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Speaking from experience, I could have very easily guessed that. Maybe it would have been different if you wanted to be a senator.

[ She's glad that he doesn't have that disposition, for the record. ]

Or if i'd wanted to go into law?

[ You can almost hear the blech in the intonation of his voice. ] At least that was an easy veto to make.

[ Sometimes Claire thinks that Peter did things certain ways just to annoy Angela, even if she seemed proud and pleased in her own way that he had done them. ]

I'm glad you didn't end up doing either. It would have made it very difficult to trust you right from the get-go.

[ Oh, Claire. You have so much you could learn about Peter and all the times he existed merely to annoy his father. ]

If only that rationale had worked on my dad.

[ Oh god she wants to know about all of them. Meanwhile, there's just a fond, thoughtful smile at his comment. Petrelli's and their fathers. ]

Yeah, well, I'm not sure a lot really worked on your dad.

I lived with him for seventeen years, I should know. [ a second's pause accompanied by a sigh. ] And I know what he does. I mean- In my future.

[ Which Peter makes sound somehow complicated if only because it actually is in theory. In actuality it wasn't all that complicated, just sincerely painful and Peter's not entirely sure he's over it. If anything, he just thinks about it far less than he used to. ]

[ She's halfway to a teasing comeback before he gets there first, trumping her with truth and forcing her to stall out. Being so far ahead of him is hard, especially knowing what it is that she does, eventually, and how mad at her he might be once he finds out. It's its own brand of difficult, with events in the past, things that have happened to them, just as hard to parse through. ]

We should really... sit down and figure out what it is that we know, sometime. And whether or not we want to know anything else.

[ And Peter just happens to think he knows it all. Maybe not all all but enough of it to know what he's talking about. Seen it, heard it, maybe not been there but close enough through Nathan's mind. It's been a rough few months sussing it all out but Peter's come to the conclusion that maybe it's better out than in. Better to talk about it than pretend it doesn't exist in ways he refuses to admit to and so he nods, even if she can't see it. ]

When're you free? [ Sooner's always better than later, right? ]

Let me just check my calendar.

[ That takes about ten nanoseconds, considering her calendar is mostly occupied only by annoying Severus Snape with her friendship. ]

It looks like I'm free... any time.

[ Peter almost laughs but he keeps quiet instead, mulling over when and where and how long it'll take to get there. ]

We should have lunch soon, then.

In the medbay?

[ The casual arch of her eyebrows is just as expressive in her voice as it would be anywhere else. ]

That's probably not hygienic.

[ But it would be killing two birds with one stone. ]

I didn't say- [ He wasn't actually planning on the medbay but the idea is strikingly convenient. However gross it might sound, it's not actually all that bad, and they'd have to share the space of any kitchen on board.

The medbay's usually all too quiet, especially the pods anytime that isn't a jump. ]

Even if it wasn't, it's not like we have anything to worry about. But it's as hygienic as anywhere else, the place is clean the rest of the time.

[ She snorts at that, equal parts bemused and amused. ]

If I find any jump goo in a sandwich, I'm gonna protest.

And you can blame me if you do, how about that.

[ He's reeling you in, Claire, he knows he is. ]

I would have done that anyway.

[ Admittedly she barely needs to be reeled, with Peter. ]

Good to know you appreciate me that much.

[ It's a talent. ]

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