]

And you - what - you just don't give a shit?

[askedtobe]

Almost took out the entire island because of it, actually.

[hostage]

And now you two are all cozying up and - seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?

[askedtobe]

Somehow i'm guessing that nothing I could possibly say would convince you that there's less wrong with me now than there used to be.

[hostage]

So you found nirvana with this serial killer psycho. Congratulations, asshole. I'm glad you're happy, at least. I'm sure that's a big comfort to Claire and everybody else this guy's killed.

[askedtobe]

First of all, I don't have to explain my reasoning to you and secondly, you have no idea how much of that I take responsibility for. I'd feel the same even if I hadn't... found nirvana.

[hostage]

Damn right you don't gotta explain it to me. You explain it to her. You explain it to yourself. I hope you got a real good story made up in your head to justify doing this to somebody you love. To your own family.

[askedtobe]

Don't try to pretend you have any idea what my family is like. My justifications are my own and if Claire doesn't accept them, then there isn't anything I can do about it.

[hostage]

I don't gotta know what your family's like to know it's wrong to betray somebody you love like this. You're the worst kind of scumbag and you better start admitting it to yourself.

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[gabriel_gray]

Oh Jesse, Jesse... Tone it down. Someone might think you were jealous.

[hostage]

They'd have to be literally retarded. Who the hell would be jealous of this shit? It's sick.

[gabriel_gray]

That's nice. [ So unmoved by your indignation. Literally--he doesn't move. ] Two people finding each other under difficult circumstances. That's sick? Or is it just because it's me?

[hostage]

"Difficult circumstances"? The difficult circumstances of you ripping off his niece's skull? Yo, do I really have to spell it out for you, you fucking psycho?

[gabriel_gray]

[ Oh Jesse. You're assuming that this started when Peter almost killed everyone. His smile reaches his eyes for once. ]

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time, like I told you.

[hostage]

Don't blame her for what you did, you little pussy. You make your own choices.

[gabriel_gray]

[ He raises his hand, finger pointed at the screen, and for a moment considers carving a tiny scratch across the center of video-Jesse's head. ]

Best decision I ever made.

[hostage]

[He doesn't say anything. He's staring right back at Sylar, seething and unflinching.]

[gabriel_gray]

[ He laughs, leaning back, dropping his head against the couch. ]

Indignance won't get you very far.

[hostage]

You think you own this town just because you got bomb boy over there sucking your dick?

Everybody gets what's coming to them and you'll get yours, douchebag.

[gabriel_gray]

[ Yes, actually, he does. ]

I got mine, remember? I drowned. You laughed. It's done.

It's nice you think I own this town, though, that's cute.

[hostage]

Nah, nah. I don't. I think you're a nerdy little nobody, bitch. I don't care how many powers you got when the most you ever do with them is slice people open. Yo, you know who else can do that? Any punkass junkie on the street.

[a.k.a. yours truly.]