"I would really let you stay here if you wanted to stay here," Jack replied without any hesitation. He pointed with his free hand upward. "There's a lot of steps but the mattress is comfortable and no one will bother you."

He wasn't lying either. To get to the cubby hole, Sylar would eventually have to climb a ladder and crawl into what looked like an observation dome. Jack explained that there was a bathroom nearby and where the intercom was should Gabriel need him.

That should give Gabriel just a little bit of a sense of privacy too, knowing that Jack would not in fact be hovering and yet would be within reach.

He'd figured out by now that Sylar was a boy with a skewed and somewhat needy desire for physical affection that he likely never requested. So Jack, with his long arms and wide chest and too much heat pulled Sylar against him for another hug.

Gabriel had become like a son to him and Sylar, honestly, needed a father.