001. video; Public Service Announcement

[cargojet]

Guessing everyone's feeling a little closer to compos mentis now. Great, that's gonna make this a whole lot easier.

My name is Nathan Petrelli. I'm Senator for New York, elected representative of the people, and recently made Head of Homeland Security by the President himself. It's my job to do what's in the best interests of the people, and in this case I figure that's gonna be easier said than done.

I don't want any of you to worry. Once I get up to speed on the details of what's going on here, I intend to get to the bottom of how we got here, why we were brought here, and how to go about getting back. And I mean how and why, not the bullshit they've been feeding you about jumping and wormholes and the ship needing a crew. There's a malicious intent here I'm gonna address, and then I'm getting everyone back where we belong.

I realise we're not all Americans here, and maybe you think I have no jurisdiction, but I earned the right to intervene the moment I woke up with a tube shoved down my throat, just like everyone else. I want to speak to people who know the most about this place, or be directed toward them. Captain Kirk: you're on my list for starters, but I'd rather speak to the real Captain, rather than some washed up wannabe.

Oh, and before I wrap this up, there's one other thing. A few of you will have spoken to my brother, Peter; he got here during the 'jump' previous to this one, and as I understand it he's been pretty liberal with his imagination ever since. Some time ago my brother convinced himself that he could fly. He stood on top of a twelve story building one day, called me up and told me he was going to show me he could do it. He jumped, and he fell - fortunately only as far as the fire escape - and a couple days later woke up in the hospital with minor injuries. It wasn't long after my father's death, right in the middle of my run for Congress, and I guess he was desperate for attention.

What I'm trying to say is that he's had brushes with depression before - it runs in the family - and he's not exactly stable right now. All of this doesn't make it any easier. If everyone could please be delicate with him, take what he says with a grain of salt, and inform me if it sounds like he's planning to do something that might hurt himself or others. I appreciate it.

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[cargojet]

You wanna expand on that at all?

voice

[unparental]

Sure, be happy to. The rest was 'wow, you're kind of a jerk'.

voice

[cargojet]

At least I'm not a Democrat.

[ Duh, of course he's a jerk, basically. ]

I get things done.

voice

[unparental]

Of course you aren't.

[ THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL RLY. ]

You realize what you're getting done is making Peter look like an even nicer guy-- and make you look like a pathological liar, right?

voice

[cargojet]

[ Of course not. ]

Peter is a nice guy. It doesn't mean he doesn't have problems, and you can blind yourself to them if you want, that's not my problem. The only thing I'm concerned with is protecting him.

You don't do that by coddling people and playing nice.

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[unparental]

No, you don't, do you?

[ give her a second to flip this thing to video and wiggle her fingers in a little wave, and then let her face go ahead and get super fucked up. ]

So I'll skip jerk and go right for ass, this time.

video

[cargojet]

[ He does flinch, just for a second, but then just curls his lip, hardening physically, face becoming all the more dispassionate. ]

He's my little brother. I taught him what taking the hard line means. I had to.

video I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR THIS also are you sekritly pasdar or something because *__*

[unparental]

[ jenna's never tried to use what she is to make someone afraid, before, or been happy when it worked-- first time for everything. ]

It looks to me like you taught him that you'll lie and humiliate him.

video; lmao don't apologise he IS a dick rn. Also sadly not. It'd be cool, though. He likes boats =|

[cargojet]

Our father did that long before I could.

video; okay i won't I WILL JUST LOVE THIS THREAD and this post. and you

[unparental]

And that makes it okay? He's your little brother, the job description is about love and support, not this.

[ family is important to jenna and she maybe has issues about being a ~freak~ that have literally nothing at all to do with peter. ]

But hey, you outted yourself there; so really it's poetic justice, when you think about it.

video; okay okay /flails so much

[cargojet]

It does, actually. What business of yours is it how I show that I love my brother? It's always been like this. I've never gone easy on him, I've always given him a hard time, because life isn't a game. It's hard work - it's dangerous - and he wouldn't have been nearly as ready to face the world if not for my help.

I grew up an only child till I was twelve. In Brooklyn. My parents were so soft on me that when I did get out into the world I had to work at it really, really hard, just to be tough enough to keep up. I gave him love and support. Maybe it's not the kind you immediately think of, but I had to be twice as hard on him as I ever was on myself. He's a male nurse for Heaven's sake.

So don't tell me how to be a big brother. I think I know how to do that a little better than you do.

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[unparental]

You saw the face, right? It's not good horror movie makeup, I get life is dangerous. Intimately.

[ her hackles rise, tone matching nathan's own. she's usually a lot more zen than this, but a perfect storm of crap means nathan petrelli gets to be her nonconsensual issue working out buddy. lucky dude. ]

Maybe you do. But if we're going to whip it out and measure? Back home I died trying to save my sister's daughter, because that's what you do for family. You put them ahead of your own safety. Ahead of your name, at the very, very least.

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[cargojet]

I have.

[ And he's not even going to explain it, because why should he explain himself? Knowing he was going to die, he'd carried Peter off into the night, his skin burning and melting away, saved his brother and saved the world, and he wasn't going to justify himself to a complete stranger. ]

You have no idea the sacrifices I've made. I'm sorry about the dying thing. Sucks, doesn't it?

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[unparental]

...You're right, I don't. [ less snappish, now, but holy god mom voice. ] But I know if my big sister ever said those things about me, I'd be shattered. Maybe you do mean nothing but well-- I only know what I see.

[ beat. ]

It does, yeah.

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[askedtobe]

[ Jenna save him can he cry on your shoulder. ]

Meet my brother.

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[unparental]

[ you can have BOTH, pete. over-identification + mama bear complex, go. ]

Are you sure? Because I like you.

[ beat. ]

I'm sorry, Peter. Siblings shouldn't-- he should look out for you, not this.

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[askedtobe]

[ Sobbing this is why peter needs a mama bear in his life. ]

Yeah, i'm sure. [ Heaviest sigh in existence. ]

Nothing for you to be sorry for This is actually the second time he's done this. Told the entirety of New York city the same exact thing awhile ago to keep me from ruining his campaign.

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[unparental]

[ jenna's day to day interests: drinking, elena, and adopting new elenas so she can stick her nose into their business too. ]

Oh, god. Wow, he's-- he's a dick, huh? [ sympathetic looks all around. ] At least no one's going to believe him about this.

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[askedtobe]

[ Really, he doesn't mind. It's not like Petrelli's aren't damn good at airing their business everywhere.... ]

This is usually where i'd say something about how he's a good guy sometimes, but i've gotten kind of tired of trying to defend someone who doesn't really deserve it. [ that's kind of reassuring at least. ] Hopefully.

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[unparental]

He's your brother. You don't get to pick them.

[ pause. ]

And hey, as the poster child for the freak contingent, vampire category-- screw him. Us freaks have to stick together, right?

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[askedtobe]

Or the rest of my family.

[ sigh. once he stops being so pissed about all of this, the sulking will begin. ] Right. As long as he's not invited to the club.

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[unparental]

The secret clubhouse remains a your brother free zone.

...If you ever want to talk, I was going to school to be a paid listener.

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[askedtobe]

[ That almost makes Peter laugh all of a sudden, just because it's weirdly ironic. ]

Paid listener or not, i'd take a shoulder. [ not necessarily to cry on but Nathan, Sylar, and Elle all at once are a bit much to take at once. ]

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[unparental]

Well, then you're in luck. I have two of them, and they're open whenever for fellow clubhouse members.

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[askedtobe]

I might have to take you up on that sometime soon. [ Nathan is slowly killing him from the inside out. ]