Believe It or Not (I'm Walking on Air)
Title: Believe It or Not (I'm Walking on Air)
Fandom: Heroes/Stargate: SG1 (RPverse)
Characters: Melody O'Neill (OC), Mitch O'Neill (OC), Cameron Mitchell, Jon O'Neill (clone Jack), Claire Bennet, Peter Petrelli, Nathan Petrelli, Elle Bishop
Note: Part of the (apparently revived) Oz Verse. This is absolutely Ne's fault.
It took more than a year before they noticed anything. By that point, Mitch was nearing six and hadn’t shown any signs of having abilities like his mother so they naturally assumed that Melody didn’t have any either. Shortly after her first birthday, the kids were playing in another room and Melody started screaming. Claire, Jon, and Cam ran in from different rooms in the house to find their daughter sitting in the middle of the room with big, fat tears running down her face.
Claire scooped the girl up and immediately began checking her over for blood or some other indication of what happened.
“Mitch, what happened?” Cam asked.
“She felled over that,” the boy said, pointing to a toy in the room.
Jon picked up the car and noticed a spot of blood on it. “Looks like it must have scraped her or something. Where’s she bleeding?”
“She’s not,” Claire said, looking at her boys with an extremely confused expression. “There was a spot of blood on her leg, but no scratch or any other mark.”
All three adults exchanged a look. “Do you think she…” Cam started to say but trailed off, not sure how to ask the question they were all thinking.
Noticing that Mitch was watching them intently, Jon interrupted. “Let’s talk about it later. Isn’t almost bed time?”
An hour later, once both kids were settled in bed, the three sat in the living room. “Do you think it’s possible?” Jon asked.
“It could be,” Claire said. “There’s definitely a genetic component to it. It doesn’t always run in families, but it obviously can.” Her family was an excellent example of that.
“She’s never been sick,” Cam pointed out. “Mitch had at least three earaches by her age.”
“How do we know for sure?” Claire asked. “I mean, I’m not about to cut her with a knife or break her arm.” Clearly those things were okay for Claire to try at sixteen, but this was her baby daughter.
“Take her to the mountain,” Jon said. “Lam can run some tests and tell us.”
“Be nice if we didn’t have to worry about her breaking bones like her big brother,” Cam admitted. They all loved their son, but he was a bit accident prone.
Claire sighed. “I guess we don’t have a choice. We should definitely know what’s going on.”
Cameron leaned over and kissed her forehead. “I’ll take care of it tomorrow.”
Within a week, they had the answer. Melody’s blood definitely had the same genetic markers that Claire’s had, indicating she did have the ability to heal. Knowing that was the case didn’t really change anything for the family. They weren’t about to let their daughter take unnecessary risks, regardless of her ability to heal from them. Things went on as before but they worried just a little bit less about Mel and saved a lot on doctor’s bills for her.
That all changed a year later when they took a family trip to New York City to visit Nathan and Peter for the first time since Melody was a baby.
It was a beautiful spring day. Claire was off having a girl’s day out with Elle and the guys decided to take Mitch and Melody to the park to burn off some energy.
“Up, grampa!” Melody demanded, holding her arms out for Nathan to carry her.
“Mel, you’re a big girl,” Cam said. “You can walk.”
Nathan had a soft spot for his granddaughter (brought on largely by guilt over not being there for his daughter growing up) and waved off Cameron’s concerns. “It’s fine. I don’t mind carrying her,” he said, kissing her cheek repeatedly while she giggled.
Once they got to the park, the kids ran around, having a great time. Mitch convinced Uncle Peter to climb the monkey bars with him and they waved down to the others from the top.
“Me go up!” Melody said, squirming out of Nathan’s arms and toddling towards the monkey bars.
“No, Mel, you’re too little,” Jon said, reaching out to grab her.
“No, I go up!” she insisted, raising her arms and startling everyone when she zoomed up from the ground to a spot way above the monkey bars.
“What the hell?!” Cameron exclaimed.
Nathan reacted by flying up to meet her and grabbing her before she could get scared and plummet to the ground. Once they were safely on the ground, they made a quick exit from the park and headed back to Nathan’s brownstone.
Mitch was rambling on, asking a million questions about what his sister had done when Claire returned home with Elle in tow. One glance at the looks on Cameron, Jon, Peter, and Nathan’s faces had her immediately on edge.
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
“Melody FLEW like Grampa!” Mitch said.
Claire blinked. “She did WHAT?” All four adults began talking at once. Claire could feel a headache forming. “Okay, one at a time.”
Once they explained what happened, Peter offered a potential explanation. “What if she doesn’t have your ability,” he suggested. “What if she has mine?”
“Then we’re all in trouble,” Jon remarked.
“Melody, come here,” Claire said, calling her daughter over from where she was laying in front of the TV watching a Disney movie.
“I sowwy, Mommy,” she said, immediately giving her mom a hug.
