A/N: So sorry for the long awaited update. I was so busy last month with school stuffs and just recently got the mood of writing again. Plus, suddenly a few people reviewed this story, so I'm excited again to continue this. I just watched Ep. 3x14 yesterday and I'm kinda interested to take this story to Vol.4 plotline, though I'm still not sure. We'll see. In the mean time, please enjoy Chapter 8!
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8
All This Time
Valkyrie sat down on the floor trying to think how she was supposed to do to get out of Pinehearst building. Arthur Petrelli had got rid of his force field around her and moved her to some sort of a cell that can neutralize her power. She needed to escape from there, but she just couldn't think of any ways. All she could think about was Sylar and the fact that Arthur had successfully convinced him to choose his side.
She also couldn't understand why she was kept in that cell. Did Arthur still want her to work for him? That question became a big mystery to Valkyrie, because she knew if he didn't need her anymore, he could just easily kill her.
Suddenly she could hear the creak of the door being opened. She looked up and saw a very familiar face with two guilty brown eyes looking for some sort of forgiveness. She immediately threw her face away from those melting eyes.
"Val," called Sylar finally. He stepped slowly towards her, but hesitated.
"What? Is it my turn already being thrown out of the window by you?" she didn't look at him.
"What's wrong with you?" his voice got a bit higher, but clearly he tried not to sound like that.
"What's wrong with me?" she scoffed, "I'm the one who should ask, what the hell is wrong with you?"
"Look, if this is still about Peter, he didn't even die!"
"He still could've died!" this time Valkyrie raised her voice. She was kind of surprised to find that her voice was actually shaking. She was not really the type of person who would be shaking like that when she was under pressure.
Both of them chose to be silent in the next few moments. Nobody was really sure about what to say next. All of a sudden, Arthur Petrelli showed up at door and broke the silence between Sylar and Valkyrie. "Well, well, I see you can't get through a day without seeing her, son," said him as he pat Sylar on the shoulder.
Sylar didn't respond. He looked to the ground instead. "I'm sorry, then, to break up the conversation, but I have to show you something, Gabriel," said Arthur again. "You go first and wait me in my office, I'll be right there. I just need to talk to Valkyrie for a moment."
Sylar just nodded and went out of that room. Arthur then turned his attention to the young woman sitting on the floor. "So," he started, "you've been trying to help him control his 'hunger', right? Any luck on that?"
"What do you mean?" she was gaining some control of the level of steadiness of her voice again.
"The progress. How far have you actually come?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Valkyrie answered coldly.
Arthur paused for a while, thinking, before replying, "Oh, well, that explains a lot. I should go now."
"Explain what? What the hell are you planning for me? Why am I here? I made it clear that I won't help you with your plan, didn't I?" she threw a bunch of questions at him right before him leaving.
"To be honest, I just figured everything out. About what I'm planning for you. You'll find out soon enough," he gave her an evil grin and then left the room.
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After a while, somebody opened the Valkyrie's cell's door again. It was Flint and Knox this time.
"What the hell do you fools doing here?" she asked.
"You like it here?" asked Flint with a grin that he thought would make him look badass, but it actually just made him look stupid, "Too bad you're coming out with us right now."
And then, the two of them stepped towards Valkyrie and pulled her up from the floor and handcuffed her. Valkyrie chose to just follow their lead for a while until she found a way to get away from that place. This could be her only chance to escape.
She could guess where exactly Flint and Knox were taking her. It must have been Arthur Petrelli's office. And she was right.
She entered that room again. She looked around and saw some familiar faces. There were Tracy Strauss, Elle Bishop, Sylar, and of course Arthur himself.
"Welcome, Valkyrie. It's so nice to see you joining us," said Arthur.
"I'm not joining you. I never will," replied Valkyrie. She wanted to use her force fields to escape right now, but she knew there were too many risks knowing that she was obviously outnumbered.
"Are you sure you haven't changed your mind? You do realize that I've given you a pretty long time to think again, don't you?" Arthur took a seat on one of the couches.
"Do you really think I would change my mind?" she asked back.
Arthur smiled to her, before saying, "Then, you leave me with no choice. It turns out that you're not very useful to me anymore. Like Angela, I once thought you'd be the one to help Gabriel with his problem, but unlike her, I looked at more possibilities and I happened to look at Elle."
"What are you talking about?" said Valkyrie.
"Elle, she's all yours," said Arthur.
At first, Elle didn't get what exactly the Petrelli man meant. "You want me to kill her? Why?" she asked him.
"Didn't I make myself clear? She's not useful anymore to me and I want you to get rid of her. That's your first order here, Elle," said Arthur. His voice was calm, but demanding.
Elle then nervously stepped forward and prepared to fire her electric bolt at Valkyrie.
"Wait!" Sylar suddenly shouted. "Is this really necessary?" he asked to his father.
"You're not in the position to ask questions, Gabriel. Now, Elle, kill her," Arthur ordered.
Without saying a thing, Elle followed the order that had been given to her and fired the electric bolt at the woman in front of her. Valkyrie immediately generated force fields in front of her to protect herself from Elle's electric bolt. However, with her hands in handcuff, it wasn't the strongest shield she could've had.
"You're not gonna kill me, Elle. You can't do that. You're not that strong," said Valkyrie as she tried to protect herself from Elle's power.
"What makes you think I'm not strong enough to do that? I'm a whole different person now, Val," replied Elle.
"Different, huh? Um, sorry, I don't see what you mean."
Valkyrie then decided to run and get out of that room, but she couldn't maintain her force fields and fell to the ground. She screamed in agony at the top of her lungs as Elle kept firing her electric bolt.
"Elle, stop!" Sylar suddenly burst out. Suddenly, around Valkyrie, there was formed a protection shield made of force fields. However, it wasn't hers. It was someone else's.
Relieved not to feel the pain of Elle's electric bolt anymore, Valkyrie could think clearly again. It was the right time to escape, she thought. So she ran immediately towards the window, which Peter got thrown out through by Sylar earlier, and jumped.
Several feet from hitting the ground, she generated her force fields again so she wouldn't have any serious injuries after falling from a seven-story building. As soon as she managed to finally reach the ground, she immediately went away from that place.
Meanwhile, at his office, Arthur looked through the once-again broken window. He watched Valkyrie running away from the Pinehearst area. "Brave girl. Throwing herself out of the window," he said. "But, she must've used a helping hand. A hand with force fields, maybe," he turned around and looked at Sylar intensely.
Sylar realized about the way his father was staring at him. He immediately responded, " I didn't even know that I have it."
"That doesn't change the fact that you do have it all this time."
"What do we do now?" Elle suddenly asked. "Val knows a thing or two about your plan, doesn't she?"
"Now, we just have to be careful in executing our plan. Don't worry about her. She'll be taking care of soon."
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It turned out to be a little crappy. But I just needed to get this done and let Val escape from Arthur and the gank. So, review please! :D