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Post by tony on Oct 19, 2008 22:41:02 GMT -5
Anthony Osborne sighed as he slammed his computer shut. Finally, the case that he had been working on was over with. They had finally found the guy and now he could finally get some rest. He was now off for a little bit. Okay, he really wasn’t off for a while. He was now going to do special work for Angela Petrelli. He wondered if he would be able to help his friend Noah out. He always wanted to do something with evolved humans. He was an evolved human, but only did a few things with the Company or whatever it was now.
He barely got to do anything with the Company. He was a Forensic Scientist who caught human criminals and sometimes he caught evolved humans. However, it wasn’t the thrill like his fellow people were doing. His job was just lame. It would seem to him. He sighed and grabbed his jacket and folder with all the files on the case that was finished. He was going to drop it off for his boss and then proceed to meet Claire Bennet for lunch.
Noah’s adopted daughter, Claire was in town with her biological father and they always tried to do lunch and catch up with one another. Tony hadn’t seen Claire since the Sylar incident. He couldn’t believe that would happen. He was surprised that Sylar would even go after Claire Bennet of all people. There were people that had better powers then hers and yet he chose her. Tony could never figure out why, it would be something that Sylar would want to do that. But then again…he had his run with Sylar. He somehow gained the same ability as him and he was good at controlling it. He hoped one day that he didn’t get that way that Sylar and Peter were like. He could never do that.
Tony sighed as he made his way to his boss’ office. He dropped the file and left the building. He was now finding that little café that Claire wanted to go to. He told the teenager to pick something. He didn’t care where. It just needed to be a good restaurant in Tony’s book. Tony was never picky about places, but he hated certain places. He just hoped that the place that she told him to be had good food. He exited the building and walked down the street. The café that she had picked was down the street from the building where he had work and near Nathan Petrelli’s campaign headquarters.
Mid-Town Manhattan was always nice to have lunch at. Tony saw the café in sat and quickly made his way over to it. He decided to go in and get a table, awaiting Claire. He got a table outside and sat down awaiting the teenager. He hoped that she would show. She trusted him and he wouldn’t do anything stupid to harm her. He wasn’t that kind of person.
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Post by clairebear on Oct 19, 2008 23:11:34 GMT -5
Claire had been staying at the Petrelli's for a couple of days catching up with her biological father. She was missing Sam like crazy, but she felt it was necessary to stay and try and get to know Nathan more. At the same time it was allowing her to meet up with Tony Osborne, whom she looked to as a confidante. She trusted him, possibly more than she trusted her dad Noah and Nathan, but maybe not quite as much as she trusted Sam.
She had agreed to meet up with Tony for lunch while she was in New York, it had been a while since they'd spent any time together, and of course the last time he'd seen her, she hadn't been attacked by Sylar who had managed to take her ability, leave her with it also, and miraculously not kill her, like he had all the others.
He'd said she was special. She didn't want to be special, and since that day she had been depressed and down. The only part of feeling human she was, being able to feel pain, was now gone. Since he'd done what ever it was he'd done to gain her power, had left her unable to feel any pain, and now she didn't know what or who she was anymore.
Sam had told her not to worry, she was the same person, Nathan had said the same thing, yet still after agreeing with them, she was still finding it difficult to come to terms with the way she was now feeling. Finally reaching the cafe where she said she would meet Tony, she opened the door and took a quick look around, finding him almost immediately.
She walked up to him with a smile, trying to cover how she was really feeling. "Hi Tony, how are you?" she asked, as she slipped into the seat opposite where he was sitting.
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Post by tony on Oct 20, 2008 8:35:40 GMT -5
Tony took a sip of water as he watched the crowd wandering when Claire was going to show up. He knew that she would show up soon. She wasn’t like the others she always took visiting people seriously. Which was good in Tony’s opinion. They needed more teenagers like that in society there was no question. The elder man gazed around the people that were walking past the café. He was looking to see if he could find a blond. However, it was hard in New York to even find a blond that you were looking for. New York had a population of one million. Tony preferred California over this city because it was less hectic than this godforsaken place.
