Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? - Tangerine - 4/7

Title: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Author/Artist: thewatchmaker
Claim: Gabriel Gray/Dana Scully - Heroes/XFiles
Theme: Green with Envy
Theme Set: Colors Set 6
Chapter List and Prompt Table
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: I'm pretty sure there's going to be considerable mind f'cking.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Scully. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 4/7

Tangerine

Weeks had passed. I had to dig under my hair to find the outline of the scar on my scalp from my surgery. Beneath it, I could hear the hum of the circuits in the chip they had placed within my brain. I was glad it was noisy. If it had been silent, I might never have figured out how to manipulate it and change it to suit my needs. I’d had to be so very careful to make sure the signals the Company computers sent it were still received and that the signals that it sent out all went where they were supposed to go. But I’d been able to override its programming.

That was why I’d agreed to the procedure to begin with, not that I’d really had a choice. I knew that no matter what Dr. Scully said that they’d kill me if I didn’t go along with their experiment. I wasn’t the first to be chipped, but I had no doubt I was the most dangerous. I also had no doubt that I was the only one of the dozens of metahumans in the facility to have circumvented their toy. Now it reported back what I wanted it to, and none of their power inhibiting messages affected my brain.

With a sly smile, I watched as the tangerine on my tray rocked slowly back and forth. If I’d wanted to, I could have sent it careening around the ward like a tennis ball fired from a cannon. But just watching it rock gently was enough. Fine motor control had been required to reconfigure the chip, so I knew I could handle the small stuff like the tangerine, but before I escaped I was going to have to relearn to control so many more of my abilities.

“Good morning Gabriel,” Doctor Scully said suddenly appearing besides my table.

“Good morning, Dr. Scully,” I answered as I drove my thumbnail under the tangerine’s flesh. She’d nearly surprised me enough to lose control of my powers. I couldn’t have that. If Scully suspected that I was out of their control, she’d sign the orders to have me put down like a rabid dog. I couldn’t blame her either. I’d have ordered my death day one if I’d been in charge. Keeping me alive was the biggest mistake the Company could make – again. “How was your weekend? Is your little boy doing well?”

“William is doing fine. Thanks for asking.” Scully looked at her hands as I tore off a section of the fruit and popped it into my mouth.

“So he’s stopped showing any of his special abilities then?”

“I’m afraid not. I’m hoping that if the chip works for you, that it will work for William too. But you’re doing so well that it really is only a matter of time before he can be cured.”

“I’m happy that I’ve been able to help your son, doctor.” She’d told me about her son’s gifts, and how it was because of him that she’d started working for the Company. Scully hoped that a chip like mine would make her son just like everybody else. I couldn’t understand why anyone would want that. “I’d like to meet him someday. Do you think that would be possible?”

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? - Grey - 5/7

Title: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Author/Artist: thewatchmaker
Claim: Gabriel Gray/Dana Scully - Heroes/XFiles
Theme: Grey
Theme Set: Colors Set 6
Chapter List and Prompt Table
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: I'm pretty sure there's going to be considerable mind f'cking.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Scully. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 5/7

Grey

I’d been playing the good boy for so long that I was starting to worry that I was turning into the mask. But the more Dr. Scully told me about her son, the more I knew I had to meet him. Even more than that, I knew that I had to save him. I couldn’t let them put a chip in his head like they did to me. William might not be able to reprogram it the way that I had. I couldn’t allow that.

Of course I still had no idea how powerful little William might be, but today was the day. Scully was going to take me outside. She was going to let me meet her son. Someone normal would have been thrilled to be going outside after living underground for six months of rehabilitation. But I haven’t been normal in a very long time.

Standing in front of the mirror in my room, I ran my razor over my jaw. I’d have preferred a straight blade, but there was no way my keepers would allow me to have one of those. So there was still a shadow of my beard no matter how hard I tried using the dull plastic disposable. As I washed off my face in the sink, I smiled at my reflection.

“You look happy Gabriel,” Scully said from behind me as she came through the door. She was dressed for the outside world too, no lab coat or scrubs today. She really was very pretty, probably more so because she didn’t try to be.

“Shouldn’t I be?” I felt a surge of panic. “Did they change their mind? Aren’t we going out?”

“No, no we’re going out.” She placed her hands on my arm to offer me her reassurance. There was no sexual tension between us. But I’d been doing my best to convince her that I was her friend. “I wouldn’t let them do something like that to you. You’ve worked so hard. I just wish…”

“I know,” I smiled down at her. “I wish I didn’t have to come back too. But it’ll be good to see the sky. Maybe if I’m good they’ll let me go out again soon.”

The ride in the elevator up to the surface seemed to take days. I could taste the warmth of the sun on my tongue growing stronger with each inch we rose. Four well muscled guards flanked Scully and I. They were all different. Three of them were so much stronger than a normal human. I didn’t know what the fourth guard could do, but then I’d never tested that one.

“You’ll need these.” Scully slid a pair of sunglasses into my hands.

“Thank you Dana,” I said as I put them on. I closed my eyes until I felt the fresh air hit my face after the long walk across the lobby. Opening them slowly, I took my first look at the new world. Sadly the sky was overcast and gray. “Well at least it’s not raining.”