06 ★ sixth promise | video

[senatorinspace]

[Here is your very put-out senator, people, not amused at your shenanigans over here.  Keep your thoughts to yourselves before you make us all look bad  8||| ]
This is Senator Petrelli, for those who haven't met me yet.  I just wanted to take a moment to address rumors going around concerning this sudden epidemic of... what appears to be the ability

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[prodigaled]

[Lindsey steps back after having whispered in Nathan's ear. He looks over at the camera technicians with a pissed expression.]

Did you cut it? Are we off air?

[He sighs and runs a hand through his hair.]

Well, that went well.

[senatorinspace]

[Once they're assuredly not broadcasting, Nathan just slumps back, running a hand across his face]

We shouldn't have risked it.

[prodigaled]

There's not a lot we can do about it now, Senator, with it being a live transmission. But maybe we can spin this as showing how you're just like everybody else, trying to cope during difficult times.

[He waves away an assistant who is hovering with a make-up wipe and a bottle of water. Like that's gonna make Nathan feel better about this whole fiasco. He's also extremely grateful that the weird thought projection thing hasn't hit him yet.]

[senatorinspace]

They're gullible sometimes, but not that gullible. Maybe I could record some kind of rescinding, it wouldn't be live, we could cut out... anything that might slip.

[prodigaled]

[Lindsey nods.]

Yeah. That's do-able. You want to write up the new speech yourself or have me or one of the others draft it up for you?

We probably shouldn't broadcast it straight away, might look like we're in panic mode. Sure, we gotta to do damage control on this, but it's not like we need to look like we just got caught with our pants down, either.

[senatorinspace]

Work on it with my speech writer. [He waves a hand dismissively] That's what I'm paying her for.

We'll give it a few days, gauge reactions. Assess how fucked we are.

[prodigaled]

[Lindsey does his best not to smirk at Nathan's colorful thoughts.]

Yes, sir. I'm on it.

[He heads out, placing a call with the speech writer, looks like it's gonna be a stress-filled few days ahead of them.]