“Oh, sweetie, you don’t have to apologize,” Claire said, kissing her cheek. “You just scared Daddy, Poppa, Uncle Peter, and Grampa. Can you show mommy what you did?”
Melody stepped back and put her arms up. “Go up!” she yelled. Everyone watched expectantly but nothing happened. The adults all looked at each other, puzzled by this turn of events.
“Hey, Mel,” Elle said. “Can you do this?” She concentrated hard and formed an arc of energy between her hands.
Melody put her hands up, scrunched up her face, and tried to mimic Elle. Again, nothing happened.
“Okay, this has officially gotten weirder,” Cameron said.
“Maybe we should call Mohinder,” Peter suggested. “He may have some explanation.”
While they were talking, Melody walked over to Elle and touched her hand. “Do again?” she requested.
Elle made the arc of electricity appear and bounced it between her hands a few times. Melody watched intently and put her hands up again. This time, a bolt of electricity shot from her hand and hit the wall across the room.
“Woah,” Jon said. “Mel, put your hands down please.”
Melody frowned at her hand. “Hurts, Mommy.”
Claire took her daughter’s hand and looked at the burn mark in the center of her palm. Before she could show anyone else, the mark disappeared.
Cameron looked around. “Okay, seriously. What the hell is going on here?”
“I think I know,” Peter said. “I think she has something similar to my ability except she actually has to touch someone to get it. Nathan was carrying her right before she flew. When she tried to fly here, it was after touching Claire. She shot the electricity after touching Elle and healed from it after touching Claire again.”
“So she doesn’t retain them either,” Nathan pointed out. “She can only use the power of whoever she touched most recently.”
Jon looked at Elle. “Please don’t ever touch my daughter again.”
“Not a problem,” Elle agreed.
“That doesn’t explain the blood tests that Lam ran last year though,” Cam said.
“Sure it does,” Claire replied. “At that point, she hadn’t had contact with anyone else who had abilities in several months. And being her mother, I had enough contact with her that she held my power pretty much all the time. It also explains why she never got sick.”
“So basically we just have to be really careful who she touches,” Jon said.
Peter nodded. “For now, it’s probably best if you keep her grounded to Claire’s ability. When she gets older, we can try to train her with other people’s abilities.”
That made Nathan curious. “I wonder what she gets when she touches you, Pete?”
“I’d rather not find out today,” Cameron said.
Everyone seemed to agree with that. Melody got bored with all the grown up talk and wandered off to watch her movie some more.
“This is going to be interesting,” Jon remarked.
“I’d say that’s an understatement,” Claire agreed.
They had no idea how right they were.
Fandom: Heroes/Stargate: SG1 (RPverse)
Characters: Melody O'Neill (OC), Mitch O'Neill (OC), Cameron Mitchell, Jon O'Neill (clone Jack), Claire Bennet, Peter Petrelli, Nathan Petrelli, Elle Bishop
Note: Part of the (apparently revived) Oz Verse. This is absolutely Ne's fault.
It took more than a year before they noticed anything. By that point, Mitch was nearing six and hadn’t shown any signs of having abilities like his mother so they naturally assumed that Melody didn’t have any either. Shortly after her first birthday, the kids were playing in another room and Melody started screaming. Claire, Jon, and Cam ran in from different rooms in the house to find their daughter sitting in the middle of the room with big, fat tears running down her face.
Claire scooped the girl up and immediately began checking her over for blood or some other indication of what happened.
“Mitch, what happened?” Cam asked.
“She felled over that,” the boy said, pointing to a toy in the room.
Jon picked up the car and noticed a spot of blood on it. “Looks like it must have scraped her or something. Where’s she bleeding?”
“She’s not,” Claire said, looking at her boys with an extremely confused expression. “There was a spot of blood on her leg, but no scratch or any other mark.”
All three adults exchanged a look. “Do you think she…” Cam started to say but trailed off, not sure how to ask the question they were all thinking.
Noticing that Mitch was watching them intently, Jon interrupted. “Let’s talk about it later. Isn’t almost bed time?”
An hour later, once both kids were settled in bed, the three sat in the living room. “Do you think it’s possible?” Jon asked.
“It could be,” Claire said. “There’s definitely a genetic component to it. It doesn’t always run in families, but it obviously can.” Her family was an excellent example of that.
“She’s never been sick,” Cam pointed out. “Mitch had at least three earaches by her age.”
“How do we know for sure?” Claire asked. “I mean, I’m not about to cut her with a knife or break her arm.” Clearly those things were okay for Claire to try at sixteen, but this was her baby daughter.
“Take her to the mountain,” Jon said. “Lam can run some tests and tell us.”
“Be nice if we didn’t have to worry about her breaking bones like her big brother,” Cam admitted. They all loved their son, but he was a bit accident prone.
Claire sighed. “I guess we don’t have a choice. We should definitely know what’s going on.”
Cameron leaned over and kissed her forehead. “I’ll take care of it tomorrow.”
