How Did This Happen?

Note: Since I started this thing before season two popped back on the air, I'm going to continue to pretty much ignore the shiz out of season two =)

She turned with wide eyes to her mother who was standing in the doorframe and she knew her face had flushed red. She couldn't even bring herself to look at Matt but she could feel his laughter that he was trying his best to hide. But Azure had no luck and not ten seconds later another voice showed up and her blush got even deeper

"Azure what are you doing with Matt?" She finally scrambled off his lap and looked from Molly to her Mother to Matt and decided there was only one way to get past this horrible moment in her life turning her back to Molly and her Mother she grabbed her clipboard clanced somewhere over Matt's shoulder as she spoke to him

"I'll be by later to check on your again" And then she was exiting that room as fast as she could, but she heard his laughter. As she passed her mother she clamped a hand around her wrist and dragged her from the room and down the hall towards the front dest to get her the hell out of there.

"What's his name hunny?"

"He's a patient"

"Yoy two looked so adorable together"

"Drop it Mother...what are you doing here"

"Well I was going to try and convince you to come to the dinner but now i'll just cancel with Damein and you can bring him a-"

"MOTHER" Azure flushed red all over again when half the waiting room turned to look at her and she lowered her voice "Stop it, there is nothing there. He's a patient nothing more and neither of us will be going to a dinner with you understand? Now I need you to leave I have work to do and I can not have you following me around ok?"

Her mother hmph'd but nodded her head finally, they were actually hugging goodbye when Azure heared something that made her heart hurt "I'm looking for my husband Matt Parkman"

Her gaze flew from the door over to the counter and there she was, a dark haired woman. She was shorter then Azure, which was an odd observation for her to make. However the woman was pretty but she'd always just been this...thing not a real person and Azure suddenly needed to get the hell away from her. Pulling her mother to the door she bundled her off with a kiss on the cheek and a promise of something as soon as her mother was out of sight she scrambled to the breakroom and into the bathroom where she dropped to her knees in front of the toliet and lost her lunch.


"Molly, do you like Azure?"

"I love her, she's very nice and your stubborn streak doesn't seem to bother her. Mohinder likes her too says she grounds you."

"You two talk about me to much."

"Why did you want to know if I liked her?"

"I get out of here soon and I was thinking of inviting her over for dinner"

"You like her" The girl was grinning at him and he had the oddest notion to blush, which was so unmanly that he quickly squashed it. The door opened and he glanced up at it with a smile expecting to see Azure but the smile froze halfway

"Hello Matt"

"What the hell are you doing here." He felt Molly shift closer to him but he couldn't really focus on it. He'd been in the hospital for weeks and never once had she come to see him now there she was and honestly it felt a little to late.


Azure sniffled and wiped at her face, standing to her feet she knew she had to look a mess. Her reaction to his wife had been absurd Matt and her were barely even friends let alone anything more. She was a fool, walking over to the sink she splashed some water on her face next she went and peeked out of the breakroom door and snatched her friend Robyn who was walking by and got her to cover the rest of her rounds. Two minuets later she was walking to her car with plans to buy a tub of cookie dough ice cream and rent a movie in her head. She cursed herself when she noticed her hands were shaking as she unlocked the door and slid behind the seat. She was so side tracked she didn't even think about what happened the last time she was in this place alone...and she should have. Starting the car she blasted the heat and with a case of the sniffles she drove away from her work.

"What are these tears about?"

She screamed and jerked the wheel but just as fast as she'd made the car turn to the right an arm reached over her shoulder and long fingers curled around the wheel and straightned the car back out. She stomped on the breaks seconds later and the car jerked to a hault she felt him slam into her seat from behind and she scurried to get out of the car but she'd only just made it out when the same fingers curved around her neck. When she felt his breath on her neck and clentched her eyes closed.

"Don't try it again, now back inside this time I'll be driving."

He really wasn't giving her an option and she knew it. Tears falling free down her face she allowed him to move her around the otherside of the car and into the passanger seat. She watched threw her blurry vision as he walked around the front of the car and then slid into the driver's seat. She forced her gaze away from him and just looked out of the window.

"I asked you a question."

