088 - remember what the door mouse said [voice]

[gray_atonement]

Most historians have agreed that it was the Egyptians, and those of Mesopotamia, who first invented the watch. 1500 BC. BC. They used flowing water to estimate time mechanically. Accurate "clocks" weren't created until nearly 1530 AD, by Italian monks. To know when to hold sermons and prayers. It played a sound, featuring no hands and merely

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[notarrowette]

...I'm sorry about your mother. Why were you pretending to be someone else?

[Private]

[gray_atonement]

It's complicated.

[...SIGH.]

Because I had to convince someone I was dead.. I had the ability to shapeshift. I became someone else.

[Private]

[notarrowette]

So... that's actually their room? The person you were pretending to be?

[Private]

[gray_atonement]

Yes.

I'm asking for my old apartment back.

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[fivestepsahead]

Are you speaking for yourself, or everyone here?

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[gray_atonement]

No one. I'm suggesting an idea, a metaphor. Sometimes I enjoy being a catalyst, the provocation of something more. Reactions are better than accusations.

[Private]
Maybe you need a different metaphor? Think of it as the gun of a desperate father, trying to keep his son from becoming like you. The failure to take proper steps just results in Tim's return to it. The adrenaline, the addiction. Wanting to be different, special.

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[fivestepsahead]

[ Oh he knows that Sylar's trying to provoke him. And this means that Tim told Sylar all this. :| ]

Of course, and any and all implications are unintentional.

Convenient.

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[gray_atonement]

Of course not. You're interesting enough that I'm willing to write stories just for you, Bruce. To show you how much I know about you that you would never tell me yourself, that Tim's greatest loyalty is to me now. I wouldn't want you acting on delusion.

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[peektuttut]

I think we've hit some milestones.

[Private]

[gray_atonement]

Such as?

[Private]

[peektuttut]

We trust each other now, don't we?

Unless you're not really referring to yourself in this at all, and something else is on your mind.

[Private]

[gray_atonement]

..I've been here almost two and a half years. Adam graduated.

Elle disappeared and returned from a different point in time. When I killed her, after we-- I loved her when I first arrived here, when she was with Peter. We had been.. close.. in our world, before I arrived. When I went home, I killed her not long after that, because I thought she'd betrayed me. Maybe she did. I told her, but she never knew. Now she knows all of it. What we had, what I did.

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[future_games]

I'm fine. And you? Am I right to assume the shapeshifting thing worked itself out?

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[gray_atonement]

For now, at least.

Adam graduated.

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[future_games]

You'll figure out how to fix it.

I know. Did he leave?

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[gray_atonement]

Why do you believe in me? After everything I've done to you.

He will, if he hasn't.

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[gray_atonement]

[/rollseyes] You'll have to be more specific if you expect me to know who you are.

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[gray_atonement]

You killed yourself.