Blowing off a layer of dust

[gabriel_gray]

Tick tock. Remember me?

I remember a time when this would come easily to you. Shh. Do you hear it now? That ticking sound? It's the sound of me getting back under your skin.

Oh, you've missed this. Don't say you haven't. The freedom of "villainy". Would you call it villainy? I suppose in a perfect world it'd be that black and white--in a world full of sunshine and daisies and perpetual summer where nothing ever rots or dies. Wake up. The world isn't your playpen. There's sharp corners, and loose floorboards. There's rusted nails piercing through the safety foam. Death is at the very core of nature, and yet there's nothing villainous about it. We evolve. We kill. We thrive. I kill. I evolve.

Can't you hear it? The clock is ticking four seconds off the hour. It's slow, and so are you. Now hold still. Let me see how you tick.

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[persuadeyoueden]

I kill. I evolve

Well, you didn't get what needed from me. What you wanted. And I might be here now, I might be alive but I would kill myself over and over again to make sure that you don't get to 'see how I tick'.

(Can you tell? She's so not happy to see you.)

[gabriel_gray]

Needlessly over-dramatic, isn't it? To kill yourself "over and over again" when once was more than enough.

So you deprived me of your ability. You also failed to kill me. If you'd only managed that one thing, imagine the lives you'd have saved; the deaths you'd have prevented.

[persuadeyoueden]

I'm being over-dramatic? That's funny coming from you. I've seen the things you did after my death.

...And you're right. If I had managed to kill you I would have saved many more lives but I didn't. I did what I had to do at the time at that was to deprive you of my ability. Things would have been a lot easier for you if you had it and I'm sure plenty more people would have died.

What in the world would possess your 'mun' to bring you here?

[gabriel_gray]

[ He breaks into a sharp smile. ] So I'm a hypocrite. We all have our hobbies.

[ Sylar doesn't comment on the second part at all. She's right--it would have made life much easier. But on the question of what ifs, it presents other topics over which debate could rage. The question of whether or not New York might have been saved by his hand, for example. ]

She's sadistic, masochistic, or both. Setting me loose on the world is her idea of fun.

[askedtobe]

I wouldn't count too much on thriving where you're going.

[gabriel_gray]

Really, Peter. You think I'm afraid of a few men in tights? Heroes? They have no idea what's coming. They won't even slow me down.

[askedtobe]

Because you've never been slowed down before, right? You've think you've never been stopped.

You have no idea what you're up against.

[gabriel_gray]

It took five of you last time; everyone else standing around looking helpless. You were beaten.

Oh, Peter. It'll be fun finding out. You'll fight, at least, won't you? Oh, valiant defender of the good that you are?

[askedtobe]

You keep thinking you're so much better than everyone- the past doesn't prove anything. Things can change. You can lose. You have no idea what it's like where we're going so stop assuming you'll be the one on top.

[gabriel_gray]

What are you telling me? That I'm just a small fish in a big pond?

[askedtobe]

I'm telling you that you can't assume you're going to be able to get away with anything. I'll make sure you won't.

[gabriel_gray]

Ahh, that's much more like it. You'll make sure I won't.

Do you think it'll slow me down? All those abilities. I won't be able to help myself. And what about you?

[askedtobe]

What about me?

[gabriel_gray]

Will you be able to help yourself? You might destroy the entire world this time.

[askedtobe]

Are you worried about me, Sylar? Or are you just worried.

[gabriel_gray]

Don't get any ideas. You ought to be more afraid for your own abilities than mine.

[askedtobe]

I don't need to be afraid for myself. I know what I can do. And I don't need you to be afraid for me.

[gabriel_gray]

I like the world to stay in one piece. It means a great deal to me that it does.

[askedtobe]

Why, so you can take it apart yourself?

[gabriel_gray]

I'd prefer that, yes.

[askedtobe]

I'm not letting that happen. I'm not controlling myself just so you can do whatever you want.

[gabriel_gray]

What will you do, Peter? Warn everyone about what a nefarious villain I am? Aren't you afraid it might backfire?

[askedtobe]

And what, have everyone come after me instead?

[gabriel_gray]

That I may somehow attract sponsors. Your mother being a prime example of the type.

[askedtobe]

Nobody's going to feel bad enough for you that they're going to take your side in all this. Don't even try and kid yourself that you deserve that kind of sympathy.

[gabriel_gray]

Oh, sympathy, no. But I won't be the only one there drowning in ambition, Peter. Will you be able to stop us all?

[askedtobe]

Why are you so sure you'll have so much company?

[gabriel_gray]

Shades of gray, Peter. Just because a city is recruiting heroes doesn't mean that's all it'll get. Your brother thinks himself a hero--but you know better, don't you?

[askedtobe]

Nathan doesn't have to do with any of this- you don't have any reason to talk about him. Hero or not, he's nothing like you. You're nothing.

[gabriel_gray]

Touchy. And what about you? Terrorist, isn't it? Heroism is a matter of perspective.

[askedtobe]

Didn't take you for someone to actually listen to anything the news had to say.

[gabriel_gray]

It never really interested me before. But then, would you believe it, all these interesting people started making appearances.

[askedtobe]

And what, you suddenly decided you were going to care? That you were going to give some kind of a shit about what's going on? Or is this all some kind of entertainment for you?

((ps: I am so sorry about the obviously META up in here! xD))

[anothergreymorning]

Alright, look, you.... PSI, you...! I don't know who you think you are, but let me tell you something: you are nothing standing next to the might of the Falcon Program!! I mean, there is something to be said for all the Military that are in on the Falcon Program: to the point that they've started recruiting civvies like me...

And I swear, I will see you in Falcon Grey, eventually... Even if it do cost me a psi or two to capture the likes of you!

((ooc; aw, debs, and you were a Poet and didn't even KNOW it! lol!))

[oneplusone]

[And then there's this kid, looking absolutely gleeful.]

Ne, mister... There's not enough people like us, is there?