london ♔ are you ready? do you know?

[watchmaker]

♬ me and you - nero

WHO || Sylar and Lila [closed]
WHAT || Sylar and Lila celebrate their one year anniversary. :')
WHERE || Nando's first, then … other places in London. WE JUST DON'T KNOW.
WHEN || Backdated to April 5th
HOW || actionspammm

Although they didn't technically define their relationship until a while after they first met, Sylar is in town now and might not be on whatever fucking day that conversation happened, so why not celebrate their ~anniversary~ now? He's just grasping at straws to stick around, lbr. The night starts out, like most of their London-based date nights, at Nando's.

"So," he starts, mouth full of food because he's like five years old, "I was thinking about something we talked about awhile ago."

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[bittersweeter]

[ she cheerfully flips him off because men in black will never be superior but then she figures out rice krispies (wis 12) and her jaw drops. after a second she manages to look mildly interested and not ridiculously excited. ]

Yes, and what were your thoughts on this promise? [ so calm. she is zen. internally squealing, externally zen. ]

[watchmaker]

I told you I would whenever you wanted, didn't I? [he props the side of his face against his hand. so casual.] While you've been out [partying and being denzel washington in the neogiator and all that other crazy shit you did this week], I've been getting a feel for the area. [you may think that's out of some kindness in his heart because that's how he's trying to paint it, but seriously — he was lonely and bored and he's an addict with the munchies.] And I think I found a guy.

[bittersweeter]

[ she only partied for like a second, okay. she was busy adopting a brother. ]

What can he do? [ she twists her fingers together, elbows on the table to tuck her chin against her hands. because she knows it's not nothing. and even though she's apprehensive about murder on her home turf, in her back yard so to speak, with the knights like two blocks away (okay, it's like five, but she knows this to be true since she bounced from their hotel room to the london hq a few days ago.), she is still impossibly intrigued.

it doesn't make for good decision making skills. ]

[watchmaker]

[he's still talking casually, like they're discussing the weather.] Manipulate electromagnetic energy. Like, you know, microwaves. Radiation.

[bittersweeter]

That sounds... useful? [ NO IT DOES NOT. it kind of sound not at all useful. and lame. and not fun. ]

[watchmaker]

[S H R U G.] They can't all be winners. Do you not want to, then?

[bittersweeter]

No, I want to. I just don't want to die from my boyfriend being the epicenter of Chernobyl.

[watchmaker]

I haven't killed you with any of my powers yet. [EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE TIME WHERE HE ALMOST KIND OF DID...]

[bittersweeter]

Yeah, but none of your powers are radioactive yet either. [ she puts her hands on the table, looking at him calmly. ] When you take their abilities, do you get the control they have with it?

[watchmaker]

Yeah, usually.

[bittersweeter]

Does he have control?

[watchmaker]

Since we're not having dinner in a radioactive wasteland right now, I'm gonna go with "probably."

[bittersweeter]

[ she makes a face at him but she's fighting a smile so it has absolutely no heat. ] Can I finish my chicken first?

[ SHE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO SAY YES. she just likes to know thing. all the things. many things. ]

[watchmaker]

Obviously. I have to finish mine, too. [like it won't take him only like five seconds. he's already back to stuffing his face.]

[bittersweeter]

Yeah, but you can just unhinge your jaw and swallow shit whole, I have to chew. [ jsyk. ] I actually eat, you inhale.

[watchmaker]

I don't inhale. [shut up sylar you so do. in the light of her criticism, he tries to eat ... slightly slower...]

[bittersweeter]

[ om nom noming french fries. ] So are we gonna go when we leave here? How d'y'know where he's going to be?

[watchmaker]

We can. And people are surprisingly predictable. I've been watching him for a few days; he has a routine.

[bittersweeter]

Ah, so this is the "nothing" you were doing while I was working? [ so cute. ]

[watchmaker]

It's possible. [such a sweet smile.] I had to do something to entertain myself while you were gone.

[bittersweeter]

So you took up stalking. That's adorable. Can we get dessert? I want cake.

[watchmaker]

[only u, lila. only u.] Of course! It's our anniversary. We deserve cake.

[bittersweeter]

Yay! [ yep. she actually says yay. ]

[watchmaker]

[good thing nando's has a dessert menu for them to peruse. which is what sylar is doing now.] What if I ordered one of each cake? Because that's what I'm feeling like right now.

[bittersweeter]

That's not even a lot. I want the chocolate one. With chocolate ice cream.