Thanksgiving [-Invite/Open Posting-]

[angela]

"Well I'm glad everybody seems to have calmed down" Angela said with a smile, as she watched her family begin to sit down at the table and get into the spirit of Thanksgiving. She laughed when Claire took out Santa hats to give to everybody.

"Thank you Claire" she said to her granddaughter with a smile as she dropped the subject and accepted Gabriel's apology. "Let's try to make this the best Thanksgiving Dinner ever" Angela said, even though she was missing Nathan. They would just have to have another dinner without him later.

"Now Gabriel, don't talk like that, you know he's Claire's adopted father, I'm sure Claire will not allow for him to take such action" Angela said sternly. "The best thing we can do is to forget all animosty and just enjoy this day" Angela said with a smile. Then she noticed Sam walk into the house.

"Sam, darling, it's good to see you, don't worry about being late, the dinner is only just about ready now" she said as she left her family at the table and went back to the kitchen to bring out the feast.

Five minutes later she had all the dinner out in the middle of the table, all the vegetables were in self serving bowls with spoons. "Just help yourself to the vegetables, and who would like to do the honour of carving the turkey?" she asked, normally she would let Nathan do that job, or Peter, but since neither of them could be here, it would have to be either Gabriel or Sam, or Mohinder if he wanted to do the job.

[clairebear]

Claire sighed, a gentle sigh and smiled at Gabriel. “Well it isn’t doing anybody any good to be all angry, and I don’t want Grandma’s day ruined” Claire said as honest as she could. “Besides you said you didn’t mean it, and I believe you” she added. She knew Gabriel had been evil in the past, she knew he might be evil again in the future, but she knew when someone was being honest and he was being honest with his apology.

“Well I don’t care what Noah wants” Claire said through her gritted teeth, “Grandma’s right, I won’t let him kill you, I swear” Claire said, “He just wanted to protect me from you, what’s the point now? You have my ability and I’m still alive, there is no need to hunt you down anymore, not in my opinion anyway” Claire said, hoping that Gabriel would drop the subject of people wanting him dead. Maybe a while ago when he was really evil Claire might have felt that way, even after he took her ability she might have felt that way, but not anymore.

“But I am glad you have decided to stay Gabriel, and the hat looks good on you” Claire said laughing a little. He actually looked cute in the Santa hat.

Just then Sam came running in. Claire was glad he was able to make it, even if he was a little late. She grinned at him. “Don’t worry about being late, you’re not that late, besides you heard Grandma, the dinner isn’t ready yet” Claire said, as she kissed him back. “I’m fine, I’ve been helping Grandma with the dinner” Claire said grinning at Sam.

She then went into the box and pulled out another Santa hat and passed it to Sam. “Here you go, you can’t be the only one without a Santa hat now” Claire said with a laugh. She loved Santa hats, she thought they made everybody looked cute. Even Angela looked cute wearing her Santa hat. Looking toward Mohinder, Claire laughed.

“He’s right you do need to fix the hat” Claire agreed, “Oh and Mohinder you look cute in your hat too” Claire added with a grin. Then she watched as her Grandma went to get the dinner out. Soon they had steaming vegetables and a turkey in the middle of the table waiting for them to pounce. “Thanks Grandma” Claire said as she began to spoon out some of the vegetables and put them onto her plate. Then Claire took the bottle of wine from Sam, opened it and began to pour it into all their glasses. Then she lifted up her glass and raised it.

“Here’s to Happy Thanksgiving, and to being a Petrelli, even if I am now a Norton” she said as she side glanced at Sam and gave him a grin and a little wink.

[nortons99]

"Oh, your kidding me" He said, looking at the Santa hat. His wife may love Christmas, and Santa hats, but he couldn't stand them. He knew exactly how much of a goofball he looked like in them.

Claire put one on him, and he didn't want to ruin it for her. He left the hat on, but, made a face, showing her how much he hated it.