Within a week, they had the answer. Melody’s blood definitely had the same genetic markers that Claire’s had, indicating she did have the ability to heal. Knowing that was the case didn’t really change anything for the family. They weren’t about to let their daughter take unnecessary risks, regardless of her ability to heal from them. Things went on as before but they worried just a little bit less about Mel and saved a lot on doctor’s bills for her.
That all changed a year later when they took a family trip to New York City to visit Nathan and Peter for the first time since Melody was a baby.
It was a beautiful spring day. Claire was off having a girl’s day out with Elle and the guys decided to take Mitch and Melody to the park to burn off some energy.
“Up, grampa!” Melody demanded, holding her arms out for Nathan to carry her.
“Mel, you’re a big girl,” Cam said. “You can walk.”
Nathan had a soft spot for his granddaughter (brought on largely by guilt over not being there for his daughter growing up) and waved off Cameron’s concerns. “It’s fine. I don’t mind carrying her,” he said, kissing her cheek repeatedly while she giggled.
Once they got to the park, the kids ran around, having a great time. Mitch convinced Uncle Peter to climb the monkey bars with him and they waved down to the others from the top.
“Me go up!” Melody said, squirming out of Nathan’s arms and toddling towards the monkey bars.
“No, Mel, you’re too little,” Jon said, reaching out to grab her.
“No, I go up!” she insisted, raising her arms and startling everyone when she zoomed up from the ground to a spot way above the monkey bars.
“What the hell?!” Cameron exclaimed.
Nathan reacted by flying up to meet her and grabbing her before she could get scared and plummet to the ground. Once they were safely on the ground, they made a quick exit from the park and headed back to Nathan’s brownstone.
Mitch was rambling on, asking a million questions about what his sister had done when Claire returned home with Elle in tow. One glance at the looks on Cameron, Jon, Peter, and Nathan’s faces had her immediately on edge.
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
“Melody FLEW like Grampa!” Mitch said.
Claire blinked. “She did WHAT?” All four adults began talking at once. Claire could feel a headache forming. “Okay, one at a time.”
Once they explained what happened, Peter offered a potential explanation. “What if she doesn’t have your ability,” he suggested. “What if she has mine?”
“Then we’re all in trouble,” Jon remarked.
“Melody, come here,” Claire said, calling her daughter over from where she was laying in front of the TV watching a Disney movie.
“I sowwy, Mommy,” she said, immediately giving her mom a hug.
“Oh, sweetie, you don’t have to apologize,” Claire said, kissing her cheek. “You just scared Daddy, Poppa, Uncle Peter, and Grampa. Can you show mommy what you did?”
Melody stepped back and put her arms up. “Go up!” she yelled. Everyone watched expectantly but nothing happened. The adults all looked at each other, puzzled by this turn of events.
“Hey, Mel,” Elle said. “Can you do this?” She concentrated hard and formed an arc of energy between her hands.
Melody put her hands up, scrunched up her face, and tried to mimic Elle. Again, nothing happened.
“Okay, this has officially gotten weirder,” Cameron said.
“Maybe we should call Mohinder,” Peter suggested. “He may have some explanation.”
While they were talking, Melody walked over to Elle and touched her hand. “Do again?” she requested.
Elle made the arc of electricity appear and bounced it between her hands a few times. Melody watched intently and put her hands up again. This time, a bolt of electricity shot from her hand and hit the wall across the room.
“Woah,” Jon said. “Mel, put your hands down please.”
Melody frowned at her hand. “Hurts, Mommy.”
Claire took her daughter’s hand and looked at the burn mark in the center of her palm. Before she could show anyone else, the mark disappeared.
Cameron looked around. “Okay, seriously. What the hell is going on here?”
“I think I know,” Peter said. “I think she has something similar to my ability except she actually has to touch someone to get it. Nathan was carrying her right before she flew. When she tried to fly here, it was after touching Claire. She shot the electricity after touching Elle and healed from it after touching Claire again.”
“So she doesn’t retain them either,” Nathan pointed out. “She can only use the power of whoever she touched most recently.”
Jon looked at Elle. “Please don’t ever touch my daughter again.”
“Not a problem,” Elle agreed.
“That doesn’t explain the blood tests that Lam ran last year though,” Cam said.
“Sure it does,” Claire replied. “At that point, she hadn’t had contact with anyone else who had abilities in several months. And being her mother, I had enough contact with her that she held my power pretty much all the time. It also explains why she never got sick.”
“So basically we just have to be really careful who she touches,” Jon said.
Peter nodded. “For now, it’s probably best if you keep her grounded to Claire’s ability. When she gets older, we can try to train her with other people’s abilities.”
That made Nathan curious. “I wonder what she gets when she touches you, Pete?”
“I’d rather not find out today,” Cameron said.
Everyone seemed to agree with that. Melody got bored with all the grown up talk and wandered off to watch her movie some more.
“This is going to be interesting,” Jon remarked.
“I’d say that’s an understatement,” Claire agreed.
They had no idea how right they were.