Somewhere, Lost In Translation (Dead Before Born Remix) by La Folle Allure (PG)

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Fandom: Heroes
Pairing: Charlie-centric gen
Author on LJ: la_folle_allure
Author Website: Live Journal Memories
Why this must be read:

I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating that one of my favorite things about Heroes is its ability to create one-shot characters that are well developed and make the audience care about them. Charlie the waitress is one of my absolute favorites of all the secondary characters, and this backstory is just so wonderfully in tune with the character that we see developing on the screen.

The following semester, she had to do a book report on Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and almost cut her hands raw trying to fold the small squares of brightly colored origami paper. She hoped if she folded a thousand of her own, she’d get her own wish. Charlie knew she’d never be able to change the past, never be able to make up the sins of her mother’s father, but she was hoping that maybe one day, she would be able to change the world, save it, balance the scales.

She made it to sixty-three cranes before blood from the paper cuts dotted the beaks of all her origami birds.

Somewhere, Lost In Translation (Dead Before Born Remix)