thewatchmaker: (Power)
Title: Predator and Prey
Author/Artist: [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker
Claim: Sylar/Selene, Heroes/Underworld
Theme: Felicity
Theme Set: Articulate Set 1
Prompt Table and Chapter List Rating: NC 17
Warnings: It's going to be violent.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Selene. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 7/7

Her heavy buckled boots were mere inches from my face as I writhed in pain on the floor as she straddled me. I'm sure some men might have found it a glorious position to be caught in, between the knees of a beautiful woman. But I wasn't impressed. Clawed fingers gripped the back of my head by the hair, and twisted me back so I’d be forced to look up into her ice blue eyes. I could feel the bones in my neck crack and shift as she did it.

“Are you going to break my neck then?” My tongue darted out to lick my very dry lips. “Aren’t you even curious to see if I live or die from this?”

“Not really,” she said her words clipped short. “You threatened to kill me. Curiosity is not something I live for unlike you Sylar. You never should have started this with me.”

My DNA was twisting and protesting as the virus slithered over it like a cloak of thorns. The pain was excruciating as it ran down the back of my legs. It would have been a kindness for her to blow a hole in my skull or snap my neck. I needed to focus. Needed to take control of what was happening to me.

I was not a puppet. Every trick I’d picked up had been learned and adapted to. Yes there were occasional complications when one power would cancel out another or require a part of my brain that was already in use. But I would master her power as well. It was my imperative after all.

There was too much of it though. Too many things to adjust to, and I needed to just figure out what I really wanted. Drinking blood was not something I wanted to do. Death by sunlight another thing to be avoided.

Suddenly the light in the shop grew too bright, as my eyes adapted to become like hers. I could see so much better than I ever had before. Control, I had control of it now. The eyes were really all I wanted from her. The rest I already had in one form or another.

“So you are going to live. We cannot have that. I am going to break your neck now Mr. Sylar. You cannot be allowed to live.”

“Neither can you,” I said in a hushed whisper of my own as I let the raging inferno of nuclear energy free. The heat vaporized her and everything else around me. When I got to my feet, the vampire was gone, my father’s shop was gone, and so was the entire block. Her skull was blackened from the blast and all that had survived it. “We could have been friends. All you had to do was play nice.”
thewatchmaker: (Prophecy)
Title: Predator and Prey
Author/Artist: [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker
Claim: Sylar/Selene, Heroes/Underworld
Theme: Felicity
Theme Set: Articulate Set 1
Prompt Table and Chapter List
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: It's going to be violent.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Selene. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 6/7

As I held her against the wall, I let my awareness shift. “You’re too special to resist,” I said as I focused deep enough to see the very strands of her DNA at work. “I always thought vampires were metaphysical creatures like angels and demons. But you’re not. You’ve got a virus.”

“Imagine that,” she said her pale lips drawn back to reveal her jagged teeth. “Would you like me to bite you, so I can give it to you?”

“Yes,” I answered her and tilted my head to the side to look at the rest of her. She was no longer the beautiful predator I’d let hunt me. That game had been fun, but it was too easily won. She couldn’t beat me. But it would be fascinating to find out if her virus would even have an effect on me. With sweet Claire Bear’s healing abilities, I doubted it could even gain purchase on me long enough to replicate.

“It’s worth the chance,” I said as I drew my sleeve up from my wrist. “I was just thinking how much I needed to be able to see in the dark. You’re not a meta-human, but you are an oddity with abilities I might be able process.”

Her teeth latched onto my wrist hard enough that I felt the bones grind together. I tightened my will and squeezed her heart in her chest until her jaw relaxed. “Play nice,” I chastised her. “Or I’ll just crush your heart like a piece of junk mail.”

She seemed to be in pain as she drank from me. I had expected to see her moan in pleasure like the vampires always did in the movies. But apparently I didn’t taste good. I could feel and see the virus her fangs carry surging through my bloodstream. It was painful, and she had to bite me more than once to keep the wound open since I heal so very fast.

Icy fire ran up my arm as I yanked it out of her grip. As the pain riddled my body, I had to let her go. The vampire looked back at me, tilting her head like a cat while she watched me fall to the ground in a shivering heap.

