Similar yet different (Emilie, Peter (later))

[shadnicth]

As soon as Matt saw Peter walking up to him, he quickly walked up to him, Hearing Emilie speak.
"It's ok... I found someone." He said, stopping in front of Peter as he began to speak. The name... Peter Petrelli?! This was pure luck. But this wasn't the time to be thinking about that, he had to get Emilie better. As Peter began asking questions, Matt simply nodded as he explained some of the symptoms he had seen.

"Yeah, she's fainted multiple times, had nosebleeds... She spoke about her mother having a tumour or something..." He said, as he watched Peter walk into a room, calling Matt to bring her there. He nodded as he followed him, laying her gently on the bed as Peter dialled the nurse station. Then the question came... The evolved human one. Matt simply looked at Peter.

"Yeah... I can do what you can do, Peter. I'm a friend of Matt Parkman. I don't know if he already called you about me... I'm Matt Tobruk... And I need your help as well." He said, looking at Peter.

[peter]

Peter gave the guy a smile as he spoke to, his sister, or girlfriend, telling her he had found someone. Well, he had, hopefully he could help the girl, if not himself, he might be able to assist in the situation at the very least. Peter had then asked the guy a few questions with regards to the girl he had brought in, who seemed, to Peter at least, to look very ill indeed. She seemed to have passed out again, while he spoke with the younger guy.

As the guy explained some of her symptoms, a frown formed on Peter's forehead, this didn't sound very good to him, especially the fact the girl's mother had a tumor. So, she must have been his girlfriend then, as he wouldn't have said 'her mother' if she was his sister, as he'd have surely said 'our mother'. "The symptoms sound very similar, or at least of a similar nature." After Peter phoned for more help, he returned to the young couple.

"If she does have a tumor, they're very good here, so don't worry, she'll be in the safest of hands." Peter had then asked the younger guy about being in Evolved Human. Peter was usually good at sensing them, what with having the ability to absorb powers, or at least, did have the ability to absorb plenty of powers a while ago, until his father took them all from him and left him as a normal human.

He was able to get an ability back, but now his ability was contact mimic only, and he could only hold one ability at a time. When the younger guy spoke, Peter was soon aware of the name. "Right, yeah, Matt did contact me about you. Didn't think we would have met in these circumstances however." He gave him a warm smile, and put his hand on Matt's shoulder. "So, you can do what I can do? In what way? I'm not sure if you know, but my ability isn't how it used to be, if you know about me well. I'm a contact mimic, but I can only hold one ability at a time, not like before, when I could absorb powers without touch, and I could hold much more than I can now." Peter explained, and then Matt said he was needing Peter's help as well.

He wondered how the young Matt could need his help as well, but Peter, being Peter, would do everything he could to help as much as he could. Just then a doctor came into the room. He went right to Emilie, and shone a light into her eyes. He then put a light into her ears. He then turned to Matt and Peter, "This doesn't look very good, I'm afraid, it would be advisable to bring her for a scan, so we can determine the outcome more." With that the doctor looked at Peter.

"Bring the bed to the scan room Peter, and obviously show the young gentleman the way, I'll meet you there." And with that the doctor left Peter and Matt alone together. "Alright Matt, I'll do what I can to help you, but let's get your girlfriend sorted first, alright?" Peter then released the brakes on the bed, and began to wheel it in the direction of where the doctor had told him to take Emilie and Matt.

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"Thank you" Matt said as Peter said Emilie would be taken care of by the doctor. He wondered how Peter could mimic powers, which was soon answered when he said that he was a contact mimic, like Matt himself. However he could only retain one ability at a time. It seemed like a weaker version of his own ability.

"Hey, I'm a contact mimic too! Only I need to touch their skin and I can hold on to all the powers I pick up. Actually, I need to learn how not to pi..." Matt began when the doctor came in, examining Emilie and saying she needed to get scanned.
"What? What does that mean?" Matt asked, looking at Peter as he began to roll Emilie away. Matt followed them, his eyes filled with fear.

"OK... Please take care of her..." Matt replied to Peter's comments about helping Emilie.

[peter]

Peter gave Matt a smile when he admitted he was a contact mimic too, but he could retain all abilities he came into contact with. "I see." Peter rubbed his chin then with his finger and thumb, "I used to be like that, able to absorb any power I came into contact with, it could get very hectic in my head at times, not knowing what ability I had empathically absorbed without knowing." It had taken Peter quite a bit of time to stop absorbing abilities unless he wanted to, it hadn't been easy.

