theonebluegecko

Title: The Batman to his Robin
Challenge: Superheroes
Rating: K
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 300
Fandom/Characters: Heroes - Peter, Nathan, Sylar
Spoilers/warnings: Through the current season
Notes: A slightly AU take on the current season and family relations

When Peter was a child he always wanted to be a hero, a superhero. Nathan was always by his side, the Batman to his Robin, The Green Arrow to his Speedy: always in the lead, Peter ready to fight by his side.

Wooden swords, water guns, bows and arrows, and paper tube light sabers were their weapons to fight off evil monsters and horrible villains with countless unknown abilities. Evil powers to match their own: flight, super strength, extraordinary speed, mind reading, the options endless.

With age these dreams of powers, of superheroes, were long forgotten for heroes of the mortal sort. Doctors and nurses, saving lives by day, Police officers defending those that cannot defend themselves, and even senators and politicians with the power to create and destroy and determine what others can and cannot do.

Peter stood on the roof top, having escaped the hand of the enemy, the government, Nathan’s government having betrayed him.

Gradually the dreams of youth made a reappearance. The evil monsters and villains seeming less so. What right did the so called “Heroes” have to stop them from living their lives? The super villains, like Magneto seeming almost rational, fueled by a desire for simple justice for their own: for Peter’s own.

Peter knew he would never, could never, be like them. He could never just kill people like the countless monsters and villains. But, he could no longer just see them as evil and wrong: black and white.

Nathan’s world seemed determined to lock him up just because of his powers. Now with his other brother, his true brother, Gabriel at his side his dreams of superheroes becoming those of super villains. But unlike the villains, Peter knew he was on the side of justice. Maybe villains could be heroes as well.