Of course he was serious. He was always serious. Or so it seemed. Sylar smirked when Claire drew herself up straight as though she were offended by something he had said and that amused him greatly since he liked to tease her. She was so easy to toy with it wasn't even much of a challenge. He rolled his eyes when Claire told him that they weren't like normal people and before she could say much more he had cut her off mid-sentence as he moved closer to her.<br/><br/>"Nothing I haven't heard before. I don't care if they understand or not. I'm not looking for acceptance, unlike you." Sylar said and tilted his head to the side as though he had just thought of something and his eyes flickered over Claire for a few moments, almost as if he were considering her. "For that matter, why do you want acceptance? To fit in, be normal? Why not be special and live the way you want to? If you join with me I'm sure we can help each other out."<br/><br/>He said with a smile and his eyes sparkled with amusement at the thought, yes she couldn't be exactly like him but they could become a team, work together. It might be fun. "You'd get to see tons of unique powers and it won't matter if people don't accept us, I can take care of us, make sure we don't die but then again we can't, can we?" Sylar said with a chuckle and he raised a brow when Claire actually asked if she did persuade him how was she to trust him not to kill.<br/><br/>"I didn't think you were actually serious about not killing. I don't do it for fun, you know. It's an unavoidable side effect when I obtain a new power." Sylar said as he looked over at Claire, wondering what she expected him to do, did she really think he would stop? It wasn't as though he could control this, it was a part of him that he couldn't control. "I guess you'll just have to trust me. You can do that can't you Claire?" Sylar said with a smirk and gazed at the young woman.<br/><br/>When she asked if he had found someone else after her, Sylar grinned. "What do you think?" He inquired, wondering how Claire would respond.