He was sure Matt was about to ask him about that very thing, when the doctor came into the room and he was stopped from finishing his sentence. The doctor then said Emilie needed to be taken for a scan, and Peter heard Matt ask in a scared voice what that meant. "The doctor needs to confirm what's going on in Emilie's head. If she does have a tumor like her mother, this will let us know." Peter explained in a caring voice, as he put his hand on Matt's shoulder and gave it a gentle tap of reassurance.

Peter had said he would help Matt, but to make sure his girlfriend was alright first. Matt said okay but they were to take care of her. "She's in the best hands Matt." With that Peter began to wheel the bed through to the scan room as the doctor had asked him to do. Once he reached the scan room and helped lift Emilie off the bed and onto the scan table, Peter left the room and went back outside to talk to Matt some more.

"So, we have a bit of time, while they try to find out what's going on with Emilie, what exactly was it you needed my help for Matt?" Peter really couldn't wait any longer to find out, being the type of man he was, always eager to help people, he needed to know how he could help the younger guy.

[shadnicth]

Matt couldn't help but feel a sense of warmth as Peter placed his hand on his shoulder, almost as though Matt felt the outcome would be good. He simply smiled and nodded as Peter went inside, helping the doctor get Emilie set up. He watched Peter walk back out, coming to Matt and asking what he could do to help him.

"As I told you before, my power is to mimic the abilities of others through skin contact. But I can't control whether I absorb a power or not. Whenever I touch them, I just pick up their power. You said that you could choose when you picked up a power. Can you teach me how to do that?" Matt asked, looking at Peter with a weak smile.

[peter]

Once Peter had made sure Matt's girlfriend was set up in the scan room he went out to Matt, to let the doctor do what he had to do to find out what was going on with Emilie. He had asked Matt what he could do to help him. When Matt began to speak, Peter had an idea that's what he was going to ask him. He shook his head slightly, and looked at him with a weak smile of his own, as he touched his chin with his finger and thumb again. Then looking at him with a side ways glance so his fringe was falling over his eyes slightly, he sighed gently and looked at him.

"I'm not going to lie to you Matt, it's not an easy thing to do, took me a good few weeks to master how to tune in and out of whether I wanted to absorb a power or not. When my ability changed to contact and retaining one ability at a time, I had already mastered how to choose what I wanted." He began to explain, wondering how he was going to help this guy. What could he say to help him? He sighed again. "It's probably going to sound crazy, but it works, or at least it did for me. You have to focus on not wanting an ability to learn to then focus to gain one. Does that make any sense to you at all?" Peter's voice was soft but hopefully understanding.

Just then the doctor came back out again. His face looked grim. "I'm afraid, the prospect isn't very good. Emilie has a very large tumor, and it's a wonder she hasn't become ill before now. It's aggressive, and too far advanced, nothing can help her. I'm very, very sorry." The doctor's voice was sincere, but there seemed to be little empathy in it, however, the doctor was just doing his job. He then went back into the scan room to switch off the machines and was back out again.

"Peter, you may as well make her as comfortable as possible." Peter gave the doctor a nod of his head and then once the doctor was out of earshot, he put his hand on Matt's shoulder again. "Matt, what abilities have you retained so far?" He said the words in almost a whisper and leaned in close, so as not to be overheard by anybody who may be walking passed them.

[shadnicth]

Matt simply nodded as Peter explained what his ability was and how the key to not absorbing an ability lied in focus... Again. It seemed every power came down to focus. But his ability was different to Matt's. He could only retain one power. Matt can hold all the powers he mimicked.

"Focus... That's exactly what Mr. Parkman told me about telepathy." Matt said, smiling as he shook his head. When the doctor came out, Matt turned to him, his expression changing to one of concern. As soon as the doctor said that Emilie had a tumour and that it was far too aggressive for treatment, Matt's expression changed again...

He looked frozen, as though he had just died. Then the doctor said he was sorry and as he told Peter to make her comfortable, Matt felt a little dizzy as he shook his head. He began to shake a little, his body's way of coping with the shock. He then broke down. He walked away to a chair nearby, sitting on it and dropped his head into his hands, sobbing uncontrollably as he let all the hurt out, unable to contain it anymore.

