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[hejhej]

[A long, annoyed sigh. Lisbeth doesn't really like to apologize - hell, some would even say it's not in her vocabulary. But from what she experienced in the past week, there were a few people she cared about enough to apologize to for her unbridled behavior.]

If I was excessively agitated or violent towards you, I'm sorry.

Except for that Sylar asshole.

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[hejhej]

So if I was increasingly aggressive, I'm... sorry.

[ video ]

[hostage]

Nah, don't be sorry at me. You're the one who got all beat up 'cause of me.

[ video ]

[hejhej]

[Something of a sad smile comes across her face.]

I've been through worse. Much worse.

[ video ]

[hostage]

That ain't okay either.

[ video ]

[hejhej]

What's done is done. It happened at home so don't worry about it. The sick bastard was taken care of.

[She pretends to busy herself with a pen and napkin next to her.]

If my power didn't crap out on me, though, Sylar wouldn't have kicked my ass so badly.

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[hostage]

Still, it's...

- Wait... What do you mean, your power crapped out on you? Like, totally?

[ video ]

[hejhej]

Yeah. It never came. I can't.. find it anymore. It was fists against.. powers.

[ video ]

[hostage]

Shit... Shit, shit, shit...

[It really is his fault.]

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[hejhej]

[She's bothered by his behavior. She was fine, wasn't she?]

Hey. I managed fine without it.

[hostage]

No - Hold on.

[He switches the NV off and goes to find her instead. If what Mary said is true, then he shouldn't go and tell the whole world about it.]

[hejhej]

[Frowning, she shuts down her own computer at the kitchen table. As a natural instinct, she moves to the stove in the kitchen and begins to prepare coffee. She lights a cigarette using the gas range first.]

[hostage]

[When he gets to the kitchen, he leans against the door frame and just stays there. Like he's suddenly afraid to get too close.]

I, uh... I think it's my fault.

[hejhej]

[She turns off the stove when he shows up. She frowns.]

What do you mean? I went into that fight knowing what would happen.

[hostage]

I mean your power. Um...

[He rubs at the back of his neck, fixing his gaze on the floor.]

I was talking to someone about what happened with Sylar. Like, how he ran away halfway through killing me, and she said, like... Maybe I took his power away. 'cause there's this thing called Voids or Nulls or whatever, and their power is taking away other people's powers. She said I'm maybe one of them.

[hejhej]

[She listens to him intently, her eyebrows furrowed as she tried to process it all.]

If that is the case, then how do you do it? Just by being in the room?

[hostage]

I don't know. I don't even know what I did with Sylar. Like, when he was attacking me... I couldn't move. I couldn't think. It just happened.

She said it doesn't usually last forever, the Null thing. But it's been a long time for you, right? What if it really is just 'cause I'm here? What if it's getting worse, with you being around me?

[hejhej]

[She stares at him, taking a puff from her cigarette.]

I think it stopped the night I found it. That was the first and last time I.. tasted fire.

[Jesus, this all sounded weird.]

[hostage]

We were together that night, right? I must've fucked it up then...

[hejhej]

Neither of us knew. Don't feel guilty.

[Her voice wasn't pleading - it was demanding.]

[hostage]

How am I supposed to not feel guilty? I took away your power! And you coulda died because of it!

[hejhej]

I'm standing in front of you, aren't I? [Her tone was level.]

[hostage]

Barely! Jesus...

[He sinks back against the wall, rubbing his palms over his eyes.]

Why'd I get stuck with this..?

[hejhej]

[She saw that it bothered him, but she didn't know what to say or do. She watches him sink against the wall.

Lisbeth looks around awkwardly before she approaching him. She kneels down beside him and reaches out to touch his shoulder comfortingly when she stops.

The night she lost her power they held hands. She didn't know what transpired between he and Sylar and she suddenly has telepathy, a power that Sylar had as well.

She and Jesse had sex that night in the bathtub.]

No. [She suddenly says.] I do have a power. Just not mine.

[She stands from her position and looks around the kitchen. The chair. Remembering her fight with Sylar, she reaches up and lays her palm flat like she was pressing against a wall.

Will. I want to move the chair.

The chair moves a few inches away from the breakfast table.]

[hostage]

[Jesse's hands drop back to his sides and he watches her get back up. His miserable expression shifts to bewilderment. He's not sure what power he's expecting to witness when she gestures, but when the chair moves of its own volition, he jumps in alarm and scrambles away from it - because his first thought is Sylar's here.

But of course he isn't. It's just the two of them.]

Wait -

What. The hell.

[hejhej]

[She puts her hand down when she notices his reaction.]

Did you make physical contact with Sylar when he was cutting into you? Did he suddenly stop after you touched him?