Prologue part 2
*2 years before the Odessa Summit
In the short time they knew each other they had become vital for each other; for some reason Hegel reminded Mohinder a Little of Eden.
He had managed to find a cure for Hegel’s sister condition using the old formula he used to give himself abilities; with a few changes of course.
For Hegel; Dr. Suresh was some sort of mentor, the figure his father had never been.
Even with a relationship as close as it was, Hegel was still surprised when Mohinder asked him to accompany him to the airport to pick his daughter.
Hegel had no idea Mohinder had a daughter in the first place, usually Dr. Suresh kept most of his life to himself.
That day he woke at 7:30 AM, he left the apartment and met with Dr. Suresh in a café, close to the Kirby plaza.
They both then left for the airport on a cab, during the trip Dr. Suresh and the driver spoke all the time in Tamil. The reason why Hegel knew it was Tamil was because he had heard Dr. Suresh speak that language on the phone a couple of times.
When they finally arrived to the airport both moved to a waiting room in international arrivals, they were waiting for the flight G-1969K from Chennai, because he knew he was going to wait Hegel bought a large chocolate bar, The Rolling Stones magazine, a large decaf coffee and a medium Chai tea; Mohinder had not asked for the chai, never the less Hegel liked to help Dr. Suresh with most of things and did not mind to service him, even when he didn’t asked for it… when he came to the room he sat next to the professor and gave him his Chai
–You do know that you don´t have to do this, don’t you? — asked Mohinder to Hegel
Hegel gave a soft smile and said –You are right, I don’t have to—
Both chuckled a little bit, that trait of Hegel was kind of adorable in a way, Mohinder reminded him every day that such attention was not needed, and however Hegel kept doing things like that.
He was nice for the sake of being nice, in a way it kind of reminded him of Peter, when they met the first time, sweet and naïve, looking to save the world, in small steps of course.
Hegel had something in common with the first two people Mohinder had met in America, the first two decent people anyway.
Mohinder’s thoughts where interrupted when the screen of the arrivals finally showed Molly’s flight “Landed” in bright green.
He put down his Chai and waited to see every face, most of the arrivals where Indians of course, like him…there where the occasional black or white faces among the crowds, but not too much.
Finally between the recent arrivals he saw a familiar face, granted a little different from the last time he saw her; people do grow old after all…but it was without a question Molly Walker, his adopted daughter. The last time he saw her she was a little girl, and before him was a teenager.
They ran towards each other and Molly surrounded the Professor with her arms and Mohinder used his able arm to hug her back.
Hegel stood up, and they walked straight towards him
–Hegel, this is Molly, my daughter, Molly this is Hegel, a brilliant student and lab assistant—
Molly created a big smile on her face and shook hands with Hegel, Hegel in response gently grabbed Molly’s hand and kissed it.
–Pleased to meet you, Freulen—
To which molly giggled a little.
They left the airport and called a cab to get back home, in the way back Mohinder and Molly caught up with the recent years, Mohinder told Molly about his work in Renautas, the University and his private project with Hegel, that allowed the most sophisticated detectors of EVO’s read any EVO as a regular human, such detectors weren’t very advanced, but they had figured out a way to make useless any sort of detector.
They spoke a little about politics, gossip and then they caught up with more uncomfortable topics; much to the relief of Molly, Sylar was dead…Hiro had killed him at the beginning of the year, he had sliced Sylar’s head off, and managed to walk away with it, apparently Sylar had tried to do something to Ando Masahashi; director of communications of Yagamato industries and in response Hiro killed the bastard, Mohinder also told her that previous to that Sylar tried to “redeem himself” but at the end his nature got the best of him.
Molly also asked about Matt; then Mohinder told her about Matt’s new job in Renautas and his life with his family, which made Molly somewhat uncomfortable.
During the conversation, Hegel tried to pick up some words because most of the conversation between Molly and Mohinder was, of course, in Tamil; Usually Hegel wasn’t the man to eardrop but he HAD heard the name Sylar a couple of times which intrigued him.
Hegel knew who was Sylar, like he knew who was Charles Mason and Ted Bundy…he was a serial killer, and it was rather evident that the professor had a few personal run ups with such character.
He remembered some news at the beginning of the year when he found out that Sylar had been killed by the C.E.O of Yagamato, someone who Hegel knew, was also an old friend of the good Professor.
And it wasn’t like Mohinder had been lying to him, He had told Hegel that there were a few things he had done and things that happened to him that he would rather not talk about.
Still in Hegel’s mind…those secrets would always be a heavy stone between them, and there was an obvious reason why the girl knew such secrets and he didn’t…She was his daughter, she had lived some of those experiences with him.
Still Hegel wondered a lot about those secrets that Mohinder was keeping from him.
Maybe someday he was going to ask.