He stopped as Peter placed his hand on Matt's shoulder, still sniffling a little as Peter asked him what his abilities were. Matt raised his head, looking at Peter, his eyes still teary.
"I can heal... Read minds, move things with my mind, and run really fast... But what does that matter... Emilie's dying... Just like everyone else in my life. She's gonna die like everyone else did... And here I am, having the power to heal myself, probably gonna live forever whilst everyone else around me drops like flies..." He said, dropping his head back into his hands, sobbing again.

[peter]

Peter gave Matt a weak smile when he repeated the word focus and then explained Matt Parkman had told him the same thing about telepathy. Peter noticed Matt shake his head, it probably was quite funny to have approached two well known Evolved Humans and be told the same thing on how to control your ability and different aspects of it. "Yeah, unfortunately that's what controlling an ability comes down to, focus. You must feel like you're not being told anything different?" Peter said the words with empathy in his voice, feeling as if he probably wasn't really helping the young Matt at all.

"It's basically learning to have more self control, that when you reach out to someone, say to yourself over and over, do not need ability, do not need ability, and eventually, you'll learn that you can touch someone without immediately taking their power. After all, I'm fairly certain not everybody you come into contact with will be like us."

That's when the doctor came out, and gave Matt and Peter the bad news about his girlfriend. Right away Peter's heart went out to the younger lad, but then a thought crossed his mind. He told Peter he was a power mimic, had he been lucky enough to mimic the power of regeneration, because if he had, then Matt would be able to help his girlfriend, and become her true hero, in more ways than one. So when the doctor left them and asked Peter to make Emilie comfortable, before he did so, he asked Matt, who was really in no fit state to talk, about the abilities he had already retained.

"I'm really sorry Matt." Peter said, as he touched Matt's shoulder, as he sat down beside him, with his hands folded and hanging off his knees. Looking at him from the side, so his fringe was falling over his eyes. Matt told him, what abilities he had retained but also said what did it matter, Emilie was dying. "I'm sorry I didn't put the question to you better Matt, but there was a reason why I asked you, and now I know the answer, you can help Emilie, Matt. You can save her. You can give Emilie a blood transfusion, your blood with the regeneration fused together with her own, if we give her enough, should save her Matt."

He hoped he'd managed to get through to him, because he noticed that the younger lad was now sobbing rather heavily, something he couldn't blame him for, because his girlfriend was dying. But she didn't have to. To make sure Matt had caught what he was saying, he put his hand gently on Matt's shoulder, "You did hear what I said Matt?" He asked, as he continued to glance at him with his head tilted to the side.

[shadnicth]

As Matt sat on the chair, his ears perked up as Peter mentioned Matt's ability to heal. Healing others through the use of blood... He'd never heard of it. He looked up to Peter, his eyes filled with hope as he beamed into a teary smile.
"I... can save her... with my blood?" Matt asked Peter, getting up off his chair, his body suddenly filled with energy, as opposed to feeling weak about 2 minutes ago.

"Take it... Take it all." Matt said, rolling up the sleeves on his jacket.
"I need to save her." He said, looking at Peter as an idea popped into his head. Peter had mentioned that he could only mimic one power at a time... but if Peter were to mimic Matt's power... He could hold multiple powers!

"Peter... Thank you for explaining that to me... I... I'd like to you to mimic my ability, so that you can hold more than one power. It's the least I can do to say thank you..." He said, looking at Peter, hoping that he would accept it.

[peter]

Peter wondered if he'd been able to get through to Matt when he spoke about his blood saving Emilie. Then Peter saw Matt begin to look at him, with a smile through his tears. He then basically repeated what Peter had said to him in a question getting up from his seat. "Yes Matt, you can save her. My niece saved her dad Noah once with her blood, although she never knew it." Peter couldn't help but smile, seeing the new lease of life so to speak in Matt.

Matt then began to roll up his sleeves, saying to take it, take it all, he had to save her. Peter stood up, and put a hand on Matt's shoulder again. "Alright Matt, although, we probably won't need it all." He tilted his head to the side, giving him that typical smile and wink combination Peter was famous for. Not a proper wink, just a subtle one that seemed to come automatically with the smile and tilt of the head. Peter was about to lead Matt into the room to get him hooked up to Emilie to start the blood transfusion when Matt began to speak to him.

