Fic: An Uncomfortable Conversation 1/1 (Claire & Mohinder) PG

[dragonydreams]

Title: An Uncomfortable Conversation
Author: Elisabeth
Rating: PG
Fandom: Heroes
Pairing/Characters: Claire & Mohinder; Claire/Peter (mentioned)
Summary: Claire has an important question about her ability.
Spoilers: Future fic. Takes place roughly two years after the end if season one.
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership over these characters. I am merely borrowing them from Tim Kring et al.
Feedback: Yes please! It makes me happy and keeps me writing.
Thanks to kallie_kat for the beta.
Author's Note: My attempt at answering a question that pops up a lot. Do not flame if you disagree with my ending, please.



"Mohinder," Claire nervously asked the geneticist. "You're the expert on our abilities, right?"

Mohinder looked self-conscious, but admitted, "I suppose that you could say that. Between the notes my father left behind and my own research, I probably know more about evolved humans than most people."

"So what would happen if I have sex?" Claire asked in a rush.

Mohinder nearly knocked over the stack of files he'd been moving around. "I-I beg your pardon?"

"Please don't make me say it again," Claire begged, blushing to the roots of her blonde hair.

"D-don't you want to speak to a medical doctor about this? A gynecologist perhaps? Your mother?" he asked, stumbling away from Claire, trying to put as much distance between them as possible.

Claire shook her head. "I don't need to know about the mechanics of sex. Kinda got that part figured out. Plus, I know all about safe sex."

"Then what…?"

"It's just, I've never had sex before. Is… Will my… When I'm with someone for the first time…?"

The light finally went on in Mohinder's head and he relaxed a bit as he realized what she was asking. "You're wondering if your hymen will regenerate," he surmised.

Claire bit her bottom lip and nodded. "Um, yeah. It's just… I've heard that it hurts the first time, and I was just wondering if it's gonna be like that every time, for me."

Mohinder sat down and gestured for Claire to do the same. "Honestly, I don't have an answer regarding that. One would imagine that your theory is correct, and your body would see the tearing of the hymen as something to fix." He hated the way that Claire's face fell at that news. "But without experimentation, that is to say, following through with the act and tearing it, I have no way of proving the theory one way or another."

Claire slumped back in her chair. "I was afraid that you were going to say that."

Mohinder leaned forward. "Claire, forgive me for asking, but given the subject matter, I feel that it is within my rights…"

"You want to know who I want to have sex with since I don't have a boyfriend," Claire guessed.

"I am a rather curious," Mohinder admitted.

"How do you know that I'm not just asking because I figure that I'll have sex eventually?" Claire countered.

Mohinder looked at her pointedly.

"Okay, so there is someone," she admitted.

"Claire, you're only eighteen, there's no need to rush into anything," Mohinder pointed out. After having raised Molly for the past two years, he now understood better what it was like to be a father to a girl.

"It's not rushing," she said, blushing faintly.

"Then who? I've never seen you with a boyfriend, unless you've been hiding him away from everyone. I mean, the only man that I ever see you out with is…"

"Peter," Claire finished for him.

Mohinder paled slightly, which was no easy feat for someone with his complexion. "Claire, he's your uncle."

She shook her head. "Actually, turns out he's not."

"What are you talking about? Peter is Nathan's brother. Nathan is your father; ergo, your uncle."

"But he's not. Angela just told him the other day that he was adopted, too." Mohinder looked bewildered. "You know how I was taken from my bio-mom and given to the Bennets?" Mohinder nodded, very familiar with this story by now. "Well, kinda the same thing happened with Peter. Turns out that he was Linderman's son. Angela never said who his mom was, but knowing Linderman, she would have had some kind of special ability, too. She died giving birth to him, and Linderman wasn't in any shape to raise him alone, given his lifestyle, so he gave Peter to his good friends the Petrellis."

"Fascinating," Mohinder said. "But all this time, you've been seeing Peter, thinking the two of you were related," he pointed out.

