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Kind of had an idea. [ Have Peter trying to keep from looking apprehensive. ] Don't know if it'd work, or if anybody'd even find it helpful.

But with everything that's been happening lately? This ship's too big to have people getting lost in it as often as they do. Ending up who knows where for more than just a few days at a time. Dangerous enough as it is on any given day, but with something on the ship leaving threatening messages lying around? Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

[ he sighs. ] At some hospitals, they paint the floors -- stripes down the middle with hints to where you're going. Guess it'd work on the walls too, doesn't really matter. But it's a trail that's easy to follow. Tells you how to get where you need to go so that people don't end up on the wrong floor in a storage closet wondering how to get back to the information desk. [ Not that that's ever happened to him, no, of course not. But Peter shrugs, like it's the best helpful idea he's got, even if he doesn't know if it'd work. ]

Doubt the captain would want us painting the floors, but if he's not around to stop us, I don't know what the problem would be. Unless the ship likes to move hallways around without anyone noticing.

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Beats sittin' with our thumbs up our asses. [Murphy doesn't like to just stay back and let shit happen to him. Being trapped in a Hell town that was actively trying to kill him only served to limit his patience.]

Got'cha. I'll check those places first. See what I can find.

My thoughts exactly. [ The idea of sitting around and letting shit continue to happen to them is like torture to Peter, and anything he can do to help even a little? He's gonna at least try.

He hasn't run out of hope just yet. ] Let me know what you can dig up, i'm gonna start looking, too.

Right. I'll stay in touch. [He stops. Missing something here, aren't we?] My line's zero-zero-six, zero-seven-three. Murphy Pendleton.

[Figured introductions would, you know, be a good place to start when working on a new job around here.]

[ ... man, it's hard to remember to do the whole introduction thing around here. Peter's pretty sure he misses face to face conversations. ]

Peter Petrelli. Zero-zero-five, zero seventy-nine -- but you're just as likely to find me in the Med bay.

[Murphy isn't that much better, but has himself convinced that he needs to start working at it if he's going to make it around here. The ship is too big to hope that he'll just bump into someone helpful in the hallways.]

Medbay... [Pause.] You a doctor?

[ If only that actually happened... Peter would actually prefer it. ]

Nurse, actually. And a paramedic, which is harder to make use of here.

Like I'm one to talk. Don't really have much goin' for me here, myself... unless there happens to be a secret garage around the place... or somethin' like that, for uh. For me to work on, like I used to.

I'm guessing working on cars is a lot different from working on a spaceship.

Sorta. There're a lot more gadgets that I'd think twice about before messin' with 'em...

[Which is why he hadn't thought to sign up for engineering or anything like that yet -- although he's considered the option before.]

At least you'd have the benefit of knowing more than most of us around here. Don't know anything about aliens, but I can still work in the med-bay.

[ Though he almost views it more as 'helping.' ]

Hadn't really thought of that, actually... [Then again, considering Murphy's self image, he's never given thought on what he could do to help out on a freaking spaceship.] Guess it can't hurt. Anything's better than sittin' on my thumbs all day, the way I see it.

[ And while Peter doesn't have much of an ego, he prefers throwing himself at anything he can help with. To a problematic point. ]

Can't hurt to ask, right?

[Murphy is, to a degree. It doesn't make things easier when he can't help but care.]

Yeah... I guess so. [Worst they can do is say no, right? Riiight.]

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