Expectations [Nathan-centric, G, p. 1026]
[Study on Nathan in the form FIC. Pre-series/1x01. Nathan / Peter if we read it that way. Liable to a sequel if luck turns good. Comments are open to everyone, even OOC .]
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I had a dozen years or so, and my parents brought me to the theater. Opera. I remember it because I have always hated the work. All children hate the work, I think. ( giggles.) Anyway, near the entrance there was this old tramp lying in a heap of rags, just around the corner by the sliding doors of the theater. He had a wool hat and gloves with fingers full of holes, and when we passed gave off a stench unbearable. I expected my mother said to usher him away - that kind of person, my mother - but did not say a word, as if she had not even seen.
Then, inside the theater, asked my father if he had acknowledged. My father said yes.
"Poor Wayne" my mother said. "He should have thought to put the boat on dry land, rather than chase after girls."
And my father said: "The girls have little to do with a financial crash of two hundred million dollars."
That tramp was a billionaire. Or at least it was.
E 'was at that moment that I realized that people are never what they seem. I mean, the man enjoyed a drink until the day before to one hundred dollars a plate and turned into a limousine. And now you would not separate from any other homeless in the city. He was a homeless man, but at the same time it was not. In a sense it was a bum because everyone thought it was. With a jacket and tie and two bodyguards would return the respected financial magnates, even without a penny in his pocket.
She is afraid that this might happen to his family, Mr. Petrelli? I'm not asking if you believe that there are substantial likelihood that happen. I want to know if it's a possibility that is frightening.
Come on, find me a man who is not afraid of being broke. ( chuckle. ) The point is it did not matter who or what might be. What he did in life. Had only what people thought of him. And this ... I think that's why I keep thinking about it.
It 'an interesting episode. Nobody wants to be judged solely on appearance. But after this background I am surprised that she chose a political career. It 's a job that in some way, say, multiply appearances. Do not you think?
There are politicians and politicians. It all depends on what you are looking for.
And what do you look for, Mr. Petrelli?
Justice, of course. Compared to the weaker and more equitable for all.
Mr. Petrelli, non sono una sua elettrice. Non ha bisogno di convincermi a darle il mio voto.
Vede? Gliel'ho appena dimostrato. Un politico che parla di giustizia e rispetto non può essere sincero.
D'accordo, ricominciamo da capo. Mi scusi se l'ho offesa.
Nessuna offesa.
Mi ha detto che la scelta della facoltà di Giurisprudenza è stata un'idea di suo padre. Che voleva seguisse le sue orme e si aspettava molto da lei.
Ho scelto liberamente quale facoltà frequentare.
Ma se le chiedessi quanto hanno pesato da uno a dieci le aspettative dei suoi genitori riguardo al suo futuro?
Sei.
You?
Five.
What about his brother? Peter, right?
What has Peter in this speech?
We're talking about expectations. She said her brother did not follow the family tradition. What do you think?
I have no trouble accepting the choices of my brother. It 's a registered nurse, does a job he likes and that is good. I can not have approved at first, but Peter has persevered, and if he's happy so am I..
She believes that her brother is happier than she?
What do you expect to reply to this question?
just what he thinks.
I think we are both happy. Each in its own way.
Have you ever envied his brother for being able to, I pass the word, break away from the family?
What do you mean, off? My brother has not detached from anything.
What I mean ...
Look, I know what I mean. The elder brother, a life with the weight of parental expectations on his shoulders, looks with envy at the brother for whom no one has done projects, continues to repress the anger at the threshold of forty years and has a nervous breakdown because of trauma or adolescent is not removed as it wants to call them. We have this thing clear: I have no reason at all to be angry with my brother. The only problem I have with my brother, if anything, is that they are the only person in my family not to pity for what it is.
think that others compatible?
I think that look beyond the appearance.
It 'funny that you said not to be angry with his brother, Mr. Petrelli. In fact I had asked if envy.
...
Try anger towards his brother?
No.
you fought recently? Some discussion a bit 'abnormal?
Nothing serious, just a little 'stress before the election. Who would not be stressed out in my place? 'S why I'm here.
Mr. Petrelli, I think you have dell'irrisolto with his brother. Look. Speaking of Peter the terribly upset.
'm not nervous.
She has noticed that he put the ring and marched twenty-five times since I made the name of his brother, yes?
...
What makes you so nervous about his brother?
do not know.
has discovered something new or unexpected, or just unfortunate that he is concerned? Or what about her relationship with him?
...
Mr. Petrelli?
I'm sorry, but we have to stop here. I must be in the office in ten minutes.
Okay. But I wish that the next time it was also his brother.
Look, we both know that if I am only here because my wife insisted. E 'already embarrassing enough that I'm here to tell her of my votes to college or when I scraped my knee in the third grade. In three would become simply ridiculous.
The only thing ridiculous here, Mr. Petrelli, is that she refuses to admit all the evidence you have a problem.
I did not ... God Okay. I'll ask him.
Excellent. On Thursday, Mr. Petrelli.
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