Yeah, it sucked. It wasn't fun telling Nathan, either, but he had to know. "We didn't believe it. Neither of us. It's just hard to even understand, you know? But after we found Parkman, it was...Sylar's personality was starting to take over."

Okay, this was harder than he even expected. He wiped at his face. "Sylar came after me, and I beat the shit out of him." His smile, at this point, was less than nice. It had been pretty brutal, and Peter didn't regret it, even after everything. "We had your funeral, and I got dumb and tried to do the vigilante hero thing. I was just tired of it always ending up like this, you know? Claire talked some sense into me." Even with how it was probably going to end, it felt good to talk this out. Sylar could only offer so much perspective, especially with what happened here.

"A few days later, Ma came over and told me some of her usual cryptic crap. Something about letting the one friend I'd made in that entire time go. And guess what? I didn't believe her this time. I copied her dreams and saw it for myself." Big gulp of iced tea here. This was it. "It showed an earthquake at a carnival, people screaming, and my friend caught up in the middle of it. And it showed Sylar saving her life."