047 - Sam tells a story.

[bythe_books]

My name is Sam Tyler. My mum and dad are Ruth and Vic Tyler.

Vic Tyler left when I was four years old. He ran away in 1973. He did it because he had to, to save us. So Mum and I wouldn't know...

My last memory of my dad was watching him and my mum dance at a family wedding. And then he walked out the door.

No.

My last memory of my dad was watching him strike Annie a woman in a red dress, and when she fell, he kicked her and he kicked her.

In 1973, I turned a gun on my own DCI to help Vic Tyler escape. When I trusted the same gun to him, he turned it on me and pulled the trigger without a thought. My own dad, he would have killed me... and he wouldn't even have known who I was. Just a copper with the same name as his boy.

In 1973, I arrested Victor Tyler for murder, and for obtaining moneys by the manufacture and distribution of material banned by the 1967 Obscene Publications Act. And then he told me what his arrest would do... to his Ruth and little Sammy. How I would ruin their lives. My own life-- my mum's life.

I thought I was meant to make him stay. That if I did, I could go home.

I let him go.

My last memory of my dad was watching him run out of my life for a second time in one day, in 37 years.

Look, the point of this all is: I am not Vic Tyler. I'm Sam, his Sammy, and no flood is ever gonna bring him back.

NONE OF YOU ARE THE MASKS YOU'RE WEARING. No matter how much you look like them, you're still you. Please don't forget...

Just... Hide those bad feelings away. Don't let yourselves fade out. It's a flood; it's not who we are.

[OOC: Sam is clearly awesome at resisting this shit. WELL, FOR NOW. Strikes in that big section are practically indecipherable, the others are readable.]

Comments

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Silence. Your drivel irritates me, and these are more than masks. Rather, it is more of a new self to whom the old self is a toothache causing constant irritation, but nothing more.

So you resist who you are becoming?

[bythe_books]

What the hell're you supposed to be? Early Iggy Pop?

I still know who I am, yeah.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

I am the Shadowlord!

[bythe_books]

Great. So you're in a metal band.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

No, I am in a cheap apartment room. Tony apparently enjoyed living in filth.

[mimic-peter.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the apple really doesn't fall that far from the tree.

[bythe_books]

I don't know what you're implying. I'm not like him.

[mimic-peter.livejournal.com]

We can lie to ourselves all we want. We can deny it and save all the people in the world, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.

We're still like them because we come from them.

[bythe_books]

No, we're not. I wouldn't have done-- any of the things he'd done.

He was a good dad. But he was rotten. And I know that now.

[mimic-peter.livejournal.com]

My dad wasn't good. I used to call him a criminal over the dinner table because of the things he did.

I can't say I wouldn't make the choices that he had to.

[bythe_books]

Mine was the opposite, I guess. I idolised him, even after he left us. I really thought... I really thought he was innocent.

No.. I wouldn't-- I'd never make the choices he did.

[mimic-peter.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you have to make hard choices. Sometimes bad things need to be done to save the world. Sometimes you have to sacrifice the one to save the many.

[bythe_books]

No, there's always another way. If you follow the rules, play it fair, you can still save people.

He said he was doing it for us, me and Mum, but... It was still wrong.

[mimic-peter.livejournal.com]

Why play fair when no one else? You expect the bad guys to play by the same rules? Are you that naive?

Perhaps he was more right then you'll ever care to admit.

[bythe_books]

I'm not naive.

No, he wasn't. I grew up without a dad because he went into a life of crime. I didn't care, Mum didn't care if he was just a cleaning product salesman-- he was the one who... He didn't have to kill anybody!

He's being grumpy to everyone because of no abilities

[grayatonement]

How quaint.

It's no wonder Prefect doesn't respect you. You're a failure.

Awww

[bythe_books]

I really don't have time to deal with your pathetic obsession with my Inmate right now.

[grayatonement]

Tell me, Vic.. Why did you leave them?

[bythe_books]

Hard as it is to believe, I'm doing a lot better than the others on the 'resisting the flood' front. Using that name isn't gonna get you anywhere.

He's confused about you, and how to act with you, Sam.

[grayatonement]

Only a matter of time before your entire personality is washed away again, before you forget yourself, "Sam Tyler". Then you'll change again. Become him. Become that person you promised yourself you wouldn't be.

..Claude's already changed. If I die




Good luck.

Don't worry, Sam will crash and burn like the other wardens soon. THEN YOU WON'T BE CONFUSED

[bythe_books]

I'm not gonna forget who I am, because I'm gonna spend every waking minute reminding myself.

Uh.

...

Thanks?

Fffft.. Then he'll be more confused

[grayatonement]

If you need help,

Forgive me.

WAY TO CONFUSE SAM

[bythe_books]

What

Strike readable if REALLY trying

[grayatonement]

I.. hope the flood doesn't ruin you.

He needs you.

SAM ALWAYS TRIES WITH STRIKES. He's a detective

[bythe_books]

Yeah... Thanks. I'm trying.

Harv is not in a mood to deal with you Sylar.

[unbiasedchance.livejournal.com]

Shut the hell up.

Private - He thinks you already hate him as that's the trend these days

[grayatonement]

You're Prefect's best friend now. Isn't that special? How you rush to his rescue?

He doesn't need to be saved from me, or Sam. You want to help him. Keep him away from the Factory.

..Tell him I'm sorry. Again.

Private - Poor Sylar.

[unbiasedchance.livejournal.com]

That's what we're doing. Keeping him away from the Factory-as well as keeping him from you.

1/3 - WAY TO STEAL THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS TO HIM

[grayatonement]

2/3

[grayatonement]

...

3/3 - Private

[grayatonement]

Good.

1/3 - Replies invisible due to AMAZING FILTER OF INABILITY TO REPLY TO SYLAR!

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I respect him!

2/3 - Still invisible

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Why would you say that I don't respect him? I know I didn't ask you to try and make friends with him or anything, but do you have to go out of your way to provoke him, Comrade?

3/3 - Invisitble still

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

... can you even read this?

Sylar is oblivious but would hate you for this, so probably a good thing.

[grayatonement]

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

And may I ask why you felt compelled to share your history? I know who I am.

[bythe_books]

Yeah? And who are you?

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

You may call me the Master.

[bythe_books]

What, you decided to finally peel my face off?

I mean... my real face, not this one.

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about?

[bythe_books]

Usually, you look like me. 'Course, usually there isn't a flood on.

So, you're the Master now?

FUN WITH INCONSISTENT PRONOUNS :D

[thatlibbychick.livejournal.com]

He killed her, man. I killed me. He killed me, her, she, I...

Dead. I'm dead and the other she is dead and I shot 'em both, and I didn't even mean to shoot her, she just walked in at the wrong time and what was he supposed to do?

POOR LIBBY DDD:

[bythe_books]

Libby, try to stay calm; try to think about something-- anything else. Think about... your loved ones, memories of yourself at your finest. It has to work or else I'm gone too.

You're not this man. You are Libby, and there are people here who know you and who care about you.

[gimmethemap]

But I am so enjoying my time here...

[bythe_books]

You're not gonna last. None of us you are real.

[gimmethemap]

I'll be more than happy to prove you wrong.

[bythe_books]

When the flood's gone, you're gonna wash away with the rest of 'em.