Edge (Heroes, fanction)

[selenak]

Title: Edge

Disclaimer: Characters and situations owned by NBC.

Characters: Peter, Nathan.

Summary: Peter has more than one reason for letting himself fall.

Rating: PG

Spoilers: For the pilot and Six Months Ago.

Thanks to: wychwood, for beta-reading.

Dedicated to: 12_12_12, for inspiration and picspams!

Comments

[takethesky87]

Amazing. My favorite parts:
then he questions himself and wonders whether he’s just tired of Nathan keeping him at arm’s length ever since that awful day. Whether he’s doing the same thing Dad always wanted to, make Nathan fit the image he has of him.

And then he talks to Nathan again, and Nathan is there and isn’t, Nathan puts an arm around him like he used to but keeps up the Candidate Petrelli façade, and there is an invisible wall of glass between them.

It's so true. Nathan physically held Peter at arm's length in Six Months Ago (the deleted scene, esp.), and even though they've gone back to the shoulder-touching now, they're still sadly separated. So much changed with their Dad's death, it just hurts to think how their dynamic changed. Of course, you expressed that in words much better than I just did. :P

he noticed Nathan had stopped turning pages and was staring out of the window, with a somewhat wistful look at his face.Love this whole scene too, because I'm fascinated by Nathan's conflicted feelings about flying and you

[selenak]

The deleted scene was one reason why I wrote the story. Re: Nathan's conflicted feelings about flying, they've been intriguing me ever since the scene with Niki in Vegas (and I've written in more detail about them in my earlier story, "Aegritudo", which is a Nathan pov of this period around the pilot), and they are partially tied to the relationship of the brothers, so I had to work them in.:)

Thank you for your feedback.

[takethesky87]

Yes, I love Nathan's dialogue with Niki in Vegas, too. I read Aegritudo back when you first posted it, I must have just forgotten to comment on it. :) Really, I love lots of your stuff... so thanks for feeding my Petrelli brothers obsession. :D

[kathyh]

Wonderful Peter voice and you nail his motivations so well. Ah...screwed up Petrellis, what could be better *g*.

[selenak]

Not many things.*g* I love writing about them.

[cadesama]

Oh, Peter. Crazy, emo Peter, always feeling too much and too invested in big, dramatic gestures. I especially love this part:

Peter watches people die all the time, and he watches their grieving families. It makes him feel increasingly empty, because he can’t help but compare. He doesn’t miss his father. He should at least grieve for lost opportunities, but it’s not really that, either; what he misses are things the way they used to be before Dad died.

Linking his disenchantment with nursing back to his familial issues is just brilliant. :D

PS: Isn't Peter's apartment in Manhattan (making it even more implausible for a nurse) rather than Queens?

[selenak]

Linking his disenchantment with nursing back to his familial issues is just brilliant.

Thanks. It always goes back to the family with Peter P.*g*

Location of Peter's apartment: I don't have the episodes with me, so I could only check on the transcript of the pilot to see whether it mentions something, and in the transcript there is no mention an exact location, which is why I went for Queens by virtue of a recent post on writing New York plausibly. Mind you, it's entirely possible that his apartment is said to be in Manhattan explicitly in another episode; the only transcript I had time to check was that one.

In any case, every New Yorker posting on the show seems to be convinced Nathan has to be paying part of the rent for that apartment, so I had to build that in.*g*

[cadesama]

I'm pretty sure that ep 4 identifies it as being in Manhattan, when cutting over to Peter and Simone. The wiki definitely lists it as Manhattan. Which... yeah, is insane and implausible, and the reason I usually assume the Petrellis own the building, or Nathan is helping foot the bill.

[petrellilover]

Wow! This is awesome HEROES fanfic.

[selenak]

Thank you!

[kattahj]

I really liked this, it gives such great glimpses of Peter's personality and Nathan through him.

[selenak]

In a way, it's meant as a complimentary piece to the earlier Nathan pov, Aegritudo; both Petrellis would not shut up about each other! *g*