He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, whispering to her as he did it. "You know how much I hate these things, right?" He said to her.

Then it was time for the toast, Claire made it. "Drink up" he said to everyone, throwing his down quickly.

[General Admin]

“Mother, you don’t know that” He said frowning as he rolled his eyes as he smiled at Claire. “I’m sure you’re right and I’m going to drop the subject” He said with a smile. “So please don’t bring it up anyone that includes you Mohinder also” He said rolling his eyes. He wanted to enjoy the Holiday.

Gabe smiled as Sam walked in and just shook his head about the Santa Hats. How he dreaded Santa Hats. He just decided to deal with it to make people happy.

"Remind me, Mohinder to not sylarize the Santa Hats" He said with a slight chuckle to Mohinder and got up from his chair. He then noticed that no one was going to carve the turkey.

"Guess I'll carve the lovely turkey" He said with a smile as he went up to his mother. "However, I'm doing it my way" He said with a smirk. He pointed his finger at the turkey and started to carve the turkey with his telekinesis. He was lazy and didn't want to use a knife. He just decided to use his ability. He finished the carving and placed his finger down.

He then went back over to his seat and smiled, "Agreed!" He exclaimed as Claire toasted to the family. He then looked at Mohinder, "And to Doctor Suresh's first Thanksgiving" He said with a grin as he toasted Mohinder.

[mohinder]

"Don't sylarize the poor hat, it doesn't have a brain or an ability, so what would be the use?" Mohinder said with a slight chuckle. He was enjoying this little family thing. It was a wonderful idea.

Mohinder watched as Gabe got up and started to show off carving the turkey. "You always have to use your powers, your so lazy" He said rolling his head at Gabe as he just shook his head and watched him finish carving the turkey.

The Indian smiled and nodded in agreement for being a Petrelli or whatever. He wasn't a Petrelli. He was from a different family. He just decided to do whatever the others did. He then looked over at Gabe and sighed, "You don't have to do that" He said as he shook his head.

[angela]

"Alright, I don't know that" Angela said, but left it there since they had agreed to drop the subject and Angela was happy to do so, she didn't want anything to upset this special family gathering.

When Angela had asked who wanted to do the carving she was glad when Gabriel agreed to do it. It was nice to see her son, one of her sons carrying on the tradition. When he said he wanted to do it his way, she already knew what way that was before he even started. She just rolled her eyes but smiled. "Very well Gabriel, thank you" she said as she watched him carve the turkey perfectly.

"If you just want to help yourself to the turkey now" Angela said when most of it had been carved. Then Claire made a toast, so Angela raised her glass.

"I agree to The Petrelli's to the new additions of the family Sam and Mohinder, Happy Thanksgiving" Angela said as she downed her drink. Yes, it was turning out to be a very good day after all, Angela was very happy she had suggested this for Gabriel now.

[clairebear]

"Well, no actually I wasn't kidding you" Claire said sadly when Sam didn't seem too happy about having to wear the Santa hat. "It's just a bit of fun" she added, and pouted. But as he kissed her cheek he whispered how much he hated the hats. So she gently pulled it off his head, and put it back into the box.

She ran her hands through his hair softly, and kissed him back, "Well I can't go upsetting my favourite guy now can I?" she said with a grin, "Even if you are being a spoil sport" she added and began to laugh.

"Of course I'm right Gabriel, I'm always right" she said and grinned, glad that he had finally dropped the subject. Gabriel might have done a lot of bad things in his life, but at the end of the day he was her uncle and blood was thicker than water. She would make sure Noah didn't kill Gabriel.

"Yeah, please don't sylarise the hats" Claire said and laughed, as she then watched him carve the turkey Sylar style. Claire had to agree it was a good way for him to have done it. She then smiled at Gabriel as she then began to fork some of the turkey onto her plate and then poured gravy over her dinner and began eating it.

"Hmm, delicious Grandma" she said grinning, complimenting the chef.