Eden quietly tested the handle to Isaac's apartment, turning it gently to let herself into the loft. Her eyes found him quickly where he worked on the easel, his brush moving furiously over the paper as she moved towards her. Relieved. "Isaac." She murmured, moving to touch his back.

"You ran away." He said before she got the chance and when she moved to his side, she saw that his eyes were the tell tale white that they got when he was caught in a trance. But she had never seen him able to talk while in one.

"Isaac, I wanted to...."

"You ran away, Eden." Isaac continued, the painting growing darker and darker but she paid it no mind. She was confused as she watched as thick blood started to roll down his nose and drip off the tip to land in the paint he was holding. "You ran away and he got out. He got out....and he killed me."

When she looked up, she saw why there was more and more blood running down his face. The top of his head was gone, the skull cut open and the brain gone. She felt the scream lock in her throat and she whirled away, just so she didn't have to look anymore. She ended up whirling into a solid frame and when she looked up, Sylar was smirking down at her.

"Hello Sarah."

"Papa, you should speak to him again."  Eden followed behind Chandra, a light frown on her mouth as she glanced over at the door through which Sylar had slammed his way out of after a rather heated discussion with Chandra.  She had been in the kitchen and it seemed the tall man had been unaware she was there.  She could understand his anger since it seemed Chandra Suresh had stopped listening to him.

"Its not beneficial anymore."  Chandra mused out loud, seeming distracted as he looked around over his desk for something, patting the pockets of his suit jacket before glancing up at the sound of jingling keys.  His smile grew warm as he looked to the pixie girl who stood there, holding his keys and jingling them a bit to catch his attention.

"I think you upset him though."  She tilted her head as she passed him over the keys once he reached her.

"He'll be fine, he's a big boy."  Chandra remarked, nodding, "Plus I thought you didn't care for him."

There was a slight pause, a hesitation from her as she tilted her head to the other side and seemed to consider it.  "He's...odd.  But he's just trying to figure out where he fits in."  She could see that Gabriel just wanted to fit in, the name change had been a hint of it.  God, if anyone could understand the power that came from choosing a name, it was her.  "I think he just feels like you're not listening."

"Hmm, I'm sorry?"  Chandra glanced up and then nodded, "Alright, I will think about it but right now,"  He moved over, kissing her cheek fondly.  "I have to get to work."

"Fine."  Eden gave him a small but warm smile as she walked him to the door of his apartment, "I'll just finish straightening up for you.  Have a good shift."  She stood in the doorway of his apartment, watching Papa disappear down the hall without realizing that it would be the last time she saw him alive.

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"Eden, can you bring me my notebook?  Its slow and I've got some notes I want to take down."  Chandra's voice was warm, his accented tone a comfort to her as it floated over the cell phone that she had pressed to her ear.

"Of course, is it on your desk?"  She moved over to the desk, looking down as she started to move piles of papers to find the little black notebook that he scribbled in all the time.  She found Gabriel's folder but she moved it aside, curious but she would find time to read it again later.  Had been over it once or twice.

"I think I left it on my dresser."  Chandra sounded a bit distracted once more.

"Alright, I'll be there right away."  Then she paused, "Are you okay, Papa Suresh?"

"Hmm, yes.  Just thought I saw someone."  A pause as well and then he chuckled, "Just an old man's wandering mind.  I'll see you in a little bit."  Then he hung up.

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Eden clenched her jaw as she pressed herself back against the cold wall of the building, the shadows thick over her as she tried to ignore the repulsive smell of the dumpster that she was currently tucking herself against.  Her entire body was shaking as she pressed her lips in a thin line and even through the blur of tears, she recognized the predatory lope of the thin man as he stalked by.  She could see his hands were curled into fists, the quick pants of breath as he hurried towards the mouth of the alley and would disappear.

With weak knees and trembling hands, Eden stepped forward, no longer smell the garbage as her senses were adapted to the stench now but that didn't stop the feel of the bile rising up.  Swallowing it down, she turned her head slowly and looked at the silent cab at the end of the alley.   Clutching the black book, her eyelashes fluttered as she moved through the shadows, the mist of the alley feeling like cold slime against her bare arms as her breathing got a little more shallow.

Coming to the driver's side, the book slipped from her fingers as the tiny whimper managed to escape her.  Her fingers were shaking as she lifted them, touching the cool pane of the glass as though to slide them through the blood but the glass separated them.  She could see the shadow of Chandra's head, definitely malformed and caved in now.  There was too much blood for him to have survived.  Her fingers slide down the glass and then dropped away as she sucked in a shaky breath.  She looked down the alley, half expecting to see the tall man with the baseball cap pulled low over his eyes but he wasn't there.

Licking her lips slowly, she pulled out her cellphone and swallowed the bile back once more as she dialed a number.  Then she pressed the phone to her ear, turning away from the bloodbath.  "Its Eden."  A slight hitch to her breath, "Sylar just killed Chandra Suresh."