Peter Petrelli

For: badcompany_muse
Prompt: 7/08 - True & False
Warnings: none
Notes: Set early in the 5YG 'verse, when Peter is still actively fighting
Wordcount: 260 per WordPerfect

[locked up tighter than a DHS facility]

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, or however that quote goes. That's how they see me -- I'm America's Most Wanted, and I'm also the lead general in the war to free my people from tyranny. Tyranny, I might add, in the form of one of our own. My own brother, President Nathan Petrelli.

I could bring him down in an instant -- I could out him as one of us, and popular opinion would turn on him so fast. The masses would be screaming for his impeachment and for shipping him off to one of the Homeland Security facilities...

But it wouldn't change the laws, and it wouldn't fix anything. All it would do is result in me betraying my brother -- and despite everything he's done, I won't do that. I can't do that.

Not when this terrible world we live in is my own fault. They don't know it, all those people who look up to me and fight for me. All those people who fight for our freedom with me as their inspiration. None of them know I'm the one who exploded at Kirby Plaza and killed all those people in New York. None of them know Nathan lied and covered it up to protect me. None of them know I'm a mass-murdering monster.

No, Nathan keeps my secret and I keep his, and everything in this hellish world of ours is built on top of those lies.

I still hear the screams when I try to sleep at night.

I wonder if he does, too...

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2.17. Half of writing history is hiding the truth. -- Serenity

I'm a freedom fighter, or America's Most Wanted, depending on what side of the line you fall on regarding the rights of Specials in this fine country of ours.

The government thinks I'm the most dangerous terrorist there is, and in so many ways they're right. But to others of my kind -- to those terrified of discovery, or those already found and locked away in Homeland Security facilities that make high-security prisons look like summer camps, I'm their hope for freedom and a normal life.

They're both right, but they're also both so very wrong. None of them have any idea what I really am. As far as I know, only one other person out there does know, and he's not about to tell anyone. It would damage him so badly if anyone ever were to find out.

Sometimes...

Sometimes I think I should declare the truth to the world, let them see how badly he's lied to them all. Sometimes I think it might possibly be enough to start to turn this disaster of a world around.

But most of the time I realize that all it would do is ruin him, and despite all that he's done -- despite all the pain and horror he's brought down on us -- I can't do that to him. He's my brother. We were as close as two people could be, and my god, I still love him despite the hypocracy...

So we both perpetuate the lie and I continue to play my role, and all the lives saved will never measure up against all those lost...

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Muse: Peter Petrelli
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 264 per WordPerfect
Written for muses_w_remotes

I'm going to describe myself in 6 words. Please respond to this message with your own 6 word description of me. Then post this in your own LJ and see if people can describe you in ONLY 6 words.

Most 'verses:
Worried I'll hurt instead of help.

5YG 'verse:
Living with lies wears everyone down.

5.2: 13 of the craziest places you have had sex, or want to have sex and why.

I'm not quite sure if 'and why' means 'why I did', 'why I'd want to', or 'why it's crazy' so I kind of went for a mix of all three...

( 13 Places... )

From Adam:

Not my favourite colour, but not bad...
( Most 'verses )

( 5YG Verse )

Um. Yeah.

ooc: first one is current-day 'verses, second is 5YG to_gettoyou 'verse. Yes, he really is that different.

( Most 'verses )

( 5YG 'verse )

3.1: The world is ending tomorrow: what 13 things do you do today

1. Do anything I can to try and stop it...

If I can't stop it:

2. Go see Nathan and spend some time with him.

3. Use Hiro's ability to freeze time and teleport to bring together family members who couldn't be together otherwise so they have a chance to say goodbye or at least just be with each other (like Niki and Micah, or Nathan and his kids, etc.)

4. See Mom and tell her I forgive her for what she did to me (and try to find out if she's behind this, too -- I may forgive her, but that doesn't mean I trust her...)

5. Try even harder to stop it...

If that still doesn't work:

6. Find Claude, tell him I understand and I forgive him for running, and spend a while with him if he wants/lets me.

7. Visit Dad's grave.

8. Pray.

9. Sketch something to see if it shows a future beyond tomorrow.

10. If it does, get everyone together to help me if they believe what I've drawn, and try again to stop it end of the world.

11. If that doesn't work, thank them all for trying and take them back to wherever they want to go.

12. Pray that I don't survive through whatever's going to happen and end up one of maybe three people living in an empty world.

13. Spend some more time with Claude and Nathan, maybe have a 'the end of the world' party.

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Muse: Peter Petrelli
Fandom: Heroes
Crossposted to the_lucky13