"We couldn't help ourselves," Claire admitted. "We were attracted to each other from the moment we met, before we knew we were related. We tried so hard not to give into our feelings. We knew it was wrong. But after everything that happened at Kirby Plaza, after Peter came back to me, we couldn't deny it any more."

"I can imagine what a relief it was to learn the truth of Peter's lineage," Mohinder said.

"You have no idea," Claire brightly said. "We'd been waiting to make love. At first we were waiting until I turned eighteen. I think we were also kind of waiting for something like this to happen. Peter said he had a feeling that the Petrellis weren't his biological family and he finally confronted Angela about it."

"And now that you no longer have the legal and moral restrictions attached to your relationship, you're beginning to think about the implications of what the physical act of making love will hold for you in light of your ability."

Claire nodded. "Yeah, that's pretty much it."

Mohinder sighed. "I'm sorry, I wish that I had a better answer for you, but I don't. It's not like I have case studies on other people who can regenerate to draw on. I would like to be able to tell you that this is something that your body was built to do, and therefore it should not regenerate, but I can not be certain."

"I guess I kinda figured that's what you were going to say, but I had to ask," Claire said. She stood and prepared to leave. "Thanks for listening, Mohinder."

"Claire," he said, halting her exit, "if it's not too much to ask… if you do go through with this, could you let me know the results?" Claire blushed. "It's just that, as I said, you're the first person that I've encountered with this ability, and the more information that I have, the better we can understand the limitations of it. Then the next time a young woman with the ability to regenerate has this question come up, we can provide her with a more helpful answer."

"I understand," Claire said. "I'll let you know."

Three days later Mohinder had a message on his voicemail from a very happy sounding Claire. "It didn't regenerate."

The End

Comments

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

Oh my that is an excellent question.

YAY! Heroes fic! I really liked this!

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

For those of us who write Claire smut, it's an important question. And if I'm thinking about it, Claire must be too.

Thanks so much for reading it!

[paynesgrey.livejournal.com]

Awww sweet! I love Fatherly!Mohinder. Very enjoyable oneshot.

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Mohinder in a fatherly role is a lot of fun. As well as when he's the general know-it-all for all things ability related.

Awww

[cold-queen-5.livejournal.com]

You stoles my idea! I've been talking to Frell for over a month about doing a story about this (except in mine it does and she and Peter have to go to Mo for help figuring it out and he tells them they have to try and force her body to heal AROUND something, ie Peter's peter and then there's a terribly amusing section where they're frozen together waiting for her to heal and Peter is all having trouble and trying to think about sports and tells Claire to think about sports so she'd stop turning him on and she's all "Peter, I'm a cheerleader. Sports DOES turn me on." And it was supposed to be really funny.) BUT YOU STOLES IT.

No. True story though. Ask Frell. I've been talking to her about it for like a month!

*Sigh* Oh well.

Great story, LOL!

Re: Awww

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Your story would be completely different than mine, so I say go for it. This is one of those topics that can be addressed so many different ways. You'd be focusing more on the Peter/Claire parts and less on the talking with Mohinder parts. Plus, it sounds very funny and I'd love to read it.

For me, it kind of just popped into my head. I mean, I've thought about it before - who hasn't who writes Claire fics? - but I could actually hear Claire and Mohinder having this conversation in my head the other day and had to write it out.

I'm glad you read it, and liked it, even if it is similar to your own bunny.

Re: Awww

[cold-queen-5.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Now I feels funny about it...like...I don't know...plagiarism or something. Makes me uncomfortable. It's why I have started my own Five Years Later story while the Round Robin is going on. Just a little too close on the subject/plot.

*sigh* I don't know. Maybe.

Re: Awww

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Honey, people get similar ideas at the same time all the time. Think of it this way... "Great Minds Think Alike." You can even say in your author's notes that you had already started your story before I posted mine and aren't trying to copy it (or whatever). Even if you haven't started physically writing it, you've obviously been plotting it out in your head, and I'm counting that as writing.

