we are the sum - "Heroes" drabble - PG13

[tigriswolf]

Title: we are the sum

Fandom: “Heroes”

Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Aristotle.

Warnings: goes AU during season one; I’ve yet to watch season three; character death

Pairings: none

Rating: PG13

Wordcount: 300

Point of view: third

 

 

When it comes down to it, when they’re the only two standing in a battlefield stained red with blood, it isn’t about strength or passion or revenge or anything but the desire to survive.

 

Peter has nothing left to live for except vengeance and the need to hurt and sheer bullheadedness.

 

But Sylar has only ever lived for himself, and that is enough.  They have all the same abilities, now, equally matched in every way save one. They can throw the same attack and use the same countering maneuver, anticipating and blocking so quickly no one else could see it. If anyone were around to see.

 

But they’re alone here, all that’s left. Any the humans didn’t get, Sylar harvested. Peter tries to use the rage to his advantage, to supplement his power just a little bit more. It doesn’t work. 

 

Sylar has better control, is quicker, sees every move coming seconds before Peter thinks to do it. Sylar can add all the abilities together in ways Peter has never thought to imagine. Sylar has an ease Peter can’t mimic, can’t touch, and he’s failing. Failing Matt and Hiro and Niki, Mohinder and Claire and Mom. He’s failing Nathan by falling to his knees, too exhausted to keep fighting. 

 

He’s failing everyone this monster already took, everyone he will after this, when he’s left with the world spread wide before him, no one able to match him, to stop him.

 

Peter stares up at Sylar with tear-filled eyes and waits. Sylar smirks down at him, arms crossed, body held loosely, confidently. Peter expects his head to be cut open, his brain studied, like Sylar almost did in Mohinder’s apartment a lifetime ago.

 

Instead, Sylar carefully inserts a piece of bone into that one weak spot and Peter whimpers, thinks NathanClaireforgive—

 

 

Comments

[talkingmetaphor.livejournal.com]

I like the ending, seems very Sylar.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you so much!