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Post by carla on Jun 20, 2009 21:28:48 GMT -5
26th April, 2009 Carla put her hand over her son Stephen's when he put his hand on her shoulder to teleport her to New York, so she could get him to Angela Petrelli at Primatech so she could get the hunger cure for him. Of course with his ability of teleportation it didn't take long for them to get to New York and then they just had to get themselves to Primatech itself. Carla looked at Stephen when they landed in New York, "This is Brilliant Stephen and you've actually took us fairly near where we need to go." Carla said warmly as she gave Stephen another quick hug, before heading off in the right direction of Primatech. She knew exactly where they were, because she had been often enough trying to find out the where abouts of her son Stephen when he'd gone missing all those years ago. As predicted in her thoughts, they weren't too far away at all, they arrived within a few minutes. Carla opened the door and immediately took the elevator to the floor she knew Angela's office was on. They arrived there in a matter of minutes. She knocked on the door before opening it. She then turned to Stephen, "Well we're here, come on inside." She said with a smile on her face, hoping to keep her son as calm as possible.
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Post by stephenadams on Jun 21, 2009 9:47:09 GMT -5
Stephen smiled when his mom said his teleporting was brilliant, it had been awhile since anyone had commented on his skill at using his abilities and it felt good.
Stephen followed his mother to the Primatech building, glad that he would finally lose his hunger, he was so happy to finally be free of this curse. Stephen had become very cautious in his months of living by himself, so when they entered the building Stephen began to read minds, he wanted to be sure that these people were safe, he trusted his mother but that didn't mean he trusted the same people as her. Stephen followed his mother to the elevator, using his eyes as well as telepathy to make sure someone didn't do anything to him.
Stephen cycled through people's thoughts until he came across a very interesting one, and in this case a very bad one, there was a place somewhere in the facility called Level Five and it had many powerful specials in it that were criminals.
Stephen felt his hunger begin to grow, he felt his mind begin to focus on finding the exact spot where Level Five was. He wanted those powers, and now he couldn't use the excuse that they were innocent to stop himself.
"Mom, why didn't you tell me there was a jail here for dangerous special?" He said, looking at his mom as she told him to come out of the elevator with eyes darkened by blood lust.
Stephen found where Level Five was and teleported there, ready to use their own powers to kill them.
Stephen found himself in a hallway with bulletproof windows on one side, leading into cells containing one person, he looked into these until a guard walked up with a gun that he pointed at Stephen's head. Stephen laughed, he flicked his wrist and the guard flew into a wall head first, knocking him out immediately.
Stephen walk up to one of the cells, the man there stared at him, his eyes glowing red, Stephen wondered what he was doing at first, until he read the man's mind and found that he was trying to put him into a rage.
"You think that will work on me? Sorry," Stephen said with a laugh, he lifted his hand and threw the man into a wall, pinning him there, he then flicked his wrist to make the first slice in the head.
"I can't believe I want to give this up." Stephen said, though only have-heartedly, there was still a part of him that wanted to lose this hunger, that resented killing people, but it seemed that part of him just wasn't strong enough.
Stephen smiled as he finished his work and gained the ability, though he also felt that he lost something, Stephen stared at his hands and tried to make them glow with radiation, but nothing happened, "What?! NO, no, how could I lose one of my abilities."
Stephen stood up and blew the door open to the cell, it seemed that he would have to take another ability to see if this was a constant thing.
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Post by carla on Jun 22, 2009 11:05:07 GMT -5
[ooc: posting as Carla again first, because your first Stephen post has kind of made it that Carla should post first.]
When Stephen asked her why she didn't tell him about the jail for dangerous specials, she put her hand to her mouth. She honestly hadn't thought about that, all she had wanted to do was get the injection for her son, so his hunger would stop. She just hoped Stephen could keep himself calm, but she didn't really expect it to happen.
"I completely forgot Stephen, I'm sorry, I was just too into the idea of getting you help." Carla said, as she hoped her son wouldn't go all weird on her. However, it was too late, as she watched her son teleport away from her and she could only assume it was to level five.
Carla could only think of one thing to do now, and that was to get Angela's help, so she could help her get a control on Stephen and since she had already opened Angela's door anyway, she decided to carry on inside.