The elder man placed down his cup of water that he was sipping on as he saw Claire. He waved to her to come over to where he was sitting. He smiled when she sat down across from him. “I’m doing fine” He in a friendly tone, “So how are you? What is new in Claire Bennet’s life?” He asked with a slight chuckle. Yes, the elder man was trying to be humorous. For some reason, he thought that Claire needed to have a life. He had heard from Noah that she was bit depressed. She couldn’t feel pain anymore. That must have been divesting. Tony couldn’t imagine going through life without feeling pain. He just couldn’t pain was a part of life and people needed it.
Tony didn’t want to inflect on the subject of the pain. So he decided that he would wait until the teenager would say something. He had knew Claire for some time and he always knew that she would come clean or mention it. He wandered if he should have major in psychology. Everyone he knew always came to him for advice and other things. It was kind of weird for a Forensic Scientist to even be something like that. It was odd, then again Tony was the odd ball of the F.B.I. He took another sip of his water and wandered if he should call the waitress over. He decided that he would wait and see what Claire had to say before he would call over the waitress to take their order.
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Post by clairebear on Oct 21, 2008 12:33:16 GMT -5
Claire smiled as Tony said he was fine, she liked to hear that from her friends. When her friends and family were happy, then she was happy.
"I'm glad you're well Tony" she responded with a warm smile, however when he asked how she was, she didn't know what to say. Truth was, she had told both Nathan and Sam how she was really feeling, and they both had told her the same thing, not to worry about it, she was still Claire and still human. But was she?
"Good news and bad news" she said truthfully, as she sighed gently and looked out the window of the cafe and then bit down on her bottom lip before continuing. "Good news, Sam and I officially became a couple" she said rather dreamy, just thinking about Sam made her feel so much better.
"But you probably already know the bad news" she said as she thought back to what Sylar had done to her. She really hadn't felt the same ever since. "Nothing feels right anymore Tony" she continued, running her hands through her hair frantically, "I don't feel anything, I don't feel any pain anymore, I don't feel human, what the hell am I Tony?" she said getting frustrated again, and the tears once again beginning to fall.
She hated this, hated everything about her life, and hated the fact that she has this ability.
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Post by tony on Oct 22, 2008 16:32:31 GMT -5
He bit his lower lip as he raised an eyebrow, “Well, that is good that you and Norton are a couple, I’m happy for you” He said with a smile.
His smile then turned to a frown as he nodded listening to Claire. He didn’t know how it felt he didn’t have his brain open by a killer, a murderer to be exact. To be honest, Tony was disgusted with Sylar and now Peter. He really didn’t know what to expect from those two. They acted like brothers, but they really weren’t were they? He didn’t know. He shouldn’t assume. He had to keep his mouth about that.
“I’m sorry, you feel that way, once he is caught on level five, everything will be well” He sighed “He won’t hurt anyone, and I know it is a shame that he would even do that to do, but the only bright thing is that you survived and that is all that matters, right?” asked Tony wondering to himself if he was even making sense.
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Post by clairebear on Oct 23, 2008 7:18:15 GMT -5
"Thanks Tony, I'm happy for me too" she said with a slight laugh, "He's always been my best friend, now we're soul mates, although it is taking a little bit of getting used to, to say he's my boyfriend now, you know? And dad has been so good about it, which has made life a lot easier" she responded, still smiling. Still dreamily thinking about Sam and what their life could be like.
Her smile faded however as conversation went back to Sylar and what he had done to her. "You're right of course, I mean I know I'm lucky to be alive, but have you any idea what it's like to burn yourself and not feel the pain? It took me long enough to get used to the fact I could heal instantly, but to not even feel the pain, Tony it makes me feel like I'm not human" she explained some more, even though she was in a way repeating what she said before. But feeling that way, unable to feel pain, not feeling human, it really upset Claire.
"I guess, but him being on level five, isn't going to change what he did to me" she didn't mean to be so negative, but she was different now and that was something else she had to try and get used to.
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Post by tony on Oct 24, 2008 8:34:22 GMT -5
“Well, people are supposed to be happy right?” He said with a smile, “Yeah, it takes a while for it to sink in you know when you find someone that your friend is something like that” He responded also with a slight nod. He noticed that she was kind of dreamy. Teenage love, he thought.