Maybe he did but she didn't have to talk to him. Her body went stiff when she felt his thumb slide over her cheek and against her will her eyes moved to his face. He really was darkly beautiful. His hair was cut short but he had it spiked up in a way that looked like he'd just rolled out of bed. His eyes were set below full eyebrows that on anyone else might have seemed a bit large. His mouth was titled into a smirk but even though she could just feel the dark edge rolling off him it didn't diminish the fact that he was striking. She felt the car start to move forward and blinked in confusion when she noticed he was still facing her and neither hand was on the wheel. "How.."

"I asked first."

"They're stupid girl tears ok? I cry easy so don't trouble yourself about it."

He just laughed at her.

"Matt, I thought Azure said she was coming back" Yeah he'd rememberd that too, his wife was still there but it was off he just didn't know if she could tell or not either. She and Molly had barely spoken to eachother and when he'd asked her why she'd only just showed up now she'd just blushed and mumbled something he couldn't understand he could have easily found out what it was but he realised he didn't really care.

"I'm sure she's just with another patient Molly she'll be back."

"Who's this Azure?"

"Matt's nurse, she's so pretty and nice I like her alot."

He didn't have to be a mind reader to understand the look on his wifes face, which was amussing since she'd cheated on him and then didn't even come to see him when he was on death's door. He was in the middle of that thought when the door opened and a nurse walked in but it wasn't Azure.

"Hi I'm Robyn, Azure had to step out early so I'll be around to help you."

"Why did she leave? Is she ok? Did she say anything" Matt laid his hand on Molly's arm to clam her down and glanced up at Robyn

"She's just worried Azure promised to come back" The nurse smiled at Molly and knelt down next to her

"Well I'm sure she wanted to come down here but when I talked to her she looked really sick and like she'd gotten some bad news. She said she was gonna go buy some ice cream and a chick flick and fall asleep. She should be back tomorrow, she only asked me to cover for today."

"How long ago was that?"

"Hm I think it was about an hour ago Mr Parkman why?"

"Just curious" But he was pretty sure he knew why Azure had ran off, turning his head his gaze settled back on his wife who hadn't said a word and he was willing to bet almost anything that Azure at the very least had heard her, interesting.

"Don't laugh at me."

"Or what?"

Yeah that was a good question, what would she do? The man was driving without touching the wheel what was she really going to do about it? Nothing that's what she wouldn't be able to do a damn thing.

"Where are we going?" He just smiled at her

"Is your name really Sylar?" Where had that come from? Oh well if she was going to die she might as well know something about who was going to end her life ok maybe that was a bit morbid and odd but she was in an odd place right now.

"Yes."

"Is it your first name or your last name?"

"First."

It most likely wasn't a good sign that he was telling her anything, it meant he knew she wasn't gonig to be telling anyone else. However she did wonder what he thought of her and then felt instantly stupid for it. Clearly he wasn't going to take her to a movie what the hell did it matter what he thought of her?

"I don't believe you."

He arched one of those impressive eyebrows at her, she could see in his eyes that he found her entertaining. Well someone had an odd sense of humor

"I don't who names their kid Sylar? That's just weird."

"Because Azure is an average name."

"I..whatever i still don't believe you and I don't know why you're lying what does it matter you're going to kill me arnt you? That's what you were going to do the first night and I'm still not really sure why you let me go unless you're one of those weird guys and you're into kinky shit and that's where we're going now somewhere you can tie me up when you rape me you most likely tape this as well don't you? That sounds like something someone named Sylar would do...you know this might actually be a good thing my life is a complete mess just look at me crying over a patient because I finally saw his wife whom I knew about this entire time but I can't even being to tell you why it bothered me I don't even really get along with the man but for some reason it broke my heart for the wife to finally be made real and now I wan't nothing better then to lay on my couch and cry my eyes out while i watch Bridget Jones Diary but now I don't get to do that because some weird guy named Sylar with impossibly beautiful features plans to slice and dice me after he does weird things to my body and I have to tell I really really don't need any of this a-"

He finally slammed a hand over her mouth and he just blinked at her, she felt her cheeks flush under his hand. She'd been babbling she did that when she was over stressed or scared she couldn't help it. He slowly pulled his hand away from her mouth

"Sorry"

"Gabriel"

He said it at the same moment she'd apologized and she almost missed it

"I like Gabriel more"

"Don't get used to it."

Ah yes he planned to kill her...Grand.