"Mrs Petrelli." Carla began, in a slight panic, "I need your help for my son Stephen, he has the hunger, and I brought him here for that injection, but I forgot about your Level Five prisoners and he's gone and teleported to them. Can you please help me, and help me get him under control?" Carla asked Angel in the hope that she would indeed help.
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Post by angela on Jun 22, 2009 11:20:43 GMT -5
Angela was just finishing a telephone call when she heard voices outside her office in the hallway. She wasn't expecting anybody and she began to wonder who could be outside. She was about to get up and find out, but then her office door was opened. After her meeting with the rather strange Alyson woman from the future, Angela was a little more wary of who entered her office these days.
She had her hand under the desk, getting ready to pull out a gun if necessary, however, nobody entered the room. At least, not right away. After a few seconds, a dark haired girl entered the room, and Angela was sure she recognised her. Then she figured it out, she had been Claire's sister in law as a teenager, this was the grown up Carla Adams. She must have come from the future. Angela removed her hand from under her desk and gave Carla a warm smile.
But then she began to speak, and a frown soon appeared on Angela's face. So her son Stephen must have got to this time line somehow, that was strange, or had they both come to this time line together to fix something? Angela didn't know but she found she didn't care. All that mattered was getting Carla's son to safety.
"You can call me Angela dear, and of course, I'll help." Angela said, as she got up from her desk, and gently put her hand on Carla's back to lead her to where Level Five was. "This way, it wont take long."
After several moments, they had reached Level Five and sure enough there was a young lad, whom had to be Carla's son slightly out of control. Angela approached him first, and put her hand on his shoulder.
"You should really step away from these people." She said in a stern voice, but giving him a smile. Thin, tight smile that Angela always gives, but a smile just the same.
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Post by stephenadams on Jun 24, 2009 20:46:29 GMT -5
Stephen was about to enter another cell when a person him him put there hand on him, telling him that he should get away from these people,"Your going to have to do more then that to stop me, your going to have to at least knock me unconscious."
Stephen hoped the woman would listen to him, partly anyway, he wanted these peoples powers, but at the same time he wanted to stop killing, sometimes he felt ass though he had a duel personality because of how different these thoughts were.
Stephen teleported again, into yet another cell, he turned toward its occupant only to be rammed into by his prey, sending him flying into the glass on the opposite side of the room. Stephen stood up and looked at the man, wondering if he had super strength, this guess quickly changed when the man ran toward him at super speed with a black aura trailing behind him.
Stephen teleported away right before the man hit him again, trying to understand the ability as he did so. He knew it gave the prey super speed but he felt it gave him something else.
Stephen found out what it was the second the man turned and ran toward him again. Stephen's eyes went black and he was able to see where the man was going to go, and sped himself up to get there quicker. Stephen jumped in the air and did a round house kick toward the mans head, thankful that he had temporarily acquired Muscle mimicry from that Henry guy.
The man ducked though and Stephen landed on the ground, he noticed that he had a black aura trailing him as well. Stephen turned and sent a telekinetic wave at the man, sending flying back.
"Sorry, I don't have time to play." Stephen said as he went to work on this guy, hoping that if he did lose an ability that he lost the new one he had just gained, he didn't need it since he had telepathy.
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Post by carla on Jun 25, 2009 7:02:03 GMT -5
Carla gave Angela a bright smile, even though her face was etched with worry. "Thank you Angela." Carla said clearly when the woman said she would of course help. She walked with Angela as they both made their way to Level Five where Stephen was. It didn't take very long for them to reach it, and when they did Carla was rather shocked at the scene in front of her.
So this is how the hunger could get to her son. It was almost scary and Carla didn't like it at all. She wanted to run to her son and envelope him in a hug, wrap him in cotton wool and never let him go. However, Angela approached her son to which Carla was rather grateful for in a way. However, Carla was upset to find that Angela's words had no effect on her son.
When Stephen said about knocking him unconscious or something, Carla put her hand up to her mouth. She couldn't do that to her son, they couldn't do that to him. But watching him was very frightening, and it did look like it would be the only solution. Carla thought she would try to speak to him instead. "Stephen, I thought you wanted us to help you?" She asked, but she had a feeling her words were falling on deaf ears as he continued to go crazy on the specials in Level Five. Carla felt as if right at this moment she was helpless.