Peter looked at Matt and took in everything he said. "Well, saving people is what I like to do, if I can. That's why I told you that information, but..." Peter trailed off, being able to retain more than one ability would benefit Peter, he knew that, but he didn't like just taking abilities now, unless he really needed it. "Are you sure?" He asked, he didn't just want to do it, and then have Matt say that he wished he hadn't or something.

But looking at Matt, Peter didn't think that he had been kidding with him. "It would be good to have my old power back, I can't deny that." Peter gave Matt a smile then, "But, let's get you hooked up to Emilie, before it might be too late. I have no idea how long she has." Peter didn't want to be so morbid about it, but if she was as bad as the doctor was making out, they might run out of time soon.

"I'll be right back." Peter said as he rushed off to one of the medical rooms and came back within minutes with a blood transfusion machine. He then hooked up the machine to Emilie, before turning and hooking up the other tube to Matt and switched it on. "This shouldn't take too long, for Emilie to receive enough blood to help her." Peter then wondered what would happen when the doctor came back in and saw that Emilie had fully recovered. He hadn't thought of that, he began to frown.

"Not sure how we're going to explain Emilie's remarkable recovery to the doctor however." Once the transfusion of blood was finished, only then would Peter consider copying Matt's ability. He couldn't help but smile at the thought of having more powers again. He'd be able to help so many more people, and become the hero he used to be.

[shadnicth]

Matt simply laughed a little as Peter asked him if he was sure of his decision to allow Peter to mimic his power.
"No Peter, I only mentioned it just to get your hopes up, so I could shoot them down," Matt said in a mock voice, rolling his eyes at the end before smiling at Peter.
"Of course I'm serious, silly!" He said, patting Peter on the arm just before he ran off to get the machine that would allow Matt to save Emilie's life.

When Peter returned and hooked Matt up, expressing his concern about how to explain the recovery of Emilie to the doctor at the same time, Matt simply frowned, the needle not bothering him.
"Well... Who said he has to know? I can make him think that we were here to for a routine check up?" Matt said, tapping his head to illustrate his ability of telepathy.

"Such as I can tell your thinking about whether to mimic my power or not... Look Peter, you're a hero. Someone I hope to be like. It'd be my honour to help you regain use of multiple powers. Just remember you have to touch someone to mimic them, not just be around them." He said, looking at Peter as he watched his blood flow into Emilie.
"Who knows... Maybe I could get a job here too?" He said, making subtle hints to Peter about his interest in helping people.

[peter]

When Peter asked Matt if he was sure about him taking his power to be able to get multiple powers which he could retain, he heard Matt laugh a little, and then he said in a mocking voice that he was just building Peter's hopes up to shoot them down, then said of course he was serious. "I'm sorry, it's just I never take anything for granted, I never make assumptions, so naturally I just wanted to make sure." He then went to get the machine to hook up Emilie to Matt to give her the transfusion.

When Peter had voiced his concern about telling the doctor about Emilie's sudden miraculous recovery, Matt spoke of using the telepathic side of his power. Peter wouldn't normally like that kind of thing to happen, but in this case, it would probably be for the best. That way, they could save Emilie without any problems. So Peter began to nod his head, "Alright, although I wouldn't normally agree to something like that, but this is a necessary thing."

It wouldn't take too much longer, in fact, Emilie should, if it had indeed worked like Peter hoped it would, begin to open her eyes and talk soon enough. In the meantime Peter was still mulling over the prospect of taking Matt's power from him. Then Matt spoke more about his telepathic side, saying he knew he was wondering whether to mimic his power or not. Peter just gave him a weak smile then. Then he listened to Matt as he continued to speak, saying Peter was a hero, and one Matt would want to be like and continued to say maybe he could work at the hospital too to help people.

"Alright then Matt, thanks. I will do it." Peter then walked toward Matt, and placed his hand on his shoulder, closing his eyes for a few seconds, as he concentrated, and soon he began to feel the new power surge through him. He looked at Matt then, "Thanks. I've got it, I can feel it in me." Just then he began to hear stirring behind him, and he turned to see Emilie, who was now moving about on the bed, and her eyes were opened.

"Hey, welcome back to the land of the living. How you feeling?" Peter asked her in a soft voice, looking into her eyes, which seemed to be a lot brighter, than they were before. Knowing that it had worked, he stopped the machine and unhooked Emilie from it first, and put a dressing over where they IV had been, and then went to do the same thing to Matt.

