Title: The Prodigal Son

Fan dom: Heroes

Rating: T -

Characters: Angela, Nathan, Peter, Gabriel/Sylar, Claire, Noah, mention of others

Spoilers Notes: Through Volume 3: Chapter 2: The Butterfly effect, References the Graphic Novel Chapters 24 to 29 "War Buddies", and a couple deleted scenes from Volume 2: Chapter 1: Four Months Later.

Disclaimers: Heroes is a show on NBC, I am just a fan Fiction writer.

Notes: Hopefully you are now seeing chapter 1

Chapter 1

"You are not my mother," Sylar said as he looked up at this woman he never saw before.

She caressed his face and smiled.

"But Gabriel, I am," she replied.

The drugs they were giving him through his nose prevented him from smacking her arm away, but he could not help but be intrigued. If this woman is his mother who was Virginia Gray? Who was the woman that raised him? And what of his father? Did his father cheat with this woman?

"I am sure you have questions," Angela continued, "About why I did not raise you. It is not because I did not care, but because I did. I thought I was protecting you. Keeping you from the madness. Now I know I was wrong."

"What are you talking about?" Sylar asked.

"I will tell you a story. It might be twenty-seven years too late to start tucking you in, but it might help you understand."

"Was there ever a time, even as a child, that you felt different? That you did not belong? You know how things work. You are a smart young man."

"When I was young, I was foolish enough to believe my power was a gift. I was able to use it to save the world. However, some things are meant to happen, by the choices we make. I married, a wonderful man that I loved very much, and we had a son."

"Then the Vietnam War began."

"I had nightmares every night. Now most people might have thought the dreams were just anxieties. It was true, I was just one of many of war wives worrying about their husbands. A normal concern my friends would tell me, but I had more insight as they. I had an ability. And each dream, I was burdened with figuring out which were just anxiety and which were visions. Visions of my husband and the rest of his company shot down. All except for two men. One of these two men were special. He had the ability to heal others. He healed my husband. And I saw it. Saw it all. Days, and weeks before. I even wrote him a letter. Not about the battle, but about our son, your brother."

"I have a brother?" Sylar asked.

Angela made a half smile. "Yes, you have brothers."

Angela paused for a moment, thinking of each of her sons separately.

Earlier the same night she wrote that letter, Nathan took his first steps. At that moment we was never more proud. She knew great things were planned for him.

"You said, only one of the two men had powers. Your husband?" he prompted. He noticed what care she took in calling him "my husband" opposed to "your father". Was he wrong to make such an assumption?

Angela shook her head.

"No, Arthur did not have a power. As you might know, this company was founded on the principal of 'One of Us' and 'One of Them'. Arthur was a them. He and this other man, a man he at the time knew only as Dallas, formed this company with ten others. At first it seemed we had similar opinions. Times has changed."

Angela plastered on a fake smile when she said the last sentence. She silently grimaced at the amount of times that time has changed. She might have not been a time traveler like Hiro, yet through her ability, and that his father Kaito, who could see many different possibilities in front of him, the two of them were able to manipulate future time. Linderman prolonged the madness by incorporating the art work of several different precognitive artists.

"If you were protecting me, would you have protected your other sons?" Sylar asked.

Angela smiled.

"I have, in my own way. Each and every one of them. My oldest did not know that he could fly until last year. In that way, I was able to hide him in plain sight. I suppose that he never really needed to use his power before. He is practical; he knew that certain things should be kept secret. Or at least he did, for a time."

She tried her best to throw out the memory of what happened only hours before. The truths held in her family, and in the rest of the families were needed to be kept in its box. There were many people in this world that were one-sided. Many people fear what they do not understand. It was idiotic but truth. Her son, and Claire both thought the world would benefit in knowing the truth, and that it would destroy the Company.

If it was only that easy.

"I even tried to hide Nathan's daughter from the Company. I knew what the Company sees when it comes to powers. They see them as opportunities. I cannot say that I do not share some of the same ideals. But there are priorities. I sent her away, to a family that would protect her from this madness. He failed."

In the parking lot, when Claire was talking to Noah, it took all her might not to kill him.

He even tried to kidnap her other sons. A mother never forgets.

"But with you, it was an outside force, that brought you into the madness. Chandra Surresh. And then there is Peter, I felt if I kept him close he would be spared from this. But children grow up when we are not looking. I separated the two of you. I thought perhaps, if I hid you, you would be safe, just as I tried to keep Peter from his."

Though two of her other sons caused her distress, she still loved them all.

It made her crazy that Peter placed himself inside a dangerous criminal. Did her sons have any sense in them?

"But you found your potential, now did you?" she redirected towards her son Gabriel, hoping he had the sense she desperately needed.

Sylar was not sure what he felt of all this information his faux mother was shooting at him. Did she say that Nathan and Peter Petrelli were his brothers?

"But what of the people that raised me."

"Mr. Gray was a Company Man. But you are much more than than that."

She stepped closer to her son, and whispered into his ear.

"You are a prince of the founders. My son."

To Be Continued

Author's Note: My first Volume 3 story. I hope you like it. Now a chapter story! Thanks for everyone that has read and reviewed so far.