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heroslayerThey've never really talked about having a family before. She's tried, of course, but he always avoids the topic, finding some clever way to dance around it because it scares him.
It's not that he doesn't want to be a father, though--it's more he's afraid of ending up like his mother. Either of them. That he'll come on too strong and smother the poor kid. Make him--because he's sure they'd have a son, for some bizarre reason--hate him or believe that he has to be something more than he is.
Or, worse yet, he's afraid that their son will be like them. Special. And that he'll have a relapse, a day where he can't control what he used to be, and that he'll end up hurting their child. Every time she brings it up, he can imagine her face, walking into that, and so every time he avoids the conversation and his imagination.
It's just too frightening, and he's never handled fear well.
Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 163 (yes, it's short :P)
It's not that he doesn't want to be a father, though--it's more he's afraid of ending up like his mother. Either of them. That he'll come on too strong and smother the poor kid. Make him--because he's sure they'd have a son, for some bizarre reason--hate him or believe that he has to be something more than he is.
Or, worse yet, he's afraid that their son will be like them. Special. And that he'll have a relapse, a day where he can't control what he used to be, and that he'll end up hurting their child. Every time she brings it up, he can imagine her face, walking into that, and so every time he avoids the conversation and his imagination.
It's just too frightening, and he's never handled fear well.
Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 163 (yes, it's short :P)
