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Never claimed to be anything but.

When'd you start seeing through me? In the future? Years ago?

When you started to tell me it was for my own damn good. For the people. Never saw any good from it, Nathan.

So back when you were fifteen, we used to wrestle, and I'd pin you down and tell you it was for your own good, that I wasn't going to let you go cause you had to know how to get out of it yourself--back then?

You can be more specific, you know.

[ Ouch, don't do that. Don't talk about his past life like it's now. ]

Not until you told me the camps were a necessity. Said we were too dangerous, needed to be understood so we could stopped. That i'd be safe.

Stopped having to do with anyone's greater good.

[ Too late for him. It's too late. ]

You told me that you'd saved me, that you'd fixed things, put me on the path to being the man you'd always looked up to; the right path. Remember saying that?

Well you were wrong. You thought you'd made it right, but you were wrong. You should have left me dead.

I never said that I didn't fuck it up! I've made mistakes, Nathan, tried to fix them more times than I can count and I get it wrong every time and now i'm here. I tried to stop you from going down the same path but I got it wrong. There is no right answer, no way out.

[ And I still saved your life. ]

Punishment comes in all kinds of forms. This is mine.

The only mistake you ever made was being you. You never stopped; you can't.

But if it was me standing in your place, faced with the question of saving the world or still being able to look at myself in the mirror, I wouldn't have your mercy. If the future needed me dead, then that was what you should have done. It's what I'd have done.

I don't even have my mercy anymore, Nathan.

Bullshit.

Bullshit. I've already made it clear I'm irredeemable, that it doesn't matter how many chances I get to make it different things always go the same way. You still haven't even ruled out the possibility that this whole thing isn't my fault.

So tell me, Pete. Why am I not dead if not for mercy?

Maybe you're just a hard guy to kill.

That I can agree with. But they say the third time's the charm.

You've done it before. Come on, Peter. Wouldn't the ship be better off without me? Stop you having to follow me around everywhere, terrified I'll have too much power... Make life so much easier.

You think you're the only person I keep tabs on? You're not the only person who's screwed up, Nathan, I don't spend all my time making sure you're not the one with the gun in your hands.

[ A snort. ]

Now you're just making excuses.

What, Nathan, now you actually want me to kill you?

If I'm dead I can't go back. You'll escape, the camps won't happen, the President will close the whole thing down.

I'm not saying I want you to, I'm saying it's a solution.

It's not a solution when you aren't real.

Then it shouldn't matter if you kill me or not.

Just think I should do it for the thrill?

Wouldn't be the only one outta the two of us to have thought about it.

[ So why does he sound like he's smiling? ]

You're still my brother. Doesn't matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise. All my best stories are about you.

And all my worst ones are about you. [ Except he's rolling his eyes, the hostility gone for at least a few seconds. ]

Thing is they're probably the same exact ones.

That's not fair.

[ Maybe harder than he meant to, but he did just offer to let you kill him. ]

I may not have always been the best brother, but I still loved you, Pete.

[ He knows. ]

Maybe you do. Think my Nathan's forgotten how.

Then he's an idiot.

You gonna go back to making my life hell soon as this conversation's up?

Gonna need to think about that one.

I'm sure whatever decision you make it'll be the wrong one.

[ Oh he's definitely teasing. ]

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