Restricted Ardor

Volume 2: Generations

"I love you Nathan!"

"I love you too"

Peter's hands glow red, not sure, if he can control his power much longer. He glances one last time at Claire before his brother holds him, and they fly off into the sky, saving the city from a horrible accident.

A few minutes pass by, and a bomb explodes in the sky.

…..

Claire stared into the sky, a tear dropping down her eye, 'he has to be ok, he just has to be'.

She looked down from the sky and shut her eyes tight, hoping when she opened them, he'd be in front of her, her hero, Peter.

"Honey, let's go home"

Her father was standing behind her holding limping towards her, with a smile spread across his face. A triumphant smile, a smile that signaled he was happy to have both Petrelli men out of her life permanently.

"But our home burnt down" her voice was soft, still in shock.

"Home is wherever your family is," he said hugging her tightly.

She smiled, but couldn't help feel like something didn't feel right. Sure, this was her father, he'd raised her, but it didn't feel that way anymore, it was as if something had changed, with the exploding nuclear bomb.

"I'm sorry Mr. Bennett, but I hate to disagree with you, her home, is with her family, and that is me. I am her grandmother. I thank you for watching over her, but it's time she returned with her real family"

Mr. Bennett turned to face Angela Petrelli. Claire stood behind her father, holding on to his arm, scared, she didn't want to go with her.

"She's my daughter"

"No Mr. Bennett, she is my granddaughter, and we must leave immediately"

Claire began to walk backwards and came to a stop, when she felt someone behind her, it was a tall black man, the Haitian. Before Claire had a chance to get away, he grabbed her arm, "Let me go!" she struggled to get free, but he was stronger than she was.

"Portez la fille à la voiture"

The Haitian nodded, and took Claire towards their car.

Claire looked up at him, "Why is she doing this? She doesn't care about me! I don't want to go with her"

"She has your best interest at heart, you will be safe with her, and you will lead a normal life next to her"

Claire settled into the backseat and crossed her arms, looking out the window towards her dad and Angela arguing, "Normality is vastly overrated"

She looked up at the sky again, sighing.

A couple minutes passed and Angela got into the car with them, smiling, the same fake smile she always put on for Claire.

"Mr. Bennett seems like a reasonable man, but he understands that your place is with us now Claire"

Claire turned once more, and as they started driving away, she looked at her dad, the father she had been raised by. A single tear slipped down her face, not sure, if she'd ever see him again.

"We'll go to Paris now, and leave all this mess behind, we're fortunate to have found you before the bomb went off, I just hope we can leave the city in time now"

Claire frowned and turned to her bio grandmother, "But…it already did, Nathan picked up Peter, and flew away with him…Peter exploded in the sky with Nathan"

Angela looked at her slowly opening her mouth, to object, but no words came out, "No, that's ridiculous, the explosion is inevitable, Nathan has left the city"

The Haitian turned to look at Angela, "Mademoiselle, c'est vrai. la fille dit la vérité"

Her grandmother shook her head; "No it's not the truth, Nathan is fine" Angela looked close to tears. Claire hadn't thought she loved her sons that much.

Claire did something she never thought would have been possible before, she reached for her grandmother's hand, and held it. Angela looked over to her and smiled a different smile, a sad smile.

Somewhere on the coast of New York City

Peter felt as if his body had been torn into a million pieces, and burnt to a crisp. Which when he thought about it, was what had actually happened. He laid on the sand, slowly trying to open his eyes. For a few brief moments, his mind seemed hazy, unable to grasp what had happened, then slowly images of him exploding, and leaving Claire started rushing back into his head.

"Nathan!"

He looked around him, he remembered being in the sky with Nathan, and not being able to stay with him, he had let go of Nathan, and had flown away, as far away as possible, so he couldn't hurt him.

Realization hit him though, no matter how fast he had tried to get away from Nathan, it still probably hadn't been enough. Regardless he stood up, feeling shaky, and soared into the sky, he'd find Nathan, one way or another. He wasn't going to loose his brother, the future wasn't written in stone, he couldn't be dead, he wasn't going to let him die.

His jet-black hair, stuck to his sweaty forehead as he looked down below for any sign of Nathan. He slowed down and frowned, hearing someone's thoughts, soon he was hearing everything. He yelped in pain, it was too much for him, he heard Nathan's though, in all the commotion. It was a simple thought, a selfless one, please let peter be ok, I have to find peter. without thinking about it twice, peter flew straight down, to where he had heard his thoughts. Nathan lay on top of a building, face down, he was evidently hurt.

"Nathan!" Peter bent down to turn him over, "Why did you fall Nathan? Why didn't you keep on flying?"

He didn't respond back, Peter bent down, and looked at his face, he was unconscious. Peter had been reading his thoughts, subconsciously.

He slowly and carefully picked him up, thanks to the blonde he had met at building, when he had fought Sylar. Nathan felt light, and Peter found it easy to fly, and hold him at the same time. He searched for the nearest hospital, he knew that Nathan needed fast medical attention.

"Peter?" he faintly heard.

He looked down to see Nathan's eyes open, and look at him for the slightest second, before they closed again.

Nathan's words had been barely audible, but it was reassurance that he would be ok, at least for now….

To be Continued…

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Please feel free to send flames or simple reviews. It's going to get juicier later on, but you have to start from the beginning to get to the climax. I promise there will be much more Paire later on, with help of reviews. Peter and Claire are related, and I tried to explain this would be wrong, but hey they just don't listen.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters on Heroes, the beginning of the story is the end of how to stop an exploding man, after that it's all my creativity.