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Post by angela on Jun 25, 2009 7:32:51 GMT -5
Angela continued to look sternly at Stephen, and when he said that she would have to do more than that to stop him, knock him out. Angela just continued to look sternly at him with her thin smile. "I'd rather not have to go that Stephen, however..." She said, trailing off looking at Carla as she had tried to speak to her son and Angela having had experience of this knew that Carla's words would go unnoticed by Stephen.
Angela could only hope Carla would trust her. She continued her earlier sentence, "However, if that's what it has to take, then that's sadly what I might have to do." Angela finished as she looked from Stephen to Carla. Angela could only continue to watch the scene which was unfolding in front of her. She turned to Carla, "It looks like he needs that injection immediately, I'd rather not give him the injection without his consent, but I could quickly go back to the office to get it?" Angela asked Carla as she turned to watch Stephen continue to get out of control on her Level Five specials.
{ooc: what do you want Angela to do? Just give him the injection or knock him out? lol}
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Post by stephenadams on Jun 26, 2009 13:12:40 GMT -5
When Stephen was done with the other special he was able to control himself enough to stop killing people. He went over to the bunk in the cell and sat down, putting his blood drenched hands on his face, he needed that injection soon, he wanted to stop having to fight this hunger, it was taking to much out of him to fight this thing.
Stephen looked at the dead body of the man he had just killed, "Your the fifth person I've killed, isn't it strange, I've always tried to be kind to people, didn't even like the idea of killing someone, yet I've killed more people then most people my age ever will.
Stephen looked up from the cell at the older woman, who was most likely Angela, and his mother, he hoped they would give him the injection soon, though he wouldn't be surprised if they locked him up after what he just did, he had shown them he was a monster, a monster under circumstance, but a monster all the same.
Stephen stood up teleporting in front of his mother and Angela, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to kill all of these people, I just.... couldn't control myself."
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Post by carla on Jun 27, 2009 12:10:40 GMT -5
Carla continued to watch her son go out of control on the specials. She should have remembered about Level Five being in Primatech, if she had remembered, she could have got Angela to come to them, instead, she had to witness her son going crazy and killing somebody. She knew it wasn't her son doing that. Well it was her son, but she knew it was the hunger making him act the way he was.
When Stephen spoke to the person he had killed, Carla put her hand to her mouth in shock, so her son had killed five people. That was indeed a lot of killings for a person as young as Stephen, but Carla knew she couldn't have him in Level Five with the others, it wasn't his place. He was just a young boy. She looked at Angela with a pleading face, he didn't need locking up, he just needed the god damned injection.
The next thing Carla knew Stephen had teleported in front of her and Angela and was apologising. Carla immediately scooped him into her arms in a hug, kissing his forehead. "It's alright Stephen, we know what's causing this, and Angela can stop it." Carla said softly and calmly. She would not, and could not allow for her son to go through this any longer.
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Post by angela on Jun 27, 2009 12:29:06 GMT -5
Angela couldn't believe such a young boy could cause so much damage and killing when she heard Stephen speak and say that this Level Five victim was his fifth killing. But he was just a young boy, and when Angela first started The Company, somebody like Stephen would have been locked up for their own good, but Angela had learned that locking up young people, especially young people with the over active hunger ability did nobody any good. So her mind had already been made up before Carla gave her the pleading eyes.
"Don't worry Carla, I will not be locking up Stephen, he's just young and the hunger was too strong for him, but this is where the injection comes in." Angela explained gently, and when Stephen teleported in front of them and apologised, Angela just laid her hand on his shoulder. "It's really alright, I'll get some of my team to clear up this mess, right now, you will come back to my office with your mother, understand?" Angela said giving him a stern look.
She then made to walk out of the Level Five area guiding Stephen with her hand on his back, and then gesturing to Carla with her other hand to follow them to her office.
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Post by stephenadams on Jun 28, 2009 22:58:12 GMT -5
Stephen was surprised when his mother scooped him up into a hug, he thought she would at least stare at him for awhile, but once again he underestimated how much his mother cared for him, he didn't return the embrace however, he didn't want to get the blood of his victims on his mothers clothes.
