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[askedtobe]

Nathan! Wait-- shit!

[ Even with Peter's voice in the background, everything is black for a few moments before he pulls his NV out of his pocket, accidentally swiping blood across the lens with his fingers, turning everything a lovely shade of red. Because Peter never posts on the network if he isn't covered in blood.

He's crouched out in the baseball field and he stands a moment later, obviously massively concerned as he looks around. A second later, his NV's being ignored as he lifts his other hand, a bolt of crackling blue electricity shooting out into the darkness as Peter's attentions turn to frying a particularly lame Darkness monster. A few moments later everything goes quiet and Peter finally looks back down to acknowledge his NV, taking a second to wipe it off.

... and, to everyone who knows him well enough, he looks like he's had a rather radical hair-cut. ]

I've been here before, right? Awhile ago, I was just-- Can someone tell me what day it is?

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[hostage]

He can die?

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[askedtobe]

Could. I killed him when he could die. But now that he's got Claire's ability, too... None of us can really die. It's complicated.

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[hostage]

Yeah, I kinda got that.

[The complications. Is Jesse really getting fed up with superheroes already? Maybe he'd be a little less sour on it if Sylar hadn't shoved a chew toy in his mouth.]

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[askedtobe]

[ Oh Sylar. Y u such a sociopath. ]

This place doesn't make it any easier. Even when he was dead, the Port just brought him back. Wasn't really worth it.

Made me feel better, though. [ That's actually not a lie. ]

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[hostage]

People kept saying that, saying it's no good to kill him. Seems kinda like a lame-ass excuse to sit around and let the bad guy win.

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[askedtobe]

Didn't say it was no good, but it ends up being a game of whack-a-mole. Doesn't matter how many times you knock him down, just means he'll get back up one way or another.

But a week or two dead is still a week or two less he's around. [ ... okay yeah, that one was painful to say out loud. Lying sucks sometimes. ]

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[hostage]

Uh, yeah? You'd think someone would put a firing squad over on that baseball field already for shit like this.

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[askedtobe]

[ More like voids. They'd need lots of voids, but Peter's not going to say that out loud. ]

And take out the bad guys before they even make it into the city?

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[hostage]

Least the ones we know go around cutting people open.

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[askedtobe]

Question is, how he got out of his collar in the first place.

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[hostage]

Collar?

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[askedtobe]

You didn't hear about that?

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[hostage]

Uh, maybe?

[Hard to remember the details when you get your head telekinetically bashed into a wall.]

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[askedtobe]

[ Peter, your boyfriend is such a nice guy. ]

Batman basically kidnapped me to help make it-- [ ..... shit he shouldn't have admitted that, now there'll be more questions. ]

It was an ability suppressor.

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[hostage]

[It's cool, bro. He doesn't need to ask about Batman. He gets it.]

What was it made out of?

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[askedtobe]

[ Batman called him pathetic; it's been a long lasting burn. ]

Same sort of stuff that void cuffs are made from. His was just a little different.

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[hostage]

Maybe the guy just like... sawed through it. Or used a, uh...

[What the hell was the name of that stuff Mr. White used to blast off the lock forever ago?]

Thermide or whatever.

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[askedtobe]

Thermide? [ ..... give him a second. ] You mean thermite?

Who knows. Maybe i'll get the chance to ask him.

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[hostage]

Yeah. That. I mean, it's just a collar, right? And he's, you know... a supervillain. So it ain't a huge mystery.

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[askedtobe]

We're not talking something.. simple, here. I've been in the cuff's before and I couldn't tell you what they're made of.

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[hostage]

You don't have to be no genius to get a necklace off. Especially if you make somebody help you.

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[askedtobe]

And I can think of a few people who'd be interested in having him walk around free.

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[hostage]

Mystery solved, yo.

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[askedtobe]

Haven't seen much of Batman around, otherwise i'm guessing he'd be back in it again already.

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[hostage]

You guys seriously just wait for one guy to take care of it?