Brotherly Love

[chimeramimicry]

I'm almost too late.  I can feel the surge of air in the room before I even pry open the door.  We're up at the penthouse level, the suites.  It's high enough for the broken windows to suck the doors closed.  I'm breathless when I push my way inside.  I see the scuffle.  I hear Nathan's labored breathing.  I have no idea what I do exactly.

It goes back to a time when I lost Nathan.  I was young when my brother went off to serve his country in the Navy.  We're thirteen years apart.  It's a lifetime, really.  I didn't understand that my brother would not be there to wake up to anymore, or to climb into his bed when the monsters came.

The monsters have come again.  One in particular.  One I'm not strong enough to fight.  And yet, he leaves Nathan to me. Badly wounded, hardly breathing, sure.  But alive.  I can almost feel my knees give out as I scoop him up to my chest.  I should go after Sylar.  But I can't move from Nathan's side.

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I feel my eyes fill with tears and a few slip down my cheeks as I nod and squeeze Peter's hand in answer. I want nothing better then to be with him forever. He is my life, my heart and my soul.

I take a deep, deep, breath and speak my true heart for the first time since Peter was born. "I....love....you."

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"I love you too," I say without hesitation. Nathan's told me this before and I've repeated it over and over. It's true. I love him. My smile is soft and I lift my head just in time to see him cry.

Why? These tears are not necessary. I lick my lips, afraid that he's in pain. I don't have sedatives stronger than the stuff you can get over the counter. I should have taken from from the hospital.

I wasn't thinking.

"I'll go see Claire," I whisper. "I'll bring her power back and heal you."