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[senatorinspace]

[It's been well over a week, so it seemed quite clear that Nathan Petrelli, the Outworlder Senator, was not going to be among those coming back.

But never discount the possiblity of a Life Day miracle, boys and girls B|

The hands that turn on the device are shaky, the familiar face not at all as composed as you're all used to seeing whenever the

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[sent_farfaraway]

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Welcome back, Senator.

[She won't say she's missed him or anything.]

[senatorinspace]

Private forever

[wat. it takes him a moment for the deja vu to settle down] Back.

... Ruby, isn't it?

[sent_farfaraway]

[Take your time, she's just going to admire dat hair.]

Got it in one.

You're back on Coruscant and I'm sure you have more important people to talk to right now, [like your daughter] - but I'm just your friendly girl for hire, making sure you know she's still for hire.

[senatorinspace]

This is insane. I'm supposed to be dead, not... whatever this is.

[sent_farfaraway]

[Her head tips to the side, curious about this 'Nathan should be dead' thing.]

What happened back home?

[senatorinspace]

[Welp. It isn't like he's planning on making it a secret here] Sylar.

Sylar happened.

[sent_farfaraway]

[Huh. This guy gets around.]

It seems he had a thing with happening here, too.

[senatorinspace]

I remember.

And I'm putting an end to it.

[sent_farfaraway]

[That does not sound good.]

You might want to hold off on the rallying the troops to go after killer. You just got back Nathan. There's been a draft, the war has been amped up all over the place.

[A beat] I'm not saying the guy doesn't deserve to be stopped - I'm just saying your first act back, might not work out if you end up dying again.

[senatorinspace]

That's twice he's killed me now, Ruby. I think I'm allowed to recognize the level of threat he poses. And according to Claire, he took out my brother too, and he still isn't back.

I want to know who else he's confirmed to have attacked. Who he's killed. Everything we know about his movements.

I've seen the sort of power grabs he's aimed for back home. I know what he might have in mind now.

[sent_farfaraway]

I'll look into the recent murders, see what I can confirm. I know a friend of mine vanished and them popped back into the picture. [She uses the term friend very loosely.]

I tried to track Peter, but I was pretty certain you weren't coming back either. The usual turn-around time didn't seem to apply.

[senatorinspace]

At least Peter was alive back in my world. So the change wasn't permanent.

[sent_farfaraway]

At least that's confirmation that things don't carry over. Isolating what we do here from what's going on back home.

[senatorinspace]

I'm not sure how much we can count on that. Or anything.

[sent_farfaraway]

From what I've been told about my future I can at least figure out that I don't change course.

That's got to count for something.

[senatorinspace]

Told about your future from who?