“Good it would serve you right. The virus is almost always fatal. I hope it kills you.”
thewatchmaker: (Surprise)
Title: Predator and Prey
Author/Artist: [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker
Claim: Sylar/Selene, Heroes/Underworld
Theme: Perdition
Theme Set: Articulate Set 1
Prompt Table and Chapter List
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: It's going to be violent.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Selene. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 5/7

“A blind eye?” She snarled at me, her eyes shifting from nearly the same dark brown as mine to the neon blue. “You’ll be very lucky to have eyes in your head when I’m done with you. How dare you touch me!”

She didn’t go for her guns, instead she launched at me, all long legs and arms. Her body barreled into mine, we broke through the old sheetrock wall and tumbled down the narrow steps down to the clock works.

I felt my skull crack when we landed hard on the floor of the shop. Her legs wrapped around my waist while her fingers curved into claws that she dug into my face nearly gouging out my offensive eyes. “Get off of me!”

Pushing against her with my mind and my hands, I shoved her across the shop. But she didn’t crash into the display cases. No, she tumbled in the air and landed on her feet with all the grace of a cat. She leapt into the air again.

Sending a wall of frost at her, she was thrown back from me again, her latex costume covered with ice. She shivered as she tried to get up, but now I was on my feet. “To think I wanted you to find me. That will teach me won’t it?”

With each step I took I forced more of my power on her. I lifted her up then, sliding her along on her back over the floor and up onto the wall where she was pinned like a butterfly on a board while the clocks around her kept ticking.

“And what shall I do with you now? Now that I have the upper hand…should I cut you to ribbons?” Flicking my fingers I cut a thin line down each of her cheek. I watched fascinated as she healed nearly as quickly as I could. “Or maybe you could stop trying to kill me?”

“If you don’t let me go.” Her breath caught as I tightened a grip around her heart. “I will be the one who kills you.”

“Whatever for?” I asked as I reached up to wipe the blood from her cheeks. “I’m no enemy of yours. My name is Sylar.”
thewatchmaker: (Sexy)
Title: Predator and Prey
Author/Artist: [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker
Claim: Sylar/Selene, Heroes/Underworld
Theme: Serendipity
Theme Set: Articulate Set 1
Prompt Table and Chapter List
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: It's going to be violent.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Selene. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 4/7

If I thought she was fast when I saw her in the city, it was nothing compared to her speed in my small room. She had me pinned against the ruin of my door. Her hand wrapped around my throat squeezing tight enough to make it hard for me to breathe. My ears were ringing from the impact, and it was taking me too long to concentrate to use any of my power to drive her away.

“You’re human,” she said, bringing her face close to mine while she sniffed at me. Her fingers were cool against my fevered flesh. “How do you do what you do?”

“Neither are you,” I choked out. She slammed my head back again, and I bit down on my lip.

Before it could heal, blood ran down my chin. Her dark eyes narrowed, and her small pink tongue darted out to lick it away. My heart beat harder thundering in my chest. I stopped struggling to get away from her. Instead I used my power to tilt her face up, forcing her fingers from around my neck as I ducked my face down to kiss her.

“You are so beautiful. I was hoping you’d catch me. I just didn’t think it would be so soon.” Her lips were as cool as her fingers, and I lost myself in the touch and taste of them. She stumbled back when I released her. Her eyes wide and I could hear her slow breath catching along with a faint heartbeat that I hadn’t heard before. “You’re a vampire. How curious.”

“You kissed me,” she said as she swallowed. I waited but she didn’t draw her gun again. “Why did you do that?”

“Because I could.” Stepping away from the door, I moved to sit on the edge of my bed, ignoring the broken glass and splinters of wood. “And I think you wanted me to. Besides who am I to turn a blind eye at serendipity?”
thewatchmaker: (Profile)
Title: Predator and Prey
Author/Artist: [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker
Claim: Sylar/Selene, Heroes/Underworld
Theme: Nostalgia
Theme Set: Articulate Set 1
Prompt Table and Chapter List
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: It's going to be violent.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Selene. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 3/7

It was warm in my shop when I got there from being shut up all day. The musky smell of old wood and the cleaners I used to fix clocks filled the air. Dozens of them ticked and tocked as I came in. A cuckoo clock sounded the hour, bright yellow, red and green feathers telling the world that it was midnight. Hopefully the owner would come back for that one soon. It was obnoxious as it was bright.

