( Spoilers for Heroes 1x16, ''Unexpected'' )Sylar opens the door and doesn't just flinch, but recoils backward with a hoarse noise of pain as he doubles over, clutching the sides of his head. It's a long moment before he can straighten, breathing heavily, face ashen; longer still before he can stumble inside and head straight for Bar.
"Aspirin," he mutters. "Or ibuprofen. Anything stronger if you have it."
A bottle of Excedrin materializes. Sylar wastes no time in snatching up the pills before he makes his way to the lake door, clumsily wrenching it open to move outside toward the shoreline. Well before he makes it to a rock half-hidden in the shade of the
Black Pearl, he's working to pry off the bottle lid; the rattling as the pills shift around cracks against his eardrums like point-blank gunshots.
Even so, it's marginally easier to think out here than it is inside.