Stephen listened to Angela as she told him she was taking him to her office with his mother so he could get the injection, he hoped she didn't have to prepare anything before he got the injection, that she could just stab him with it and be done with the whole thing, otherwise he might lose control again, even then he was fighting his hunger from making him kill everyone of the captives in Level Five.
Stephen followed Angela as she led him toward her office, looking into one of the cells as they left to see the person staring at him in pure terror, this made him want the injection even more, he didn't want people to fear him anymore.
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Post by carla on Jul 2, 2009 5:07:35 GMT -5
Carla couldn't help hugging her son when she did, it had been a natural instinct. She noticed how he didn't hug her back, but she knew the reason for that, although Carla wouldn't have cared, her clothes could easily be washed or replaced, Stephen on the other hand could never be replaced.
When Angela said she wouldn't be locking Stephen up, she just gave Angela a grateful smile, "Thank you so much Angela." Carla couldn't lose her son, not after finding him again. It would simply be too much for Carla to take.
Carla was really grateful for the way Angela was dealing with this situation and the way she was handling Stephen. After all, any other person acting in that way would probably have been locked up long ago. She did as she was told and followed Angela to her office.
"We'll get this sorted Stephen." Carla said, as they continued to walk and Carla finally saw Angela's office a few seconds away. Soon, this would all be over, Stephen would no longer have the hunger, and he could have a normal life again, and maybe even find some friends.
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Post by angela on Jul 2, 2009 5:14:39 GMT -5
Angela nodded at Carla giving her a bright smile, "You're very welcome my dear." She then continued to guide Stephen toward her office, hoping that he wouldn't get a sudden new attack and they'd have to go after him again. However, Angela's office was now just ahead of them and they would be there in a few seconds.
Angela opened her door, and gestured for both Stephen and Carla to sit down at her desk as she immediately went toward her supplies cabinet and took out a cure injection. She then walked over slowly to where both Carla and Stephen would be sitting.
"Now Stephen this will not remove any permanent abilities you have, what this will do however is stop the hunger you constantly feel. Now it can work differently on different people, it may be a permanent cure, you may find that you have to come back and see me in a few months." Angela explained and then turned to Carla to finish her explanation.
"It really just depends on how powerful the hunger is in each individual, someone such as Sylar, would not be stopped with just one injection." She said in a low voice, with darkness in her eyes, she was ashamed to have to admit that Sylar was indeed a part of her family.
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Post by stephenadams on Jul 4, 2009 16:09:37 GMT -5
Stephen stared the the injection as Angela pulled it out of a cabinet, wishing he had heard of this earlier so he could have stopped killing people before he had begun. If he had he would have never had to live by himself for months, become an unknown criminal, and might never had met Henry, who he almost killed and had almost killed him. His ribs still hurt from that shock wave they had both created.
Stephen listened as Angela told him that the injection worked differently on certain people, some it was permanent and others only lasted for a few months or so.
Stephen hoped it would be permanent,he didn't want to be living a nomral life then all of the sudden go on a killing spree every few months, he didn't think he could live with that, he silently prayed that his will was just weak and his hunger wasn't as strong as he thought it was.
"Alright, lets hurry up and inject me before I lose control of my hungr again." Stephen said, he didn't feel that he would be losing control anytime soon but he didn't care, he wanted to lose his hunger now.
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Post by angela on Jul 5, 2009 6:52:23 GMT -5
{skipping Carla and posting as Angela, as there seemed nothing Carla could do in a post at this moment}
Angela hoped for Stephen and his mom's Carla's sake that the injection would prove permanent. Nobody wanted to have the hunger, and Angela was certain no mother would want their son to have the hunger. It was a terrible thing which consumed you. It took over your life. Angela knew that by watching Sylar, a man who was a part of her family and whom Angela despised because of the hunger and the hate, and the killing.
When Stephen agreed to have himself injected, Angela approached him with a warm smile and rolled up his sleeve and then injected it straight into a clearly visible vein on Stephen's arm. "It should work almost instantly and if you do feel like you're beginning to lose control in a few months, come back and see me." Angela said warmly as she gave him another smile.
"However" Angela continued, taking a breath, "You do not seem anywhere near as powerful as Sylar, so this should be a permanent solution." She finished, and then turned to Carla, "You did the right thing bringing him to me, you should have a peaceful life together now."
With that, Angela made her way to the door, and held it open for both Carla and Stephen to leave.
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