Picture Perfect (Sylar)

She flinched away from his lifted hand, her face contorting in a near stereotypical expression of fear. He was being... less frightening, and yet that was even more terrifying for some reason.

Yep. The boogey man was totally real. He was it's definition to a T. Arguing that fact now would be like arguing that earth rotated the sun. Or that the moon came out at night. Unless she was concussed, or drunk, it wasn't likely to happen.

Of course instead of focusing on the fact that he was letting her go, her mind decided to latch onto his vague threat of always being in the shadows. Watching her. Of course that hadn't exactly been what he had said, but right at that moment she wasn't really thinking clearly. She bobbed her head at him in response to her promise, her expression shifting into one of terrified determination.

The moment he was up and backing away from her she bolted. Fear had overruled her legs for once, and with a speed she probably wouldn't be able to match ever again she was sprinting off down the alley towards freedom. He had been right that she was going to ignore her phone-- for what it was worth she didn't exactly feel like it was more important than her life. She'd just save up and buy another one... somehow.

Shelby turned the corner back onto the road at full speed, nearly losing her footing on the slick sidewalk, but manage not to add 'slipping in the rain' onto her list of embarrassments for the evening. She was already covered in god-only-knew-what, probably reeked of sweat and tears, and she was more than likely going to have a strange array of bruises here and there that she'd have to come up with excuses for.

Well, that is, if she ended up telling anyone once her mind cleared. She was sure that if Jennifer was home when she burst in through the door she'd get a rambling earful from her, but after that Shelby knew herself well enough (well, normally she did) to keep her mouth shut when things she was uncomfortable with came to light.

And this... this incident she was definitely uncomfortable with. As she sped away gasping for breath, she was sure he was going to leap out of every shadowy corner at her.

She couldn't get home fast enough.