He watched her as her smile faded when he spoke of Sylar. “All you want to do is feel pain?” He asked a he raised an eyebrow, “Maybe one day, you will be able to feel pain, you just got to hope you know and maybe you’ll feel human again” He said with a serious, “Listen, I have never told anyone this, but the first power, I ever absorb was Sylar’s power, I don’t understand it, but if I understand it, I might be able to get you back to feel pain” He said with a tone of caution. He had seen what Peter and Sylar could do with the ability and he was lucky, not to be that way yet.
“You’re right, but it is the fact of life, he will be in level five soon” He said “If the Company gets Sylar in level five, then Peter and everyone will be weak without him or something, that is what Angela said to me”
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Post by clairebear on Oct 24, 2008 9:28:27 GMT -5
"Of course people are supposed to be happy" she sad agreeing, "But I'm like uber happy you know? Like my face is going to break with the constant smile that's been on my face since we became a couple" she rambled on slightly. As if he was really interested the life of a teenager in love she thought with a laugh to herself. Actually, Tony was always interested in what she had to say, whether he meant it or was another matter.
"Well no, of course it's not all I want to do, feel pain" she began, and she knew she was probably sounding extremely ridiculous, but she couldn't help herself. "But being able to feel the pain always made me feel human, and now I don't well I begin to wonder what I am" she continued, then looked at him with a quizzical expression. "I'm sorry I'm probably not making any sense to you, but it makes sense to me, trust me" she added with a sad smile.
"Who knows, yeah? Maybe one day I'll actually be able to feel pain again" she said and smiled at him again. Sam and her father Nathan had told her she'd get over it, and asked her not to get upset about it, now Tony was saying the same thing. Maybe she should just get over it already.
"You absorbed Sylar's power? Wow" was all Claire could say really, then took a few deep breaths, "I'm mighty glad you aren't like him then" she added, looking at him with wide open eyes. It was a scary thought to think Tony might get the hunger like Sylar and of course Peter now. Which still saddened her.
"Yeah, it might sound crazy for me to say it, but it would be good to feel pain again, but not at a cost Tony" she responded, smiling this time.
"As much as I don't care for the woman for what she did to my father Nathan, I have to agree with her there, if Peter doesn't have Sylar to be a backup, I think he'll change" she really wanted to believe this. She needed to believe it. She wanted Peter back.
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Post by tony on Oct 24, 2008 12:22:41 GMT -5
Tony decided to drop the subject about Claire and her new boyfriend. He also decieded to drop the pain subject. She would be able to feel pain one day, she thought. It just had to happen, right? Something had to be right and he shouldn’t be thinking this. He was lucky that he could feel pain, also, but he wasn’t sure about it anymore.
Osborne hated feeling pain, but was glad to heal himself. He absorbed that power accidently from Claire. He didn’t know why, but he could only absorb powers once a month. But for whatever reason, he thought he could help Claire, but then again. Why would he want to take the risk? He was the only one on the good side that had the same ability as them, but couldn’t release it like they could. Which was a good thing Tony thought.
“Yes, I did absorb his powers by accident, I was getting a watch fixed and he was the one to fix it, of course, this was before he turned into a monster” He said shaking his head “But knowing me, I could be different with the hunger of course, they will probably be after me once, they figure out that I have the same ability as them.”
He nodded, “But the cost, won’t be such a good idea, the good guys need me, I’m the only other one that has the same ability as Peter” He said
Tony just laughed and nodded, “And you’re looking at the individual that is assigned with getting Sylar to level five, I have a few days off and I’m going to be tracking them for the Company, but I’m sure your father is also on the trail.
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Post by clairebear on Oct 24, 2008 13:50:50 GMT -5
"So you absorbed his power while he was still a watchmaker and knew nothing of his own power?" Claire asked a little incredulously. "That is mad" Claire added, "But I'm glad you aren't like him, and hopefully you never will be" she continued with a weak smile.
She'd never be able to cope without Tony as a friend anymore, life would never be the same again. Okay so she had Sam, Noah and Nathan, but Tony was like her confidante, she'd be utterly lost without him.
"Well then, it's settled you don't help me get my pain back, with a bit of luck it will come back when it's good and ready to" Claire replied, finally deciding that maybe it wasn't such a bad thing she couldn't feel pain after all. She was for all intents and purposes still human.
"So you're the one whose to lock up Sylar?" she asked with a mischievous smile, because she knew if that was the case, then she didn't need to worry, Tony would get him, of that she was sure.