"Looks like she's back with you. Maybe I should give you some alone time, oh, and I'll see somebody about putting you forward for a position as a paramedic if you wish?" He waited for Matt's response before he left the room, to leave the couple and give them some alone time. He was also going to get the doctor to come into the room and speak with Matt, it was all he could think of without giving anything away, so Matt could do what he had to, to cover for the fact that Emilie had made a full recovery.

[shadnicth]

Matt couldn't help but smile when he saw Peter reach out to touch him, saying that he would indeed mimic his power.
"Well that's one of our problems solved..." Matt said as he heard Emilie stirring in her wake, whipping his head to see her.
"Emilie?! Emilie! It worked!" Matt said, smiling as he felt Peter pull the IV out of him, dressing the wound on Matt.

"Peter, there's no need to do that, remember?" He said, refering to his healing ability as he listened to Peter saying that he would look into Matt becoming a paramedic.
"Cool... Thanks again Peter. You really are the hero that Mr. Parkman told me about..." He said, looking at Peter with a gentle smile, before turning to Emilie.
"You ok?" He asked her.

[peterp]

When Matt said that was one problem solved when Peter had finally mimicked his ability, he tilted his head to the side and gave him that quirky half smile. The next thing he knew Emilie was stirring, and Matt began to say her name in quite an excited and happy voice. Peter immediately felt warm inside knowing he'd helped to save the young woman's life. "Yes it worked, although she might be a little unsteady, or shaky, so don't over excite her too much." Peter warned, just in case.

He had then without thinking went to put a wound dressing on Matt when he took out the IV. Naturally Matt reminded him he didn't have to do that. He put the heel of his hand up to his forehead, giving Matt a weak smile. "Of course, kind of forgot about that, silly me." He chuckled slightly, shaking his head. How could he have forgotten that? The guy was feeding his blood through to his girlfriend to save her life.

Peter tilted his head to the side again when Matt said he really was the hero Matt Parkman had made him out to be. He gave him a warm smile, again feeling good about what Matt was saying to him. "Well, thank you." He then left the young couple alone, and immediately put Matt's name down for a paramedic position.

[emilie]

The last thing Emilie had remembered was taking a massive pain in her head, and then passing out. The whole time she was unconscious she wasn't aware of what had been going on around her. She didn't know that she was dying, even if she had seen her dead twin and a white light earlier in the evening. She hadn't even been aware that Matt had met Peter Petrelli already, and she certainly didn't know if it hadn't been for Peter telling Matt he could use his blood to save her, she most probably wouldn't be stirring now.

As she heard that familiar voice of Matt's, a very slow smile spread across her face. Her head was still feeling a little sore, bruised for want of a better word. At least that's what her mom used to say it was when she still had pains in her head after having a migraine. Matt then asked if she was okay. She wasn't sure. She felt much better than when she had been back at the house, that was for sure. Then she remembered what had happened before she'd passed out, and remembered their conversation. "Matt? Did you mean what you said about, you know, me living with you and your brothers?"

It wasn't that she didn't believe him exactly, she was just more worried about his brothers, and what they would think if he suddenly brought his girlfriend to live with them. However, thinking back, she knew she wasn't safe in that house anymore. Stephen had vanished, god knows where again, and her mom was nowhere to be seen, really, right now, in this time, Matt was all she had. "It's just, I don't think I've got anyone now." She ran a hand through her hair messily and she could feel the tears well in her eyes. She didn't want to get upset, knowing guys never liked it, but with everything coming flooding back to her, she couldn't help but get upset.

Just then a doctor came into the room, and he had a look of pure shock on his face from what Emilie could see. He looked from Emilie to Matt and back to Emilie. His mouth was opening and closing like a goldfish. "What?! I don't understand?! How can this be?!" He kept asking in exclamation. It must have been some kind of miracle, that girl was dying. Emilie then realised what must have happened, and she looked at Matt with a worrying expression.

However, before Matt could say anything to the doctor, he walked over to him with papers in his hands, "These are for you, Peter told me about you wishing to become a paramedic, this is the application, we would be honoured to have you on board, you will however have to attend university to get a medical degree, but you can certainly work here as an intern." He then looked at Emilie again, and just shook his head, finding it difficult to believe she was sitting there, looking bright.