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[ 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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[ But you had a fiancee, Amy. And Peter was already awkward about that, and he figured he had to lie to everyone or face the information getting spread as far as the eye could see, he just didn't know. ]

I'm sorry, I am. I shouldn't have lied.

[ She wasn't aware having a fiancee was worthy of being lied to. At least she told him about Rory. She thought he understood that night. After all, she still didn't leave his apartment until he asked her to. ]

Don't bother. Everything's out now. It's over, and I guess you can go be ... happy now.

[ And if he really is, she can't argue anymore. ]

[ The coooold shoulder, and he keeps telling himself that he's not allowed to be upset about this, but it still gets to him. He knew he would lose everyone over this. Or at the very least, nearly everyone. And he knew it would suck. But knowing is different than feeling. ]

Got it. [ And since he has no idea what else to say, he very nearly ends the feed, but instead he pauses. Tries again. ]

The day that you showed up? If I'd told you that I was letting Sylar sleep on my couch, what would you have done?

Edited 2012-04-06 05:03 (UTC)

[ Amy would have been disappointed if that was all. But of course, somehow the question doesn't ease anything. Sylar already asked her this ... in his own way. Almost as if they were trying to convince her a lie was better. ]

I would have asked why. I probably would have asked you to stop. [ then she sighs. ] Why does this matter now though? If you care about him so much, you wouldn't have let me.

I wouldn't have let you because he was black-mailing me. I didn't care that much about him when he was just... staying on my couch. That was the only reason I was lying about it.

I'll take the blame about lying for the relationship for the past month, but back when you showed up? Things were different.

[ Amy wonders how much of this he really means. If he lied about the relationship, how can she be sure he was actually being blackmailed? That he wasn't just backpedaling now that he was about to lose quite a few friends? She just doesn't know. The conversation could go in circles, honestly.

And while she feels more willing to hear Peter out, she's not sure she can ever accept Sylar. ]

Fine. [ she decides to switch gears since lying or not, it's done. ] So what now, then? You join him? And forget all your friends?

[ He's not really looking for people to accept Sylar. He's not stupid, he knows nobody else will, and he's not about to ask for things he knows he's not gonna get. The coming out party wasn't anything other than a way for him to stop lying and for a way to do it in their own terms.

Apart from that, he has to let people do what they will. The sad thing is he could be pushing all sorts of thoughts by way of telepathy if he really wanted, but then nothing would mean anything. ]

I never said I was forgetting all my friends. It's up to everyone else to do what they want with their opinions.

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