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Post by tony on Oct 24, 2008 22:11:50 GMT -5
Tony bit his lower lip, “Yes, I did small world isn’t it?” He said with a slight chuckle, “And it is crazy” He said shaking his head “Let’s just hope, you do, I could never be like that and I don’t plan on being like that”
He could never see himself like Sylar or even Peter. It sucked that he had absorbed the power, but that was three years ago and everything was different back then. Now, everything was changing. Evolved humans were a part of society. It just seemed odd, maybe they were the next step into the evolution of man.
“I agree, hopefully it will come back” He said with a weak smile. He hoped that her feeling pain would be able to do be normal again. It was just odd to even be in that situation not even feeling human.
Tony shook his head in agreement, “Yeah, I’m the one to lock him up, of course, it probably won’t be that easy, Peter and Sylar have been attached to the hip as if they were twins” He added, not really knowing that they were actually twins.
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Post by clairebear on Oct 25, 2008 9:15:04 GMT -5
"Small world for sure" Claire agreed, "Don't worry, you wont get like them Tony, you're stronger than that, I know you are" Claire responded giving him a warm smile. This whole not feeling human thing, having spoken to Tony, Claire realised it was best to just drop it. How many people seriously liked to feel pain anyway, they probably would jump at the chance to be like her and be unable to feel pain.
"It'll come back, and if it doesn't, maybe being unable to feel pain isn't such a bad thing after all" Claire replied with a smile, "It was just the whole not feeling human which was getting to me, but I know I'm human and so does my family and close friends, that's all that matters right?" she continued with a grin.
"Yeah I imagine it will be difficult to catch them, one of them is bad enough, the two of them together is impossible, and for the record, Peter and Sylar are twins" Claire replied, looking at Tony to see his reaction to this piece of information, as it had certainly shocked her at the time.
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Post by tony on Oct 25, 2008 9:32:34 GMT -5
“Your right, but no one has ever controlled it, I just hope I don’t trigger it, it just would be odd, you know being like one of them” He said with a serious tone. He really wanted to get rid of that power he absorbed. However, he wasn’t sure if it was gonna be that easy, nothing was easy. He bit his lower lip and sighed.
He nodded in agreement, “You’re still human, no matter if the pain never comes back” He said with a smile. It was true, if you couldn’t feel pain, you were still a human being, nothing like that was going to change. It was a part of being a physical human being. It was a part of life.
Tony raised an eyebrow when Claire mentioned that Sylar and Peter were twins. “Petrelli’s like to keep secrets, you know, first you and now Peter having a twin?” He just shook his head, “Well, it is better to take out Sylar then Peter, because Sylar is the strongest of them with that ability, you know?”
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Post by clairebear on Oct 27, 2008 6:59:15 GMT -5
"It is a difficult ability to control Tony, you're right, but well I'm sure you'll manage fine, and if you don't, well we'll just have to sort you out, wont we?" she said with a grin.
She really hoped they wouldn't have to sort out Tony, if he went like Sylar, it would depress the hell out of Claire, because Tony was like one of the older people in her life she really bonded with who weren't her parents.
"Thanks Tony" Claire said when he told her she was still human no matter if the pain came back or not. "You always know the right things to say to me" she added, as she gave him a hug.
"Yeah, the Petrelli Secret Society they should be called" Claire said with a laugh, but she didn't mean it in a bad way, because she was finally beginning to bond with her biological family, apart from Angela. Something about that woman just didn't sit well with Claire at all.
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Post by tony on Oct 29, 2008 8:24:18 GMT -5
“I have people I can go to” He said with a grin. He had either Noah or some other people to go to. He was lucky to have friends. However, he wasn’t sure if he would go to Noah with the problem, if he did activate the ability, that was so deadly. He didn’t want to be like that, but then again it was decision. He absorbed it…and it was his problem.
“That what happens when you meet people with abilities and tell them it will be alright” He said with a grin as he also gave her a hug. He liked Claire, as a friend and he never wanted to lose that little bond that they seemed to have. It was a very interesting bond, for some reason.
“That is true” He said with a laugh, “So you have two uncles who are evil, a sweet granddaughter, what is next Arthur coming out of the grave?” He said shaking his head as he rolled his eyes. The Petrelli family was odd and if Arthur truly came back from the grave, the Petrelli’s were then a very odd family.
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