Down to This by seraphtrevs (NC17)

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Fandom: HEROES
Pairing: Mohinder/Sylar
Length: ~5500
Author on LJ: seraphtrevs
Author Website: Author's fic listed here
Why this must be read: Because it's a chance to see how Mohinder and Sylar interact in contrasting Volume 3 selves, both expecting the person they last met. Because Sylar really is drily comical when he's attempting to find 'good' on his moral compass, and this recurs throughout the story.

During Sylar's time as a Company boy, he's sent to check up on Mohinder. A Mohinder who's been too busy bugging out and glueing people to walls to report in, so this goes as well as you might expect, but this time with added sex pheromenes (Author warns for dub-con-ish). Though both banter and sex are good, it's the deft thread of emotional connection between the two of them that hangs the fic together.

Written from Sylar's POV the fic's able to draw the funny from the more outlandish of the volume's developments - it's like his blinkers aren't like other people's, and not just about killing. Also, Bennet's exasperation - even in his brief appearance - really works, and makes me wish we'd seen more of them as unwilling partners.

Sylar paused. Mohinder was obviously very, very sick and most of the way out of his mind. If Mohinder had been his normal self, Sylar knew that he would be horrified at what was happening. But Mohinder felt so good underneath him, and he was moaning and thrusting back with enthusiasm. So Sylar found himself in a bit of a moral quandary – his old self wouldn’t have really cared, but now he was supposed to be good. He frowned. What would Peter do?

Well, considering that Peter had just recently tried to cut his own mother’s head open, maybe he wasn’t the best person to look to for moral guidance. Actually, now that he thought about it, Sylar really didn’t have a lot of positive role models in his life. No wonder he was so messed up.

Down to This