Closing the door behind me, I pressed my hand against the glass after locking it up tight. I could hear no one outside that didn’t belong there. As I peered into the darkness, I made a promise to myself to hunt someone with night vision.

I padded through the shop, grabbed a bottle of water from the small refrigerator and made my way up to my dingy little apartment. Yes the most powerful creature in New York was living in a cramped flat above his dead father’s clock shop. Stretching out on the narrow bed, I used my power to untie my shoes and sent them across the room to the corner near my small TV stand.

The TV didn’t work anymore. Not that I really cared. Someday I’d be able to leave this place, but for now it was the safest place for me to hide. Not many people knew who Sylar really was, and anyone who did wouldn’t expect me to hide in my own home.

Outside the fire escape creaked. It was barely more sound than a roach made skittering on glass, but I knew it was her. She came in through the window before I could scramble to the door. Bullets hit the door near my hand, making me jerk away.

“Now,” she said with her strangely accented voice. “What shall we talk about?”
thewatchmaker: (Hidden)
Title: Predator and Prey
Author/Artist: [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker
Claim: Sylar/Selene, Heroes/Underworld
Theme: Kaleidoscope
Theme Set: Articulate Set 1
Prompt Table and Chapter List
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: It's going to be violent.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Selene. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 2/7

There is safety in numbers, or at least there’s supposed to be. I don’t like crowds. All those people bumping into me, the way their bodies warm the air with their smells. I’d have built a shell around me to keep them away, but that would make it too easy for the hunter to find me.

I’d dropped down from the sky into the huge crowd of people emerging from one of the theaters on Broadway. Tucking my hands into my pockets, I did my best to blend in. With a measure of my power I’d already changed my face, but that one didn’t hunt by eyesight alone. No she’d catch me by my scent too.

A hand fell onto my shoulder, spinning me around, and I had to fight to keep from killing the man who had grabbed me. “Oh I’m sorry,” he said when he saw the dangerous glint in my eyes. “I thought I knew you.”

“That’s all right,” I said as I ducked into a larger pod of people, shedding one face for another as I went. By the time I was two blocks away, I was wearing Claire Bennett’s skin. That should throw her for a loop even if she did catch my scent. I knew I was being stupid, because above it all my undying curiosity hoped that she could track me.
thewatchmaker: (Stalking)
Title: Predator and Prey
Author/Artist: [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker
Claim: Sylar/Selene, Heroes/Underworld
Theme: Kaleidoscope
Theme Set: Articulate Set 1
Prompt Table and Chapter List
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: It's going to be violent.
Disclaimer: Just borrowing Sylar and Selene. They don't belong to me.
Chapter: 1/7

The first time I saw her, the bright neon lights were reflecting off of her skin tight catsuit like a kaleidoscope. When she moved it was like watching a panther take flight. Sleek, black and deadly, her guns blazing a trail of destruction tearing apart the creatures she was hunting.

It made my breath catch as I watched from the shadows. Ducking back when a splash of hot blood splattered against the brick wall beside me. I’d never seen such unbridled violence, and it was making my heart race.

She turned towards me then, her eyes the same brilliant blue as one of the glowing tubes of neon. Her lips were pale, pink and barely covering her own sharp teeth as brushed them over the back of her sleeve to wipe the werewolve’s blood away.

Her gun is aimed at me in a fraction of a second. I can see her trying to decide if I’m friend or foe. I don’t wait to find out. Raising my hand, I send her flying backwards into a heavy cement column. She hits it hard enough for it to crack and chunks of it fall to the pavement besides her fallen body. But before I can approach, she is getting back to her feet.

“What are you?” she hisses as she aims at me again. This time she doesn’t hesitate, and I am forced to block her bullets with my power.

“That’s for you to find out,” I said in a whisper as I let the bullets fall to the ground before flying out into the night sky. “If you can catch me.”

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