Sylar - Gabriel Gray

for 1breath

I wrapped the book with the utmost care, making sure that the tape didn’t stick to the leather cover or any of the well worn pages. It wasn’t in the best of shape, but I think that added to its charm. I hoped Scully would like it.

As I made my way to her office at Mercy Heights, I hoped the antiseptic smell of the hospital would hide the smell of the old book. I didn’t know if she was the type to open now, or if she’d want to wait until she got home.

“Dana?” I poked my head in, and she smiled at me, taking off her glasses and motioning me inside. “Happy Birthday.”

“Gabriel.” She’s the only one who calls me that anymore, and I don’t mind it at all. Although when Gabe is with me, I’m Sylar. “I didn’t know you knew.”

“What kind of friend would I be if I didn’t know your birthday?” I handed her the book. It was so big in her small hands. “You can open it now if you like.” Please.

“It would drive you crazy if I said I should bring it home, wouldn’t it?” She teased pulling out her letter opener to carefully slice the tape.

“You know me so well. Besides, it’s something that you’ll want to keep here.” I sat down and waited while she peeled off the wrapping paper.

“Gabriel. This is not an 1859 Gray’s Anatomy. It must have cost you a fortune.” She was thrilled. She could chastise me for spending so much all she wanted, but I didn’t care.

“Yes it is, and it’s now yours. It wasn’t that expensive. It’s not in the best of shape. I could have found a better copy, but I thought you’d appreciate one that was actually used by doctors and students over the years to help people.”

“Looks like you know me well too. Thank you, Gabriel.”

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.”

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: 3/7

Green with Envy
She led me into the day room of the hospital. Dr. Scully insisted it wasn’t a jail. But I knew better. The shackles that bound my wrists and ankles told me just how much of a prison it was. I was thankful to be out of the straightjacket though, even happier to be out of my room. She’d made sure I could have a real shower too, with only a few attendants ready to hit me with a taser if I was bad. It felt good to be cleaned, shaved and to have my hair out of my eyes.

“Why don’t we sit by the windows Gabriel?” Scully said, placing her hand on the crook of my arm. If she’d slid it through it would have looked like we were on some bizarre date.

“I’d like that,” I answered her. My eyes kept being drawn from her face to look at the other inmates. Most of them had been drugged into oblivion. I could see the telltale scars of invasive surgery on their skulls as well. A few looked at me with hatred in their eyes, but I’d never seen any of them before. “Are they all like me here?”

“Some, although no one is exactly like you are they Gabriel?” She said with a sad smile.

“I hope not,” I said it before I could stop myself. But it was no secret to Dr. Scully that I liked being special. “I can’t see it. See what makes them special. The chip won’t let me. I used to be able to see it all. Where their brains were different, what made them more than human, but it’s gone now.”

“How do you feel about that Gabriel,” she asked as she sat across from me. “Do you miss it?”

“I won’t lie to you Dr. Scully.” I looked into her face, seeing my reflection in the blue of her eyes. “I miss it. But I am tired of being a prisoner. I want to be free. I might even envy them, because they are out here in the ward without all the guards that you have on me.”

And I had so many guards. Four of them were within earshot of our supposedly private conversation. I always smiled when Scully told me that our chats were confidential. I knew she wouldn’t be gossiping about my revelations, but the guards and orderlies didn’t have an oath that they’d sworn to like she had. I knew they talked about me all the time too, since the chip didn’t seem capable of blocking my enhanced hearing.

“Your rehabilitation is going quite well Gabriel. It really should only be a matter of time before you’ve earned some more freedom.”

“Yes, but I will never be allowed to leave this place.” Glancing out the window, I looked at the potted houseplants and greenhouse lights that they used to pretend that we were on the surface, and not several dozen feet underground. “Although I do have to thank you for not letting them dissect me like some frog.”

She opened her mouth to say they wouldn’t have done that but closed it without saying a word. We both knew what they would do with me if I didn’t tow the Company line. “What would you like to talk about today Gabriel?”

“Why don’t we talk about you doctor? Tell me how you ended up working for the Company instead of the FBI.” The surprised look on her face was priceless. I tapped my ear. “I heard them talk about you long before you came into my room. But I’d rather hear the real story from you.”