The police station bustle wasn't far different from that of the campaign office they'd just left, but when Nathan and Peter walked into the room where Angela was waiting, things were quieter. Their mother sat at a table with extra chairs, impatient and none too remorseful.

Inconvenienced and impatient, Nathan brushed right past her, muttering brusquely, "for god's sake, Mom."

Peter. on the other hand, stopped to comfort his mother and see that she was alright.

Dismissively she replied, waving off her son's concern and, indeed, the entire situation, "It's alright, they've dropped the charges. I just have to fill out a few forms, no big deal." She seemed almost smug.

Nathan, however, was nonplussed. "No big deal? I'm running for congress," he snapped. "Do you have any idea what this is going to do to me if it gets out, with our family's past?" Nathan, as usual, was more concerned with his appearance in the polls than with his mother's mental state.

There seemed, to Peter an oppressive air about the room as his brother demanded to know what she needed so badly she had to steal it. -Socks, it turns out.

Still reprimanding his mother- Nathan exclaimed, "Dad left you a fortune, but it's been one ridiculous stunt after another with you, for the last six months." Then more coldly, "Dad's gone. Just get over it." -At this, Peter finally spoke up for their mother. His brother'd gone too far.

"Leave her alone," Peter demanded, holding her hand, though she still seemed self-absorbed. "She's alright, that's what's important."

But of course Nathan's only concern was keeping the whole fiasco out of the press. --When he had the gall to say so, however, Peter snapped again. "You know what, just get out of here. Go worry about your campaign, I'll take care of this."

To which Nathan responded gratefully, before leaving through the door Peter'd opened for him.
[ooc: Quoted almost directly as Nathan is munned by another player.]

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A heart to heart follows, between the younger Petrelli and his mother. She'd only wanted to feel alive again, and unlike his brother, Peter understands. -He thinks of others before himself, while Nathan and their father'd had selfishness in common. "'Alpha-dogs', both of them," Angela explains.

And, as Pete helps her slip into her coat, she continues, lecturing him about his own selflessness, saying, "When you put others first, you end up last." Which, she points out, is exactly what happened with Nathan. Peter'd hero-worshiped his brother and, according to his mother, Nathan'd never returned the feelings.

Peter insists, however, that they'd always been close, that there was a bond. When Nathan had his accident, Peter tells her, "I woke up, just before the call, and knew something'd happened. I knew Nathan'd been hurt." In response, his mother simply looks at him for a long moment before slapping him for his foolishness and walking away.

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Peter follows, leaving more slowly, running through the whole conversation again in his mind, replaying the dream and the memory of the call. And then the more recent dreams. Dreams of flying. -What he'd gone to see Nathan about in the first place. But both Nathan and his mother had treated him like he was crazy. Like a foolish child who needed to grow up.

So perhaps he's a little distracted when he opens the door...