Re: Awww

[cold-queen-5.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

It might be a while before I get it written anyway. I want to start a series of drabbles for Heroes and JLU. They should be easier to maintain since I will be sticking to the 100-word rule.

Still...great story! Who knows, this may even inspire me a bit when I do start the actual writing. (Though in my head Mohinder is more awkward than fatherly).

[frellingblonde.livejournal.com]

Hee! Poor Claire, that would be such a painful question to have to ask. And poor Mohinder. But it all worked out.

Cute, amusing little ficlet! :D

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

She was properly embarrassed to be asking. I couldn't resist putting Mohinder in such an uncomfortable position.

Thanks for reading!

[nayden.livejournal.com]

lovely one shot hun

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

I would not want to be either of the parties involved in that conversation. So glad that you liked it!

[ladycat713.livejournal.com]

Excellent fic! And this question is one that would definitely come up.

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

I know that people, including me, have speculated about this before, but I figured it was time to ask an expert. *grin* I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[obisgirl.livejournal.com]

that is funny; the next chapter for Dirty Little Secret kinda touches on that question too, except that it's the opposite answer.

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

I've touched on it once or twice before, which I guess is why I thought it would be fun to have her actually ask about it. Fun in an incredibly embarrassing awkward way, of course.

I've seen a lot of people go the other way too. Which is probably why I went the direction that I did. Plus, it's kinder to Claire this way.

[obisgirl.livejournal.com]

I've seen a lot of people go the other way too. Which is probably why I went the direction that I did. Plus, it's kinder to Claire this way.

that's true.

[oreadno1.livejournal.com]

*giggles madly*

Helluva question! But a legitimate one as well!
I love it!

Kathy

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

When you write as much smut as I do with Claire in it, it becomes an important detail. One that I felt should be addressed in a non-smutty environment. *grin*

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Isn't this a fun one? I couldn't resist snagging it from one of sp_iconiness's icon posts. My two fandoms in one icon! (Although I don't actually write Buffy.)

[elliesmeow.livejournal.com]

Nice fic. Glad that Mo took the question with his usual aplomb. It was an awkward question but someone has to answer it and he should be used to weird theories. All this in the name of science.LOL

CQ I wanna read your fic too! I hope you'll still write it.

-Ellie

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

It's a very awkward question, but that's what makes it fun. For the writer at least. *grin*

[jesterlady]

What a good question? I never would've thought of it. But really it would come in to play.

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

LOL. I probably think about it too much. Kind of have to when you write as much smut with Claire as I do.

[eowyn-girl.livejournal.com]

Finally! I've been waiting for a fic that directly addresses this issue (I've been too chicken).

Hee. Poor Mohinder, he's going to be the go to guy for our Heroes I'll bet. Not that he would've expected such a question!

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

I'd kind of been waiting for someone to address this directly too, but being me, I just went ahead and did it. There were too many fun awkward moments that would arise from this conversation not to write it.

[shimmeree.livejournal.com]

Hah! Loved this!

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thank you! It was something that had to be written.

[sevvy-o.livejournal.com]

Hi, came here via cold_queen_5 -- sooo funny. Love awkward conversations in fanfic. LOL!

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Hi! Just read your comment over at cold_queen_5's LJ and I'm glad you pestered her for the link. Even more so that you enjoyed it.

This is just one of those conversations that was just dying to be had. Even if CQ5 and I chose different ways of answering the question. But that's what makes fanfic fun.

[annikamalfoy.livejournal.com]

I like this. It was still Paire, but had Mohinder in it.
He's one of my most favourite charcters, just after Peter,
Claire and Hiro. Actually I think Mohinder is tied with
Hiro. ::grin:: Plus I love Fathery!Mohinder.

Good question, I wondered about that myself, but I never
would've touched base on it. I don't write stuff like that
most of my stories end with the first kiss.

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

A lot of people (who write smut) have addressed this issue in one way or another. I thought it would be fun to make Mohinder uncomfortable by having her ask him about it.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.